In this interactive webinar February 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM CST, Hart Energy invites you to join in exploring the growing oil-output potential of the Uinta Basin in a conversation with Top 5 Uinta producer Scout Energy Partners' Juan Nevarez and longtime Uinta explorer Duchesne River Resources' Riley Brinkerhoff.
With takeaway unleashed, drillers are taking Utah’s stacked oily pay horizontal -- at last. Recently unconstrained by new rail capacity, operators are now producing nearly 200,000 bbl/d from the western Uinta, dramatically changed from the lingering 100,000 bbl/d cap that had been in place when Salt Lake City was the only economic market the waxy crude could reach. And it comes with little associated gas and little water, making it compete with the Permian Basin.
What You'll Learn
- Why the Uinta's waxy oil output had been constrained by physics and market conditions in the past and why there is no limit today to how much can be produced.economically.
- The basin's geology and its prospectivity for as many as 17 layers of oil pay.
- How the Uinta's waxy oil, which is prized among refiners and petrochemical operators, lifts economics further to overcome transportation costs.
- The outlook for the continued business-friendly nature of the state.
- How to participate in this renewed Lower 48 oil play.
Register now!
Speakers & Moderator
Juan Nevarez, EVP, Scout Energy Partners
Riley Brinkerhoff, CEO, Duchesne River Resources
Prior to joining Rolland Resources, Riley Brinkerhoff helped found HIVE Partners and Duchesne River Resources, both focused on Uinta horizontal developments. In 2024, he raised $30 MM and spearheaded the successful Upper Cube NE extension. Prior to HIVE, Riley served as exploration manager for WEM beginning in 2019, raising $550 MM for various Uinta Basin developments, most particularly as the exploration geologist in 130 play-expanding wells in five distinct target horizons. Before WEM, he worked as an asset and BD geologist at Newfield, SM Energy and QEP. He started his career at BP America. Riley holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in geology from Brigham Young University and an MBA from the University of Utah.
Nissa Darbonne, Executive Editor-at-Large, Oil and Gas Investor
The author of The American Shales, Darbonne has been a journalist since 1984, beginning in the oil and gas fields of South Louisiana. She writes for Oil and Gas Investor and is actively involved in Hart's conference agendas. Prior to joining Hart in 1998, she was the business editor for The Daily Advertiser (Lafayette, La.) and a correspondent for The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge). She received her BA in English and journalism from the University of Southwestern Louisiana, now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
This webinar is hosted in partnership with Scout Energy Partners and Duchesne River Resources.
