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Dave Slater, SHP Executive Vice President and COO, speaking at SPE’s Western Regional Meeting panel discussion.
SHP was pleased to attend the 2018 SPE Western Regional Meeting last Tuesday, April 24th, in Garden Grove, California. Hundreds of oil and gas professionals from across the West Coast came together to discuss the challenges, opportunities, and achievements within the industry. The meeting offered various panel discussions led by industry leaders from Exploration and Production, Midstream, and the Vendor community who shared strategic ideas and offered operational insight. Signal Hill Petroleum’s Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President, David Slater, was featured as a panelist to speak on the topic of operating in a lower for longer oil price regime: challenges, opportunities and game changers. With more than 30 years of experience within the oil and gas industry, Slater offered valuable insight including the value of serving the community as an excellent neighbor and partner. Other industry executives included on this panel were Todd Stevens President of California Resource Coporattion, Michael Duginski President of Sentinel Peak Resources, and Steven Layton President of E&B Natural Resources.
The UC Irvine chapter of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) held its first general meeting on January 16th. With about 50 students in attendance, representing majors such as chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, and even information and computer science, the event introduced SPE to the UC Irvine student community. Spearheaded by UCI SPE chapter president Asim Shakour, a Chemical Engineering major, the night featured Mr. Baldev Gill, the chairperson of the Los Angeles chapter of SPE and a petroleum operations coordinator for Long Beach Gas & Oil, as the main speaker. Other speakers included Dr. Ted Frankiewicz and Andrew Lopez from SPEC Services and Ms. Devon Shay from Signal Hill Petroleum, Inc., each sharing their experience in the industry. Mr. Gill rounded out the main sessions with his own insightful and light-hearted presentation on the technical underpinning of oil production in Long Beach. The evening came to a close with a Q&A panel wherein the speakers addressed questions pertaining to employment in the oil industry. The Society of Petroleum Engineers hopes that this first event will encourage students to partake in the UCI chapter’s activities throughout the remainder of the year.
Chairperson’s message for February 2013
Dear Fellow SPE Members,
There are many special days this month to celebrate: Groundhog Day on the 2nd, Super-Bowl on the 3rd, Chinese New Year on the 10th, Mardi Gras on the 12th, Valentine’s Day on the 14th, and President’s Day on the 18th. Which of these days will you celebrate? Personally I will definitely celebrate Chinese New Year, and I better remember Valentine’s Day because that is my wife’s birthday. While these dates are important, February is special because Engineer’s Week is from February 17th to 23rd this year.
Dale Jans, the 2013 Engineer’s Week chair, wrote on the chair’s message that “The theme this year is Celebrate Awesome. It is a call to celebrate the people in the profession and all they do. …… Go tell the world how awesome it is what engineers do and how an engineering career can help shape the world in a truly meaningful way. …… Engineers innovate. They create. They solve problems. They work together to make the world better. Engineers are keys to our health, safety, and happiness.” I cannot agree more. Now let us all pat ourselves on our back, and shout at the top of our lungs, “We are awesome!”
We also need to remember to tell our fellow members who are geoscientists, chemists, biologists, business majors, mathematicians, and so on, that they are awesome too. From the Engineer’s Week web-site: “Engineers use their imagination and analytical skills to invent, design, and build things that matter. They are team players with independent minds who turn ideas into reality. By dreaming up creative and practical solutions, engineers are changing the world all the time.” You see, these fellow members are part of our awesome team. Next time you see them, pat them on their back and say: “You are awesome!”
My family is full of engineers. I am a Petroleum Engineer;; my wife, May, is a chemical engineer;; our oldest son, Tak, has a mechanical engineering degree;; our daughter, Eva, got her civil engineering degree;; and our youngest son, Ken, is a software engineer. Now you know why we are known as the “Engineer” family, the “Awesome” family, as well as being the “Cheung” family.
Talking about important dates, please mark your calendars to attend Phil Rae’s talk on February12th. He is an awesome speaker. Do not forget the February 15th deadline for both the SPEI International Award and the Regional Award applications. We need to recognize our awesome friends who have done exceptional work for the profession and for SPE. Please go the short-cut link for the list, criteria and on-line applications for these Awards. http://www.spe.org/awards/
Another important day is the OCEC (Orange County Engineering Council) Award Banquet on the 22nd. Several of our members are award winners:
The CiSoft program, managed by USC’s Professor
Ershaghi and Chevron’s Mike Hauser, won the “Project of
the Year Award”. That is the top honor!
Ted Frankiewicz (LASPE Board member) won the
“Outstanding Engineering Merit Award”
Devon Shay (LASPE Student Chapter Liaison) won the
“Outstanding Service Award”.
Both Mark Ojo (USC Student Chapter President) and
Robert Cannon (USC Student Chapter Event Coordinator)
won the Outstanding Engineering Student Award”.
Please congratulate these awesome fellow members, and better yet, go and attend the OCEC award dinner and celebrate with them in person. (See related article for dinner details).
Finally, we have put together two very exciting and awesome events: the Cross-generational Softskill Workshop on March 6th, and the Technology Happy Hour event on May 2nd (See related articles for details). Please reserve those days to attend. We also need you to ask your company to sponsor some of the events. Your generous sponsorship will help us keep the registration cost down, and it can be a great opportunity for your company to be recognized as a supporter of these events and to encourageus to hold similar events in the future. In addition, some of the funds will be used to provide scholarships for the students! Hope you will consider!
You all are awesome to me!
Steve Cheung
Chairperson 2012-2013
SteveIOR@yahoo.com