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Welcome to Inertia Land Services!ILS has over 100 years of hands-on oil and gas experience in consultation, acquisition, operations, mapping, permitting, and government relations. We succeed with speed, aggressive confidence, and financial stewardship.
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Inertia is the name for the tendency of an object in motion to remain in motion, or an object at rest to remain at rest, unless acted upon by a force. As is summarized in Newton's first law of motion: Every body continues in its state of uniform motion in a straight line, or in its state of rest,unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Ryan Reaugh Kopp, RPL
Manager, and "landman with a technical background" practices landwork, and runs projects involving acquisition, mapping, curative, due diligence, permitting, right-of-way, and divestiture. He was awarded the AAPL Registered Professional Landman designation in Fall 2008. His uncle Dave Snow and late grandfather Elbert Snow were independent landmen and his late father Richard "Ray" Kopp was a career petroleum engineer for Texaco. Ryan holds a bachelors in biology/ with a chemistry emphasis from University of Southern Indiana. He is an avid reader of the classics and technical publications. In an earlier career track, he matriculated to medical school at St. Georges USOM in Grenada, West Indies where he received high passes and passes after which he went on leave. After leaving medical school, and before land work he worked as a chemist and petroleum coke lab manager for SGS OGCS at the Hovensa Refinery in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. While with SGS he performed ASTM and EPA testing and certified quality on just under a billion barrels of crude oil and refined products coming from and going to ports all over the world.Chris Burgei, CFO
A landman with a financial background, Chris practices landwork with attention to quality assurance in lease processing and records management. He also manages a handful of companys' assets and interests, provides logistics, advises on capital funding strategies, and projects cash flows. Chris is the investor relations facilitator with both institutional and retail investors for a publicly traded oil, gas and biodiesel company. Prior to working in the energy sector, he was a fee-based financial planner; Series 7, 63, 65, and 66 SEC registered investment advisor; and insurance agent in 15 states. During his tenure of seven years with American Express Financial Advisors he managed as much as $250 million in assets. Chris left his practice to pursue work in private equity, energy project consultation and landwork. He holds a bachelors degree in finance and economics from the University of Evansville.
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We provide the following services:
- Negotiate & draft lease, surface use, seismic, right-of-way, operating, and letter agreements.
- Title services: abstract, curative, draft approval.
- Notary appointments for several states.
- Mapping: fully tooled with GIS programs, GIS/GPS units, large format color plotter.
- Due diligence with broad E&P familiarity.
- Permitting & government relations.
- Prospect scouting and kickoff.
- Operations work coordinating drilling & pipelining.
Coming Soon!!Reach Us At:
11901 Lower Mount Vernon Road
Evansville, IN 47720
812.319.7634 - Ryan Reaugh Kopp, RPL, Managing Partner - Cell Phone
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