Brett Willis, CPL

Experience

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  QEP Resources

  Apr 2011 - Oct 2022

  • Oversee all Land, Permian Regulatory, Lease Records and Division Order functions for QEP’s entire portfolio of Permian and Williston Basin assets, consisting of 144,000 acres of fee, state (North Dakota and Texas), federal and Indian leasehold assets.• Lead a team of 27 professionals. Responsible for communicating corporate goals and objectives across both Permian and Williston divisions, ensuring corporate-level compliance, driving strategies from enterprise to asset level, and planning and monitoring annual land acquisitions budget in excess of $10MM. Closed 16 individual transactions consisting of both divestitures and acquisitions, cumulatively amounting to $13.2MM in consideration.• Part of Leadership Committee, which is comprised of a small number of key leaders and the 5 officers of the organization; discuss corporate strategic direction, evaluate all areas of the organization’s performance and ensure corporate-level compliance of legal and regulatory requirements. Participate in quarterly presentations to the Board of Directors. Show less • Responsible for surface and subsurface land related activity for an 8-rig drilling program on 27,600 acres. • Presented over 70 non-operated well proposals to the CEO for approval that represented $650MM of gross well costs. Provided formal testimony as an expert land witness to the NDIC to seek approval of spacing units, overlapping spacing units for lease line wells and force pooling of non-operated interests.• Directed and managed external land brokers in their preparation of title examinations, abstracting, securing of curative documents and the submission of title and mineral ownership reports for the preparation of DOTO’s. Secured DOTO’s from external title attorney’s, obtained communitization agreements from the BIA, pooled unit designations from the NDIC, and negotiated JOA’s with working interest partners in preparation of drilling operations. Show less

  • Director, Land

    Apr 2020 - Oct 2022

  • Division Manager, Land (Permian Basin)

    Jun 2019 - Mar 2020

  • Team Lead/Sr. Landman (Permian Basin)

    Apr 2016 - May 2019

  • Landman (Williston Basin)

    Jul 2013 - Mar 2016

  • Division Order Analyst II (KS, TX, OK & LA)

    Apr 2011 - Jun 2013
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  Anschutz Exploration Corporation

  Oct 2022 - now

  Land Supervisor - Powder River Basin North