Russ Perry

Russ is the Corporate Health Safety Environmental & Regulatory Director for Sequitur Energy Resources and SEM Operating Company LLC (collectively Sequitur). Sequitur is a growth-oriented, independent oil and gas producer with upstream assets in the Permian Basin with over 150,000 acres in active development. Russ manages a team of 9 HSE professionals that are driving a culture of going above and beyond compliance. Russ has over 30 years of HSE experience in the metals, mining, and energy industries; a combination that has created a unique set of technical expertise involving Regulatory Compliance, Consent Order Management, Due Diligence, Ethics, Environmental Auditing, Permitting, and Remediation Management. Russ has a regulatory acumen in delivering compliance systems for Consent Orders that provides Management knowledge of on-time and accurate delivery. Prior to his role at Sequitur he lead a team at BP to develop and successfully managed BP’s Legal & Regulatory Commitments following the Deepwater Horizon Incident to achieve 100% compliance of all committed government agreements, Consent Orders, and their criminal plea agreement implementation plan. As a Visionary, he has delivered regulatory permitting programs in time-critical environments including an approved Title V PSD construction permit. He has a track record of developing holistic permitting programs for new and existing facilities in critical situations. His ability to manage conflict resolution, work in difficult situations has made him highly effective at stakeholder engagement. As a Business Manager, he provides technical expertise for auditing programs and has managed third-party external audits that assured to the federal government that a company was meeting and exceeding their legal and regulatory compliance requirements. As a tactful auditing and gap analysis evaluator, he knows when to intervene and how to implement continuous improvement projects.