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Table of Contents

Executive Reports

President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Vice-President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Director of Educational Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Director of Member Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Director of Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Director of Finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Managing Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Committee Reports

Outreach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

The CSEG Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Scholarship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

CSEG / CSPG / CWLS National Joint Convention: Let It Flow . . . . . . . . . 11

RECORDER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

DoodleBug Golf Tournament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

DoodleSpiel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Ski Spree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Junior Geophysicists Forum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Auditor’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Financial Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Achievements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Corporate Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Back Cover

It seems like only yesterday that wewere composing the 2006 AnnualReport. Of course it wasn’t and yes,another year has slipped by. From asocietal perspective it has been a verybusy year. As an Executive weconfronted a number of challenges andoverall the fortunes of the CSEG profitedas a result. The relocation to WesternUnion building along with our sistersociety the Canadian Society ofPetroleum Geologists (CSPG) hasbecome a reality and a comfortable oneat that. Our year in review should startwith our relationship with the CSPG.

CSPG

In addition to the cohabitation andsharing of resources the two societiesmoved to formalize our association withrespect to the Joint Annual Convention.As a first step the CSEG achieved equalrepresentation on the Joint AnnualConvention Committee (JACC).Stepping forward, Rob McGrory, JeffBectold and Andrea Hood have agreedto ensure our society is fully accountedfor. Both the CSEG as well as the CSPGExecutives have been working hard atputting together a mutually beneficiallong term agreement that will see thetwo Societies jointly hosting an annualconference. Plans called for theagreement to be finalized in the firstquarter of 2008. The CSEG very muchappreciated the efforts of CSPGPresident Colin Yeo who wasinstrumental in moving this file forward.

2007 Convention

As a report on the past Convention willbe found elsewhere I merely wanted toadd my voice to others in applaudingthose that were part of this show. Co-Chairs John Townsley and John Varsekmanaged a splendid team. In terms ofquality of programs, innovative ideasand financial results—last years show seta new standard.

On the subject of conventions we lookforward to future conventions in 2008,2009 and 2010 co-chaired by TooneyFink, Mike Jones and Andrew Holderrespectively.

CSEG Foundation

At the conclusion of 2006 the CSEGExecutive passed a motion to donate$200,000 to the newly registered charity.While still in their infancy theFoundation Directors have made a greatdeal of progress. As evidence of thismaturity the Executive handed overresponsibility for the CSEG DistinguishedLecturer to the Foundation. As furtherevidence of the Foundation’s growth the2007 Executive has unanimously votedto forward an additional $200,000 inorder that the Foundation’s corpus willcontinue its growth.

Canadian Federation of Earth Sciences(CFES)

Immediate Past President Oliver Kuhnacknowledged in last year’s AnnualReport that (CFES) was successfully re-launched. The old Canadian GeoscienceCouncil was no more. In 2007 the CSEGparticipated both with our resources andon a financial level. We participated in acouple of surveys; one that will assist inprofiling our society as well as a secondone that is looking at geoscienceemployment trends. We also participatedin the revenue generating sub-committeethat was examining ways that we canindependently fund the CFES in thefuture. The CSEG further supported theCFES to the tune of $2.00 per member.From a personal perspective I see theCFES under Ian Young’s leadershipheading in a positive direction and havehigh expectations in the years to come.

Society of Exploration Geophysicists(SEG)

The CSEG had a full complement ofdelegates (3) at the SEG annual meetingin San Antonio. The SEG is looking foradditional avenues whereby they canservice their membership. Vice PresidentFrancois Aubin attended a specialplanning meeting in Tulsa duringJanuary of this year where he was ableto acquaint the SEG leadership withissues that are important to us. As ourparental organization we continue tolook towards the SEG for the voice ofguidance and experience.

Canadian Association of GeophysicalContractors (CAGC)

The CSEG continues to recognize theimportance of the CAGC. As the voice ofthe field arm in an era of increasingregulatory scrutiny they are as necessaryas ever. Through the work of both theCSEG Outreach committee and theCAGC the very successful Seismic inMotion for Students initiative was giventhe Mayor’s Award for excellence. Weare all very proud of their combinedefforts. As in the past we have includedthe quarterly ‘The Source’, along withthe RECORDER.

APEGGA

Through the Canadian Council ofProfessional Geosciences (CCPG) andAPEGGA itself the CSEG has beeninvolved in professional registrationissues. The CCPG is moving in thedirection of standardizing academicqualifications across the country. TheCSEG has participated in thesediscussions. The CSEG assembled asmall team to work with APEGGAconcerning the Data Practices Standard.APEGGA has invited the CSEGPresident to sit in on their Councilmeeting. Wherever possible we willsupport their initiatives.

CSEG Elections

One very encouraging event in 2007 wasthe response to our get out and votecampaign. We were able to field anexcellent slate of candidates. From theExecutive our collective thanks to allwho participated in the process. Theresults from 2006 to 2007 reflect anincrease of 10% in voter turnout. Theincoming Executive will be providedwith additional ideas to further increasethis number for 2008. Both the PastPresidents Advisory Board as well asthose attending our CSEG Retreat feelsthat an elected Executive is important tothe continued success of the society.

Executive Team

In looking back over the precedingtwelve months the 2007 Executive can

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President

Under the able guidance of DougBogstie, this past year went fast andsmoothly. This period as vice presidentallowed me to get familiar with thecurrent issues and get ready to lead theteam in the coming year.

CGF (Chief Geophysicists Forum)

Some eight years ago the ChiefGeophysicists Forum was created toallow the then Chief Geophysicists (orequivalent position when the official title‘Chief Geophysicist’ was not conferred)to gather and discuss various issuesrelevant to mostly the major oilcompanies operating in Canada. Overthe years, the focus has shifted toinclude smaller companies, and manyissues have been discussed and agreedupon by this group of dedicatedscientists. At times the issues are moreadministrative than technical. Morerecently, the Practice Standard forhandling seismic data was drafted, andsubmitted to APEGGA for furtherdiscussion. Three of our representativesare now meeting regularly withAPEGGA to incorporate the itemsrelevant to APEGGA in the practicestandard. Throughout 2007, Lorne Smithguided the group, and as of January2008, Darren Kondrat has taken over thechair, with Barrie Jose volunteering asSecretary. If you are interested inattending the quarterly meetings kindlycontact Darren.

SEG General Assembly (January 2008)

With the SEG expanding at aphenomenal rate worldwide, newchallenges arise in offering services tosome 30,000 members, with more thanhalf of them living outside the U.S.A.Another factor that the SEG executivesare looking at is the fact that more thanhalf the members of SEG are Associatemembers rather than Active members. Inorder to brain storm on issues currentlyrelevant to the SEG, Fred Aminzadehasked Past President Leon Thomsen toorganize the first General Assembly. Ihad the honour of representing theCSEG at this gathering in Tulsa in lateJanuary 2008. In total there were about80 of us representing14 countries, somedelegates having traveled three days toget there. Many valuablerecommendations were formulated anda separate report will be presented later.

Membership Survey (December2007/January 2008)

By mid-2007, our President DougBogstie had set the wheels in motion forus to hold a survey of our membership.It has been many years since we took alook at our membership demographics.This survey was sent out to all ourmembers in December 2007, and at thetime of writing this report, filled outsurveys are still coming in. Over the nextfew weeks, the results of the survey will

be compiled, and a report will bepublished in the RECORDER during thespring of 2008.

Brainstorming session (January 2008)

Some years ago, the CSEG Executivealong with representatives of committeeswould gather for a weekend retreat andreview the state of the CSEG, andprepare a roadmap of the way ahead.This is how a Long Range Plan was setin motion a few years back. OurPresident Doug Bogstie and our OfficeManager Jim Racette pushed for anothersuch session to be held. It took place inJanuary 2008 with over 25 of us present.We divided up in five groups with eachgroup tackling some issues. The topicsaddressed were: social activities,technical programmes, relationshipswith other societies, volunteer pool,financial and membership. The executivewill take into consideration therecommendations made during thissession: as a matter of fact, some of therecommendations have already been putin place in the few weeks that followedthe session.

Looking forward to serving you in thecoming year, and do not hesitate tocontact any of us on the executive or inthe office with your suggestions andoffer to help.

