Joe Dumesnil - Founder & Managing Member

Mr. Dumesnil has over 20 years in the petroleum industry, 9 of which with Halliburton Corporation.  He has worked in and managed multi-disciplinary technical teams utilizing technologies to monetize reserves optimally.  While at Halliburton, he hired 1,200 new hires from 2004 to 2006 to allow the rocky mountain region to grow from $400mm to $900mm in annual revenue.  From 2009 to 2011, he was a lead petrophysicist in their Denver technical team, looking at over 1,000 wells a year, wells drilled in all major us plays at that time, and every burgeoning international unconventional play.  During this time, he also served to screen upstream working-interest investment opportunities for Halliburton, which resulted in $150mm of deployed capital.  In 2011, he was asked to head up the creation of Halliburton’s China Technical Team and spent the next 3 years abroad developing a team, screening upstream investment opportunities in country, and serving as a lead technical resource in the Asian Pacific region for pairing technologies with reservoirs.  While in China, he served as Co-Chair for the Beijing American Chamber of Commerce’s Oil, Energy, and Power Subcommittee, as well as the Chairman and Program Chair of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). 

Since returning home in 2014, aside from starting OPAL, Mr. Dumesnil has filed a refrac technology patent and co-foundered a midstream liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) marketing company overseeing the supply chain of over 20,000 barrels/day to a customer in North Asia.   

Currently, Mr. Dumesnil serves as a Partner and Managing Director with Overland Oil and Gas, a Denver-based upstream asset manager.  He also serves as a Board Member for the Denver Earth Resources Library (DERL). He is active with many industry technical organizations including: SPE, SPEE (#1080), AAPG (CPG #6382), and Colorado School of Mines Entrepreneurship and Innnovation Alumni Interest Group.

•  B.A. Degree in Geology from Denison University

•  M.Sc. Degree in Mineral Economics from Colorado School of Mines

•  M.Sc. Degree in Petroleum Business Management from Institut Francais Du Petrol (IFP School)