ARB ENERGY TEAM
Humberto Sirvent
Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Sirvent has 13 years of experience and a strong background as an energy investment banker concentrating on E&P, oilfield services, power and renewables. Over the past five years he has participated in M&A and has raised capital or originated $1.8 billion worth of projects in the energy sector.
Mr. Sirvent’s valuable work expertise includes Institutional Credit and Wealth Management at Merrill Lynch and UBS Financial Services for over ten years, where he managed over $2.5 billion of client assets. He is also a co-owner of Clearinghouse Securities, LLC (FINRA broker/dealer #35192).
Mr. Sirvent holds a B.S. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Arizona. He maintains Series 7, 24, 31, 63, and 66 FINRA securities licenses.
David Bullion
Chief Investment Officer
Mr. Bullion has more than 31 years of experience in upstream oil and gas. His successful proven track record covers finding and developing hydrocarbons, domestic and international, exploration and development for public and private companies. His 20 year career with BP where he began as a field petrophysicist in Alaska and worked his way through increasingly demanding roles in the company’s diverse operations around the globe. At BP Mr. Bullion was Resource Manager for Rockies U.S.A. and managed tight gas fields in Rockies with Net Present Value >$1Billion dollars. After BP, Bullion became Vice President, General Manager for Red Willow LLC leading all operations for the firm in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and the Gulf of Mexico. Most recently, he has been involved with multiple acquisition and divestment projects advising both Buyers and Sellers.
Mr. Bullion has a BS and MS in Geophysics from Texas A & M University.
Joseph Frost
General Counsel and Director OF Strategic Ventures
Mr. Frost serves dual roles as both Managing Director – Strategic Ventures and General Counsel. After graduating from Northwestern University School of law, with honors, in 2003, Joseph practiced energy and real estate law. He spent 11 years at the largest private oil company in America where his career shifted into development and growth of new entities and ventures, mostly within the energy sector. Joseph has significant experience in starting and growing new companies, through organic initiatives and acquisitions, in energy, construction, pipeline, and water purification ventures.
During his career, Joseph has participated in over $9 billion in acquisitions and divestitures, with the majority of assets being oil and natural gas production, transportation, and treating facilities. As part of these transactions, Joseph formed and helped manage ventures utilizing over $1 Billion in private equity funds. He has experience in dealing with both private and public joint ventures, corporate governance, regulatory compliance with both state and federal governmental bodies (Natural Gas Act, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Texas Railroad Commission), and planning and execution of long-term strategic initiatives.
Outside the energy sector, Joseph has advised clients in real estate acquisitions and divestitures totaling hundreds of millions of dollars; with experience in the real estate market from high rise office buildings to single family homes. He manages a $6 million commercial and residential real estate portfolio, with properties located in 3 states.
David Porter
Chief Regulatory Officer
Mr. Porter was elected to serve a six-year term as Texas Railroad Commissioner in November 2010. Commissioner Porter was appointed to the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission as the Official Representative of Texas by Texas Governor Rick Perry. He was also Governor Perry’s official representative on the Interstate Mining Compact Commission an served as an advisory board member for the Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law.
Porter created the Eagle Ford Shale Task Force, the first of its kind at the Texas Railroad Commission, to establish a forum that will bring the community together and foster a dialogue regarding drilling activities in the Eagle Ford Shale.
Mr. Porter graduated with honors in 1977 from the Church of Christ-affiliated Harding University and is a licensed CPA.
Daniel Benedict
Production Engineering Advisor
Mr. Benedict is a production and reservoir engineer with 15 years of experience that has worked for Citation Oil & Gas, Double Eagle Petroleum, the Aspen Companies and Baker Hughes and has previously managed production and enhancement programs in Texas, Colorado and Utah. Most recently, Mr. Benedict was at Iskandia Energy Operating where he was instrumental in executing 120+ quick-hit projects improving the company production by 500+ boepd in a 16-month period.
Mr. Benedict has a BS and an MS in Petroleum Engineering, from Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado.
He is a SPE member and author of SPE Paper 119355.
DIANE L. NIELSEN
DIRECTOR OF INVESTOR RELATIONS
Ms. Nielsen serves as the client contact for established investors of the company. She also provides executive level support to the CEO, including investment and corporate banking correspondence, human resources functions, and serves as a liaison with external support teams and field offices.
Prior to joining Arb Energy, Ms. Nielsen worked for over 10 years at Falcon Seaboard, a privately-held family oil and gas investment company, providing executive level administrative and financial support to former Texas Lt. Governor David Dewhurst, now Chairman and CEO, and Gene Dewhurst, Partner and Vice President. During her tenure at Falcon Seaboard, from 2006-2014, she also served as an executive assistant to Governor Dewhurst and liaised daily with Capitol staff (Austin).
Ms. Nielsen began her career at Conoco, now ConocoPhillips, in their Philanthropy and Community Affairs department where she organized more than 25 special events annually and served as community multicultural liaison. Ms. Nielsen holds a B.A. from Hope College, a private Christian liberal arts college in Holland, Michigan.
Murray Grigg
Strategic Advisor
Mr. Grigg is a senior executive with 36 years of reservoir engineering experience including 10 years in the exploration and development of shale reservoirs.
Most recently, Mr. Grigg was the Chief Executive Officer at Kerogen Resources Inc., where he identified the Bakken, Barnett and Montney plays in very early stages, accessing low-cost land in ‘sweet-spots’ near production. Prior to Kerogen, Mr. Grigg has had a proven record of accomplishment with other premier companies in the industry, including Canadian Hunter, EOG, Encana, and Mariner Energy
Mr. Grigg earned a degree in Applied Science (Chemical Engineering) from the University of British Columbia and his Master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering from University of Calgary. He is a member of AAPG and SPE.
Cliff Klingler
Land Advisor
Mr. Klingler is an upstream energy business executive with over 30 years of experience in the land, business development and property side of the oil and gas industry including mineral and surface acquisitions, oil and gas rights leasing, property acquisitions and divestitures covering hundreds of millions of dollars in value. Mr. Klingler managed generation, assembly, marketing and deal negotiations over numerous oil and gas exploration and development projects in numerous basins in the USA, one in Alberta Canada and one offshore in Bohai Bay China.
Mr. Klingler spent ten years as Land Manager with The Exploration Company of Louisiana, 5 years as Business Development Land Advisor with Burlington Resources and ConocoPhillips, 5 years as Vice President Land with Kerogen Exploration, LLC.
DAVE PATTERSON
GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS Advisor
Mr. Patterson is a seasoned technical professional and entrepreneur with 38 years of geology, geophysics, engineering and startup experience.
Most recently, Mr. Patterson has conducted consulting and project work with D3-Energy generating a development strategy in the Eastern Shelf of the Permian Basin. Prior to D3, Mr. Patterson was the Exploration Manager at Rose Petroleum, which owns 250,000 acres in the Uinta and Paradox basins of Utah and his focus was on exploiting the Mancos and Paradox clastic plays. Prior to Rose, Mr. Patterson was the Pinedale Exploration Manager at Ultra Petroleum where he lead the development of a world-class gas reservoir in the Rockies region. Prior to Ultra Mr. Patterson worked at Davis Petroleum, was an Exploration Manager at Carrizo Oil and Gas, and was a partner that successfully built and sold Quisto Exploration. Mr. Patterson started his career at Tenneco E&P and had cross training in Reservoir, Production, and Drilling functions while there.
Mr. Patterson graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1981, with a degree in Geological Engineering with emphasis in Petroleum Engineering and Geophysics.