The Lafayette Driller

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1 AADE OFFICERS, BOARD MEMBERS & COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS OFFICERS President 1st VP 2nd VP Secretary Treasurer STEERING COMMITTEE Bruce Jordan-Chairman Stokes & Spiehler, Inc Sid Breaux Breaux Engineering Jay Gallet. Doug Keller Knight Oil Tools, Inc John Lee Baker Oil Tools Benny Manuel Knight Oil Tools, Inc. Jamie Crosby Lindsay Longman PetroQuest Jonathan Boudreaux Greg Martin B.J. Services Adrienne May Sharon Moore Halliburton Energy Svcs. COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS Arrangements - Michelle Frederick 4M Promotional Concepts/VAREL Int l. Database - Gene Lognion ABL Enterprises Finance - Jay Gallet Golf Tournament - Dale Gaddis Plains Exploration Knowledge Box - Sid Breaux Breaux Engineering, Inc. Memberships - Gene Lognion ABL Enterprises Newsletter - Adrienne May Publicity - Kristy Bonner Foster Marketing Programs - Jonathan Boudreaux Scholarships - Rick Voth Blueline Manufacturing, Inc. Sporting Clays - Jeffery Svendson Advanced Logistics, Technical Forum - Jonathan Boudreaux Website - Sharon Moore Halliburton Energy Services DIRECTOR EMERITUS National Board & Lafayette Chapter -- André Arceneaux IDR NATIONAL AT-LARGE DIRECTORS Benny Manuel Knight Oil Tools, Inc. Sharon Moore Halliburton Energy Svcs. CHAPTER REPRESENTATIVE Johnson L. Bubba Hale FlowChem Technologies 2008 AADE Sporting Clays Tournament Winners The Lafayette Driller V O L U M E 2 4, I S S U E 8 President s Message AADE Lafayette Chapter Members, A Newsletter of the American Association of Drilling Engineers Lafayette Chapter A P R I L By: Lindsay Longman Our eighth General Meeting of the year will be held Monday April 20th at the Petroleum Club. Mr. Ron Weegman will be presenting Introduction to the Intelliserv Broadband Network." Mr. Weegman is the regional account manager overseeing North America & Trinidad for National Oilwell Varcos IntelliServ Network which is comprised of wired drillstring components and a networked surface system. Please make reservations for this event by contacting peggymeynard@yahoo.com. Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. (Herbert Hoover) The petroleum industry competes with alternative energy sources in a worldwide arena to provide the lowest cost and most readily available energy supply to sectors such as industrial, residential, transportation and electrical generation. Our competitors are primarily coal, nuclear, and renewable sources (wind, solar, hydroelectric, biomass and geothermal). The Iberia Parish borne high fiber cane Genesis Project is also bidding for its share in the energy supply chain and would categorically reside in the renewables supply chain. How does crude oil and natural gas rank versus our competitors today? The Energy Information Administration data below clearly demonstrates that crude oil and natural gas play a dominant role. President s Message continued on page 2 AADE Presents: Mr. Ron Weegman - National Oilwell Varco Introduction to the IntelliServ Broadband Network " President s President s Message Message continued continued page on page 2 2 AADE AADE Presents: Presents: Mark Garrett Dixon Pierce - Baroid - Reed-Hycalog Fluid Services Clay Free Invert Emulsion Technology Extended Gauge Solutions for Rotary Steerable Systems in the Gulf of Mexico Mr. Ron Weegman is a degreed Geologist from the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire with 28 years of experience working for a variety of companies such as Enron, Teleco-Sonat, Baker Hughes INTEQ, Halliburton and PathFinder in various roles from management to the field involving engineering, operations, marketing, and sales of Directional Drilling and Formation Evaluation for the domestic and International markets. He is currently serving as the regional account manager overseeing North America and Trinidad for National Oilwell Varcos IntelliServ Network. Mr. Weegman is a current member of the SPWLA, SPE, IADC and the AADE.

