Book Review: Robert Hefner’s ‘The Grand Energy Transition’

Robert Hefner


Mr. Hefner certainly has the credentials to speak authoritatively about energy and natural gas. He is a geologist, geophysicist, and a true pioneer in natural gas exploration. After working for Philips Petroleum Hefner founded his own company, GHK. In 1969 GHK, and its partners drilled a well over 24,000 feet deep in the Anadarko Basin. The well has produced 21 Bcf of natural gas (the equivalent of 3.6 million barrels of oil) and is still producing today. In 1997, GHK discovered the Potato Hills natural gas field in southeastern Oklahoma, one of the larger North American conventional onshore natural gas fields discovered in recent decades. Mr. Hefner has frequently spoken to Congressional committees, serves as Advisory Director of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society in London, and is a member of the International Council at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard