Leadership

The principal investors in White Marlin E&P each have nearly 30 years of oil & gas exploration, production, and management expertise, both domestically and internationally.

Terrell J. (Terry) Clark, President and CEO

Terry Clark, President and CEO of White Marlin E&P, LLC, is a 1980 graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado (BS Mechanical Engineering). Terry began his professional engineering career with Amoco Production Company in the summer of 1980 working the oilfields of central and southern Wyoming. Over the next 17 years Terry developed expertise in oil and gas field exploitation and development while managing reservoir and production engineering programs in Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, offshore West Africa, and Egypt. In 1997 Terry joined Reading & Bates Development Company as the Director of Reservoir Engineering, helping to build a start-up oil and gas subsidiary of Reading & Bates Corporation into a $312 MM venture in just four years. With additional expertise gained in Gulf of Mexico shelf and deepwater exploration, drilling, and reservoir production, Terry took his talent to the public in 2001 with the formation of two start-up consulting companies that specialized in Gulf of Mexico and international exploration and development work. By 2007, Terry had sold his interests in both companies, and turned his attention to a partnership in the start-up oil & gas company Black Elk Energy, LLC. As Executive Vice President at Black Elk, Terry successfully managed the Gulf of Mexico reservoir, production, drilling, and exploration operations while also participating with the management team in raising over $40 MM in private equity in the first two years. Terry is a registered professional engineer in Colorado, and is a 28 year member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Jack C. Faubion, CFO

Jack Faubion, CFO of White Marlin E&P, LLC, is a 1972 graduate of Rice University, Houston, Texas (BS Accounting). Jack began his professional career in the Houston office of one of the then Big 8 accounting firms, Arthur Andersen & Co. where he specialized in the annual audits of publicly held energy companies including those with extensive offshore operations. This was followed by 30 years as the CFO of a privately held energy company in Houston trading natural gas liquids and producing oil & gas. Among his many responsibilities included accounting, financial reporting, risk management, internal controls, back office functions, employee benefits and financing arrangements with both money center and regional banks. Jack obtained his CPA certificate in 1973, is a member of the American Society of CPAs, and is active in a variety of community organizations.

Robert L. (Bob) Byers, COO

Bob Byers, Chief Operating Officer of White Marlin E&P, LLC, is a 1979 graduate of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy with a B.S. in Marine (Mechanical) Engineering, and has over 30 years of experience in the oil and gas business. Bob began his engineering career with Texaco Marine Department performing 6 years of seagoing and shore-side assignments. Bob joined Mobil Exploration and Production in New Orleans in 1985 and over the next 12 years served in a number of different assignments in facilities engineering, production operations, and business management, both onshore and offshore. As the deepwater play emerged, Bob was selected as Project Development Manager for Mobil’s Deepwater Development Team, leading a fully integrated team representing all E&P disciplines, reservoir, geology and geophysics, completion engineers, topsides engineers and deepwater specialists. The team managed all of Mobil’s deepwater developments and deepwater joint venture investments. In 1997 Bob joined Reading & Bates Development Company as the Director of Engineering, helping to build a start-up oil and gas subsidiary of Reading & Bates Corporation into a $312 MM venture in just four years. Bob ultimately formed his own consulting engineering company to provide project management, engineering and operational support to oil and gas operators in the Gulf of Mexico and internationally. In the past 10 years Bob has participated in some of the largest oil and gas developments in the world including Shell’s Perdido project, BP’s Angola Block 18 project, and Shell’s BC-10, Bonga SW and NW projects. Bob is an avid sportsman and is active in a number of community and industry organizations.

Robert M. (Don) Gray, Vice President of Land

Mr. Gray joined White Marlin from Radiant Oil & Gas in 2011 where he served as VP of Land/Land Manager since 2007 .  Prior to Radiant, Mr. Gray was Land Manager for Americo Energy Resources and Land Manager for Petro-Guard Operating Company.  He has also been an Assistant Vice President for Bank One (now JP Morgan Chase), Manager of the Oil & Gas Division at Capital Financial Group and was president and one of the founders of Sandstone Exploration, Inc., as well as acting as a land management consultant to numerous oil and gas exploration and production companies.  Mr. Gray began his career as a Staff Landman with Hunt Oil Company in 1980 after studying both Government and Petroleum Land Management at the University of Texas at Austin.

Louis Romero, Vice President of Exploration

Louis Romero is a highly qualified professional geologist with over 30 years of domestic and international oil and gas experience.  His background includes prospect generation, screening, and company operations and management for hydrocarbon exploration in many of the basins of North America and internationally in the Far East, South America and Africa.  Some of his career accomplishments include significant oil and gas discoveries in the US Gulf Coast as an independent and company affiliated geologist.  Louis has led the development of reserve additions totaling over 55 million barrels of oil resulting in $2.7 billion of economic impact, and has previously worked with Devon Energy, Ocean Energy (formerly Flores and Rucks), Sandefer Oil and Gas, Crown Central Petroleum, Transco Exploration, and as an independent producer.  Louis is a member of AAPG, Houston Geological Society, and the Lafayette Geological Society.