David Mabee
ConocoPhillips
Innovation Manager
David R. Mabee is the ConocoPhillips Innovation Manager accountable for nurturing a vibrant Innovation Culture across the company and accelerating the pace of adoption of leveraging innovations. Mabee began his career and with Conoco in 1991 as a reservoir engineer in Houston, Texas. He worked in a variety of engineering roles in Houston and Lafayette, Louisiana, supporting exploration and development assets in the Gulf of Mexico, Texas and international exploration. In 2001, he transferred to Jakarta, Indonesia, as New Ventures & Exploration Portfolio manager, where he worked to evaluate existing exploration assets, pick up high value exploration acreage and appraise the newly discovered Suban gas field. In 2005, Mabee transferred to Perth, Australia, as Reservoir Development manager responsible for the Phase 2 development of the Bayu-Undan gas-condensate field. In 2008, he assumed additional responsibility as Bayu-Undan and Darwin LNG asset manager. Mabee returned to Houston in 2012 as Project Integration manager for emerging unconventional shale exploration plays. He was named as Permian Unconventional asset manager following exploration success in the Delaware Basin unconventional program. In 2017 Dave was named Manager, San Juan Assets in ConocoPhillips’ Rockies business unit. He led the 125,000 boepd net asset to best in the basin cost per boe metric and was ultimately accountable for the marketing and sales of the multi-billion dollar asset. Mabee earned a Bachelor of Science degree in petroleum engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in 1991.
