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SEG-sponsored sessions at OTC 2001

SEG/OTC Technical Program Subcommittee

Corresponding author: www.otcnet.org; L. Zimmerman, LJZimme@upstream.xomcorp.com

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SEG and the 12 other professional societies which sponsor the annual Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas, have constantly worked, since first organizing this event in 1969, to focus the technical program on major field developments and technological innovations. These efforts have generally been successful—the proof being OTC's longstanding status as one of the premier events on the calendar for many earth scientists associated with the oil industry.

The SEG-sponsored portion of OTC's 2001 technical program will showcase state-of-the-art geophysical technology currently being applied in offshore exploration and production projects around the world. Presentations will focus on implementation, application, and business relevance and will feature examples and case histories from current activity.

The four sessions and one technical luncheon arranged by the SEG/OTC Technical Program Subcommittee are described in more detail in the box at the end of this article. The remainder of the main body of text will point out some highlights.

An obvious highlight will be Jack Caldwell's Topical Luncheon address on 30 April, "Whale-Friendly Seismic: A Scientific and Environmentally Responsible Approach to Seismic Data Acquisition." He will describe the effects of noise in the oceans on marine mammals and the political and economic implications of regulations resulting from those effects. Noise in the oceans, real and imagined, and its impact on marine mammals, have become a very visible and somewhat contentious issue over the last several years. The oil industry and the seismic segment in particular, must be a . . . [Full Text of this Article]