FRANÇOIS AUBINVice President

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take a great deal of pride in theiraccomplishments. A short list wouldinclude acquiring a new member’sdatabase, being an important part of theCFES growth, achieving a mutuallyadvantageous agreement with CSPG,and further supporting our Foundation’sgrowth. All considered, these point to avery successful year. This is allaccompanied with record net revenuespointing to a society with a bright futureand one capable of weathering anuncertain business environment.

It has been my pleasure to work withBill Nickerson, Mike Clement, ElizabethAtkinson, and Susan Thompson, theoutgoing Directors of the society. Theywere all supported by a hard workingteam of Assistant Directors. I had thebenefit of calling upon Immediate PastPresident Oliver Kuhn for assistance andadvice on numerous occasions and wasnever left wanting. Backing up theDirectors, it is comforting to know thatwe have both Jim Racette and SherylMeggeson looking over our shoulders.

Lastly, to incoming President FrancoisAubin our best wishes that he will carryon a very real tradition and maintain thereputation that has made the CSEG whatit is today. We of the outgoing Executivehave all the confidence in both him andhis incoming team.

DOUG BOGSTIE

President

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Our society has just concluded anothersuccessful year on the Education frontwith two significant changes from lastyear. The first change is that twoprograms, the CSEG Scholarship and theDistinguished Lecture (DL) program,were handed over to the CSEGfoundation to administer. TheFoundation will take on an expandedrole in the delivery of educational andoutreach programs in the future as itbuilds a sustainable funding base. Thesecond major development is the in-house recording and web-casting of allluncheon and lunchbox talks. Thanks tothe hard work of Bob Somerville on lastyear’s luncheon committee, we can nowcapture CSEG talks and post both theaudio and slide show on our web-site forall to see. Students and members allacross Canada can finally have equalaccess to the talks in Calgary – asignificant contribution to members,educators and students across thecountry.

Luncheons

Nine technical luncheons and sevenlunchbox geophysics talks wereorganized by the luncheon planningcommittee comprising ChamindaSandanayake, Larry Adorjan, PaulAnderson, Richard Bale, Marc Boulet,Brad Camroux, Karen Gowans, CheranMangat, Larry Mewhort, HeshamMoubarak, Bob Somerville, Ying Zou,Jon Downton and Petra Buziac.

Luncheon attendance was down slightlyfrom last year so the decision was madenot to increase luncheon ticket pricesthis year. The CSEG office took over theluncheon ticket coordinator function andMarc Boulet and Brad Camroux havetaken the torch (laptop and microphone)from Bob Somerville. They now recordand edit the talks for the website.

Thanks are due to our Luncheon speakers fora fine series of talks:

January: Satinder Chopra.“Curvature and IconicCoherence – attributes addingvalue to 3D seismic datainterpretation”

February: Rainer Tonn. “U.K. NorthSea Case Study: SeismicInterpretation Workflow forField Development Studiesand Enhanced ExplorationProspect Risking”

March: Leonard Srnka.“Illuminating Reservoirs withElectromagnetics”

April: Dr. Matt Brzostowski.“Simultaneous AVOInversion for Leading Edge –Integrated Seismic ReservoirCharacterization”

June: Don Gendzwill. “VimyRidge and Geophysics”

September: Tony Johns. “AnisotropicPP and PSv Prestack DepthMigration of 4C (OBC)Seismic Data, OffshoreTrinidad”

October: Peter Tertzakian. “Beyond aThousand Barrels a Second;what’s wrong with CanadianGas?”

November: Alan J. Cohen. “Preparingfor the Future in Geophysics:Out of the Darkness and intothe ‘Lite’”

December: Paul Bauman. “GeophysicalSurveys at Tel Yavne, Israel:5,000 Years of BuriedHistory”

The Lunchbox geophysics series ofinformal technical talks had anextremely successful year under theleadership of Richard Bale and Ying Zoualong with the generosity of KelmanTechnologies who supplied theAquitaine auditorium venue. Seven talkswere presented in the series, the mostrecent ones have been recorded aswebcasts.

February: Kathy Taerum. “Convergingon a Single Datum”

March: Bill Fahmy. “DHI/AVO BestPractices Methodology andApplications”

March: Chad Hogan. “ExplicitDepth Migration: Tips,Tricks, and Techniques”

April: Carmen Dumitrescu.“Vp/Vs ratio of a heavy oilreservoir from Canada”

August: Ken Titchkosky & RichardThompson. “Picking theSweet Spot using RockPhysics”

September: Greg Partyka. “SpectralDecomposition andInversion”

November: Marcia L. Couëslan. “CO2Storage and EOR:Monitoring Injection withTime-lapse VSPs”

The CSEG Distinguished Lecturer this yearis Dr. Gerhard Pratt from Queen’sUniversity. His tour will have 15 stops,where his presentation “What else canthe seismic waveform tell us?” will giveexposure across Canada not only to Dr.Pratt’s world class research in the fieldof waveform inversion, but also to theCSEG and exploration geophysics oncampuses across the country.

Oct 9th University of Calgary

Oct 10th University of Alberta

Oct 11th University ofSaskatchewan

Oct 12th University of Regina

Nov 22nd University ofOttawa/CarletonUniversity

Dec 4th University ofVictoria/Pacific GeoscienceCentre

Dec 5th Simon Fraser University

Dec 6th University of BritishColumbia

Jan 18th McGill University

Jan 25th University of WesternOntario

Feb 8th University of Toronto /KEGS

Feb 18th Memorial University

Feb 20th University of NewBrunswick

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Feb 21st St. Francis XavierUniversity

Feb 22nd Dalhousie University

March 31st CSEG Annual Meeting,Calgary

A special thank-you is due the outgoingchairman of the DL committee, Dr.Mauricio Sacchi. He has organized theDL for the last three years. It is widelyrecognized that the CanadianDistinguished Lecturer tour is a keyprogram in putting the “Canada” backin the CSEG.

Outreach

The outreach committee under HelenIsaac has continued and expanded itsrole again this year. Theiraccomplishments in promotinggeophysics and our society are too manyto list here – they form the basis of aseparate report on the pages to follow. Iwill point out just one item thathighlights the level of excellence theyhave achieved. This year the OutreachCommittee was cited, along with theCAGC, by Mayor Bronconnier, for theirproject ‘Seismic in Motion for Students’that won the 2008 Mayor’s ExcellenceAward in the category “School-to-WorkTransition”. Congratulations are due toHelen Isaac and her committee for a jobwell done!

DoodleTrain

The 2007 DoodleTrain continuingeducation week was the most successful

one to date. Almost 500 studentsattended 26 courses offered in Calgaryduring the week of November 5-9. Nocourses were cancelled and the project,originally designed to break-even, againturned a handsome surplus to help fundother outreach activities. Thanks go toDoodleTrain volunteers John Logel,Cheran Mangat, Brian Hoffe, JohnFernando, David Feuchtwanger, MaryLee, Gabriel Solano, Megan Jubb, AndyDyke, Pavlo Cholach, Jason McCrankand Bill Nickerson (Chair). The successof the DoodeTrain lies in theparticipation of the community.Corporate contributions in the form ofclassrooms, cash and time off for staff tovolunteer and attend these courses makethe project a success.

Awards

The award for the best luncheon talk for2007 goes to Satinder Chopra for his talkentitled “Curvature and Iconic Coherence”presented at the January luncheon.

The best RECORDER paper award goesto Richard Kellett for his article entitled“A Geophysical Facies Description ofQuaternary Channels in Northern Alberta”,which was published in the December2007 issue.

