Near-term, Short-cycle Oil and Natural Gas Development.

Founder and CEO

Black Bear Energy Resources, Plc is involved in the acquisition and development of mid-sized oil and gas assets onshore in the USA. 

In 2005, Tony was an early adopter of technically innovative approaches. This included leading the development of oil and gas via the use of remote monitoring of wells and production facilities through drilling and completion techniques.  These innovative efforts have been a hallmark of his cost-conscious, thorough approaches resulting in solid well performance. 

Tony served as CEO, Orland Oil and Gas, a privately held LLC founded in August 2015.  Tony closed five acquisitions in excess of 9 MM bbls recoverable in the Permian Basin. 

Prior to Orland, Tony was involved in a number of differing upstream oil & gas transactions, highlights include drilling and completing the I-1 Well, 1,500 acres in the Gulf of Mexico, and the acquisition and development of shallow oil assets in North Central Texas. 

Tony founded and served as CEO Meridian Petroleum, a public oil and gas exploration and production company with assets in the US and Australia. After one year, he drove the company listing on the London Stock Exchange AIM, oversaw its IPO, and led the Australian assets through the Native Title Process.  He led the company into profit with an ongoing profitable position.

Tony’s background includes international investment banking and project finance in the US, Australia, and Russia.  He has developed profitable mid-sized oil and gas assets through all phases of implementation in the US.  He has consistently delivered a talented and focused approach to the market with a committed, focused, environmentally sustainable approach to operational excellence. 

Tony held various oil & gas and energy positions in Institutional Sales with Merrill Lynch.  

Tony passed out from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS) in1974. Tony was born in England and resides in Houston, Texas.   

Technical Director

During his career, Tim has led valuation and CPR teams; advisory and M&A teams; and managed exploration, FEED, and field development projects as Technical Director at Oilfield International and Finfund Oil & Gas, Cyprus; and in engineering roles at BG plc.

Tim served as the European Commission’s resident energy policy advisor to Romania from 1994 to 1998, collaborating with the World Bank, USAID, EBRD, and EIB to restructure and privatize the oil, gas, electricity, and coal sectors. He was a founder director of the Romanian Energy Policy Association, with funding from the European Commission, to provide a public forum to inform and debate energy policy. 

He was chair of the SPE Distinguished Lecturers' Committee from 2019-2020. He currently represents SPE in its geothermal power and data science initiatives.

Tim holds BSc Chemistry (Bristol U, UK), MSc Petroleum Engineering (Imperial College, UK), MBA (Cranfield, UK), Chartered Engineer (equivalent to Professional Engineer in North America), Fellow of the Energy Institute (UK), Fellow of the Geological Society, Member of the Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers (UK). 

 Finance Director

Sanjay is a qualified chartered accountant with over 20 years of experience and an excellent financial and management accounts background, covering all aspects of corporate accounts from AP, Corp tax, payroll, board packs to Audit and statutory accounts. 

Sanjay has experience working in several sectors within the Financial Services Industry (broker-dealers, banks, Hedge funds, Private Equity, and Investment Managers), providing a solid background to meet Black Bear Energy Resources needs as it grows and develops.

Over the years, he gained experience and knowledge of PRA, FCA, DFSA (Dubai Financial Services Authority), various Tax authorities, BofE regulatory requirements, and reporting. 

He has expertise and experience in risk, credit, controls/corporate governance, compliance, operations, policy, and documentation within these control functions. Working with multinationals, 

Sanjay has experience and exposure in working with a broad set of stakeholders (cross-border auditors, management, tax, and regulatory authorities).

Sanjay is FCA registered SMCR and holds Compliance and MLRO responsibility along with  Finance control functions.

He has held roles as Financial Control and Regulatory manager and has led and built Regulatory and Finance teams at several organizations.

Sanjay obtained an HND in Business Finance from the University of Gloucester and a BA in Business Administration from UEL.   
 

Communications and ESG Director

Anne is a Senior Executive brand strategist and marketer currently residing in Houston, Texas. Anne’s career spans over 25 years with Fortune 500 companies, including Shell Oil US as Senior Vice President, Jiffy Lube International with $1.3 billion annual revenues.

Anne began her career with JWT Worldwide Advertising and was recruited to join The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta in Brand Marketing and Media. She went on to run North American advertising for Burger King Corporation. She was recruited to Blockbuster Entertainment, where she profitably and competitively ran marketing for the Music division.

She successfully positioned a $33mm public software company for acquisition and then served as Vice President, Strategic marketing for Enron Energy Services located in Houston, Texas.

Anne’s career hallmark is innovation based on keen consumer/business insight, coupled with the ability to grow revenue and market share.

Anne holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications from Cedarville University with a minor in Theology.  

