 Tom Englehart- Geophysicist/ President
Mr. Englehart has 30 years of technical experience in the oil and natural gas exploration and production business. His background includes geologic and geophysical analyses that have led to the production of over 30 million barrels of oil and 500 billion cubic feet of natural gas in the offshore Gulf of Mexico, U.S.A. He earned his B.S. degree in Geology from Duke University in 1979 and his M.S. in Geology from the University of South Carolina in 1981. His Masters Thesis was titled Seismic Interpretation of Structure and Stratigraphy, Offshore Louisiana. His first industry employment was in 1979 as a summer hire for Fairfield Industries in Houston, Texas where he worked on two major contracts. First, he served as a Field Geologist subcontracted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for their Red River Lock and Dam Survey in central Louisiana, and later as a High-Resolution Shallow Hazard Geophysicist on a Tenneco Oil Exploration and Production project. The following summer he was employed by Cities Service Company in Oklahoma City, OK as an Exploration Geophysicist in their Mid-Continent Division. Mr. Englehart was hired by Exxon Company, U.S.A. in 1981 as an Exploration Geophysicist in their Offshore/ Alaska Division in Houston, Texas. While employed by Exxon, he successfully completed every available geologic and geophysical training school offered by its affiliate, Exxon Production Research Company. He generated four oil and natural gas discoveries and also served two years in Exxon’s Direct Hydrocarbon Indicator (DHI) Analysis Group. In 1988 he joined Union Texas Petroleum as a Senior Exploration Geophysicist and had three major oil and natural gas discoveries. In 1990 he joined Wayman W. Buchanan, Inc. as Staff Exploration Geophysicist and had three natural gas discoveries. In 1991 he formed Englehart Energy (EE) and consulted for Maxus Energy in Dallas, Texas with one major natural gas discovery. In 1992, Mr. Englehart joined Kerr-McGee Corporation as a Senior Staff Exploration Geophysicist where he had one oil discovery and one natural gas discovery. In 1994 he hired on with Newfield Exploration Company as a Senior Staff Exploration Geophysicist. At Newfield, Mr. Englehart had 20 well completions on both exploration discoveries and production infill drilling. He was chief geophysicist on over 50% of Newfield’s 1997 and 1998 reserve additions. In 1999, he returned to EE and transformed it from a consulting business into an Independent Prospect Generation business. In 2001 Mr. Englehart was the principle author of Interpretation of four component seismic data in a gas cloud area of the central Gulf of Mexico for SEG’s The Leading Edge. In 2003, EE grew into Englehart Energy, Inc. (EEI) with a staff of eight Exploration and Production experts with Mr. Englehart serving as President. Since 2000, Mr. Englehart has personally generated 27 prospects with 17 acquisitions, and 17 successful wells. In 2010 Mr. englehart was the principle author of Leveraging GIS Data for Efficient Oil and Natural Gas Exploration at the ESRI Petroleum Users Group Conference in Houston, TX. He is a Texas State-certified Geoscientist (Geophysics #5415), an active member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), the Geophysical Society of Houston (GSH), the Houston Geological Society (HGS), and an associate member of the Houston Association of Professional Landman Association (HAPL).  Bob Bethancourt Senior Engineering Consultant
Mr. Bethancourt is an industry recognized petroleum engineer with 33 years of E&P experience. He graduated in 1976 from Texas A&M University with a B.S. degree summa cum laude in petroleum engineering. After college he was hired by Atlantic Richfield Company as an Operations Engineer in their South Louisiana offshore group where he worked on completions and reservoir engineering for their major development in the South Pass Block 61 Field. From 1978 to 1980 he took a hiatus to receive an MBA from Harvard Business School. Upon graduation he returned to Houston to serve as VP – Exploration & Production for Sue-Ann Oil & Gas Company, an active Texas onshore independent. In 1983, Mr. Bethancourt formed Bethancourt Oil & Gas Company, a successful business that continues to the present. From 1991 to 1992 he served as Acting Chairman and Chief Operating Officer for Sue-Ann Production Company. During its existence, Bethancourt Oil & Gas Company has generated and caused the drilling and successful completion of 17 “close-in”onshore engineering-oriented prospects and performed the evaluation and acquisition of numerous producing oil and gas properties. Mr. Bethancourt has a long list of consulting engineering clients with an emphasis on mezzanine lenders and equity providers where he performs petroleum engineering and financial analysis. In 2005, Mr. Bethancourt added Englehart Energy Inc. (EEI) to his client list and serves as Senior Engineering Consultant in charge of engineering analyses and development of their offshore Gulf of Mexico prospects. To date, Mr. Bethancourt has generated 17 offshore prospects and successfully placed 12 with EEI partners with one discovery to date. He is an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, Houston Producers Forum, and is past Vice-Chairman of the Petroleum Engineering Industry Board at Texas A&M University.  Dave Burgess Geophysical Consultant
