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Hitting the Mark: A Father’s Day Tribute

Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

spent his entire working career as a drilling engineer for Texaco, Inc. That career took him and his family from Illinois (the Salem field) to Kansas and to Oklahoma. He said, “In drilling a well, what you really have to watch for [this was speaking as an engineer] is the ‘marker zone.’” the son of a refinery worker.