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A N ewsletter of the AmericAN AssociAtioN of DrilliNg eNgiNeers lAfAyette chApter

September 2009 www .aade.org/lafayette Volume 25, ISSue 1

Lafayette DriLLer

aade lafayette Chapter presents “ecoScope” by Jack Horkowitz of Schlumberger

at 11:30 a.m. Sept. 21 at the petroleum Club

2009-2010 aade lafayette CHapter

officersPresident Jonathon

Boudreaux Chevron

1st ViCe Nick RezvaniPresident Marlin Energy2nd ViCe Greg MartinPresident BJ Services Company USAseCretArY Adrienne May ChevrontreAsUrer Sharon Moore

Halliburton

Steering Committee

Bruce Jordan Stokes & SpiehlerSid Breaux Breaux EngineeringLindsay Longman PetroQuest (Past President) Jeffery Svendson Advanced Logistics, LLCJohn Lee Baker Oil ToolsBenny Manuel Knight Oil ToolsJaime Crosby ChevronCommittee Chairmen

director emeritusnAtiOnAL BOArd And Andre Arceneaux LAFAYette CHAPter IDR

LAFAYette CHAPter Doug Keller Knight Oil Tools.

National at-large boardBenny Manuel Knight Oil Tools

Sharon Moore Halliburton

Chapter representativeJohnson (Bubba) Hale FlowChem Technologies

Thanks for giving backAADe lafayette chapter members,

greetings and welcome back from another great louisiana summer; where you are guaranteed to get plenty of hot, humid weather, little to no rain and dead grass. i hope everyone had a safe and relaxing summer and all of your families are in good health.

i would like to begin my first official president's letter with a resound-ing message of "thANKs."

thanks to all past chapter presidents, board members and committee chairper-sons that have graciously volunteered

their time to keep a watchful eye over this chapter's best interests. their efforts have allowed the AADe lafayette chapter to develop a strong financial portfolio that is capable of maintaining a consistent scholarship program through this industrial downturn.

thanks to all members, sponsors, volunteers and organizations who help to

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Jack horkowitz is a petrophysics adviser in the drilling and measurements (D&m) segment of the schlumberger oilfield services organization. he is cur-rently responsible for business develop-ment of logging-while-drilling (lwD) measurements and petrophysical inter-pretation services for the deepwater gulf of mexico and gulf coast markets of North America.

his previous position was petrophys-ics and formation evaluation answer product adviser in D&m headquarters, responsible for guiding the development of lwD measurements and integrated

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wHat’S Newaade members ($20) and

non-members ($25) will soon be able to reserve their seat

and pre-pay for general meetings at www.aade.org/

lafayette.

to sign up to attend the Sept. 21 meeting, e-mail

[email protected] or call 337-772-8428

by noon Sept. 18.

preSIdeNt’S meSSageJonathon boudreaux

tHe INduStry forum for drIllINg praCtICeS aNd teCHNology

A Newsletter of the AmericAN AssociAtioN of DrilliNg eNgiNeers lAfAyette chApter

2009-2010 aade lafayette CHapter

Committee ChairpersonsArrAnGeMents Michelle Frederick 4M Promotional Concepts

dAtABAse Adrienne May Chevron

neWsLetter Kristy S. Bonner Foster Marketing Communications

MeMBersHiP Adrienne May Chevron

WeBsite Adrienne May Chevron

FinAnCe Jaime Crosby Chevron

KnOWLedGe BOX Sid Breaux Breaux Engineering, Inc.

dAtABAse Gene Lognion ABL Enterprises

PUBLiCitY Kristy S. Bonner Foster Marketing Communications

teCHniCAL FOrUM Greg Martin BJ Services Company USA

GOLF Dale Gaddis Plains Exploration & Production Co.

PrOGrAMs Nick Rezvani Marlin Energy

sCHOLArsHiPs Rick Voth Blueline Manufacturing, Inc.

sPOrtinG CLAYs Jeffery Svendson Advanced Logistics, LLC

UL AAde stUdent Jonathon BoudreauxCHAPter LiAisOn Chevron

JOint indUstrY Mike Alexander Chevron

SubmIt ItemS for tHe NewSletterto submit information and photos for the Lafayette Driller newsletter or to include a sponsorship ad, e-mail [email protected].

AADe Lafayette Chapter names new board, officers

Volume 25, ISSue 1 tHe lafayette drIller page 2

the lafayette AADe officers for the upcoming year are, front row, from left: Adrienne may, secretary (chevron); greg martin, second vice president (BJ services company UsA); Jonathon Boudreaux, president (chevron); Nick rezvani, first vice president (marlin energy); and sharon moore, treasurer (halliburton).

other board members include, back row, from left: Jeffery svendson, steering committee (Advanced logistics, llc); Bruce Jordan, steering committee chair (stokes & spiehler); rick Voth, scholar-ship committee (Blueline manufacturing, inc.); Kristy Bonner, publicity and newsletter committee chair (foster marketing); John lee, steering committee (Baker oil tools);

lindsay longman, steering committee and past president (petroQuest energy); mike Alexander, joint indus-try committee (chevron); michelle frederick, arrangements chair (4m promotional concepts, inc./VArel international); and Andre Arceneaux, director emeritus (iDr).

