An important transition occurred during production of this issue of Unconventional Oil & Gas Report.
Paula Dittrick, who for the past year has been an Oil & Gas Journal special correspondent, resumes full-time staff work as editor, UOGR, and special projects, OGJ.
She replaces Rachael Seeley, who was UOGR editor for the past year and recently resumed work with a former employer.
Dittrick assumes editorial leadership at UOGR with an especially strong background in reporting about the development of unconventional resources. During 2011-13, she wrote a monthly OGJ feature labeled "Focus: Unconventional Oil & Gas." Before that she wrote a regular feature on drilling and had been the lead reporter on important continuing stories such as the Macondo tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico.
Among other stories Dittrick has followed recently as a special correspondent is Mexico's energy liberalization. She has been a frequent writer of the daily Market Watch story on OGJ Online in a role that will continue.
A journalism graduate of the University of Nebraska, Dittrick joined OGJ in 2001 after working for Dow Jones and United Press International. She began writing about oil and gas in the Midland-Odessa area as UPI's West Texas bureau chief in the 1980s.
She is the third editor of UOGR, which is published as an OGJ special report every other month to cover geographically focused news in more detail than is possible in the parent magazine.
The founding editor was Tayvis Dunnahoe, now OGJ Exploration Editor and a UOGR editorial advisor.
About the Author
Bob Tippee
Editor
Bob Tippee has been chief editor of Oil & Gas Journal since January 1999 and a member of the Journal staff since October 1977. Before joining the magazine, he worked as a reporter at the Tulsa World and served for four years as an officer in the US Air Force. A native of St. Louis, he holds a degree in journalism from the University of Tulsa.