Matt D. Gentry Email & Phone Number

Dallas, TX, US

Ellipsis U.S. Onshore ("Ellipsis") is a new division of Westlawn, a private investment firm focused on upstream oil and gas investments globally, with an initial concentration on North America, Latin America and the Middle East. In addition to Ellipsis, Westlawn has two additional divisions – Americas Offshore, and Canada. To date Ellipsis has assembled an.

• Serve as a founding partner and chairman of the board; direct overall business operations of private equity backed Monadnock Resources, LLCHighlights of Key Achievements:
• Secured $100 million in private equity commitments from Kayne Anderson, a leading upstream energy investment firm, to establish and lead Monadnock Resources, LLC
• Drilled, completed, and produced 25 horizontal San Andres oil and gas wells along with four produced water disposal wells, 19 associated facilities, and over 20 miles of gathering infrastructure
• Achieved leading operational run times of over 99% and streamlined lifting costs to a peer-leading $6.80 per barrel of oil; realized 40% IRR on all drilled proven, undeveloped drilling locations within 3% of budgeted.
• Established Monadnock Resources II, LLC for the acquisition of a large (10,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day) conventional, South Texas asset in the first quarter of 2020 by obtaining $360M in debt and equity.
• Formed Monadnock Resources III, LLC for the acquisition of proven, producing properties with long term production histories and predictable cash flows; raised $275M from equity and debt providers for select opportunity

San Antonio, Texas, US

• Optimized existing, producing assets while leading financial and technical evaluations of upstream opportunitiesHighlights of Key Achievements:
• Expanded upstream oil and gas operation in the Permian Basin from 7,000-acres to 25,000-acres (257% increase), and from 1,000 barrels of oil per day to 5,500 barrels of oil per day (450% increase) through the drilling.
• Deployed an optimized completion strategy which resulted in the reduction of well costs by 40% while elevating estimated ultimate recoveries of oil and gas by 25%; asset was monetized for a multiple on invested capital.
• Performed all technical and financial underwriting for self-originated and marketed opportunities

• Lead the successful development and divestment of multiple projects for $344M for an Australian public companyHighlights of Key Achievements:
• Acquired, developed, and divested a 25,000-acre upstream energy project in the Eagle Ford Shale in McMullen County, TX; the project sold for $200M achieving a 2.8x multiple on invested capital and a 35% premium per.
• Accumulated 30,000-acres within the Permian Basin successfully developing the project with 35 vertical oil and gas wells with associated infrastructure, producing 2,500 barrels of oil per day proving reserves of 12M.
• Developed and presented all technical and financial information in successful debt and equity raisings totaling over $250M inclusive of senior secured debt facilities and direct equity placements.

• Principle geological evaluator, responsible for screening all prospects for technical and economic merit. By actively engaging generators, brought hundreds of deals to Camden. Highlights of Key Achievements
• Led all geologic operations on over 30 producing Camden-operated wells and all wells that were drilling. Design geologic evaluations and well logging and coring programs, provide input for recompletions, perform.
• Designed field development plans and annual company reserve reports. Kept all geological databases evergreen; performed detailed log correlation and seismic interpretation on existing assets as well as potential.

London, England, GB

• Served as risking and volumetric lead for Deep Shelf Gas group. Performed probabilistic volumetric evaluations on entire lead inventory, risked inventory by assigning probability of success factors and managed entire.
• Completed prospect evaluations of over 20 Gulf of Mexico deep shelf gas prospects; work lead to the acquisition of lease sale blocks, several with material bids (>$1MM).
• Conducted extensive regional study of Paleogene turbidites. Making use of limited well penetrations, coupled with regional 2-D seismic lines I was able to place the emerging play in a seismic stratigraphic framework.

College Station, TX, US

Master's Thesis - Identification of Petroleum Flow Units using Artificial Neural Networks, Happy Spraberry Field, Garza County, Texas

New York, NY, US

Refined geological models of the Auger Basin, Western Gulf of Mexico. Results were presented to upper management and used in Western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 184.

Oversaw the conversion of Paramount to a digital workplace. Trained staff to use PETRA GeoPlus in their prospect generation workflow; implemented practices and procedures still in use today.

Conducted field investigations to determine flow rates of fluids in porous media. Recommended the drilling of groundwater monitoring wells to determine the spatial and temporal position of contaminate plumes as part of the remediation process.

Assisted project geologists with the collection and interpretation of geologic data. This included monitoring volcanic activity through geophysical surveys, collection of gas samples for chromatography studies, mapping historic lava flows and sampling current lava flows.

Master Of Science, Geology/Earth Science

Bachelor Of Science, Geology/Earth Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Geological And Earth Sciences/Geosciences