On May 28 John M. Campbell and Company will celebrate its 40^th Anniversary.

From our first offering of “The Campbell Gas Course” to over 100 public courses offered in 2008, the company has gone through many changes. But one thing remains the same; we offer excellence in training by instructors that have real world experience.

We actually started more than 40 years ago. In 1954-58 Dr. John M. Campbell, Sr. (founder of our company) wrote a 54 part series in “Oil and Gas Journal” on surface production facilities that became the basis for “Gas Conditioning and Processing.” By 1959 he published the first definitive book for evaluation of petroleum properties, “Oil Property Evaluation” and in 1960 he held the first public courses on this topic.

In 1965 Dr. Campbell offered programs for the first time outside the United States. And by 1968 John M. Campbell and Company was formed and incorporated.

The 1970’s brought about 9 new books and an expansion of the evaluation courses to include petroleum exploration and risk management. We also expanded our training to most international oil and gas production countries.

From 1975-1985 we were part of the IPD Alliance with OGCI and G.L. Farrar, author of economic articles for “Oil and Gas Journal.” This alliance brought JMC into the forefront of the petroleum economics arena.

The 1980’s found us conducting trainings for national oil companies that were 4 to 6 month in length. Also during this decade:

·  The “Campbell Gas Course” was changed from a three week class to the present two week class

·  Vol. 3 and Vol. 4 of “Gas Conditioning and Processing” was published

·  Dr. Campbell, Sr. retired

And by the end of the 80’s we were publishing 15 different publications including 4 books on petroleum economics.

The 1990’s brought us significant change. We decided to focus solely on gas processing and become the best trainer in this field. We sold off all other aspects not connected to gas processing to focus our resources and efforts. This paid off as by the end of the decade we were known as “The Premier Training Company in Gas Processing.”

We then re-evaluated our path and decided to once again branch out again into other markets. The goal this time was to be the “Best Energy Training Company.” We added disciplines of refining; water treatment and corrosion; and production facilities.

The 2000’s appear to be our time of alliances. We joined with Abacus Learning Systems and to create a formal instructor/manager development system that was put into place by 2002. This system is now being used by others in the industry. And in 2003 we were asked to join the PetroSkills Alliance to teach the surface facilities training courses. At that time we added electrical and instrumentation, mechanical, offshore, operations management, procurement/supply chain management, transportation, reliability engineering and health, safety and environment disciplines.

All of this could not have been done without the support of you, our course participants. Here is to another excellent 40 years.