Dr. Daniel Fine, scholar and international energy market expert, dead at 88

yahoo ^ | 10/6 | John Moses

[brownwill6767]

FARMINGTON – Services were Monday in Albuquerque for international energy industry expert and Farmington Daily Times columnist Dr. Daniel Fine, 88, who died Sept. 26 in a Miami hospital following complications due to a surgical procedure, his son, William Fine, said.

Fine, widely acknowledged as an expert in world energy markets and geopolitics, was held in high esteem by many state and regional business leaders. He had been set to give a lecture alongside local businessman T. Greg Merrion in Farmington last month.

“He was pretty great at getting a read at what was coming down the pike,” said Merrion, who recently retired as head of Merrion Oil & Gas. Merrion attended the private memorial service along with Fine’s immediate family and guests that included some legislators and people involved in the state’s energy industries.

Merrion noted Fine’s recent participation in getting the region a Department of Transportation grant to study rail service.

[brownwill6767]

That was one of many projects Fine signed onto during the years he was active in New Mexico’s state government as an energy policy coordinator for former Gov. Susana Martinez, and, later, assisting in other projects.

He lectured in Farmington most recently this summer, discussing developments in the energy markets and Russia's war with Ukraine before an audience in the Henderson Fine Arts Center at San Juan College organized by the nonprofit organization Four Corners Economic Development.

[Samurai_Jack]

[Paladin2]

“...following complications due to a surgical procedure...”

I’m beginning to find that that sort of endevour above age ~70 seems to be problematic.

[Jane Long]

Huh…from Albq, but had surgery in Miami.

Any suggestion why?

RIP.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Yes. My dad had heart surgery in his early 70s and didn’t last long (Parkinson’s got him in the end). Mom had colon surgery around 81 and didn’t last long (dementia got her in the end).

[entropy12]

May be he was on a cruise from Miami? Developed the problem on ship and was admitted to Miami hospital due to urgency?
WAG! On a recent cruise, one passenger on our cruise ship developed a serious problem, the medical people on ship could not handle the problem, so they had a helicopter come in and pick up the sick passenger to nearest big city which if I remember was Miami.