Dr. Charles A. Sternbach has explored for Energy in the US and around the globe for 40 years. He served as Staff Geologist for Shell Oil Company, Exploration Manager for Tom Jordan, President of First Place Energy, and is currently President of Star Creek Energy.
- 1984: Ph.D., geology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, New York
- 1981: M.S., geology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, New York
- 1980: B.A., geology, Columbia College, Columbia University, New York
President, Star Creek Energy, Houston
- 2005-Present: President, Star Creek Energy, Houston
- 2003-13: President, First Place Energy, Houston
- 1997-2003: Exploration manager, JOG Corp (Jordan Oil and Gas), Houston
- 1990-97: Staff geologist, Shell, Houston
- 1984-90: Senior geologist, Shell, Houston
- 1984-Present: Six papers on Wilburton field study (Arkoma Basin), Anadarko Basin deep dolomite reservoirs, new discoveries and plays in intracratonic basins and fold belts.
In preparation: Memoir, Giant Fields of the Decade 2000-2010.
- 2012: Memoir 98, “The Great American Carbonate Bank: The Geology and Economic Resources of the Cambrian-Ordovician Sauk Megasequence of Laurentia,” co-editor and author of chapter 7, “Petroleum Resources of the Great American Carbonate Bank.”
- 2004: PA Special Publication, “Heritage of the Petroleum Geologist.”
- 2003: Special Publication, “Discoverer’s of the 20th Century – Perfecting the Search.”
- While at Shell, 30 proprietary in-house reports on trap analysis, exploration potential, carbonates and basin analysis. While serving on the editorial board of Search and Discovery we have included A/V presentations on Discovery Thinking and Playmaker forums that have received tens of thousands of views globally. As president of DPA I wrote topical articles for the AAPG EXPLORER.