Convention and Best paper awards:

Mike Perz and the technical committeeput on a great series of technical talks atthe 2007 annual convention. The difficulttask of choosing the best paper wastaken on by a group lead by GrahamCarter. The 2007 award winners were:

BEST GEOPHYS I CAL PA P E R

“Anisotropic PP and PSv Prestack DepthMigration of 4C (OBC) Seismic Data,Offshore Trinidad” by Tony Johns andRaul Sarmiento

BEST GEOPHYSICAL POSTER

“Using Steerable Filters to Map GeologicalFeatures from HRAM Data of the Foothillsof Northeastern British Columbia, Canada”by Hassan H. Hassan, Robert A.Charters and John W. Peirce

BEST STUDENT GEOPHYS I CAL PA P E R

“Multi-step Auto-Regressive Reconstructionof nonuniformly Sampled, Aliased SeismicRecords” by Mostafa Naghizadeh andM.D. Sacchi (University of Alberta)

BEST STUDENT GEOPHYS I CAL POSTER

“Integrated Open-Source GeophysicalProcessing and Visualization” by Glenn D.Chubak, Igor B. Morozov and ShannonBlythe (University of Saskatchewan)

In closing, it has been a pleasure to servethe members this past year as Director ofeducation. All of our programs are runby volunteers for the benefit of themembership. If you would like to helpout, please give one of the committeemembers a call. Volunteering can be avery rewarding experience and a greatway to meet new people.

BILL NICKERSON

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Director of Member Services

First and foremost, Member Services would like to thank all theCSEG members for their continued support of our society.

Member Services represents the needs and concerns of all theCSEG members, which includes corporate, individual, andstudent members. The three CSEG social function committees,DoodleSpiel, DoodleBug, and the Ski Spree, report to MemberServices.

You will find some detailed reports from each social committeewithin this Executive Report, so I will only summarize the 2007social functions briefly under mine.

Membership

The CSEG membership continues to grow each year and hasover 2100 registered members and more than 40 corporatemembers. This year, thanks in part to Outreach and a studentmembership subsidy program by Petro-Canada, there was amarked increase in the number of students registering with thesociety in 2007.

Volunteer Appreciation

The CSEG is a healthy society due in large part to over 100volunteers that donates their time year after year on variouscommittees. I’d like to recognize all the people that volunteeredtheir time in 2007 with a heartfelt thank you. Each year,Member Services recognizes those volunteers with a volunteerappreciation. In February 2007, the 2006 volunteers met atEscoba’s for an evening social function and plans are in placefor a similar February function this year for the 2007 volunteers.

Ski Spree

The 2007 CSEG Ski Spree was once again a huge success. Thiswas the Ski Spree’s 40th anniversary and it has never beenmore popular. CSEG member families filled the Fairmont HotSprings Lodge to capacity in early February 2007 for a weekendof skiing, swimming, games, good food, good company, andhealthy competition. Thanks this year goes to Kevin Viney andhis committee and the event volunteers for an excellent familyweekend.

DoodleSpiel

The DoodleSpiel marked its 35th year in 2007. The CSEGcurlers descended on the Banff town site in late January of 2007.The stories and tales that come back each year are the stuff oflegends. Gary Laskoski and his committee pulled it all togetherfor one of the most popular CSEG social events. Thanks go outto the whole team for a job well done.

DoodleBug

Magnificent Jasper National Park and Jasper Park Lodge wasthe setting for the 2007 CSEG DoodleBug golf tournament. Theannual tournament is the longest running of the socialfunctions and celebrated its 55th year in 2007. Gary James andhis committee did a superb job putting this premier social eventtogether for the CSEG members and their guests thatparticipated. It’s always a first class affair.

MIKE CLEMENTDirector of Member Services

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Director of Communications

For the past year, 2007, theCommunications portfolio has beenheaded up by Susan Thomson, with helpfrom the Assistant Director, MichaelEnaschescu. It has been an exciting yearwith lots of accomplishments andchallenges, which make volunteeringwith the CSEG that much morerewarding.

Under the tutelage of Satinder Chopra,the RECORDER continues to be anoutstanding publication, representingboth the technical and social aspects ofour society and industry. With 10 issuesper year (monthly, except July andAugust), it is amazing to see new andinteresting focus articles each time.There are many challenges associatedwith the focus articles, and we areexploring many new ideas to enticeauthors to publish their research or casestudies in the magazine. TheRECORDER is an exciting and activecommittee, with many rewards, andwe’d like to see new faces with newideas join the committee. TheRECORDER is a great way to make adirect and definitive impact on oursociety, so please don’t hesitate to

contact Michael or our new AssistantDirector, Carol Laws (or Satinder!) if youthink you’d like to join this great groupof people. The more the merrier!

The website has and will undergo manychanges this year. We are hoping tomake the CSEG website (www.cseg.ca, ifyou didn’t know!) THE place for up-to-date information on all things related toour society and industry. We are in theprocess of revamping and re-designingthe website, as well as modernize theMembers-Only area, including extensiveon-line capabilities and an up-to-datecalendar of activities. As the industryand its people change and move aroundso much, this should provide membersthe opportunity to change their contactinformation and keep it current as theMembers-Only area will contain LIVEinformation.

This process started last March, whenCorey Hooge was brought in to take thelead in this project. Corey’s experiencewith the websites of numerous CSEGConventions made him an obviouschoice for this onerous task. As well, Jimand Sheryl, our office staff, have been

heavily involved from the start, as theywill be tasked with maintaining andadministering the new database. We willbe rolling out the new website andMembers-Only area soon (possibly evenby the time you read this) so watch yourRECORDER and listen forannouncements in the coming weeks!This is an exciting initiative for theCSEG, bringing our society into the newtechnology millennium – finally!

As my tenure on the CSEG Executivecomes to an end, I’d like to thank theAcademy (oops, wrong speech) I’d liketo thank Jim and Sheryl, for theirguidance and patience, thanks to Coreyfor his passion and knowledge of theintricacies of interweb, thanks to JeremySherry, of Enter the Mind Media, whobuilt and maintains our websitecurrently, and of course Satinder, for hisunending dedication to the RECORDER.It was another exciting year in thehistory of the CSEG. I’m so glad I couldbe a part of it!

SUSAN THOMSON

Director, Communications

It has been an honour and a pleasure to serve as FinanceDirector this year. We have had another very successful year,and our finances are in great shape. We had another surplus atyear end, $362,409 (before donation). The chief sources of thissurplus are the convention and the DoodleTrain, with verygenerous sponsorship from the industry. We have consideredcarefully what to do with this surplus, and have taken a coupleof different actions with these monies.

First, we have reviewed what a bare bones minimum cost is for“keeping the lights on” for the society, and raised the value ofour restricted reserve fund to $800,000. This figure represents 2years of very basic operating expense, and the restricted natureof this part of our savings makes future executives very awareof when they are dipping into “rainy day funds”. Thisrestricted reserve also clarifies the purposes of our savings, aswe are “not for profit”. We are in the process of investing thismoney in a series of GIC’s of varying maturity dates, toincrease our rates of return, while still allowing access to someof the money each year.

Secondly, this period of prosperity is a very good time to helpbuild up the CSEG Foundation. The Foundation’s mandate is tosupport education and good scientific research in geophysicsand earth science. Should future years become leaner, theFoundation may be able to provide some educational andoutreach aspects of the CSEG program that the society currentlyfunds. In 2007, the executive approved a donation of $200,000plus some expenses of $902, to be paid to the Foundation.Again in early 2008, after reviewing the year end statementsand 2008 budget, the executive approved another $200,000donation to the Foundation. This is a significant start to theFoundation’s corpus, and we encourage all individual membersto consider donating as well.

Budgeting for 2008 presented a challenge, given some growinguncertainty in the industry. Larry Herd, the incoming Directorof Finance, and I have developed a budget for the upcomingyear that is prudently conservative, to reflect possible softeningindustry conditions, while continuing all of the great programsthat the CSEG volunteers run, such as Outreach and Education.

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Larry and I are also finalising details onimproving expense approvals and thedocumenting of sub-committee finances.A little more clarity and formality helpseveryone, and protects both the society’sreputation, and the hard workingvolunteers who handle money andexpenses on behalf of the society.

Finally, I worked with our auditor,Murray Hunter, to simplify our annualstatement. In past years we kept a

separate “project fund” on paper, totrack larger “one time events”. Lately,the events within the “project fund”have become part of our normaloperations, so we collapsed this fundinto the regular “operating fund”. Thisshould make the statements easier toread.

I would like to thank the office staff, Jimand Sheryl for their support andenthusiasm. It has also been a pleasure

to work with Associations Plus, ouraccounting firm, and Murray Hunter,our auditor, and I appreciated theirguidance. I would also like to thank EricMikkelborg, who was Director ofFinance before me, and I am confidentthat Larry Herd will do a great job inthis portfolio this coming year.

