JOHN LI, RPL
PETROLEUM LANDMAN
JIM ENLOE
PETROLEUM LANDMAN
OUR TEAM
DEBBIE SPRINGER, CPL
PRESIDENT
Debbie Springer is the founder and president of Audubon Energy, LLC, an energy consulting firm she established in 2012. With more than 40 years of experience in corporate and field land management, she has led due diligence projects and exploration programs throughout the Gulf Coast, West Coast, and Williston Basin. Her areas of expertise include managing fee lands, overseeing land operations, and advancing mineral development. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Communication from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and is a Certified Professional Landman (CPL).
Under her leadership, Audubon has conducted acquisition due diligence reviews on over $1.2 billion in assets, with a primary focus in Texas, Oklahoma, and California. The firm continually refines its processes and reporting methods in response to feedback from clients, lenders, and transactional attorneys.
Prior to founding Audubon, Ms. Springer served as president of Mandalay Oil and Gas for a
decade. During her tenure, her exploration team successfully raised $56 million in drilling
capital, leading to several onshore discoveries in Louisiana.
Her professional involvement includes service on the boards of directors of the Gulf Coast & Shale Expo, Petroleum Club of Lafayette (where she also served as secretary), and the Denver Association of Professional Landmen. She has also held leadership roles with the Louisiana Oil & Gas Association, American Association of Professional Landmen, Lafayette Association of Professional Landmen (executive committee), Houston Association of Professional Landmen, and Bakersfield Association of Petroleum Landmen.
Debbie and her husband, Dr. Leonard Springer, are active supporters of the University of
Louisiana at Lafayette. In June 2019, they established the Springer Endowed Scholarship to
benefit music students. Debbie is also an equestrian enthusiast, having competed in the sport of eventing.
CHRIS MCGUIRT, CPL
SENIOR LAND MANAGER
Chris McGuirt, CPL is a Certified Professional Landman with fourteen years of experience in due diligence and land management across major U.S. basins. He began his career managing all leasehold and permitting for one of the largest seismic operations in North America, covering more than 450,000 acres in East Texas. Chris later joined Audubon Energy, where he conducted $450 million in acquisition due diligence projects, and subsequently served as an in-house contract landman with ConocoPhillips, overseeing multiple divestiture due diligence packages in the Eagle Ford and Permian Basins.
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Chris brings deep expertise in contract and title analysis, including joint operating agreements, farmouts, production payments, joint interest billing, revenue and division of interest decks, reversionary interests, participation agreements, well payout status, and purchase and sale agreements. His experience extends to drilling and division order title opinions, communitization agreements, pooling, unit designations, leases, production sharing agreements, lawsuits/liens, mineral and surface title, rights-of-way, State and Federal assignments, and curative work.
JOHN LI, MBA, CPL
SENIOR LAND MANAGER
John Li, CPL, MBA holds an MBA from Rice University and is a Certified Professional Landman with over twelve years of experience in the acquisition, management, and development of oil and gas assets valued at more than $800 million, including $500 million in acquisition due diligence across East and West Texas, California, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Louisiana.
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John is highly proficient in leveraging technology to drive efficiency in land management. As an Excel expert and Microsoft Office Specialist, he has applied advanced techniques such as Monte Carlo analysis to model well success rates and perform pro forma calculations under variable scenarios. His innovative use of technology to streamline due diligence projects has resulted in substantial gains in productivity and accuracy.
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Throughout his career, John has managed all land-related responsibilities for acquisition and divestiture due diligence projects, including negotiating PSA agreements, preparing closing and title transfer documents, and coordinating with regulatory agencies. He has overseen all aspects of mineral and surface title research, rights-of-way, drilling and division order title opinion reviews, and the curation of title defects, ensuring seamless transactions and operational success.
JIM ENLOE
SENIOR LAND MANAGER
Jim Enloe began his landman career in 1989 after earning a B.S. degree in political science from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is highly proficient in all aspects of petroleum land management research, document preparation and negotiation with a specialty in pipeline and right of way projects. Specifically, Mr. Enloe has worked on various pipeline projects in Mississippi and Louisiana, including assistance in route selection, surface title determination, survey permission and acquisition of private, State and Parish rights of way.
Mr. Enloe was the Senior Right of Way Agent charged with the responsibility of overall right of way acquisition on a Co2 loop pipeline project in Rankin, Simpson and Copiah Counties in Mississippi. Major responsibilities included management of field agents, maintenance of landowner line lists, survey plat interface with engineering, collaboration with construction personnel, and preparation and acquisition of right of way agreements and governmental permits. Mr. Enloe also achieved a high level of success in amicable resolution of agricultural damage and integrity of landowner relations. He is a member of the Lafayette Association of Professional Landmen.
Len Springer has served as an independent land and mineral consultant for more than 10 years. He holds a Ph.D. in higher education from Penn State, an M.Ed. in higher education from Vanderbilt, and a B.A. in economics from Indiana. Dr. Springer remains involved in higher education as an adjunct instructor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His clients include corporate landowners and oil and gas exploration companies and his services include researching surface and mineral title, reporting on acreage available to lease, abstracting, leasing, acquiring surface agreements and rights of way, managing geographic information systems (GIS), and creating maps of wells, surface and mineral ownership, and active and expired leases.
LEN SPRINGER, Ph.D.
CONSULTANT
JOHN ENLOE
CONSULTANT
John Enloe is a senior executive specializing in development, design, permitting, government relations, construction and commercial operations for a number of domestic and international world class organizations. Mr. Enloe has held officer positions in companies such as Tenneco Oil, British Gas, Duke Energy and Maxus Corp. (formerly Diamond Shamrock). His 37 years of experience include projects in exploration and production, electrical power generation, natural gas processing and distribution, LNG operations, extreme environmental matters, specialty gas production and international pipeline projects. His pipeline experience most notably includes the 2,000 km Bolivia to Brazil pipeline and the 1,000 km Argentina to Chile pipeline projects.
Mr. Enloe is a graduate of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and holds an MBA from Tulane University. In addition, he has been a board member of the following boards:
Chairman of Board, YPF Holdings (holding company for Tierra Solutions and Maxus Energy Corp.)
Chairman of Board, Campeche Gas Compression Services (provided Pemex gas treatment and compression services in Bay of Campeche, Mexico)
Chairman of Board, Maxus Energy Corporation (company engaged in deep Gulf of Mexico exploration and production activity)
Chairman, BTB (joint venture company that developed the Bolivia to Brazil natural gas pipeline)
Chairman, DEI Crisis Management Committee
Chairman, 2008 United Way Campaign Duke
Board Member, Compania de Nitrogeno de Cantarell (world’s largest nitrogen generation facility)
Board Member, Ibn Sina (SABIC holding in Saudi Arabia, produced methanol and MTBE)
Board Member, TransGas (company that developed Argentina to Chile natural gas pipeline)
Board Member, Institute of International Education
Board Member, Houston World Affairs Council
Board Member, Central Doc Sud (company owning 850 MW power plant in Argentina)
Board Member, MetroGas (company engaged in natural gas distribution in Argentina)
Vice President, Association of International Petroleum Negotiators
DEI Environmental Health and Safety Committee
Duke Corp. Environmental Committee
Duke Corp. Brand Strategy Committee
Duke Corp. Security Committee
Duke Corp. A&G Study Committee
Served as a mentor in Duke Mentoring Program
