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Gold/Mining/Energy : Big Dog's Boom Boom Room -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: energyplay who wrote (32508)	5/27/2004 6:30:01 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 206184

Chevron's geologists thought oil came from dinosaur era biomass, so they looked for traps near those era rocks. Chevron's geophysicists doubted this was the case, but were more agnostic not believing in any particular theory of oil formation. They delighted in finding oil and gas "where it wasn't supposed to be." I liked the geophysicists better. My favorite was the dean of Chevron geophysicists, a pipe smoking man originally from Turkey, Suli Yungul. Suli looked for rock combinations with the correct densities regardless of what age they were. After a geologist presentation he typically would study their diagrams for a minute silently puffing on his pipe, then turn back to the audience saying, "Of course this is all completely wrong." He'd then proceed to explain why leaving the geologists fuming and barely able to talk. They hated how he casually dismissed most of what they had been taught in school with a wave of his hand, as if they were specialists in flat-earth theory.