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STANLEY E. SLIPPER AWARD

BOB MENELEY

Bob Meneley started his geological career in 1955 when he arrived in Calgary with no summer job and very little money. After a couple of anxious days of looking under "Oil" in the Yellow Pages and talking to innumerable companies he took the first of several job offers that came in and went to work for California Standard on a pack horse party working south of Grand Prairie. This summer job set the career path that Bob was to follow. Two more summer field seasons followed with Imperial Oil chasing Devonian reefs in the Rockies. When Bob received his Master’s degree he joined Imperial in the spring of 1958 as Party Chief working out of their Dawson Creek office. In the next four field seasons Bob mapped and measured from Tuchodi Lakes west of Fort Nelson to Margaret Lake at the south end of the Richardson Mountains. To this day Bob maintains that these years in the field represented the best job he ever had. As an added bonus Bob met Rose, the love of his life, at Norman Wells where she was working as a nurse.

After roaming the Northwest Territories by helicopter and float plane Bob’s next assignment brought a dose of reality – he became a production geologist picking well locations in Boundary Lake and in the Jedney-Laprise areas. After projecting reef trends for hundreds of miles in the North, it was sobering to find how hard it was to make a one section step out.

As an Area Geologist in 1964, Bob handled the subsurface geology in northern Alberta and northern British Columbia. A vivid early memory was the . . . [Full Text of this Article]