While supervising seismic surveys in Australia's Great
Australian Bight for OXY, we received a call from an old
colleague Lou Flower in Sydney about helping out on a program
on a land survey in Sumatra in Indonesia. Lou asked if we supervised
land seismic surveys. I unhesitatingly replied, "certainly!".
His client was JAMBI Oil Development Corp. of Japan, and we
provided a consultant who was based out of Pasadena, California -
Paul Mairisse. Lou mentioned that "Oceanprobe sounded like some
thing not directed toward land seismic surveying". I immediately
replied that we had a subsidiary called Geoprobe, Inc. that
specialized in land work. We received a TWX'd contract within
hours and Paul was enroute to Jakarta within the week. (I incorporated
Geoprobe shortly thereafter in Houston...)
Over the years I supervised a large seismic survey in the East Java
Sea for Kerr McGee, made several forays into Bali, sent our consultant
Don Armstrong to the Arafura Sea to supervise seismic for Diamond
Shamrock, attended a managerial workshop in Jakarta for Fletcher Challenge
Petroleum, and an environmental workshop for Fletcher.
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