Dr. Hugh D. Guthrie
BS 1943 Chemical Engineering
Hugh
D. Guthrie was senior management and technical advisor with the Strategic
Center for Natural Gas at the National
Energy Technology Laboratory as the time of his death in early 2007. He earned a B.S. degree (with highest
honors) in chemical engineering from Iowa in 1943. His extensive experience
included 33 years with Shell Oil Company as an engineer, senior technologist,
group leader, and senior staff member. He also served as division director
with the Energy Research and Development Association, director of the
Energy Center at Stanford Research Institute, manager of technical assessment
at Occidental Research Corporation, and member of the Engineering Advisory
Boards at The University of Iowa and the University
of California at Berkeley. Guthrie was a Fellow and former president
of the American Institute of Chemical Engineering, and a member of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical
Society, Society of Petroleum Engineers, and the New York Academy of Science.
His achievements included patents on distillation equipment. A leading
technical expert on oil shale, he worked to build partnerships and
support for the conversion of organic material in oil shale to oil. He
was the co-author of a book, titled "The Strategic Significance of
America's Oil Shale Resource."