George Solich, Chairman & CEO, launched FourPoint Energy in October of 2013, after the formation and sale of three successful companies.
Solich has forty years of oil and gas industry experience in E & P and acquisitions and divestitures. He received a BS degree from University of Colorado in May of 1983 and an MS degree from University of Colorado-Denver in December of 1991. He started as a Petroleum Landman with Apache Corporation in January of 1984, holding various positions in the Rocky Mountain region land department before being promoted to manager of Business Development in Houston, Texas, in 1991. Solich was then promoted to Director of Business Development in July of 1994, coordinating the purchase and sale of over 14,000 wells accounting for $2.1 billion in capital deployed and $470 million in sales proceeds.
In 1997, he accepted the position of VP Acquisitions and Divestitures with HS Resources, Inc. In three years, from 1997 to 1999, he coordinated acquisition transactions of over $500 million. Solich formed Cordillera Energy Partners, LLC in February of 2000 and coordinated the successful sale of the company to Patina Oil & Gas Corporation for $245 million in October of 2003. In January of 2004, he formed Cordillera Energy Partners II, LLC and sold it in September, 2008 for $1.025 billion. Cordillera Energy Partners III, LLC followed, with $500 million of private equity capital in March of 2007. In January of 2012, Cordillera III announced the merger into Apache Corporation for $3.1 billion in cash and stock, closing the transaction in April 2012.
In 2013, Solich launched his fourth enterprise, FourPoint Energy, a private exploration and production company, based in Denver, CO. With his team, Solich decided to enter the minerals space and launched another venture, LongPoint Minerals, in 2016 focusing on the acquisition of mineral and royalty interests. In 2018, FourPoint Energy and Double Eagle Energy Holdings III announced the formation of a joint venture, DoublePoint Energy, a pure-play Midland Basin company with Solich serving as Executive Chairman. In April of 2021 DoublePoint Energy announced the sale of the company to Pioneer Natural Resources Company for $6.2 billion. The transaction closed in May of 2021.
Solich served on the Board of Directors of Western Energy Alliance (formerly IPAMS) from 1998 to 2012 and on the Executive Committee since 2002. He served as president in 2009 and 2010, and was honored as the 2023 Wildcatter of the Year. He also serves on the Advisory Board for the J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities at University of Colorado at Denver, the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of the ACE Scholarships, and the Board of Directors of the Western Golf Association/Evans Scholars Foundation.
