Christopher Althoff Email & Phone Number

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

As an exploration geologist, my role is central to identifying, evaluating, and executing opportunities that expand my company’s reserves and assets. I focus on leveraging geologic expertise, technical analysis, and strategic insight to unlock value through acquisitions and the drilling of high-potential prospects.My ultimate goal is to contribute to Gulf Explorations success by consistently identifying, evaluating, and developing opportunities that enhance reserves, production, and long-term asset value. Through thoughtful exploration and strategic acquisitions, I aim to ensure a robust and profitable future for the organization.

Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area

Resource geologist consulting for oil and gas operators and family offices. Actively buying mineral and working interest in oil and gas, and evaluating future opportunities.

Winnemucca, Nevada, United States

Mine manager and geologist at new mine in Humboldt County, NV. Integral part of entire mine life cycle from identification and claim staking, design and build of mill plant, water use balancing/recycling as well as building, maintenance, and operation of equipment. Also responsible for sampling and assaying of ore as well as smelting of recovered electrum. In addition, I am responsible for identifying future prospects as well as directing the expansion and assessment of existing projects. The focus of these projects have been low-sulfidation epithermal gold and placer deposits common in northern Nevada. This includes research and integration of historic production and available data, Field mapping, modeling, sampling (including assay), RC/core drilling programs including chip and core description, QA/QC protocol design and execution.

Reno, Nevada, United States

Field mapping, sampling, and trenching. IP resistivity acquisition and magnetometer. RC and core drilling programs in Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona.

United States

Vertical production aggregator successfully closing on mid-continent vertical package. Raised capital and identified behind pipe pay and new drill opportunities across 30,000 acre portfolio. Navigated COVID crash by reducing expenses through renegotiation of electrical contracts, optimizing of pumper routes, and other cost saving measures to remain cash flow positive. Successful liquidation event in June 2021 providing project IRR of 18% and projected 1.7x return on capital in 3 years.

Prospect generation both for horizontal and vertical development.High grade and develop prospects within current operated properties.Developed several vertical greenfield prospects and sold to industry partners including directing leasing, seismic acquisition, all drilling activities/data collection, and post drill analysis. Packaged and sold all operated properties at the end of 2019.Identified and evaluated mineral and non-op working interests in all major US basins.

Directed and developed depositional and sequence stratigraphic model to drive lease acquisitions and direct the drilling program. High graded acreage position and directed drilling program to increase productionion growth in the business unit. Identified new plays and integrated petrophysical, pressure data, historical production and subsurface maps to acquire several hundred thousand acreage position in new play.Analyzed core data, designed data acquisition and hired vendors for collection of all data. I oversaw well site collection and core analysis in the lab.Created Geoprogs and pre- and post-well reports.

Norman, Oklahoma

Mt. Dora Energy is a private-equity funded independent oil and gas operator which was founded in 2008. I was hired on as an original member of the management team and was responsible for building the geologic department from the ground up. As a rapidly growing company we were able to capitalize on the downturn in 2008 and continue to drill oil and gas wells throughout Oklahoma. I was a part of the planning and development of several water-flood projects which have been and continue to be very successful providing a 17x multiple upon their divesture in 2012. Mt. Dora Energy uses Petra for geologic interpretation and I am very proficient in its use. I also am responsible for seismic interpretation and have extensively used Kingdom, PetraSeis, and Petrel software to do 3D geologic modeling and seismic interpretation and prospect identification. Mt. Dora Energy has acquired 45,000+ acres and drilled successful prospects in North Central Oklahoma and we were an early identifier of the potential of the Mississippi Limestone and Woodford Shale Oil east of the Nemaha. I am also responsible for putting together and presenting our yearly reserves assessment which is evaluated by a third party engineer, as well as giving technical presentations and talks to both local and national geologic societies and potential partners. I am also knowledgeable in the processes and development of dewatering and unconventional reservoirs. I continue to grow and learn with the company and love my job. I believe that geologists should look at the rocks, and I make it out to the location to look at well cuttings and go frequently to outcrops and caves to look at reservoir rocks. With this knowledge of the rocks, I am able to interpret and integrate logs, seismic, and core data from new wells while mining the wealth of information which exists for pre-existing wells throughout Oklahoma. All of this is accomplished while working with an integrated team to find and produce more oil and gas!

I started at West Star Operating with little working knowledge of the oil and gas business. I was directly mentored by two geologists with more than 60 years combined experience in the oil and gas industry in Oklahoma and Kansas. While at West Star Operating I worked with engineers, geologists, land men, and geophysicists to develop and successfully drill conventional oil and gas prospects in Oklahoma. I was responsible for all in-house 3D seismic interpretation where I identified faults, structures, stratigraphic pinchouts/pinnacles, determined migration pathways, and calculated volumetric reserve assessments (PetraSeis and Kingdom). I developed an extensive working knowledge of Petra including mapping, data management/integration, well log correlations, etc. I also used completion and production data from PI Dwight's/IHS and scout tickets. I left West Star Operating on good terms and made many friends and colleagues in my two years with the company.

Master'S Of Science, Petroleum Geology, Geophysics, Petrophysics

Activities and Societies: University of Oklahoma Imperial Barrel Team 2010 (AAPG) American Association of Petroleum Geologist (AAPG).

Bachelor Of Science, Petroleum Geology, Geophysics, Petrophysics

Activities and Societies: American Association of Petroleum Geologist Society of Exploration Geophysicists Society of Petroleum Engineers.