About me
Jason currently serves as the President and CEO of privately held Birch Permian Holdings, Inc., an active horizontal well development company in the Midland Basin, Texas. Since the company was founded in 2018, Birch pursued an accelerated development model, drilling over 450 Hz wells, and ramping production to over 100,000 BOEPD Net.
Prior to his Birch Permian experience, Jason joined Rock Oil II as president, in March 2014. Rock Oil II was a Riverstone portfolio company with the specific strategy of applying the company’s land and technical expertise to the acquisition and development of assets in top-tier North American unconventional oil plays. During the Rock Oil II life-cycle, we were able to accumulate a large, contiguous position in the Northern Midland basin, execute an appraisal and delineation program and ultimately sell our asset base to SM Energy for $980 MM in the Fall of 2016.
Prior to joining Rock Oil II, Cansler spent nearly 15 years integrating his geologic understanding of oil and gas reservoirs with the commercial skills necessary to acquire and develop them. He spent the first eleven years of his career at Chevron working in various technical and commercial roles both onshore and offshore. After his time at Chevron, he joined a small team at Wells Fargo to found its Oil and Gas Acquisitions and Divestiture Team, where he participated in buy‐side and sell‐side advisory assignments that led to $4.5 billion in closed transactions between 2011‐2014. Jason received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Geology from Kansas State University and the University of Kansas (respectively), and his MBA from Tulane University.
