About Us
The President and Chief Geologist is John Upcraft
Mr. Upcraft is a Certified Professional Geologist (AIPG-CPG 8485) as well as
registered or licensed in several States.
Mr. Upcraft’s experience spans 38 years of Oil & Gas
exploration and production in Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, New
York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming, and Ontario.
Much of his effort within Resolve Exploration, Corp. is
expended in the exploration of oil in the Illinois Basin.
Projects vary from small exploration projects,
development of existing producing fields, as well as regional “plays”.
Mr. Upcraft provides Industrial Minerals exploration services for clients
throughout the Midwest.
In addition Mr. Upcraft was a co-founder of an
environmental service company that provided services for 20 years within 44
States and Canada.
Mr. Upcraft continues to consult with clients providing
his expertise in environmental project design, equipment design and
implementation, and remediation design.
Mr. Upcraft provides support and consultation services
for the Coal Industry in Illinois and Alabama as well as consultation and
exploration services for municipal and private groundwater clients.
Mr. Upcraft has provided well site management and geological services on the
three Pre-Cambrian “granite” tests that have been drilled in the deeper portion
of the Illinois Basin since 1988, as well as numerous wells drilled to various
depths in more than a dozen States and Canada.
Mr. Upcraft’s subsurface interpretations have resulted
in “wildcat” discoveries as well as many extensions and developmental
discoveries.
The first well drilled by Resolve Exploration, Corp. was a
wildcat discovery in January 2010, based solely upon Mr. Upcraft’s subsurface
interpretations.
To date that discovery and the subsequent development has
resulted a highly profitable discovery with a gross income in excess of 2.5
million dollars from four wells at a depth of only two thousand feet.
The Land Department Manager is Diana Upcraft
Mrs. Upcraft experience spans more than 20 years of title work for clients in
the Oil and Gas industry as well as landfills, right of ways, municipal, and
financial institutions.
Mrs. Upcraft provides real time title and lease work for
Resolve Exploration, Corp. thereby providing cursory title searches for initial
prospect development as well as complete title work for the leasing of prospect
acreage.
Mrs. Upcraft’s title work is instrumental in the pre-drilling title
opinion by an attorney.
In addition to Resolve Exploration, Corp., Mrs. Upcraft
provides land and title services for clients within the Illinois Basin where she
manages a staff of researchers so that her clients get timely results.
