Todd Stephenson Email & Phone Number

Fort Ancient Earthworks & Nature Preserve

Volunteer geoscience advisor at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Fort Ancient Earthworks & Nature Preserve in Oregonia, OH

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

Background in both carbonate and siliciclastic sedimentology/stratigraphy with focus on exploration methodology and field development geology; technical risk assessment; portfolio management & strategy; R&D planning; recruiting; knowledge management; organizational design & capability assessment.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

Vice President - Geoscience Technology with primary responsibility for the research and development, technical service, and organizational capability of the geophysical, geological, and petrophysical functions at Chesapeake Energy. Additional external role - one of two Chesapeake Energy representatives as a Board of Director member for the company Wireless.

VP Geosciences Northern Division with primary responsibility for MidContinent, Anadarko and Arkoma Basins.

Houston, Texas And Calgary, Alberta

• Chief Geoscientist for BP’s North America Gas Business Unit with primary responsibility of overall geoscience discipline health
• Manage Onshore US New Ventures Team - geoscience technical specialists responsible for developing BP’s unconventional reservoir strategy. Team developed new basin and fairway screening techniques for shale gas plays.
• Coordinate the North America Gas exploration strategy and annual plan execution for conventional exploratory drilling, leasing and seismic expenditures with annual budget ranging from $100 - $125 MM.
• Lead technical assurance reviews for BP exploration and production projects and external new business opportunities
• Coordinate geoscience technology R&D needs, manage technology ‘seed’ budget for experimentation and field trials. Positive results include: 1. Re-defined petrophysical pay definition in tight gas sands and shales 2..
• Consult on database management issues for wellbore, core, biostrat and seismic data

Houston, Texas

• Resource Manager responsible for the business performance planning, reservoir management and technical assurance for the Anadarko Basin Asset drilling and completions budget of ~ $150 MM
• Led the exploration focus for the asset in multiple fairways (Atoka, Granite Wash, Morrow and Hunton formations). Asset team added > 2 TCF of Non Proved resources in the Mountain Front area of the Anadarko Basin
• Worked with industry partner to develop a commercially successful horizontal drilling program in the Cleveland Fm.
• Created a low cost business strategy with industry partners to drill wells on HBP acreage position in areas where we were operationally inactive. Program produced the best economic performance in the business unit year.
• Represented NA Gas to BP’s Global Subsurface Technology Advisory Board

Houston, Tulsa, Plano, London, And Aberdeen

Geoscience Technology Manager with primary role of providing management oversight for the Geoscience areas ofBiostratigraphy, Structural Geology, Petroleum Systems, Sedimentology & Sequence Stratigraphy, Seismic Modeling,Rock Properties and Pore Pressure Prediction · Led the delivery of integrated, cost effective technology solutions for Business Unit.

Houston, Texas And Tulsa, Oklahoma

• Geoscience Technology Manager with primary role of providing management of technology areas relating to Biostratigraphy, Petroleum Systems, Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy, Seismic Modeling and Rock Properties.
• Provided leadership in the delivery of integrated, cost effective technology solutions for Business Unit problems
• Led an organizational re-design of the Amoco E&P Technology Business Unit and implemented a process-centered model within six months. The new organization achieved a $23 MM improvement in financial performance within.
• Served as an extended team member to the Amoco Prospect Quality Team and responsible for the geoscience technical assurance of Amoco’s worldwide exploration prospect portfolio.
• Led Amoco’s worldwide Sequence Stratigraphy User Group as Network Leader and shared best practices of sequence stratigraphic analysis of exploration and development projects worldwide.

Houston, Texas

• Individual technical contributor with primary role of basin analysis and prospect generation and in West Africa (Gabon, Angola), North Sea (Norway), Vietnam, West Australia, New Zealand and Argentina.
• Responsible for structural and isopach mapping, cross-sections, sequence stratigraphic interpretation of 2D and3D seismic data, fieldwork, core descriptions, regional studies and well-site operations
• Provided technical leadership on West Africa Regional Project (WARP) – subsurface regional new ventures team assigned to risk assess and rank all of the basins in offshore West Africa from Niger Delta to Kwanza Basin –.
• Provided technical support for bid rounds in Gabon (Shell), Norway (NorskHydro), Australia and New Zealand (Shell)

Houston, Texas

• Individual technical contributor with primary role of basin analysis, prospect generation and field development assessment in the following US basins: Permian (Midland and Delaware), Midcontinent (Cambrian Reelfoot.
• Responsible for structural and isopach mapping, cross-sections, sequence stratigraphic interpretation of 2-D and3-D seismic data, fieldwork, core descriptions, regional studies and well-site operations
• Contributed as the Sed-strat technical lead on the Reelfoot Rift Project to assess the Cambro-Ordovician potential on 2.2 MM acres of leases in Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Illinois and Tennessee. Regional exploration.
• Conducted field studies on Amoco’s Siluro-Devonian and Permo-Penn oil fields in the Midland and Delaware Basins in West Texas and Eastern New Mexico focusing on updating reservoir characterizations, infill.
• Provided operational support for Amoco drilling activity by processing farm-out requests as well as performing wellsite geology operations support for company operated drilling activity.

Master Of Science - Ms, Geology/Earth Science, General

Activities and Societies: Graduate Teaching Assistant Graduate Research AssistantCompleted Master's Thesis - "Petrology and Depositional.

M.S, Geology - Sedimentology/Stratigraphy

Activities and Societies: Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for two years.Thesis: “Petrology and Depositional Environments of the Middle.

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Basc, Geology

Activities and Societies: Dr. Myron T. Sturgeon Scholarship recipient; Outstanding Undergraduate Geology Student - 1977

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Geology/Earth Science, General, Graduated

Activities and Societies: Residence Life - Resident Assistant Research Assistant - Geology Department Omricon Delta Kappa

B.S, Geology

Graduated Summa Cum Laude; Recipient of Myron T. Sturgeon Undergraduate Geology Research Scholarship 1974-1977; Received the Outstanding.