Zavanna Resources
Responsibly Exploring for Oil and Gas
About Our Company
Zavanna Resources was formed in 2018 in an effort to take advantage of the 100+ years of combined exploration experience that the founding members of Zavanna, LLC hold. Along with the founding members, a team of internal employees and external consultants with a combined experience level of over 300+ years of exploration experience was formed to explore for oil and gas throughout the United States. This team is referred to as the Z Team with key members listed here:
Michael Dolan
DOLAN INTEGRATION GROUP
While at Mobil and ExxonMobil, assisted during exploration phases for Thunder Horse (BP Operated) billion barrel field discovery in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Among many other exploration projects, responsible…. Read More
Timothy Lane
RAINBOW CONSULTING LLC
Experience in Powder River, Williston, DJ, Pennsylvanian and Mississippian of Eastern Colorado and Western Kansas, Appalachian, Gulf Coast (onshore and offshore), Panninian/Carpathian Basins of Romania, and… Read More
Michael Hofmann
AIM GEOANALYTICS
Dr. Hofmann has worked in the energy sector for the past 15 years. His technical expertise lies in sequence stratigraphy, sedimentology, petrography, and integrated basin analysis. He has worked… Read More
Bill Pearson
PEARSON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Bill Pearson graduated from Colorado School of Mines in 1970 with a B.S. degree in geophysical engineering. He began his career in exploration as a field geologist and mining engineer in the coal-mining… Read More
Steve Hoye
BLUE RIVER
Performed geophysical evaluation of plays & prospects in Permian. Developed analytical applications including AI since mid-1980’s. Adept at data discovery and visualization, advanced analytical mathematics… Read More
Brian Bussie
BLUE RIVER
Bryan has a strong willingness to perform under pressure, meet deadlines, solve complex problems, and work long hours to resolve issues. Specialize in systems and network solutions. Strong… Read More
Amanda Wynn-Bidgood
Elevation Resources
Amanda co-founded Elevation Resources, LLC in 2016. Over 10 years ago she started her career in the Oil and Gas Industry. The skillsets acquired in her former accounting… Read More
Zavanna has always forged strong strategic alliances, joint ventures, and joint exploration agreements with partners throughout the industry. Zavanna Resources is dedicated to building and maintaining relationships with contractors and consultants whose values align with our own to increase the scope of what we can accomplish in North Dakota and beyond.
If you are interested in partnering on exploration projects, or have prospects you would like to show please contact us.
Quick Facts
6
Producing wells
299,118 BBIs
Total oil production
35,441,388 MCFs
Total gas production
6,206,028 BBIs
Total BOE production
Our Purpose
Plain and simple, energy runs this world. WIth the advent of the shale revolution in the mid 2000’s, oil and gas companies began moving out of the exploration space. With this loss of focus, a very large void has been created from an energy supply standpoint. Zavanna Resources looks to explore for hydrocarbons in an ethical and environmentally thoughtful way to help provide energy solutions for the future.
We are not averse to other forms of “green energy”, but feel that any transition is going to take a significant amount of time. We are supportive of working collectively on an energy transition that works for all humans globally. This can be achieved by working together, as opposed to glorifying one form of energy while demonizing another.
Zavanna Resources exists to develop and maintain partnerships with carefully-selected and vetted third parties in the energy sector. With the help of these partners, we are confident that we can replicate Zavanna’s success within North Dakota across the Rocky Mountain and Northern Mid-Continent regions, along with other potent environments for oil and gas production.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How Does Zavanna Resources Choose Partners?
Zavanna Resources looks for partners with similar values and levels of experience. We seek to work with organizations who will help us uphold our commitments to Environmental, Social, & Governance best practices, and whose knowledge of the industry complements our own.
Our knowledge of the upstream oil and gas industry motivates us to seek partners with significant midstream experience. Our ideal partners have skills and resources related to processing, storing, transporting, and marketing our oil and gas products.
Why Work with Zavanna Resources?
First and foremost, what you will receive by working with us is honesty and integrity. We treat partners just like we treat ourselves, realizing that in this business there will always be challenges. We feel that the mark of a good partnership isn’t how things go in good times, but how we collectively work through challenges together, for the benefit of the group and no one individual or entity.
Zavanna Resources gives our partners and investors the ability to benefit from Zavanna’s expertise, infrastructure, and sterling reputation for upholding industry-best Environmental, Social, & Governance standards.
As one of North Dakota’s largest privately-owned oil and gas production and exploration companies, we have what it takes to successfully open and operate wells in new regions throughout the United States, and to attract investments that will help us grow even further.
Steve Misner
AIFE
Steve Misner is the principal of AIFE and has been analyzing Drill Stem Tests for over 43 years. Steve is an expert on DrillStem Test (DST) interpretation and is the sole owner of North America’s largest DST database. He has extensive experience in DST analysis and pressure evaluation, and a lifelong commitment to its practical utilization.
Michael Dolan
DOLAN INTEGRATION GROUP
While at Mobil and ExxonMobil, assisted during exploration phases for Thunder Horse (BP Operated) billion barrel field discovery in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Among many other exploration projects, responsible for the original model to confirm a petroleum system in the Kara Sea (Russian Actic Sea). This resulted in the drilling of University #1 well and the discovery of the Pobeda (Victory) Field. Reserves are estimated at 9 billion barrels of oil. Work in North America onshore involves supporting EOG Resources during expansion into Bakken, Niobrara, Mowry, EagleFord, Wolfcamp and many other liquids-rich unconventional plays.
