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From the Editor- June 2019
Live for the Science, not for the Weekend. This was one of the messages from Kenneth Peter’s remarks on receiving the AAPG Sidney Powers Memorial Award at the recent AAPG Annual Meeting in San Antonio. It was clear that he lived this message, as part of a well-rounded life. I hope we...
From the President- June 2019
Continuous threads In some years, but not all, there are internal or external issues that dominate most of HGS Board’s year. Last year at this time, John Adamick reported it was adapting to the consequences of Harvey that dominated HGS, because of the disruption the historic flooding...
From the Editor- May 2019
Muscle Replaced Guile Problem solving approaches evolve and solutions usually get simpler and easier. For years, geologists saw petroleum shows on mudlogs and samples from low permeability intervals. But these zones would not flow in the way common saturated porous and permeable...
From the President- May 2019
Passion and Persistence Very early in my career, as the Oil and Gas Industry was just emerging from a depression in the late 1960s and early 1970s, an older co-worker gave me some advice: save your money, because the industry is cyclical. That was very good advice. But there...
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