Candidates for AAPG office have been given the opportunity to respond briefly to the subject: "Why I Decided to Become a Petition Candidate for AAPG Office."
Their responses and biographical information were provided by each candidate and edited only for grammar, spelling and format.
This information will also be provided as hard-copy in the January issue of the EXPLORER and available on the AAPG Web site through the election period. Ballots will be mailed, online in the first quarter of 2008. Results will be posted mid-May 2008.
Candidates were asked to limit their biographies to 350 words and responses to 500 words.
2007-08 President-Elect Petition Candidate
Dwight "Clint" Moore
Vice President - Corporate Development; ION Geophysical Corporation
Born 1956, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
Academic Degrees
- 1978
- B.A., geology (Honors), Southern Methodist University
- B.B.A., finance (Honors), Southern Methodist University
Experience
- 2008-present
- ION Geophysical Corporation, Houston, Vice President-Corporate Development
- 2007
- DiamondStar Exploration & Production LLC, president
- 2006-2007
- Murphy Exploration & Production USA, manager of business development – offshore U.S. GOM
- 2003-2006
- Consulting geologist (Houston)
Texas Licensed Professional Geoscientist - 1987-2003
- Anadarko Petroleum Corp., supervisory and staff positions – Offshore U.S. & Canada
- 1978-1987
- Diamond Shamrock/Maxus Corp., supervisory and staff positions – U.S.
AAPG Activities
- Member since 1978
- DPA Certified Petroleum Geologist # 3785
- DEG Charter Member, EMD member
- Present AAPG Activities:
- Membership Career Services Committee since ’03 (chair’ ’06-07)
- Investment Committee since ’04
- DPA Governmental Affairs Committee since ’94
- 2004-2006
- AAPG Treasurer
- Audit Review Committee (chair 05-06)
- Budget Review and Finance Committee (vice chair 04-06)
- Insurance Committee
- Tactical Operations Committee
- Investment Committee (vice chair 06-07)
- 1989-2007
- House of Delegates (seventh term)
- Constitution and Bylaws Committee (1997-01) (chair 99-00)
- Secretary/Editor candidate (02-03)
- Credentials Committee (02-03)
- Ad hoc committees:
- Executive Session Committee (05-06)
- Int’l Representation Committee (96-99)
- Elected Editor Committee (97-99)
- IRC Resolution Committee (98-99)
- 1999-2002
- AAPG Advisory Council
- GCAGS representative
- Several ad hoc committees
- Other AAPG Activities:
- Committee on Committees (94-03)
- Education Committee (95-99)
- Visiting Geologist Committee (99-02)
- Member Registry (ad hoc) (chair 02-04)
- Survey Committee (02-03)
- AGI Governmental Affairs Rep. (98-00)
- Convention Session Chair (’95, 97, 99)
- Annual and Int’l Convention Speaker
Affiliated and Associated Societies and Sections and major offices held
Member of NOGS, SEG, SEPM, SPE, SPWLA and SIPES
- Houston Geological Society:
- president ’94-95, president-elect 1993-94, vice president 1992-93
- Honorary Member Award ’99
- Distinguished Service Award 1997
- Presidents Award 1993
- GCAGS:
- Advisory Council Rep (’99-’02)
- Board of Directors (’94-’95)
- AAPG Honors and Awards
- HOD Distinguished Member of the House Award 2001
- DPA Distinguished Service Award 2001
- AAPG Certificates of Merit 2006, 2004, 1999, 1997
Publications
Authored and co-authored several papers on the Gulf of Mexico subsalt play, salt tectonics and sedimentation/ stratigraphy, the Mahogany Field discovery. Chief editor, Guidebook on Low Resistivity Well Logs in the Offshore Gulf of Mexico.