May 14, 2002
Mr. M.A. Lindstrom, Head
Personnel Department
Rhode Island Oil Company
Sarnia, Texas
Dear Mr. Lindstrom:
I talked to your Austin representative, Mr. Clapper, and he informed me that it is a policy of your Company to employ college students of petroleum engineering each summer as assistant gaugers. I should like to submit my application for that position.
While working with the Marshall Drilling Company, I became thoroughly familiar with the location of wells on your Chalker and Sarnia fields. In fact, I happened to be working with the crew that drilled the first deep dual-completion well on the Dole lease last summer. The course which I completed this year in Petroleum Production covered production gauges and their functions and operation quite thoroughly.
Please refer to the enclosed data sheet for details of my education and experience and the names of persons who have consented to express an opinion about my ability and character.
I shall be glad to go to your Sarnia office any Saturday on a few hours’ notice. Unfortunately, my schoolwork makes it virtually impossible for me to go during the week.
Yours respectfully,
Malcolm Richards