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“Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be sought first of all in our minds.”

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Wallace Pratt

Wallace Pratt was an outstanding geologist born in 1885 and passed away on December 25, 1981. He made significant contributions to the field of petroleum geology, particularly in stratigraphy and petrophysics. more

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