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FDI Creative Services

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Values

Safety – We want our employees to go home in better condition than when they came to work, learning something, improving or growing in some fashion, in addition to being safe

Integrity – Being the Company of choice with a reputation employees and business partners are proud to stand behind

Teamwork – Surrounding ourselves with hardworking, talented people we trust and that take pride in working collaboratively

Excellence – Entrepreneurial behaviors driving innovation and financial responsibility to create value

Respect – For stakeholders, team members, landowners, our communities and the environment

Our team’s strong experience base gives us a solid foundation from which we will continue to build our world-class company with an unwavering commitment to safe, environmentally compliant and community-friendly operations

About Us Investors Areas of Operations

Thursday, 06 June 2019 11:47

The Woodlands, Texas

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 13 September 2018 09:29

Areas of Operations

Sabinal’s assets are located on the Central Basin Platform and Eastern, Northern and Northwest Shelves of the prolific Permian Basin. Production from both waterfloods and CO2 floods in a stacked pay environment; these are high quality, oil weighted, low decline assets that provide robust primary, secondary and tertiary opportunities.

Our current structure consists of 3 Districts with Field Offices located in Andrews, Levelland, Penwell, Sundown, Seminole and Westbrook.

Sabinal map

Investors About Us Values

Wednesday, 13 June 2018 17:20

Ben Kokenge

Ben Kokenge is a seasoned technology executive with over 30 years of experience driving IT strategy and infrastructure within the oil and gas industry. His expertise spans the full corporate lifecycle, from scaling high-growth private equity (PE) startups to managing global operations for multi-national energy leaders.
 
Before joining Sabinal Energy, Ben was a foundational member of four highly successful PE-backed ventures: Spinnaker Exploration (2000), Common Resources (2007), Common Resources II (2010), and Common Resources III (2014). Collectively, these organizations achieved more than $4 billion in asset sales.
 
Ben’s career is defined by his ability to bridge technical innovation with operational scale. He previously served as the Director of Operations for PGS GeoBank, managing a global seismic data repository, and as IT Manager for Spinnaker Exploration, where he engineered one of the industry's most advanced data processing systems—a 2.5-petabyte high-performance computing (HPC) center.
 
A proven leader in M&A integration, Ben played a critical role in overseeing the transition of Spinnaker to Norsk Hydro, and subsequently, Norsk Hydro to Statoil. Following these mergers, he served as the IT Head for North and South America at Statoil. Ben began his career as a researcher for the Department of Defense and a Field Engineer for Schlumberger in the Piceance Basin.
 

Ben has a BS in Physics, Mathematics and a Computer Science minor from California State University Chico and a Master of Science in Physics from Texas A&M University.

Wednesday, 13 June 2018 17:20

Jim Connor

Jim has 30 years of experience as an attorney in the oil and gas and oilfield services industries, including Hess Corporation, El Paso Corporation, Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc., Sonat Exploration Company, and Mitchell Energy Corporation, working on a diverse portfolio of domestic and international, onshore and offshore projects. Additionally, he is involved with the Houston Museum of Natural Science Volunteer Guild, is a member of the Board of Visitors of the University of Texas McDonald Observatory, and is a past Chair of the Houston Bar Association Oil, Gas & Mineral Law Section. Prior to joining Sabinal, Jim served as outside counsel to the company. Jim earned a B.S. in Psychology from Texas A&M University and a J.D., with honors, from the University of Houston Law Center..

Wednesday, 13 June 2018 17:19

Vickie Irvine

Vickie is a progressive and creative business professional with over 25 years’ experience in Human Resources. She is respected in the HR profession for her talent in balancing the need for tactical efficiency and strategic activities to help growing and nimble organizations move forward to reach defined goals. Vickie started her career in the water industry and moved to oil and gas in 2001. She has worked both domestically and internationally with publicly traded companies and private equity backed organizations. Prior to Sabinal, Vickie was the Human Resources Director for Arsenal Capital Partners’, Flowchem and Kel-Tech portfolio companies where she designed, implemented and merged an entire HR structure complete with policies and procedures to help prepare the companies for a successful transition in less than 3 years. Vickie has also worked for El Paso, Oxy, Inc. and Linn Energy.

She earned her Bachelor of Business Administration and her Masters of Business Administration from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Vickie holds her Professional in Human Resources and SHRM-CP certifications and is a member of HR Houston and the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM).

Wednesday, 13 June 2018 17:16

Woody Sandlin

Woody has over 35 years of experience across multiple basins in North America, starting his career with Marathon in Cody, Wyoming. He was directly responsible for field operations in many of the primary, secondary, and tertiary flooded fields in Wyoming. He managed shale operations for Chesapeake in the Barnett, Appalachia, and Eagleford, where he successfully implemented very active horizontal development of those fields that included multi-billion dollar per year capital programs and thousands of wells. Prior to Sabinal he was the Operations Manager for Lewis Energy Group whose focus was in the Western Eagleford play.

Woody grew up in Central Texas and brings significant experience with secondary and tertiary fields, and horizontal drilling programs

Woody holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas Tech University.

Thursday, 26 April 2018 14:04

Dan Higdon

Dan is an innovative and accomplished leader with over 35 years of technical land and management experience. He has experience in most major basins in the Lower 48.  His career began in 1983 with Mitchell Energy where he held various Land positions culminating as Regional Land Manager handling all of Mitchell’s assets except for its South Texas and Gulf Coast properties. Among his many accomplishments was coordinating the acquisition of the Barnett Shale asset and assisting in the development of Production Sharing Agreements. In 2002, when Devon Energy acquired Mitchell, Dan continued with Devon as the Central Division Land Manager overseeing the Barnett Shale asset during the advent of horizontal drilling in unconventional shales. He continued to develop his leadership and technical skills at Devon and in 2006 was promoted to Vice President of Land for Devon’s Southern Division. A key achievement during this tenure was the development of Allocation Wells in the State of Texas; allowing for more orderly and economically viable horizontal drilling programs. Prior to co-founding Sabinal Energy in 2016 he held the position of Vice President of Land for EXCO Resources.

He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Petroleum Land Management and a second BBA in Marketing from The University of Texas – Austin and a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting from The University of Texas – Arlington. Dan is a Certified Professional Landman and a member of the AAPL and HAPL.

Thursday, 26 April 2018 13:56

Bret Jameson

Bret has 30 years of experience across most basins in North America, starting his career with Exxon in Midland working Central Basin Platform properties. Prior to Sabinal he was COO at Lewis Energy Group whose focus was in the Western Eagleford play. He also held several leadership positions for Devon and multiple companies that ultimately merged with Devon, including Ocean Energy, UMC Petroleum, General Atlantic Resources, and GLG Energy.

He has managed multi-billion dollar capital programs, acquisitions, and generated a 11 ROI at exit from one $2.5 B exploration program he built from grass roots

Bret holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas Tech University.

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