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The 5th Annual IndustrySalute to Interns attracted130 interns and 45 corporaterepresentatives and speakers.OEC received positive feed-back regarding the size andlayout of the venue, whichwas held at the PetroleumClub in Houston, as well asfor the number of exhibitorsthis year. Read more aboutthe annual event on page 3.

Industry Pioneers and Pioneering Technologies were inducted into OEC'sPioneer Hall of Fame in a ceremony preceding the Ocean Star Gala. Pioneersand Gala attendees are featured in a special supplement beginning on page 4.

A Project E 3: Expanding Energy Education FacilitatorsConference was held aboard the Ocean Star. These trainedfacilitators will join others to present workshops for teachers in the regions. Read more about these workshopopportunities on page 10.

Ocean StarOffshore Drilling Rig and Museum

Pier 19Harborside Drive at 20th Street

Galveston IslandTel: 409.766.STAR

www.oceanstaroec.com

Call for Volunteers: Share your knowledgeThe Offshore Energy Center is seeking volunteers to share their valuable knowledge by

serving on our Hall of Fame committees. Committee members will participate in the selectionprocess for Industry and Technology Pioneers by reviewing and conducting due diligence fornominations received. In addition, members are invited to attend 2-3 committee discussionsper year and assist with drafting citations. Individuals with a technical background and/or solidknowledge of the oil and gas industry, including its history, are encouraged to participate.

The Hall of Fame is a vital part of our mission to recognize and record these early accomplishments. We value and appreciate our committee members and welcome new facesand ideas. Please contact Viann Bonoan at 281-544-2428 or [email protected] details.

Thisyear’sfinalExecutiveSpeakerSeriesset forOct. 28

The final speaker of the 2010 ExecutiveSpeaker Ser ies , Øivind Reinertsen ,President, Statoil United States & Mexico(USM), will be featured on Oct. 28 at thePetroleum Club in downtown Houston. The Executive Speaker luncheon begins at11:30 a.m. Tickets are $50 per person, or$500 for a table of 10.

The 2010 sponsors are Apache Corp.,Baker Hughes, Chevron, Devon Energy,Shell, Schlumberger and Stone Energy.

Sponsorships are available for the2011 Executive Speaker Series. Sponsorswill receive a premium table for 10 for eachluncheon, admittance for two persons to theVIP reception with the speakers prior to theluncheon, and recognition on event signage,the OEC website and in The Star.

Øivind Reinertsen moved to Texas inthe fall 2005 to open Statoil’s new office inHouston. After the merger of Statoil andHydro on October 1, 2007, Reinertsenbecame the current President of the StatoilUSM region. He has a long standing careerwith Statoil. In the past he has been involvedin developing large projects off the coast ofNorway, as well as responsible for the operation of the Sleipner and Gulfaks fieldsas offshore platform manager.

Reinertsen came to Houston from theposition of Senior Vice President, responsiblefor all operations and activities in theTampen area, one of the main areas of production for Statoil on the NorwegianContinental Shelf. Outside of Norway, hepreviously managed the Statoil office in the Netherlands. Reinertsen is a PetroleumEngineer graduate from the RogalandRegional College (University of Stavanger)in 1976.

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OEC Invitational Fishing Tournament Oct. 14-15OEC’s 7th Annual Invitational Fishing Tournament was held Thursday and Friday,

Oct. 14-15. Registration at the Ocean Star located on 20th Street and Harborside Drive(Pier 19) in Galveston. There was time to visit the Ocean Star before the evening’s festivities begin, which included dinner at 6:30 and a live auction and door prize drawings.

A complete wrap up of the tournament’s events, including photos of the winningand other teams, will be presented in the Fourth Quarter newsletter.

This year’s tournament underwriter is Baker Hughes. Ted Ryan, President, RyanEnterprises LLC, continued as this year’s Tournament Chairman.

The tournament began Friday morning 30 minutes before sunrise with a continentalbreakfast in the dining tent before beginning the day’s fishing in Galveston Bay.Weigh-in was at 3:00 p.m. followed by dinner, more door prizes drawings and theawards ceremony.