Grant Zimbrick
DOLAN INTEGRATION GROUP
Worked as an exploration and production geologist in a number of U.S. basins. International experience in the North Sea and West Africa. Extensive experience in prospect and play risking and assessment. Has been working unconventional play characterization and evaluation for the last several years. Current emphasis is on basin scale regional geology and 3D maturity modeling.
Michael Hofmann
AIM GEOANALYTICS
Dr. Hofmann has worked in the energy sector for the past 15 years. His technical expertise lies in sequence stratigraphy, sedimentology, petrography, and integrated basin analysis. He has worked in diverse basins in North America and around the world. After earning his Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Montana, he worked as a senior geologist for ConocoPhillips’ Subsurface Technology, Sedimentary Systems, and Shale Stratigraphy groups in Houston, TX. Before forming AIM GeoAnalytics in 2012, he worked as an independent consultant, providing geological expertise to energy industry. He is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Montana. Michael supervises and manages AIM GeoAnalytics’ technical and business operations.
John Horn
INDEPENDENT MEMBER
Dr. Horne has taught at the Univerisity of South Carolina and the Colorado School of Mines and authored numerous publication on Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Tertiary age strata in North America, South America , and Africa. He has consulted on a variety of coal bed methane, shale resource, heavy oil, and other energy-related projects through his consulting company Orion International Ltd.
Ryan Fisher
INDEPENDENT MEMBER
Ryan Fisher, principle geologist at Manitou Consulting has 20 years operations and exploration experience in a variety of US productive basins. Mr. Fisher’s believes in active communication, the fundamentals of fluid flow through a porous media, integration of multiple industry datasets into interpretive workflows and effective database management. His experitise includes exploration for unconventional mudrock-hosted hydrocarbons, development of continous gas accumulations, exploitation of conventional carbonate-hosted hydrocarbon accumulations, well operations and providing geologic data and interpretation to completion design.
Timothy Lane
INDEPENDENT MEMBER
Experience in Powder River, Williston, DJ, Pennsylvanian and Mississippian of Eastern Colorado and Western Kansas, Appalachian, Gulf Coast (onshore and offshore), Panninian/Carpathian Basins of Romania, and Chesire Basin, UK. Extensive experience in integrated 2D/3D seismic and geologic interpretation, project management, onshore drilling operations, and seismic data processing. Broad based knowledge of seismic acquisition and permitting, production and development engineering principals, land management, contract/lease negotiations, and state and federal regulatory issues. Excellent presentation, organization, and planning skills.
David List
INDEPENDENT MEMBER
Generated and evaluated stratigraphic/structural prospects and developed fields in the Rocky Mountains (Williston, Powder River, Paradox, Red Desert, Big Horn and Green River basins) / Adept at interpreting and integrating geologic, geophysical, petrophysical, and engineering data into consistent geologic models for development and exploratory purposes / Experience with unconventional, fractured and conventional reservoirs, clastic and carbonate depositional environments in a variety of structural settings
Robert C. Flook
INDEPENDENT MEMBER
Highlights of Robert Flook’s 39 year career in the Oil and Gas Industry include the discovery and development of over 227 MMBO and 210 BCFG reserves in the Powder River, DJ, Anadarko, Paradox, Uinta and Gulf Coast Basins.
Bill Pearson
INDEPENDENT MEMBER
Bill Pearson graduated from Colorado School of Mines in 1970 with a B.S. degree in geophysical engineering. He began his career in exploration as a field geologist and mining engineer in the coal-mining industry in Alaska and New Mexico. After one year in the field, Bill decided to go to graduate school at the University of Washington to study the fast-evolving field of plate tectonics. He was instrumental in building seismic-reflection and seismic-refraction equipment and heat-flow probes for deep-water exploration where he developed code for processing, modeling, and interpreting seismic, gravity, magnetic, and heat-flow data. After earning a Ph.D. in oceanography, he joined Amoco as a geophysicist and divided his time between research and exploration. After a short career at Amoco, Bill left to become a consultant and has combined his efforts in coding, performing research, teaching industry courses, consulting, and exploring for oil and gas.
Steve Hoye
INDEPENDENT MEMBER
Performed geophysical evaluation of plays & prospects in Permian. Developed analytical applications including AI since mid-1980’s. Adept at data discovery and visualization, advanced analytical mathematics, and machine learning applications to Energy Industry with 40 years experience therein. Expert in financial analysis and valuation.
Brian Bussie
INDEPENDENT MEMBER
Bryan has a strong willingness to perform under pressure, meet deadlines, solve complex problems, and work long hours to resolve issues. Specialize in systems and network solutions. Strong familiarity with Cisco\Fortinet\Azure\AWS\VMWare infrastructure, Microsoft platforms, OSX, Linux (Kali), SQL Server, Spotfire Server, O365 suite, etc… solitary or team oriented.
Amanda Wynn-Bidgood
INDEPENDENT MEMBER
“Amanda co-founded Elevation Resources, LLC in 2016. Over 10 years ago she started her career in the Oil and Gas Industry. The skillsets acquired in her former accounting, banking and asset management roles have complimented her more recent Petroleum Land Education and experience. She has led/managed several (land) teams in a variety of engagements including but not limited to; conducting title and leasehold research, leasing campaigns, software data integrations and due diligence evaluations. She has represented several operators, mineral owners and law firms with assets primarily located in the Rocky Mountain and Mid-Con Regions.
Denver Business Journal award for 2014 Top 40 Under 40
Denver Business Journal award for 2016 Top Women in Energy”