Robert C. Bartman
3636 A West Clay Street
Houston, Texas 77019
(713) 231-8340
rbartman1@yahoo.com
Summary
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Experienced Gulf of Mexico Manager. Worked with senior management on the GOM
geological and geophysical exploration strategy. Recommended seismic purchases and assisted
in the exploration portfolio development. Team advisor for fifteen experienced offshore GOM
staff members. Analyzed and recommended acquisition and divestiture opportunities.
Managed the exploration team for Osprey Petroleum company startup. Generated the
exploration plan for Offshore and Onshore exploration strategies Hired G&G personnel,
purchased computer workstations, and signed contracts with service companies. Evaluated
onshore prospects for farm-in potential plus participated in state and federal waters lease
sales.
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Gulf of Mexico regional subsalt mapping and prospect generation in the Upper, Middle, and
Lower Miocene in Green Canyon, Mississippi Canyon, and Atwater Valley plus the Norphlet
in Eastern Mississippi Canyon. Lower Tertiary Wilcox subsalt exploration in Walker Ridge,
Keathley Canyon, and Alaminos Canyon. Manager over fifteen prestack depth migration
processing projects in complex salt areas of the Gulf of Mexico.
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International exploration in the Pre-salt Santos Basin offshore of San Palo, Brazil.
Exploration and development drilling experience on the shelf and in deepwater GOM.
Participated in the Walker Ridge 758 Jack well test performed on the Upper Wilcox
and drilled seven successful wells in a shelf development project adding an additional
100.1 MMCFG and 485,450 BOE in a mature field.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ENI Petroleum - Houston, Texas
(2011-Present)
SENIOR ADVISOR: New Ventures Team Advisor- Provided guidance, instruction, direction and leadership to
the new ventures team. Worked closely with upper management on prospect evaluation including risk assessment.
Accomplishments
 Senior advisor for fifteen experienced offshore GOM staff members. Analyzed and
Recommended acquisition and divestiture opportunities and created a portfolio of prospects
that added 138 BBOE risked reserves.
 Managed the Lease sale exploration team and reviewed and evaluated prospects for Lease Sale
235. Advised upper management on play concepts and led the exploration team to explore in
areas of high potential for drilling success.
 Evaluated the exploration portfolio that included Wilcox and Miocene prospects to determine
the structure, volume, and risk reserves for each prospect. The Lease Sale portfolio exceeded
500 BBOE of oil in place reserves.
 Published articles in Schlumberger’s Oilfield Review
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ROBERT C. BARTMAN
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Petrobras America, Inc. - Houston, Texas
(2008-2011)
SENIOR GEOPHYSICAL ADVISOR: New Ventures Group - Regional mapping and prospect development in
the Miocene for Green Canyon, Mississippi Canyon, plus subsalt Lower Tertiary Wilcox in the Perdido fold belt
and Walker Ridge.
Accomplishments
 Reviewed and evaluated the current prospect inventory in Walker Ridge and Atwater Valley
and developed the exploration plan for Green Canyon including the seismic recommendation
and areas to explore.
 Analyzed and recommended farm-in prospects and packaged the lease interest holdings to farm
out.
 Recommended the exploration areas for the lease sale group and critiqued prospects generated
by the exploration group.
Osprey Petroleum, Inc. - Houston, Texas
(2006-2008)
EXPLORATION MANAGER: Managed the exploration team for Osprey Petroleum company startup.
Generated the exploration plan for Offshore and Onshore exploration strategies and presented it to the new
President of Osprey Petroleum. Hired the G&G staff plus signed contracts with IHS Energy and SMT Kingdom.
Recommended onshore prospects for farm-in potential and participated in state and federal waters lease sales.
Accomplishments
 Initiated Osprey Petroleum first offshore exploration effort by creating the prospect portfolio
for state and federal waters plus evaluating regional trends.
