Mr. Doherty is a highly accomplished senior petroleum geologist with over 40 years of experience at all levels from senior scientist to executive level including VP Exploration/ CEO roles. He is very well versed in all aspects of the oil and gas industry including geophysics, reservoir and production engineering, economic risk evaluation, infrastructure and the regulatory environment.

He has extensive operations experience gained executing $100MM Capex and Opex budgets and drilling several hundred wells on an annual basis. Mr. Doherty’s success rate within the Western Basin on a year-on-year basis averages a 38 % growth rate from deep to shallow including Devonian, Mississippian, Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous targets and from a variety of lithologies and traps.

Over Mr. Doherty’s career, he has held positions at Alberta Energy Company, Canadian Superior, Gulf Canada, Shell and Apache. Later Mr. Doherty and partners founded three junior oil ventures, including Signal Resources and then undertook a position with Prime West Trust as Southern Business Unit Manager. This last position managed over 17,000 Boe/d and a staff of 30 Professionals.