A Short Introduction to Petroleum Geology by Trinity Energy Group

Exploring for oil and gas takes a lot of money and know how to pull off as it requires first a comprehensive understanding of the fundamentals of petroleum Geology. Oil and gas are, after all, essential petroleum resources that are found deep within the earth’s crust, although there are cases where they may be found on the surface as well, but not in abundant commercial quantities.

Liquid oil and liquid natural gas underneath are found in porous and permeable rocks (also called reservoirs) that have collected these precious materials for thousands of years. There are four essential types of geologic features that contain oil and gas deposits, namely:

·         Oil and gas source rocks

·         Reservoir rocks

·         Seals

·         Traps

Oil and Gas Source Rocks

Oil and gas can be found in sedimentary source-rocks that were deposited in very quiet water, such as stagnant swamps, shallow calm marine bays, or in ancient deep underwater basins. Source rocks are made up of extremely minute mineral components. Within the spaces between these mineral fragments are contained the remains of organic substances, such as wood bits, algae, or pieces of soft plant materials. Once these tiny sediments are gradually overlain through continuous sedimentation, heat and pressure increase, turning these soft organic sediments into solid rock strata. With further accumulation of sediments and subsequent increase of temperatures above 120o C (250o F), the organic deposits start to be “cooked”, producing oil and natural gas which are then removed from the source-rock strata.

It takes thousands of years for this process to take place before commercial volumes of what is called thermogenic (that is, produced by heat) oil and gas can accumulate. Organic materials mostly made up of wood fragments in source rocks will produce natural gas upon maturation while algae or the soft parts of plants on land will produce both oil and natural gas.

At temperatures above 150o C (300o F), organic remains would have generated most of the oil they can produce. The remaining oil in the source rock or any oil that has been trapped in adjacent reservoirs will be converted into natural gas.

Natural gas can also be produced in certain organic-rich sedimentary rocks through bacterial processes in shallow burial depth prior to thermal maturation temperatures are attained. This process called biogenic-gas (that is, produced by organisms) generation occurs at depths of less than 2,000 ft and produces less amounts of gas compared to thermogenic gas.

Trinity Energy Group – About Us

Vice Chairman – Dr. R Gerald Bailey

Dr. R Gerald Bailey is the chairman of Bailey Petroleum LLC in Houston, Texas, Bailey Petroleum LLC is involved in exploration and production ventures, with both consultation and working interest participation.

Dr. Bailey has a lifetime career in the petroleum industry with extensive engineering, management and senior assignments. He has domestic and international experience in all aspects of the industry both upstream and downstream, with particular Middle East skills, along with US onshore and offshore, Bailey is retired from Exxon Arabian Gulf region. Currently he serves as chairman of two publicly traded companies; Vanguard Energy and BCM Energy, and is CEO of another public company, MCW Energy.

Dr. Bailey is a member of Middle East Policy Council and a life memder of American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and a noted author speaker on energy and engineering topics. A native Houstonian, Dr. Bailey earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Houston, a Master of Science degree in chemical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Columbia Pacific University. He has done post graduate work at Lamar University. He is a registered professional engineer in Texas.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer – Brian Figueroa

Brian Figueroa has over 25 years of corporate management and entrepreneurial experience. The Figueroa family owns a premiere landscape and property maintenance business throughout the Northern California area. Mr. Figueroa helped build this 40-year old company into a thriving commercial and residential contracting firm and served as CEO during its growth years. After running the company as the CEO through its peak years, Mr. Figueroa leveraged his established contact base to build his investments and entrepreneurial career through the founding, cofounding and participation in domestic and international businesses of various industries, including construction, telecommunications, gaming and energy. In 2008, Mr. Figueroa built a telecom franchise business with thousand of sales representatives in 4 years. Since 2006, he was also an investor to a few oil, gas and energy projects, whereby he built the expertise and contacts in the petroleum industry positioned himself to establish Trinity Energy Group. Mr. Figueroa is an accomplished speaker and a qualified corporate operational executive with consummate training skills. He is certified in the Academy Training in Life Mastery, Date with Destiny, Unlesash the Power Within (UPW) in the Anthony Robins Organizations. Mr Figueroa graduated from the 3% Club with Victor Hansen ( Chicken Soup for the Soul ) and Bob Proctor’s organizations. Throughout the past 20 years, Mr. Figueroa attended and graduated from numerous, entrepreneurial, business and speaking courses. Today, Mr Figueroa’s network of accomplished entrepreneurs, business executives and industry icons exceeds thousands of accomplished people.

Trinity Energy Group: Management Team

TEG is led by a strong, proven, active management team and advisors include:

Vice Chairman – Dr. R Gerald Bailey

Dr. R Gerald Bailey is the chairman of Bailey Petroleum LLC in Houston, Texas, Bailey Petroleum LLC is involved in exploration and production ventures, with both consultation and working interest participation.

Dr. Bailey has a lifetime career in the petroleum industry with extensive engineering, management and senior assignments. He has domestic and international experience in all aspects of the industry both upstream and downstream, with particular Middle East skills, along with US onshore and offshore, Bailey is retired from Exxon Arabian Gulf region. Currently he serves as chairman of two publicly traded companies; Vanguard Energy and BCM Energy, and is CEO of another public company, MCW Energy.

