Lee Francis

Executive Vice President Operations

Mr. Francis has over forty years of engineering and management experience in upstream and mid-stream operations. Mr. Francis served as the EVP of Operations and Marketing for Red Fork Energy, Inc. where he was responsible for all drilling, production and infrastructure projects related to the Mississippi Lime play. Prior to that Mr. Francis owned CEI Petroleum, Inc., which developed and operated a Morrow formation gas and iodine brine co-production project in northwest Oklahoma. This company was successfully sold in January of 2013. Since 1986, Mr. Francis has owned and operated companies that provide consulting engineering and well site supervision of oil and gas development projects in the states of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, California, Mississippi and Louisiana (onshore and inland waters). Mr. Francis’ consulting engineering firm served as the operations department for Medallion Petroleum and Brighton Energy, and he has worked with the founding members of Black Mesa for over 20 years. Mr. Francis is a 1974 graduate of Oklahoma State University holding a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering and Management. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Oklahoma.