Mr. Burgess has 40 years of seismic data acquisition, processing, and interpretation in the Oil and Gas Industry. He earned his B.S. degree in Geology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1970. He began his career with Chevron in 1970 as a seismologist on a Louisiana field crew and later in 1974 he was promoted to Party Chief of a high resolution AVO seismic crew working the Eocene/ Cretaceous section of the Sacramento Basin. In 1979 Mr. Burgess joined Superior Oil as Manager of Data Processing and worked in offshore interpretation for three years with several field discoveries. He was a co-author of a 1984 SEG paper on AVO Theory and Analysis presented by Ostrander and Lange. In the mid 80’s Mr. Burgess began an independent acquisition, processing, and interpretation consulting business working for Apache, King Ranch, O & G, Wessley Energy among others. In the late 80’s Mr. Burgess joined Grant-Tensor as Senior Vice President in charge of worldwide 3D processing operations and assisted clients such as Mobil, Amoco, and Texaco. In 1994 he became a partner in Grand Gulf Production as Vice President and Chief Geophysicist with responsibility for design, acquisition, processing, and interpretation of both 2D and 3D surveys in Louisiana that resulted in a 90% success rate from 40 total wells. When Grand Gulf Production was purchased by Calpine Natural Gas in 1998, Mr. Burgess was placed in charge of reprocessing and re-interpreting existing 3D surveys which led to a 300% increase in field production and 30 BCF of new reserve additions. 1999 he returned to his consulting business and generated multiple successful prospects for clients throughout the Gulf Coast. In late 2007 Mr. Burgess joined Englehart Energy, Inc. as a Geophysical Consultant and has one new AVO prospect already. He is a Texas State-certified Geoscientist (Geophysics #1945) and an active member of both the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and the Geophysical Society of Houston.  Bill Catanese Geological Consultant
Mr. Catanese has worked in the oil and gas exploration business for the past 30 years. His area of expertise has been the offshore Gulf of Mexico where his geological and geophysical analyses have led to the production of approximately 16 MMBO and 350 BCFG. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Marine Geology from Long Island University in 1978. He moved to Houston, Texas in 1979 and began working for Sohio Petroleum as a Geological Technician in Sohio’s paleo lab. In the fall of 1981, Mr. Catanese was hired by Kerr McGee Corporation as a Geologist. His duties over the next 16 years were divided into three main areas of responsibility. First, he worked as a well site geologist, logging over 110 wells across a three year period. Next, three years were spent as an Exploration Geologist working Western and Central Gulf of Mexico lease sales, where he had bids on 4 offshore blocks (two acquired and producing, one acquired and dropped, and one not acquired). The last 10 years were spent as an Exploitation Geologist working Kerr McGee properties in the shallow and deep water Gulf of Mexico where he had 026 wells with 21 completions. In 1997 Mr. Catanese went to work for Barrett Resources as an Exploitation Geologist. The two years there were spent working a 25 block acquisition from Pendleton Resources and drilling three successful wells. From 1999 to 2006 Mr. Catanese worked for Newfield Exploration in their Acquisition and Development group. While there, he drilled 19 successful wells with an estimated EUR of 84 BCFGE, as well as being the key geologist in the Acquisition of Denbury Resources (64 BCFG). He joined Englehart Energy, Inc. in August, 2006. To date, Mr. Catanese has generated six prospects with two successful acquisitions. He is an active member of The American Association of Petroleum Geologists and The Houston Geological Society. ![]() Laura Kay Ethetton GIS Consultant
Ms. Ethetton is a geoscientist and data manager with 33 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. She is Vice President of Workstation Integrations, Inc., a company that specializes in data and application support for the petroleum industry. Her professional specialties include GIS, geoscience data management, risk and economic analysis and interpretation. Ms. Ethetton began her career as a geophysicist with Conoco in 1977. She later became a senior economist and risk analyst, specializing in integrating geotechnical and economic analysis for optimal decision making. She was an SEG continuing education instructor, co-teaching “The Role of Geophysics in Risk Assessment” and has published numerous professional papers including co-authoring Leveraging GIS Data for Efficient Oil and Gas Exploration with Mr. Englehart. Ms. Ethetton holds an MS in Geological Science from the University of Wisconsin, and MBA in Finance from the University of Houston and a BA in Geology from Franklin & Marshall College. ![]() Rene' Mott Geophysical Consultant
