Clarence P. Cazalot, Jr.

2010 John Rogers Award Recipient
Clarence P. Cazalot, Jr.

The recipient of the 2010 John Rogers Award
was Clarence P. Cazalot, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer, Marathon Oil Corporation and a member of the Marathon Oil Corporation Board of Directors. He joined Marathon in March 2000.

Immediately prior to this, Mr. Cazalot served as vice president of Texaco Inc. and president of Texaco’s worldwide production operations. He was appointed president of Texaco’s worldwide production operations in 1999.

From January 1998, Mr. Cazalot served as president of international production and chairman of London-based Texaco Ltd. He was named president of Texaco International Marketing and Manufacturing in January 1997.

In 1994, Mr. Cazalot was appointed president of Texaco Exploration and Production Inc. in Houston, Texas. Prior to this, in 1992, he was elected a vice president of Texaco Inc. and president of Texaco’s Latin America/West Africa Division based in Coral Gables, Florida.

Mr. Cazalot was appointed general manager of the frontier exploration department in Bellaire, Texas in 1987. In 1985, he was named assistant to the vice chairman.

He was appointed staff geologist for the exploration and production executive committee of Texaco Inc. at the company’s executive offices in White Plains, New York in 1984.

Mr. Cazalot joined Texaco in 1972 as a geophysicist in Bellaire, and transferred to the company’s offshore division in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1974. He subsequently held a number of posts of increasing responsibility before being named assistant district geologist in 1976, district geologist in 1977, assistant division geologist in 1979 and regional manager of exploration in 1981.

Mr. Cazalot is a native of New Orleans and graduated from Louisiana State University with a bachelor’s degree in geology. In May 2007, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Louisiana State University.

He serves on the Boards of Directors of Baker Hughes Incorporated, the U.S.-Saudi Arabian Business Council, the American Petroleum Institute and the Greater Houston Partnership. He is a member of The Business Council and serves on the Advisory Board of the World Affairs Council of Houston.

Mr. Cazalot is also a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Texas Governor’s Business Council, the National Petroleum Council, the 25-Year Club of the Petroleum Industry and the All-American Wildcatters organization.

The award was presented at a special ceremony on Thursday, February 18, 2010, during the 61st Annual Oil and Gas Law Conference.

Click here to read Mr. Cazalot's final remarks.

The John Rogers Award was established in 1969 by the Center for American and International Law (formerly the Southwestern Legal Foundation) in honor of John Rogers of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The John Rogers Award is presented annually by the Center’s Institute for Energy Law to a person associated with the petroleum industry in recognition of extraordinary professional and civic achievement.

Mr. Rogers, who died in 1977, was a longtime friend and Trustee of The Center. In 1968 he received the Hatton W. Sumners Award from the Center for his outstanding service to the administration of justice and the preservation of a democratic and constitutional form of government.

Of Mr. Rogers, it was aptly written that "he is an attorney and loves the law, but no profession could hold him captive, and his interests have taken him far afield." He was dean of the College of Law at the University of Tulsa, 1948-1956, and special lecturer, 1943-1962. Mr. Rogers served on the Oklahoma Board of Regents for Higher Education and was president of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. In addition to honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Tulsa, Phillips University and John Brown University, he received the Distinguished Service Citation from the University of Oklahoma.

Mr. Rogers was also a president of the International Convention of Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ) and a member of the General Board of the National Council of Churches. In 1959, he received the National Conference of Christians and Jews Brotherhood Citation.

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