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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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February 2007
The Phase I–Maps in School Project 2006-2007 is progressing well— nine CCGS members will have placed or scheduled to place the USGS Time and Terrain Geologic Map of the US in 41 local schools by the end of January. The map is also hanging in the office of Acting CCISD Superintendent, Scott Elliff. “The object […]
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Matt Franey
My parents did not go to college, but all my brothers, sisters and I heard growing up was “you kids are going to college.” How do you pick what you want to do for the rest of your life when you are 18 years old? The one thing that I really enjoyed doing as a […]
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Jeff Cobbs
I began my career in the oil patch as an engineer with Mobil oil after graduating from college with an electrical engineering degree. After several years, and several employers later, I decided I would go back to college in search of a new job career. I chose petroleum geology as a profession because I heard […]
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January 2007
Dennis Moore, your Past President of the CCGS, suggested in his term that we take our educational activities to a higher level. He suggested we start informing the community of what the Corpus Christi Geological Society has been doing in our schools for many years and to raise the awareness of care and concern the […]
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December 2006
The Maps in School Project 2006-2007 is well underway with 20 schools receiving the maps— see pictures in this bulletin of the students at some schools in Corpus Christi and also in Palacios, Texas. I traveled with Bill and Marjorie Walraven to San Antonio last week to attend the South Texas Geological Society luncheon and […]
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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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November 2006
What a great response to my The Maps in Schools Project 2006-2007 –we sent out invoices to everyone who signed up to sponsor a map for a school at the KickOff BBQ and almost immediately started receiving the funds to kick start our mapping project. Zdansky’s map store has laminated, dry mounted and framed 25 […]
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October 2006
As I alluded to in my September letter, after my 20 years of giving presentations in Corpus Christi area schools, I have noticed that what is missing are maps on the school walls. So, my recommendation is to put the large, colorful, framed, laminated USGS Time and Terrain Geologic map of the US in every […]
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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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