John L. Hunt, CPL & Associates
4950 FM 1960 West, Suite A7-113 - Houston, Texas 77069 - Phone: 832.533.3284
Post Office Box 41, Morrison, Colorado 80465 – Phone: 303.697.4883 – Consolidated Email: jlh-as@comcast.net
John L. Hunt, CPL & Associates are Energy E-Business Development Consultants
specializing in the application of information technology to acquisitions and
divestments of oil & gas assets in due diligence, examination process and team
management. Areas of expertise include online MMS/offshore and other
regulatory relations, preferential rights resolutions, JOAs, contracts, leases and
other obligations, all electronically managed, including database in-put and
conversions, and post-closing data transfers. Experienced in all producing onshore and offshore
domestic provinces, for buyer’s and seller’s representation. Clients include majors, superindependents, independents including start-ups, energy transmission/electric generation/gas
pipeline companies, lenders, investment firms, asset marketing firms, law firms, and trust
companies; for E & P oil & gas companies, independent geoscientists, prospect generators and
marketing firms, complete field land services, abstracting, prospect management and
development, and in-house contract E & P company landman
BIOGRAPHY – JOHN L. HUNT, CPL, JD, ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
“That IT Guy”
John L. Hunt with a BA in English, graduated from Mississippi College School of Law in 1980
and entered upon a career as an independent landman engaged mainly in exploration and
production (E&P) activities until 1988. At that time he worked on his first acquisition, the
Monroe Gas Field, one of the largest gas fields in the world lying in 6 Parishes in Louisiana,
subsequently assisting to divest it as well.
Moving to Houston in 1990, as John L. Hunt, CPL & Associates, he became more or less
exclusively engaged in Acquisitions and Divestments (A&D) as an e-business development
consultant for majors, independents, including start-ups, lenders, marketing firms, law firms
and trust companies on both the buyer’s and seller’s sides. For some years he specialized in
managing due diligence teams and designing electronic and hardcopy examination
processes through the application of information technology and e-commerce resources to
land issues both onshore and offshore. A sub-specialty became the disposition of mature
offshore assets with preferential rights complications. Recently he completed several years
as a contract in-house landman with a large independent and has both E&P and A&D land
skills. Currently, he has wound up an E&P wildcat lease acquisition play in the Rockies.
Mr. Hunt, a member since 1985, is active in the American Association of Professional Landmen
(AAPL) and most recently is the 2005-2006 winner along with the Houston Association of
Professional Landmen (HAPL) of the Best Member Communications Award from AAPL for a 2 part
series of IT articles named ”flat files future is now, part 1, and part 2”. He is also the 2000-2001
AAPL APEX Award winner for IT Education for Landmen for serving as Assistant Chair to the
Information Technology Committee2000-2001, which re-worked the entire media at AAPL
Headquarters, and on the AAPL Education Committee for three years since 1998 where he
proposed and then served on an A&D Workshop Sub-Committee presenting a fully subscribed
round of AAPL sponsored A&D Workshops around the industry, and where he proposed and it was
adopted that all current and future education programs emphasize IT issues and e-commerce
resources. Substituting for Eric Hanson (Deceased 2009), AAPL President, and representing the
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Land Profession through AAPL and HAPL, he presented for marcus evans, the former
International Communications for Management Group (ICM) at its Upstream O&G E-Business
Conference, Four Seasons Hotel, Houston, Tx, from a “proactive land profession” perspective “
LAND ON THE LEADING EDGE OF E-BUSINESS” This PowerPoint presentation and interactive
talk was next given at the AAPL Corpus Christi Landman Institute, October 19-20, and the HAPL
Fall Saturday Seminar October 28, 2000. Mr. Hunt has also been an early IT contributing author to
the Landman magazine, “On Buying A Computer”, in 1998 and, recently in 2008, DAPL
INAUGURATES ROCKIES LANDMAN LEVEL 1 COURSE, by John L. Hunt, CPL, Event
Coordinator, and Sharon D. Regan, Independent Landman, DAPL Education Committee Chair.
