Joseph Matoush

About Joseph Matoush

Full range of Exploration, Development, and Production operational assignments.Exploration: Global opportunity generation and operational experience in offshore shallow/deep-water onshore conventional and unconventional systems assessing play risk & uncertainty and executing drilling campaigns. Strategic Planning role valuing and ranking EM E,D&P assets and M&A targets. Development: Russia, Angola, GOM, Nigeria, N&S America onshore. Conventional and unconventional assessment, risking, and development planning. Range of production and pressure support drilling campaigns.Production: Angola, Nigeria, California, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, Wyoming and Alabama. Projects include shallow/deep-water clastics, multiple unconventional/resource plays. Daily operations in Nigeria and California, Wyoming, Texas, Utah, New Mexico. Extensive development optimization projects and field development planning efforts. Extensive collaboration on geo models and engineering history matching/prediction for field development/depletion planning. Deep collaboration with reservoir, completions and drilling engineering. Maximizing value!Leadership: Range of experiences leading and contributing to small/large teams, multi-disciplinary engineering and geoscience teams, and multi-faceted technical-operational efforts. Stewardship across conventional and unconventional assets and experience at every step in the life-cycle of assets (i.e, conceptual, exploration, development, production, enhanced recovery, and abandonment). Experience leading data management, data-science, technology and research groups.Passions: People. Multi-disciplinary collaboration (Geo, Engr, Land/Reg, Operations). Unconventional & Conventional subsurface analysis. Sequence stratigraphy & depositional systems. Subsurface data integration. Championing geoscience/reservoir/completions/drilling problem solving and value generation. Technology utilization and development.

Experience

1. Senior Vice President - Asset Development

   Anschutz Exploration Corporation

   Mar 2025 — Present · Denver, CO, US

   Driving AEC best-in-class performance and growth through sound technical and commercial direction of company wide business units and new ventures. Leading multiple departmental/functional teams including Geoscience, Reservoir Engineering, Land, Regulatory, Government & Public Affairs, and Geo-Ops through full asset lifecycle of Exploration, Appraisal, and Development/Monetization.

Education

• California Lutheran University

  BSc, Geology

  1996 — 1999

• Utah State University

  MSc, Geology / Basin Analysis

  2000 — 2002

Skills

• Petrophysics
• Seismology
• Log Analysis
• Petrel
• Structural Geology
• 3d Seismic Interpretation
• Earth Science
• Petroleum Geology
• Reservoir Management
• Upstream
• Drilling
• Stratigraphy
• Formation Evaluation
• Reservoir Engineering
• Characterization
• Sequence Stratigraphy
• Sedimentology
• Geology