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Ryan M. Lance is senior vice president, technology and major projects, of ConocoPhillips.
Lance began his career with ARCO Alaska in 1984. He held a number of engineering and operations positions in Alaska before transferring in 1989 to ARCO’s Bakersfield, Calif. operations. In 1992, he transferred to Midland, Texas, where he supervised ARCO’s coalbed methane operations in the San Juan Basin. He returned to Alaska in
1994 as exploration engineering manager. In 1996, he transferred to Vastar Resources in Houston as planning manager, a position he held until 1998 when he was appointed vice president of the Western North Slope for ARCO Alaska, Inc. Lance returned to Houston in 2001 as the general manager of the Lower 48 and Canada for Phillips Petroleum. With the merger of ConocoPhillips in 2002, he became vice president, Lower 48, then president, Asia Pacific, for exploration and production in 2003. In June 2005, Lance became president, strategy, integration and specialty businesses, and assumed his current position in April 2006.
He serves on the boards of both the American Petroleum Institute and the Independent Petroleum Association of America, is an advisory board member of Montana Tech and a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Lance was born in Blythville, Ark. in 1962 and earned a Bachelor of Science in petroleum engineering from Montana Tech in Butte in 1984. | 