The University of Tulsa's Petroleum Engineering Department

Lisa Stewart is Apache Corporation’s executive vice president for Business Development and Exploration and Production Services, responsible for leadership of the company’s business development activities and E&P Services, including corporate reservoir engineering. The Land, Environmental Health and Safety, Purchasing, and Technical Services departments also report to Stewart.

She joined the company in 1984 as a reservoir engineer in the Midcontinent Region. Stewart held various management positions in the Corporate Reservoir Engineering group until 1995, when she was promoted to vice president of Technical Services. She was named vice president of Business Development in 1997 and in late 1998 added the E&P Services groups to her area of responsibility. She was promoted to executive vice president for Business Development and E&P Services in May of 2000.

Prior to Apache, Stewart was associated with Cities Service/Oxy as a reservoir engineer.

Lisa received a bachelor of science degree in Petroleum Engineering from The University of Tulsa. Stewart is a Professional Engineer and is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, IPAA, TIPRO and the Institute of Petroleum.

Lisa in Her Own Words

Why did you choose TU?

I chose the University of Tulsa because of its reputation as a premier Petroleum Engineering program and because my father (1951 - Jack L.Sherrod) and my cousin (Gerald E. Sherrod - also a former SPE President) were both graduates of TU. I began my college career at OU in Journalism, but quickly realized that Journalism wasn't my strength and ultimately transferred to TU. I was also attracted by the faculty at TU - Jim Brill, Kermit Brown and Dale Beggs - pretty auspicious group.

How did TU prepare you for your career?

TU prepared me well for the real world. What I learned at TU was how to think and solve problems. Those are probably the best skills that an engineer can learn. The rest comes with experience.

Any fond memories while at TU?

I have a lot of fond memories of my time at TU - probably the best was studying in the "hell hole" in the basement of the North Campus building - or the time it was sooooo cold and icy that the locks in the doors of my car froze and I couldn't get in!

Things have really changed since those days on the North Campus - the department has a much nicer building and facilities, but maybe not as helpful in building character among students!