This year’s tournament hosts include:

Bob Abendschein, Vice President, E&P Services, Anadarko PetroleumAlberto Cavallini, Well Operations Manager, ENI PetroleumChuck Davidson, Chairman & CEO, Noble EnergyDan Dinges, Chairman, President & CEO, Cabot Oil & GasNeil Duffin, President, ExxonMobil DevelopmentRussell Ford, Executive Vice President, Onshore Gas, Shell Upstream AmericasMichael Illanne, President & General Manager, Chevron Project ResourcesDavid Lawrence, Executive Vice President, Shell E&PKevin Meyers, Senior Vice President, Americas, ConocoPhillipsGeorge Morris, COO, ATP Oil & GasRoger Pinkerton, Director, North America Exploration, Marathon Oil CompanyJohn Schiller, Chairman & CEO, Energy XXIScott Sigurdson, Vice President, Drilling & Completion Engineering, BPJerry Wenzel, Senior Vice President, Operations, Stone Energy Corp.

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OEC NewsOEC NewsThis year’s 5th Annual Industry Salute to Interns was held at the

Petroleum Club in downtown Houston, which turned out to be avery popular venue with many positive responses and commentsregarding the size and layout as well as the number of exhibitors this year. This event was attended by 130 interns and 45 corporaterepresentatives and speakers. Emcees were Dave Dunlap, CEO ofSuperior Energy Services, and Steve Nance, President, Steele CreekInvestment Company, who have emceed the event since its inception. Following some welcoming remarks, they introduced thekeynote speaker, Duncan Junor, Senior Director of Halliburton.

Following lunch, Marilyn Moats Kennedy, President of CareerStrategies, presented How to Succeed in Business: What You Need ThatSchools Didn’t Give You. A panel session followed, which discussedthe Life Cycle of Oil and Gas Development. Panelists included

John Schiller, Chairman & CEO of Energy XXI; Bryan Neskora,President of TGP Pipeline; Becky Harden, Land Manager forApache Corp.; and Melissa Bond, Drilling Engineering Supervisorfor ExxonMobil. Jan Hargrave, CEO of Jan Hargrave & Associates,closed out the afternoon session with her informative and entertain-ing discussion on body language.

OEC’s MOLU was set up at the Petroleum Club and the internshad the opportunity to rotate through the six kiosks. The internsformed 15 teams and answered questions throughout the day frominformation presented in the MOLU. Kristin Nance with Chevronorganized this event. The winning team of interns was each awardeda $50 gift card.

A reception and time for networking and visiting with sponsorsand exhibitors concluded an informative day for interns.

Another successful Industry Salute to Interns

Thank you to this year’s sponsors:

Anadarko PetroleumApache Corp.

ChevronConocoPhillipsEl Paso Corp.Energy XXIEnerVest

HalliburtonNetwork International

Noble Energy Inc.Sanchez Oil & Gas

SchlumbergerShell E&P Exhibitors providing career information

to the interns were:

American Association ofDrilling Engineers (AADE)

American Association ofPetroleum Geologists (AAPG)

American PetroleumInsititute (API)

ChevronEl Paso Corp.

EnerVestHart Energy Publishing

Oilfield Helping Hands (OHH)Oilfield Christian Fellowship

SPE, Gulf CoastSociety of Professional Women

in Petroleum (SPWP)Young Professionals

in Energy (YPE)

Interns visit with a representative of the Oilfield Christian Fellowship.

Some of the 130 interns arrive for the 5th Annual IndustrySalute to Interns at the Petroleum Club in Houston.

Emcee Steve Nance with his daughter Kristin Nance with Chevron, who organizedthe interns into teams who rotated through the MOLU and answered questions frominformation presented in the MOLU.

Interns listento welcoming

remarks byemcees Dave

Dunlap andSteve Nance.

Duncan Junor, SeniorDirector of Halliburton,was the event’skeynote speaker.


OEC GalaOEC GalaHall of Fame Chairman

and co-emcee Hugh Elkinsintroduced this year’s

Hall of Fame inductees during a ceremony preceding

the Ocean Star Gala.

Pinnacle Award

Dean Taylor, Chairman & CEO of Tidewater, left, accepts thePinnacle Award from Ocean Star Gala Chairman Ryan Lance.

Co-emcee Bob Scott continuedhis tradition of entertaining theaudience at the Hall of Fameinduction ceremony.

Ocean Star Gala Chairman Ryan Lance,ConocoPhillips, welcomes guests to the Gala.

