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Where: The Petroleum Club of Shreveport, 15th floor
Cost: $25
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Virtual
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Cost: $10
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Biography
Deborah is a geologist/geophysicist with 48 years of oil and gas exploration experience in Texas, Louisiana Gulf Coast and Mid-Continent areas of the US, and internationally she has worked in Australia, Tunisia, Gulf of Thailand, Turkey, Hungary, Germany and Columbia. She received her degree in Geology from the University of Oklahoma in 1976 and immediately started working for Gulf Oil in their Oklahoma City offices.
She started her own company, Auburn Energy, in 1990 and built her first geophysical workstation using Kingdom software in 1996. She helped SMT/IHS for 18 years in developing and testing the Kingdom Software. She specializes in 2D and 3D interpretation for clients in the US and internationally.
For the past 14 years she has been part of a team to study and bring the power of multi-attribute neural analysis of seismic data to the geoscience public, guided by Dr. Tom Smith, founder of SMT. She has become an expert in the use of Paradise software and has many discoveries for clients using multi-attribute neural analysis.
Deborah has been very active in the geological community. She is past national President of SIPES (Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists), past President of the Division of Professional Affairs of AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists), Past Treasurer of AAPG and Past President of the Houston Geological Society. She is also Past President of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies and has been on the Advisory Council of AAPG twice.. Deborah is also a DPA Certified Petroleum Geologist #4014 and DPA Certified Petroleum Geophysicist #2. She has recently been elected as President-Elect of AAPG, and will be President of AAPG starting July 1, 2024.
She belongs to AAPG, SIPES, Houston Geological Society, South Texas Geological Society and the Oklahoma City Geological Society (OCGS).
Abstract
Right after COVID, there was an attempt to merge AAPG with SPE and when that failed, essentially the same group of members “decided” that it was time to “Re-imagine,” or essentially reshape the structure of AAPG citing too much cost in governance and the need to be more efficient.
The first draft of the new By-Laws came out in January, and several of the changes are non-starters for many members. This presentation will cover the current financial picture of the organization and then go into some detail as to what the By-Law changes mean for the membership and their representation on the new “Board.” It looks just like the SPE structure! So, the thought is, we did not choose to merge with SPE, then why are we trying to “look” like SPE! Many comments and suggestions have been put forth by the Constitution and By-Laws Committee of the House of Delegates, but to date, most have been ignored by the Ad-Hoc Committee.
The bottom line is that we need to fix the financial picture first – which CAN be done.
