Ken Hall serves as the Chairman of the Board of Missouri River Resources. He is a founding member of the Fort Berthold Allottee Land and Mineral Owners Association, Inc. An association advocating on behalf of the mineral owners/allottees on the FBIR; to oil and gas companies, energy companies, and to all federal government agencies. He was a speaker at the North America Energy Summit in Edmonton, Canada 2008. He has been involved with several meetings representing the MHA Nation Energy Division with Federal and State Governments, North Dakota Petroleum Council, North Dakota Industrial Commission, Oil and Pipeline Companies, Mineral Owners, Tribal Leaders, and Consultants. Board and Executive Experience Managing and Advocating for Land & Mineral Owners in the Bakken, Three Forks, and Bird Bear Oil Plays on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation: as an individual owner, and, through the FBALMOA and now the MHA Nation Energy Division, for both the individual allottees and for the Tribal Nation. HE has participated in high level lobbying at the White House calling upon President Obama to endorse the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Physical Education - University of Mary – Bismarck, N.D., 1983. Master of Education Degree – University of Oklahoma – 1996 – 1 Term Graduate Level Courses. He is the Great Great Grandson of Chief Dragswolf, the last Chief of the Hidatsa People.
Ron Kaler -
Chief Operating Officer
Whitney Bell serves as a Director on the board of Missouri River Resources.
Dr. Stands-Over-Bull serves as a Sr. Geological Advisor for Anadarko Petroleum Corporation’s Geoscience Technology Group. His areas of expertise include sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, unconventional oil and gas reservoirs, petroleum and coal geology, petroleum exploration and development, and development of Native American energy resources. Russell’s work experience spanning nearly 25 years includes petroleum exploration and development projects in the US, Canada, Europe, and South America. His past affiliations include BP, Amoco Production Company, Arrow Creek Resources, and Barrett Resources. Russell has devoted part of his career to help Native American tribes develop their own petroleum, coal, and wind resources. Russell is an enrolled member of the Crow Tribe, and has dual residences including Golden CO and Pryor MT (Crow Indian Reservation). Dr. Stands Over Bull received a B.S (Earth Science-Geology) from Montana State University-Bozeman, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees (Geology) from the Colorado School of Mines.
Ron Kaler began his oil and gas career in 1976 in the Williston Basin working for a rig contractor. In 1981, he became a Gulf Oil employee performing drilling, completion, and workover operations as drilling/workover foreman. In 1985, Ron became a Chevron employee as a result of the Gulf/Chevron merger and overseen drilling, completions, workover and facilities construction operations on land and offshore, in the USA, Angola, Nigeria, Venezuela, and Columbia until he retired from Chevron in 2007, after 26 years.
Since 2007, Ron worked as a consultant drilling superintendent and drilling manager, overseeing pad construction, drilling, completion, workover, and facility construction operations in the Marcellus/Bakken area along with mentoring national oil company employees in Venezuela (Land and Offshore). In 2014, he accepted the drilling manager position with Missouri River Resources and was involved in planning, drilling, and completing the first four wells for MRR. In April 2015, Ron accepted the position as Chief Operating Officer for Missouri River Resources.
Mark N. Fox is the current Chairman of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation. He is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, and a 1993 graduate of the University of North Dakota Law School. He was elected to his tribe's Tribal Business Council in 1994, serving for eight years, including the positions of Treasurer and Vice Chairman. Mark has extensive experience working with national organizations and has held various leadership positions, including the InterTribal Monitoring Association (ITMA), and the North Dakota, Great Plains, and National Indian Gaming Associations. He has been appointed to federal advisory boards for the National Indian Gaming Commission and the Indian Country Energy and Infrastructure Advisory Group under the Department of Energy. He currently serves as Chairman for the Three Affiliated Tribes. He also represents the MHA Nation in intergovernmental affairs, and facilitates special project development such as construction of a new law enforcement center and court house. A renowned advocate for tribal sovereignty and economic development, he is often called upon to present at training seminars, tribal gatherings, and educational forums.
D. Dave Williams is currently the President/CEO of Missouri River Resources. Missouri River Resources is the MHA Nation’s privately owned Oil & Gas Company located on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in western North Dakota. Dave's previous experience in the petroleum industry was with Gulf-Chevron Oil Company for twelve years, from 1979-1991. Dave has worked in all facets of the industry from drilling wells in North Texas, Oklahoma, Utah and Wyoming to completions of wells in North Dakota and Montana. He also was a lease operator in the Permian Basin in West Texas after drilling some wells in the Odessa-Midland area. Dave would like to bring his past experience in the Oil & Gas sector to maximize the revenues from MHA Nation’s natural resources and create a profitable Oil & Gas Company for the tribal membership of the Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nation. Dave has also taught Oil & Gas classes at the Fort Berthold Community College for the past three years. He currently resides in New Town, North Dakota with his wife, Valerie and 16 year old daughter, Shanoah. He and Valerie currently have eight grandchildren.
David Williams-
CEO
John Stone serves as a Director on the board of Missouri River Resources. He is an enrolled Member of the Three Affiliated Tribes. He has been a rancher for 40 years and is Married with two Children.
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