*Source – www.iea.org/reports/oil-2021
Oil & Gas Pedigree
Seasoned
Pytheas Energy Inc (“Pytheas”) is a seasoned management team, considered some of the most respected researchers and drilling operators in the world, with a strong track record of working with Major Oil and Gas Companies prior to forming Pytheas.
Tech Team
With over 100 years of combined experience, and considered the leading technology team at Conoco Phillips, our team has developed multiple cutting-edge drilling projects.
Just Drill
Drilled thousands of wells around the world; onshore, offshore, conventional, and unconventional.
Broad Experience
Each team member is a subject matter expert (SME)* in:
- Field operations
- Drilling engineers
- Completion engineers
- Business administration
Our Technical Team
Kyle Fontenot
Former Engineering Manager
ConocoPhillips
Kyle has 33 years of oil & gas experience; he recently led a Conoco Phillips global drilling engineering and technology team. He has extensive experience with the Permian, Eagle Ford, Bakken & Niobrara reservoirs. Kyle was the first drilling engineer to drill wells with casing alone and no drill pipe. This cut drilling time in half, making even marginal wells profitable. Kyle drilled 800 such wells in Lobo, Texas.
Gary Collins
Former Drilling Engineer
ConocoPhillips
Gary Collins is one of the top drilling engineers in the world. He has held senior Drilling Engineer positions at Conoco Phillips (15 years) and before that Marathon Oil (24 years), where he worked up from Completion Engineer to Advanced Senior Drilling Engineer. Gary is known as an innovator in his field – he holds several patents in drilling and completion technologies and has written many well-respected technical articles. Gary holds a B.S> in Natural Gasoline from Texas A&I.
Trey Gilbert
Former Completion Engineer
ConocoPhillips
Trey spent 35 years in the oil industry, serving a variety of roles: drilling, completion, production and reservoir. The last 25 years focused on development architecture and completion solutions for complex reservoir environments. Trey has provided engineering/ops support for implementation programs on 5 continents. Early in his career, Trey worked in the military aircraft industry as an engineer on the F-16 fighter aircraft.
James A. “Tony” Fox
Senior Advisor
Tony has 40 plus years of experience in the upstream energy industry, spanning drilling, completions, and production operations. His unique perspective of the industry from the contractor and operator view (Quintana Petroleum, Halliburton, Tesco, and Helmerich & Payne) has resulted in Tony being one of the best connected and influential individuals in the industry. Additionally, Tony has multiple successful startup and exits in the energy sector.