Strickland joined Chevron after earning a doctorate at the University of Kansas, previously receiving a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Colorado and master’s from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He was working the Rockies’ Overthrust Belt for Chevron when he joined W.R. Grace and made discoveries in Oklahoma, North Dakota and California as well as the Madden Deep well in the Wyoming Overthrust. He continued finding oil and gas as an independent and joined with Wolverine Gas & Oil to get his central Utah prospects drilled. After Wolverine’s discovery of the Covenant Field in Utah, Strickland founded Jayden Consulting LLC. Strickland died unexpectedly at his home May 4, 2011 after an illness. He was 58. Prior to his death, he was exploring in the emerging Alberta Basin Bakken Shale play east of Glacier National Park, via his company, Red Rock Resources LLC of Oklahoma City. | Strickland joined Chevron after earning a doctorate at the University of Kansas, previously receiving a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Colorado and master’s from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He was working the Rockies’ Overthrust Belt for Chevron when he joined W.R. Grace and made discoveries in Oklahoma, North Dakota and California as well as the Madden Deep well in the Wyoming Overthrust. He continued finding oil and gas as an independent and joined with Wolverine Gas & Oil to get his central Utah prospects drilled. After Wolverine’s discovery of the Covenant Field in Utah, Strickland founded Jayden Consulting LLC. Strickland died unexpectedly at his home May 4, 2011 after an illness. He was 58. Prior to his death, he was exploring in the emerging Alberta Basin Bakken Shale play east of Glacier National Park, via his company, Red Rock Resources LLC of Oklahoma City. |