Erik Kling Email & Phone Number

Denver, Colorado, United States

Rockies Petroleum Geologist with 15 years of exploration and operational experience with an established record of expertise in:Prospect generation and developmentAcquisition and divestiture packagesCompetitor evaluationsStratigraphic frameworksResearchSubsurface correlations and mapping

Greater Denver Area

• Working with a small private-equity backed team: assembled large scale positions through organic leasing in the Powder River and Big Horn Basins by leveraging institutional knowledge of key plays and applying novel.
• Aided in successfully on-boarding more than $850MM in committed funds by presenting often complex geologic concepts in laymen’s terms to a wide field of institutional, government, and independent investors.
• Conducted basin-wide Petroleum System evaluations in Big Horn and Powder River Basins by integrating oil and rock geochemistry, with tectonic burial history and maturation trends to determine Ultimate Expellable.
• Led geologic operations on seven Niobrara horizontals from permit and spacing approvals, prioritizing locations and drill scheduling, conducting pre-drill meetings, geosteering oversight, providing geomechanical input.
• Assembled additional exploratory positions in northern and southern Powder, and ~42,000 acres in the Big Horn Basin.
• Collaborated with Esal, Stratum, and SLAC National Laboratory in designing novel low-cost cuttings-based wettability, imbibition, and NMR P&P techniques to aid evaluation of Niobrara well results.

Greater Denver Area

Oversaw prospect generation in Uinta and Paradox Basins in core and non-core asset areas, often in areas of sparse well control requiring use of multifaceted exploration techniques, including traditional subsurface correlations and mapping, surface geologic mapping, far-field geophysical data sets (gravity and magnetics), extensive literature searches, and.

Greater Denver Area

Advanced through positions of Geologist I, Geologist II, and Senior Geologist. Worked on development and geologic operations, including 12-rig vertical Wasatch drilling program in Uinta Basin and reservoir property mapping in established fields in San Joaquin, Uinta, and Green River Basins. Presented drilling results, analysis, and future drilling plans to.

Field/lab research on distal basin floor deepwater strata of the Permian Brushy Canyon Fm., Delaware Basin. Focus on stratigraphy, sediment bodies, petrography, sedimentology, experimental sedimentology (Leeds, UK), in a 50 km2 area of the southern Delaware Mts. Major contributions: 1) Documented the nature of Brushy stratigraphic thinning southward across.

Denver And Cripple Creek, CO

Tested/inspected soils, aggregate, riprap, concrete, asphalt, rebar, soil nails, retaining walls. Troxler Nuclear Guage Certfied (expired) ACI Certified Concrete Inspector (expired). Passed FEE exam (Engineer-In-Training, current).Aided construction of tallest non-suspension bridge in CO, Hwy 67 re-alignment, Cripple Creek-Victor. Aided construction of.

Phd, Geology

Activities and Societies: Blue Key National Honor Fraternity, Caving Club President, AAPG Student Chapter Secretary and Treasurer

Bsc, Geological Engineering

Activities and Societies: Blue Key National Honor Fraternity, President Caving Club, Secretary then Treasurer of Student Chapter AAPG.