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The Dallas Chapters of SPE Young Professionals, Young Professionals in Energy, Dallas Association of Petroleum Landmen, and Dallas Geological Society have come together to host the First Annual Young Professionals night at the Ball Park in Arlington . The game will be on Friday May 16th, 2014 at 7:05PM . Every Friday home game has a post game firework show. Event Details May 16th, 2014 First Pitch: 7:05PM The Ball Park in Arlington Seating: Lexus Club Cost: $26.50 per ticket This event is open for anyone to attend...Co-Workers, Family, Friends & anyone you wish to invite to the game. **Proceeds ...

The 18th Annual Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Technical Symposium: "Working in the World of Tomorrow" will be held in New Orleans, LA August 5-7, 2014 at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel. This is a joint association between AADE, SPE, and NOGS. For more information visit www.deepwaternola.org .

The UT Bureau of Economic Geology is hosting Industry Day 2014 on Friday, April 11. The theme for this year’s event is “Discovering the Bureau: Energy, Economics, and the Environment.” Industry Day 2014 will highlight the Bureau’s unique position among research institutions as an investigator of such key research areas as unconventional oil and gas exploration and production; energy economics; salt tectonics; natural fractures and structural diagenesis; subsurface micro- and nano-sensing; reservoir characterization in carbonates, mudrocks, and sandstones; carbon storage in geological reservoirs; and the increasingly important water-energy nexus. In addition, ...

Thursday, April 17th from 5:00-11:00 pm; 950 East Lawther; Winfrey Point, White Rock Lake. Join SPE, DGS/DGGS, DAPL, TEC, and SIPES for the 15th Annual Crawfish Cookout on April 17th. Tickets are $30 until April 11th and $45 at the door; kids under 18 are free. Register online at www.dgs.org or send reservations and checks to: Crawfish, c/o Dallas Geological Society, 4925 Greenville Ave., Ste. 600, Dallas, TX 75206.

Thursday, March 6th at 7:30pm is the second annual YPE/NGL Night with the Dallas Stars as they take on the Vancouver Canucks. A pre-game social will start at Old No. 7 Bar at 6:30pm for networking with colleagues. Tickets for the game are $20 for Terrace Level and $60 for Plaza Level, and a portion of he proceeds from all tickets will be donated to Dallas Association of Petroleum Landmen. Contact D'Ann Faught at 214.387.5646 or visit http://www.dallasstars.com/ypengl and use the offer code "energy". This event is open to anyone, not just energy industry related employees.

April 15-18, 2014 - Denver, CO - www.wrmjce.com As ATCE is in Amsterdam this year, this will be the only "regional" conference in the U.S. in 2014. Please check your calendars and consider attending this year's conference. More information can be found at the website listed above.

CONGRATULATIONS to the 2013 6th Annual SPE Softball Tournament winner... Thank you to everyone who helped out, sponsored and/or participated in the softball tournament on Saturday. Special thanks to Kevin Young and Jerry with Quail for doing a great job cooking all the food. Thanks also to everyone who contributed food, drinks, handouts, etc and to those who ran to get food, drinks and ice when we got low and everyone who helped clean up. Since Easter falls on April 20 in 2014, we will probably have the tournament a week later on April 26, but it could be April 5 and it will most likely be at the same place with the same format. ...

Why is Saint Patrick considered to be the patron saint of engineers? An exhaustive search on the web, that lasted a good ten minutes, revealed the following: Saint Patrick is credited with fostering the development of arts and crafts and introducing the knowledge of the use of lime (think limestone reservoir rock) as mortar in Ireland. He is also responsible for the initial construction of clay (think shale) churches in Ireland in the 5th century A.D. Another of St. Patrick's achievements was teaching the Irish to build arches of lime mortar instead of dry masonry. These beginnings of ceramic (think proppant) work developed into organized crafts, and ...

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This one-day symposium Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012, will feature presentations on case histories, field managment, geomodeling, and best practices in the integration of geology, geophysics, and petroleum engineering. http://dgs.org/events/21/