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- Bill Trollinger grew up in Louisville, Kentucky and played tackle on Du Pont Manual High School's 1948 state championship football team. He went to Washington and Lee University on a football scholarship playing guard and linebacker from 1949 to 1953, including W&L's 1950 Southern Conference Championship team that performed in the Gator Bowl. He graduated cum laude from W&L in 1953 with a BS Degree in geology and later completed graduate studies in geomorphology, photogeology, petroleum geology and remote sensing.
After graduation Trollinger joined the U. S. Navy, completed officer training and photo interpretation schools, and then spent the next four years as a naval photo intelligence analyst supervising the geologic sections of high level intelligence reports. During this time he developed skills in "photogeology" and a systematic approach to geomorphic analysis to solve intelligence problems and to locate hidden petroleum and mineral deposits.
After serving four years as Photo Intelligence Officer in the U.S. Navy in Washington, D.C., Mr. Trollinger joined a consulting company in Denver in 1957, and became an associate partner in 1960. In 1962, he formed the consulting firm Trollinger Geologic Associates, Inc. (TGA), which later became an internationally known company specializing in photogeologic/geomorphic mapping for the petroleum and minerals exploration industry. TGA's maps soon became widely used as a preliminary tool to guide broad scale exploration programs, many of which resulted in significant discoveries, and TGA became one of the largest consulting companies of its type in the world. The TGA clientele grew to include over 200 major and independent exploration companies. Mr. Trollinger continued as president of TGA until 1975, when it was sold to Shenandoah Oil Corporation, then sold to Petroleum Information Corporation, now a division of IHS Corp.
Trollinger then joined Marsh Oil & Gas Company (MOG), Tulsa, Oklahoma, as a 50% owner and vice president of exploration. MOG President Philip W. Marsh was formerly a part owner and vice president of TGA. MOG was formed in 1975 to use Mr. Marsh's experience in subsurface geologic mapping in conjunction with Trollinger's experience in photogeologic mapping to explore for oil and gas in the Mid-Continent region of the United States. Trollinger and Marsh made many discoveries and gained interest in more than 75 producing properties.
Trollinger-Marsh Resources, Inc. (TMR) was formed in 1986 as a wholly owned subsidiary of MOG due to the request of a number of Mr. Trollinger's former clients to conduct broad scale photogeologic-geomorphic studies in international areas using satellite imagery and aerial photography. Mr. Trollinger negotiated and directed large consulting contracts for the mapping of more than four million square kilometers for a number of developing countries in North Africa, Asia, and the Middle East as they looked to develop their oil and gas resources. During this time the TMR team mapped the country of Jordan which led to a significant gas discovery known as the Risha Field. Trollinger had the opportunity of working with a number of Jordanian geologists and (later) with His Majesty, King Hussein.
In 1989, Mr. Trollinger and Mr. Marsh split TMR off from MOG, with Mr. Trollinger becoming sole owner of TMR and Mr. Marsh becoming sole owner of MOG.
Utilizing some of the first photographs from the NASA Gemini and Apollo programs, Trollinger's work led to the extension of several oil and gas fields in West Texas. In this regard Bill was featured in an ABC documentary "View from Space". He is the author of many articles and papers on geological exploration topics, dealing principally with applied geomorphic analysis and remote sensing from space using satellite technology. He is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, and many other professional societies, the Geosat Committee and is a former member of the Space Applications Board of the National Research Council.
He served on this Board of Trustees of Swedish Medical Center in Denver from 1969 to 1984, the Board of Regents of Bethel College and Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota from 1974-76. He has been named in Who's Who in American Science and was awarded the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, "Seal Medallion" for his scientific efforts in regard to global resources and the environment. He was inducted into the duPont Manual High School Hall of Fame in 1998.
After the death of his wife of 39 years, he moved from Denver to Tyler, Texas in 1994. He manages TMR's Tyler office, with TMR's Denver Office being managed by John E. Hollberg.
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1931 - 2002 (71 years)