OEC Chairman Libby Cheney thanked theGala’s sponsors and their contributionsthat further OEC’s missions.

An exciting 2010 Ocean Star Gala Four Industry Pioneers, four Pioneering Technologies and the Technology

Pioneers that helped develop them were inducted into OEC’s Hall of Fame this year during a ceremony preceding the Ocean Star Gala. Bob Scott returned this yearas co-emcee with Hugh Elkins. Industry Pioneers inducted include Joseph Beall,Marshall P. Cloyd, Carl Langner and Booth B. Strange. Pioneering Technologieswere Offshore Services: Technology Conferences & Exhibitions; Marine & AirTransportation: Anchor Handling Vessels; Search for Oil & Gas: ThreeDimensional Subsurface Imaging; andForces of Nature: The DeepStar Project.

Following a cocktail reception,Ocean Star Gala Chairman Ryan Lanceopened the event and welcomed theguests and recognized the Gala’s sponsors. He then introduced OEC Chairman LibbyCheney, who presented a brief overview ofOEC’s missions and initiatives, and thenpresented the Chairman’s Award to two recipients for thefirst time. The awards were presented to Neil Duffin, President of ExxonMobil Development Company and OEC’s ViceChairman/Exhibits & Programs, for his “huge role in obtaining major commit-ments from companies to support the Ocean Star’s renovation.” Also receiving aChairman’s Award was Kurt Hoffman, Senior Vice President & COO of SeahawkDrilling and OEC’s Vice Chairman/Operations, “for his continued diligence overmany years to plan the renovation and bring it to fruition.”

Following dinner, Ryan presented the 2010 Pinnacle Award to Dean Taylor,Chairman, President & CEO of Tidewater, who is an avid supporter of OEC andits missions and goals.

Gala guests spent the remainder of the evening listening and dancing to Roteland the Hot Tomatoes.

Chairman’s Award

This year, two Chairman’s Awards were presented by OECChairman Libby Cheney, to Neill Duffin, President of ExxonMobilDevelopment Company, left, and Kurt Hoffman, Senior VicePresident & COO of Seahawk Drilling.


OEC GalaOEC GalaIndustry Pioneers

Doug Beall, son of Industry Pioneer Joseph Beall, accepts the PioneerAward on behalf of his father.

Margaret Strange Thompson accepts the Pioneer Award on behalf of BoothStrange from Mark Childers, Chairman of the Technology Pioneer Committee.

Industry Pioneer Carl Langner was inducted into OEC’s Hall of Fame thisyear.

Mark Childers presents the Industry Pioneer Award to 2010 Hall of Fame inducteeMarshall Cloyd.

Booth Strange

Joseph Beall


OEC GalaOEC GalaTechnology Pioneers

Technology Pioneers responsible for the DeepStar program were Libby Cheney accepting on behalf ofShell; Curtis Burton; Steve Thurston accepting on behalf of Chevron; Phil Wilbourn; Jean Michel Lavergneaccepting on behalf of Total; Chuck Meloy accepting on behalf of Anadarko; John Illeman; Doug Peart;Steve Wheeler; Brad Wickizer, son of Technology Pioneer Carl Wickizer; Michael Yeager accepting onbehalf of BHP Billiton; Harry Newman accepting on behalf of ExxonMobil; Brian McShane accepting on behalf of INTECSEA; Glenn Schaaf accepting on behalf of ConocoPhillips; George Vance; and Jim Chitwood.

Dr. Joe Alford accepted the Technology Pioneer Award for

Offshore Services: Technology Conferences & Exhibitions on

behalf of his father, Joe Alford.

Offshore Technology Conference Chairman Susan Cunninghamand her husband Paul. Susan accepted the PioneeringTechnology Award for Technology Conferences & Exhibitions on behalf of the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC).

Representing the Technology Pioneers for 3D subsurface imaging are, from left, Steve Thurston

accepting on behalf of Chevron; Richard Sears, with MIT accepting for Stanford University; Maurice

Nessim accepting for WesternGeco; and Glenn Schaaf accepting on behalf of ConocoPhillips.

Technology Pioneers accepting the award for Anchor Handlingwere, from left, Stephen Dick accepting for Tidewater; Bill Brightand Stacey Culver accepting the award on behalf of their fatherWilliam (Bill) Bright; Mark Lamb accepting for Smit InternationalN.V.; Ken Waldorf; and Terry Riggle accepting for Bristow Group

(Offshore Logistics).

