President's Message
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President’s Message Fall 2025
Welcome and salutations! My name is Jessica Wagner, and I am your new PASSA (Petroleum Accountants Society of San Antonio) President! I would also like to welcome Matt Milligan to the board, he is serving as Vice President. Rebecca Castro is also joining as Treasurer. Dan Hodgson will be moving into the Secretary role from Vice President. Big thanks to Kirk Foreman, who has led the San Antonio society for several years as President and is finally getting a chance to take a step back. He is definitely still around to help support us as a society, and will be serving as our national Board liaison as well as serving as Joint Interest chair. I have some big shoes to fill, and I am excited for the opportunity! Also a special thank you to David Garza, who served as President in 2019, then as both Secretary and Treasurer for multiple years. As we are gearing up for first meeting in September, I wanted to share some thoughts on what COPAS means to me. For me, I see COPAS as a place for community. Beyond networking, we are a community of oil and gas accounting professionals. We can support one another, and together we can solve big problems for the industry. I hope to build on this sense of community for the upcoming year, see you all in September!
Previous President’s Messages shown below.
Presidents Message Jan 2024
Welcome to 2024! I’m excited about a new beginning professionally and personally. The oil and gas business appears as strong as ever. Keep pumping that natural gas and black gold Texas tea. At the end of the old year and beginning of the new year I always enjoyed...
Presidents Message Fall 2023
Year 2023 has been busy for an old, retired guy like me. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I would have been so deeply involved in the Oil and Gas business my second year of retirement. Even though I’m maybe a little too busy, I’m enjoying...
President’s Message July 2023
Wow, can you believe another COPAS year is starting. Where does time go? Seems like yesterday when I worked as an auditor for Union Pacific Resources in Fort Worth. My 33-year career in the oil & gas business has been good. Of course, in...
President’ Message – August 2022
Welcome all to a new PASSA COPAS year 2022 – 2023. It seems our last May’s meeting was just yesterday. We will begin our new COPAS year registration on Monday, August 8, 2022.
President’s Message – May 2022
My January 2022 President’s message stated that I thought the “insanity was over”. Well, as of May 4, 2022, the pandemic insanity is over. Good riddance! Hopefully we won’t have to deal with another pandemic for another 100 years. Today I think it is...
JAN 2022 President’s Message
The question I submitted in last July 2021 President’s Message was “Is the insanity over?” My answer to that today is “I think so.” The question I ask now is “Where are we headed in 2022?” My crystal ball says, “the Oil and Gas Industry is on the rise...
President’s Message
Is the insanity over? That is the question I keep asking myself. This last year and a half has been unprecedented. In April 2020 oil prices and stock prices hit record lows. The impact of that was companies going bankrupt and folks losing their...
President’s Message
I am honored to serve as President of the PASSA for 2019 – 2021. I’ve worked in the Oil & Gas industry for approximately 30 years and loved every moment. I began my career in 1990 working for Union Pacific Resources (UPR) in Fort Worth, TX. I worked for UPR for 10...
Jessica Wagner
President
Jessica works for EOG Resources and is currently serving in the role of Director of Division accounting Coordination in San Antonio. Jessica has worked in the Oil & Gas Industry for 20 years. She is a former president of PASSA and also served on the board for the Fort Worth society of COPAS. She now serves as President of the Petroleum Accountant’s Society of San Antonio. Jessica has a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of North Texas and is a Certified Public Accountant.