Gulf Energy Information/World Oil’s retired Chairman and President Robert W. Scott has passed away
Gulf Energy Information (Gulf) and its World Oil subsidiary regret to report to our global subscribers/readers that our retired Chairman and President, Robert W. (Bob) Scott passed away on Wednesday morning in Houston at age 93. Scott had suffered a terminal injury on Sept. 16, which doctors were not able to improve.Early years. Bob Scott joined Gulf Publishing Company (the predecessor version of Gulf) in 1958 as Engineering Editor. He had graduated from The University of Texas (Austin) in 1951 with a BS degree in petroleum engineering, but his first oilfield work began in 1947 with Magnolia Petroleum. He later worked for Gulf Oil before joining Gulf Publishing (Gulf).Years later, Scott remarked that the first time that the name World Oil b.....