Houston Astros Game - TSPE Family Night on 10-Aug-10 6:15 PM

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:15:00 GMT

Houston Astros Game - TSPE Family Night
Start Date: 10-Aug-10 6:15 PM
End Time: 10-Aug-10 10:30 PM
Location: Minute Maid Park, Houston, Tx 77002
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TSPE Family Night

Houston Astros vs. Atlanta Braves

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

7:05 pm first pitch

Tickets are $30/ person for Section 134 (Right Field) and include a Hunter Pence T-shirt.

RSVP by Friday, July 23, 2010

Arrive at 6:15 pm for tickets

Minute Maid Park

501 Crawford Street

Houston, Tx 77002

Regional Leadership Conference on 27-Aug-10 8:00 AM

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:00:00 GMT

Regional Leadership Conference
Start Date: 27-Aug-10 8:00 AM
End Time: 27-Aug-10 5:00 PM
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TSPE September Meeting: Deepwater Horizon Incident: The Cause and/or Effects on 14-Sep-10 11:30 AM

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:30:00 GMT

TSPE September Meeting: Deepwater Horizon Incident: The Cause and/or Effects
Start Date: 14-Sep-10 11:30 AM
End Time: 14-Sep-10 1:00 PM
Location: HESS CLUB, Houston, Texas 77056
Speaker: James Pappas, P.E., M.B.A.

Event Details:

James Pappas, P.E. M.B.A.

Deepwater Horizon Incident:

The Cause and/or Effect

Note: As we draw closer to the meeting, more details regarding this presentation will be made available.

James Pappas is the Vice President of Technical Programs for RPSEA, the Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America, in Sugarland, Texas. He has held the positions of Global Technology Coordrinator, Facilities Engineer in the Deepwater & International Well Engineering & Facilities Division, Deepwater Project Coordinator for Devon Energy in the past, as well as Production Engineer in the Gulf of Mexico Division for Devon, and Santa Fe Snyder prior to their emrger. He has also held drilling, completions, production, operations superintendent, reservoir, and acquisitions and divestitures (A&D) positions with Fina Oil and Chemical Company, UPRC and Amoco Production Company.

James has been involved with TSPE for 10 years. He has held program committee, scholarship committee, and YP committee positions as well as Director position with the Greater Houston Chapter.
He is hte immediate past Private Industry Practice Chair and Executive Committee memeber of TSPE and serves ont eh Ligislative and Governmental Affairs Committee.
James has been involved with the Society of Petroleum Engineers for 30 years. He has been the immediate past SPE International Production and Operations Technical Director and SPE Technical Programs and Meetings Committee Chair, and is a former chair of the 13,000 member SPE Gulf Coast Section in Houston.
He serves on several technical program committees for meetings including: the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE), the Latin American Continental Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (LACPEC), the SPE R&D Conference, and the SPE Production & Operations (P&O) Conference.
He is also active in the American Petroleum Institute (API), National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), the American Associateion of Drilling Engineers (AADE), and Marine Technical Society (MTS), and he chairs the University of Texas Petroleum Engineering Advisory Council.

James has authored over 40 papers or spoken at various conferences and interviews on various technical and professional topics including: Monte Carlo reservoir simulation, hydraulic fracture analysis, well conformance remediation, subsea tiebacks, flow assurance issues, floating platform concepts, project management, drilling, government and the oil and gas industry, engineering, professionalism, recruiting, training and development, retention, volunteerism, and ethics.

James earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with Math and Spanish minors from the University of Texas at Austin in 1979.

HESS CLUB

5430 Westheimer Road

Houston, Texas USA 77056

I-Day Houston - Infrastructure Event on 18-Sep-10 3:00 PM

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:00:00 GMT

I-Day Houston - Infrastructure Event
Start Date: 18-Sep-10 3:00 PM
End Time: 18-Sep-10 7:00 PM
Location: George R. Brown and Discovery Green, Houston, Texas 77010
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