Treasurer-Elect Candidates Biographies

Officer Candidate Biographies

Kay L. Pitts

Project Manager, Aera Energy LLC, Bakersfield, Calif.

Born 1954, Dearborn, Mich.

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Kay L. Pitts

Project Manager, Aera Energy LLC, Bakersfield, Calif.

Born 1954, Dearborn, Mich.

Academic Training

1977
California State University, Fullerton, B.A. earth science
1983
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, M.S., geological science

Experience

1980-87
Getty Oil Co. (development area leader)/Texaco (exploration area leader), Bakersfield, Calif.
1987-97
Bechtel Petroleum Operations (supervisor, Elk Hills, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1)
1997-present
Aera Energy LLC

AAPG Activities (Member 1979, DPA #5798)

2000-01
Reservoir Development Committee
2000-03
Budget Review and Finance Committee
2001-04
Group Insurance Committee
2003-06
House of Delegates (alternate)

Affiliated and Associated Societies and Sections

  • San Joaquin Geological Society (secretary)
  • Pacific Section (secretary, vice president, president-elect, president — 1997-01; currently co-chair of the Convention Committee)
  • Pacific Section Convention finance chair (1997, 2004)
  • Pacific Section AAPG/Western Region SPE Meeting finance chair (2000)
  • Pacific Section AAPG/Cordilleran Section GSA Convention finance chair (2001)

Other Professional Affiliations

  • State of California Registered Geologist
  • California State University Bakersfield Geotechnical Training Center Advisory Council

Honors and Awards

  • American Association of University Women Named Gift Honoree

F. Pierce Pratt

Consultant/Retiree, New Port Richey, Fla.

Born 1943, Coffee County, Ala.

Academic Training

1967
Catawba College, B.A., geology, mathematics
1970
Duke University, M.A., geology

Experience

1970-77
Amoco Production Co. (now BP), New Orleans and Tulsa, geologist and senior technical systems specialist
1977-00
Phillips Petroleum (now ConocoPhillips), Bartlesville and Denver (1977-79 — senior geologist; 1979-80 — technical systems manager; 1980-00 — manager exploration mapping and modeling)

Honors and Awards

  • AAPG Distinguished Service Award (1998)
  • AAPG Certificate of Merit (1995, 2000)
  • Tulsa Geological Society (Distinguished Service and Lifetime Honorary Member awards)

Affiliated and Associated Societies and Sections

  • Tulsa Geological Society (various committees, secretary, treasurer, vice president and president — 1989-90)
  • Mid-Continent Section, various committees

AAPG Activities (Member 1971, DEG 1994, DPA #5505)

1980
Denver Annual Meeting Communications Committee chairman
1980-81
Academic Liaison Committee
1980-02
Geological Computing Committee (chairman 1992-95)
1982
Hosted AAPG Computers to Geology Conference
1986-88
House of Delegates
1990-02
House of Delegates (various committees, vice chairman 1994-95; Tulsa Geological Society group chairman 1992-01)
1991-03
Committee on Investments (chairman 2001-present)
1995-96
Standing Technical Program Committee
1997-03
Committee on Committees (developed Committee Membership Guidelines)
1998-00
Web site Committee (vice chairman 1998-99; chairman 1999-00)

Dwight M. "Clint" Moore

Consulting Geologist, Houston

Texas Geoscientist License #2264

Born 1956, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

Academic Training

1978
Southern Methodist University, B.A., Geology (Honors)
1978
Southern Methodist University, B.B.A., Business Administration-Finance (Honors)

Experience

2003-present
Consulting geologist, Houston
1999-03
Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Houston (project geologist-Business Intelligence, Business Development and Competitor Analysis; Gulf of Mexico Offshore Exploration Group)
1998-99
Anadarko Petroleum, Houston (exploration supervisor-Global Basin Studies Group)
1997-98
Anadarko Petroleum, Houston (New Ventures supervisor-North America/Eastern Canada Offshore Group)
1994-97
Anadarko Petroleum, Houston (geological supervisor-Offshore Gulf of Mexico Group)
1987-94
Anadarko Petroleum, Houston (staff geologist-Offshore Gulf of Mexico Group)
1986-87
Maxus Energy, Dallas (senior business analyst-Corporate Planning and Development Group)
1978-86
Diamond Shamrock Corp. (Maxus Energy), Houston (senior staff geologist and other staff positions-Gulf of Mexico offshore and onshore groups)

AAPG Activities (Member 1978; DPA #3785; DEG charter member; EMD)

2002-present
Membership Registry (ad hoc) Committee (chairman)
2002-03
Candidate, HoD Secretary-Editor
2001-02
Candidate, AAPG Treasurer
1999-02
Advisory Council (GCAGS Rep.)
1989-03
House of Delegates
1995-present
DPA Governmental Affairs Committee; chairman (1996-00); co-chairman (1995-96); vice chairman (2000-03)
2002-03
Member Survey (ad hoc) Committee
1994-03
Committee on Committees
1999-03
Visiting Geologists Program Committee
1997-01
HoD Constitution and Bylaws Committee; chairman (1999-00)
2000-01
Advisory Council Program and Services Enhancement Plan (ad hoc) Committee; chairman
1999-01
Advisory Council External Awards (ad hoc) Committee; chairman
2000-01
Advisory Council Confidentiality Review (ad hoc) Committee
1999-00
Advisory Council Outstanding Explorer Award (ad hoc) Committee
1999-00
Advisory Council Alternates and Proxy (ad hoc) Committee
1995-99
Committee on Education
1998-00
Representative to AGI Governmental Affairs Committee
1999-00
HoD Procedures (ad hoc) Committee
1997-99
HoD Elected Editor (ad hoc) Committee
1996-99
HoD International Representation (ad hoc) Committee
1998-99
HoD Special Resolution of IRC (ad hoc) Committee
1996-97
DPA Continuing Education Unit (ad hoc) Committee
1997
International convention speaker (Vienna)
1996
Annual meeting speaker (San Diego)
2000
Gulf Coast Section convention session chairman
1995
Gulf Coast Section convention joint Keynote speaker
1995-99
Annual meeting session chairman (1995, 1997 and 1999)
1993
Hedberg Conference on Salt Tectonics poster presenter (England)
1994-95
Gulf Coast Section Board of Directors
1996-98
DEG Marketing (ad hoc) Committee
1993-95
Houston Geological Society president, president-elect and vice president

Honors and Awards

2001
HoD Distinguished Member of the House Award
2001
DPA Distinguished Service Award
1999
AAPG Certificate of Merit
1997
AAPG Certificate of Merit
1999
HGS Honorary Life Membership Award
1997
HGS Distinguished Service Award
1993
HGS President's Award
1977
Dallas Geological Society Sabine Royalty Corporation Scholarship recipient

Professional Geoscience Publications

  • AAPG BULLETIN June 1997 E&P Notes ("Subsalt Play, Gulf of Mexico: A Review," co-authored with S. Montgomery)
  • Editor-in-Chief — HGS/NOGS Guidebook ("Productive Low Resistivity Well Logs of the Offshore Gulf of Mexico")
  • Several GCS-SEPM, AAPG and Hedberg papers/extended abstracts on salt tectonics, subsalt exploration and related sedimentation

Other Professional Affiliations

Society of Exploration Geophysicists; Houston Geological Society; Geophysical Society of Houston; New Orleans Geological Society; Gulf Coast Section-SEPM


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