Energy Today and Beyond

Eric D. Long, Jeff Tanner, Dick Lonquist, P.E. & Greg Cusack, P.E.

Tuesday, May 12, 2015


A Panel Discussion featuring: Eric D. Long, Jeff Tanner,
Dick Lonquist, P.E. & Greg Cusack, P.E.

Eric D. Long, President and Chief Executive Officer – USA Compression Partners, LLC
Eric D. Long has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since September 2002 and has served as a director of our general partner since June 2011. Mr. Long co-founded USA Compression in 1998 and has over 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. From 1980 to 1987, Mr. Long served in a variety of technical and managerial roles for several major pipeline and oil and natural gas producing companies, including Bass Enterprises Production Co. and Texas Oil & Gas. Mr. Long then served in a variety of senior officer level operating positions with affiliates of Hanover Energy, Inc., a company primarily engaged in the business of gathering, compressing and transporting natural gas. In 1993, Mr. Long co-founded Global Compression Services, Inc., a compression services company. Mr. Long was formerly on the board of directors of the Wiser Oil Company, an NYSE listed company from May 2001 until it was sold to Forest Oil Corporation in May 2004. Mr. Long received his bachelor’s degree, with honors, in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Texas.

Jeff Tanner, Sr. Vice-President Geosciences – Jones Energy
Jeff Tanner Joined Jones Energy in 2014 as Senior VP- Geosciences. Mr. Tanner has over 27 years of diverse technical and managerial experience in the oil and gas business. Prior to joining Jones, Mr. Tanner was VP, Exploration for Southwestern Energy. During his career, Mr. Tanner has held a variety of management and technical positions for Laredo Petroleum, Cabot Oil & Gas, and Noble Energy. He began his career with Shell in Houston. Mr. Tanner is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Houston Geological Society. He holds a B.S. in Geology from Texas A&M University and an M.S. in Geology from University of Houston.

Richard (Dick) R. Lonquist, P.E., President/CEO – Lonquist & Co. LLC
Dick Lonquist founded Lonquist & Co. LLC in September 2005. He has more than 25 years’ experience in petroleum engineering, underground storage engineering, mining engineering and financial consulting services for energy production, transmission and energy storage companies, mining companies, banks, trusts and institutional investors. Texas A&M University (USA) 1988; Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering

Greg Cusack, P.E., Bakken Subsurface Manager over Reservoir Engineering and Geology – Statoil
Mr. Cusack is a practicing Petroleum Engineer with over 30 years of experience in the Oil and Gas business. He is currently with Statoil, working as the Bakken Subsurface Manager, over Reservoir Engineering and Geology. Cusack graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering in 1983. He worked 16 years with an independent oil company in Houston as a Reservoir Engineer, Operations Engineer and Vice-President of Operations. He spent this time drilling, completing and producing wells, evaluating and preparing SEC Reserves and working on numerous acquisition and divestiture opportunities in most of the major producing US Basins, as well as working in Argentina, Egypt and Cote d’ Ivoire. For the past 14 years he has worked with Brigham Oil and Gas in Austin and continued with Statoil after their acquisition of Brigham in 2011.

Mark McGinnis Navy SEAL; Leadership Speaker and Coach

Mark McGinnisNavy SEAL; Leadership Speaker and Coach

Tuesday, July 8, 2014


Mark McGinnis
Navy SEAL; Leadership Speaker and Coach

Managing Director; SEAL Legacy Foundation; a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing educational assistance and support grants to families of wounded and fallen United States Navy SEALs. The Foundation was established in 2011 to preserve the SEAL legacy of no one left behind.

Former Regional Sales Director for Genzyme Biosurgery; January 2007 through October 2012

SEAL Operator, United States Navy from May 1993 through October 2005

Quote from COACH JUNE JONES, HEAD FOOTBALL COACH , SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY
“I have had many, many speakers over the years, while coaching both in college and the NFL, but nobody had the impact that Mark had on my entire team and coaches. His team building exercises are “right on” for any company or athletic team that wants to be the best in what they are doing. He covers all the things that winners have to know. I am in full agreement that any team or company that does not implement Mark’s keys to winning, is not doing all it can to be the best. SMU will be a better team today because Mark shared with us his beliefs.”

Entrepreneurial Programs at Texas A&M

Bob Starnes

Tuesday, May 13th, 2014


Featured Speakers:
Bob Starnes, Director Aggie Angel Network & Dr. Richard Lester, Executive Director of Texas A&M’s CNVE

Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship (CNVE)
The Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship, a part of Mays Business School’s Department of Management, provides encouragement, education, networking and assistance to entrepreneurially-minded students, faculty and Texas businesses.

Aggie Angel Network

The Aggie Angel Network (AAN) is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to providing quality early-stage investment opportunities for accredited angel investors, and to assisting early-stage high-growth potential technology companies with fundraising and advisory services.

Startup Aggieland

Startup Aggieland is a student business accelerator that provides qualified students of all majors with a peer-led startup community of like-minded entrepreneurs and co-working spaces to explore game-changing business ideas. Texas A&M University does not take equity stakes in student startups. Students’ intellectual property is theirs to keep if developed in the accelerator.