NOGS External Affairs Committee December 2009 Report
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State and Federal Legislative Activity
Follow the legislative activity in your state or on the federal level. Learn what the various states are passing or proposing within their legislatures. See what could impact registration and licensing for geoscientists. Hundreds of house and senate bills and resolutions may be monitored. Simply click on a topic and then the highlighted state or look at all legislature to read the bill, follow its status and find out who the sponsor is.
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AAPG 2010 Congressional Visits DayMay 10-12, 2010
Planning is underway for the AAPG 2010 Congressional Visits Day. Registration has not yet opened for this event. But if you would like more information as it becomes available, please send an email with contact information indicating your interest and we will add you to our contact list.
AAPG GAC Action Alerts
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Current Action Alert
MMS issues Draft Proposed Program for 2010-15 Oil and Gas Leasing in the Outer Continental Shelf
The MMS is seeking comment on all aspects of the new program including energy development and economic and environmental issues in the OCS areas. Comments are also requested on the specific subjects of size, timing, and location of sales and on the issues of buffer zones, revenue-sharing, and the use of unitization to limit the number of structures. The public comment period is open until September 21, 2009.
Deadline of March 23, 2009 to be extended to September 21, 2009 according to Sec. SalazarIssued 08/28/2006
Occasionally, the AAPG DPA Governmental Affairs Committee (GAC) will be sending email AAPG GAC Action Alerts. An action alert will inform you about a current Executive Branch and/or Congressional issue that will potentially affect the oil and gas industry.
David Curtiss, Director of the AAPG Office of Geoscience and Energyin Washington, DC, will identify the necessity for alerts, and he will work with the Chairperson of the GAC to issue the alert. The alert will be a short e-mail that will highlight the issue and direct you to this Web site. Each alert will consistof background, a suggestedresponse, support information, and the place to submityour comments.
You are welcome to comment on the issues in the way that suits you, if you want to comment at all. Of course, you are under no obligation to do anything, but the GAC encourages you to provide your comments whenever you can. This will support the GEO-DC's liaison work in Washington, DC and through this effort AAPG's reputation as a credible provider of pertinent geologically-based information will grow and become more valuable to those who are shaping our Nation's polices and laws. Won't you please help?
The action alerts are now being issued directly from AAPG in Tulsa. Send an email to Norma Newby at .
Thank you,
AAPG DPA Governmental Affairs Committee
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· Interpreter Sam becomes respectable
· 2009-2010 Executive Committee announced
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The SEG Advanced Modeling Corporation
Now available:SEAM 29 October 2009
· workshop presentations
· propsals for SEAM Phase II
On 14 February 2007, the SEG Advanced Modeling (SEAM) Corporation was incorporated as a not-for-profit organization in the state of Oklahoma, with SEG as sole member, for the purpose of fiduciary, policy, and management oversight of the SEAM projects (“Phases”). SEAM is an industrial consortia dedicated to large-scale leading-edge geophysical numerical modeling.
The SEAM projects will provide the geophysical exploration community with geophysical model data for subsurface geological models at a level of complexity and size that cannot be practicably computed by any single company or small number of companies. A general introduction to the SEAM initiative can be found in TLE’s June 2007 issue (44kb PDF).
The SEAM mission is to advance the science and technology of applied geophysics through a cooperative industry effort focused on subsurface model construction and generation of synthetic data sets for geophysical problems of importance to the resource extraction industry. Data sets, after an initial two years of confidentiality, will enter the public domain.
The primary goals of SEAM are to:
· design and generate synthetic model 3D and 2D seismic data
· share the high cost effort of substantial model design and generation
· provide a forum to discuss geophysical problems of interest
· advance the art of modeling and computation
· provide data sets for industry benchmarks and educational purposes
NEW—SEAM 29 October 2009 workshop presentations
including proposals for SEAM Phase II
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CIPC is now CURIPC, Canadian Unconventional Resources and International Petroleum Conference.
JPT Online Technology Updates
Reservoir monitoring technology receives industry acclaim (15 Dec)
Spin-off for ultrasonic scanning technology launched (14 Dec)
An Imaginary Rate of Return (13 Dec)
Record depth achieved for subsea well intervention (10 Dec)
Subsea control module achieves operation milestone (9 Dec)
IPTC '09: Fourth IPTC Concludes (9 Dec)
IPTC '09: Unconventionals Key to Future Production (9 Dec)
IPTC '09: New Casing Tool Introduced (8 Dec)
IPTC '09: Gas Demand Still Looks Healthy (8 Dec)
IPTC '09: New Technology Tracks Fluid Movement in Real Time (8 Dec)