ELIZABETH ATKINSON

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Another successful convention andDoodleTrain once again highlighted ayear of continued growth for the CSEG.Also, 2007 saw the CSEG Foundation’scorpus receive a good kick-start in itsfirst full season of operation. All of thispositive activity has again placed theCSEG in a position to be able to providefunds to its many committees andensuring the benefits of membership arenot only being maintained but enhanced.

• The 2007 convention was anotherresounding success that saw 4500plus delegates gather for a week ofhigh-end presentations, workshopsand continuing education courses.

• The CSEG Foundation had asuccessful first full year in terms ofreceiving funds to help build acorpus that will hopefully one daybe substantial enough to have theinterest earned from theseinvestments fund several initiativesthat are outlined in its mandate. Thedirectors of the Foundation willcontinue to promote this mandate toprospective donors with hopes ofbuilding its reserves.

• DoodleTrain’s growth continues andits importance to the CSEG in termsof providing funding and, moreimportantly, high level continuingeducation opportunities sets theCSEG apart from other technicalorganizations in terms of offeringcourses to its members.

• For the second year the CSEGelections were held online and voterparticipation increased by 10%.

For the last half of the year the staff,along with a small adhoc committee,was focused on bringing the CSEG onstream with more online opportunitiesfor the membership. It was quicklydiscovered that our current databasesoftware could not support an onlineapplication and subsequently a searchbegan to find a program that wouldmeet this need and grow with theorganization over the next few years. Adecision to purchase the IMYS programwas made by mid summer and work hasprogressed to the point where theprogram is installed and staff is trainingin its use. However with bringing onnew software showed some flaws in

other areas of our system. Though thetransition has been steadily movingforward, it has not been as quick aseveryone involved, including themembership, hoped it would be. All Ican say is that we are making positiveheadway and though we may becurrently behind in offering onlineopportunities compared to otherorganizations, we feel confident thatonce we are ready to “go live” with ouronline applications we will have aservice that our membership will beconfident in using.

In closing I would again like to thankour executive for their support over thepast year. Their commitment, along withthe many volunteers serving on ourcommittees, is the lifeblood of the CSEGand is unique among technical andprofessional societies in today’s world.As our industry changes it is ourcommitment to the membership to “rolewith the punches” and do our best asstaff to serve our society.

JIM RACETTE

Managing Director

Managing Director

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The Outreach Committee had a verysuccessful 2007. Contributing to thissuccess were Anne Halladay, AnnetteMilbradt, Bob Mummery, Brian Russell,Candace Bruins, Hassan Odhwani, JeffGautreau, Joseph Chow, Les Corper,Mark Lane, Paul Thacker, Perry Kotkas,Petra Buziak, Pratt Barndollar, RachelNewrick, Stephen Kotkas, Tina Bozik,Jim Racette and Sheryl Meggeson. Wegreatly appreciate those companies thatallow their employees to participate inour outreach endeavours.

The highlights of the year are:

Schools

Led by Perry in consultation with theCalgary Board of Education (CBE), wemade 11 visits to Calgary, Cochrane,Okotoks and Crownest High Schools.We attended schools’ career days andalso gave talks to groups of studentsusing our careers in geophysics andgeophysical technology PowerPoint show.Schools outreachers were Perry, Helen,Anne, Annette, Mark, Les, Hassan, Petra,Pratt and Bob.

Three of the schools visits were inconjunction with the second year ofSeismic in Motion for Students, the highlysuccessful field trip attended by studentsfrom Sir Winston Churchill, Forest Lawnand Centennial high schools. Thestudents, teachers and CBErepresentatives praise this endeavourvery highly. We are delighted to reportthat this joint CBE-Industry cooperativeventure won the 2008 Mayor’sExcellence Award in the ”School toWork” category. We are very grateful tothe sponsoring companies that made thispossible: Tesla ($1500), Apache, CNRL,ConocoPhillips, Devon Canada, EnCana,Enerplus, Nexen, Talisman (all $1000)and Sigma ($500).

In cooperation with the Burgess ShaleFoundation, CSPG and APEGGA, we

sponsored the Kids in Science Program,which brought high school studentsfrom Sir John Franklin junior high schoolto the convention in May. Pratt visitedthe school beforehand to talk aboutcareers in geophysics and manyvolunteers from the CSEG took groupsof students around the exhibition floor.Kudos to Les, Hassan and Annette formaking this happen.

Career Fairs

As part of our public and studento u t reach we attended major career fairsin Va n c o u v e r, Kelowna, Saskatoon,Regina, Calgary and Edmonton. Wealso went to Edmonton for the schoolsc a reers practitioners’ convention and toDevon for the Petroleum DiscoveryC e n t re’s careers day. We attended twofairs at the University of Calgary: theCampus Fair and the Science andEngineering Fair, at which MarzenaFeuchtwanger from MembershipServices joined us. Our pro m o t i o n a lmaterial includes bro c h u res on C a re e r sin Geophysics and C a reers in GeophysicalTe c h n o l o g y and handouts withinformation on university or technicalcollege courses and re q u i rements. Wep roject a PowerPoint show onto thenew careers pop-up banner. We alsodistribute the SEG’s “dig in to yourworld” poster, CAGC bro c h u res onseismic field careers and PHRCCb ro c h u res on careers in the oil and gasi n d u s t r y. Annette capably organizedthe fairs.

Post-secondary students

Spearheaded by Anne, wepromoted membership in thesociety to post-secondarystudents. 111 students fromacross the country tookadvantage of Petro-Canada’sgenerous sponsorship ofstudent membership in 2007.

Challenge Bowl

The first annual CSEG Challenge Bowl,held during the convention forcompeting teams of university students,was organized by Brian Russell andcompared by Peter Duncan. Helen andAnnette were score-keepers, fortifiedwith red wine. It was huge fun. Thewinners, Tiffany Piercey and MatthewMacInnis from Memorial, won anexpenses-paid trip to represent Canadaat the SEG convention Challenge Bowl,where they performed honourably. The2008 CSEG Challenge Bowl will be heldagain during a special students’networking evening at the convention.Watch for details!

The Junior Geophysicists Forum andHonorary Address are both supportedand attended by Outreach personnel. Wecooperated in joint ventures with theCSPG, CAGC, APEGGA, CGEN,PHRCC and PICC, which is a group ofenergy industry organizations co-founded by Perry to coordinate studentoutreach activities. We have providedimages, text and consultation to CGENand the PHRCC for the development oftheir careers websites. Our PowerPointshow was requested by the HoustonGeophysical Society and by a CSEGmember in Quebec. We were againpleased to offer financial support to theCanmore Geoscience Centre andMuseum.

HELEN ISAACOutreach Chair

Outreach

Perry and Annette at the Vancouver Career Fair.

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The CSEG Foundation was established with a mandate:

(a) to establish programs supporting education in geophysicsand the earth sciences;

(b) to support post secondary education in geophysics and theearth sciences, including the establishment andcontinuation of the Canadian Society of ExplorationGeophysicists scholarship programs;

(c) to support continuing education of geophysicists throughthe development of courses relating to developingtechnology, publications relating to the geosciences and byestablishing education programs;

(d) to support scientific activities by providing funding ofacademic research programs;

(e) to develop and support non-profit programs designed tofurther the development of geophysical techniques aimedat improvements in geophysical applications in the earthsciences;

(f) to support the preservation of the history of geophysicalexploration;

(g) and to support the business application of geophysics asdefined in the mandate of the Canadian Society ofExploration Geophysicists.

The chairman of the committee is Brian Russell and committeemembers include Bill Goodway, Perry Kotkas, JessicaMcPherson, Warren Pearson, Neil Rutherford, and thePresident of CSEG, Doug Bogstie. The CSEG Foundationincludes the CSEG Scholarship committee and their activity isdescribed in a separate report.

As mentioned in my last report our goal as a committee for2007 was to put in place a plan to help build the corpus of ourFoundation, which in turn would give us the long term abilityto fund a wide range of projects as set out in the mandate givenabove. A generous gift from the CSEG Executive this year hashelped build the corpus of the Foundation and we look forwardto supporting many worthy geophysical causes. As a start, theCSEG Foundation will be funding the CSEG DistinguishedLecture program and several initiatives of the OutreachCommittee.

