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Kay L. Pitts

Project
Manager, Aera Energy LLC, Bakersfield, Calif.

Born 1954, Dearborn, Mich.

Academic Training

1977

California
State University, Fullerton, B.A. earth science

1983

University
of Southern California, Los Angeles, M.S., geological
science

Experience

1980-87

Getty
Oil Co. (development area leader)/Texaco (exploration
area leader), Bakersfield, Calif.

1987-97

Bechtel
Petroleum Operations (supervisor, Elk Hills, Naval
Petroleum Reserve No. 1)

1997-present

Aera
Energy LLC

AAPG Activities (Member 1979, DPA #5798)

2000-01

Reservoir
Development Committee

2000-03

Budget
Review and Finance Committee

2001-04

Group
Insurance Committee

2003-06

House
of Delegates (alternate)

Affiliated and Associated Societies and Sections

• San
  Joaquin Geological Society (secretary)
• Pacific
  Section (secretary, vice president, president-elect,
  president — 1997-01; currently co-chair of the
  Convention Committee)
• Pacific
  Section Convention finance chair (1997, 2004)
• Pacific
  Section AAPG/Western Region SPE Meeting finance
  chair (2000)
• Pacific
  Section AAPG/Cordilleran Section GSA Convention
  finance chair (2001)

Other Professional Affiliations

• State
  of California Registered Geologist
• California
  State University Bakersfield Geotechnical Training
  Center Advisory Council

Honors and Awards

• American
  Association of University Women Named Gift Honoree

F. Pierce Pratt

Consultant/Retiree,
New Port Richey, Fla.

Born 1943, Coffee County, Ala.

Academic Training

1967

Catawba
College, B.A., geology, mathematics

1970

Duke
University, M.A., geology

Experience

1970-77

Amoco
Production Co. (now BP), New Orleans and Tulsa, geologist
and senior technical systems specialist

1977-00

Phillips
Petroleum (now ConocoPhillips), Bartlesville and Denver
(1977-79 — senior geologist; 1979-80 — technical
systems manager; 1980-00 — manager exploration mapping
and modeling)

Honors and Awards

• AAPG
  Distinguished Service Award (1998)
• AAPG
  Certificate of Merit (1995, 2000)
• Tulsa
  Geological Society (Distinguished Service and Lifetime
  Honorary Member awards)

Affiliated and Associated Societies and Sections

• Tulsa
  Geological Society (various committees, secretary,
  treasurer, vice president and president — 1989-90)
• Mid-Continent
  Section, various committees

AAPG Activities (Member 1971, DEG 1994,
DPA #5505)

1980

Denver
Annual Meeting Communications Committee chairman

1980-81

Academic
Liaison Committee

1980-02

Geological
Computing Committee (chairman 1992-95)

1982

Hosted
AAPG Computers to Geology Conference

1986-88

House
of Delegates

1990-02

House
of Delegates (various committees, vice chairman 1994-95;
Tulsa Geological Society group chairman 1992-01)

1991-03

Committee
on Investments (chairman 2001-present)

1995-96

Standing
Technical Program Committee

1997-03

Committee
on Committees (developed Committee Membership Guidelines)

1998-00

Web
site Committee (vice chairman 1998-99; chairman 1999-00)

Dwight M. “Clint” Moore

Consulting
Geologist, Houston

Texas Geoscientist License #2264

Born 1956, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

Academic Training

1978

Southern
Methodist University, B.A., Geology (Honors)

1978

Southern
Methodist University, B.B.A., Business Administration-Finance
(Honors)

Experience

2003-present

Consulting
geologist, Houston

1999-03

Anadarko
Petroleum Corp., Houston (project geologist-Business
Intelligence, Business Development and Competitor
Analysis; Gulf of Mexico Offshore Exploration Group)

1998-99

Anadarko
Petroleum, Houston (exploration supervisor-Global
Basin Studies Group)

1997-98

Anadarko
Petroleum, Houston (New Ventures supervisor-North
America/Eastern Canada Offshore Group)

1994-97

Anadarko
Petroleum, Houston (geological supervisor-Offshore
Gulf of Mexico Group)

1987-94

Anadarko
Petroleum, Houston (staff geologist-Offshore Gulf
of Mexico Group)

1986-87

Maxus
Energy, Dallas (senior business analyst-Corporate
Planning and Development Group)

1978-86

Diamond
Shamrock Corp. (Maxus Energy), Houston (senior staff
geologist and other staff positions-Gulf of Mexico
offshore and onshore groups)

AAPG Activities (Member 1978; DPA #3785;
DEG charter member; EMD)

2002-present

Membership
Registry (ad hoc) Committee (chairman)

2002-03

Candidate,
HoD Secretary-Editor

2001-02

Candidate,
AAPG Treasurer

1999-02

Advisory
Council (GCAGS Rep.)

1989-03

House
of Delegates

1995-present

DPA
Governmental Affairs Committee; chairman (1996-00);
co-chairman (1995-96); vice chairman (2000-03)

2002-03

Member
Survey (ad hoc) Committee

1994-03

Committee
on Committees

1999-03

Visiting
Geologists Program Committee

1997-01

HoD
Constitution and Bylaws Committee; chairman (1999-00)

2000-01

Advisory
Council Program and Services Enhancement Plan (ad
hoc) Committee; chairman

1999-01

Advisory
Council External Awards (ad hoc) Committee; chairman

2000-01

Advisory
Council Confidentiality Review (ad hoc) Committee

1999-00

Advisory
Council Outstanding Explorer Award (ad hoc) Committee

1999-00

Advisory
Council Alternates and Proxy (ad hoc) Committee

1995-99

Committee
on Education

1998-00

Representative
to AGI Governmental Affairs Committee

1999-00

HoD
Procedures (ad hoc) Committee

1997-99

HoD
Elected Editor (ad hoc) Committee

1996-99

HoD
International Representation (ad hoc) Committee

1998-99

HoD
Special Resolution of IRC (ad hoc) Committee

1996-97

DPA
Continuing Education Unit (ad hoc) Committee

1997

International
convention speaker (Vienna)

1996

Annual
meeting speaker (San Diego)

2000

Gulf
Coast Section convention session chairman

1995

Gulf
Coast Section convention joint Keynote speaker

1995-99

Annual
meeting session chairman (1995, 1997 and 1999)

1993

Hedberg
Conference on Salt Tectonics poster presenter (England)

1994-95

Gulf
Coast Section Board of Directors

1996-98

DEG
Marketing (ad hoc) Committee

1993-95

Houston
Geological Society president, president-elect and
vice president

Honors and Awards

2001

HoD
Distinguished Member of the House Award

2001

DPA
Distinguished Service Award

1999

AAPG
Certificate of Merit

1997

AAPG
Certificate of Merit

1999

HGS
Honorary Life Membership Award

1997

HGS
Distinguished Service Award

1993

HGS
President’s Award

1977

Dallas
Geological Society Sabine Royalty Corporation Scholarship
recipient

Professional Geoscience Publications

• AAPG
  BULLETIN June 1997 E&P Notes (“Subsalt Play, Gulf
  of Mexico: A Review,” co-authored with S. Montgomery)
• Editor-in-Chief
  — HGS/NOGS Guidebook (“Productive Low Resistivity
  Well Logs of the Offshore Gulf of Mexico”)
• Several
  GCS-SEPM, AAPG and Hedberg papers/extended abstracts
  on salt tectonics, subsalt exploration and related
  sedimentation

Other Professional Affiliations

Society of Exploration Geophysicists; Houston Geological
Society; Geophysical Society of Houston; New Orleans
Geological Society; Gulf Coast Section-SEPM

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