President's Message
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Presidents Message Jan 2024
Welcome to 2024! I’m excited about a new beginning professionally and personally. The oil and gas business appears as strong as ever. Keep pumping that natural gas and black gold Texas tea.
At the end of the old year and beginning of the new year I always enjoyed seeing what the company’s capital and LOE budgets were. Seeing those numbers told me what kind of a year to expect for the company and the oil and gas industry. Although I’m not privy to those numbers anymore because I’m retired, I do expect that 2024 will be another good year for oil and gas companies and another good year for oil and gas accountants. Early in my career I considered working in another industry besides oil and gas. Thank goodness I didn’t make the move. When I look back it seems there would have been no other industry that provided excitement, high pay, good benefits, and opportunity like the oil and gas business did.
So, hang on for another exciting and busy year. Set some attainable career goals. Expect to be challenged with some adversity. In my career, I never liked adversity because it was usually painful, but adversity always grew me as an accountant and human being.
So, here is to raising a toast for a spectacular 2024. Git-er-done!!
Previous President’s Messages shown below.
Presidents Message Fall 2023
Year 2023 has been busy for an old, retired guy like me. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I would have been so deeply involved in the Oil and Gas business my second year of retirement. Even though I’m maybe a little too busy, I’m enjoying...
President’s Message July 2023
Wow, can you believe another COPAS year is starting. Where does time go? Seems like yesterday when I worked as an auditor for Union Pacific Resources in Fort Worth. My 33-year career in the oil & gas business has been good. Of course, in...
President’ Message – August 2022
Welcome all to a new PASSA COPAS year 2022 – 2023. It seems our last May’s meeting was just yesterday. We will begin our new COPAS year registration on Monday, August 8, 2022.
President’s Message – May 2022
My January 2022 President’s message stated that I thought the “insanity was over”. Well, as of May 4, 2022, the pandemic insanity is over. Good riddance! Hopefully we won’t have to deal with another pandemic for another 100 years. Today I think it is...
JAN 2022 President’s Message
The question I submitted in last July 2021 President’s Message was “Is the insanity over?” My answer to that today is “I think so.” The question I ask now is “Where are we headed in 2022?” My crystal ball says, “the Oil and Gas Industry is on the rise...
President’s Message
Is the insanity over? That is the question I keep asking myself. This last year and a half has been unprecedented. In April 2020 oil prices and stock prices hit record lows. The impact of that was companies going bankrupt and folks losing their...
President’s Message
I am honored to serve as President of the PASSA for 2019 – 2021. I’ve worked in the Oil & Gas industry for approximately 30 years and loved every moment. I began my career in 1990 working for Union Pacific Resources (UPR) in Fort Worth, TX. I worked for UPR for 10...
Kirk Foreman
President & Treasurer, EOG Resources (Retired)
Kirk is former Accounting Manager for EOG Resources – San Antonio Division (now retired). He has worked in the Oil & Gas Industry for 33 years. He served as President of the Petroleum Accountant’s Society of Fort Worth in 2003. He now serves as President of the Petroleum Accountant’s Society of San Antonio and serves as a board member for the COPAS National Organization. Kirk holds a BBA in Accounting from the University of Texas at Arlington and is a Certified Public Accountant.