Famous People who Majored in Petroleum Engineering
- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Fair useLinda Zarda Cook (born June 4, 1958) is an American businesswoman. She rose to be CEO of Shell Gas & Power, part of Royal Dutch Shell, in the Netherlands. Cook was named the 11th most powerful businesswoman in the world by Fortune magazine in October 2002 and the 44th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine in September 2007. Cook, raised in Shawnee, Kansas, graduated from the University of Kansas in petroleum engineering in 1980. She began her Shell career in 1980 as a reservoir engineer in the United States, advancing through the company to accept greater responsibilities in exploration and production with Shell U.S.A. Her first European assignment came in 1998, when she and her family moved to the Netherlands, where she led Shell International EP. She has led the Gas & Power division since January 2000. Cook is also member of board of directors of KBR (company) and The Boeing Company. Following a loss in the race to become the company's next Chief Executive, Cook is to step down from her position in Royal Dutch Shell, forgoing a loyalty bonus of more than £800,000. Shortly following the announcement of her resignation was the news that her division, Gas and Power, would be absorbed into the new management structure being promoted by new Chief Executive Peter Voser. Shares in Shell fell 1.1 per cent or 18p to 1613p in morning trading. A Shell spokesman said the resignation was by mutual agreement. Cook, who since 2004 has been in charge of the group’s gas and power division, responsible for natural gas, liquefied natural gas, and Shell’s power generation operations, had worked for Shell for 29 years. Cook's severance pay comes to about 5.4 million euros, a figure determined by standard company and legal guidelines.On March 16, 2015 it was announced that Cook would not seek reelection to Boeing's board of directors.
- Photo: Metaweb (FB)Brad Anderson serves as Dell's senior vice president, Business Product Group. In this role, he is responsible for worldwide engineering, design, development and marketing of Dell's enterprise products including servers, networking and storage systems.
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- Photo: Metaweb (FB)John E. Bethancourt is executive vice president for technology and services for Chevron Corporation. He also is responsible for overseeing health, environment and safety, as well as project resources, procurement, additives and coal operations.
- Photo: Metaweb (FB)Throughout his career, Mr. Albers has held a variety of managerial positions in development, operations, production and engineering. After several assignments in Texas and New Jersey, in 1991 he was transferred to Esso Australia in Melbourne as technical manager and later became operations manager. He later held positions as Alaska interests manager and production manager for the Western U.S.
- Photo: Metaweb (FB)Mr. Swiger is the current Vice President of Exxon Mobil Corporation and President, ExxonMobil Gas Power Marketing Company, which is responsible for commercial development, marketing, and purchasing of natural gas, LNG, natural gas liquids, associated products and electrical power for ExxonMobil.
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Jay R. Pryor
Jay Pryor is Chevron Corporation vice president for Corporate Business Development. He is responsible for identifying and developing new, large-scale business opportunities throughout the world. Pryor assumed his current position in May 2006. - Photo: Metaweb (FB)Steven B. Hinchman is executive vice president of Technology and Services for Marathon Oil Corporation and serves as a member of Marathon's Executive Committee. He joined Marathon in 1980. He was previously senior vice president of Worldwide Production from January 2002. In September 2000, Mr. Hinchman was appointed senior vice president of Production Operations. He joined the Company as a field engineer and subsequently held a number of technical, staff and managerial positions of increasing responsibility in the Company's domestic and international exploration and production organizations. Mr. Hinchman received a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1980, and a master's degree in the same field of study from the Colorado School of Mines in 1987. Mr. Hinchman is a member of the board of directors of the American Petroleum Institute. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the U.S. Oil Gas Association. In 2005, he received the distinguished Penn State Alumni Fellow Award. He is a Visiting Committee Member of the Petroleum Engineering Department of the Colorado School of Mines and a member of the board of directors of the Sam Houston Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He is also a member of the Industrial and Professional Advisory Council of the Department of Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering at Pennsylvania State University.
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Ryan M. Lance
Ryan M. Lance is president, exploration and production Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, for ConocoPhillips. - Photo: Metaweb (FB)Robert E. Estill is vice president of Strategic Planning and Portfolio Management for Marathon Oil Company. He assumed his current position in June 2006.
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Jay A Precourt
Jay Precourt has spent his career in the energy industry. He has served as chair and CEO of Hermes Consolidated Inc., a gatherer, transporter and processor of crude oil and refined products, since 1999. He also has held executive positions at Hamilton Oil Co., Tejas Gas Corp., Shell Oil Co. (which acquired Tejas in 1997) and ScissorTail Energy LLC. He also serves as a director of Halliburton and Apache Corp. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in petroleum engineering from Stanford and an MBA from Harvard.
