Sunday, April 6, 1997
Padang Berawa, 2nd Floor , Petroleum Unit Office, Bandar Seri Begawan
Table of Content
A total of 19 members attended and this exceeded the quorum that requires twice the number of Committee (Interim ). The list of attendees is attached.
The Chairman welcomed and thanked the attendees and was pleased to have the first AGM held .The Interim Chairman invited Pg Hj Harun to recite Al-Fatihah to bless the start of the first Section Meeting. The objectives of AGM were to elect the executive committee and to discuss on the section programme.
The Chairman also expressed the disappointment for the poor attendance despite Newsletters was sent to members by the secretary (some members was reminded using E-mail).
The secretary gave a brief report on the section (attached). The report was mainly related to the initiation and formation of the section. The section was successfully launched in Sept 1997. It was noted that SPE has given assistance in the start up of the section in terms of stationary and fund of US$200. The first section's Newsletter was issue on 11 March 97 with objective to inform on the AGM.
A member asked if the Newsletter was to be published regularly. At present the Newsletters is aimed to inform members on section's activities. It was also added no volunteers and contribution from members are welcomed and if required an essential team can be formed.
4.1. The Chairman requested the secretary to brief members on the election process. The election is governed by the section's bylaw, established by the Interim Committee and endorsed by SPE. A nominating committee had been appointed to determine those qualified to serve as officers and executive Committee of the Section and represent the section. Additional nominations may come from the floor.
The executive committee to be elected were section officers and ordinary members. The officers are made up of Chairman, 2 Vice Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer. The secretary proposed for a second secretary post to ease communication between Seria and Bandar and this was supported by members. Election shall be held every 2 years.
4.2. The nominating committee had proposed the name of candidate for each office and ordinary member and this was published in the Newsletter. Additional nominations were also seeked from members via the Newsletters. The Secretary confirmed that no additional nominations had been received prior to AGM.
4.3. The Chairman asked the floor for any objection of the proposed executive committee. and members unanimously agreed on the nomination. The following is elected as the Executive Committee for 1997-1999.
The Chairman on behalf the committee thanked members for their confidence on electing the Executive committee.
4.4 The Chairman requested that the Bye-law of the Section to be copied to members. Action : Secretary.
5.1. The Chairman looked forward to see activities to be planned soon to show the existence of the section and to make the section more credible. The secretary informed that SPE have 30 distinguished lecturers available for Section meeting/forum and the subjects are varying. The subjects for Section meeting were discussed and it was agreed that a topical and general one to be chosen. The Committee will further finalise the programme.
For a start, it was agreed to hold a minimum 3 SPE evenings for the year. The first will be May 1997 and the subject will be Well Testing. BSP (DM) will be the host and will invite a guess speaker , Professor George Stewart from HeriotWatt University. Action : Committee to finalise programme.
5.2. Alignment with regional section eg. Miri was also suggested to see if we can share programme and experience. Action : Hj Zainal to discuss at coming SPE regional Conference.
5.3. A career talk/exhibition was discussed. It is felt that a proper evaluation (objectives, targets) is required prior to hold this plan. Action : Committee to set task team.
5.4. The treasurer proposed if it is required to raised any fund for the section. The Chairman requested the Treasurer to come with a proposal and discussed with the committee members.
5.5. The finance of SPE evening was raised. The committee agreed that E&P / service companies will be approached to host the evening. It was suggested that the host will given the opportunities to address their technology or to give general key talk. Action : Once the programme finalised, Secretary to draft letter to invite E&P /service companies to host SPE evening.
The meeting was adjourned with coffee session.
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