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PRESIDENT’S AWARD

MARK COOPER

KEVIN MARSH

ROY BENTEAU

The CSPG President’s Award is our Society’s highest service award. It is generally bestowed on one or more individuals for the critical role they have played in staging a hallmark event. During 2006, that hallmark event, the product of several years of diligent preparation and volunteer time, was the joint CSPG-CSEG-CWLS Annual Convention.

And what a convention it was! The convention received 4,678 delegates, which generated registration revenues of $1.25 million. Total revenues were $1.99 million against total expenditures of $0.99 million, yielding a gross profit of $1.01 million. The CSPG portion of this profit was $453 thousand, which made this convention our Society’s most profitable to date. The technical program was also top notch, including more than 200 oral papers and 70 posters. Placing the poster displays in the centre of the exhibits floor was a new idea for this convention - and it was favourably received. The core conference was outstanding, drawing on reservoir systems from across Canada, . . . [Full Text of this Article]