The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) will be holding its annual conference in Toronto at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.  Peter Dolph of Water Management Consultants – A Schlumberger Company and Martin Draeger of Schlumberger Water Services will attend the convention.

For more information about this convention, visit the PDAC website at www.pdac.ca

The Society of Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc. will have their 2008 annual meeting at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City.  Peter Dolph, a member of the SME International Committee, and Patrick Williamson, a member of the SME Environmental Committee will be in attendance.  Water Management Consultants – A Schlumberger Company will have Booth Number 1400 in the exhibit hall.  Over four thousand attendees are expected to visit the exhibits.

For more information regarding this conference, contact Dianna Gury at (303) 948-4213 or via email at gury@smenet.org

The National Western Mining Conference will be held at the Westin Hotel, Tabor Center in Denver.  For information on the conference and exhibit space, please visit the CMA website at www.coloradomining.org

The WMC geochemistry group has grown significantly in the last couple of years, requiring some form of trans-office communication to keep everyone aware of issues, project, events and people.  So, early this year information was gathered from “members” and the first geochemistry newsletter was sent out  to the geochemists and a few others.  By popular demand, this newsletter is now being distributed to all WMC & SWS staff, and SLB Geochemistry Special Interest Group members. Click on image to view.

The purpose of this newsletter is to communicate some basic information about who we are and what we have been doing.  As WMC, this has focused on inorganic, low-temperature, aqueous geochemistry and water-rock interaction, with practical application mostly in the mining industry.  However, as we integrate with Schlumberger Water Services, our focus will necessarily evolve and expand.  I would love to hear from you about what you are doing and how we can work together going forward.

Contact Brent Johnson bjohnson@watermc.com for more information, or if you want to include something specific in the next issue. 

Peter Dolph (Denver) and Jim Arden (Reno) attended the 113th Annual Meeting from December 3-7th.  The event was attended by over 1000 delegates.  SWS/WMC had a booth and met with many of the delegates.  Some worthy of note included managers from Hecla, Barrick, Newmont, NovaGold, Freeport McMoRan, General Moly, Tech Cominco, US Gold, and Kinross.  Many of the participants were interested in the new Schlumberger Water Services booth and wanted to learn more about the recent acquisition.  Handouts included WMC mining brochures, SWS services and product catalogs along with DIVERS and Westbay instruments information.  Many new opportunities were identified and follow up meetings and discussions will be completed in the next few weeks.

Waterloo, Ontario, October 1, 2007 - Schlumberger Water Services (SWS) today announced the acquisition of Water Management Consultants (WMC).

“The combination of WMC people, expertise and knowledge with Schlumberger technology will allow SWS to provide solutions to a number of mining industry challenges while also expanding our business in other areas”, said David White, president of Schlumberger Water Services.
 

Click here to download a press release with more information.

In order to improve the level of knowledge of geoscientists within the organization and to address the shortage of trained hydrogeologists, the Environment Agency of England and Wales is setting up a diploma course in geoscience.  The course will be run under the umbrella of the University of the West of England, and academic credit points are to be awarded for each module successfully passed by the course participants.  WMC has been involved since the early planning stages of this project, and has been responsible for the following:

          -    Designing the outline syllabus for the whole  diploma course, that consists of ten modules.

          -    Preparing and delivering the first module, on Basic groundwater hydraulics.

          -    Developing the detailed specifications for the next three modules, on aquifer characterization, conceptual modeling, and borehole construction.

For each module, full training materials are being prepared, including PowerPoint presentations for lectures, handouts, background reading, case studies, practical exercises and assignments, and module handbooks.

WMC recently opened an office in Hermosillo, Sonora to help support their expanding services in Mexico.   The office is being managed by Kent Lang who has been working in Mexico for several years.  Kent is a soil scientist with experience in mining, public sector work and environmental service consulting.

In July/August 2006 Mark Anderson relocated from our Shrewsbury UK to Perth Australia office.  Mark is a Principal of WMC and is the director responsible for company activities outside North America.  Mark returns to Australia after 23 years, taking with him the experience of working within the industry in over 20 countries, in particular in South America, where he established our operations in the early 1990s, and in Africa where he has worked on numerous developments.