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Candidate for Chair-Elect
(2024-25)
Jim Tucker
1980 – M.S., Geology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
1974 – B.A., Geology, Rice University, Houston
2012-Present – Geological Consultant, Houston
2002-12 – Geological Specialist, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
2000-02 – Chief Geologist, Computational Geology, Houston
1997-99 – Integrated Studies Manager/Manager-Reservoir Services, CGG Americas, Houston
1978-2015 – Geologist/Senior Staff Geologist/Exploration Planning Director, Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO), Dallas, Tulsa, Houston, Los Angeles, Plano, Texas
1974 – Summer Geologist, Mobil Oil
1972 – Shale shaker, desolater, and mud centrifuge fabrication and service, Milchem Drilling Controls, Robstown, Texas
Houston
Joined AAPG 1974
Certified Petroleum Geologist
Member DPA
2020-22 – HoD Membership Committee
2020-21 – Affiliated Society Presidents (President)
2019 – Foundation Trustee Associate
2014-16 – Treasurer, AAPG Executive Committee
EC liaison for Datapages Board, Group Insurance Committee and Investment Committee; and chair for Audit Review, and Budget and Finance committees
2009-15 – AAPG/SEG Cooperation Ad Hoc Committee
2007-09 – Secretary, AAPG Middle East Region 2001-04 – Education Committee
2000-05 – Mentor Committee
1990-95 – AAPG Associate Editor
HoD Activities
He has been a delegate or alternate delegate since 1985, representing societies in Los Angeles, Dallas and Houston and serving on numerous committees.
He was an HoD At-Large Member in 2014-16.
He currently is a delegate for the Middle East Region.
Professional Affiliations
Houston Geological Society (committees, Editor and President)
Geological Society of America
American Geophysical Union
YBRA.
2020– HoD 9 Year Certificate of Service
2006 – “New Life from Old Data – Processing and Interpretation of Older Diplogs with Modern Techniques, and an Example of Glacial Environment Interpretation, and Temperature Structure of the Jafurah Low, Eastern Saudi Arabia: Enigma or Opportunity?” 7th Middle East Geosciences Conference and Exhibition, Manama, Bahrain
1999 – “Detailed Correlations of Marginal Marine Reservoir and Seal Units in the Upper Cretaceous Winters Formation Sandstones, Sacramento Basin, California,” AAPG Annual Meeting (lead author)
1995 – “Ranking Exploration Opportunities: Some New Approaches,” SPE Hydrocarbon Economics and Evaluation Symposium (SPE Paper 30054) (co-author)
1991 – “Aspects of the Tano Basin Stratigraphy Revealed by Recent Drilling in Ghana,” Proceedings of Geology of Africa Colloquium (Libreville, Gabon)
All Candidates
Chair-Elect
David Hawk
Jim Tucker
Secretary/Editor
Rosemary Laidacker