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Pat Davis Szymczak
Contributing Editor Journal of Petroleum TechnologyPat Davis Szymczak has covered oil and gas for 30 years, much of that out of the Eastern Hemisphere. She founded Oil & Gas Eurasia in Moscow and set up Argus Media's Russian Business. Previously, she was a staff writer/editor at the commodity magazine Futures, the Chicago Tribune, and the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. She holds an MA in journalism from the University of Illinois and a BA in international relations and Russian studies from Knox College. She can be reached at pszymczak@spe.org.