C. Susan Howes is President at Subsurface Consultants & Associates LLC, and she served as SCA Vice President of Engineering from 2016 to 2022. Howes’ prior experience includes roles of increasing responsibility at Anadarko and Chevron in reservoir engineering, business development, corporate engineering, HR, organizational capability and reservoir management. Howes is recognized an industry leader in petro-technical talent attraction, development and retention. She has coauthored numerous papers and articles on the topics of ethics, uncertainty management, risk management, and talent management. Howes currently serves on the Colorado School of Mines Petroleum Engineering Department Program Advisory Board, chairs the US Advisory Council for the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and chairs the SPE Management Technical Section. Howes received the SPE DeGolyer Distinguished Service Medal, is an Honorary Member of SPE, and served as a SPE Distinguished Lecturer for 2019-20. Howes holds a BS degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas.

Tim Riepe joined SCA in 2008 where he currently serves as Business Development Director. In this capacity he manages the recruiting and sales efforts around SCA’s core competencies. He maintains professional relationships with a large network of geological and engineering Independent Consultants, and promotes SCA’s Consulting services, internal Projects & Studies team, Direct Hire services and training courses SCA offers. Tim earned his Business degree from Texas Lutheran University.

In Memoriam (1948-2014): Founder

Daniel John Tearpock was the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Subsurface Consultants & Associates, LLC (SCA). As a working geoscientist, Mr. Tearpock generated numerous exploration and exploitation prospects, either as the sole generator or as part of an organized multidisciplinary team. He co-authored three textbooks, Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping (1991) ©, Quick Look Techniques for Prospect Evaluations (1994) © and Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping with Structural Methods (2003) ©. In addition to his three books, Dan authored or coauthored numerous technical articles. He was a recipient of the AAPG Division of Professional Affairs 2012 Heritage Award and the AAPG 2013 Honorary Member Award. Mr. Tearpock was a finalist in 1996 and 1998 for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year program and in 1998 received the Distinguished Service Award from Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA from which he received his Bachelors degree in Geology.

Mr. Tearpock was a member of numerous associations including the AAPG, SPE, SIPES, SEG, GSA, HGS, EAGE, NOGS, LGS, IPA, SEAPEX, and PESGB. He was the President of the AAPG’s Division of Professional Affairs (10-11). He was a founding member and Vice-Chairman (09-11) of the intersociety “Joint Committee on Reserves Evaluator Training” (JCORET).

Please click here to visit Mr. Tearpock’s memorial website.

Mary Atchison became Vice President of Training Operations for SCA in September 2012. Prior to joining the company in 2009 as Training Services Business Development Manager, Mary spent over 10 years providing total turnkey training packages worldwide for the oil and gas industry. She is currently responsible for the overall management of SCA’s training services department which provides upstream geoscience and engineering training to clients around the world. Mary received her BA in Marketing from Sam Houston State University.1979.

Matt joined SCA in 2012 as an Upstream Recruiter and is currently serving as Accounting Manager having transitioned into that role in 2015. In that capacity, he is responsible for managing SCA’s accounting duties including but not limited to oversight of accounts receivable and accounts payable, employee payroll and independent contractor payments, and filing quarterly and annual state and federal documents. In addition to his accounting responsibilities, Matt is involved in marketing efforts including the creation of marketing materials using Adobe InDesign. Matt received a BBA in Finance from Baylor University in 2011 where he was also a member of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity, Beta Gamma Sigma, and National Society of Collegiate Scholars.