Greetings!
Where to start? How about the impressive UL win in the Imperial Barrel competition at the AAPG Annual Convention in Houston in early April!? Congratulations to the team and their advisors who together did a great job in preparing for this year’s event. This makes 2 wins for UL in the last 3 years. The Imperial Barrel competition is a good example of what AAPG can do to involve new geologists in the always interesting pursuit of hydrocarbons, giving them a taste of what prospecting is like and allowing the participants a chance to see how ideas are just as useful in prospecting as are the tools.
May looks to be a busy month for LGS with 2 field trips: a local 1 day trip led by Tim Duex and Gary Kinsland on May 3 and a 3 day trip in northern New Mexico led by past LGS President, Barry Wawak. The New Mexico trip is full and it appears that we will number 8-10 for the local trip.
May 21st we’ll have our last 2013-2014 lunch meeting where John Dribus, Global Geosciences Advisor, Schlumberger Oil Field Services will present “Three Important Conventional Reservoirs Receiving Exploration Focus in the Deep Water Today” at our May 21st, 2014 luncheon. Sounds like an interesting talk on multiple fronts.
Please take the few minutes to return your LGS Ballot with your dues. The ballot has to be mailed to LGS, P.O. Box 51896, Lafayette, LA 70505 and received by May 15. You can pay your dues by enclosing them with your ballot or through the LGS website and indicating you used that method on your dues statement returned with your ballot. It is especially important that Senior members, who are dues exempt, return their dues statement with their ballot. That way we know that you still wish to be a member of LGS.
Thanks to the LGS Officers and Board for their diligent service to the Society during the 2013-14 year. They were always helpful, showed up for LGS events faithfully and worked in many ways behind the scenes to make the LGS year entertaining and educational for the Society.
Long term; LGS is working to combine websites with SWLGS and possibly later with our sister SPWLA and SIPES chapters, yielding a one stop location for information and schedules for the local professional geoscience community. We see it as a better use of limited manpower resources to maintain a single website for multiple groups. Limited manpower is a situation facing a number of our sister societies. Note the minimal officer and advisor candidate slate LGS was able to muster for the 2014-15 year. This is not the sign of a vibrant organization. Please volunteer to help LGS with the various events that we have, suggest speakers for luncheons, and take the lead or lend a helping hand when you see it is needed. Maybe you have an idea for something LGS should be doing. Make it happen.
Along this line of thought I have a last book suggestion: David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell. Gladwell looks at the ways which the underdog can defeat the champion. Many reviewers thought the book was written with cherry picked examples that Gladwell uses to support his point. Possibly so; but the stories are entertaining and cause you to think about the possibilities of beating long odds by using an approach differing from standard operating procedure. The book is available through the Lafayette Public Library.
See you at this month’s events!
