SPWLA/SCA will host a Topical Conference on Black Shale Petrophysics in
Pittsburgh, PA, April 15-18.

The fee for this conference:
SPWLA/SCA Member $1800.00, Non-Member $1875.00 and includes:

Registration Fee
Sunday Evening Social
Hotel Accommodations (4 nights)
Monday Evening Dinner
Monday-Wednesday Breakfast and Lunch

For further information please visit the SPWLA website.

The organizing committee of the 2012 Symposium chaired by Izaskun Zubizarreta have allocated the Aberdeen Exhibition & Conference Centre from 26th August u/i 31 August 2012.
The shedule anticipated is as follows:

Sun 26 Aug: Optional Golf Outing Day
Mon 27 Aug: Workshop
Tue 28 - Thu 30 Aug: Technical Conference
Fri 31st Aug: Optional Field Trip

In celebration of SCA's 25 years in operation, we are having a logo contest to see if we can update the SCA Logo.
Please submit your logo (s) design to the SCA office before November 30, 2011, for a chance to win an iPad2.
Participation is open for non-SCA members too. Multiple designs per person are welcome.

Best Papers:

1. SCA2011-22: Use of a new impedance cell and 3D MRI to obtain fast and accurate Resistivity
Index measurements from a single centrifuge step
N. Bona, B. Bam, M. Pirrone and E. Rossi
2. SCA2011-13: Gas Phase Relative Permeability Characterization on Tight Gas Samples
Y. Wang, Z. Chen, V. Morah, R. J. Knabe, and M. Appel
3. SCA2011-29: Can Network Modelling Predict Two-Phase Flow Functions?
K.S. Sorbie and A. Skauge

Best Poster:

SCA2011-37: The Structure of Residual Oil as a Function of Wettability Alteration Using Pore-Scale
Network Modelling
K.S. Sorbie, A.V. Ryazanov and M.I.J. van Dijke

Young Professional Awards (presenting authors under age 36)

Paper: Yingxue Wang (Shell)

SCA2011-13: Gas Phase Relative Permeability Characterization on Tight Gas Samples

Poster: Jeff Gelb (Xradia, Inc.)

SCA2011-58: A Closer Look at Shale: Representative Elementary Volume Analysis with Laboratory
3D X-ray Computed Microtomography and Nanotomography

Kirk Petrophysics, UK has a vacancy for a geologist working both at the wellsite and in the laboratory.
Pls visit the employment ads at this website for more information.

President.....................Ted Braun
VP Membership...........Bas Schipper
VP Technology............Patrick Egermann
VP Publications...........Patrick Lasswell
VP Arrangements.........Izaskun Zubizarreta
Secretary/Treasurer.....Christa Vindum
Past President.............Jules Reed
President Elect............Craig Lindsay

The SCA symposium, held in Austin, USA, September 18-21, 2011 was very successful attracting some 250 attendees, 34 exhibitors and 22 spouses.

The SCA thanks all the participants for their tremendous enthusiasm and making the 25th Symposium such a memorable event.