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AAPG Home : Meetings : 2008 ACE-San Antonio : Highlights : Halbouty
All events will be held at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center unless otherwise noted.
The Michel T. Halbouty lecture series is an ongoing special event at the AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition. Lecture topics are designed to focus either on wildcat exploration in any part of the world where major discoveries might contribute significantly to petroleum reserves, or space exploration where astrogeological knowledge would further mankind’s ability to develop resources on earth and in the solar system.
Hunt
Ray L. Hunt knows a few things about wildcatting, having a high tolerance for risk and having been in the business for nearly 50 years. During that time he has come to appreciate a certain set of values that have contributed to his success and distinguished his companies from mediocre counterparts.
The correct Corporate Culture, Differentiation, Adaptability, Agility and taking a Contrarian position are five such corporate attributes that will lead to greater success and longevity in a rapidly changing global energy environment. Mr. Hunt will discuss these and other characteristics of a successful wildcatter in an interactive session that will no doubt conjure a lot of creativity and rumination.
Ray Hunt is a Dallas businessman whose association with Hunt Oil Company began in 1958 as a summer employee in the oil fields. He graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1965 with a degree in economics and now serves as chairman of the board, president and CEO of Hunt Consolidated, Inc. and CEO of Hunt Oil Company and other related companies.
Hunt is a member of the board of directors of the American Petroleum Institute and serves on its Policy Committee. In 1988, he was elected an All-American Wildcatter by the national organization of the same name, followed in 1989 by the John Rogers Award (given by the Southwestern Legal Foundation - “for distinguished service to the petroleum industry and civic institutions”). Additionally, he received the Public Service Award of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the Distinguished Service Award for the Texas Oil and Gas Association, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the North Texas Energy Council and in 2007, the Distinguished Service and Leadership Award of the 25-Year Club of the Petroleum Industry.
Hunt has received two awards that his father, H. L. Hunt, had previously received. In 1992, he was elected to the Texas Business Hall of Fame (an honor which Hunt’s father had posthumously received in 1986) and in 2005, he received the Chief Roughneck Award (an award which his father received in 1966) which recognized “the one individual whose accomplishments and character best represent the highest ideals of the oil and gas industry.” He also currently serves as a member of the executive committee of the board of trustees of Southern Methodist University, the board of trustees of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., the executive committee of the Southwestern Medical Foundation in Dallas, the board of trustees of The Cooper Institute and several other boards.
With respect to government service, in October 2001 and again in January 2006, Hunt was appointed by President George W. Bush to the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board in Washington, D.C. He was also appointed to the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in 1998 and served as its chairman for four years until rotating off of the board on December 31, 2006. Additionally, he is currently a member of the National Petroleum Council and served as its chairman from June 1991 to July 1994.
Mr. Hunt is also the recipient of numerous awards for his good works including “the Order of Marib,” given by the government of the Republic of Yemen (Hunt is the only non-Yemeni ever to be so designated) and the 2000 Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies Award for Corporate Citizenship.
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