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HSE

As an independent oil and gas company, we recognize that we have a responsibility to all of our stakeholders to integrate health, safety, and environmental management processes into all our work activities. We continually emphasize to all of our employees, as well as all our contractors, that we must meet our operational and financial objectives without endangering the environment or the health and safety of those around us. In order to meet this goal effectively, we seek to continuously improve our processes so that health, safety, and the environment remain among our highest priorities.

We make every effort to comply with or exceed all federal, state, and local health, safety and environmental standards, and are committed to providing all the resources needed to promote and execute safe and environmentally responsible operations.

Safety is one of Sabinal’s Core Values, therefore, we are dedicated to safe operations so that all employees return home in better condition than what they came to work, learning something, improving or growing in some fashion...in addition to being safe. We take action to implement programs aimed at mitigating safety incidents, highlighting good safety performance and making safety a meaningful topic for our employees. Every person working or visiting a Sabinal location has the authority and responsibility to "stop work" to address unsafe behaviors or conditions... preventing safety or environmental incidents.

HSE Committee

To give additional ownership of operation-level safety performance to our employees, Sabinal formed an HSE Committee in our operating areas in 2018. The committees identify, plan, assist in the implementation of, and monitor and report on HSE initiatives that promote a safe, healthful and environmentally friendly workplace. The HSE Committee is comprised of area individuals such as foremen, lease operators, electricians, office employees and HSE representatives. The committees meet frequently, often monthly, to discuss safety initiatives that are then shared with all employees during group safety meetings.

Cale is the Southern District Superintendent for Sabinal Energy, prior to this role he was a Well Site Supervisor and brings 9 yrs experience in drilling, completions, and workover fields.  Cale started out with Nabors Drilling in the Bakken horizontal play and then made the transition to Halliburton Bariod out of Elk City, Oklahoma as a mud engineer drilling horizontal in the granite wash.  After that he went to Chevron D+C as a Drill Site Manager drilling in the Midland area vertical wolfcamp wells, as well horizontal in the Marcellus/Utica in Pennsylvania.  He also worked as a Well Site Manager across the Permian for Chevron.

Cale earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Landscape Architecture from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.

Craig is the Northern District Superintendent for Sabinal Energy, prior to that role he was the Production/Workover Supervisor and brings over 38 years of production and workover operations experience. While working for Chevron/Texaco, Craig had 10 years of workover operations in Secondary recovery and CO2 floods in the Permian basin and in the Rocky Mountains. He also worked in production operations for 27 years in various roles including HES, construction/maintenance, automation, and field operations. 

Ben has over 25 years of Information Technology experience within oil/gas industry with both PE startups as well as large established companies.

Before joining Sabinal, Ben was a founding member of four successful PE startups, Spinnaker Exploration 2000, Common Resources in 2007, and Common Resources II in 2010, Common Resources III in 2014. All totaled over $4bn in asset sales.

His career started as a researcher for the Department of Defense, then a Field Engineer with Schlumberger in the Piceance Basin before moving to more IT-centric positions. He was Director of Operations for PGS GeoBank, a worldwide multi-national storage and retrieval bank of seismic data, before becoming the IT Manager of Spinnaker Exploration Company in 2000. He developed one of the largest (2.5 petabytes) data processing systems for multi-teraflop High-Performance computing centers. Ben provided a leadership role in overseeing the merger of Spinnaker to Norsk Hydro, and then again of Norsk Hydro to Statoil. While at Statoil Ben held the title of IT Head of all Americas.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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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