Jon English

A seasoned veteran of the upstream oil and gas industry and Petroleum Land services sector with over 25 years of experience, Jon joined WLS in June, 2020 as Director of Land for the Southern U.S. business unit. A graduate of the University of Oklahoma, Jon obtained an M.B.A., with a financial emphasis from the Michael F. Price College of Business in 2004 after receiving his B.S. in 1996. Jon’s latest experience was in the position of Executive Vice-President for a top-tier, Land-services firm operating primarily in the Midcontinent/Anadarko Basin region. Responsibilities focused on business development, drill schedule management and Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) based regulatory services (including expert Land testimony). Prior to that, Jon served in various capacities including Senior A&D Landman, A&D Coordinator and Acquisitions Manager, over a 10-year period with Chesapeake Energy, Inc., a time during which CHK was one of the nation’s largest and most active independent oil and gas companies.

During his tenure at CHK, Jon was directly involved in more than $6 Billion of energy acquisition transactions spanning operational areas in the Barnett Shale, Haynesville, Eagleford, and Powder River Basins. Other responsibilities included upstream acquisition project management, contract negotiations, asset valuation (Aries-reserved based economic modeling) and managing a private-equity backed, corporate mineral aggregation platform acquiring minerals across the U.S. Jon gained additional experience dating back to 1995, performing contract Land services for one of the nation’s largest independent E&P firms operating in the Midcontinent region. Jon’s earlier exposure to the industry began in the mid-90s and involved a full complement of field and contract Land services for multiple high profile independent firms focused on exploration activities in the Anadarko Basin.