Such claims have sparked a debate among oil geologists, economists, engineers and industry officials, most of whom insist there is plenty of oil left for many decades to come.
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Union Oil geologist W . W . Orcutt is credited, in 1901, with first recognizing that fossilized prehistoric animal bones were preserved in pools of asphalt on the Hancock Ranch.
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His older brother Lou moved to Pittsburgh and after getting a job in the office of Standard Oil geologist John Worthington, he sent for Lee and their mother to move east.
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But it is the northern coastal plain and rolling foothills _ 15 to 50 miles wide sandwiched between the towering peaks of the Brooks Range and the Beaufort Sea _ that has oil geologists excited.
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"Do you really need two sets of oil geologists for the Gulf of Mexico for instance, " asked oil stock analyst Edward Maran of A . G . Edwards in New York.
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Betty Moore, whose husband, Joe, is a retired oil geologist and was a Texas A & AMP; M University regent, sat in the 12th row and waited for the service to start.
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"Anybody who wants to drive their motor home up to Alaska better do it now while the supply of oil is cheap, " said veteran oil geologist L . F . " Buzz"
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The business connection between Bush and Enron was first mentioned, though not substantiated, in an article written by the son of a former Enron Oil geologist and published last month in an alternative weekly, San Antonio Current.
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Goodstein supports a theory called Hubbert's peak, named for M . King Hubbert, a Shell Oil geologist who reasoned in the 1950s that U . S . oil production would peak around 1970 and thereafter decline.
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"We hope people take him at his word and come to Midland to check us out, " said Bruce Partain, a former oil geologist who opted for a more stable job with the Chamber of Commerce.
