Steve Long has over 40 years of experience in the acquisition, management, and operations of oil and natural gas assets.  Mr. Long currently serves as the CEO of Derby Energy, LLC, which has investments in the following verticals:

• Operated Oil and Natural Gas assets through a private equity-backed operating company, Derby Exploration, LLC, with a 36,000 acre footprint in the Northwest STACK basin of Oklahoma and a related gathering and compression midstream company that services the upstream natural gas production.
• Non-operated Oil and Natural Gas company, Huntsman Energy, LP, which provides long-term cash yield to its partners along with related tax advantages.
• The company also engages in special projects such as activist equity stakes in undervalued public companies, AI agent development, renewable project evaluation, etc.

As a significant landowner in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles, Mr. Long has also been a long-time cattle rancher and farm manager.  This situation has also presented opportunities in the renewable energy space, primarily through wind and solar installations.

Mr. Long is a 1979 graduate of the University of Oklahoma with a B.B.A. in Petroleum Land Management and is a 1983 graduate of Harvard Business School with an M.B.A.