Greetings fellow ETGS members! I hope everyone has had a great summer and done their best to escape the heat, but nothing quite beats the heat like $84 WTI prices. It is certainly nice to see the market continue to recover as we had hoped it would this year. For the ETGS BOD, it has been a productive summer for the society behind the scenes and we look forward to bringing some updates to our luncheons as well as other fall events like our annual Golf Tournament and other social events. Since there are multiple updates, please take a look at the sections below so that you don’t miss anything.

After some enjoyable years at Hollytree Country Club, we have decided to mix things up this year and host our monthly luncheons at Willow Brook Country Club. Having attended luncheons of other societies at Willow Brook, I know that they will do a great job hosting as I’m sure many of you already know.

I hope this email finds you well as we continue into what has been a great Spring season so far in East Texas. Thankfully, oil prices have continued their multiweek gains and we hope that they will remain on a healthy trend and that gas prices will follow. Of course, the industry today still has its challenges and uncertainties domestically and abroad.

So, to help us as a society better understand these challenges, we are excited to remind everyone that Karr Ingham of the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers will be joining us next Wednesday as our luncheon speaker. He will be discussing The Challenging Landscape of the Texas and U.S. Oil and Gas Industry. We hosted Karr as a speaker at our Tech & Prospect Expo last year and look forward to having him back to hear his take on the previous year’s developments as well as the future. Please RSVP for the luncheon HERE.

I would also like to announce that Karr and the TAEP will be hosting a happy hour and dinner Wednesday evening at The Grove Kitchen & Gardens. The happy hour will be come and go from 5-6:30, and if you would like to join us for dinner, we ask that you RSVP on the ETGS website. Please use link to register for the dinner HERE. Either way, all are welcome for a great networking event. Beer, wine and dinner provided by the Alliance.

I hope all who attended NAPE last week had a productive trip making new connections and catching up with friends. It was a challenging week with the winter storm coming through Texas, and I hope that everyone’s homes made it through safely.

The Society has some great events coming up that I would like to announce. For our February 15 meeting, Jeff Spencer will present “Jack Nolan – Oil Field Photographer”, which will give some great historical perspective on the East Texas Basin. Jack Nolan’s photographs bring new life to a time that many of us know of being a part of East Texan oil industry but haven’t seen in such detail. I encourage you all to sign up and please RSVP prior to the meeting. Hollytree bases their buffet on signed up attendance, so it is very appreciated to let us know early. Thank you!