Location: Houston,TX, USA
Company Description
Sentinel is an integrated energy company remediating and revitalizing onshore fields, currently focused on Western Oklahoma and Louisiana Gulf Coast conventional plays with non-operated assets in the East Texas Haynesville. Sentinel combined with Encino Energy's legacy assets in late 2023 to form its current structure (Encino remains a major investor in Sentinel).
Activities include upstream (~180 operated + ~350 non-operated wells across ~70,000 net acres in the Western Anadarko Basin; ~20 non-operated wells and ~2,500 net acres in Harrison and Panola counties); full-suite environmental and oilfield services business (Longleaf Environmental Services); gas processing, compression, and gathering assets; technology development (datamining prospect generation, proprietary OmniView IoT wellsite monitoring device, and downhole tool designs); and business-adjacent real estate.
Sentinel is an employee-owned, self-funded partnership pursuing a build, hold, and distribute cash flow model.
Role Description
This is an on-site role for Head of Operations in Houston, TX. This partner will be involved in all aspects of Sentinel's business units, especially focused on upstream and associated service activities. This includes production management and optimization (operated and non-op lease operating expense supervision, artificial lift design, etc.); capital and expense investment project appraisal, design, and management (P&A, rod repair, casing repair, recompletions, fishing, drilling, etc.); and reservoir engineering.
This individual will have the opportunity to contribute to any and all other activities of the company, including in-house and third-party service work, midstream operations, and technology development, all of which are intended to grow value on the upstream assets by lowering structural costs of long-term operations and investment projects.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate will have deep, hands-on operations experience with a variety of activities relevant to managing and growing Sentinel's assets (production, completions, fishing, drilling, and reservoir to a lesser degree). Sentinel is mostly focused on conventional plays, so conventionals expertise and interest is preferred. Familiarity with service operations is a plus but not required. Geologic / petrophysical expertise and interest also a plus.
Compensation
Sentinel offers competitive cash salary (based on the requirements of the partner) and healthcare benefits. Our primary focus is on adding partners who want to become significant owners in the business for the long term, after a mutual trial period is successfully completed, and create wealth through equity value appreciation and distributions. We offer sizeable (25%+) discounts on going-concern valuation for new partners buying into the business.
As a partner, this person would have a critical say in all decision-making as the company plans to remain employee-controlled and self-funded indefinitely.