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.

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• Wednesday, 10 February 2010
  Young Persons' Lecture Competition
  
  
• Wednesday, 10 March 2010 – 1930 hours. British Geological Survey, Edinburgh
  History & use of slimhole borehole survey instruments in the mining, quarrying, construction and oil/gas industries
  Speaker: James Tweedie, GeoMEM Ltd

In addition to the above, the Institute will be running the following CPD programme:

• 14 & 15 March 2010
  Downhole Metallurgy – selection for oilfield production & injection wells
  A two-day training course - Flyer (pdf, 115K)

The following events are sponsored by The Mining Institute of Scotland Trust:

• Tuesday, 30 March 2010 – 6pm. at Halfway House Hotel, Kingseat, Fife
  Spoil Tip Conservation/Restoration
  Speaker: Dr Alec Milne, ATH Resources plc

• Wednesday, 21 April 2010 – 6pm. at Lochside Hotel, New Cumnock, Ayrshire
  Wind Power Generation
  Speaker: TBA, Vattenfall UK