Kurt Ley
Vice President/Manager Exploitation And Production
Environmental Science
sensient
Canada
Biography
Mr. Ley began his 36 year career with The Superior Oil Company as a Development Geologist and augmented his career through positions with Tenneco Oil Company, Apache Corporation, Northstar Producing 1 L.P., Stroud Production LLC and Kingwood Exploration, LLC(9 years as owner/operator and co-manager). Over his career he has excelled in the re-development of legacy oil and gas fields mostly in the Gulf of Mexico Area. His work has resulted in success rates as high as 94% success in the drilling and workover of wells in old fields and his work has lead to numerous discoveries in oil and gas field step-out prospects. He personally is responsible for adding over 10 million barrels of oil and 42 billion cubic feet of gas in additional production in the areas of field study plus he is credited with over a dozen new discoveries. Mr. Ley has a Bachelors Degree in Geology from Louisiana Tech University and is an active member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Houston Geological Society, Shreveport Geological Society and the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association.
Research Interest
Environmental Science and Earth science