2 PAGE 2 President s Message continued from page 1 U.S. Primary Energy Consumption by Source and Sector (quadrillion (10 ^15) BTU s ) President s Message continued on page 3

3 PAGE 3 President s Message continued from page 2 Despite continuing incremental science and technological progress, renewable energy does not offer a panacea. These sources simply lack the scalable supply-side capacities necessary to meet energy demand increases, much less to significantly offset current fossil fuel consumption. Our industry s role while competing to reign as the provider of choice for readily available energy is to continue to safeguard life, health, and property while promoting the public welfare. We need to strengthen the capabilities of petroleum and natural gas supply by enhancing field recovery factors and operational efficiencies along with developing and promoting new and existing technologies. We must attract, train and retain the brightest engineers. Competition along with energy demand may drive the next frontier into water depths greater than 12,000 feet, wellbores in excess of 35,000 feet, Arctic environments, automation, or collaboration with National Oil Companies in large mature basins that contain the majority of proved reserves. National Oil Companies are projected to account for approximately 80% of the increase of both oil and gas production to 2030¹. We will be counted upon to be stewards of capital investments greater than 26.3 trillion dollars, of which 8.4 trillion dollars¹ will need to be delivered by 2030 solely in upstream oil and gas exploration. These monetary projections will be necessary to meet rising demand and to replace a timeworn infrastructure system. The late Dr. Richard Smalley, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Rice University Professor, ranked energy as the number one challenge facing the world today. Energy is the single most important factor that impacts the prosperity of any society. A colossal responsibility rests on the shoulders of the petroleum industry as we will be requested to supply greater than 50% of the global energy supply for decades. ¹ International Energy Agency Chapter Notes: Thanks to Mr. Jeffery Svendson, Mr. Brad Duplantis and the Sporting Clays Committee for their efforts to organize and execute a first class shooting tournament. The annual event, with the aid of generous industry sponsors, volunteers and participants is essential to the funding of the scholarship programs at state universities. The results, Individual and Team, are posted on the AADE website at AADE Lafayette Chapter will be hosting the annual Golf Tournament at Le Triomphe Golf & Country Club on Monday June 22 nd. Mr. Dale Gaddis will serve as 2009 golf committee chairman. Ryan Hagle, Benny Manuel, Sharon Moore, Michelle Frederick, Rick Voth, and Robert robear Roger will hold seat on the committee as well. Please contact any committee member for event registration or visit for more information. Nomination ballots will be available at the April General Meeting for the 2009/2010 election year. Board positions available for nominees are President, 1 st Vice President, 2 nd Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary and two each Steering Committee posts. Voting for nominated candidates will be held at the May 18th General Meeting. The AADE held its biannual National Technical Conference & Exhibition in New Orleans on March 31 st through April 2 nd. The AADE New Orleans Chapter was host to a well organized event, attended by greater than 430 participants, students and exhibitors. A balanced itinerary of industry macro and technical data was presented over the 2-1/2 day event. On a local level, ULL graduate student Mahdi Mahmoudi Eshkaftaki placed third in the student poster contest with his project titled A Review of Drillstring Design, Failure and Enhancing Features. Additional student presentations by local universities were LSU graduate students Maria French and Samrat Mahato s presentation - SP#1 Exploratory Gas Well Design. ULL presented two additional topics titled Heavy Foam for Deepwater Drilling and Experimental study of fluid loss additives for HTHP wells under dynamic and static conditions for different flow regimes by graduate students Chunlei Liu and Foad Ahmadi Fard respectively. Congratulations to Mahdi and all participants. Best Regards, Lindsay C. Longman, P.E.

