page_title: Michel T. Halbouty
section_title: Honors and offices
hierarchical_section_title: Michel T. Halbouty / Honors and offices
caption_attribution_description: Michel T. Halbouty Geosciences Building at Texas A&amp;M University, named after en:Michel T. Halbouty
context_page_description: Michel Thomas Halbouty was an American geologist, petroleum engineer, and wildcatter. Credited with discovering more than 50 oil and gas fields, he twice declared bankruptcy, but came back each time to regain wealth. He authored hundreds of technical articles on petroleum geology, and two book-length histories of famous oil fields. Halbouty is often described, including in his New York Times obituary, as “legendary.”
context_section_description: President of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), 1966
  American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) honorary membership, 1973
  Horatio Alger Award, 1978
  Hoover Medal recipient, 1982
  Honorary "Doctor of Geoscience" degree from the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1990; the only such honor awarded to a scientist outside the Soviet Union.
  Michel T. Halbouty Geosciences Building at Texas A&M College of Geosciences
  The American Association of Petroleum Geologists awards the Michel T. Halbouty Outstanding Leadership Award to those providing "outstanding and exceptional leadership" in petroleum geosciences.
  Scientific adviser to the Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, People's Republic of China
  Elected to membership, Chinese Academy of Engineering
  Honorary Professor in Geology, Nanjing University, 1993
  "Legendary Geoscientist Award" recipient from the American Geological Institute, 2002
  Halbouty Road in Nikiski, Alaska
caption: The Michel T. Halbouty Geosciences Building at Texas A&M University
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