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[[File:Strickland.png|500px|thumb|Douglas K. Strickland]]  

[[File:Strickland.png|500px|thumb|Douglas K. Strickland]]  

Douglas K. Strickland was an accomplished and renowned exploration geologist, recognized for his efforts in the central Utah Hingeline play.    Mr. Strickland co-taught AAPG’s Creativity in Exploration course with E.A. “Ted” Beaumont for several years.  He also received AAPG’s Outstanding Explorer Award in April at the association’s Annual Convention and Exhibition in Houston in 2011.    Mr. Strickland received the award for being principle discoverer of the [[Covenant Field]] in Sevier County, Utah, the initial discovery within the central Utah Overthrust Belt in 2004, and subsequently Utah’s Providence Field. The fields comprise a 100-million-barrel province in an area the U.S. Geological Survey had deemed without any petroleum potential, and which was 200 miles from the nearest production .   

Douglas K. Strickland was an accomplished and renowned exploration geologist, recognized for his efforts in the central Utah Hingeline play.    Mr. Strickland co-taught AAPG’s Creativity in Exploration course with E.A. “Ted” Beaumont for several years.  He also received AAPG’s Outstanding Explorer Award in April at the association’s Annual Convention and Exhibition in Houston in 2011.    Mr. Strickland received the award for being principle discoverer of the [[Covenant field]] in Sevier County, Utah, the initial discovery within the central Utah Overthrust Belt in 2004, and subsequently Utah’s Providence Field. The fields comprise a 100-million-barrel province in an area the U.S. Geological Survey had deemed without any petroleum potential, and which was 200 miles from the nearest production .   

==Education and career==

==Education and career==