Dewey Follett Bartlett, Jr.: Tulsa’s Champion of Independents
Falling into a mud pit as a child in Oklahoma didn’t deter Dewey F. Bartlett, Jr., from going into the oil and gas industry; in fact, it may have helped cement his decision, although it took him a while to come to that realization.
As the tale goes, in the late 1950s, Bartlett had accompanied his father, a geological engineer, who, along with Bartlett’s paternal grandfather, worked in the industry, to a well site, which he would do on occasion. Bartlett recalls wandering around while his dad talked with some of the workers on site.
“There was a hole dug into the ground where the drilling mud accumulated and then eventually was pumped out and disposed of – and I ended up falling into the mud pit, which was full of mud and real dirty,” Bartlett says.
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