Mr. Coleman began his oil and gas career in 2008 reporting to Greg Muse at Marathon Oil Company in its Appalachian business unit, working on state and local regulatory compliance and permitting for Marcellus exploratory wells in PA and WV. Mr. Coleman followed Mr. Muse to Atlas Energy in 2010, where he first met and worked with Rich Weber. At Atlas, Mr. Coleman served as Counsel on regulatory and transactional matters as well as Atlas’ merger with Chevron in 2011. After the Atlas-Chevron merger, he stayed on with Chevron as Senior Counsel providing a wide range of legal support for oil and gas exploration and development operations in OH, PA, and WV, including negotiating and drafting various oil and gas transactions (e.g., acreage trades, purchase and sale agreements, oil and gas leases, surface agreements, right of ways, title and royalty disputes, pooling/unitization actions, and confidentiality agreements), seismic acquisitions, midstream and marketing agreements, master service agreements (including drilling rig IADCs), serving as Legal Officer on the Incident Response Team, defending agency enforcements, supporting legislative efforts, as well as managing outside counsel and advising senior management on various litigation.
Mr. Coleman served as Senior Counsel at Chevron until Chevron exited the Appalachian Basin in 2020. Shortly thereafter, he rejoined Rich Weber and Greg Muse at PennEnergy Resources in 2021 as Senior Counsel, where he initially focused on transactional and compliance related work. In 2025, Mr. Coleman assumed the role of Chief Legal Counsel where he now heads up PennEnergy’s Legal Department in providing legal support for all aspects of the business and operations.
Mr. Coleman is licensed to practice law in both PA and WV. He attended undergraduate and law school at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA where he obtained a B.A. in English in 1999 and a Juris Doctor in 2002. Immediately following law school graduation, Kevin completed a one-year clerkship as Law Clerk to the Honorable Judge John M. Cascio at the Common Pleas Court of Somerset County, Somerset, PA.
