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May 2011
Currently For our final luncheon meeting of the season we are honored and excited to present John Hoffmeister, former CEO of Shell Oil, founder of Citizens for Affordable Energy, and author of Why We Hate the Oil Companies. There will be a book signing prior to the luncheon beginning at 10:30 AM, so plan to […]
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April 2011
Currently Global climate change never ceases to generate controversy and debate. Satellite data shows average global temperatures have increased over most of the last 3 decades. The generally accepted values reported within the scientific community is an average global increase of 1 degree C over the last 125 years. Is this long-term warming trend due […]
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The Happy Mapper
Longhorn Mountain near Meers, Oklahoma Late September 1983 – Field Notes. I am so sick of the damn rattlesnakes. It is 9 a.m. and I am sitting on the ridgeline at the top of Longhorn Mountain eating my lunch just to calm my nerves. I am supposed to be mapping out contacts on this […]
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March 2011
Currently Mark you calendars! March 24th, V.P. Dennis Taylor has set up wonderful, after-hours social event featuring local artist Dinah Bowman describing her “summer vacation” as a crew member aboard a deep sea coring vessel! This is a free, non-technical event for members and their spouses, and promises to be an evening of merriment and […]
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February 2011
Currently For those of us still looking for prospects in rock just a little more permeable than the ongoing shale craze, be sure to attend this month’s luncheon talk, “Looking for Gas in All the Tight Places” by Dr. Thomas Davis of the Colorado School of Mines, Reservoir Characterization Project. His study of multicomponent seismic […]
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January 2011
Currently To each and every one of you I wish a happy and prosperous New Year. For those of us working in the petroleum industry, I have a couple of wishes. I hope 2011 brings some gas price improvement like it did for oil in 2010. And I hope all our prospects get drilled, new […]
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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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December 2010
Currently Shale resource plays continue to dominate our industry in cap ex, rig utilization, service company resources, and G&G. Regarding the latter, it behooves us all to learn as much as practical about how to high-grade these plays, and this month’s talk focuses on just that. David Paddock of Schlumberger will show us how to […]
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Barnard P. Dietz
THE LAND THAT WILL ALWAYS BE WATER Humble Oil & Refining Company (now Exxon-Mobil) vs. The State of Texas, Pure Oil Company & Sun Oil Company (1947-1948) During the period 1947-48 Humble Oil (now part of Exxon-Mobil) filed suit against the State of Texas, Pure Oil Company, and Sun Oil Company declaring certain state […]
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Bob Critchlow
I grew up in South Bend, Indiana, a couple of miles north of the University of Notre Dame campus. The surface in Northern Indiana is covered by Pleistocene glacial till, which contains rocks scraped from the Precambrian Canadian shield. The till contains every type of rock imaginable in a rainbow of colors. I collected the […]
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