Personnel

Tom Englehart- Founder/ President/ Geophysicist

Mr. Englehart has 41 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, served two years in Exxon’s Direct Hydrocarbon Indicator (DHI) Analysis Group, and led a Geochemical Gravity Core Sampling Survey across the upper GOM Slope.

In 1988 he joined Union Texas Petroleum as a Senior Exploration Geophysicist and had three 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) as a Sole Proprietorship and consulted for Maxus Energy in Dallas, Texas with one 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 with six oil and gas discoveries. In 2001 Mr. Englehart was the principal 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 complete staff of Exploration and Production experts, and Mr. Englehart serving as President. In 2010 Mr. Englehart was the principal author of Leveraging GIS Data for Efficient Oil and Natural Gas Exploration at the ESRI Petroleum Users Group Conference in Houston, TX. In 2011 Mr. Englehart consulted for, and later was hired to serve concurrently as GeoScience Manager for Whister Energy, LLC., where he had two major oil discoveries. During the EEI years, Mr. Englehart was personally involved with 14 discoveries and managed Staff who generated 20 additional discoveries.

In 2019 Mr Englehart wound down EEI and returned to the Sole Proprietorship form of EE, while retaining the ability to bring in additional and necessary professional expertise as appropriate. Mr. Englehart still personally generates prospects, provides Consulting services, and is available to Train/ Mentor junior personnel.

He is a Texas State-certified Geoscientist (Geophysics #5415), and an active member of both the Geophysical Society of Houston (GSH) and the Houston Geological Society (HGS).

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