R. Paul Buie, Jr. is a technical executive with over 30 years of engineering experience in the Gulf of Mexico. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1990 and began his career with Kerr McGee Corporation as a production/completion engineer. Paul has held numerous completion engineering positions with companies including Arco/Vastar, Mariner Energy, ExxonMobil, British Borneo, BP, Deep Gulf Energy, and Kosmos Energy. For the last 20+ years, his focus has been on the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. He was a founding principal of Deep Gulf Energy.