About the Company

The Company founders represent a combined experience in the oil and gas business of almost 50 years. They have been involved all segments of the business from the wellhead to the burner tip.

Fred O. Turner - Mr. Turner is the president and manager of Red Oak Energy Partners, LLC. He has several years of executive level experience in the oil and gas industry. He served as executive vice president and director of a NYSE oil and gas company and was instrumental in raising over $100 million in common stock offerings and publicly offered oil and gas drilling funds. He also has several years experience in the investment banking community serving as an investment advisor and managing IPOs, secondary offerings, mergers and acquisitions. From 1996 to the present, Mr. Turner has been an account executive in the securities industry most recently with TS Phillips in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. From 1985 to 1990, he was a vice president - corporate finance with Rauscher Pierce Refsnes, LLC in Dallas, Texas. From 1984 to 1985, he was the vice president - corporate finance for Bracken Exploration in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. From 1976 to 1982, he was executive vice president and a director for Unit Corporation in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mr. Turner is a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration School, Boston, MA with an MBA in 1975 and from the University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK in 1972 with a B.S. Accounting.

Richard Zieren - Mr. Zieren is the executive vice president and manager of Red Oak Energy Partners, LLC. He is an attorney licensed in Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado with over 25 years of transactional experience working for publicly traded oil and gas exploration and production companies, natural gas pipelines and utility acquisition programs. He has been involved with the formation and fund raising aspects of public oil and gas partnerships and most recently managed the legal and transactional aspects of a $400 million utility acquisition program. Currently, he is engaged in starting and advising new business ventures. From 1991 to 1996, he was vice president & general counsel for Transok, LLC, a major intra-state natural gas pipeline headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. From 1988 to 1991, he was associate general counsel/corporate for Apache Corporation in Denver, Colorado and from 1986 to 1988, he was associate general counsel/oil & gas for Apache Corporation in Tulsa, Oklahoma. From 1981 to 1986, he was general counsel & corporate secretary for Unit Corporation in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois with a BS degree in Accountancy and from the University of Oklahoma with JD/MBA degrees in 1976. In addition, he has a Masters Science-Science and Technology Commercialization (MSSTC) degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001.

 

Early Oklahoma oil well in Caddo county