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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.

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Dates for your Diary 2008

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  • Wednesday, 10 September 2008
    Retired Members Lunch & Technical Update
    Speaker: Richard Deveria, President
    Please note this meeting will be held at the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange (1230 hours)

  • Wednesday, 8 October 2008
    Annual General Meeting & Presidential Address: The Energy Connection
    Speaker: Martin Cox

  • Wednesday, 12 November 2008
    Churchill's greatest Secret – Discovery and development of oil production at Eakring, Nottinghamshire in WWII
    Speaker: Kevin Topham, Dukes Wood Drilling Museum

  • Wednesday, 10 December 2008
    Reclaiming Brownfield Sites for redevelopment
    Speakers: Adrian Cox, Waystone UK Limited

Dates for your Diary 2009
  • Wednesday, 14 January 2009
    Overview of the AX-S Subsea Well Intervention system
    Speaker: Matthew Law

  • Wednesday, 28 January 2009
    Towards Deep Geological Disposal of UK Radioactive Waste
    Speaker: Professor Simon Harley, University of Edinburgh Please note this meeting will be held at the Grant Institute of Earth Science, King’s Buildings, University of Edinburgh (1930 hours)

  • Wednesday, 11 February 2009
    The biological basis of Bio diesel technology
    Speaker: David Brignall, Wardell Armstrong
    Please note this meeting will be preceded by the Young Persons' Lecture Competition

  • Wednesday, 11 March 2009
    Piper Alpha - 20 years on in the life of the field
    Speaker: Kerr Morrison, Talisman Energy

  • March/April 2009
    Student Evening Presentation
    Please note this meeting will be held at The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

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

  • 18 & 19 February 2009
    Introduction to Downhole Metallurgy
    A two-day training course

  • 18 March 2009
    Downhole metallurgy selection for Water Injector Wells
    A one-day training course


 

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