Interviewer(s): T. Priest. Houston, TX

Affiliation: University of Houston/History International

David Scott Holland, Sr. was a geologist for Pennzoil Oil. Mr. Holland was born in 1931 in Arkansas. He attended school in Abilene, TX. He joined the Air Force and served in the Korean War. He graduated from the University of Texas in 1957 with a degree in geology. He worked for the Ohio Company/Marathon for ten years before he joined Pennzoil in 1967. In 1968, he headed up a major study for Pennzoil of offshore prospects in the Gulf of Mexico. He worked for POGO as head of exploration and then in 1977 became exploration vice president for Pennzoil. In 1984, he was made president of Pennzoil E&P. He retired in 1990.