Seated at the BJ Services table were, from left, Peggy Hinchman; Bill and Mary Yost;and Melinda and Kevin Williams. Standing are Steve Hinchman; Tim and Cristi Higgins;and Jessica and Dustin Noyes.


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guests trip the

light fantastic

as they dance

to the evening’s

entertainment,

Rotel and the Hot

Tomatoes, which

also entertained

guests at a previous Gala.

Seated at Apache Corp.’s table are, from left, Alma and Brian Logan; Jon and Marilyn

Jeppesen; and Mark and Shelly Grenader. Standing are Codi Fountain; David Carmony;

Dona vonWenckstern; Kenny McMinn; and Becky and Steve Harden.

Enjoying the Ocean Star Gala reception are Brett and ShannonWarren, and Ann and Bob Warren with Pride International.

Seated at Marathon Oil Corporation’s table are, from left, Molly and Ryan Rodgers; Simonand Sarah Smith; Mike Decker; and Cathy Krajicek. Standing from left are Roger and LesaPinkerton, and Dave Roberts.

Representing Gulf Copper are, from left, Rena Lidstone; Jonathan

Hale; Gabby and Leonard Hale; Michelle and Steve Mason; and

Liz and Steve Hale.

Mark Monroe with Transocean and his wife Susan take timeout from dinner to accommodate the event’s photographer.


Ocean Star NewsOcean Star NewsThe number of visitors to the Ocean Star during the first six

months of 2010 totaled more than 18,600, including group toursand individual visitors. “This is an amazing rebound since HurricaneIke,” said Ocean Star Operations Director Lisa Lisinicchia, “andexceeds 2008’s figures, now the second highest attendance, whenmore than 18,350 people visited the Ocean Star during the same timeperiod.”

The number of tours and visitors to the Ocean Star was strongduring the second quarter with multiple visits by ExxonMobiltotaling nearly 200 employees in June, July and August. More than100 employees of Halliburton toured the museum during July andabout 130 BP Americas employees toured the museum in June.

Participation in Family Day activities also increased, with more

than 30 in attendance for the Rigs to Reefs activity in July and about50 taking part in the Working Under Water program in August.Among student tours, Galveston ISD’s Summer Island AdventureCamp program resulted in about 230 students touring the rig duringseveral days in July.

IPAA will bring 55 people for a tour of the museum and 38 people from Duke University will visit and tour the Ocean Star inOctober.

A Career Fair is scheduled on the rig on Nov. 17.Rentals of the audio “wands” have increased significantly since

the museum began offering audio tours in 2008. Numerous groupsscheduled to tour the museum during the next several months haverequested audio tours.

OEC docent George Deeming, right, visits with one of thefamilies that participated in the Rigs to Reefs family day inJuly. One of the activities was to make a platform from pipecleaners and a porthole from paper plates in which to viewthe platform underwater. More than 30 kids participated inthe activity throughout the day.

Students from China, Taiwan and Hong Kongconstruct derricks from pasta and marshmallowsto illustrate the strength of the structures. The students visited the Ocean Star as part ofthe Houston Association for Space & ScienceEducation sponsored by NASA. More than 80students toured the Ocean Star on two days.

One of the visitors from a senior group in Augustuses an Audio Wand forher self-guided tour ofthe Ocean Star.


Ocean Star online gift shopup and running

You can now shop Ocean Star’s gift shop online forexecutive gift items, books, CDs, DVDs and clothing, allwith oil and gas related themes, without leaving your officeor home. The jewelry is particularly nice and includes achoice of sterling, gold plated or, by special order, solid goldearrings and charms.

You can find all of your special gifts and holiday shop-ping at www.oceanstaroec.com. Click on the gift shop tabat the top. The site uses the familiar shopping cart for yourpurchases. When you’re finished shopping, you can paywith a Visa, MasterCard, American Express or Discover, oryou can set up a secure PayPal account.

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Numerous exhibits and displays on the Ocean Star have beenupgraded or renovated as well as new exhibits installed sinceHurricane Ike in 2008. The process is continuing with several moreexhibit upgrades in progress as well as a few new displays in the concept phase.

