MINUTES OF GBM: APG  KOLKATA CHAPTER
 

A General Body Meeting of Association of Petroleum Geologists-Kolkata Chapter was held on 22.08.2007 at  RCC, Kolkata to discuss the following agenda:

1. Statement of Account for the year 2006-07.
2. Election of new executive body.
3. Calendar of APG activities during 2007-08.
4. New membership drive including non-ONGC

Statement of account was presented by Dr. A. K. Nandi, Former Treasurer of the association. This was followed by election of the new executive body, Kolkata Chapter which is as under:

President:                     Mr. R. M. Baruah
Vice Presidents:             Mr. K. S. Pangtey
                                    Mr. P. Mukhopadhyay
Secretary:                     Dr. A. K. Nandi
Joint Secretary:             Mr. H. S. Rana
Treasurer:                     Mr. A. T. Choudhury

The house discussed various aspects and suggested/shared their views for the expansion and improvement of the association's activity.
 

Meeting in progress: Shri R. M. Barua (Second from left), newly elected
President is flanked by Shri A. K. Biswas, Basin Manager - MBA
and Shri K. S. Pangtey (Extreme right), Vice-President
 

Mr. R. M. Barua, the newly elected President has suggested for the membership drive and  shown  keen interest on arranging lectures. Mr K. S. Pangtey, the Vice President desired  for exposures of field excursion, where the individuals can be benefited by organizing such kind of activities. Mr. S. Brahma advised that the lectures can be arranged in three different ways:

i) Outside agency (Non-ONGCian),
ii) In-house Ex-ONGCian and
iii) In-house active ONGCians
 

A still from the meeting
 

Shri A K Biswas, Basin Manager - MBA suggested to explore the possibility of technical lectures with present advancement in interpretation like "AVO analysis and Seismic Inversion". Besides, he suggested the topic like Exploration Management to be arranged from outside agency. Finally, the Basin Manager  conveyed  best wishes to  all the newly elected members of the APG-Kolkata Chapter.