John Orban is an experienced oil & gas consultant. He lives with his wife in Oklahoma City. Following graduation from Princeton University (BSE in Geological Engineering), he spent three years in the Naval Civil Engineer Corps as division officer with the Seabees in Vietnam (for which he was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal),and as Officer In Charge of Construction in Yokohama, Japan. He has worked as roustabout at Sun Oil, mud-logger at Baroid, and explorationist at: Mobil, Aramco, a four-man start-up oil company in Oklahoma City and Callon Petroleum.
Established in 1983, J. Orban & Company specializes in upstream oil and gas opportunities, providing services to the U.S. and international petroleum industry and to investors. Corporate clients include multi-national corporations from both the U.S. and overseas including the Pacific Rim (where Mr. Orban spent several years studying Japanese at Keio University in Tokyo, and Mandarin Chinese at Nanyang University in Singapore and Taiwan Normal University in Taipei). Individual clients include private investors from the U.S. and from overseas.