• Owen Hopkins

    1 TCF Prospect turns out to be only 169 BCF & 3.6 MMBO reserves* by Owen Hopkins In 1984, I was working on retainer to Winston Sexton, an independent geologist in Corpus Christi, and as I remember the story, a Houston geologist Bill Audas wanted $25,000 in exchange for his acreage on a small Cib […]

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  • Brent Hopkins

    Why rocks?During my sophomore year of high school at Penn Yan Academy in central New York, I was lucky enough to have Ms. Jepson for Earth Science (I think – the name might be wrong but she was definitely a Ms.). In this class we were introduced to the various concepts of Geology, and from […]

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  • May 2007

    I am very excited that the 11th annual Family Fossil Hunt is again scheduled this year at the Wright Brothers’ Gravel Pit and Quarry. This is a tremendous opportunity for students, parents and geologists to find bones of a diverse number of extinct Pleistocene mammals in our own county. The species diversity of fauna compares […]

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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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  • Article from Rotary Club President Jim Mailhes

    Owen Hopkins, current president of the local Geological Society, gave a presentation on the “History of Oil and Gas in Corpus Christi”. Did you know that the first oil well in Corpus Christi was drilled right down Leopard Street where the “Old Mexico” Restaurant stands today? Hundreds of wells were drilled in the area along […]

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  • April 2007

    Phase I – Fifty-one USGS Time and Terrain Geologic Maps of the US are on the walls of local schools thanks to the efforts and donations from many members of our society. The goal of getting 100 of them placed by the end of this school year is on track. Phase II – Safari it […]

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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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  • March 2007

    The Phase I—Maps in School Project 2006-2007 to place the USGS Time and Terrain Geologic Map of the US in 100 schools in the Coastal Bend before the end of this school year is on track. The Phase II—Safari in South Texas Texas A&M University Kingsville (TAMU-K) has collected bones from more than 20 species […]

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  • Owen Hopkins

    My parents did not go to college, and I was always apprehensive of going myself, but I did decide to go. I picked the University of Oklahoma because Oklahoma was in the center of the country. After almost flunking out my freshman year (0.87 grade point second semester), I went to my guidance counselor for […]

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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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