Members of the OCS Advisory Board and their spouses touredthe Ocean Star earlier this year and met to discuss a possible exhibitabout Landmen. Several members returned to the Ocean Star inSeptember to further those discussions and provide potential ideasabout an exhibit.

FMC Technologies volunteered to assist with models of subseawellheads, manifolds, etc. for the seascape exhibit to illustrate how asubsea field would be laid out and connected to a floating productionunit such as the new Perdido spar model or the model of theKizomba floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit.FMC will assist with providing information about the subsea equipment. OEC Executive Director Sandra Mourton met with

long-time OEC supporter Ken Fread with FMC about the project.Another exhibit upgrade in progress is the geological display.

Lone Star Exhibits is fabricating a new museum quality display forthe fossil rubbings to replace the older exhibit. Additionally JeffreyNunnely, Chief Geologist for Marathon Oil Corporation, is assisting OEC with graphics for the display’s geological timeline.

Ocean Star now onFacebook and Twitter

The Ocean Star has joined the 21st century socialnetworking scene. People can become an Ocean StarFacebook friend and follow the museum’s activities,daily specials and events on Twitter. You can find OceanStar on Facebook atwww.facebook.com/OceanStarMuseum.

To follow the museum on Twitter, which is being administered by Trina Claire, Ocean Star’s Programs

Lone Star Exhibits recently completed a new display for the fossil rubbings.

Ocean Star exhibit upgrades, renovations continue


Education OutreachEducation Outreach

Teachers at a facilitators conference in Juneillustrate the concept of liquefied natural gas(LNG) by putting balloons in cold water tocontract the gas and then in hot water toexpand the gas.

Facilitators’ conferenceheld on Ocean Star

As a part of the collaboration between the Foundation forEnergy Education and the Offshore Energy Center, OEC held aFacilitators Conference at the Ocean Star Offshore Drilling RigMuseum and Education Center in Galveston June 27-29 for teachersfrom the ten target areas of the partnership. This conference, includingfood and lodging, was free to the participants with OEC bearing allcosts. There were 16 participants at the three-day session.

The teachers were trained on activities in the Project E3:Expanding Energy Education guidebook, the Knowledge Box andPlaying With Petroleum Kit. Upon completion of the workshop, thenewly trained facilitators will be provided a Knowledge Box for

distribution in their region and all materials necessary to conduct aworkshop. Playing With Petroleum Kits will be provided as inventoryallows. In addition, the teachers will receive a stipend for conductingworkshops on behalf of the partnership.

The evaluations completed by the teachers attending the conference included positive comments and reinforced OEC’sEducation Outreach programs and the need for quality teacherworkshops and educational materials and sources in earth science.

Not only will these teachers have an impact on their studentsbut these trained facilitators will hold workshops in their regions forother teachers. In fact, two of the teachers have already conductedworkshops, including Theresa Lloyd at Waco ISD August 28, andJennie Knapp from Little Cypress-Mauriceville ISD in Orange, TXon Sept. 23 at the Region 5 education center.

Teachers attending theFacilitators Conference touredthe rig and museum. The conference was part of the collaboration between OEC and the Foundation for EnergyEducation.

Theresa Lloyd, whoattended the facilitators

conference in June, conducted her first

workshop at Waco ISD in August.

Teachers attending a facilitators conference on

the Ocean Star in Juneperuse materials to be

MOLU exhibit traveling towest Texas oil country

OEC’s Mobile Offshore Learning Unit(MOLU) was featured at the Permian BasinPetroleum Museum in Midland, TX from Sept. 27 – Oct. 1 thanks to a grant fromExxonMobil. Petroleum Museum EducationDirector Brenda Rathjen, an OEC trainedfaci l i tator, invi ted schools from theMidland/Odessa area to visit the museum androtate through the MOLU. OEC ExecutiveDirector Sandra Mourton visited thePetroleum Museum on September 28 for atour and to meet with the event’s funders.

In addition, the Foundation for EnergyEducation is sponsoring MOLU visits to theTyler/Kilgore area Sept. 13-17; Amarillo Oct.4-8; and San Antonio Nov. 1-5. OEC and theFoundation formed the partnership to promoteOEC’s education outreach programs, focusingon the MOLU.

