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Mr. Zook leads the Company’s Field Operations efforts. As VP of Operations, Mr. Zook’s responsibilities include managing daily production, drilling and completion operations as well as other operational improvement and development projects.

Prior to joining Basin, Mr. Zook held various positions with ExxonMobil and XTO over a 14+ year tenure which included drilling, completion, production and corporate roles around the world. Most recently, he was Drilling Manager for their subsidiary XTO Energy for the Eastern Business Unit running as many as 16 rigs across South Texas, Ark-La-Tex and Appalachia. Prior to this position, Mr. Zook was the Drilling Manager for the XTO Central Division overseeing $300M/yr of drilling operations in the Rockies, Barnett, and Bakken where Mr. Zook worked with Basin who was a working interest partner. Mr. Zook began his career with Eaton Corporation as a Manufacturing Engineer leading process improvement initiatives in their Hydraulics Division.

Mr. Zook graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering from Kansas State University and later completed the ExxonMobil Leadership Development Program at the Kenan-Flagler Business School in Chapel Hill, NC. He is a published author for the Society of Petroleum Engineers and an active member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.