Title:  Ethics in the Petroleum Industry – Issues and Overview

Abstract/Outline:

• Introduction
• Duty to Comply with Professional Ethics Rules/Codes
  • Engineers:
    • Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers
    • Society of Professional Engineers (National Society of Professional Engineers)
    • State of Wyoming Board of Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors
  • Geologists:
    • Wyoming Geological Association (American Association of Petroleum Geologists)
    • Wyoming Board of Professional Geologists
  • Consequences of Unethical Conduct/Disciplinary Proceedings
  • Common Ethical Issues
    • Conflicts of Interest
    • Confidentiality and Protecting Confidential Information
  • Conclusion

Bio:

Jacob (Jake) T. Haseman is a Shareholder Attorney at Beatty & Wozniak, P.C. in Sheridan, WY. He maintains an active energy and natural resource-based legal practice and has practiced law since graduating from the University of Wyoming College of Law in 2007. Jake’s legal practice has traditionally focused on oil, gas, and water; particularly regulatory and administrative work in front of various state regulatory bodies, Federal lands, title examination and curative, litigation surrounding oil and gas, real property, contracts, and title issues, real estate transactions, eminent domain, and various title and contractual surface issues for a variety of parties in the energy and natural resources sector. 

Prior to relocating to Sheridan in 2008, Jake worked as an Honors Trial Attorney for the United States Department of Justice's Environment and Natural Resources Division, Natural Resources Section in Washington, D.C. Jake is a 2015 graduate of Leadership Wyoming and an active member of his community, currently serving as a board member for both the Sheridan County YMCA and the Chandler H. and Mercedes K. Kibbee Foundation for Children. Jake is also an active alumni and supporter of both the University of Wyoming and the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, including serving as Chair of the Industry Advisory Board for the University of Wyoming School of Energy Resource’s Professional Land Management Program.

Jake was raised outside Lafayette, Indiana. After receiving a natural resource-based undergraduate education in Stevens Point, Wisconsin and before receiving his legal education in Laramie, Wyoming, Jake lived and worked in the Chugach National Forest in Alaska. Jake is an avid fly fisherman and enjoys exploring the mountains and open spaces of the West with his wife (Brenda), dogs (Izzy and Murphy), family and friends.

2024 WGA/SPE Christmas Party

Casper’s Cretaceous Sea Fossils

J. P. Cavigelli, The Tate Geological Museum

So, you wanna see some cool fossils from right here in Casper?  Well, let’s start with a housing development near Sagewood Elementary School.  Early in my career at the Tate a local fellow brought us some unusual fossils he had found in a pile of rock removed from some future basements.  This led the Tate to exploring the site and collecting over 250 fossils from here over several visits.  The fossils are form the Cody Shale, which is known to produce fossil, primarily in concretions.  Most of these fossils are in the shale itself, rather than in concretions.  The fossils tend to be impressions with very little organic material left.  But many are fossils of creatures we rarely see in the Cody Shale and other Western Interior Seaway deposits.  Come to this presentation for a trip into the Cretaceous sea as it is seen right here in Casper.       

Jean-Pierre Cavigelli

               JP Cavigelli was born back east in the summertime, of Swiss immigrant parents (from the type Jurassic area).  He is prep lab manager and field trip organizer and collections manager at that Tate Geological Museum at Casper College.  As a biology major at the University of Chicago, JP became interested in paleontology, although way too late to get a degree in it.  This led him to a summer spent in Wyoming (mostly in the Big Horn Basin) in 1983 doing field work in search of small Cretaceous mammal teeth with a University of Wyoming team.  JP fell in love with Wyoming but left for a five year adventure in fun and poverty as a ski bum and whitewater rafting guide in Colorado and Australia.  JP came back to Wyoming in 1990 to be part of a paleontology field crew at the UW again.  He lived in Laramie working off and on in paleontology for 14 years, doing field work as well as a two year post as the Collections Manager for the UW's Dept. of Geology and Geophysics.  He also was a fossil outfitter, running Western Paleo Safaris for six years.  For the past 25 or so years, JP has been doing freelance fossil preparation in his personal prep lab.  He has had the good fortune of having been invited to join international paleontological expeditions to Niger, Mongolia, Tanzania, Alaska and North Dakota.  In his 19 years at the Tate Museum he has led collecting trips all over the state to collect small and large fossils from Dee the Mammoth and Lee Rex to microscopic mammal teeth and really old insects and ichthyosaurs.  When he is not involved with fossils JP enjoys birdwatching, traveling, and hanging out with his supercalifragilisticexpialidocious wife (they were married on a dinosaur skeleton).

Topic:  Liability is Forever: Risk Elements in the Implementation of Decommissioning and Well P&A

14th Annual Gene R. George Memorial Golf Tournament

The WGA's annual Pioneer Picnic honors 50- and 60-year members of the Wyoming Geological Association.