Executive Team

Tony is a 64-year veteran of the oil and gas industry, whose career is marked by diversity and successful ventures.

In the 1960’s, after graduating from university and serving in the U.S. Army, Tony joined Ambassador Oil Corporation and soon became District Landman overseeing operations in the US Rocky Mountain region. In 1964, Tony founded General Petroleum Corporation and Texas Interstate Oil & Gas Company (1967), and later became President and Chairman of Prudential Minerals Exploration Company (1969), later known as Del Mar Petroleum Corporation. Tony guided a merger of Del Mar into Shenandoah Oil Corporation, where he served as Executive Vice President and Director. Shenandoah expanded rapidly in the 1970s, exploring geological basins in the US and abroad. Tony led the company in complex projects, notably a groundbreaking oil discovery in remote, north central Guatemala requiring the construction of a 140-mile crude oil pipeline through jungle terrain to the Caribbean Coast.

In the 1980s, Tony founded E R Operating Company and became an independent operator acquiring and managing production and waterflood operations in the Permian Basin and participating in natural gas exploration in the Mid-Continent and Rocky Mountain regions.

In the 1990’s, Tony co-founded General Gas Company, a natural gas gathering and processing business later sold to Duke Energy Field Services, and in 1998, he co-founded Caledonia Energy Partners, which developed a significant natural gas storage reservoir in northeastern Mississippi. Throughout the 1990’s and early 2000’s, Tony initiated several projects with technical partners that grew assets from very little to significant exit values.

In 2007, Tony initiated our EOR project in the Permian Basin.

Tony graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Colorado State University and served in the United States Army.

Jimmy began his career in 1979 on a drilling rig in East Texas. Following graduation from university, Jimmy joined Santa Fe Minerals in Dallas, Texas, and was soon recruited by SFM’s parent, Kuwait Oil Company, to its eastern hemisphere engineering team to lead its evaluations and planning group. For the following decade, he was involved in the development of multiple large exploration and development projects spanning eighteen countries in the eastern hemisphere.

In the mid 1990’s, Jimmy joined International Petroleum Corporation as Vice President and General Manager of IPC Malaysia. He recruited and led the team that designed and implemented Phase I of Malaysia Block CAA PM3, located in overlapping territorial waters shared by Malaysia and Vietnam. The development has been a technical and commercial success and is expected to recover over 600 million BOE.

In the late 1990’s, Jimmy formed First Oil Limited, which pursued acquisitions and provided management to projects in the former Soviet Union, China, southeast Asia and Australia. After returning to the USA in 1996, he led Rosetta Energy in the drilling and development of an environmentally sensitive, 10,000-acre federal unit in the Sabine National Forest.

In 2007, through partnership and funding provided by Mr. Roosevelt, Jimmy drilled and appraised our San Andres reservoir. Jimmy identified the project as a CO2 enhanced oil recovery opportunity and has pioneered our horizontal drilling and stimulation techniques to exploit and flood the reservoir with CO2.

Jimmy graduated with a degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1984 and an Associates in Applied Science in Petroleum Technology from Tyler Junior College in 1981. Jimmy did post-graduate work at Heriot-Watt University, in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Following graduation from university, Jerrel joined First City National Bank and was subsequently posted to Tokyo in 1975 as the bank representative covering all of Asia. This was followed by a posting to Singapore in 1977 to open the bank’s full operating branch. From this branch, he negotiated the second loan and first Eurodollar loan agreement between a USA bank and the People’s Republic of China.

Thereafter, starting in 1980, Jerrel opened and operated the Asian Office of McCord-Lewis Engineers overseeing petroleum engineering projects for the governments of PRC, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as for private companies involved in public listings in Australia.

Upon his return to the USA in 1984, he joined with two partners to purchase the Philippine production assets of Oxy, Amoco and Marathon. The combined operations were first listed on the Manila Stock Exchange as Alcorn Petroleum and later on NASDAQ as VAALCO. Jerrel was on the Board of each and served as President/CFO of VAALCO. The company developed the only Giant oilfield in the Eastern Hemisphere in the 1980’s.

In 1991, he entered the renewable energy arena, first founding Ecogas Corp. which developed landfill gas to pipeline gas technologies and installations. When sold to a Fortune 100 company, Ecogas was the largest landfill gas operator in the USA. During this time technology was developed to extract carbon dioxide from the landfill gas to produce a food-grade product. Continuing in the renewable energy field, Jerrel developed, patented and built a project which made bio-methanol, biodiesel and synthetic bunker fuel.

He joined Roosevelt Resources in 2022 to assist in the development of our EOR project.

Jerrel graduated from Rice University in 1972, with multiple degrees and did post-graduate work at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Paul is a seasoned oil & gas attorney, with 20 plus years as in-house counsel and in various executive management roles with family-owned energy companies. Paul joined the Roosevelt Resources team in March 2020, after 15 years helping run Pacesetter Energy, a similarly situated energy company, in the roles of General Counsel, Vice President of Human Resources and President. At Pacesetter, Paul was involved with the day-to-day management of the upstream and midstream business units, including the acquisition, financing, development, operation and eventual sale of a significant FERC-regulated gas storage reservoir in Mississippi, called Caledonia Energy Partners.

Paul’s prior experience includes 12 years of private practice in a variety of areas of the law, including oil and gas and other energy-related matters, real property, business transactions and securities matters, among others.

Paul earned his undergraduate degree from The University of Texas – Austin in 1989 and his Juris Doctor from St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio 1992.

Beginning in 1977, Barbara worked in the Land Department of Maguire Oil Co. administering lease records, lease rentals and division orders.  In 1984, she joined The Petroleum Corporation of Delaware and William Moss Properties administering various land functions as Land Manager.  Since 1989, Barbara has been employed by entities owned by Elliott (Tony) Roosevelt, Jr., including Roosevelt Resources, administering Land matters, Human Resources and Oil and Gas Regulatory matters.