(817)447-8056 Sam is a native of Fort Worth, Texas, who graduated from Polytechnic High School in 1954; attended TCU at night for two years and then Arlington State (now UTA) for one year, additionally receiving an Associate Degree from Dallas’ Eastfield College.  Sam began his petroleum industry experience in 1957 as a designer with Worth Well Surveys, a Wireline Company from which Gearhart & Owens emerged.  He spent 2 years as a methods engineer at Chance Vought Aircraft, designing and facilitating the manufacturing of tools for working with titanium. Sam also served 8 years in the Marine Air Reserve. Always on the cutting edge of things, Sam has designed and patented isokinetic exercise equipment, construction equipment, board games, golf putters, the mechanical bull, and various other innovative methods and procedures including identifying and mapping RAD features that appear in the air above accumulations of oil or gas.  Sam has drilled the deepest well ever drilled in Stephens County, Texas, the Black Gold #3, penetrating 650 ft. of Granite.  He completed the first successful Barnett Shale well in Stephens Co., Texas in October, 1987. Starting on October 29, 1989, Sam has operated a service company supplying his RAD Mapping remote sensing service for identifying and quantifying the dense hydrocarbon activity in the air above the accumulation of oil or gas.  The areas and/or formations in which he has applied this technology include, but are not limited to, the Ellenberger in Cooke County; Tannahill in Fisher, Dickens, & King Counties; James Lime in East Texas; Wolf Camp & Wichita Albany in West Texas; Trenton Black River play in New York; Knox play in Kentucky & Tennessee; deep gas in Louisiana; Morrow in Kansas; Sacramento Valley, California; Bakken Shale in Montana; Utah; Nevada; Colorado; Wyoming; Cotton Valley; Cotton Valley Reefs; Bossier; Barnett Shale,  Eagle Ford; and Marcellus Shale.  On October 29, 2011, he will begin his 23rd year furnishing RAD Mapping Technology to the oil industry. Sam’s philosophy is “You can GUESS at it, or RAD Map it!” About