Please feel free to get in touch with any of our board membersfor more information.

BRIAN RUSSELLChair

The CSEG Foundation

This year saw few outward changes to the website, but a largernumber of initiatives were planned during the year for rolloutin 2008. On-going discussion with the major content providersfrom the other committees continued in order to improve bothcontent and layout on the site.

Planning for two major projects began early in the spring of2007. The first was a substantial rewrite of the website. Thisincluded new behind the scenes technology necessitated by themembership software additions as well as new securityconcerns not present when the current website version wascreated. The new site includes a significant new and modernlook. The front page is visually more cleaner and provides moredescriptive information for the various events. The RECORDERarchives have been cleaned up and reorganized. Over the nextfew months, the archives will include more pre-2000RECORDERS.

The other major project was the addition of a new onlinemembership system. This will allow members in the future tochange their address info, renew their memberships and signup for CSEG events, including luncheons, DISC, JGF andDoodleTrain. A new and vastly improved member search ispart of this new system.

Both changes should be up and running by the time you readthis. We encourage the members to provide us with feed backso that we can continue to make the website the primarydestination for society information.

COREY HOOGEChair

Website

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Scholarship

In 2007 the CSEG ScholarshipCommittee became part of the CSEGFoundation but operated as a separatebody in the soliciting and issuing ofscholarships. The committee solicitedand received sufficient funding from 25Calgary oil and gas companies, servicecompanies and individuals to grantscholarships in the amount of $2000 to21 students from universities acrossCanada. Over the past few years wehave seen a trend towards morescholarships being issued to studentsfrom universities outside Alberta. This isdue in part to the decrease ofapplications from both University ofAlberta and University of Calgarycoupled with an increase of applicationsfrom other provinces. Each year thecommittee sends a letter and poster tothe geosciences department at eachCanadian university solicitingapplications from both undergraduateand graduate students. We encouragestaff, students and alumni of allCanadian universities to promote theCSEG Foundation and the annualscholarships.

The last two years have seen somechanges to the application form which isnow available as an editable adobeacrobat form on the CSEG website.Additionally, for the upcoming years, wesuggest that the deadline forapplications be moved to April 30th sothat students have their applicationssubmitted before the end of the schoolyear and are not struggling to obtainreferences and/or the requiredsignatures. Often scholarshipopportunities are overlooked during theheight of summer! To further promotethe scholarships, we wrote an article forthe CSEG RECORDER (April, 2007)entitled ‘The Ins and Outs of a CSEGFoundation Scholarship…’ in which wedetailed how to donate towards, applyfor and be awarded a scholarship andprofiled the scholarship winners of2006/2007.

2007/2008 scholarship winners werenotified and awards forwarded to their

respective universities in October. Asreported in previous years, we continueto be faced with the challenge created byconsolidation of companies in theCalgary oil and gas business. This bothamalgamates previous donors of twoscholarships into one donation anddiminishes the pool of potential donors.That said, we continue to be impressedby the generosity of repeat donors andappreciate funding from new companies.Funding a scholarship is an excellentway to give back to the community andencourage talented students to becomeengaged in the oil and gas industry. Itwas once said, by the current Chair, thatfor ‘just $6 per day, you, too, couldsupport a university student’, so if youare in a position to donate, eitherpersonally or corporately, we encourageyou to step forward and join the list ofgenerous donors.

2007 CSEG Scholarship Committee

Rachel Newrick, Nexen Inc.Chairman

Warren Pearson, ConsultantSenior Trustee

Jessica McPherson, EnCana Corporation Junior Trustee

2007 CSEG Scholarship Winners

Alexander Mazurkiewicz Queen's University

Angela Schlesinger University of Victoria

Arslan Akhmetov University of Western Ontario

Christine Marechal University of Calgary

Emmanuel Bongajum University of Toronto

Helen Yam University of Alberta

Iqbal (Ricky) Choong University of Alberta

Jane Simmons University of New Brunswick

Jounada Oueity University of British Columbia

Judith Chan University of Alberta

Mark Jeroncic University of Alberta

Michael McMillan University of British Columbia

Monika Pal University of Waterloo

Morounkeji (Keji) Olaleye University of Manitoba

Patti Perlock University of Western Ontario

Ross Polutnik University of Alberta

Soner Bekleric University of Alberta

Soo-Kyung Miong University of Calgary

Tiffany Piercey Memorial University of Newfoundland

Vishal Kumar University of British Columbia

Zimin Zhang University of Calgary

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2007 Scholarship Donors

Apoterra $2000

Arcis Corporation $2000

Boyd Petrosearch $500

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. $2000

Compton Petroleum $500

Devon Canada $2000

Divestco $2000

Encana Corporation $2000

EOG Canada $2000

GEDCO $1000

GSI $2000

Hampson - Russell $2000

Jesse R. Marion $666

John Pierce $1000

Kelman $2000

Larry Lines $500

Matrix Geoscience $2000

Nexen Inc. $2000

Northrock $500

OYO $1000

Petro-Canada $2000

Pulse Data $500

Sigma Explorations Inc $1000

Suncor Energy $2000

Talisman Energy $2000

Total $37,166

Contributions from the Chris Elms, TedPopilchak and Bob Won Memorial TrustFunds administered by the CSEGFoundation brought the total to $42,000.

RACHEL NEWRICKChair

Scholarship (con’t) CSEG / CSPG / CWLS National Joint Convention: Let It FlowLet It Flow, the many sided nature of the2007 theme refers to the flow of ideas,hydrocarbons, and business. Followingthe 2006 tri-society convention (CSEG,CSPG, and CWLS), the 2007 conventionopened on the Stampede grounds in theRoundUp Centre on Monday, May 14and closed on Thursday May 17 with theCore Meltdown at the EUB Core Labs.

Our convention is growing in size andscope. In the past, a solo CSEGconvention would draw perhaps 2000attendees, while now our two and threesociety conventions are hosting between4000 to 4500 attendees. In terms ofgeology and geophysics for upstream oiland gas exploration, our convention isone of the four largest worldwide.Reflecting its significance, there are nowfull time staff assigned to the convention.Volunteer society members still overseeall convention activities, but the staffperforms much of the work.

Even with help from the staff, a lot ofpeople are needed to run such a largeshow. In 2007 we were 10 committeeswith 80 volunteers (50 of which areTechnical Session Chairs), and there wereanother 80 students and seniors helpingon site and with package pick-up.Demographics of the 4600 conventiondelegates are shown in the followingcharts:

4600 delegates

3100 technical, 1000 exhibitors, 500 students and other

Financially, the convention delivered aprofit of $390,000 to each society. Itgenerated approximately $1,800,000 inTotal Revenue with $1,000,000 inExpenses. Roughly stated, the ExhibitorFees and Sponsorship Fees generated$800,000 in revenue, while Registrationrevenue was $1,000,000. Even thoughthe operational expenses increasedslightly over 2006, fees remained thesame. Registration fees were unchangedfrom 2006 while the only change toExhibit fees was the creation of a newmid-priced corner booth.

Exhibit floor activities started onMonday morning and finished onTuesday afternoon. It was a very busytwo days. Besides continuous technicalpresentations from the 120 Exhibitors,there were two large afternoon parties, abreakfast on the floor, four poster breaks,a silent auction for charity, junior highschool student tours, and a long timemembers reception.

The technical program consisted of 280presentations. These included 200 talksand 80 poster or core presentations.From Monday through Wednesday therewere 7 simultaneous sessions takingplace in the Roundup Centre, while corepresentations took place on Wednesdayand Thursday at the EUB Core Labs.

True to the “Let It Flow” theme, brightideas and fresh technical perspectivesbubbled freely--both within and acrossthe disciplines of geology andgeophysics. The geoscience of fluid flow

was front-and-centre on the CSEG side,and sessions treating fractures andunconventional hydrocarbonexploration were especially well-received. The Foothills sessions alsogenerated great interest, showing thatwhat was old is new again: our localindustry cut its teeth by exploitingfoothills structures, and nearly 100years later these same plays remain afocus. The “Flow of Business” sessions,which provided an in-depth look atmajor external drivers of change in ourindustry as well as the geoscienceemployment market, also provedimmensely popular. Another highlightwas the mid-morning poster break,which featured some memorable posterpresentations as well as a welcomeopportunity for leg-stretching. The2007 CSEG technical programme has



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affirmed once again that homegrowngeophysical innovation occupies a loftyperch on the world stage.

