Bob Tippee is Editor of Oil {e_description}amp; Gas Journal, a weekly trade magazine, and its web site, Oil {e_description}amp; Gas Journal Online. Since joining the Journal in 1977, he has written on all aspects of the international petroleum industry, with special interest in economics, energy policy, geophysics, and the Middle East. His work for the magazine has won awards from American Business Media, New York Society of Business Press Editors, Association of Petroleum Writers, International Association for Energy Economics, International Association of Energy Advocates, and Houston Society for Technical Communications. He is the 2010 recipient of American Business Media's Crain Award. Tippee became the Journal's chief editor in January 1999. He also was Editor-in-Chief of the 1997 through 2001 editions of the Journal's annual affiliate, International Petroleum Encyclopedia. Tippee is the director of two PennWell Petroleum Group conferences and has written or cowritten several books on the oil and gas industry. A native of St. Louis, Missouri, he holds a degree in Journalism from the University of Tulsa and served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force for four years. 13.54 - 32.86 USD