Ms. Mott is a successful geoscientist with 27 years experience in the oil and gas industry. To date her efforts have yielded 13 MMBO and 310 BCFG of production. She began her formal education by earning an Associates Degree in Business before transferring to Texas A&M. There she earned her BS in Geophysics in 1982. Ms Mott began her industry career with Unocal later that year working Texas, Louisiana, and Florida OCS Lease Sales with multiple Lease acquisitions. She was hired by Maxux Energy in 1990 as senior geophysicist in offshore exploration and pursued continuing education part time at UT Dallas campus in Sedimentology. While at Maxus, her efforts added production in the West Cameron and Southern High Island areas and additional lease acquisitions. Ms. Mott moved to Gulfstar Energy in 1995 where she had one offshore property bid, acquired, and drilled successfully. She earned her MS in 1997 with her Masters Thesis titled " Seismic Stratigraphy of the Middle Miocene deposits Bigenerina humblei, Cristellaris I and Cibicides opimi: a sand rich area in the West Cameron federal off shore area." Laterthat same year she began work at Peltex where the primary project was development of an onshore salt dome yielding successful wells. Midyear 1999 Ms. Mott moved to Seismic Micro-Technology as Manager of Technical Support staff. Ms Mott was responsible for installing several new processes, creating a relational database of customers, and mentoring clients in exploration workflow. Already since joining EEI, Ms Mott has generated one Wildcat prospect. She has written five technical papers/ articles and has given presentations at numerous Industry Society meetings. She is an active member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Geophysical Society of Houston, and the Houston Geological Society.  Tom Roberts Geological Consultant
Mr. Roberts has 31 years of worldwide geologic and geophysical experience. He earned his B.S. degree in Geology from Georgia Southern University in 1976 and his M.S. in Geology from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 1978. Mr. Roberts’ first industry experience was in 1978 with Conoco, Inc. as a Petroleum Geologist. While working in both Oklahoma City and Houston, he performed comprehensive geological/ geophysical evaluations and field studies of twelve HBP leases, proposed five development well locations, and evaluated open offset acreage. In 1981 he joined Anadarko Production Company in Houston as a Senior Geologist and had one giant field discovery plus three other discoveries. He also prepared a regional geologic evaluation of the Pleistocene trend and directed mapping activities of four geophysicists resulting in the generation of 16 prospects and recommended company bids on 10 prospects for the May 1983 OCS Lease sale. In 1983 Mr. Roberts joined Mark Producing, Inc. as a Senior Explorationist. There he evaluated OCS tracts for several lease sales with recommendations for bids on numerous prospects with several successful acquisitions. He had one significant oil and gas field discovery with an EUR of over 5 MMBO and 25 BCFG. He also interpreted proprietary 3-D seismic surveys for field development, designed field development drilling programs, supervised drilling operations, collaborated with engineers on reserves assessments, and initiated farm-in opportunities along trend with company fields. In 1989 Mr. Roberts joined Japex U.S. Corp in Houston as a Senior Staff Geologist and later Exploration and Production Advisor for both Onshore and Offshore. He was in charge of Reserve assessment of company properties, generation and evaluation of OCS sale prospects, and farm-in opportunities. He also evaluated exploration / development joint-venture proposals submitted to Japex by other companies. He served as technical liaison between Japex Houston / Japex Tokyo, and American partner companies in Venezuela, Brazil, and Mexico. Lastly, he trained Japanese geologists, geophysicists, and engineers in Gulf Coast exploration / development concepts and methodology. In 2004 he hired on with Englehart Energy, Inc. as an Geological Consultant. To date, Mr. Roberts has generated 10 prospects with six lease acquisitions, and had two discoveries. He is an active member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Houston Geological Society.  RockyRoden Senior Geophysical Consultant
Mr. Roden has been successful in managing and administering programs and technical staffs in exploration and development, both domestically and worldwide for the past 34 years. He earned a B.S. in Oceanographic Technology-Geology from Lamar University in 1975 and an M.S. in Geological and Geophysical Oceanography from Texas A&M University in 1980. In 1975 as a summer hire for Texaco, he worked as a geophysicist interpreting seismic and gravity data from the Gulf of Mexico. The next 5 years he worked at Decca Survey Systems as a seismic operator, party chief, interpretive geophysicist and ultimately supervisor for the interpretation of field reports and studies. From 1981 to 1987 he worked for Pogo Producing as an exploration and development geophysicist for the Gulf Coast and