John Schumer

Executive Vice President Reservoir Engineering

Mr. Schumer is responsible for all Reservoir Engineering duties. He has over 20 years of experience in oil and gas exploration and development. Prior to joining Black Mesa, John served as Team Lead – Haynesville Shale at QEP Resources where he was responsible for all aspects of reservoir engineering including asset development strategy, acquisitions and divestitures, reserve bookings, type curve generation, and prospect generation. During Mr. Schumer’s tenure at QEP he gained valuable experience as an asset engineer evaluating and developing both conventional and unconventional resources in several regions of the Mid-Continent U.S. where he was responsible for workovers, recompletions, infill development planning and prospect generation. He started his career with Schlumberger in Wireline Evaluation and had various assignments in the U.S and internationally. He received a B.S. degree in Geological Engineering and a B.S. degree in Geology both from the University of North Dakota.