Rog Hardy, Jim Peck, and Grant Fergeson, geoscientists with in-depth global technical and commercial experience, and General Council Scott Gaille are principals of Canopy E&P and have formed affiliations with subject matter experts including reservoir engineer Rohan Irvin, senior global energy analyst Charlie Lafkoff, and Petrophysicist, Tom Darin.
Rog’s decades of diverse business and technical experience – in international and domestic, in operations and new ventures, with host governments, majors, independents, start-ups, contractors and as an independent consultant optimally supports Canopy’s vision to bring top quality strategic decision making and program execution.
Most recently, Rog’s equity position in an international/domestic E&P start-up, and extensive consulting in North American shale growth strategy plus international new ventures and operations position him to be well versed in current issues and trends in the global industry.
Previously, Rog held technical and leadership positions of increasing scope and responsibility in Amoco, Chevron, Natomas/IIAPCO (Maxus) and Unocal, culminating in six years as Vice President Unocal Indonesia leading and participating in a major business unit’s oil, gas, and geothermal exploration, production (including LNG export) of over 200,000 MMBOE, and new venture strategy. Global experience elsewhere includes in-depth new ventures and operations in the Sub-Andean Countries of South America, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and North America.
Rog is past chair of the AAPG History of Petroleum Geology Committee and a Visiting Petroleum Geoscientist. He has a bachelors in geology from the University of Minnesota, and a masters from San Diego State. He is a registered geophysicist by the state of California.
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Jim has proven repeatedly to be an effective explorationist and oil finder with extensive geological and geophysical interpretation with emphasis on sequence stratigraphy and geophysical attribute analyses. He has shown exceptional and holistic ability to quickly synthesize regional tectonics, basinal analyses, depositional systems and burial histories into petroleum system models, and then utilize those elements toward comprehensive prospect evaluation and field development projects.
Jim’s new ventures and operational experience essentially extends globally with emphases on North Africa and the Mediterranean, the Middle East, West Africa, South America, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia and the Gulf of Mexico.
Previously, Jim was Vice President of Geology for Reading and Bates Development Company, Senior Team Leader with Total in Singapore and Jakarta, and Chief Geologist for the Syrian-American Petroleum Company.
Jim has a Bachelor’s degree in geology from the University of Houston. His primary interpretational platforms are IHS 3D-2D Kingdom and Earthpak.
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Grant is an exploration leader with a strong track record finding commercial accumulations of oil and gas in both conventional and unconventional Paleozoic through Tertiary exploration plays principally in North America’s onshore and offshore Gulf Coast, East Texas, Williston and Michigan Basins, and has generated or evaluated prospects in the Caribbean and other basins worldwide.
Grant specializes in integration of basin research with subsurface and seismic data to create a complete picture of working petroleum trap styles and prospective regions. This enables generation of high quality risk appropriate prospects which has resulted in numerous successful discoveries over the decades of his career. He is also adept at driving multiplayer technical teams toward the rapid conclusion of technical evaluations of prospects, and subsequent funding and testing by drill bit in order to realize economic potentials.
Recently Grant was Executive Vice President, Exploration and Production for Mertz Energy, and prior to that he was affiliated with Devon Energy, EOG Resources, and Vastar Resources. He was also owner of Fergeson Petroleum Company and Chief Geologist at Venus Oil Company in San Antonio.
Grant has a B.S. from UT Austin, is an AAPG DPA Certified Geologist, and a Texas Certified Professional Geoscientist. Grant is past President of the South Texas Geological Society, Member of the Executive Committee of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, AAPG 1988 Convention Technical Session Chairman, Technical Program Director for Society of Professional Independent Earth Scientists, Houston Chapter, Co-editor of Contributions to the Geology of South Texas, 1986, 3rd best paper award for co-authored paper with Tom Ewing, 1991, and with Ewing, “A look at Downdip Yegua reveals five lanes of reserves”, Oil and Gas Journal 1990
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Scott is the principal in Gaille PLLC, providing outside general counsel and energy law boutique services with domestic and international reach. Scott is also an Adjunct Professor of Management at Rice University teaching international energy development and a Lecturer in Law at The University of Chicago Law School teaching the Energy Law Seminar. He has authored two energy textbooks and five peer-reviewed articles in the Energy Law Journal.
Previously, Scott was General Counsel for a NASDAQ – listed E&P company, Managing Director to a $400 million investment fund, President of a private equity-funded exploration venture in Africa, and Director–Business Development at Occidental Petroleum. Prior to joining Occidental he was with Vinson & Elkins and before that a judicial clerk to the Judge Wilkinson of the U.S. Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit.
Scott has a bachelors from the University of Texas and a law degree from the University of Chicago.
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