All meetings unless otherwise advised are held either in the lecture room of the Tom Patten Building at the Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot Watt University Edinburgh or BP, Aberdeen at 5.30pm.   The University of Paisley (Room P121, P Block) will be added to the list of venues.

Members can participate at these meetings through the video-conference link between the venues. Please let Steve Bedford know in advance if you intend to attend at the BP offices.

Click here for a map and directions on how to get to the Tom Patten Building at Heriot Watt.

Click here for a map and directions on how to get to BP offices.

Click here for a map of the university campus at Paisley.

Provisional dates for your diary 2010/11

• Thursday, 30 September 2010 – 6.00 p.m. Lochside Hotel, New Cumnock, Ayrshire
  The Geology and History of Opencasting in East Ayrshire
  Speaker: John Crone, Scottish Coal Co Ltd

• Wednesday, 13 October 2010
  AGM & Presidential Address: Chartered Engineer - why bother?
  Speaker: Craig Durham, Nexen Petroleum

• Wednesday, 10 November 2010
  Integrating Numerical & Geological Data in Sand Prediction Studies
  Speaker: Phil Taylor, Helix RDS

• Tuesday, 7 December 2010 - 6.00 p.m. Aberdeen Business School, RGU, Garthdee
  Mechanical Properties that Matter
  Speaker: Ed Wade, MetalEcosse

• Tuesday, 18 January 2011 - 5.30 p.m. Marcliffe Hotel, Pitfoddels, Aberdeen
  Buzzard Field Development: 4 years on
  Speaker: Geoff Leech, Nexen Petroleum

• Wednesday, 9 February 2011
  Young Persons Lecture Competition

• Wednesday, 9 March 2011
  Underground Coal Gasification - the acceptable face of coal mining?
  Speaker: Peter Dryburgh, Wardell Armstrong

• Wednesday, 13 April 2011 - 7.00 p.m. BGS, Murchison House, Edinburgh
  Gold in Scotland! - Scotgolds Grampian Gold Project
  Speaker: Chris Sangster, Edinburgh Geological Society