The technical session award winners were asf o l l o w s :

Best Geophysical Paper – Tony Johns

Best Geophysical Poster – Hassan Hassan

Best Student Geophysical Paper – MostafaNaghizadeh

Best Student Geophysical Poster – GlennChubak

Best Geological Paper – George Pemberton

Best Geological Poster – Thanos Natras

Best Student Geological Paper and AndrewBaillie Award – Chad Glemser

Best Student Geological Poster and AndrewBaillie Award – Michelle Martin

Best Core Presentation – Thomas Nardin

Best Integrated Core Presentation – LaurieWeston Bellman

Best Student Core Presentation – Michael J.Hay

It takes a lot of people to host such a bigshow; if you happen to meet any of thefollowing people, we encourage you tothank them. Take a moment to showyour gratitude for the convention andfor helping to make the CSEG a greatorganization.

Committee Chairs

General Co-Chairman (CSPG) – JohnVarsek, Encana

General Co-Chairman (CSEG) – JohnTownsley, ARC Resources (previouslywith Divestco)

Finance Chair – Darren Aldridge, BakerAtlas

Technical Co-Chair (CSEG) – Mike Perz,Divestco

Technical Co-Chair (CSPG) – John Cody,MGM Energy

Field Trips, Short Courses (CSEG) – KevinMarsh, Divestco

Field Trips (CSPG) – Krista Jewett

Short Courses (CSPG) – Travis Hobbs,EnCana

Posters – Greg Cave, previously withSamson Canada Ltd.

Core Conference – Lisa Griffith, GriffithGeoConsulting

Judging & Awards – Graham Carter,CGGVeritas Hampson Russell

Flow of Business – David Mitrovica,World Staffing Solutions

Sponsorship & Exhibits Co-Chair – FloReynolds, Nexen Inc.

Sponsorship & Exhibits Co-Chair – TerryMcCoy, Trafina Energy Ltd.

Publications Chair – Jeannette Watson,Schlumberger Petrel

Special Events Chair – Andrea Hood,geoLOGIC systems ltd.

Volunteer Coordinator – LyndseyNicholas, Absolute Imaging (previouslywith Divestco)

Committee Volunteers

Field Trips, Lori Meyer, MeghanHendren

Short Courses, Elizabeth O’Neill, DiegoBarrenechea, Shaheen Khan

Posters, Joanne Lanteigne

Logistics, Adam MacDonald

Core Conference, Ellie MacInnes, MarciaRempe, Joan Tittemore, Suzan Moore,Natalie Hachey

Exhibits, Stephanie Billenko, Victor Irwin

Special Events, Laura Brick, Brian Russelland Peter Duncan (Challenge Bowl),Penny Colton (Photos)

Technical Session Chairs

Anne Halliday, Bill Goodway, BrianHargreaves, Chris Haberny, CindyRiediger, Cody Muhle, Dan Boudreault,David Garner, David Mitrovica, DennisJohnston, Don Lawton, Fran Hein, HelenIsaac, Hugh Geiger, Ian Gordon, JeffDeere, Jeremy Gallop, Jim Davidson, JoeStuhec, John Evans, John Logel, JonDownton, Juefu Wang, Ken Duckworth,Ken Hedlin, Kevin Meyer, Kirk Osadetz,

Laurie Ross, Lee Hunt, Malcolm Lamb,Martin Dashwood, Mauricio Sacchi,Mike Hall, Mike Pacholek, MurrayGingras, Neil Ethier, Nilanjan Ganguly,Paul Anderson, Paul MacKay, RachelNewrick, Rainer Tonn, Richard Bale,Rick Wierzbicki, Rob Stewart, RonLarson, Sam Kaplan, Satinder Chopra,Scott Leroux, Sheila Conner, SteveHubbard, Sylvestre Charles, Tim Hartel

KISP – Kids In Science Program

KISP Science Exhibit Guides

Les Corper, Annette Milbradt, HassanOdhwani, Andy Marshall, Becky Cook,Candace Bruins, Cathy Martin, ErnieGreenwood, Glenn Malcolm, JenniferLeslie-Panek, Joanne Archer, LidaGoldchteine, Marie Hong, NancyMcKellar, Oliver Kuhn, Brad Camroux,Rob Huck, Stacey Mansfield, SusanThompson, Christopher Collom, MarkLane, Helen Isaac, Annette Milbradt,Perry Kotkas, Pratt Barndollar, Tim Bird,Dave Johnson

KISP Participating Exhibitors

A.P.E.G.G.A., CSEG, CSPG, AlbertaGeological Survey, BAKER ATLAS,CGGVeritas, Divestco Inc., geoLOGICsystems ltd., Northwest TerritoriesGeoscience Office, Pason Systems Corp.,Petroleum Geo-Services, Roxar, RPSEnergy Canada Ltd., United Oil & GasConsulting Ltd.

LUTW – Light Up The World Charity

Auction

Laurie Ross, Abbey Rebillaco, ColleenDelisle, Carmen Swalwell, AndyMarshall, Gay Ruddy, Kerrianne Stewart,Kristy Manchul, Mike Pesowski

The Expert Staff

Shauna Carson, Tanya Santry, KimMacLean, Heather Tyminski, LoriHumphrey Clements,

On Behalf of the

2007 Convention Committee

John Townsley and Mike Perz

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RECORDER

John Bancro f t Pratt Barn d o l l a r Petra Buziak Doug Colvin Bill Fahmy Don Gendzwill

Lee Hunt Tako Koning Roy Lindseth


Doug Pru d e n John Va r s e k

Petra Buziak, John Va r s e k , Lee Hunt,John Bancroft, Pratt Barndollar,Don Gendzwill, Doug Pruden,Bill Fa h m y , Doug Colvin,Tako Koning and Roy Lindseth.

All the technical articlespublished in the RECORDER arealso included in the SEG’s DigitalCumulative Index (DCI).

Within the RECORDERCommittee, I continue in my roleas the Production Editor, and sodid Muyi Kola-Ojo (ArcisCorporation) as AssistantProduction Editor; Jason Noble(Edge Technologies) continues tovolunteer his able services asTechnical Editor. Penny Colton(GSI) and Roger McClary tookover from Helen Isaac as AssistantTechnical Editors and helped withthe editorial work. Jeff Gautreau(GEDCO) continues in his role asadvertising manager, Carmen

Swalwell as a Regular Contributorfor Tracing the Industry column,and Gina Richie (IHS) as RegularContributor for the Grapevinecolumn. Starting in January,Kristy Manchul replaces Gina andwill look after this column. JimRacette and Sheryl Meggesonwere always available for liaisonand help, apart from theirorganization of advertisingmaterial and related duties.

The PRINTMAN, Calgary,continues to provide productionand printing services for theRECORDER, which we found tobe satisfactory in terms of qualityand efficiency.

The RECORDER productionexpenses during 2007 fellsomewhat short of the advertisingrevenue (in fact we have made amarginal profit of ~ $35K). Thishas been possible by keeping the

directive of the CSEG Executive inmind – that each division of theCSEG should function as a costeffective/profit making entity.

Ten issues of the RECORDERpublished in 2007 are available onthe CSEG website (www.cseg.ca),(as per the directive of the CSEGExecutive to maintain a lag ofthree months for posting of theRECORDER issues) in addition tothe archived back issues sinceDecember 98.

We have continued in ourattempts to enhance the quality ofthe RECORDER and attract newauthors and we hope themembership will continue to giveus support and help as they havedone in the past.

