Robert Garrison

Bob is a Senior Advisor with Quantum and also serves on the Technical Advisory Committee.
He has over 40 years of executive and operating experience in the energy industry where he was one of the early pioneers in understanding and advancing unconventional resource plays and is generally regarded as one of the world’s foremost technical and operational experts on shale gas and tight oil.
Bob previously worked for EOG Resources in a number of leadership capacities, including most recently serving as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Western U.S.
and Canada.
From 2010 – 2014, he started and ran the Company’s San Antonio Division and Eagle Ford Operations, the largest and most profitable division of EOG.
Before joining EOG, Bob worked for a variety of companies and as an independent, including Seagull Energy, Arkla Exploration, Supron Energy Corp and Shell Oil Company.
He is currently a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists and San Antonio Geological Society.
Bob serves on the Geosciences Advisory Council for Western Michigan University and as an Advisory Trustee for the Southwest Research Institute.
He holds a B.S.
in Geology from Western Michigan University and a M.S.
in Geology from the University of Cincinnati.