Offshore Gulf of Mexico Divisions. At Pogo he participated in six Louisiana and Texas state lease sales and 10 Federal OCS lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico that led to 5 commercial discoveries. In 1982, Mr. Roden worked on the first 3D survey at Pogo that led to a 50 BCF discovery. He was responsible for the evaluation and installation of the first computer geophysical technical applications at the company and developed log analysis programs for company-wide use. In 1987 he joined Diamond Shamrock/ Maxus Energy as a development geophysicist and for the next year was involved in developing over a dozen fields proving over 75 MMBOE. It was during this time that he was responsible for the installation of the first interactive workstations at the company and the interpretation of 3D surveys. From 1988 to 1990 he was Development Manager of the Southern Division with a staff of seven responsible for 40 fields offshore and onshore Gulf Coast. This department drilled 30 straight economically successful development, exploitation, and exploration wells, proving reserves of 50 MMBO and 150 BCFG. In 1990 Mr. Roden was appointed Chief Geophysicist-North America for Maxus and managed all geophysical activities including the interpretation workstation environment. In this time frame he was also given the responsibility as Director of Applied Technology managing a staff of seven responsible for the technical analysis and support for the Dallas, Amarillo, Jakarta, Quito, and Santa Cruz offices. In this position he advised corporate officers on worldwide strategy and was involved in evaluating numerous farmouts and deals worldwide and reviewed prospects in Gulf of Mexico OCS lease sales and bid rounds in Ecuador, Venezuela, China, Hungary, and Colombia. In 1997, with the purchase of Maxus Energy by YPF and the subsequent purchase of YPF by Repsol in 1999, Mr. Roden was appointed Chief Geoscientist for the worldwide corporation. With 250 geoscientists worldwide and offices in the U.S., Argentina, Spain, Egypt, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Venezuela, Malaysia, and Indonesia, he advised corporate officers, managers, and geoscientists on strategy, interpretation and technical analysis (125% average reserve replacement from 1999-2001 with average annual exploration budgets of $350 MM). He was directly involved in two significant discoveries in Venezuela (200+MMBO) and Bolivia (8+TCFG). Mr. Roden also helped establish the exploration risk analysis program and risk assessment team at YPF-Maxus. From 1992 to 2001 he managed seven geological and geophysical industry technical consortiums for the company. In 1999 he joined The Leading Edge (SEG) editorial staff, ultimately becoming Chairman of the editorial board. Mr. Roden has written over a dozen technical papers and articles, taught schools on interpretation and risk analysis, and has given presentations at numerous industry society meetings and conventions. Since retiring from Repsol-YPF in 2001 he has consulted with Englehart Energy, Inc. as the Senior Geophysical Consultant reviewing prospects, providing technical support, and guidance. He also consults with Seismic Micro-Technology, several other oil companies, and is a principle in the Rose and Associates industry-wide DHI Risk Analysis Consortium. Mr. Roden is an active member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Geophysical Society of Houston, and the Houston Geological Society.  Danielle Straus Office Manager and Geotechnical Consultant
Ms. Straus has 14 years of oil and gas experience in seismic data management, revenue accounting, and office management. She attended Harris County Community College majoring in Business Administration. She has Specialization and Certification training in Seismic Micro-Technology 2D/ 3D PAK Data Loading, MAS 200 Business Accounting, and Nortel Database Administration. She began her career as an Account Representative for R.L. Polk & Company in 1990 where she tracked inventory, initiated detailed orders, managed accounts receivables, and reported on client revenue status. In 1995 Ms. Straus served as a contract Administrative Assistant for Burlington Resources in their Technology Support Division. The next year she was hired full-time by Burlington as a Senior Administrative Assistant. There she provided Information Technology (IT) troubleshooting and desktop support to 400 sites throughout the company, processed departmental invoices, assisted in budget preparation, and monitored hardware and software purchase records and maintenance agreements. Ms. Straus joined Englehart Energy, Inc. in 2003 as a Senior Geotechnical Consultant in charge of the company IT server, all seismic data inventory, loading, and backup processes/ documentation plus all workstation/ printer/ plotter software loading, updates, and support. In addition, she manages all company office property inventory plus accounts payable/ receivable, ensures accurate monitoring of Prospect Fee and Overriding Royalty Interest income and payout records, maintains adequate Insurance coverage, and prepares all necessary financial reports. | <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>