SATINDER CHOPRA

Chair

During 2007, thirty-nine technicalarticles and twenty-six semi-technical or general nature articleswere published in the ten issuesof the RECORDER. The ten issuesfocused on the following specificthemes:

• Seismic Acquisition:Designing of surveys

• Near surface geophysics –The use of statistics ingeophysical methodologies

• West Coastexploration/Environmentaltopics

• Mining Geophysics

• Crustal/Mantle Geophysics

• Geophysical case histories

• Microseismics

• Geophysics for oilsands/Heavy Oil

• Marine Geophysics

• Geophysics andenvironmental issues

Eleven interviews with selectedmembers were published in theissues of the RECORDER. Theoverall feedback from themembers has been encouragingand shows that the interviews areone of the most popular columns.The following eleven eminentgeoscientists were interviewedduring 2006-7:

Once again, it was another successfuland fun filled year at the DoodleBug.

The 55th Annual DoodleBug was held inmajestic Jasper. In this our second yearback at Jasper Park Lodge we continuedto enjoy the positive rates from JasperPark Lodge negotiated by the previouschairman.

With 117 golfers registered in the maintournament, chasing the ever elusive“ceramic”, and their guests, we toppedout at over 220 participants. Thesponsorship committee did anoutstanding job working with sponsorsto ensure we had the dollars in place tokeep us within budget. Financially theDoodleBug Golf Tournament is on solidground as it moves into its 56th year.

To meet the request of past participants,to provide on-line registration andpayment options, our web site wasrevamped in 2007. Many thanks to thead-hoc committee, lead by ElvisFloreani, for making sure the web sitewas up and running in time to starttaking registrations.

As has come to be expected, our golfcommittee did an outstanding jobworking with the groups to ensure fairand even indexing of players. At the endof the rounds on Saturday Daryl Robbinsregained the title of Mr. DoodleBug.

The warm-up and mixed rounds wereheld in two separate shotgun starts onThursday morning and afternoon

allowing the mixed tournament playersto drive to Jasper in the morning if theywhere not able to make it out on theWednesday evening.

The guest/spousal tournament this yearwas organized by Diane Sommervilleand Karen Webster, and based on thelaughter and high spirits seen at the firsttee box on Friday afternoon a good timewas had by all. Well Done!

The DoodleBug Golf Tournament is alsoa premiere social event on the CSEGcalendar. The Jasper Park Lodge staffonce again did an outstanding jobpreparing and helping ourEntertainment committee organize thevarious events from the breakfasts at thegolf course to the Friday and Saturdaynight dinners.

Pirates and mutineers were all that couldbe seen at Saturday night’s theme party.The entertainment committee took thistheme to heart early in the planningstages by shanghaiing two othercommittee members to complete theirdevious plans. Many thanks and sacks ofgolf balls must be given to Craig VanDongen, Bryce Davis, Zoe Ferguson, andKaren Webster for all their hard work.

Although the DoodleBug tournament isnot organized as a charity event thecommittee does endeavor to collect somemoney each year to donate to a worthycause. Through the generosity of theparticipants I am pleased to report thatmore than $8,800.00 was raised for the

Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundationat this year’s event.

In concluding this report I wish toacknowledge and thank the following:

The DoodleBug golf tournament, likeother CSEG events, would not bepossible without the hard work anddedication of the volunteer committeewho did a tremendous job stepping upto ensure the continued success of the55th annual DoodleBug. I would alsolike to thank the companies who allowparticipation on this committee; we allknow that it takes away time andresources from their day-to-day jobs.

To our sponsors, THANK YOU! Withoutyour continued support this tournamentand premiere social event could notexist.

To Jasper Park Lodge for providing firstclass accommodations, golf and events.And finally to all of you who come outand participate, and always have fun.

The 56th annual DoodleBug will be held once again in Jasper, August 14th -16th, 2008.

Thank you Trevor Packard for youguidance and Marty Sommerville foryour help last year as Vice Chairmanand good luck in 2008.

GARY JAMES

Chair

DoodleBug Golf Tournament

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2007 DoodleBug CommitteeChairman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gary JamesVice Chair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Marty SommervillePast Chair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Trevor PackardSecretary/ Treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tanis Hagerman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Zoe Ferguson

Housing/ Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Elvis Floreani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .AndrewLanePrizes/ Sponsorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kerry BefusGolf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dave Cryer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dale Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Evan Perry

Entertainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Craig Van Dongen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bryce DavisGuest Tournament . . . . . . . . . . . .Diane Sommerville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Karen Webster

Ladies Convener . . . . . . . . . . . .Dawn Buetow-James


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DoodleSpiel

The 35th annual CSEG DoodleSpiel wentoff the weekend of January 26th through28th, and again, was an unqualifiedsuccess. The bonspiel ran a fullcontingent of 92 teams and numeroussocial guests (that’s 368 curlers, plusgroupies, autograph seekers, scouts,agents, etc. etc.!!), spread over threecurling clubs. The logistics of planningfor this many curlers and others isindeed a challenge.

Congratulations to all the winners of thisyear’s events. The Allan Richards teamcaptured their first ever DoodleSpiel titlethis year, after what must have seemedlike an eternity of futility and nearmisses. Clearly, this was the crowningachievement in their long and storiedcurling careers. Well done gentlemen!

Again, a big thanks to all our sponsorsfor stepping up and helping us put onthis great event. Your strong supporthelps us keep the spirit of the bonspielalive, and makes it an affordable and funevent for everyone in the industry.

I’d especially like to thank the committeefor their hard work, and dedication topulling this all together.

Past Chairman – Darrel Jackson

Vice Chairman and Drawmaster – MorganSteeves

Finance & Sponsorship – John Bertsch /Hillar Lilles

Housing and Special Events – ArminSchafer / Dave Swagar / JustinGullickson

Special thanks to a great group of guyswho step up and help every year withthe Friday function. Not sure how wewould pull it off without you guys.Thanks to Tom Kelly, Trent Olson, RayMacDonald, and Andy Morris.

It’s been a pleasure to serve on thecommittee, and to work with adedicated group of volunteers that cometogether for the bonspiel every year.2008 is shaping up to be another greatbonspiel, and Morgan and his team willbe sure to continue the tradition of funand enjoyment for all!

GARY LASKOSKIChair

2007 Event Results

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A Side 1st Alan Richards Barry Johnson Don Anderson Gene Peters2nd Ken Lengyel Glen Stewart Steve Whidden John Trosch3rd Sterling Hansen Kelly Jamison Gary Laskoski Bob Bachman4th Glenn Hauer Trevor Packard Gary James Roger Edgecombe

B Side 1st Randy Hrynyk Dave Grindell Vince Dewolfe Kelly Zaminski2nd Brian Bertram Darrell Bertram Val Putzi Van Greig3rd Dave Timko Gayle Ritten Wade Brillon Garth Syhlonyk4th Steve Matthews Gary Daren Dawn Tofsrud Calvin Wall

C Side 1st Bill Cherniak Warren Young Bob Doerkson Pat Brown2nd Tom Helgesen Tamara Krause Mark Anderson Murray VanAlstine3rd Mike Scott Scott Dykes Pete Scott Steve Dewolfe4th Foster Jansen Mike Cardell Steve Thomas Lance Crossfire

D Side 1st Joe Minten Elizabeth Atkinson John Rennie Kelly Hrabi2nd Roger O'Regan Todd O'Brien Todd Stuebing Ryan Munro3rd Earl Hawkes Annette Block Doug Bonar Richard Paul4th Vern Krause Darin Silvernagel Dave Swagar Dave Robinson

Holeplug 1st Peter McCann Paul McLauren Glen Herringshaw Shauna Logan2nd Colin Davis Henry Magnin Cheryl Russell Rob Phillips3rd Donna Phillips Karoline Beninger Tracy Halasz Rick Musial4th Brad McDonald Victor Irwin Sarah Cutten Nanna Eliuk

The 40th annual CSEG “Family” SkiSpree was enjoyed by a full house ofapproximately 380 skiing,snowboarding, hot tubing andsometimes wild karaoke participants.

Fairmont Hot Springs Resort once againrolled out the red carpet to make us allfeel welcome and worked hard to makethis event a very successful one, thisyear was a challenge as there was achange in ownership for the resort, itwent very smoothly thanks again to theentire management and staff at FairmontHot Springs Resort.

The Family Ski Spree starts with someearly birds arriving unofficially onThursday evening and taking advantageof local slopes like Panorama, Kimberley,and Kicking Horse or spending arelaxing Friday at the resort.

