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SEG Annual Meeting

Advance Registration

This year's Steering Committee recognizes that a large contingent of SEG members and other Annual Meeting delegates live along the Gulf of Mexico coast and that many have been greatly affected by the recent hurricanes. The Committee has decided to extend advance registration until 5 p.m. central standard time, 10 October 2005.

Exhibit Space Sold Out!
Exhibit space for the Annual Meeting is SOLD OUT! To view this year's floor plan and to organize your time on the exhibits visit this link.

Fun Run/Walk
8 a.m. Sunday, 6 November
Cleveland Park (at the intersection of Jackson Hill St. and Memorial Drive)

Come join us for some healthy outdoor activity! The SEG 75th Annual Meeting Fun Run/Walk starts bright and early at Houston's Cleveland Park. The run is 7 kilometers and the walk is 5 kilometers. There is no fee; everyone is welcome. Pre-register at the link below and receive a free T-shirt!

There will be plenty of parking available at the race start, or you can take advantage of a shuttle which will leave the Hilton Americas Hotel at 7:30 a.m.

Wednesday Night Celebration
7 p.m. Wednesday, 9 November 2005
Hilton Americas Hotel

SEG invites everyone to experience a reception that spans 75 years of success and history. It will be a celebration for the senses, with entertainment and music throughout the evening. History will be brought to life through guest appearances by some of our favorite characters from the past.

The evening will feature a full orchestra to dazzle and entertain the masses.

To register see Section D on the registration form. Tickets may be purchased at the Event Ticket Counter in the Registration area.

International Meetings

Geophysics without Frontiers

4th Congress of the Balkan Geophysical Society
sponsored by RSG/EAGE/SEG/EGU/AGU/IUGG
9-12 October 2005
Bucharest, Romania

In addition to the traditional topics in geophysical prospecting and earth's physics, emphasis is devoted to the newer but equally important issues in environmental geophysics. More than 200 extended abstracts have been received on a variety of topics. Visit the Web site below for the paper-by-paper listing.

One of the keynote speak-ers will be Özdogan (Oz) Yilmaz, chief technology officer at Anatolian Geophysical. A half-day workshop organized by the Bucharest Geoscience Forum will be dedicated to the most challenging issues of the oil and gas industry in Romania. SEG Distinguished Lecturer Panos Kelamis will present "A Pragmatic View of Land Multiple Attenuation Technology" on 10 October.

International Petroleum Technical Conference

sponsored by AAPG/EAGE/SEG/SPE
21-23 November
Doha, Qatar

IPTC combines the strengths of four industry societies while bringing together the perspectives of multiple disciplines including petroleum engineering, geology, and geophysics. With a commitment to excellence, IPTC promises to provide an arena for technical knowledge exchange through a strong program including 250+ technical presentations and seven panel sessions addressing issues associated with global oil and gas strategies, supply and demand, exploration, reserves, and research and development.

Find more information on the technical program, the schedule of events and registration at the following link.

Related Link: IPTC Online

Professional Development

Distinguished Lecture Series

Greg Partyka's spring Distinguished Lecture tour on "Spectral Decomposition" is now available online. His release of information on new developments "Spectral Inversion," "StratCube™" and "FlowCube™" is causing much excitement. These technologies are proprietary to BP and have never before been presented in public. They enable a set of fast iterative approaches to geologic model building and flow simulation. SEG thanks BP for releasing this information and CSEG for their help in recording the lecture while Partyka was presenting in Calgary.

Panos Kelamis kicked off the SEG 75th Anniversary Distinguished Lecturer tour in September. His talk, titled "A pragmatic view of land multiple attenuation technology," presents a series of practical strategies that target the attenuation of surface and internal multiples in a land environment. Kelamis uses a plethora of land data sets, many from the world's largest oil fields in Saudi Arabia. His tour includes an equal number of global and North American sites.

The SEG/AAPG Joint Fall 2005 Distinguished Lecturer, Rebecca Latimer, will speak on "Uses, abuses, and examples of seismic-derived acoustic impedance data: What does the interpreter need to know?" Her presentation will demonstrate the necessity for inversion and explain its contribution to an interpretation workflow. She shows how scale differences can affect the results, show how the interpreter analyzes the rock properties and uses these with inverted data, shows how to spot pitfalls in the overuse of impedance data, and examines both the strengths and drawbacks of using inversion as compared with the original rock data. Her tour is organized by AAPG; details can be found on the AAPG Web site.

Related Link: Fall 2005 Distinguished Lecturer

Distinguished Instructor Short Course

Rodney Calvert continues the 2005 SEG/EAGE Distinguished Instructor Short Course, titled "Insights and Methods for 4D Reservoir Monitoring and Characterization," with a tour primarily through Europe in October. After a visit to the SEG Annual Meeting in November, he concludes in the Middle East. Calvert calls upon his many years of 3D and 4D experience to present a state-of-the-art class on time-lapse seismic techniques and their application to integrated studies of petroleum reservoirs. Please visit the site below for a complete abstract, biography, and schedule; registration is available through the local (host) societies. The 2005 DISC book is now available for purchase by SEG and EAGE members.