CHAPTER OFFICERS – 2008-09

Chairman  – Russell Bertholf
Vice Chairman – Tom Walker
Secretary/Treasurer  - Barry Evans

The California Chapter will meet on December 11th, in Valencia, CA. The business portion of the meeting will include reports from officers and election of new officers or 2009. Two papers will be presented that were given at the Annual Meeting at the Homestead. They are: “The Value of Reserves Information” by Richard Miller and “American Energy Independence-Is it Possible?”

CHAPTER OFFICERS – 2004-05

Chairman  – Rick Finken
Vice Chairman – Russ Bertholf
Secretary/Treasurer  – Barry Evans

SPEE Panel Discussion Draws 50 at the SPE 2005 Western Regional Meeting

In 2003 and again this year, the California Chapter of SPEE presented a panel discussion of evaluation topics of current interest at the SPE Western Regional Meeting.  This year’s meeting was held March 30 – April 1, 2005 in Irvine, California attracting 420 engineers and geologists.

The panel presented evaluation topics of current interest to California petroleum professionals:

Richard Finken: An overview of SPEE goals and activities
Tom Walker: Crude Pricing: California Market Survey
Barry Evans: World Oil Prices
Richard Miller: Common Evaluation Parameters, Use and Misuse
Russ Bertholf: Current California Petroleum Property Sales
Richard Miller: Certification of Petroleum Reserves Evaluation Engineers

The program took place on March 30th in the afternoon and was well received with approximately 50 in attendance.

The California Chapter has found a high level of interest in its areas of expertise and has had good attendance at the SPE Western Regional Meetings in 2003 and 2005 and at what has become its annual luncheon and business meeting in Bakersfield each October.

Shown here are (left to right) Richard Miller, Richard Finken, Barry Evans and Tom Walker.  Unfortunately, Russel Bertholf had to leave to catch a plane before the picture was taken.