It's PTTC Full Steam Ahead

It happened, following months of work by PTTC and AAPG. Effective Oct. 9, PTTC transitioned to an AAPG-managed organization. This provides PTTC the organizational stability that it was unable to develop on its own when federal funding dramatically decreased. Stability ensures that PTTC will continue its work of transferring E&P-related technology information and insights to the domestic E&P industry, primarily targeting independents. Since 1994 PTTC has proven adept at doing that, creating a network and culture that:

• Transcends geography—serving people where they live and work, moving technologies that work to other regions with high potential for application

• Transcends knowledge—conveying knowledge (facts) in a manner that leads to application (wisdom). PTTC puts research and technology advances in the hands of the doers.
• Transcends tools—building on the workshop foundation with a strong web and communications presence.
•  Respects and stimulates interactive learning—expert to learner, learner to expert, learner to learner, customer to developer, etc. One valued result is that operational reality comes back to the academic and technology developer communities.

As outgoing PTTC Chairman Gene Ames noted in the press release announcing the transition:

• Transcends organizations—linking SPE, AAPG, SIPES, IPAA, state/regional trade associations, Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, federal funding sources, academia, state agencies, trade journals, producers, the service sector, research groups, etc.
• Transcends disciplines—serving reservoir engineers, operations engineers, completions engineers, explorationists, exploitation specialists, acquisitions specialists, geologists, geophysicists, technicians, land men, technology innovators, commercialization specialists, and business owners.