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By MARLAN DOWNEY

Patience, Persistence

 

Perhaps a review -- and awareness -- of the past may make us better geologists in the future.

In 1954, the American Petroleum Institute released a national survey concerning public attitudes towards the oil and gas business. It was noted that 72 percent of the survey respondents had a favorable impression of the oil business.

And you think that there's no such thing as the Good Old Days?

Spindletop Field had already been producing for over 50 years, but 1954 found Michel T. Halbouty announcing a discovery from a new Frio sand on the Spindletop Dome.

And, our lesson from history?

Patience may be a virtue, but it's persistence that brings home success.

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