In August, the MOLU was set up atConocoPhillips in Houston as part of the company’s Bring the Future to Work program.Employees brought their children to rotatethrough the MOLU. About 150 children andtheir parents toured the exhibit.

OEC’s Mobile Offshore Learning Unit (MOLU) was set upat ConocoPhillips in Houston for the company’s Bringthe Future to Work program where employees broughttheir children to visit the company and the MOLU.


Education OutreachEducation OutreachCompanies have been stepping up and sponsoring additional

Knowledge Boxes (KB) and Playing With Petroleum (PWP) Kits.The number of workshops has grown as well. Companies sponsoringnew Knowledge Boxes include ConocoPhillips (2); Baker Hughes(4); Superior Energy (4) and Chevron (1). Companies sponsoringnew PWP Kits are Global Industries (1); ConocoPhillips (2) andFMC Technologies (1).

Knowledge Box workshops scheduled the remainder of 2010 areset for Oct. 16 and November 20. Playing With Petroleum work-shops remaining this year are scheduled for Oct. 9 and Dec. 11. Theworkshops will be conducted at the Ocean Star Offshore Drilling RigMuseum and Education Center in Galveston. Workshop sponsorsare BP, Baker Hughes, Chevron, FMC Technologies, GlobalIndustries, Noble Energy, Superior Energy Services, andTidewater.

Thanks to the numerous sponsors, workshop participants willreceive free admission to the museum, a complimentary guided touralong with a light breakfast, lunch, Project E3 teacher guide and atravel stipend depending upon availability. Each participant will alsoreceive six CPE hours and will be able to utilize the Knowledge Box

or Playing With Petroleum Kit for up to a 30 day period in theirclassrooms at no charge. The workshops are approved for six hoursof TEEAC credit.

For more information about the workshops, visitwww.oceanstaroec.com or contact Doris Tomas, Education Directorat [email protected].

Additionally, OEC will be conducting two three-hour work-shops at the upcoming CAST (Conference for the Advancement ofScience Teachers) Nov. 11-13 in Houston. One workshop will befacilitated by OEC Education Director Doris Tomas, the other byone of OEC’s facilitators, Kirah Diaz.

As of mid-August, OEC had conducted 23 workshops, 10 ofthem held aboard the Ocean Star and 13 conducted offsite at otherlocations. More than 400 teachers attended the workshops, withpotentially more than 31,000 students impacted in one year.

Five workshops for teachers of gifted and talented students weresponsored by ConocoPhillips and Chevron. Two workshops wereheld at Shell’s Woodcreek facility in Houston and one each was heldat Goose Creek ISD in Baytown, Sinclair Elementary School inHouston and at Ben Brook Elementary School in Houston. Twomore gifted and talented teacher workshops were held at theThompson Center in Austin, TX as part of the 10th AnnualEnvironmental Heath Science Summer Institute in July. The conference was attended by science educators from throughoutTexas. The Texas Association for Gifted and Talented (TAGT)recently approved the OEC’s GT workshops for credit towards theTAGT Awareness Certificate.

Teachers at aKnowledge Boxworkshop buildmodel elevations,one of the curriculum activities. Thisworkshop was acollaborative effortbetween OEC andTexas A&M atCollege Station.

Knowledge Box, Playing With Petroleum Kits growing

Teachers of gifted and talented students at one of five workshops sponsored byConocoPhillips and Chevron review materials available in the Knowledge Boxsponsored by Tidewater.

OEC participating in Energy QuestPresented by the World Affairs Council of Houston, Energy Quest is

a quiz game to test students’ knowledge of the global energy industry.The competition, scheduled for Oct. 29 at the Sheraton HoustonBrookhollow on the North Loop West in Houston, is open to all highschool students and is played in four rounds of 20 questions each.

Round 1 of the competition will focus on exploration, geographyand geophysics. Round 2 will include questions on production, refiningand remediation. Round 3 questions will include transportation, marketsand geo-politics and the final Round 4 will feature questions about newtechnologies and renewable energy. Questions will be compiled fromvarious energy-related websites and articles.

The winning team will receive a trophy and the winning school willreceive a $1,000 cash prize.

OEC is participating as a sponsor and will help provide informationfor the questions as well as backup sources of the information. Othersponsors include PESA, Anadarko, Halliburton, Schlumberger,DNV, Ernst & Young, GDF Suez, AAPG, IPAA and Marathon OilCorporation.

