Birlie has 25 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry. Since joining Chevron in 2001, he has held numerous positions of increasing responsibility globally in the areas of asset development, operations, strategy, planning, business development, technology deployment, corporate affairs and people management. Birlie holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Petroleum Engineering from LSU and is a licensed professional engineer in petroleum engineering in the state of Louisiana (Inactive – #32123).

He serves on the Advisory Boards for the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTeC) and the Women’s Global Conference in Energy. He is married with 4 daughters.