Estacado provides consulting services for conventional, unconventional and tight, on-shore and off-shore exploration, reservoir engineering, geology and geophysics, both for the domestic and the international energy industry. Estacado’s expertise is grounded in the rich experience and know-how of its founders.
Mitchell -MS Geology, Texas A&M University- has broad unconventional experience includes petroleum systems, petrophysics, geomechanics, natural fracture characterization and well operations. What Mitchell brings to the table is a passion to integrate multi-disciplinary data such as completion and reservoir engineering with geologic data to identify key parameters that underpin more productive unconventional wells.
Mitchell is efficient at navigating capital markets, opportunity screening, economic evaluation, bidding and purchase negotiation. As a co-founder of a successfully monetized private equity backed company, Mitchell was instrumental in delivering multiple technical projects in East Texas, South Texas and the Permian Basin, producing full economic and technical evaluations of potential opportunities.
Jessica -MS Geology Texas A&M University- has broad experience evaluating discovered resources and risking hydrocarbon potential of basins, plays and prospects. She started her career at BP where she worked as an operations and exploration geologist in the onshore US and international (Mexico and Russia).
She then moved to BHP Billiton where she worked as a geoscientist and an Exploration Manager, leading integrated subsurface teams performing fast-paced opportunity evaluations, including several for the pre-salt carbonate plays in Southern Brazil and BHP’s successful bid for the Trion discovery in the DW Mexican GOM.
