 Dick Broschat was inducted as the second member of the North Dakota
Petroleum Council Hall of Fame at the Petroleum Council’s 23rd Annual
Meeting in September in Bismarck, North Dakota. Broschat is a native
North Dakotan having grown up on a farm in the Fessenden area. He
graduated from North Dakota State University with a Mechanical
Engineering Degree in 1949.
Dick started his career in the oil
industry in 1953 as a Junior Engineer with Amerada in Tioga during the
first oil boom. During the next 10 years he worked on assignments for
Amerada in Tioga, Watford City, Midland, Texas, Hobbs, New Mexico,
Seminole, Texas and Tulsa, Oklahoma. He returned to North Dakota in
1963 as Amerada’s North Dakota Division Engineer and later as North
Dakota Operations Manager. In 1976, he left Amerada to set up his own
consulting engineering and management firm (Broschat Engineering &
Management).
Dick has been a long time member of the North
Dakota Petroleum Council and the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Dick
is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the North Dakota
Petroleum Council. He has written several technical papers on the
Williston Basin. He has also served as one of North Dakota’s
representatives on the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission for
five different governors. In 1993 and 1996 Dick and Edie traveled to
China where he lectured on Petroleum Engineering and Western Oil
Industry practices to Chinese engineers and managers.
Dick has
also been active in the Williston community. He served many years on
the Williston Economic Development Committee and was president of the
Chamber of Commerce Energy Committee for 10 years. He is also active in
his church and other charitable organizations.
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