Chase Gibson, managing partner of Contender Energy Partners LP, is today’s Forty Under 40 featured honoree.

Contender, who Chase helped co-found without third-party capital when he was 29 years old, has assets under management throughout Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado.

Since January 2017, the Dallas-based diversified energy capital firm has had roughly $100 million in mineral transactions across about 250,000 gross acres. It currently owns mineral interests in more than 125 producing horizontals in the Permian Basin.

Previously, Chase founded an operating company at just 25 years old that drilled wells in Oklahoma and Texas.

Chase reflects that he “didn’t go down the traditional road of career development, and therefore had no preconceived expectations of when and at what point in one’s career things can be accomplished.”

Click here for Chase’s complete profile.

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