Rog Hardy

About Rog Hardy

Natural resource exploration, development and production leader with proven track record of employing strong people skills and latest technologies to develop strategies and execute programs in diverse and challenging geological, operational, political, and cultural environments. Effective in leading multicultural teams domestically and overseas. Recent mix of domestic and international resource advising in petroleum, geothermal, environmental and carbon reduction disciplines. Specialties: • Public and private upstream company start-up coordination. • Upstream company asset valuation and M&A rationalization. • Exploration and production team building and coordination. • Global and regional exploration strategy and portfolio development. • Farm-in review and recommendations; Farm-out preparation and presentations • Foreign exploration office set-up and administration; Multicultural leadership • Host government liaison and negotiations • Exploration bid round preparation and submission • Advisor in environmental remediation and geothermal systems • In-depth experience in: West Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America and Caribbean, China, North Sea, Alaska, California, Mid-Continent, and Gulf Coast.

Experience

1. Founding Principal

   Canopy E&p Services Llc

   Jan 2016 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Founding principal coordinating the establishment of an LLC and consulting alliance to provide focused, high quality, efficient and comprehensive geotechnical, engineering and commercial know-how to the upstream domestic and international oil & gas community. Present activities:• Coordinating all necessary legal and financial filings and account set-up.• With my co-founder, building a team and establishing roles and responsibilities.• Designing and executing a marketing strategy focused on timely key target clients.Principal Services:• M&A support on the buy and sell side in the oil & gas upstream sector.• Oil & gas production optimization.• Oil and gas exploration and development strategic planning and program execution, domestically and

Education

• University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

  Executive Education, Executive Management Program with an IT focus

  1998 — 1998

• University of Minnesota

  BA, Geology with Geophysics Option, Math minor

  1964 — 1968

• San Diego State University

  MS, Geology and Geophysics

  1969 — 1973

• University of Oslo

  Borgebrev, Norwegian Language, history, geography

  1966 — 1969

Skills

• Sedimentology
• Petrophysics
• Petroleum Geology
• Energy
• Oil & Gas Exploration
• International New Ventures
• International Exploration Operations
• Natural Gas
• Reservoir Management
• Stratigraphy
• Sequence Stratigraphy
• New Ventures
• Oil and Gas Portfolio Management
• Regional Shale Evaluation
• Argentina
• Formation Evaluation
• Contract Management
• Seismology
• Geophysics
• Geology
• Mineral Exploration
• Energy Industry
• Drilling
• Log Analysis
• Colombia
• Oil and Gas Exploration
• Gas
• Oil/Gas
• Earth Science
• Southeast Asia
• Reservoir Engineering
• Pipelines
• Upstream
• Geothermal Systems
• Deepwater West Africa
• Reserves
• South America
• Petrel
• Oil & Gas Industry
• Seismic Inversion