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WILLIAM C. "DUB" GOINS
WILLIAM C. "DUB" GOINS
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He served in the Chemical Corps from May 1942 to October 1945, with a final rank of captain. He joined Gulf Oil Company in 1945 and began a career in drilling and completion engineering and research assignments.
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After the oil downturn that began in 1957, the operations people in the Gulf of Mexico were visited by a vice president of finance out of Gulf Oil's headquarters. He reportedly explained in significant detail that the company's offshore oil and gas exploration and production operations were not economical and that "you people" would have the "first chance to bring the costs down." They were challenged to cut drilling costs in half.
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The most extraordinary accomplishments of Goins and O'Brien were to become real-life engineering idols for a whole generation of drilling engineers who became motivated to match or exceed their extraordinary performance.
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