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Kent E. Newsham is Director of Petrophysics for Apache Corporation in Houston, Texas, USA, advising for worldwide exploration, development and production activities for Apache. Newsham has more than 31 years of industry experience working as a geologist and petrophysicist specializing in ultra-low permeability reservoir description. He has numerous technical papers many dealing with tight gas sand characterization. Newsham is a 1999 graduate of the Amoco Petrophysics Center of Excellence, a masters-based program at Amoco Production Research. In 2004, Kent co-discovered one of the largest gas fields (called Ootla) in North America in the Horn River Basin of NE British Columbia containing more than 350 TCF of gas-in-place. Kent holds 3 co-patents in vapor desorption capillary pressure method of core analysis. Mr. Newsham has established the Newsham-Farris-Apache Petrophysics Endowment at the University of Oklahoma, the Newsham Petroleum GeoSystems Endowment at Penn State and is a co-sponsor of the Dr. Roger J. Cuffey Fund For Paleontology in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State, in honor of his undergraduate advisor. Kent married Helen Francis 'Hail-Newsham' in 1985 and has 2 daughters, Tarah (24) and Brittany (20). We lived in Ventura, CA until 1992; we currently reside in Magnolia, TX on a 4-acre ranchette where the Newsham girls raise and ride horses.