Thomasson Assumes Presidency
AAPG Officers Begin 1999-00 Term
Denver independent geologist M. Ray Thomasson assumed the presidency of AAPG July 1 and will lead the Association’s Executive Committee for the 1999-2000 year.
Thomasson founded Thomasson Partner Associates in Denver in 1990 after previously working with Shell Oil, McCormick Oil and Gas, founding Spectrum Oil and Gas and serving as president and CEO of Pend Oreille Oil and Gas.
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Denver independent geologist M. Ray Thomasson assumed the presidency of AAPG July 1 and will lead the Association’s Executive Committee for the 1999-2000 year.
Thomasson founded Thomasson Partner Associates in Denver in 1990 after previously working with Shell Oil, McCormick Oil and Gas, founding Spectrum Oil and Gas and serving as president and CEO of Pend Oreille Oil and Gas.
He served the past year as AAPG president-elect.
Joining him on the AAPG Executive Committee will be Marlan W. Downey, who was chosen as president-elect by the membership in the recent AAPG election. Downey, the Bartell Professor of Geology and chief scientist at the Sarkeys Center at the University of Oklahoma, will serve a year as president-elect and will be AAPG president in 2000-01.
Also recently elected to the 1999-2000 Executive Committee are:
- Vice President -- Carl J. Smith, of the West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey, of Morgantown, W.Va. He will serve a one-year term.
- Secretary -- Charles R. "Chuck" Noll, Houston geologist. He will serve a two-year term.
- Editor -- Neil F. Hurley, professor and holder of the Charles Boettcher Distinguished Chair in Petroleum Geology with the Department of Geology and Geological Engineering of the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colo. He was re-elected to a second two-year term.
- Chairman of the House of Delegates -- John Hogg, of PanCanadian Petroleum in Calgary, Canada, who was elected chairman-elect of the House at the 1998 annual meeting, and who now begins his one-year term with the Executive Committee.
They join Terry Hollrah, of Hollrah Exploration, Oklahoma City, who is serving the second year of a two-year term as treasurer.
AAPG officer candidates for the 2000-01 term are:
President-Elect
- Lee C. Gerhard, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, Kan.
- R.R. Robbie Gries, Priority Oil and Gas, Denver.
Vice President
- Brenda K. Cunningham, Arco Permian, Midland, Texas.
- Ronald A. Nelson, BP-Amoco, Houston.
Treasurer
- Donald D. Clarke, Long Beach, Calif.
- Edward B. Picou, consultant, New Orleans.
Candidates will be profiled in the EXPLORER beginning in September.