Independent Petroleum Geologist

Warren served as President, Baumann Resources, Inc. 1995-present:  He specializes in wildcat prospect development and prospect review. Silurian Aged Niagaran Pinnacle  Reef exploration, Devonian aged Traverse and  Dundee formation, deeper Ordovician Trenton/Black  River formation exploration, and all oil and gas producing formations in Michigan.

In his role as President, Warren has consulted for and partnered with: Savoy Energy, LP; Rock Energy LP;  Jordan Exploration, Core Energy Co.; Wolverine Oil &  Gas; West Bay Exploration, Hilden Oil Company,  Weitzman Resources; Golden Petroleum Corp.;  Preston Oil Co.; JAF Oil & Gas; Bach Energy Co.;  Wellmaster, Inc.; Federal Oil Co.; Federated Oil & Gas  Properties; Arbor Resources; OIL Energy; Tiger  Development; Black River Oil & Gas; Merit Energy;  Lambda Energy Resources; and more.

He also served as Petroleum Geologist and Exploration Manager for multiple regional and national entities from 1979-1991.

Warren holds a Bachelor of Arts and Masters Degrees University of  Wisconsin in Geology.

Warren is a Member of the American Association of Petroleum  Geologist

Independent Surface Engineer

Greg takes complex engineering concepts and enables diverse groups of people to understand, collaborate, and perform.

Greg is currently working for Chevron's Eastern Mediterranean Business Unit on a contract project engineering assignment through Operations Technology Specialists, LLC where Greg is also the digital twin architect.

His career has spanned 34 years including major international entities in the US, Singapore, New Zealand, Malaysia, Korea, Norway, and Israel in both onshore and offshore engineering leadership roles.
He has led multi-discipline engineering operations across a wide spectrum of industries for nearly $8 billion in projects. Digital twin's was a feature of his work at  Hess, adding real-time data to process models to predict failure.

Greg has strong areas of expertise including: Engineering Lead in Global Offshore Projects to $2B; Engineering Management, All Positions 50+% Growth; Cross-Cultural team project delivery and cybersecurity; Registered Professional Engineer (PE)-SC & Texas PMP.

Greg holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mining  Engineering from Colorado School of Mines and studied at the Institute for Managerial Leadership at the University of  Texas, McCoomb School ofBusiness. 

Registered Professional Engineer (PE), State of Texas and  State of SouthCarolina
Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute 

Independent Process Engineer
Barry is an experienced process specialist with expansive domestic and international engineering construction and project management experience.

 
He has served various roles with onshore & offshore oil and gas production, gas processing, LNG, pipelines, refining, and petrochemicals. He has demonstrated the ability to define problems and conceive solutions to company objectives relative to performance, reliability, capital, and operating costs.

He is proficient in the leadership of cross-functional teams. He is an effective liaison between owner and contractor and is responsive to technical requirements, commercial and schedule constraints, Concept Selection, Pre-FEED, FEED & Detail Design, Regulatory Affairs, Construction, Capital & Operating Estimates, Troubleshooting,  Debottlenecking, Investigations, Domestic, International, onshore, offshore.

Barry's background also includes: Taylor Technical Services / EDG, Inc., (2016- Present); EDG, Inc., (2006- 2016); S & B Engineers and Constructors (2003-2006); Kinder Morgan, Inc., (2001-2003); Enron Engineering and Construction Co. (1981-2001); Project Manager, Enron Liquid Fuels Company; and Cal-Gas Corporation (1979-1981).

Barry holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical and Petroleum Refining  Engineering, Colorado School of mines, 1979 

Independent Operator

John is the Owner-Operator of Wellmaster Consulting, based in  Michigan.

He is a highly effective production operations specialist with over 30 years of hands-on experience. He has built, commissioned, and trained crews for several complex oil and gas operations including: refrigeration plants; dehydration systems; sulfa-treat skids; compressor skids; flowlines and pipelines.

He has started several remotely run computer-assisted operations bringing successful experience in completions and workovers.

John is qualified to work with hydrogen sulfide and has experience with concentrations as high as 10% at the wellhead.  He brings excellence to troubleshooting operational issues in complex multi-well production facilities.

Highlights include: Operated single well facility, sweet and sour gas; Constructed sour gas central processing units (CPF's) using  Sulfatreat towers' Installed refrigeration, freon, and J.T propane units; Installed flow lines in various parts of Michigan; Rig experience (workovers and completions).

John's background also includes Star Inc., Traverse City, MI, Savoy Oil & Gas, Traverse  City, MI, and Shell Oil US (Michigan and Syria).

John attended Northwestern Michigan University before  joining the US Marine Corp gaining the rank of E-5 (Sergeant)