James H. McCuistion, guest Speaker
During the summer months as a student, James was employed by McCuistion Construction Company. He served as a roustabout doing work such as pipe connecting, building board roads, painting facilities and doing other odd field jobs in the area round Beaumont, Texas. The last summer with the company was spent in a supervisory training position.
James’ experience with Sun Oil was mostly curing title. He also did some lease work and area checks in Southern Louisiana District.
The two- and one-half years with Hunt were spent doing a variety of field work, including leasing, pipeline right-of-way acquisitions, area checks, damage claim settlements and even some real estate checks for property with the Hunts considered buying. The areas worked included North, Central and South Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, North Dakota, South Louisiana and Montana.
James’ duties as District Landman with Apexco and Edwin L. Cox included negotiating farm-ins, farm-outs, joint drilling ventures, supervision of lease acquisitions, selling interest in Apexco and Cox prospects, setting up lease files, responsibility for bank statements of lease account, bottom or dry hole contributions and maintenance of producing properties including liaison with attorneys and consulting geologist on unitization work. Most of his work was concentrated in South Louisiana and in Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, although some work was done on the Texas Gulf Coast.
As an Independent in Lafayette, James was a lease broker and also brokered farm-out from major companies.
As Land Manager of Houston Oil and Minerals, James set up the entire land department. When James was hired, Houston Oil and Minerals had no landmen and had only a rental clerk, a division order clerk and a secretary. There was approximately twenty-five people in the Land Department covering all parts of the United States when James resigned.
James then formed Colorado Crude Company in Houston, working primarily on the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana between Corpus Christi and New Orleans. James was President and Chief Operating Officer, which entitled total responsibility for all company operations. James did leas brokerage work, occasional well promotion and production brokerage. James still represents some mineral owners on their acreage in Mississippi.
For two years, James was Vice President of Land for Gulf Energy Exploration Corporation in Austin, Texas with responsibility for all land functions of the company, which is where he retired from.
Please plan to attend our November 15 luncheon. We encourage all LAPL members that are Veterans, or not, to invite a non-LAPL Veteran to join us for lunch.
Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, we are able to provide a free lunch buffet for each Veteran in attendance.
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Friday, November 15, 2024– 11:30 a.m. – Walnut Room - Petroleum Club
The AAPL has approved this event for 1 CE credit.
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