For HAPL he served as Chairman of the Information Technology Committee for 1999-2000,
where he continued to serve as ITC “Immediate Past Chair” as “Advisor”. Here, he
proposed and it was adopted that all HAPL educational programs have at least some IT
speaker and content; the Education Sub-Committee of the ITC is charged with this
responsibility and currently provides all HAPL seminars with speakers and topics. He has
been a contributing author to the HAPL BULLETIN on IT topics, and served as IT Editor for
2000-2001 where he wrote and edited contributing authors from other disciplines a series of
articles on E-Business and Land. Mr. Hunt is one of the first landmen to speak at a
professional seminar on a pure IT topic being, “Applied Information Technology to Due
Diligence” presented at a past HAPL A&D Workshop upon which Fall Saturday Seminar
Committee he also served for 1999-2000 and 2000-2001. He has served and serves in a
number of other posts in HAPL, including currently the HAPL Rockies Rendezvous
Committee bringing Houston, Denver and other Landman locals together once a year for
business networking. On January 8, 9 2001, he spoke at the marcus evans “Benchmarking
A&D 2001” Conference, Doubletree Downtown, Huston, TX on “Avoiding Legal Catastrophes
That Can Turn a Good Deal To Dust” in a joint PowerPoint inter-active presentation with
Robert T. Kennedy, VP Land, Citation Oil & Gas Corp. for CEOs and Senior Managers of oil
companies. Other professional organizations include the North Houston Association of
Professional Landmen, West Houston Association of Professional Landmen where he has
been active in the Mentoring Program, Alaska Association of Professional Landmen, Denver
Association of Petroleum Landmen (DAPL), Houston Producer’s Forum, and the
Independent Petroleum Association of America. For DAPL he had published in the March
2007 issue of the Rocky Mountain Landman, “flat files future is now, part 3”; recently he
served as the Streaming Video Coordinator for the 2007 DAPL Fall Land Institute and serves
on the DAPL Education Committee where he has advocated and presents basic courses for
beginning landmen and is Event Coordinator for this event. Mr. Hunt has been an early and
vocal advocate for the land profession to be on the leading edge of information technology as
applied to the energy industry. He has also been an advocate for cross-discipline training
especially in IT areas and interaction for landmen with the geosciences and other disciplines
in the energy world such as finance and the oil and gas bar through organizing an exchange
of technical seminars, i.e. a fully subscribed seismic course for landmen sponsored by the
Education Sub-Committee of the HAPL ITC held at Phillips in Nov. 2000, and other mutual
courses, joint meetings and lunches. He is also in regular attendance at cross-discipline
functions such as the Houston Engineering and Scientific Society (H.E.S.S.) Annual Spring
Networking Meeting, the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Business Development
Study Group, the Houston Producer’s Forum, and The Petroleum Place/ Oil & Gas Asset
Clearinghouse Annual Fall A&D Dinner. His series of IT articles on flat files has been
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published by the National Association of Division Order Analysts (NADOA) in their quarterly
NADOA News Magazine, part 1 in the 4th quarter of 2007, the rest following. Lastly, he is a
member of the Technical Committee and a founding member of the Data Transfer Standards
Initiative, a petroleum industry-wide group initiating a common portal and definitions for the
standard transfer of data between entities in the petroleum industry.
For the Wyoming Association of Professional Landmen, Mr. Hunt served as Event
Coordinator and Speaker at the Wyoming Landman Seminar, August 7 th, 2008, Sheridan,
WY, held in conjunction with the Annual WAPL Golf Tournament. Mr. Hunt spoke on A & D
DUE DILIGENCE, PROCESS, FORMS AND QUESTIONS AND ANWSERS. This well
received, comprehensive paper supported by 42 A&D forms was next distributed nationwide
on the LANDNEWS NETWORK by Paul Nielsen and is available online at; landpro.com/
LANDNEWS NETWORK tab, in several parts (emails) due to file size.
Mr. Hunt is an active member of the Alaska Association of Professional Landmen where he
is actively engaged in land operations and travels there to follow developments in that
producing province.
Mr. Hunt has served as Adjunct Professor at Colorado Western State College in the
Professional Land and Resource Management (PLRM) Program, located in Gunnison,
Colorado. Mr. Hunt assisted in teaching the 2008 Fall Semester course, Petroleum Land
Management.
Mr. Hunt has become known in his professional circles as “that IT guy”.
Mr. Hunt resides in Houston, Texas, and Morrison, Colorado, where he enjoys living in an old
cabin on the side of a mountain with lots of animal life around, the great Rockies outdoors
and membership in the Colorado Mountain Club and is a graduate of their Mountain Trekking
School and the Back-Country Ski Touring School. He is the author of a self-published
volume of Irish, Celtic culture-based poetry. He is currently working on Volume 2. He is
fluent in Spanish, attending the Instituto Polytechnico in Mexico City, D.F., where he formerly
lived for some years as well, conversant in French attending an Adult Education course at
the University of South Alabama and spending a personal tutorial of France with his
Professeuress Francais, and, being Irish, considers speaking English as another foreign
language, and has Gaelic tapes and books, but is too busy training young landmen to make
much progress. He is a member of several local and international Irish groups. Other
interests are music (a Music minor), fine art, and traveling to all Continents except Australia,
Africa, and Antarctica, sailing most Oceans too working his way through college and law
school as a deep sea merchant marine.
(John L. Hunt, CPL & Associates are Houston-Denver based Ebusiness Consultants for the
application of IT Initiatives to Land. Contact them at Houston: 832.533.3284, and Denver
303.697.4883, Consolidated email address: jlh-as@comcast.net.)
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