Mr. McPeek received his B.S. in Geological Engineering from the University of Kansas in 1959 and an M.S. in Geological Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in 1962.  Mr. McPeek began his career in 1959 as an electric log engineer with Lane Wells Corp. (Dresser) and after returning to get his masters, became a geologist with Amoco in 1962.  From 1962 to 1969 Mr. McPeek split his time evenly between Denver and New Orleans.  The last 1-1/2 years he was District Operations Geologist for Amoco's Southeastern District.  From 1969 to 1972 he worked with Koch Exploration Co. and, for the final year, was Rocky Mountain Division Exploration Manager.  He became a consulting geologist in 1972 and continued in that roll until 1990 when he became associated with TPA.  Mr. McPeek has worked most of the productive or potentially productive formations and basins in the Rocky Mountain region, with emphasis on Tertiary, Cretaceous, Pennsylvanian and Permian sandstones in the Powder River, Green River, Wind River, Piceance, Denver Basins, and the Thrust Belt.  Mr. McPeek has published and/or presented papers pertaining to the Eastern Green River Basin, the San Juan Basin and the Cave Gulch area.  He has received two “Best Paper” awards and an “Outstanding Explorer” award from the RMAG for these papers and an A.I. Leverson award from the AAPG.

Mr. McPeek was largely responsible for the discovery of oil at Nine Mile and Third Creek fields, in Colorado, and two field extensions in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming.  He supervised a team of geologists at Amoco that found several Wilcox oil fields in Louisiana and Mississippi.  His efforts in the Piceance Basin in northwestern Colorado and the Green River Basin in southwestern Wyoming have resulted in natural gas discoveries upon which several dozen wells have been completed to date.
Mr. McPeek was the originator and Project Manager for the Cave Gulch discovery in the Wind River Basin in Wyoming.  Thomasson Partner Associates initiated this project and turned it to Barrett Resources.  More than 110 new gas wells drilled as a result of this project and others yet to be drilled may ultimately produce more than a trillion cubic feet of gas.