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Growing up in the tiny northern Wyoming town of Byron, Chad Deaton always knew he wanted to work in the oil patch.
His father and both his grandfathers worked in or invested in the oil industry. In fact, his father’s father worked on the first oil well drilled in the Big Horn Basin. Chad’s youngest daughter, too, earned a degree in chemical engineering and worked for Chevron, tallying four generations of Deatons who have worked in the oil industry.
“I just had a lot of oily blood, I guess,” he says.
Deaton’s journey into the oil industry can be traced to the day his father took him to see Dowell, a division of Dow Chemical, use remote operations to frac a well. A junior in high school, Deaton was fascinated and decided, then and there, that he wanted to go into engineering or geology. He later attended the University of Wyoming, though petroleum geology was not offered at the time. He chose general geology for a major.
June 13, 2013 — A University of Wyoming professor co-wrote a paper that purports a planet may be nestled in a gap in the disk around the star known as TW Hydrae, which is located 176 light years away.
June 11, 2013 — The mere presence of wolves, previously shown to affect the behavior of elk in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem, is not potent enough to reduce the body condition and reproductive rates of female elk, according to new research published today.
June 7, 2013 — University of Wyoming College of Law student Cash Freeman has been selected as a Tillman Military Scholar for the 2013-14 academic year. The one-year scholarship is worth $13,000.
June 4, 2013 — Diane Boyle, a prolific researcher and award-winning teacher, is the first excellence chair at the University of Wyoming’s Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing.
June 3, 2013 — Jo Chytka is the new director of the Peter M. and Paula Green Johnson Business Career Center at the University of Wyoming College of Business.
May 31, 2013 — Less-educated white women were more likely to die than better-educated females from the mid-1990s through the mid-2000s, according to a new study co-written by a University of Wyoming professor.
May 30, 2013 — Beginning this week, six undergraduate students from across America have gathered for 10 weeks to delve into studying astronomy at the University of Wyoming. And there’s no easing in. Students were scheduled to gaze at stars through a telescope on their first night.
May 29, 2013 — A University of Wyoming graduate student has been selected by Grand Teton National Park and the Grand Teton Association for the 2013 Boyd Evison Graduate Fellowship.
May 29, 2013 — University of Wyoming student Inga Mileviciute hopes to gain a broad understanding of alcohol use among different populations during a Fulbright U.S. Student internship at Lithuania’s Vilnius University during the 2013-14 academic year.
May 28, 2013 — Members of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) have chosen University of Wyoming Senior Lecturer Randi Martinsen as the organization’s incoming president-elect. She will assume the president-elect position July 1 and the president’s position July 1, 2014.
