Lawrence (Larry) Davis is Senior Advisor and Chief Scientist at MAP Royalty, Inc., a Palo Alto-based energy investment company. He assumed this role after stepping down from being the President and Managing Director of MAP’s Natural Gas activities. Before joining MAP, he served as President of Enernet, Inc., an oil and gas consulting and management firm located in Oklahoma City, through which he acted as MAP’s principal acquisition agent from 1998 through 2002. Before Enernet, Mr. Davis worked as a petroleum geologist for Terra Resources, DAB Limited, and the Getty Oil Company.
Mr. Davis holds a BA with High Honors in Archaeology and Geology from Wesleyan University, an MS in Geology from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from the University of Oklahoma.
Mr. Davis is a Certified Petroleum Geologist and a Certified Professional Earth Scientist. Mr. Davis is currently on and the immediate past chair of the alumni advisory board to the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at the University of Michigan. He is a former National Director of the Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists. Mr. Davis is also a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), Society of Professional Evaluation Engineers (SPEE), Society of Professional Well Log Analysts (SPWLA), Geological Society of America (GSA), and Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists (RMAG). He is a Director and Treasurer of the Oklahoma Geological Foundation (OGF) and a Trustee Associate of the AAPG Foundation. Mr. Davis is the director and member of the executive board of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, the president of the Oklahoma Metropolitan Library Endowment Trust, the president of Hillel at The University of Oklahoma, the president of the advisory board for Chabad of Oklahoma City, the director of the Oklahoma City Jewish Foundation and is also a past President of the Jewish Federation of Greater Oklahoma City as well as Temple B’nai Israel in Oklahoma City.
Although no longer actively involved in MAP Royalty’s daily activities, his current activities include:
- Advising various energy transition start-ups as to general business practices as well as geology-related resources.
- Advising undergraduate students desirable education training (i.e. courses) that will benefit many employers.
- Discussing with undergraduate and graduate students career-related job possibilities with NGOs and start-up companies.
