Jeffrey R. Vaughan

Biography

 Jeff Vaughan is a Registered Professional Petroleum Engineer (Colorado School of Mines, 1982) with over 30 years of diverse leadership experience in the oil and gas industry. The primary focus of his career has been on large scale oil and gas resource plays. Cumulatively, Jeff has directed the development and sale of oil and gas properties with a value in excess of $1.4 billion. Most recently, as CEO of Tracker II and TRZ Energy, Jeff directed the Tracker team in building and developing a position in the Bakken play of over 170,000 acres. After drilling 53 wells to prove the resource potential, this property was sold to Hess Corporation for $1.05 billion in December 2010. Jeff founded Tracker Resource Development in 2004 as the operating company for various properties owned by Sandefer Capital Partners. The largest of these was Entre Energy Partners where he oversaw the development of various projects in Texas (Wolfberry and Cotton Valley) and the Mid-Continent region (CBM, New Albany Shale). This portfolio of properties sold for $370 million in late 2005/early 2006. Prior to joining Entre, Jeff was the President of Buena Vista Development, a division of SCP Management Co, formed to identify and develop bypassed reserves in Buena Vista Hills field located in Kern County, California. Prior to this, Jeff was the Manager of Crude Oil and Natural Gas Trading for Giant Industries, Arizona Inc. and Vice-President Operations and Engineering for Giant Exploration & Production Company. Before joining Giant, Jeff worked for The Williams Companies for nine years, holding the positions of Supervisor of Joint Interest and Acquisitions, Drilling & Production Engineer, and Reservoir Engineer. Jeff is honored to serve on the boards of Colorado UpLift and the Tennyson Center for Children.

Research Interest

  Geology and Earth Science