DALLAS, May 4, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Southwest Hydrocarbons, Inc. (the "Company"), formerly known as Apollo Drilling, Inc. (Pink Sheets:APDR), today announced that renowned geophysicist, Mr. J. Pat Lindsey, has joined the Company's Board of Advisors.
Mr. Lindsey is the Vice President of Taplin Corp, which the Company has retained for geophysical and seismic services as the Company pursues its oil and gas exploration activities. Taplin Corp's website is www.taplincorp.com.
About J. Pat Lindsey
Mr. Lindsey began his career in geophysics in 1953 with the Research and Development Division of Phillips Petroleum Company, rising to the level of Section Manager in the Geophysics Branch, where he designed and built analog filtering devices for convolution and correlation, participated in the first design of field and office equipment for common depth seismic application, and helped develop early autostatics methods using cross correlation of seismic recordings. He was also involved in the early development of physical models for studying wave propagation, conducted field experiments in noise suppression and acquisition design, led experiments in early pattern recognition and holographic applications to seismic problems, and supervised the design, installation, and use of early digital computers for seismic data processing.
During the 1950s and early 1960s, seismic data was recorded using analog techniques and later played back and processed, which usually meant applying various analog filters. This process rapidly became the center of technical attention for most geophysicists. Coincident with this, Phillips was experimenting with the Common Depth Point (CDP) method, a new method for recording and processing seismic data. The CDP method proved superior in nearly all respects to the simple continuous single coverage methods in wide use at the time. In 1962, Texas Instruments introduced their digital recording and processing systems. Phillips purchased a digital field system, which he used for experimental fieldwork he supervised.
In 1970, Mr. Lindsey left his research activities at Phillips to become the Vice President of Technology for Geocom, Inc, in Houston, Texas. Geocom was a leading provider of seismic data processing services. With Geocom, Mr. Lindsey participated in bringing the first automatic statics process, the first migration process, and the first true amplitude processing to the seismic processing industry. In the early 1970s, Mr. Lindsey helped pioneer stratigraphic interpretation using reflected amplitude as a means to define gas-in-place.
Mr. Lindsey left Geocom in 1973 and provided independent consulting services for a short period. His contributions included interpreting the amplitude anomalies in the eastern area of the Gulf of Mexico near Destin Dome.
The opportunity to work with other experienced and talented geoscientists at Geoquest International attracted him and he became a member of this team in late 1973. While at Geoquest International, Mr. Lindsey initiated and directed industry-supported efforts to make seismic data more accurately interpretable for reservoir definition. These "wavelet projects" were applied to both land and marine seismic data. From this effort and others like it, wavelet processing was born.
Geoquest was one of the first companies to develop and market geophysical modeling software. This new technology and the new wavelet processing and interpretation techniques created a need for education across the industry. Responding to this need, Mr. Lindsey designed and taught two seminars: Geophysics for Geologists and Seismic Stratigraphy. These seminars were an essential for many geologists and geophysicists during the late 1970s into the 1990s. For 15 years Mr. Lindsey exposed thousands of geophysicists and geologists around the world to the uses of modeling, wavelet processing, and the latest seismic methods.
In 1991, Mr. Lindsey joined a spin-off of Geoquest International, GX Technology, or as it was more familiarly known, GXT. He worked there until 1995 when he resigned to enter consulting once more. His effort included working prospects from around the world and providing internal training to major and regional oil and gas companies in the use of geophysical workstations for stratigraphic interpretation and seismic modeling.
About Southwest Hydrocarbons, Inc.
Southwest Hydrocarbons, Inc. is focused on upstream oil and gas exploration, development, and production. The Company's website is www.swhydrocarbons.com. This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws, commonly identified by such terms as "believes," "looking ahead," "anticipates," "estimates" and other terms with similar meaning. Although the Company believes that the assumptions upon which its forward-looking statements are based are reasonable, it can give no assurance that these assumptions will prove to be correct. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's projections and expectations are disclosed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements in this press release are expressly qualified by such cautionary statements and by reference to the underlying assumptions.