April 2008 Newsletter
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A message from the President
Spring is here, though given recent falls of snow in the Southeast and the chilly conditions of the last week or so, one would be hard pressed to know it. None the less late last month the LPS held its Spring 2008 One Day Seminar, entitled "Tools and Techniques for Successful Reservoir Monitoring and Management", at Burlington House. A full day of presentations ensued, with talks on Life of Field Seismic and workflows to monitoring and simulation, cased hole logging technologies, smart wells and intelligent completions and digital oilfield technologies. There was a good mix of presenters too, with academia, consultants, service company and oil company personnel all contributing. The talks certainly stimulated healthy debate from all sides too on what is currently possible, and what is practical given the cycle times in updating reservoir models and the amount of data that can be generated by monitoring technologies.
I'd like to thank all those who presented, plus Robert Webber and Sharlene Seegoolam from the Committee for all their help on the organisational side. Also to be thanked are all the members who took time out of their busy schedules to attend and contribute to the debate as a whole, and of course the GeolSoc staff who ensure things run smoothly on the day.
My only surprise is that attendance was down on what we have experienced at recent seminars. Perhaps the seminar was held too close to Easter? The variable School Easter holidays make scheduling seminars very difficult around this time of year and it's impossible to please everyone but perhaps we should have held the seminar earlier in the month? Of course it is a very active time in our industry at present so I'm sure there were those who would have liked to attend but simply could not spare the time. If there was anyone who hoped to attend but was put off for some reason that we can address please let me know so we can take your comments on board to help us with planning future seminars.
Some changes are being made to the LPS Committee. Dominic Woodley, now of BG, is standing down as Secretary and Sasthene Parker of TGS Nopec has been co-opted onto the committee to fill the secretary role for 2008. I'd like to extend my thanks, on behalf of the entire Committee, to Dominic for all his help and support during his tenure and furthermore I'd like to welcome Sasthene onto the committee: thank you for filling the void!
Regards
Jonathan Lean LPS President
From VP Newsletter, Adam Moss:
Many thanks to the following wonderful companies who have agreed to sponsor the LPS for 2008;
Fugro-Jason, Hess, Senergy, ResLab UK, Halliburton, Tullow, Weatherford-Reeves, BG Group, RWE-Dea, Schlumberger and BP.
Call for Papers:
We are planning a one day seminar on "The Use of Statistics in Formation Evaluation" at the Geological Society on Thursday 26th June. If you are interested in presenting a paper at the seminar please contact either Patrick Crossouard () or Adam Moss ().
All the Best
Adam Moss
A Message from Wim Looyestijn, Deputy Editor for Petrophysics;
Dear fellow Petrophysicist,
I am sure you are familiar with the SPWLA bi-monthly Journal Petrophysics. The articles in
this Journal are peer-reviewed to assure the quality and technical integrity. This is all done by
volunteers who are willing to devote some time helping other authors in their specific field of
expertise.
We do not want to rely on the same group of persons for too long, and are continuously
looking for fresh blood. Please give my invitation some thought and do not think too easily
that you do not qualify.
The role of Reviewer.
A Reviewer has some expertese on the subject of the paper (e.g. chalk evaluation, SCAL,
nuclear tools). He looks at the technical correctness of the paper, novelty vis-a-vis existing
literature and logical flow of arguments. He formulates questions and makes suggestions for
improvements. He communicates with the Associate Editor.
The role of Associate Editor.
The job involves asking a minimum of 3 reviewers for papers (he can act as a reviewer
himself), putting the reviews received together in order to decide whether or not the paper
should be accepted, and iterating with the author until any revisions are completed. He
reports then back to the Editor.
With a sufficient number of Associate Editors and Reviewers, there should be no more than
2-3 papers to review per year.
If you are interested, or require more clarification, please contact me
() with the following information.
- Your choice (AE or reviewer)
- Your area(s) of expertise
- Number of years of experience / publications etc
- Have you worked as reviewer before, and for what journal(s)
- Your affiliation
Regards,
Wim Looyestijn