Greg Balash

As COO and EVP of Engineering for Mesa Minerals Partners II LLC ("Mesa II"), Greg’s responsibilities include overseeing acquisition evaluation, reserves, and portfolio management and optimization for the company.

Prior to Mesa II, Greg served as VP of Engineering for Mesa Minerals Partners LLC (Mesa I) where the team evaluated and underwrote thousands of acquisitions across the core of the Louisiana and Texas Haynesville Shale play.

Prior to joining Mesa I, Greg co-founded and served as President of Hyridge Energy Partners with a commitment from Denham Capital to target non-operated E&P opportunities in the Anadarko and Permian Basins.

Prior to the Hyridge Energy Partners, Greg was the Senior Acquisitions and Reservoir Engineer for Travis Peak Resources (“TPR”), an EnCap sponsored E&P company that deployed over $500 million in capital in the Anadarko and Appalachian Basins. While at TPR, Greg provided technical expertise on over 225 operated and non-operated wells while growing the leasehold position to over 90,000 net leasehold acres. In addition while at TPR, Greg championed a two-year mineral acquisition joint venture with Haymaker Minerals & Royalties focused in Grady and Canadian counties in the Anadarko Basin using an operator partnership model.