Sam Reeves
Sam is a native of Fort Worth, Texas, who graduated from Polytechnic High School in 1954; attended TCU at night for two years and then Arlington State (now UTA) for one year, additionally receiving as Associates Degree from Dallas' Eastfield College. Sam began his petroleum industry experience as a designer with Worth Well Surveys, a Wireline Company from which Gearhart & Owens emerged. He spent 2 years as a methods engineer at Chance Vought Aircraft, designing and facilitating the manufacturing of tools for working with titanium. Sam also served eight years in the Marine Air Reserves.
Always on the cutting edge of things, Sam has acquired various other innovative products for both sport and industry. He has a published paper on hydrocarbon geochemical studies with spectrographic microwave systems. Sam has drilled the deepest well ever drilled in Stephens County, Texas, The Black Gold #3, penetrating 650 ft. of Granite and completed the first successful Barnett Shale well in October 1987.
For the past 17 years Sam has operated a service company supplying his hydrocrabon microseepage & SORT exploration technology to our industry. The areas and/or formations in which he has applied this technology include, but are not limited to, the Ellenburger in Cooke County; Tannahill in Fisher, Dickens, & King Counties; James Lime in E. Texas; Wolf Camp & Wichita Albany in W. Texas; Trenton Black River play in New York; Knox play in Kentucky & Tennessee; deep gas in Louisiana; Morrow in Kansas; Sacramento Valley, California; Bakken Shale in Montana; Utah; Nevada; Colorado; Wyoming; Cotton Valley; Cotton Valley Reefs; Bossier; and the Barnett Shale.