Dr. Bailey is a member of Middle East Policy Council and a life member of American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and a noted author speaker on energy and engineering topics. A native Houstonian, Dr. Bailey earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Houston, a Master of Science degree in chemical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Columbia Pacific University. He has done post graduate work at Lamar University. He is a registered professional engineer in Texas.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer – Brian Figueroa

Brian Figueroa has over 25 years of corporate management and entrepreneurial experience. The Figueroa family owns a premiere landscape and property maintenance business throughout the Northern California area. Mr. Figueroa helped build this 40-year old company into a thriving commercial and residential contracting firm and served as CEO during its growth years. After running the company as the CEO through its peak years, Mr. Figueroa leveraged his established contact base to build his investments and entrepreneurial career through the founding, cofounding and participation in domestic and international businesses of various industries, including construction, telecommunications, gaming and energy. In 2008, Mr. Figueroa built a telecom franchise business with thousands of sales representatives in 4 years. Since 2006, he was also an investor to a few oil, gas and energy projects, whereby he built the expertise and contacts in the petroleum industry positioned himself to establish Trinity Energy Group. Mr. Figueroa is an accomplished speaker and a qualified corporate operational executive with consummate training skills. He is certified in the Academy Training in Life Mastery, Date with Destiny, Unlesash the Power within (UPW) in the Anthony Robins Organizations. Mr. Figueroa graduated from the 3% Club with Victor Hansen (Chicken Soup for the Soul) and Bob Proctor’s organizations. Throughout the past 20 years, Mr. Figueroa attended and graduated from numerous, entrepreneurial, business and speaking courses. Today, Mr. Figueroa’s network of accomplished entrepreneurs, business executives and industry icons exceeds thousands of accomplished people.

Board Member – Leo Stroobants

Leo Stroobants is a business executive and an entrepreneur with more than 25 years international experience in several industries, including energy, real estate, telecommunications, corporate coaching and training. He has founded numerous successful companies throughout his career and is highly accomplished executive management, strategic planning, sales, marketing, public relations, government relations and corporate finance. Continue Reading…

Trinity Energy Group Land Services Leadership

John L. Solomon - Founder and President

John Solomon has over 20 years' experience in real estate and corporate law with a specific focus in the oil and gas and telecom industries. After receiving B.S. in Business Administration from Murray State University and then his law degree from the University of Kentucky, Mr. Solomon was in private practice in Lexington, Kentucky for two years before moving to the Washington D.C. area where he continued to practice primarily in the real estate area.  Thereafter, he held the office of executive director of a large marketing company for four years that was later named the "Fastest Growing Privately-Held Company in America" by Inc. Magazine.  In 1998, John managed the title administration of a large, multistate fiber optic right-of-way project and has worked in the oil and gas, telecom and alternative energy industries ever since.  He has worked as a contract field landman, held the position of crew chief over several successful projects in the Appalachian and Illinois basins, has owned and operated a successful landman brokerage firm, and has and continues to successfully facilitate the purchase and sale of large lease plays and drilling projects.

Michael C. Duncan - Vice President

A native of Southwest Arkansas and Northwest Louisiana, Mike Duncan grew up in a family of landmen dating back to the 1930’s. He has spent 12 years in the oil and gas industry. He is highly versed in all phases of land work. His career in the oil and gas industry includes lease acquisition, comprehensive title and curative, coordination with construction and survey, and all areas of surface acquisition and interaction with government regulatory agencies pertinent to the oil and gas industry. He was field project manager of a 300,000 acre leasehold for El Paso E&P for over 5 years in the Illinois Basin. He has worked extensively in the Appalachian Basin and has run title and field crews in the Baaken/Williston Basin in North Dakota and Montana. Mike attended Memphis State University and Santa Fe Junior College in Gainesville Florida. He spent over 30 years in the music business as an artist, songwriter, advertising jingle producer and booking agent. He enjoys golf, fishing and continues to write and record music in his recording studio.

Justin M. Wayne - Project Management

Justin Wayne has over 9 years of experience in the Oil and Gas industry and oversees the management of all projects. Highly proficient in drill title, HBP unit assessment, curative, and lease analysis, he has also managed due-diligence projects, including a 200,000-acre HBP leasehold acquisition in the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Justin started his career researching mineral ownership and negotiating leases in the Illinois Basin and Trenton Black River Plays. He has managed large drill title crews for clients in the Appalachian Basin. He has performed extensive HBP unit assessment, curative, and lease analysis. His responsibilities have included the review of working interests, net revenue interests, royalty interests, joint operating agreements, and assistance with client division orders. Since 2007, Justin has worked primarily in the Appalachian Basin and has managed projects for several national and international companies. Justin works closely with clients to ensure that their projects are completed in a timely and professional manner. Away from work, Justin enjoys hunting, deep sea fishing, and attending sporting events.

