Jason Causey, JD, CPL
Houston,TX
Summary
Certified Professional Landman holding a Doctorate of Jurisprudence with 16 years experience aspiring to maintain upward trajectory with an established E&P to continue management level career path.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Land Coordinator
Ecopetrol Permian, LLC
2020.03 - Current
- Managing Inventory Growth Team and Land Department for Columbia's national oil company in its U.S. Onshore venture, which deploys $1.2 billion in annual capex in Delaware (TX & NM) and Midland portions of the Permian Basin.
- Engaging in material acquisitions, divestitures and trades to enhance leasehold position, while shepherding deals for approval through Ecopetrol USA Board of Directors.
- Forecasting leasehold burn-rate through development of various drill rig scenarios to provide future production models.
- Ensuring Oxy's compliance with our Joint Development Agreement, LLC Agreement and other material contracts.
- Holding regular knowledge transfer seminars to teach those in Bogata intricacies of land work.
- Hiring Landman and Land Administration positions.
Senior Landman
Carrizo Oil & Gas Inc.
2011.02 - 2020.02
- Executed all Landman responsibilities from cradle to grave including staying ahead of multiple rigs in the Permian, Utica, and Niobrara-DJ Basins.
- Prepared detailed reports and presentations to CRZO's CEO, COO and other senior management on all manner of issues in each basin.
- Proficient and experienced in drafting all land and legal forms including Purchase and Sale, Exchange, Drill-To-Earn, and Production Allocation Agreements, JOAs, Farmin/Farmouts, etc.
- Assembled majority of CRZO's Utica position through negotiations with major mineral owners, acquisitions from shallow operators, and trades with Utica operators, then wholly responsible, from the land side, for divesting the Utica to Ascent Resources, LLC.
- Skillful negotiator with proven tract record of saving millions relative to asset valuation & no/low cost well obligation deferrals, while managing 100 + brokers to ensure drill-ready title.
- Retained by Callon in its merger with Carrizo, but opted to explore new opportunities.
Project Manager
Beta Land Services, LLC
2007.08 - 2011.02
- After 6 months as an abstractor and lease buyer, was named Project Manager for Carrizo's entry into the Marcellus Shale play and then assembled a 100k acre position from central to NEPA by cultivating relationships with the area's major mineral owners, businesses and the attorneys who represented them.
- As a result, Carrizo and Avista Capital Partners realized a $475MM exit from Reliance Industries Ltd. in 2010.
- Cleared extremely complicated title in coal mining areas for nearly every lease taken in the Marcellus with no title busts of any significance.
- Managed 60 + brokers at the height of natural gas prices.
Education
J.D. -
Mississippi College School of Law
Jackson, MS2006
Associate of Arts - Political Science And English
University of Mississippi
Oxford, MS2001
Skills
- Land Management
- Presenting to President, CFO and EC Board of Directors
- Budget Forecasting
- Multi-Scenario Leasehold Forecasting
- Negotiations
- Document Drafting
- Acquisitions, Divestitures and Trades
- Interdisciplinary Communication
- Microsoft Office
- ArcMap
- PowerBI
- Quorum
Timeline
Land Coordinator
Ecopetrol Permian, LLC
2020.03 - Current
Senior Landman
Carrizo Oil & Gas Inc.
2011.02 - 2020.02
Project Manager
Beta Land Services, LLC
2007.08 - 2011.02
J.D. -
Mississippi College School of Law
Associate of Arts - Political Science And English
University of Mississippi
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