Don J. Babcock

***** **** ****** ***** • Morrison, Colorado 80465

303-***-**** Mobile • add3nv@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Having served as a title examiner in varied applications and situations, Mr. Babcock has wide experience in title and leasehold examination. He has served in the oil industry for 20 years in the Rockies and 11 years in the Permian Basin and S.E. New Mexico. As an independent landman he has accumulated wide experience in mining data available in county clerk and recorders’ indices and grantor-grantee records, district court records, probate court records and title plant records as well as State and Federal records. Having completed assignments in title examination, leasehold examination, adverse filing search, due diligence, curative, leasing, seismic and pipeline permitting, surface use negotiation and damages negotiation, he has also developed digital maps, plats and illustrations for packages and reports.

EXPERIENCE

ZARA RESOURCES CORPORATION – MORRISON, CO 2003-Present Independent Landman

Provide petroleum land services including title examination of mineral ownership and surface ownership, leasehold examination, adverse filing search, curative, due diligence, lease acquisition, seismic and pipeline permitting, surface negotiation, damages negotiation and production research. Dealt with diverse situations involving complex metes and bounds descriptions, railroad and highway rights-of-way, and riparian lands. Provide graphic support, plats and illustrations including digital mapping (GIS) of prospect areas. Has reputation as a solver of complex title problems. Completed projects in the Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, North Dakota, Permian Basin of West Texas, North Texas, Texas Panhandle, Southeast New Mexico, and Western Kansas. Capable with online data research.

Highlights:

• Completed title examination projects in heavily stratigraphically severed lands in Ward Co., TX and surrounding area.

• Completed title examination projects involving a long history of defective conveyances in Douglas Co., WY. Prepared curative instruments for same.

• Took leadership role in due diligence and curative tasks associated with the sale of a project encompassing over one-half million acres of exploration and development inventory.

• Completed multiple title examination projects in heavily subdivided lands and metropolitan areas.

• Negotiated damage compensation for a major pipeline rehabilitation project in N.E. Colorado.

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NAVIGANT CONSULTING, INC. – DENVER, CO 1988-2003

Senior Managing Consultant

Provided contract and claims analyses on capital construction and government contract projects. Consulted with clients and experts on compelling materials in support of expert testimony on contract claims with law firms, construction companies and oil companies. Managed production of graphic visual and report materials. Was an innovator in translocal project management and execution with national and international teams. MASTER PROPERTIES – DENVER, CO 1986-1988

Independent Landman

Provided petroleum land services including tile examination, preparing detailed ownership reports and prospect plats, and production research in support of mineral leasing and lease acquisitions. Marketed and sold producing oil and gas leases from Chapters 7 and 11 bankruptcy estates on behalf of trustees. Completed projects in Colorado and Kansas. Developed Excel spreadsheet that charted production decline curves.

SOUTHLAND ROYALTY CO. – DENVER, CO 1980-1986

District Manager – Exploration Graphics

Managed staff in support of land, exploration and operations, and reservoir and civil engineering in Rocky Mountain District. Managed preparation of all presentation graphics on drilling prospects and acquisitions. Developed innovative mapping procedures and processes to capture, delineate and illustrate massive amounts of data. GULF OIL CORPORATION – MIDLAND, TX 1974-1980

District Manager – Geophysical Graphics

Managed staff in support of Geophysical Department of Gulf’s Midland District. Also completed assignments in exploration geology and lease acquisition and mapping. EDUCATION

Associate of Science – Architectural Drafting and Design 1974 Texas State Technical Institute - Waco, Texas

EXPLORATION DRAFTING CERTIFICATION 1975

Midland College - Midland, Texas

UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES 1971-1972

McMurry University – Abilene, Texas

Western Texas College – Snyder, Texas

REFERENCES

References will be furnished upon request.