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Denver, Colorado, United States

•Teamed across multiple office land and field operative disciplines to build, drill, and produce a 40,000 acre DJ Basin asset – with emphasis on surface, lease, ROW, mineral, and royalty acquisition/management.•Linked land department with field operations to seamlessly execute production facility builds, batch drilling, completions and midstream gathering with particular attention to contractual obligations, permit, and environmental adherence. Part of five-person in-house land team that directed all aspects of OGL, SUA, ROW and Mineral acquisition as well as title/curative. Conducted strategic surface acquisition to position company for effective development of unitized/pooled/permitted acreage. Assisted in remediation, water sourcing/transport, survey, environmental analysis/preparation and regulatory. •Performed/reviewed title/curative to ensure surface/mineral ownership throughout leasing/development.

Greater Denver Area

•Project lead working all aspects of surface acquisition/positioning throughout the DJ Basin region. •Responsible for negotiating surface use and damage agreements, ROW/easements, as well as water use and adjudication. Objectively acquiring surface stance for Clients to most effectively develop leased acreage. •Facilitate survey processes and environmental impact evaluations.

Greater Denver And Rocky Mountain Region

•Leased 10,000+ net mineral acres in competitive DJ Basin / Rockies region. •Performed all related curative pertaining to purchased leasehold. •Planned and executed projects to expand and diversify Client’s land, mineral, and production holdings portfolio. •Negotiated and facilitated the leasing, purchase, and conveyance, of contributory assets. Performed all related title, research, and due diligence on every lease or asset acquired. •Negotiated Surface Use / ROW / Easements related to purchased leases to position Client for development of leased acreage.

Atlantis Field - Green Canyon

•Managed all logistic and supply chain aspects of ultra deep water drilling, completion, and intervention operations on a 1M/day drilling platform. Orchestrated comprehensive personnel and equipment mobilization in the Atlantis field. •In charge of primary accounting, auditing, and third party resource implementation for all operations.•Tracked all Operator costs - accounting for expenses at approximately 1M/day and effectively reduced daily expenditures by an average of 89K/day.•Ensured Operator was satisfying regulatory requirements and meeting environmental compliance standards. •Worked with United States Customs, BSEE, OSHA, and BOEMRE to ensure operations, equipment, personnel, and vessels were in compliance during all project phases.

Greater Denver Area

•Performed due diligence, title, production, and WI/NRI research in the acquisition and divestiture of 2.8B in holdings from Cordillera to Apache. •Reviewed complex mineral title and layered leasehold - distinguished by payzone/formation - to accurately identify true holdings and potential for future development. •Calculated WI and NRI and compiled data for net payout on producing assets.•Assisted Client/Operator to purchase a combination of producing and undeveloped assets - scattered throughout the northeastern plains (Yuma County) and western slope (Garfield County) Colorado. Prepared abstract updates for drilling title opinions.

• Held leadership position amongst brokerage field leasing, title, and due diligence teams. • Constructed residential and developed land leasing deals, subdivision leasing, HOA presentations, and surface use agreements. • Performed stand up title searches, creating mineral ownership reports from patent to present.• Mapped leasehold though overlays of GIS mapping and county tax records. • Negotiated Surface Use / ROW / Easements to position Client for development of leased acreage. • Cured all title defects associated with acquired leases. Filed permitting and disclosure for environmentally sensitive unit locations. Negotiated leases, leasing terms, and land owner special lease provisions.

• Utilized all BLM onsite and online resources (LR 2000 and GLO records systems) and COGCC resources including production mapping guides to compile production trends and existing wells in planned lease areas. • Assisted with E&P and A&D land projects throughout the Rocky Mountain region. • Performed usual land due diligence and acquired leases throughout the DJ Basin and Western Slope. Note: Member of AAPL and DAPL since 2009.

-Full Service Residential Real Estate Professional-Represented both Buyers and Sellers in residential, commercial, and land transactions. -Produced and performed all related documentation pertaining to the purchase/sale of real estate.

Mc, Energy Land Management

Energy Land Management

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