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Energy Advisory Group Offers Financial Services to Energy Sector

10/17/2017

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The principal owner and CEO of Mekusukey Oil Company, Duke Ligon of Oklahoma City leads the organization in the acquisition of perpetual mineral interests. Aside from this role, Duke Ligon recently accepted an appointment to become a senior advisor for Peter J. Solomon Company’s (PJSC) Energy Advisory Group in Houston.

Established in May 2016, the Energy Advisory Group provides strategic investment banking advisory services to clients in the energy industry, including those in the midstream, upstream, upstream A&D, and power utility sectors. The group utilizes an extensive network of sector relationships and staffs a dedicated team with deep strategic and operational knowledge. 

Additionally, the leadership team behind the Energy Advisory Group possesses more than five decades of experience in domestic and cross-border transactions that range from mergers and acquisitions to restructuring and bankruptcies. Energy Advisory Group’s recent transactions include offering financial advisory services to the ad hoc Committee of Equity Security Holders of Ultra Petroleum.

See the full press release at www.pjsc.com/news-and-events/duke-r-ligon-former-devon-energy-executive-joins-peter-j-solomon-company.

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Civil War Trust’s Save Appomattox Campaign Honors Fateful Site

7/27/2017

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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma-based energy executive Duke Ligon currently serves as owner of Mekusukey Oil Company, LLC, and as independent director and board chairman of Blueknight Energy Partners, L.P. He is also a well-known philanthropist, supporting organizations focused on education, the arts, and the nation’s rich cultural history. Among other board positions, Duke Ligon is a member of the board of directors of the nonprofit Civil War Trust, based in Washington, D.C.

The Civil War Trust is the premier organization concerned with the maintenance, preservation, and promotion of the entire range of Civil War battlefield sites. Among its recent efforts is the Save Appomattox campaign, designed to raise $386,500 to acquire three tracts of land, totaling 74 acres, around Appomattox Court House in Virginia. 

On April 9, 1865, Union general Joshua Chamberlain led his troops over this piece of land in the early hours. There, they encountered the last remaining Confederate forces on the field of battle in Virginia, and witnessed General Robert E. Lee raising the white flag of surrender that ended the war.

In the days leading up to his surrender, Lee had see thousands of his troops killed, wounded, or taken prisoner in one blow at Sailor’s Creek. With General Ulysses Grant closing steadily in, Lee hoped to reach Appomattox Station, where he expected fresh rations and a chance to escape. But the Union campfires throughout the area soon showed him the hopelessness of his situation. Lee would surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House.

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    Attorney and businessman Duke Ligon serves as president and CEO of the company he established more than 40 years ago, Mekusukey Oil Company, LLC. The company is among the nation's largest privately held businesses focused on acquiring and managing perpetual mineral resources; it conducts business in Oklahoma and more than 20 other states. Mekusukey maintains offices in Wewoka and in Oklahoma City. Duke Ligon and his staff oversee operations covering approximately 80,000 net mineral acres.

    Since 2008, Mr. Ligon has worked with Blueknight Energy Partners, L.P., as chairman of the board and independent director. Blueknight offers midstream services to others throughout its industry. Among his other affiliated companies is PostRock Energy Corporation in Oklahoma City. He serves as chairman of the board for this natural gas production company that focuses on the Cherokee Basin region, which extends into southeast Kansas.

    Among his other board of directors positions, Mr. Ligon works with Heritage Trust Company, a private trust bank whose Texas and Oklahoma offices concentrate on energy commodity management, and with Denver, Colorado-headquartered Emerald Oil, Inc.

    From 1997 to 2007, moreover, he served Devon Energy Corporation as general counsel and senior vice president. He currently works with the University of Texas’ Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Energy, Law & Business as co-chairman of its executive council.

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