On August 31, 2017,LINN Energy Inc. completed a transaction in which LINN and Citizen Energy II, LLC each contributed certain upstream assets located in the prolific Merge/SCOOP/STACK play in Oklahoma to a newly formed company, Roan Resources LLC. In exchange, each party received a 50 percent equity interest in Roan, subject to customary post-closing adjustments. Roan Resources LLC announced that is has named Tony Maranto as President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the company's Board of Directors effective October 23, 2017.

Mr. Maranto has more than two decades of leadership experience at EOG Resources Inc., including serving more than a decade as Vice President and General Manager of EOG-Oklahoma City.