Petroleum Engineer with expertise in field operations, reservoir assessment, well design, and field accounting aspects, team management and hiring aspects. Mr. Kerns has managed capital budgets and performed reservoir surveillance for thermal recovery projects, waterfloods, depletion and gas drive reservoirs. He has also supervised numerous well workovers. Mr. Kerns has been active in the oil and gas industry since 1978 beginning as a roughneck and roustabout. He has held various staff and supervisory positions for Mobil Oil, Venoco Corp. and his own consulting firm. He was a member of a select group in 1989-90 that authored Mobil Oil’s billion dollar, billion-barrel heavy oil development strategy for the San Joaquin Basin of California that has performed beyond expectations. Jeff graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University in 1981.