Chief Roughneck Award

Winners

• 2014 – Jeffrey L. Ventura, president and chief executive officer, Range Resources
• 2013 – Bruce H. Vincent, president and director, Swift Energy Company
• 2012 – Charles D. Davidson, chairman and CEO, Noble Energy, Inc.
• 2011 – Michael C. Linn, executive chairman, Linn Energy, LLC
• 2010 – Aubrey K. McClendon, chairman and CEO, Chesapeake Energy Corporation
• 2009 – Harold Korell, chairman of the board, Southwestern Energy Company
• 2008 – Diemer True, chairman and founder, The Diamond Companies of Wyoming
• 2007 – John B. Walker, president and chief executive officer, EnerVest, Ltd.
• 2006 – Mark Papa, president, EOG Resources, Inc.
• 2005 – Ray L. Hunt, chief executive officer, Hunt Oil Company
• 2004 – George M. Yates, chairman and president, HEYCO Energy Group, Inc.
• 2003 – Robert J. Allison, Jr., chairman, president and chief executive officer, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
• 2002 – Robert L. Nance, president and chief executive officer, Nance Petroleum Corporation
• 2001 – James Cleo Thompson, Jr., chairman and president, Thompson Petroleum Corporation
• 2000 – J. Larry Nichols, chairman, president and chief executive officer, Devon Energy
• 1999 – Lew O. Ward, chairman and chief executive officer, Ward Petroleum
• 1998 – Jon Rex Jones, chairman, Jones Energy, Ltd. and, chairman, EnerVest Management Company
• 1997 – George A. Alcorn, president, Alcorn Exploration
• 1996 – John A. Yates, president, Yates Petroleum Corporation
• 1995 – Eugene L. Ames, Jr., chairman, president and chief executive officer, Venus Exploration Inc.
• 1994 – C.J. Silas, chairman, Phillips Petroleum Company
• 1993 – Danny H. Conklin, partner, Philcon Development Company
• 1992 – Irene S. Wischer, president and chief executive officer, Panhandle Producing Company
• 1991 – George P. Mitchell, chairman and president, Mitchell Energy & Development Company
• 1990 – Chester R. Upham, owner and general manager, Upham Gas Company
• 1989 – Raymond H. Hefner Jr., chairman and chief executive officer, Bonray Energy Corporation
• 1988 – Robert G. Fowler, president and chief operating officer, Enserch Exploration
• 1987 – E.L. Williamson, chairman and chief executive officer, Louisiana Land and Exploration Company
• 1986 – Lloyd N. Unsell, president, IPAA
• 1985 – A.V. Jones Jr., chairman, Jones Company
• 1984 – Kye Trout Jr., owner and chief executive officer, Energy Resources
• 1983 – Dean A. McGee, chairman and chief executive officer, Kerr-McGee
• 1982 – Jack M. Allen, president and chief executive officer, Alpar Resources
• 1981 – Robert O. Anderson, chairman and chief executive officer, Atlantic Richfield
• 1980 – Edwin L. Cox, chairman and chief executive officer, Cox Oil & Gas Company
• 1979 – L. Frank Pitts, owner, Pitts Oil Company
• 1978 – J. Hugh Liedtke, chairman and chief executive officer, Pennzoil Company
• 1977 – Charles H. Murphy Jr., chairman, Murphy Oil Company
• 1976 – R.L. Foree, owner, Foree Oil
• 1975 – C. John Miller, partner, Miller Brothers
• 1974 – Roy Guffey, owner, Roy Guffey Drilling Company
• 1973 – Wayne E. Glenn, president, Continental Oil Company
• 1972 – W.A. Moncrief, president and chief executive officer, Moncrief Oil
• 1971 – M.A. Wright, chairman and chief executive officer, Humble Oil & Refining Company
• 1970 – W.F. Dalton, president, Placid Oil Company
• 1969 – Jack E. Kadane, owner, G.E. Kadane & Son
• 1968 – L.B. Meaders, chief executive officer, Halliburton Company
• 1967 – E.D. Brockett Jr., chairman and chief executive officer, Gulf Oil Corporation
• 1966 – H.L. Hunt, chairman and chief executive officer, Hunt Oil Company
• 1965 – H.A. True, partner, True Oil and True Drilling
• 1964 – J. Harold Dunn, chairman, Shamrock Oil and Gas Corporation
• 1963 – Bruce C. Clardy, president, L.R. Development, Limited
• 1962 – partner, Rowan and Hope
• 1961 – Johnny Mitchell, president, Jade Oil, vice chairman, Christie, Mitchell & Mitchell
• 1960 – Earl Hollandsworth, partner, Hollandsworth Oil Company
• 1959 – J.L. Latimer, chairman, Magnolia Petroleum and Magnolia Pipe Line Company
• 1958 – Guy I. Warren, vice president and part owner, Renwar Oil Corporation
• 1957 – Arch Rowan, owner, Rowan Drilling Company
• 1956 – Jake L. Hamon, partner, Hamon Oil
• 1955 – R.E. Smith, independent