4 PAGE Lafayette Chapter Scholarship Sporting Clays Tournament Jeffery Svendson The Lafayette Chapter AADE has been hosting sporting clays tournaments for sixteen years. The fund raising event has grown considerably over the years as well as the proceeds it generates for petroleum industry scholarships. This year s tournament was no exception. The event was held at Cajun Elite Shooting Complex in Jennings, LA on March 26 th, 27th & 28th. With threatening weather the day before the event, food and station sponsors were erecting tents and preparing bar-b-q pits in a drizzling rain. Unfortunately, preparation for the three day event that was to host close to six hundred shooters was somewhat overshadowed by the thought of a wash-out. However, luck prevailed and the wind and rains were limited to the night time hours of Thursday and Friday. With warm calm weather during the day on Thursday and Friday and strong north winds and much cooler temperatures on Saturday, the course was altered from passive on Thursday and Friday to very challenging on Saturday. Other than wind damage to a few tents and perhaps a few wounded egos from the shooting course, the event concluded without any complications. Safety was a priority and on the forefront of everyone s thoughts throughout the entire event. Twenty food sponsors provided an array of foodstuff from jambalaya, fried fish to pork chop sandwiches, crawfish, ribs and chicken to mention only a few of the many delectable dishes. If you were hungry, it was your own fault. In addition to the twenty food sponsors, there was an additional one hundred and twenty eight sponsors that provided tents, shooting station representation, door prizes, side shooting events, emergency medical services and many other bits and pieces that made up the tournament. In addition, there were scores of volunteers from service companies and committee members that donated their valuable time to help make the event a success. Without these countless sponsors and volunteers, the event would not have been possible. Although there are too many sponsors to list here, I would like to give special thanks to our Platinum sponsors; Baker Oil Tools, Gulf Fleet Holdings, Knight, MB Rentals, Rotorcraft Leasing and Talen s Marine and Fuel. Preliminary numbers indicate that our proceeds this year exceeded last year. As in the past, these proceeds will help provide oil industry scholarships and improvements to engineering departments at ULL, Nicholls and LSU. Everyone who participated in the event from sponsors to the shooters and volunteers played a large part in helping the AADE accomplish our mission in providing our state universities with financial aid to students pursuing a career in petroleum engineering. All those who participated in any way should be proud of their contributions and to be part of this excellent mission. We look forward to next year s event and invite those who could not be with us this year join us for next year s tournament. The Lafayette Chapter AADE Scholarship Sporting Clays Tournament is a premiere event in the oil & gas industry.

5 SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR 2009 TOURNAMENT SPONSORS! PAGE 5 PLATINUM GOLD SILVER BAKER ATLAS/ BAKER OIL TOOLS GULF FLEET HOLDING, KNIGHT OIL TOOLS MB RENTALS, ROTORCRAFT LEASING TALENS MA- RINE & FUEL OILFIELD PRO- DUCTION CONTRAC- TORS AMBAR LON- ESTAR FLUID SERVICES, BJ SERVICES DIVERSIFIED OILFIELD SER- VICES, HALLIBUR- TON HERCULES OFFSHORE INTEGRATED PRODUC- TION SER- VICES ISLAND OP- ERATING COMPANY MI SWACO OTTO CANDIES, QUALITY EN- ERGY SERVICES, NAMCO PIPE & SUPPLY QUAL- ITY RENTAL TOOLS STALLION OIL- FIELD CON- STRUCTION SUPREME SER- VICE AND SPE- CIALTY COM- PANY, BOOTS & COOTS CHAPMAN CONSULTING, ABDON CALLAIS OFFSHORE, ACADIAN CON- TRACTORS, ACE TRANSPOR- TATION ACTION OILFIELD SERVICES AIR LOGISTICS B&B OILFIELD SERVICES, CHAMPION TECHNOLOGIES COASTAL DRILLING COMPANY, CONTRAC- TOR OPERA- TOR PRO- DUCTION SERVICES CORTEC FLUID CON- TROL / MANI- FOLD SYS- TEMS CUDD PRES- SURE CON- TROL DIVECON SERVICES, DYNAMIC INDUSTRIES GATOR TANK RENTALS, / EZ- TRAC GLOBAL LO- GISTICS & STAFFING SOLUTIONS, GREENE S ENERGY GROUP WELLBORE ENERGY SO- LUTIONS HYDRO CAR- BON FLOW SPECIALIST, NEWPARK DRILLING FLU- IDS NOV BRANDT OCEANEERING INTERNA- TIONAL, PMB OPERA- TORS, PMI PRIDE INTERNA- TIONAL SCHLUMBERGER SCOPE LOGISTI- CAL SPECIALIST, WIRELINE CON- TROL SYSTEMS WOOD GROUP PRODUCTION SHAMROCK MANAGEMENT, STOKES & SPIEHLER USA, SUB SURFACE TOOLS, TIGER ENVIRON- MENTAL & RENTAL THOMAS TOOLS TURBO-CHEM INTERNA- TIONAL, UNISOURCE SUPPLY, VENTURE TRANSPORT LOGISTICS, VETCO GRAY WARRIOR EN- ERGY SERVICES WORKSTRINGS,

