Brian J. Kalinec

Brian specializes in prospect generation utilizing interpretation of 2D and 3D seismic data in close coordination with geological, production, petrophysical and downhole information in conventional and unconventional plays. He has extensive experience with seismic modeling, synthetics, AVO and attribute evaluation in both clastic and carbonate environments. One of the initial users of Kingdom software, Brian has used this industry standard interpretation package in conjunction with other software to identify and drill hundreds of opportunities, with a high degree of success.

• Active Member of SEG, AAPG, Society of Independent Petroleum Earth Scientists
• President, Advisory Board, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Lamar University
• Past President & Board Member of the Geological Data Library, Houston, TX

• Consulted on resource project East Texas Austin Chalk (4 years)
• Consulted on resource projectPowder River Basin in Wyoming (4.5 years).
• Has generated three conventional deep gas projects (each 500 BCF-1 TCF potential) currently working and/or marketing.
• Currently marketing conventional non-pipe opportunities in the Texas Gulf Coast.

• A proven oil & gas finder, Brian has generated numerous prospects and has caused to be drilled or recommended around 280 wells in the past 30 years
• Brian has a 72% rate of successful oil & gas discoveries. Some 70% of these wells were on prospects he generated. He has personally participated in some 170 total wells on prospects he generated or those he recommended.
• Among Brian’s significant discoveries are the Dynamic Middle Wilcox field in Wharton Co., Texas, (approx 80 BCF ultimate); Lower Queen City-Jim Hogg Co (10+ BCF to date, 25 BCF ultimate), Live Oak Co. Sligo (1 well—33 BCF to date) as well as numerous Pleistocene, Miocene, Frio, Yegua and Cook Mountain, Wilcox, Austin Chalk, Georgetown, Glen Rose, and Sligo producers across Texas and Louisiana.

• Brian has also consulted on projects in West Texas, Oklahoma, California, West Virginia, Arkansas, Alabama, Michigan, and New Mexico
• Gulf of Mexico—Offshore Federal and State Waters, Texas and Louisiana
• Various international projects

• Eagleford and Austin Chalk trends in Texas
• Turner Sand and other targets, Powder River Basin, Wyoming
• Bakken Shale in North Dakota
• Barnett Shale in North Texas

• Brian has worked extensively in the Gulf Coast, primarily onshore Texas and Louisiana, but also has multi-basin onshore and offshore experience as well. As an independent, he has developed numerous clients and continues to handle geophysical and geological projects for many of them.
• He has generated and caused prospects to be drilled in both sandstone and carbonate environments, focusing on the geological and seismic characteristics of productive reservoirs as analogs for exploration targets.
• Brian is a legacy user of Kingdom 2D interpretation software since 1988, giving feedback on the early development of its 3D functionality.
• Some of Brian's areas of experience include (but are not limited to): Texas— Middle Wilcox in Wharton and Hardin Counties Frio-Yegua at Spindletop Dome in Jefferson County Hackberry, Nodosaria, and Yegua in Jefferson and Orange Counties Hoskins Mound Field in Brazoria County Raccoon Bend Field in Austin County Glen Rose, Georgetown, and Austin Chalk in Maverick and Dimmit Counties Eagleford trend in South Texas Austin Chalkregionally through Texas Miocene, Yegua and Wilcox in Colorado, Fayette, and Lavaca Counties Pressured Frio in Aransas and San Patricio Counties Frio in Refugio, Goliad and Victoria Counties Yegua/Cook Mtn in Wharton, Ft. Bend, and Liberty Counties Queen City and Reklaw in Jim Hogg and Starr Counties Wilcox in Zapata, Webb, and Duval Counties Sligo in Live Oak County Louisiana and Mississippi— Production work Mecom Ranch Field, Cameron Parish Mid-dip Lower Tuscaloosa. St Helena and Tangipahoa Parishes Lake Long in Lafourche Parish Numerous individual prospects throughout Louisiana; in Mississippivarious Tuscaloosa and Smackover prospects.