Jim has extensive experience (38+years) managing oilfield chemical projects and international business operations, including managing their profitability and staff, developing business, and creating a variety of programs to support those businesses. His experience ranges from corrosion inhibition, phase separation, and flow assurance product development, systems and product evaluations, field trial and program management. Downhole, he specializes in scale inhibition squeeze, water shut-off squeeze, inorganic and organic cleanouts. Jim and his family have lived in over 9 countries, while Jim as worked in the technical and business development side of the oil and gas industry in over 50 countries in the last 38+ years. Jim is currently working out of Creedence’s state of the art Midland, Texas lab facility.

​Matt Harris graduated from UND with a degree in Petroleum Engineering with time spent conducting research focused on mineralogical characterization, including XRF and XRD. After 3 years spent serving as an Engineer for the Production Chemicals Division Matt now provides technical assistance in failure analysis across all Williston Basin assets. Utilizing his historic knowledge of field challenges, Matt now works to formulate new chemistries to meet the changing needs of customers throughout the Bakken while assisting in training the Production Chemicals Division on the challenges of oil production.

Nicole graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of North Dakota with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering. Prior to joining Creedence, Nicole was a Technical Sales Representative for Emerson in the Permian Basin where she assisted upstream and midstream customers in product selection and education. Since joining Creedence in 2019, Nicole has helped to lead the expansion of Creedence’s technical capabilities through equipment acquisition and the development of multiple SOPs specialty to the Bakken and its challenges. With an emphasis in performance testing Nicole works locally with the Williston team to create new best fit chemistries for the Bakken.

Melyssa Ostler joined Creedence in 2017. Prior to her joining the team, Melyssa was the Lead Analyst for the Baker Hughes Upstream Chemicals Laboratory for four years. Since starting at Creedence, Melyssa designed and implemented the Creedence Laboratory, which has expanded and evolved to what it is today. Since the lab's inception, maintaining a less than five-day turnaround and continuing the highest level of quality assurance is the cultural norm in the Creedence Laboratory. Melyssa's area of expertise is method development, along with the analysis of complex Bakken Brine and the detection of phosphorus. When not analyzing water samples, Melyssa's time at Creedence consists of training laboratory personnel in safety and proper methods and procedures, continuing education programs and classes, and various IT projects. Melyssa holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Arizona State University and a degree in Business Administration from Montana State University - Billings. 

For over 10 years, Elizabeth Clark has been working in an analytical laboratory for various oil and gas companies. Elizabeth joined the Creedence Energy team in March of 2022 as the Analytical Manager for the southern division. She quickly took on the leadership role to oversee analytics for multiple locations within the company. It is her belief that accurate and timely analytical results are crucial to proper treatment in oil and gas production. Since starting with Creedence she has continuously worked to develop the Permian laboratory to provide Creedence customers with date they can utilize and depend on.