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ESS Seminar: Insights into a Petroleum Geology Career

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On Monday, Oct. 30, at 4:00 PM, the ESS Professional Lecture Series will present George Kronman from OXY Oil and Gas Co. Mr. Kronman will be talking about careers in the oil industry. Faculty, please advertise this in your classes. Students, please mention this to other students that you know might be interested in the oil industry. Hopefully we can have a good enough turnout so we can convince Mr. Kronman that Lamar students are serious about oil industry careers. Who knows, maybe we could even get some of you into Summer internships or full time jobs with OXY when you graduate.

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When Oct 30, 2006
from 04:00 pm to 05:00 pm
Where Geology Bldg. 101
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Insights into a Petroleum Geology Career

 

This talk will focus on:

  • An overview of OXY Oil and Gas
  • What Petroleum Geologists and Geophysicists do in OXY and other oil companies
  • Insights into preparing oneself for a petroleum geology career
  • Discussion about courses, internships, graduate school and other things that relate to a petroleum geology career  

 

A short biography:

 

George Kronman is the Chief, Geoscience Resources for Occidential (OXY) Oil and Gas Company based in Houston.  He started his career in 1980 with Amoco Production Company where he worked in various roles related to domestic and international exploration, development, economics, operations and management.  In 1997, Mr. Kronman spent 3 years in oil and gas consulting group at Arthur Andersen and then joined Landmark/Halliburton.  George was the Global Director, Subsurface Consulting at Landmark/Halliburton.  He joined OXY in 2005.  George has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Geology from the State University of New York (SUNY) and an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Houston.  He also did additional graduate work in geology at Vanderbilt University and is a member of the AAPG, HGS, GSA, Sigma Xi and SEG
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