Speaker Richard B. Spears
Managing Director
Spears & Associates, Inc.
8908 South Yale, Suite 440
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74137 USA
1.918.496.3434
1.918.760.8287 (mobile)
rspears@spearsresearch.com
With an engineering degree from Oklahoma State University and graduate work in industrial engineering, Richard Spears has worked in the upstream oil and gas industry since 1979, starting as a field engineer for Halliburton. Today, Richard is one …
Managing Director
Spears & Associates, Inc.
8908 South Yale, Suite 440
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74137 USA
1.918.496.3434
1.918.760.8287 (mobile)
rspears@spearsresearch.com
With an engineering degree from Oklahoma State University and graduate work in industrial engineering, Richard Spears has worked in the upstream oil and gas industry since 1979, starting as a field engineer for Halliburton. Today, Richard is one of the managing directors of Spears & Associates, an oilfield market research firm founded in 1965. The firm has 500 clients worldwide, including all major oil companies, all major service companies and over one hundred private and institutional investors. Richard has been with the firm since 1985.
In addition to his responsibilities as Chairman of the Board of Abrado International, Richard is on the board of directors of several additional oilfield service companies: Varel International, a global drill bit manufacturer; Federal, a subsea connector manufacturer; Allied Wireline, an openhole and cased hole logging company; and W-Technology, a manufacturer of MWD components. Board responsibilities include Audit, Compliance, Compensation and Strategy. Richard is a 25 year member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Richard and his wife Carol have three grown children and live in Tulsa.
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