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Oil and Gas Industry in Michigan
Michigan's state motto reads "If you seek a pleasant peninsula look around you". In the Lower Peninsula, that motto might well read "If you seek an abundance of oil and gas look beneath you." Michigan has an abundance of oil and natural gas located under its landscape. For over one hundred years Michiganians have been involved in the task of finding those resources and bringing them to market.
"The History of Michigan's Oil and Natural Gas Industry" is the web companion to an exhibit open between August 1, 2005, and February 1, 2006, in the Clarke Historical Library's Francis and Mary Lois Molson Exhibit Gallery and Meijer Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit includes a printed catalog telling the story of oil and natural gas exploration in Michigan, and a large number of documents and photographs that also discuss that history and the people who work in the industry. The web component of the exhibit supplements the physical exhibit with almost 800 industry photographs which are arranged by decade. Almost all of the photographs were taken from the files of the Michigan Oil and Gas News (MOGN) or the private collections of two long-time editors of the MOGN, Norm Lyons and Jack Westbrook. The web exhibit also contains the text of the exhibit catalog and supplemental geological information not found in the physical exhibit.
This exhibit has been made possible by a generous financial contribution from the Michigan Oil And Gas Association and the Michigan Oil and Gas Producers Education Foundation. We are also especially indebted to Jack Westbrook, retired editor of the Michigan Oil and Gas News for serving as the author of the catalog and as a consultant in designing the exhibit.
Acknowledgments
We are grateful to all those who have helped make possible this publication and the exhibit that accompanies it. Individual and corporate donors who made gifts toward the exhibit include:
Platinum ($2,000 or more)
Michigan Oil And Gas Producers Education Foundation
Miller Energy Inc. and Eagle Investment Inc.
In memory of Clyde Miller, George Miller, and H. Jack Miller;
In honor of C. John Miller and Clyde E. "Gene" Miller
Muskegon Development
In Memory of Charles E. Myler (father and grandfather) and geologist Hugh Crider
William J. and William D. Strickler
In Memory of William H. Strickler (father and grandfather)
Silver ($500-$999)
Cook Investments
In Memory of Arthur M. Cook (father)
Olga Denison
In Memory of D. F. Jones (father)
Olga Denison
In Memory of Earl G. Hartman, Sr.
Gregory & Theresa Fogle
In Memory of Larry J. Kinney
John Hartman
In Memory of I. W. "Bucky" Hartman (father)
Hersee Corporation
In Memory of William E. Hersee M. D. and Vera & Murell L. Welch
Mika, Meyers, Beckett & Jones
In Honor of Ernest A. Mika and Veryl N. Meyers (founding partners)
Tiger Development
In Memory of Lyle Hall (father)
Trendwell Energy
In Memory of Jack Mall
Jack R. Westbrook
In Memory of Walter Scott Westbrook (grandfather) and H. Hood Westbrook (father)
Wolverine Gas and Oil Corp.
In Memory of Sidney J. Jansma (father)
Wood Oil Company
In Memory of Kavanaugh P. Wood II
Gold ($1,000 -$1,999)
Bigard & Huggard Drilling Company
Olga Denison
In Memory of G. R. "Rollie" Denison
H & K Resources
In Memory of G. R. Denison
Geraldine McClure
In memory of Harold M. McClure, Sr., and Harold M. McClure, Jr.
O.I.L. Energy Corp.
In Memory of Larry J. Kinney
Bronze (up to $500)
General Agency
"Supporting Michigan's oil and gas industry from the beginning"
Maness Petroleum Corp.
In Memory of Mabre Maness (father)
D. R. McGuire, Inc. - Geologists
In Honor of Earl Majeske
Neyer Energy
In Memory of John J. Neyer (father)
Rosemary Reid
In Memory of Anthony Thomas Wallangur (father ) & Roy A. Lovell (stepfather)
Scandia Energy Co.
In Memory of Lud Segerlund
Tolas Oil & Gas Exploration Co. Inc.
Lydia Westbrook
In Honor of Jack R. Westbrook
Mary Westbrook Scott
In Honor of Jack R. Westbrook (father)
Paula Westbrook-Kordas
In Honor of Jack R. Westbrook (father) and in Memory of H. H. Westbrook (grandfather)
Stephen Westbrook & Family
In Honor of Jack R. Westbrook