About Shale Exploration
Shale Exploration (Shale) is an independent Oil and Gas Exploration company with a management team whose combined experience is over fifty years in the industry. Shale has relegated our operational focuses primarily in North Dakota and Montana.
Shale management has demonstrative experience developing and producing Oil and Gas Prospects in every major oil and gas play in the United States.
F. Sam Tallis, J.D.
President of Shale Exploration, L.L.C.
Mr. Tallis is an Oil & Energy Professional with a Legal Background, J.D., Juris Doctorate of Law.
Mr. Tallis is the President of Shale Exploration which uses state of the art technology in vertical and horizontal completions. This includes fracturing, seismic 3D, our proprietary innovative seismic 4D, and geochemistry.
Mr. Tallis has over 20 years of experience in the oil and gas & real estate development sector, including extensive experience in complex land, legal and A&D related projects.
Mr. Tallis is extremely proficient at originating, screening, assembling and marketing oil and gas exploration projects and prospects. Mr. Tallis' definitive technical areas of expertise diversely covers a range of trends across, multiple oil and gas plays and areas including, the Bakken Shale, Williston Basin, Barnett Shale, Eagle Ford Shale, Texas Gulf Coast and South Louisiana.
Mr. Tallis has been instrumental in leasing over 300k acres for multiple companies in multiple oil and gas plays. Mr. Tallis has extensive experience as a Petroleum Landmanager (In-house, Field, Project Management, and Crew Management), as well as extensive experience in Petroleum Land Work (Multiple Phases, Multiple State Experience, Urban Acquisition Specialist). In addition to Oil and Gas, Mr. Tallis is a Real Property Acquisition Consultant with extensive background in Real Estate Development & Land Acquisition.
Favorite Quote:
"Always do right. It will gratify some and astonish the rest."
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