Doug Rook

VP, Business Development at Tall City Exploration

Doug Rook joined Tall City Exploration III in 2019 with over 21 years of industry experience. Mr. Rook has been involved in over $4 billion of acquisitions in his career and has managed over 650,000 acres of lease acquisitions. Most recently, Mr. Rook served as Manager of Business Development for Hilcorp Energy Company. From 2015 to 2018, Mr. Rook served as Vice President of Land & Business Development for Blue Whale Energy where he was involved in over $1.5 billion of acquisitions, most notably was the acquisition of Tall City Exploration I’s assets in Howard County. Prior to joining Blue Whale in 2015, Mr. Rook was a Principal and Vice President of Land & Business Development for Kraken Oil & Gas LLC I where they compiled over 120,000 acres via organic leasing, farmins and other strategic deal structures in the Williston Basin. Prior to joining Kraken in 2012, Mr. Rook was with Rosetta Resources and served as Manager, Land & Asset Business Development where he was responsible for managing the company wide land effort in the Eagleford and Rocky Mountain regions which included operations, leasing efforts and asset business development across the Lower 48. From 1997 until joining Rosetta, Mr. Rook served in various Land, Business Development and Energy Trading roles with Linn Energy, Burlington Resources / ConocoPhillips, TXU Energy, Duke Energy and Sonat Exploration. Mr. Rook earned a BBA in Petroleum Land Management / Marketing from Texas Tech University and an MBA from Tulane University. Mr. Rook is a member of the AAPL, ADAM Permian, ADAM Rockies and serves as an Advisor for ADAM Houston.

Timeline

  • VP, Business Development

    Current role