Additional information can be found at www.wachouston.org or bycalling 713-522-7811.


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Oct. 28 Executive Speaker Series – Petroleum Club

Nov. 13 Family Day – The History of Oil

Nov. 20 Knowledge Box WorkshopContact Doris Tomas 281-544-2435

Dec 11 Family Day – An Oil Rig Christmas

Dec 11 Playing With Petroleum WorkshopContact Doris Tomas 281-544-2435

THE STAR is a quarterly newsletter about the activities and educational programs of theOffshore Energy Center. Address your comments or questions to 200 N. Dairy Ashford, Suite 4119,Houston, TX 77079, 281/679-8040 or fax to 281/544-2441, or e-mail to [email protected].

Jerry Greenberg, Editor www.oceanstaroec.com

Burt A. AdamsOGRS, LLC

Lester D. Mallory, Jr.Managing Partner

MHLI-VENTURES

Homer H. HersheyChairman, Main Energy

James L. PayneChairman & CEO

Shona Energy Co. LLC

Vice ChairmanRoger P. Pinkerton

Director,North America ExplorationMarathon Oil Corporation

Immediate Past ChairmanDavid H. Welch

President, CEO & DirectorStone Energy

David CarmonyVice President

Drilling, Production,Construction Engineering

Gulf Coast RegionApache Corporation

William E. (Bill) ChilesCEO, President

Bristow Group Inc.

Charles D. (Chuck) DavidsonChairman & CEONoble Energy, Inc.

Robert DrummondPresident

North America Offshore & AlaskaSchlumberger

Hubert L. (Hugh) ElkinsChairman,

Hall of Fame Committee

Richard G. Ghiselin, PEQittitut Consulting, LLC

Leonard HaleVice President, Operations

Gulf Copper Dry Dock& Rig Repair

Galveston Community

Darrell E. HollekVice President, Gulf of MexicoOperations and Development

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation

Kerr Johnston Vice President,

Drilling & ProductionConocoPhillips

Derek MathiesonPresident

Products & TechnologyBaker Hughes

Merrill A. (Pete) Miller, Jr.Chairman, President & CEO

National Oilwell Varco

Mark MonroeManaging Director,

Account Managementand Marketing Services

Transocean

Andrew MytelkaManaging Partner

Greer, Herz & AdamsGalveston Community

Duane C. RadtkeValiant Exploration LLC

David RussellExecutive Vice President

Rowan Companies

Dr. Malcolm SharplesOffshore Risk &

Technology Consulting

Sherry StephensPresident

PESA

Stephen P. Thurston Vice President

Chevron North AmericaExploration and

Production Company

Dana WeberR&D Technical

Chairman,OEC SOCIETY

Bill YostVice President

Global Executive SalesBJ Services Company

Peter A. ZwartCFO, Commercial

Gulf of Mexico SPUBP

Vice Chairman/DevelopmentTed J. Ryan

Vice PresidentSSP Offshore

Vice Chairman/Education OutreachGalen Cobb

Vice President, Industry RelationsHalliburton Energy Services

Vice Chairman/Exhibits & ProgramsNeil Duffin

PresidentExxonMobil Development Company

Vice Chairman/FinanceDon Jacobsen

Senior Vice President, OperationsNoble Corporation

Vice Chairman/OperationsWilliam C. “Kurt” Hoffman Senior Vice President & COO

Seahawk Drilling Inc.

Vice Chairman/PR & MarketingJohn T. Gremp

President & COOFMC Technologies

OEC Staff

Chairmen Emeritus

2010 Board Of DirectorsChairman

Elizabeth “Libby” CheneyVice President, Safety, Environmental & Sustainable Development

Shell Upstream Americas

Lisa LisinicchiaOperations Director, Ocean Star

Ed HenkelSite Manager, Ocean Star

Margi PetersonGift Shop Manager, Ocean Star

Trina ClairePrograms Manager, Ocean Star

Sandra MourtonExecutive Director

Viann BonoanAdministrative Coordinator

Doris TomasEducation Director

Linda YancyProject Coordinator

Peggy ColeDevelopment Director

Don W. StaplesAccounting Manager

SecretaryEdward J. (Ed) Carey, Sr.

Vice President, Energy & Risk Management Impact Risk Solutions

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