BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CiviCRM//NONSGML CiviEvent iCal//EN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:CiviCRM_EventID_2675_d3319be4f90071e87b81b1178ed41494@www.hgs.org SUMMARY:HGS Legends Night featuring Richard Stoneburner DESCRIPTION:HGS Legends Night\n \n "\;Keys To a Successful Career in Oil And Gas Exploration: Opportunism\, Perseverance and Relationships (and Some Luck!)&qu ot\; By speaker Richard Stoneburner\n \n Date: Mon day\, 12 January 2026\n \n Time: 5:30 &ndash\; 8:3 0\n \n Location: Perry&rsquo\;s\, 9827 Katy Fwy\, Houston\, TX 77024\n \n Cost: $65 Members\, $75 No n-members\, $40 Students\n \n Details: Includes pl ated dinner and two drink tickets\n \n  \;\n \ n Abstract\n \n Looking back on the almost 50 year s since I began my first job as a Petroleum Geolog ist in January 1977\, there are so many learnings\ , both positive ones and negative\, that it is har d to begin trying to provide whatever wisdom I hav e gained from all the experiences.\n \n Humility c learly is something that every Petroleum Geologist must learn to practice given that we are humbled every time our prospect fails to live up to the dr eams that we had for it. We also need to practice humility when we experience the thrill of a discov ery knowing that around the corner there could be\ , and most likely will be\, another disappointing failure. \; \n \n After considerable thought a round what I believe have been keys to my success in the upstream oil and gas industry I have landed on three foundational characteristics that I beli eve have guided my success.\n \n The first key to success is opportunism. \; I am sure we all ha ve faced a situation when success was only going t o be achieved if you made a sound\, but timely\, d ecision. \; Failing to make that sound and tim ely decision could result in the opportunity no lo nger being available. The decision to act does not necessarily result in success but success will ne ver be achieved when opportunities are lost. \ ; As it is said in sports\, you miss every shot yo u don&rsquo\;t take.\n \n The second key to succes s is perseverance. \; This can manifest itself in several ways. \; It might mean giving up o n a prospect because it lacks peer support even th ough you are convinced of its merits. \; It co uld mean not making the financial commitment neces sary to allow a project to succeed even though you are convinced that it has a real chance to be a f inancial success. \; There are many other ways that you one can fail to persevere when doing so might have made a dramatic difference in your care er.\n \n The third characteristic is taking advant age of positive relationships and\, just as import antly\, avoiding negative ones. \; This might be the most difficult of the characteristics to co ntrol. We have all come across people who were eit her a mentor or a leader that we decided to listen to\, relate to\, and be affected by. \; Those people quite often helped open doors to your care er that would never have been opened without that positive relationship. \; It can be even more difficult to make the correct judgment to not be i nfluenced by those negative relationships. If we c hoose to be involved with people who are not looki ng after your best interest it can often end with incredibly damaging results.\n \n Lastly\, and thi s is clearly not a controllable characteristic\, b ut every successful Petroleum Geologist has encoun tered his or her share of luck along the way.  \; While it is generally out of your hands\, I do believe that there is something to the phrase &ldq uo\;he or she made the most of their luck&rdquo\;. \n \n With that as a backdrop\, I will offer some examples of each of these characteristics and how they helped shape my career.\n \n  \;\n \n Bio \n \n Mr. Stoneburner has over 48 years of experie nce in the oil and gas industry. He currently is o wner of Stoneburner Consulting Services. \; He served as Senior Advisor and Partner with Pine Br ook Partners from April 2013 thru December 2022. H e served as president of the North America Shale P roduction Division for BHP Billiton Petroleum from 2011 to 2012. From 2009 to 2011\, Mr. Stoneburner served as president and chief operating officer o f Petrohawk Energy Corporation. He was the company &rsquo\;s chief operating officer from 2007 to 200 9 and led their exploration activities as executiv e vice president of exploration from 2003 to 2007. Mr. Stoneburner began his career as a geologist i n 1977 and held positions at Texas Oil and Gas Cor p.\, Weber Energy Corp.\, Hugoton Energy Corp. and 3TEC Energy Corp.\n \n Mr. Stoneburner is non-Exe cutive chairman and Interim CEO for Tamboran Resou rces (Private/ASX/NYSE 2016-2025). \; He is al so a director for the private upstream companies P ursuit Oil and Gas and Elevation Resources. \;  \; He is an advisor to Ayata\, a private comp any developing AI. \; He also serves on the ad visory council of The Jackson School of Geoscience s at the University of Texas at Austin\, on the vi siting committee of the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin and is a boa rd member of Switch Energy Alliance. \; He was formerly a board member of Newfield Exploration ( NYSE: 2012-14)\, Yuma Exploration (NYSE: 2014-2020 )\, Brigham Minerals (NYSE\; 2018-2022) and Sitio Royalties (NYSE: 2022-2025). He is also a former b oard member for Memorial Assistance Ministries and past president and former board member of the Hou ston Producers Forum.\n \n Mr. Stoneburner holds a B.S. in Geological Sciences from the University o f Texas at Austin\, an M.S. in Geological Sciences from Wichita State University. He was a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologist&# 39\;s Distinguished Lecturer Series in 2012-2013\, was awarded the Norman Foster Outstanding Explore r of the Year award by the AAPG in 2016 and was aw arded The Colonel Edwin L. Drake Legendary Oilman Award by the Petroleum History Institute in 2025.\ n \n \n \n  \;\n \n THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS\ n \n \n \n  \; CATEGORIES:Meeting CALSCALE:GREGORIAN DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260112T173000 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260112T173000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260112T203000 LOCATION:Perry's Steakhouse & Grille\n 9827 Katy Freeway\n Houston\, TX 77024\n United States\n URL:https://www.hgs.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=2675 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR