Notes: 1) all non-fieldtrip events are at the Downtown Holiday Inn;
2) all field trips load bus and return to the Downtown Holiday Inn;
3) poster sessions will be up through Friday evening
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 2003
2:00 - 6:00 PM Arrival, Registration packet pickup, Poster Presentation Setup
4:00 - 8:30 PM Optional Field Trip, Caddo-Pine Island Field, Louisiana Oil & Gas State Museum, dinner at museum
THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2003
7:00 - 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast, Registration, Poster Setups & Viewing
Poster Presentations:
James M. Parks: Oil Companies and Unintended Consequences
Katie Poole: The Mexican Gulf Oil Collection at Centenary College
Jeff Spencer and Byron Miller: Jennings Oil Field: the Start of Louisiana's
Oil Industry
8:00 - 8:05 AM Welcome and Introductions
8:05 - 8:30 AM Susan Fox Hodgson: California Indians, Artisans of Oil
8:30 - 8:55 AM Wolfgang Nachtmann: Austria-A Scenic Country, but also an Oil Province?
8:55 - 9:20 AM Larry D. Woodfork: From Salt Licks to Stock Tanks-A Brief
Overview of the Early Salt and Oil Industries in West Virginia
9:20 - 9:45 AM John G. Ragsdale: Oil Development in South Arkansas, 1921-2001
9:45 - 10:00 AM Break
10:00 - 10:25 AM Mary L. Barrett and David J. Carty*: Eight Decades of Anthropogenic and Natural Landscape Change in Smackover Field, Arkansas
10:25 - 10:50 AM Jo Ann Stiles: Giant Under The Hill: Drilling for the Spindletop Gusher from 1899-1901
10:50 - 11:15 AM C. Lane Sartor: Early History of the Caddo-Pine Island Field, Caddo Parish, Louisiana
11:15 AM - 12:25 PM Buffet Lunch at the Holiday Inn
12:30 PM Leave on bus for the East Texas Field
4:00 PM Arrive at the East Texas Oil Museum, Kilgore, Texas
5:45 PM Walk across street to Kilgore College faculty club-dinner
7:15 PM Leave for Shreveport
8:30 PM Arrive at hotel
FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2003
7:30 - 8:30 AM Continental Breakfast, Registration, Poster Viewing
8:30 - 8:55 AM L. Mark Larsen: Canoe Pitch to Cornerstone of Canadian Oil Production: The Athabasca Oil Sands, Alberta, Canada
8:55 - 9:20 AM Jay T. Sperr and James B. Larson: Rangely Oil Field-Colorado's Giant Still Going Strong after One Hundred Years
9:20 - 9:45 AM Lawrence H. Skeleton: The Well at Wichita
9:45 - 10:15 AM Break & Poster Session Viewing
10:15 - 10:40 AM Judith L. Sneed: The Lost History of Ohio's Grand Reservoir Oil Boom
10:40 - 11:05 AM Alan Grosbard: Treadwell Wharf in the Summerland, California Oil Field: the First Sea Wells in Petroleum Exploration
11:05 - 11:30 AM William R. Brice: Gilbert D. Harris (1864-1952); Cornell Professor, Louisiana State Geologist, and Long Distant Oil Consultant
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM Buffet Lunch at the Holiday Inn
1:00 - 1:25 PM Allan Pulsipher and Harry Luton: History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry and its Consequences
1:25 - 1:50 PM Don Davis: A Century of Oil in Louisiana
1:50 - 2:15 PM Diane Austin: History and Evolution of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana: a Brief Look at Commercial Diving and the Role of People, Technology, and the Organization of Work
2:15 - 2:45 PM Break & Poster Session Viewing
2:45 - 3:10 PM Paul N. Spellman: Women and Children of Spindletop
3:10 - 3:35 PM Samuel T. Pees and Richard A. Senges: America's First Successful Railway Tank Car, 1865
3:35 - 4:00 PM Ross Coen: Submarines, Blimps, Trains, and Ships: Transportation Proposals for Prudhoe Bay Crude Oil, 1968-1977
4:00 - 4:25 PM Mary L. Barrett: The Oil Photography Projects of Roy E. Stryker, 1939-1950
6:00 - 6:30 PM Cash Bar
6:30 - 9:00 PM Banquet, Awards Presentations
Guest Speaker: Diana Olien
SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 2003
7:00 - 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast
8:10 AM Bus leaves for Smackover Field, AR
10:15 AM Arrive in area, visit old earthen tank farms
11:15 - 1:00 PM Visit AR Museum of Natural Resources, eat box lunches
1:00 - 4:00 PM Visit field and town sites
6:15 PM Arrive back in Shreveport at Holiday Inn, End of Meeting