Cheston Cooper
Senior Geologist
- Role
- Managing Partner at Imperium Energy
- Location
- Houston, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Cheston Cooper
Petroleum Geologist | Strategic Planner A career focused on the exploration and development of unconventional resources. Committed to utilizing the latest tools and information to most efficiently bring hydrocarbons to market. Experience as a Planner and Supervisor, making use of organizational and leadership skills to direct various disciplines within the O&G industry. I am a Senior Geologist that has built a career on unconventional reservoirs and their evaluation. Every unconventional reservoir is a unique puzzle waiting for the pieces to be put together. I focus on efficient delineation and evaluation, using all information available to me. I can easily integrate with Land, Drilling, Reservoir, Completion, Mid-Stream, and Field Operations. I facilitate making it all work together.My experience encompasses 23+ years as a Geologist, Planning Supervision, and Project Management with analysis of multiple domestic, onshore basins for unconventional potential. Three years in a Planning leadership role effectively investing capital in profitable drilling projects. Ten years as a Geologist studying unconventional reservoirs and how to best exploit them. Teaching experience at the college level.Specialties: Core analysis, cuttings analysis, log analysis, basin/regional geologic studies, development planning, geologic mapping, isopach, facies mapping, net pay maps, shale reservoirs, Petra, SMT Kingdom SuiteKeywords: Geologist, Unconventional, Planning, Domestic Onshore, DEP, Horizontal Wells, Petra, Kingdom Suite, Oil & Gas, Excel, PowerPoint, Team Building, Communication, Meeting Facilitation, Risk Assessment, Logistics, Seismic, Rock Property, RockEval, AAPG
Experience
Managing Partner
Oct 2021 — Present · Houston, TX, US
Creating investment opportunities for equity investors in the East Texas Basin to explore unconventional reservoirs, specifically the MidBossier and Haynesville shales• Currently looking at opportunities in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Appalachia and Permian basins• Currently engaged in marketing acreage package within the emerging Bossier Shale trend along the western flank of the East Texas Basin
Education
University of Arkansas
Master of Science (M.S.), Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences
1998 — 2001
Sam Houston State University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Geology/Earth Science, General
1993 — 1998
The University of Tulsa
PhD - not completed, Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences
2003 — 2004
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - not completed, Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences
2001 — 2002
Skills
- Project Management
- Structural Geology
- Completion
- Petroleum
- Microsoft Office
- Oilfield
- Earth Science
- Gas
- Petra
- Formation Evaluation
- Oil & Gas
- Geological Mapping
- Sequence Stratigraphy
- Unconventional
- Drilling
- Petroleum Geology
- Field Development
- Smt Kingdom
- Upstream
- Unconventional Reservoirs
- Directional Drilling
- Team Leadership
- Energy Industry
- Energy
- Project Planning
- Completions
- Petrophysics
- Shale Gas
- Onshore Operations
- Sedimentology
- Oil & Gas Industry
- Logging
- Log Analysis
- Stratigraphy
- Geology
- Oil/Gas
- Natural Gas
- Geosteering
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