Join the API Houston Chapter meeting featuring Zach Fenton, CEO and Founder of UpCurve Energy September 10 – Houston

Zach Fenton co-founded UpCurve Energy and built it from the ground up into a company producing 15,000 boe/d across 20,000 acres in the Delaware Basin.  UpCurve I was formed in 2015 and UpCurve II in 2021, both in partnership with Post Oak Energy Capital.  Prior to co-founding UpCurve, Zach worked as a Reservoir Engineer in ConocoPhillips’ Eagle Ford organization and before that spent several years at ConocoPhillips in various strategy, BD and leadership support positions, between both Houston and Aberdeen.

Prior to joining ConocoPhillips, Zach worked as an Associate at the NY-based private equity firm Lindsay Goldberg and as an Analyst in Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking Division, where he focused primarily on energy industry M&A and financings. Zach received an MBA with honors from the Wharton School and a Certificate in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M. He graduated cum laude from Duke University with a BA in Economics where he was a member of their Division I men’s lacrosse team.  Zach is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

The American Petroleum Institute, Houston, is among the industry’s largest and most dynamic trade associations promoting industry knowledge, professional development, and scholarship for the next generation of Oil & Gas workers.

API Houston General Meetings provide excellent networking and significant actionable market information from our presenter(s) during the formal luncheon.

Proceeds from API Houston events are directed towards our five scholarship endowments at the University of Texas, Austin, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Tech University, Texas A&M, Kingsville, & the University of Houston.

About API Houston:

The API – Houston Chapter is a non-profit Oil and Gas professional organization with membership open to any individual 18 years or older who is actively engaged in the petroleum industry. The Houston API has the largest membership of any API Chapter in the world, with an average annual membership usually exceeding 2000. Please click on Membership for more information on how to join.

The API – Houston Chapter sponsors approximately 8 monthly General Meetings starting in September and ending in May. These meetings are usually held at the Petroleum Club at 1201 Louisiana Street, 35th floor of Total Plaza in downtown Houston. Valet Parking is accessible from the 1200 block of Milam. Please click on Meetings for more detailed information.

About American Petroleum Institute, Washington
API represents all segments of America’s natural gas and oil industry, which supports more than 11 million U.S. jobs and is backed by a growing grassroots movement of millions of Americans. Our nearly 600 members produce, process and distribute the majority of the nation’s energy, and participate in API Energy Excellence®, which is accelerating environmental and safety progress by fostering new technologies and transparent reporting. API was formed in 1919 as a standards-setting organization and has developed more than 800 standards to enhance operational and environmental safety, efficiency and sustainability.