LEW WARD

摘要

Low natural gas prices have caused privately held Ward Petroleum Corp. to hit the pause button on deep-gas drilling in the geologically complex Anadarko Basin in western Oklahoma. But chairman Lew Ward isn't one to sit still for long in Enid, where he founded the company with his geologist wife, Myra, 47 years ago. They met on a blind date at Oklahoma University, where he studied petroleum engineering and she majored in geology. After graduating in 1953, he went to Dallas and Delhi Gas, and she left for Tulsa to work at Oklahoma Natural Gas Co. They married in 1955 and in 1956, moved to Enid to join her oilman father, Carl Gungoll. In 1963, he and Myra formed L.O. Ward Operations, predecessor to the current company.