David L. Solomon - Title Administration

David Solomon is the Director of Title Administration and oversees the development and implementation of guidelines, protocols and policies for all title research, reporting, analysis and delivery; use and implementation of the companies land data system; coordination of staffing and reporting needs with project managers and title attorneys; management of the drill title review team and review processes; as well as all title related crew training and project orientation. His experience is extensive throughout the Appalachian and Illinois Basins. In addition to his current role, he has also managed large drill title and due diligence projects in the Marcellus and Utica Shale plays. David has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Master of Science in Clinical Social Work from the University of Southern Indiana. Prior to working in the oil and gas industry, he garnered considerable experience in supervision, management and program development in the public, private and corporate arenas.

Trinity Energy Group Land Services Approach

Trinity Energy Land Services was founded to provide a full array of cost effective land management services to our clients in the oil and gas, alternative energy, telecom and right-of-way industries.

To accomplish this, Trinity deploys a multi-pronged approach to the services we provide our clients:

A Synergistic Approach.  The leadership of Trinity Energy Land Services were selected in no small part because of the clear recognition of the synergies that would result from the combination of their individual skill sets as well as the "talent pools" from which each of us could draw.  We employ the same approach when fielding a crew for our clients, thus ensuring that our clients' needs will always be serviced by the most highly skilled landmen available.

A "Top Shelf" Workforce.  Trinity's founders have decades of combined experience in the land management industry and this has enabled us to build strong relationships with contractors across the entire United States.  Consequently, we are very selective of the landmen whom we will contract on behalf of our valued clients.  This approach is integral to our mission to become the standard against which all other land management companies will be measured.

"Real Time" Reporting.  As the proverb goes, "knowledge is power."  Accordingly, Trinity maintains a variety of project reporting templates which we can tailor to your specific needs and in turn transmit at the intervals you desire.  In the very near future, Trinity will be providing a secured, online portal for each client, thus enabling you to determine the status and progress of your project at any time - day or night.

Internal Cost Controls.  Trinity can field as large a crew as our clients' needs require.  Nevertheless, on a management level, we are committed to maintaining a small, efficient  operation.  Many of our administrative services are outsourced.  As such, many services we provide - such as GIS/Mapping or lease review and administration - are only billed to our clients for the actual time incurred.  We do not expect our clients to cover the  costs of a large full time back office staff.

Independent Accounting.  While the occurrence of "overbilling" or "bill padding" appears to have become an unfortunate standard of practice in our industry, Trinity will have no part of it.  All of our landmen, services and client billings are handled externally by an independent C.P.A. firm with a proven level of excellence and integrity in our industry.

Continuing Education.  Trinity strongly encourages continuing training and education to all our contractors and staff and, for those contractors that are new to the industry, we employ an ongoing mentoring program to insure that they develop to their full potential and thus provide the highest level of service to our clients.

About Us

Vice Chairman - Dr. R Gerald Bailey

Dr. R Gerald Bailey is the chairman of Bailey Petroleum LLC in Houston, Texas, Bailey Petroleum LLC is involved in exploration and production ventures, with both consultation and working interest participation.

Dr. Bailey has a lifetime career in the petroleum industry with extensive engineering, management and senior assignments. He has domestic and international experience in all aspects of the industry both upstream and downstream, with particular Middle East skills, along with US onshore and offshore, Bailey is retired from Exxon Arabian Gulf region. Currently he serves as chairman of two publicly traded companies; Vanguard Energy and BCM Energy, and is CEO of another public company, MCW Energy.

Dr. Bailey is a member of Middle East Policy Council and a life memder of American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and a noted author speaker on energy and engineering topics. A native Houstonian, Dr. Bailey earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Houston, a Master of Science degree in chemical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Columbia Pacific University. He has done post graduate work at Lamar University. He is a registered professional engineer in Texas.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer - Brian Figueroa

Brian Figueroa has over 25 years of corporate management and entrepreneurial experience. The Figueroa family owns a premiere landscape and property maintenance business throughout the Northern California area. Mr. Figueroa helped build this 40-year old company into a thriving commercial and residential contracting firm and served as CEO during its growth years. After running the company as the CEO through its peak years, Mr. Figueroa leveraged his established contact base to build his investments and entrepreneurial career through the founding, cofounding and participation in domestic and international businesses of various industries, including construction, telecommunications, gaming and energy. In 2008, Mr. Figueroa built a telecom franchise business with thousand of sales representatives in 4 years. Since 2006, he was also an investor to a few oil, gas and energy projects, whereby he built the expertise and contacts in the petroleum industry positioned himself to establish Trinity Energy Group. Mr. Figueroa is an accomplished speaker and a qualified corporate operational executive with consummate training skills. He is certified in the Academy Training in Life Mastery, Date with Destiny, Unlesash the Power Within (UPW) in the Anthony Robins Organizations. Mr Figueroa graduated from the 3% Club with Victor Hansen ( Chicken Soup for the Soul ) and Bob Proctor's organizations. Throughout the past 20 years, Mr. Figueroa attended and graduated from numerous, entrepreneurial, business and speaking courses. Today, Mr Figueroa's network of accomplished entrepreneurs, business executives and industry icons exceeds thousands of accomplished people.