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Working for a Major Oil Company
Chevron 1969-1977 After graduating with a BS in Geology from the University of Oklahoma, I was hired as a well-site geologist with Chevron (at the time, “MS and PhD need only apply” for exploration geologist employment). In that capacity I had the opportunity to log many, many wells both onshore and offshore Louisiana from Chevron’s […]
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Working for a Small Public Company
Holly Energy 1977-1981 I was recruited to work in Corpus Christi in one of the 7 district offices of Holly Energy, which was a small public company based out of Dallas whose main asset was a refinery in New Mexico that was generating a lot of cash flow. The owner and President was […]
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Working for an Independent Geologist
Win Sexton June 1980-January 1987 In June 1980, I had two job offers: Hamilton Brothers, a Denver based mid-sized independent, offered me a job in Corpus Christi and Chevron wanted me back to be on a computer SWAT team based out of La Habra, California to travel and use computers to solve company-wide […]
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Working for a Small Independent Company
(Harkins & Company February 1987 to December 1989) Bill Maxwell*, Exploration VP, hired me to open a Corpus Christi district office for Harkins and Company—they had offices in Alice, Midland, Fort Smith, Oklahoma City and Jackson. He wanted more exploration projects in south Texas. And he had a seismic budget—get any line or […]
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Working for a Private Company
(Suemaur Exploration, Inc. & Suemaur Exploration & Production, LLC 1990-Present) The concept that evolved for funding our exploration effort most closely resembled a cooperative–to enlist industry partners to back a multi-year exploration effort. Each partner, including Suemaur, would bear their proportionate share of all expenditures including overhead, seismic, land, drilling and completion costs. The concept, […]
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Not going to an office everyday in retirement
(retired from oil and gas exploration and management- February 2005) I miss Barbara. I miss Laura. I miss Amy. I miss our geotechs. I took for granted the supply cabinet. I took for granted that my mail appeared everyday in my Inbox and that my mail disappeared every day from the Outbox. I took for […]
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