J.E.B. Bolen
J.E.B. Bolen is EVP of Operations at EQT. His responsibilities include the Master Operations Schedule, the field development plan, the Midstream business, land acquisitions, permitting and surface construction, EHS functions, supply chain & procurement, and a variety of other categories. He has been in the energy industry for 14 years (since 2012), having worked for BP, Rice Energy, and EQT. He has field experience as a drilling engineer trainee in East Texas (Cotton Valley Shale), a night company man for a coring and appraisal project in the oil sands of northern Alberta, and a workover engineer on the north slope of Alaska. From 2002 to 2012, he was an officer and helicopter pilot in the USMC, completing multiple Marine Expeditionary Unit deployments onboard ships at sea. He graduated from the US Naval Academy in 2002 with a degree in Control Systems Engineering. Before that, he served in the Navy for two years as a nuclear steam plant mechanic, having successfully completed the Navy Nuclear Power training pipeline.