6 PAGE TOURNAMENT WINNERS

7 2009 TOURNAMENT WINNERS (cont.) PAGE 7 GUN SPONSOR: NAMCO PIPE & SUPPLY / QUALITY RENTAL TOOLS MAKE-A-BREAK: WARRIOR ENERGY SERVICES RAPID FIRE: PROCESS PIPING LONG BIRD: KNIGHT OIL TOOLS 5 STAND: CAJUN ELITE RADIO: DATA TECH SOLUTIONS SCORE CARD: CASETECH INTERNATIONAL, T-SHIRTS: TEAMONE LOGISTICS, PA SYSTEM: STRATA COMMUNICATIONS RULE BOOK: ADVANCED LOGISTICS, TROPHIES: SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES EMS SERVICES: SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS GENERATORS: AGGREKO

8 PHOTOS COURTESY OF DILLON MOORE

9 PHOTOS COURTESY OF DILLON MOORE

10 PAGE 10 SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR 2009 TOURNAMENT SPONSORS! ACADIANA OUT- FITTERS CORTEC FLUID CONTROL / MANIFOLD SYS- TEMS DOLPHIN ENERGY EQUIPMENT FRANKS LAFAYETTE STEEL ERECTORS PME PRIORITY EN- ERGY, PRODUCTION WIRELINE SCOMI OILTOOLS, INC TEAM ONE LOGIS- TICS TOTAL SAFETY VARIABLE BORE RAMS, JACKAL SERVICES FOOD & TENT CORPORATE SHOOTING STATION ACCU-TRAIN SAFETY CUDD PRESSURE CONTROL FASTORQ GULF FLEET HOLDING, OCEANEERING INTERNATIONA PCS INDUSTRIAL OUTSOURCING PRODUCTION FIRE & SAFETY ROTORCRAFTE LEASING TALENS MARINE & FUEL TIGER OFFSHORE US LIQUIDS OF LA WISE WELL INTER- VENTION ATCHAFALAYA MEASUREMENT, BRILEY MANUFAC- TURING CHALMERS, COLLINS & AL- WELL, DOWNHOLE DRILLING SER- VICES E.A.R. INSTAMOLD GO COIL, GULFSTREAM SER- VICES, HB RENTALS QUAIL TOOLS TURBO-CHEM INTERNATIONAL, CHAPMAN CON- SULTING, FRANCIS DRILL- ING FLUIDS, LTD. JANIC DIREC- TIONAL SURVEY, MAJOR EQUIP- MENT AND REME- DIATATION OFFSHORE EN- ERGY SERVICES, PROFESSIONAL WIRELINE RENT- ALS, QUALITY PRE- HEAT & PRESSURE WASHERS SMI COMPANIES, SUP-R-JAR DOWNHOLE DRILLING SERVICES INTEGRATED PRO- DUCTION SER- VICES, LIVING QUARTER TECHNOLOGY NAMCO PIPE & SUP- PLY / QUALITY RENTAL TOOLS OILFIELD INSTRU- MENTATION USA, QUALITY ENERGY SERVICES, RIG NET STALLION OILFIELD CONSTRUCTION 2009 GOLF TOURNAMENT AADE Lafayette Chapter will be hosting the annual Golf Tournament at Le Triomphe Golf & Country Club on Monday June 22nd. Mr. Dale Gaddis will serve as 2009 golf committee chairman. Ryan Hagle, Benny Manuel, Sharon Moore, Michelle Frederick, Rick Voth, and Robert robear Roger will hold seat on the committee as well. Registration information will be sent out soon and will be posted to the website the week of April 20th.

11 VOLUME 24, ISSUE 8 PAGE 11 American Association of Drilling Engineers Lafayette Chapter P.O. Box Lafayette, Louisiana Return Service Requested The Lafayette Driller Sponsor List Advanced Logistics, Americase Babin Rental Tools & Services, Inc. BlueLine Manufacturing Jackal Rentals,. 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, To sponsor The Lafayette Driller please call Adrienne May at Ph: (337) or Cell: (337) MEETING DATES SEPT 15,2008 OCT 20, 2008 NOV 17, 2008 DEC 15, 2008 JAN 19, 2009 FEB 16, 2009 MAR 16, 2009 APR 20, 2009 MAY 18, 2009 General Meeting Notice Date: Monday, April 20, 2009 Time: 11:30 a.m. Place: Petroleum Club of Lafayette Reservations: Peggy Meynard peggymeynard@yahoo.com No later than 12:00 p.m. Friday, Apr. 17, 2009 Reservations are Required!