Friday evening officially gets underwaywith activities for all ages, the MiniMixer for youngsters up to 11 withcrafts, games, goody bags, snacksfollowed up by a movie. The Teen roomcatered to the 12-18 groups with ascavenger hunt, prizes and pizza.

Across the hall the Mogul Mixer for theover 18 crowds gathered for a traditionalUkrainian meal in honor of the pioneersof the event as this was the original fare

when the Ski Spree started as a grassroots get together 40 years ago.

This year’s Family Ski Spree honoredGeorge and Shirley Kostashuk “Mr. AndMrs. Ski Spree” with Mike Jones pastchairman presenting the Kostashukswith a Inukshuk on Jade and thankingShirley for writing a historic recollectionof the early Family Ski Spree yearsshared with all the participants.

After the presentation it was back toGrand Prix racing, this is afriendly/fierce competition with modelcars on a hot wheels track, braggingrights are at stake along with some greatprizes.

Saturday is the big day starting with thechildren’s obstacle course, then the SnowSnake hunt providing sweet prizes forthose who participated. Thisfollowed by the Snowboardraces then the Downhill skiraces, after a fun day on theslopes all enjoyed a great onhill Après Ski with food andlibations to wind up theafternoons fun.

The Family Ski Spree dinnerfills three banquet rooms, thedinner was great and themedal presentation, door

prizes and picture taking made ourcelebration fantastic.

After the awards dinner was completesome of the committee membersentertained in the upstairs lounge with ariveting edition of Billy Jean to a soldout cheering crowd!

I would like to thank the great folks onthe committee and the numerousvolunteers as these fun loving peoplemake it a fun family event. Hats off tothe sponsors as they are the engine thatmakes this Family Ski Spree happen yearafter year, thank you for yourcontinuous support. Hope to see newand familiar faces at this year Family Ski Spree.

KEVIN VINEY

Chair

Committee Report


Ski Spree

The Junior Geophysicists Forum held its5th event this past year with 185 peopleattending. This event continues to be selfsufficient and does not require anyadditional funds from the CSEG.Donations from Big Oil have been

sufficient for each event. The eventcontinues to be strong and growing. Theenthusiasm for the event can be seen bythe number of students and juniors thatattendant, with positive feedback. Thestudents and juniors are continuing to

benefit from the opportunity to interactwith senior geophysicists in a relaxedsocial setting. Future events will be heldannually in May instead of twice a year.

JEFF GAUTREAUChair

Junior Geophysicists Forum

A u d i t o r’s Report


Financial Statements



Notes to Financial Statements

1950 J.O. Galloway1951 C.M. Moore, Jr.1952 L.I. Brockway, N.J. Christie1953 W.R. Ogilvie1954 R.J. Copeland1955 R.D. Holland1956 R.B. Ross1957 G.J. Blundun1958 F.A. Hale1959 H.J. Kidder1960 M.B. Dobrin1961 P.I. Bediz1962 P.J. Savage1963 R.H. Carlyle1964 C.J. Chapman1965 R.A. Boulware1966 J. Hodgkinson1967 E.A. Fulmer1968 G.E. Longphee

1969 W. Blair1970 L.R. Baxendale1971 R.O. Lindseth1972 J.K. Morrison1973 W.N. Rabey1974 J.H. Harding1975 J.R. Pullen1976 W.D. Evans1977 R.J. McCaffrey1978 E.F. Mahaffy1979 L.R. Hatlelid1980 P.D. O’Brien1981 A.E. Wren1982 D.A. Carswell1983 V.A.A. Neilson1984 J.R. Hume1985 L.C. Fichtner1986 J.D. Boyd1987 R.L. Comer

1988 R.M. Lundberg1989 A.J. Ferworn1990 N.E. Rutherford1991 B.H. Russell1992 R.J. Brown1993 W.E. Davitt1994 G.G. Taylor1995 B.T. Korchinski1996 D. Hampson1997 R. Stewart1998 N .Shaw1999 D. Pruden2000 P. Kotkas2001 R. Pelletier2002 D. Uffen2003 W. Goodway2004 P. Cary2005 J. Stenhouse2006 Oliver Kuhn

Past Presidents

Meritorious Service Awards

The Meritorious Service Award is given to members of the CSEG who have made a prominent and/or lengthy contribution to theSociety and/or the industry as a whole. Current practice is to make a maximum of two of these awards each year.

• Harry McGrew

• Cecil A.Collins

• Dr. Milton B. Dobrin

• Alexander H. McKee

• Peter J. Savage

• Percy Smith

• Dr. Roy O. Lindseth

• John Hodgkinson

• Jack W. Bowden

• Hal W. Godwin

• J. Kenneth Morrison

• Westley N. Rabey

• Dr. Easton Wren (1977)

• Mary C. Colberg

• A. Vern Street

• Alan J. Ferworn

• Jack R. Pullen

• Sudhir Jain

• Bill Blair

• Harold Acheson

• Bud St. Clair

• William D. Evans

• Earle F. Mahaffy

• Jack E. Setters

• Peter Bediz (1983)

• William C. Stroup

• Ernie K. Shaw (1984)

• William Davitt (1984)

• Ray Prudholme

• George Blundun

• Valerie A.A. Neilson

• Duncan A. Carswell

• P. Dennis O’Brien

• Judi McDonald (1987)

• Dale Kary

• D.K. Bruce Fenwick

• Lloyd Hatlelid

• Larry Fichtner

• Don Simpson

• John Boyd (1988)

• Arthur Baptie

• Bob Comer

• Dan Hampson (1991)

• Nancy Shaw

• Ralph Lundberg (1992)

• Murray Olson

• George Kostashuk

• Robert Grigg

• Neil Rutherford

• Ken Duckworth (1994)

• Melvin E. Best (1995)

• Brian Russell (1995)

• Dr. Don C. Lawton (1996)

• James Brown (1997)

• John Pierce

• Gregg Milne

• Ernest Kanasewich

• Michael Enachescu (1998)

• Elaine Honsberger (1999)

• Dave Siegfried (1999)

• Doug Uffen (1999)

• Penny Colton (2000)

• Norm Cooper (2000)

• Barry Korchinski

• George Fairs (2001)

• Perry Kotkas (2002)

• Oliver Kuhn (2003)

• Satinder Chopra (2005)

• Bill Nickerson (2005)

• Helen Isaac (2007)

• Mauricio Sacchi (2007)

CSEG Achievements


Honourary Membership is normally given only to a few members who have gained recognition for distinguished contributions inthe field of geophysics or in service to the CSEG, either nationally or internationally.

Honorary Membership Awards

CSEG Medal

Dr. George D. GarlandDr. J. Tuzo WilsonNorman ChristieDr. Milton B. DobrinA.E. PallisterDr. Roy O. LindsethDr. David W. StrangwayPeter J. SavageR.H. CarylyleDr. Ernest R. Kanasewich

Robert BoulwareDr. A. Easton Wren (1987)Sudhir JainDr. Charlotte KeenDr. Peter GretenerDr. Gordon WestDr. Ron Clowes (1995)Dr. Douglas W. Oldenberg (1996)Dr. Roy Hyndman (1996)Dr. Larry Lines (1998)

Dr. Zoltan Hajnal (1999)Brian Russell (2000)Robert Comer (2002)Robert Stewart (2003)John Boyd (2003)Davey Einarsson (2004)Mike Galbraith (2005)John Bancroft (2005)Perry Kotkas (2006)

The CSEG Medal was introduced in 1988 and is the highest award that the Society bestows. “The CSEG Medal is given in recognitionof the contribution to Exploration Geophysics by a member of the profession in Canada. It can be gained through a long-standingsignificant contribution to the application, teaching or business development of Exploration Geophysics. It can also be gained througha single achievement in any of these areas, which has been recognized over a period of years as a significant development. The awardwill be made to a member of the geophysical profession who is recognized for his integrity as well as his accomplishments.”

Ted RozsaRoy LindsethGreg Davidson (1990)Dave Robson (1991)Dr. Robert R. Stewart (1992)

Hugh StanfieldDonald ChamberlainJohn Boyd (1994)Garry KelmanBrian Russell (1999)

Dr. Don Lawton (2000)Dr. Dan Hampson (2004)Bill Goodway (2007)


CSEG Achievements

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