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BUTLER,
Roger
Moore (1927-2005)
Dr.
Roger
Moore
BUTLER passed away peacefully on Thursday, May
19, 2005 at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, Alberta.
Roger was born on October 14, 1927 in Ilford, England. Roger
lived in Canada during World War 2 and returned to England where
he studied Chemical Engineering. He earned his PhD in Chemical
Engineering at London's Imperial College of Science and Technology
in 1951. Roger returned to Canada and taught Chemical Engineering
at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and joined Imperial
Oil in 1955. He worked in the petroleum industry with Imperial
Oil in Sarnia, Ontario, New York and Calgary until the end of
1982. Roger then became Director of Technical Programs for
AOSTRA
until he accepted the Endowed Chair of Petroleum Engineering
at the University of Calgary from its inception in 1983 until
the end of 1995. Following his retirement from the University
of Calgary, he was Founder and President of GravDrain Inc., a
research and consulting company for the heavy oil industry. Roger's
experience covers a wide range of petroleum industry research,
engineering and development activities including heavy oil and
tar sands production, refining, computer control and transportation.
During 1987 1988, he was a distinguished Lecturer for the Society
of Petroleum Engineers and spoke worldwide on the subject of
horizontal wells. He made a second lecture tour for the Society
of Petroleum Engineers in 1992-1993 and spoke on Steam Assisted
Gravity Drainage, the process he invented in 1978. Since this
introduction, 330 billion barrels of oil have been rendered accessible.
In 1987, he was awarded the R.S. Jane Memorial Lecture award,
the premium award of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineers.
Dr. BUTLER is the author or coauthor of over 100 scientific papers
and patents and of two books, Thermal Recovery of Oil and Bitumen,
Prentice-Hall, 1991, and Horizontal Wells for the Recovery of
Oil, Gas and Bitumen, Petroleum Society 1994. Roger's passions
were many and included his family, science, mathematics, computers,
electronics, short wave radio, sailing, travel, painting and
woodworking. Roger was survived by his loving wife Joyce of fifty-one
years; sons, Allen (Jane) of Seattle and Peter (Karen) of Vancouver,
British
Columbia; daughter Mary
DOUGLAS/DOUGLASS
(Alex) of Calgary; grandchildren,
Megan, Erin and Natalie
DOUGLAS/DOUGLASS, and Gregory and Michael
BUTLER.
He is lovingly remembered by his sister-in-law Nancy
BOUTIN
as well as family, Friends, former students and colleagues. A
Celebration of Roger's Life will be held for family, Friends,
and colleagues at the University Club 4th Floor MacEwan Student
Centre, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary,
Alberta on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 at 4: 00 p.m. Forward condolences
through www.mcinnisandholloway.com. The family would like to
thank the doctors and staff at Maui Memorial Medical Centre Intensive
Care Unit and Foothills Critical Care unit for their support
and compassion during his final days. If Friends so desire, memorial
tributes may be made directly to the Canadian Cancer Society
for Multiple Myeloma Research, 215 - 12 Avenue S.E., Calgary,
Alberta T2G 1A2 Telephone: (403) 205-3966. Roger had a wonderful
life, and to his family and his achievements he would be known
to say 'Jolly Good Show!' In living memory of Roger
BUTLER, a
tree will be planted by McInnis and Holloway Funeral Homes Park
Memorial Chapel, 5008 Elbow Drive S.W., Calgary, Alberta T2S
2L5 Telephone: (403) 243-8200.
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