Trip commemorates logging milestone

The French chapter of SPWLA, SAID, invites you to participate in a special conference on the roots of logging in France Sept. 27^th to 29^th. We take the opportunity of the 80^th anniversary of the first logging job, performed in the Pechelbronn field on September 5^th, 1927, to visit the historical grounds that witnessed these founding events.

The commemoration includes a visit to the site of the lab where the first “bathtub” experiments on resistivity took place, a visit to the Schlumberger museum in Crevecoeur, Normandy, an opportunity to view the first forms of logging equipment, and a visit to the Pechelbronn wellsite where it all started with Henri Doll, Charles Scheibli and Roger Jost in 1927.

To access the wellsite, conference attendants will take the TGV, train à grande vitesse, to cover the distance between Paris and Strasbourg, 487 km (300 miles) in 2 hours and 19 minutes. On the same track, Alstom has just won the world train record at a speed of 575 km/h (357 miles/h).

But this meeting is not only about the old times. On Sept. 27^th, a technical program about innovation and the plans of the energy segment is planned in Paris. Logging on planet Mars, alternative energies and CO2 sequestration are on the agenda. Students from the prestigious schools that trained the Schlumberger brothers and many more oil industry captains have been invited to liaise with the old-timers.

The organizing committee will make every effort to make your stay in France as comfortable as possible. Though accommodation in Paris will be your responsibility, transportation and lodging around Strasbourg will be facilitated by SAID.

To optimize transportation and lodging, we need to know who will attend. Please contact htpp://spwla.org indicating which options you wish to take:

• Paris (technical meeting) on September 27^th;


• Normandy (Schlumberger museum) on September 28^th;


• Strasbourg –Pechelbronn on September 29^th.

Attendants can select one, two or three options.

For more information, contact Philippe Theys at otheys@aol.com.