2009-10-10

Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston

John Gregory attended college at Stevens Institute before joining the U.S. Navy. Gregory’s career then took him to Boeing, to work on gas turbines, before working for the Naval Research Lab starting in 1958. By 1977, Dick Krahl recruited Gregory to join the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to help make sure that offshore operations were done in accordance with the requirement that they use the "best available and safest technologies.” In the 1980s, as the USGS Conservation Division was merged into the new Minerals Management Service (MMS), Gregory helped establish a well-control test facility, or laboratory, at the Louisiana State University. Gregory stayed on with MMS for a distinguished civil service career and induction into the Ocean Energy industry Hall of Fame. Interviewer: Tyler Priest.

interviews

Energy development; Petroleum industry and trade; Gregory, John

Houston, Texas

Oral Histories from the Houston History Project

University of Houston Libraries Special Collections

English

Collection
University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
Houston History Archives
Oral Histories from the Houston History Project

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