Board members not shown include Jamie crosby, steering committee (chevron); Benny manuel, steering committee (Knight oil tools); Dale gaddis, golf tournament chair (plains exploration & production co.); Bubba hale, chapter representative (flowchem technologies); and Doug Keller, direc-tor emeritus (Knight oil tools).



aade lafayette CHapter fuNded SCHolarSHIpS for fall 2009Listed below are the tremendously grateful recipients:

University of Louisiana at Lafayette Louisiana State University Nicholls State UniversityMr. Vincent G. Patin Mr. Gavin Broussard Mr. shane duhonMr. Andrew d. Patin Mr. Francis Jordan Mr. darrell ClarkMr. Bilel F. Boukadi Mr. James Graham Mr. sean thibodeauxMr. Jeremy C. Pye Mr. Alex Pines Mr. Jared M. Politz Mr. James Allen Keeton Mr. Joseph scott Marcantel Mr. robert ingram Mr. stephen J. spungeon Mr. Gary Marsh

sustain the AADe lafayette chapter with funds for scholarships, endowments and community programs.

your contributions go a long way in relieving a large portion of the financial bur-den that students face for tuition, books and fees. As a former Ul student and a past AADe scholarship recipient, it gives me a great sense of pride to be given the opportunity to “give

back” to the organization and community that was there in my time of need.

for the 2009 fall semester, your support and contribu-tions have allowed the lafayette chapter to fund $42,500 in petroleum engi-neering scholarships. this is by far the largest scholar-ship contribution that this organization has ever committed to for a single semester.

in addition to the strong scholarship funding cam-paign, the AADe lafayette chapter has continued its financial commitment to the

University of louisiana at lafayette petroleum engineering mud lab for upgrades, renovations and equipment purchases. in the course of the next two fiscal years, the lafayette chapter will continue to provide installment payments on the $250,000 renovation project. this project was a major success because of the over-whelming support from the AADe National chapter, AADe New orleans chapter, spe, Api, iADc, Knight companies, lafayette oilman's sporting clays shoot inc., halliburton and chevron.

in closing, i would like to end this message with my own personal flair and a

little bit of humor: Boudreaux and

thibodeaux go to see a movie. Boudreaux, in the middle of the movie, turns to thibodeaux and says, "Betcha five bucks he falls off da horse."

"you're on," says thibodeaux. sure enough, the guy in the movie falls off his horse. thibodeaux hands his friend the five bucks.

Boudreaux admits, "i've seen this movie before. i knew he'd fall off da horse." he hands him back the money.

thibodeaux tells him, "i've seen this movie before, too. i just didn't think he'd be stupid enough to fall off his horse again!"

preSIdeNt'S letterfrom page 1

2009 fall SCHolarSHIpSfor the 2009 fall semester, your support

and contributions have allowed the aade lafayette Chapter to fund $42,500 in petroleum engineering scholarships.

interpretation products for improved drilling efficiency and formation evaluation.

prior to joining schlumberger, Jack worked as a petrophysicist for Bp in

the rock properties and seis-mic calibration group, and then in the enhanced oil recovery group of pennzoil e&p company. Jack holds a bachelor's degree from washington and Jefferson college, and master's of science and ph.D. degrees

in geology from the University of south carolina. he is a past presi-dent of spwlA (2006-07) and a member of spe, AApg and scA.

schlumberger "ecoscope" multi-function lwD service integrates a full suite of for-mation evaluation, well placement and drilling opti-mization measurements into a single 26-foot collar. this new design reduces risks, increases the confidence and enhances operational effi-ciency in your data interpre-tation and production and reserves calculations.

ecoscope service, now running the orion ii teleme-try platform, is capable of transmitting real-time data at up to 120 bps, including multiple real-time images, without affecting the high resolution of the measure-ment curves. Bottom hole Assembly (BhA) flat time is reduced, and BhA reliabili-ty is increased with fewer connections.

A N ewsletter of the AmericAN AssociAtioN of DrilliN g eNgiNeers lAfAyette chApter


"eCoSCope"from page 1

aade lafayette CHapter geNeral meetINgSare Held tHe tHIrd moNday of tHe moNtHmembers and non-member are invited to attend these informa-

tive sessions at 11:30 a.m. at the petroleum Club in lafayette. each month, a speaker is invited to discuss a topic relevant to the industry. for information on these and other aade events or membership, visit www.aade.org/lafayette.

lafayette drIller SpoNSorS

•Advanced logistics, llc

•Americase

•Babin rental tools & services, inc.

•Blueline manufacturing

•Jackal rentals, llc

•foster marketing communications

•Davis-lynch, inc.

•Knight fishing services

•Knight oil tools

•lowry's printing & copying

•Nabors Drilling UsA, lp

•precision Die technologies

•procor chemicals, inc.

•ray oil tool co., inc.

•stokes & spiehler

•turbo-chem international, inc.

•willcat services, llc

to sponsor the Lafayette Driller, e-mail kbonner@ fostermarketing.com.

A Newsletter of the AmericAN AssociAtioN of DrilliN g eNgiNeers lAfAyette chApter


aade lafayette golf ClaSSIClocal teams gathered June 22 to hit the green for a good cause. proceeds from the annual aade golf tournament are used to fund aade contributions such as the ul mud lab and student scholarships. this year’s winning teams were: XChem, morning first-place

winner; and dolphin energy, afternoon first-place winner. the aade lafayette Chapter appreciates all who sponsored, coordinated and participated in this year’s event.

team XChem included Bill Carney, dwayne Coco and Chris Langlinais.

team dolphin energy included Anthony Adams, Jason Bourque and dJ Hebert.



American Association ofDrilling EngineersLafayette ChapterP.O. Box 80023Lafayette, Louisiana 70598-0023

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lafayette aade CHapter geNeral meetINgS

the lafayette aade Chapter holds its general meetings on the third monday of each month at 11:30 a.m. at the petroleum Club in lafayette. each month, a speaker

is invited to discuss a topic relevant to the industry. the next meeting is

Sept. 21, 2009. mark you calendar today! for information on these and other

aade events and membership, visit www.aade.org/lafayette.

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