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Dear AAPG Asia Pacific Student Chapter Leaders and University Reps,

Imperial Barrel Award Program (IBA)
AAPG is pleased to announce an exciting new career-development program for geoscience graduate students. It is called the Imperial Barrel Award Program or IBA. IBA is a wonderful program in which students work in teams, analyze real geologic data, then give prospect presentations before a panel of petroleum industry judges. Teams of five students per team compete for trophies and cash prizes.
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IPTC 2007 Special Events Offer Unique Opportunities

Online registration is now available for the International Petroleum Technology Conference (IPTC) being held 4-6 December 2007 in Dubai, UAE. Register now at http://www.iptcnet.org .

IPTC presents opportunities to learn about advances in the industry through more than 300 technical presentations and 5 panel sessions focusing on exploration, production, reservoir, midstream gas, and over-arching industry issues. In addition to a strong technical program, IPTC offers various special events including

• Opening ceremony under the patronage of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President of UAE and Ruler of Dubai
• Keynote session themed “Energy Issues for a Changing World” featuring international industry executives
  - Daniel Yergin (moderator), Chairman, Cambridge Energy Research Associates
  - Fu Chengyu, President, China National Offshore Oil Corporation
  - Chad Deaton, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Baker Hughes
  - Abd Allah S. Al-Saif, Senior Vice President E&P, Saudi Aramco
  - Red Cavaney, President and CEO, The American Petroleum Institute
• Special session titled “Climate Change and Spirit of the Desert”
• Field trips visiting
  - Wadi Jizzi ophiolites in Oman
  - Sabkha – modern carbonate-evaporite depositional environments of Abu Dhabi
• Awards banquet recognizing the winners of the “Excellence in Project Integration” award

Hotel Accommodations
The IPTC hotel booking forms are now available online at http://www.iptcnet.org . The deadline for hotel bookings is 1 October 2007, after which rooms and rates will be subject to availability.

Hi folks,

First of all, I would like to congrats you on the job well done for the first half of this year. I really enjoyed reading any of your activity reports as well as your End Year Annual Reports.

There are 3 things I would like to point out in this message:

1. L.Austin Weeks Undergraduate Grants
2. Activity Funding
3. Grant-in-Aid Program

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First half of 2007 Activity Review:

1. Distinguished Lecturer / Visiting Geologists Program
   • Craig Shipp (DL) visited West Malaysia, Japan, China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
   • Herman Darman (VGP) visited Perth and organizes a field trip for University Malaya, Malaysia.
   • Geovani Christopher (VGP) visited 2 universities in China
   • Syed Tariq Hasany (VGP) visited 1 university in Pakistan
   • Peter Lloyd (VGP) in Indonesia visited about 9 universities in Indonesia.
2. Conference / Meeting
   • February: AAPG Leadership ConferenceAsia Pacific region sponsored Dr. Lee Chai Peng, president of the Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM), an affiliate society of AAPG, to attend the conference.
   • March: PAPG – SPE Pakistan conference
     • AP Region President was invited to contribute an opening letter for the conference proceedings.
     • AAPG display a poster in the conference.
   • April: SEAPEX conference Singapore
     • AP Region President gave an award to Richard Lorentz, SEAPEX past president, for his support on AAPG student chapters in Indonesia. SEAPEX donated S$10,000 for AAPG SC in Indonesia
     • AAPG display a poster in an exhibition booth.
     • Asia Pacific region executive committee meeting was held to discuss various issues.
   • April: Long Beach conference
     • AP Region sent our delegates to attend AC and HoD meeting. The delegates were led by Mick McWalter (Region Secretary) and John Kaldi (Past President)
   • May: IPA conference in Jakarta, Indonesia
     • AAPG sponsored 4 students to join the conference
     • AAPG student chapter open an exhibition booth to display their activities.
3. Student Chapters: AAPG Student Chapters in the Asia Pacific region are very active. They organized workshops, field trips, and lectures. They prepared mid year reports, which are available online in here
   • China: 3 new student chapters were formed
   • India: 2 new student chapters were formed
   • Australia: incorporating PESA student chapters, they will be treated the same as AAPG student chapter.
   • Philippines: preparing one student chapter.
   • Pakistan: preparing one student chapter.
   • Indonesia: AAPG SC of University of Indonesia received an award from AAPG as the Outstanding AAPG Student Chapter – International for 2007
4. Others:
   • Web site: Agus M. Ustad, new volunteer to help in maintaining AAPG Asia Pacific website.
   • AAPG Cape Town Conference 2008: Asia Pacific region will actively support this conference by organizing some session to cover India-Pakistan-Bangladesh and Southeast Asia – Pacific regions.

Next half of 2007 Planning

1. Mature the formation of the Regional Advisory Council.
2. DL:
   • Peter Mc Cabe: to visit various cities in Australia
   • Don Lawton: to visit several countries in Asia
3. September: Circum Pacific Energy Conference in China
4. Regional office: continue to evaluate the opportunity to open an office in the region.

Dear AAPG Student Chapter’s Leaders in Asia Pacific Region,

Upon thinking of a better way to spread information on AAPG Student Chapter (SC) Operation to all student chapter’s leaders throughout the region effectively, I finally found that putting a note every particular period (once a month?) through this AAPG Asia Pacific Region web is one of the best. Therefore, I don’t have to repeat the same message to every one for a certain important thing that I would like you to know (as what I have done). In addition to that, this web has been a place for SC activity highlights, which you have to visit to get inspirations.

One milestone in SC life is now coming. No one who claims that he/she got an active SC doesn’t comply with this duty. And never ever to do this if your chapter thinks it’s rich enough to fund all activities, and ungrudgingly to let US$1000 flies away. It is one of Annual Reports that dues sometime in July or August according to the Bylaws and SC Operational Manual (see attachment). It is the End Term or Final Report that every single SC has to submit to Mike Mlynek at student@aapg.org (cc to myself).

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