Livermore Drilling Company

Founded in 1951 by George Pogue Livermore upon his retirement from George P. Livermore, Inc., which Mr. Livermore had founded in 1936. Based in Kermit, Texas, George P. Livermore, Inc. handled contract drilling for major oil companies and for Livermore's own interests in the Permian Basin of West Texas and Eastern New Mexico. George P. Livermore, Inc. also pursued drilling operations in Oklahoma, Colorado, and Utah. Offices were moved to Lubbock, Texas, in 1941. In the post-World War II era, the company expanded drilling operations to South America and drilled the first producing well in Chile in 1945. Upon Mr. Livermore's retirement, George P. Livermore, Inc., became the Great Western Drilling Company.

George P. Livermore was born in 1903 in Plattsville, Illinois, and obtained his petroleum engineering degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1931. Mr. Livermore was employed by the Texas Company (1931-1935) and Mandeville & Thompson (1935-1936) before founding his own company in 1936. Founding member and national vice-president (1959) of the American Association of Oil Well Drilling Contractors. Served as director of the Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association and the Independent Petroleum Association of America. Member of the American Petroleum Institute, Industrial Councilor for the University of Oklahoma Research Institute, and chairman of the board of the Texas Technological College Foundation (1957). Organized the Texas Tech Petroleum Advisory Committee in 1946, which worked with Texas Technological College in establishing the Department of Petroleum Engineering in 1948. Married Mary Louise Luccock in 1930. Died in 1961.