 In six months after startup, the exploration portfolio had over 120 BCFG of prospects.
The company was awarded all offshore tracks for bids submitted.
 Drilled a successful onshore Wilcox well with an operating partner. The Well produced 5
MCFGPD and 200 BCPD.
Pennzoil/Devon Energy - Houston, Texas
(1997-2006)
SENIOR EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICIST: Prospect mapping using Landmark software (SeisWorks, Power
View, GeoProbe) plus field delineation within the Lower Tertiary team. Drilled successful deepwater Wilcox
wells in Walker Ridge. Generated deep exploration prospects for the shelf group. Provided geophysical support for
reservoir simulation studies and participated in a deepwater PSDM processing project with WesternGeco.
Accomplishments
 Drilled the Cascade Prospect - Walker Ridge 206 number 2 and Walker Ridge 250 number
2 wells. Drilled the Jack Prospect - Walker Ridge 758 number 1 and 2 wells and Walker Ridge
759 number 1 well. Participated in the Jack, Walker Ridge 758 number 2 well
test.
 Drilled seven successful wells in a field development program within Eugene Island. Annual
production for the wells equals 100.1 MMCF of gas and 485,450 barrels of oil.
 Generated Miocene prospects in Atwater Valley that have risk reserves of 230 BCFG and
mapped Lower Tertiary subsalt fields in Walker Ridge and Keathley Canyon using prestack
depth migrated seismic.
 Produced Pliocene and Miocene prospects in Green Canyon that have risk reserves in excess of
344 BCFG.
 Managed a prestack simultaneous inversion to delineate the sand extent and gas saturation of
deepwater channel overbank prospect. The inversion project was complete on time and it was
the deciding factor in the company’s nonconsent decision on participating in drilling the well
in the unsaturated fault block. The company saved 112 million in dry hole cost.
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GeoQuest/Schlumberger - Houston, Texas
(1995-1997)
SENIOR GEOPHYSICIST: Instructed corporate clients in 2D/3D seismic interpretation techniques using
GeoQuest geophysical interpretation software on Sun and SGI workstations.
Accomplishments
 Restored a corrupted international project in a timely manner while performing on-site software support.
This was a high profile project and the geophysicists down time had to be minimized. Both the
geophysicist and management recognized the extra effort required to quickly restore full project
functionality to keep the project on schedule. Received appreciation from the geophysicist and his
manager for outstanding effort and time saved.
Geraghty & Miller, Inc. - Columbus, Ohio
(1990-1995)
PROJECT MANAGER: Managed a Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Facility Investigation at a major
industrial facility. Responsibilities included managing 20 project personnel, controlling budgets, implementing
work plans, writing technical reports, client communications, and supervising geophysical surveys.
Accomplishments
 Save the client 60m in remediation costs by reducing the number of monitoring wells needed to
define the zone of contamination. Stayed within the budget by reducing and rotating field personnel.
Received a letter of appreciation from the client for outstanding management and cost savings.
Atlantic Richfield Company - Dallas, Texas
(1982-1990)
EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICIST: Generated shallow and deepwater exploration prospects for Gulf Coast
lease sales. Managed the AVO seismic processing group in the Geophysical Special Projects Group at Arco’s
Research Center.
Accomplishments
 Conducted regional mapping and generated top prospects in Matagorda Island (112 BCFG), North and
South Padre, Mustang Island (140 BCFG), Port Isabel (576 BCFG), and Corpus Christi. Assisted senior
management in reevaluating exploration targets that resulted in bidding strategies that produced savings
of $4 million in successful lease sale purchases.
 Conducted AVO research that led to a new analysis technique. This technique was used to evaluate all
shelf amplitude prospects prior to lease sales.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
AAPG, HGS, SEG, and GSH
EDUCATION
Master of Business Administration MBA, Capella University
Master of Science Geology and Geophysics, The Ohio State University
Bachelor of Science Geology, The Ohio State University