Mr Fisher’s oil and gas career began in 1976, when he served as an engineer and supervisor for Gulf Oil in California. He later became an area reservoir engineer for Gulf Oil in Texas.
From 1984-90, he was operations manager for Mission Resources in California, where he oversaw the drilling and completion of 114 wells and the design, procurement, and installation of tank and gas compression facilities, within an eight-month period.
In 1990, Mr Fisher became CEO of Bakersfield Energy Resources. In addition to operating oil properties, he obtained a $20 million loan and purchased properties from Mobil Oil and Shell Oil in the Lost Hills area of Western Kern County.
While operating Mission Resources’s Belridge oil property, Mr Fisher purchased a gas processing plant from ExxonMobil which was situated in the Belridge oil field and obtained an oil and gas lease from Union Oil in Lost Hills. This acquisition enabled the company to deliver approximately 13 million cubic feet per day (MMCFd) of natural gas to the plant and to sell 9MMCFd via Southern California Edison’s gas transmission line to customers in Los Angeles.
