Jeff Jurinak

Jeff is a 35+ year professional in petroleum exploration and production with 20+ years in management of engineering and technology groups. His professional foundation is reservoir engineering and project assessment, and he has significant career experience in exploration management, business strategy and portfolio management, corporate restructuring, and organizational start-up.

The core of his career was with Conoco and ConocoPhillips. Jeff served as Chief Reservoir Engineer, responsible for reviewing and approving reservoir engineering for all major exploration and production projects for ConocoPhillips worldwide and for overseeing corporate reserves bookings of 11.5 billion bbl. In this role, Jeff also helped oversee COP’s global exploration portfolio.

From 2011-2014, Jeff was Vice President of Development for QGC, part of BG Group, based in Brisbane, Australia. He was responsible for the upstream component of the US$21 billion QCLNG CBM to LNG project, including development geoscience, operations geology, reservoir engineering, production technology, and water resources.

As a principal of Phase Change Resources, Jeff was responsible for technical underwriting on all private equity investment proposals, ranging from heavy oil thermal recovery to unconventional dry gas. Jeff also led PCR’s development of proprietary production forecasting for dry gas reservoirs.

Jeff has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he conducted research on solar energy applications.