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Looking for commercial negotiator position where my thirty years of experience in the land management, geologic, legal, financial and economic aspects of the natural resource exploration and production business can cross over. - experienced commercial contract analyst and negotiator – expertise in equity, debt and project finance – proven manager of cross discipline financial and technical teams – track record of navigating projects through local, state and federal regulatory agencies.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
* Capital funding: five drilling programs for two micro-cap Oil&Gas firms, identified opportunities in conventional natural gas, alternative energy coal to diesel and LNG projects
* Oil & Gas investment writer and speaker: regularly interviewed, multiple published articles
* One of twenty selected out of entire Tenneco professional staff to become Venture Partner in Newfield Exploration Co. - $76MM was raised after the initial $10MM funding resulted in two dry holes and three undrilled Gulf of Mexico leases – Newfield was NYSE listed three years later.
* Leasing: Easily adaptable to new operating areas, modifying lessons learned elsewhere to the local variations, experienced in 10 states, US Outer Continental Shelf and international concessions.
* Deal Structuring: Very experienced in all variations of typical trades, also able to think "out of the box" to accomplish the company critical projects and/or international deals.
* Computer Applications: Adept in all the Office programs, created advanced Excel/Monte Carlo deal structuring models.
WORK HISTORY
Petroleum Consultant dba "PetroInvest", multiple locations 1993 - present
Consulted for Petrobras America, Inc, Hufco, Inc., Ensearch Oil Co., TGS Geophysics, NNPC (Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation), Mitsubishi Inc., Brookstreet Securities, Global Resources Securities, Waveland Securities, Graves & Co., Internal Revenue Service, Panther Bayou Exploration, Wm. H. Murphy & Co. – assignments in nine countries (once as an expat), PA, WV, VA, AL, LA, TX, NM, OK, CA, CO and Gulf of Mexico – work output included small cap equity and project finance valuations, supervision of property acquisitions domestic and international Oil &Gas contract negotiations, raising drilling funds, and due diligence for institutional investors funding M&A activities and bankruptcy workouts.
Newfield Exploration Co. – Louisiana and Texas 1989 – 1993
Land Manager, Attorney-In-Fact, founding Venture Partner and investor
Tenneco Oil Company, Texas and Louisiana 1978 – 1989
Gulf of Mexico Division Landman, domestic and international business development
US Air Force - Pilot, Instructor Pilot, and Aircraft Commander 1970 – 1978
EDUCATION and CERTIFICATIONS
BS Geology, Ohio State University 1969
MA Business Organization, Central Michigan University 1976
Certified Professional Landman, AAPL (now inactive) 1980
Securities Licenses – Series 7 and 24 (now inactive) 1996
PetroInvest – copyrighted O&G transaction modeling program 2004
PERSONAL
Steven has lived at various locations on three continents and his extended family resides in multiple locations in the USA and Ireland. He and his wife of forty years have two adult children.
SALARY HISTORY
Highest Corporate Salary (Tenneco Oil 1989) - $120,000 – Newfield founders took a 25% pay cut. Last year's direct compensation from multiple sources (less than full time) - $143,000
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