Gabe Drury

Accounting professional looking for permanent or contract role.

Operations Accounting Manager at Bedrock Energy Partners, LLC (2024-11 – 2026-03)

Promoted from Supervisor. Managed private equity backed Escondido Resources Operating Company in addition to Bedrock operations totaling more than 2000 wells with 150+ working interest partners.

• Managed Property Accounting, Regulatory, A/P, and JIB departments for both entities.
• Supervised outsourced accounting team responsible for Revenue processing.
• Optimized and responsible for G&A, PP&E Rollforward, Capital, DD&A, ARO schedules.
• Assisted with monthly and quarterly financial reporting processes.
• Oversaw monthly accruals related to field operations, drilling, facility expenses and G&A.
• Lead month-end close processes for Bedrock Production and Escondido Resources.
• Managed LOE and capital accounting for operated and non-operated assets, ensuring accurate classification of drilling, completion, workover, and facility costs.
• Supported joint venture audits and partner inquiries, resolving billing disputes and reconciling cost allocations.
• Successful in streamlining the JIB process while also shortening JIB close from 7 days to 5 days.
• Created customized payout report in Spotfire for accounting, land and reservoir engineering.
• Completed year-long project of implementing Asset Backed Security (ABS) controls and framework into Quorum.
• Updated Quorum to allocate in sync with production accounting reducing cost allocation errors.
• Supported quarterly and yearly audits and responsible for hosting non-operator audits.

Cost Accounting Supervisor at Bedrock Energy Partners, LLC (2020-09 – 2024-11)

Senior O&G Consultant at Whitley Penn LLP (2019-05 – 2020-06)

Worked with multiple Oil & Gas clients to improve and streamline existing processes.

• Assisted financial reporting while reconciling general ledger and trial balance detail.
• Joint Interest Accounting - Property taxes, COPAS overhead and cost allocation, salt-water disposal, payouts, adjusting entries, month-end JIB process/close and JOA adherence.
• LOE, Capital & Full Cost Pool schedule maintenance, ARO, DD&A, G&A, Accruals.
• Booked prepaid, fixed asset entries, cash deposits, cash requirements, bank reconciliations.
• AFE vs Actual reporting and analysis.

Joint Venture Accounting Supervisor at Eagle Energy Inc (2011-10 – 2019-01)

Canadian based Oil and Gas company.

• Managed JIB close.
• Maintained capital and operation expense subledgers.
• Set up over 500 wells and all cost center data including related capital, expense, and revenue decks in accounting system.
• Responsible for booking monthly operating expense accruals and final reviewed capital accruals.
• Supervised operated and non-operated joint interest and operations accounting.
• Point person for joint venture audits and resolved partner disputes which resulted in the recovery of approximately $2 million dollars.

Joint Interest Accountant at El Paso Corporation (2008-01 – 2011-10)

Houston based Oil and Gas E&P company.

• Maintained joint interest owner accounts which included general research, prepayment applications, journal entries, collections, and account reconciliations.
• Ensured billing complied with COPAS and joint operating agreements.
• Maintained AR collection goal of non-legal/AFDA > 180 days below $500K through continued collection efforts on assigned JIB A/R accounts.
• Assisted in the SOX testing and documentation.

Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance – Texas State University

Certificate of Accounting Program (CAP) – University of Houston