Patrick Collins keeps the explorer spirit alive with oil, gas leasing
November 13, 2014 at 14:05 PM EST
J. Patrick Collins sees himself as an explorer. As the CEO, co-founder and president of Cortez Resources, the 34-year-old was one of the first to lease blocks in the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas in 2009 and is venturing into new territory now in the oil-rich Tuscaloosa-Marine shale in Louisiana and Mississippi...