Dane (Corky) Cambern

Sourlake, TX

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The life and times of Dane ‘Corky’ Cambern

After graduation from Pampa High and several false starts at getting a college education, I did a tour of six months in the army and then started my career in the oilfield.  I worked in Libya as a mud engineer on contract to what is now Exxon.  I then came back and enrolled in Texas Tech where I met my wife Rhonda from Springfield, Colorado.  She had already graduated from Tech with a degree in Home Economics and volunteered to put Hubby thru college.  I graduated with a BS in Mechanical Engineering in 1969 (finally) and went to work for Gulf Oil.  We quit them while in Indonesia and returned to the states where I worked for HNG Oil as their Drilling Manager on the Gulf Coast.  In 1976 I started my own consulting company and have been playing in the oilfield ever since as a Drilling, Completion and Production consulting engineer.  

Rhonda and I have three daughters: Courtney (35) who has a  BA in Art History from Arizona State University and works for the Wyndam Hotel in Phoenix; Mandi (34) an MS in Child Psychology from Texas Tech University and was married to Scott Modderman last October.  They live in Rowlet, Texas where Scott is an engineer for UPS and Mandi works for Countrywide Mortgage;  Catherine (28) has a BS in Economics from Texas Tech and works for the Covenant Hospital System in Lubbock.  NO GRANDCHILDREN!  Maybe in the near future.   

The only exciting thing about my career is I have drilled wells on every continent except Antarctica and Australia.  I have seen most of the world and enjoyed most of the places I have been.  My only real claim to fame is drilling the first well in the Gulf of Siam, which was for Gulf Oil and was a dry hole.