Bob Tippee
Editor, Oil & Gas Journal
Air Date July 31, 2011
Bob Tippee has been Editor of the Oil & Gas Journal, a weekly trade magazine, since January 1999. He has written on all aspects of the international petroleum industry, with special interest in economics, energy policy, seismic technology, and the Middle East. His editorials for the magazine have won awards from the American Business Press, New York Society of Business Press Editors, and Association of Petroleum Writers. He was Editor-in-Chief of the 1997-2001 editions of the annual International Petroleum Encyclopedia, an affiliate publication of Oil & Gas Journal.
Tippee is author of a book, Where’s the Shortage? A Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Economics, and coauthor of The Natural Gas Industry: Evolution, Structure, and Economics, Second Edition. He also is coauthor and project editor of Gas and Power in the Developing World: A Systematic Look at Countries and Their Investment Needs.
Tippee joined the staff of Oil & Gas Journal in Tulsa in October 1977. 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. Tippee and his wife and two daughters moved to Houston in 1990.