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aul M. Bommer is a Senior Lecturer in Petroleum Engineering about the
Pat The University of Texas at Austin. He received his Bachelor’s
Petroleum Extension-The University of Texas at Austin
('76), Master’s ('77), and Doctoral ('79) degrees in Petroleum Engi-
neering, all from The University of Texas at Austin. author
He spent over twenty-five years in industry as an oil and gas
operator and consultant in Texas and other parts of the United States.
He and his brother Peter (UT, BS-PGE ‘78) are co-owners in the
firm of Bommer Engineering Company.
He is a third generation oil man following his father (UT, BS-
PGE, ’50) who was a highly regarded petroleum engineer in Texas
as the principal owner of Viking Drilling Company in San Antonio
and his paternal grandfather who was a field superintendent in Okla-
homa, East Texas and on the Texas Gulf Coast for Stanolind (later
Amoco) Oil Company. As with most oilfield families, his mother
(UT, BS-HEc, ’49) made sandwiches for the crews, curtains for the
tool pusher’s trailer, created a home, and raised the kids.

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