3 RIVERS ENERGY - Key Persons


David L. Johnson - COO

Job Titles:
  • COO
  • Partner
  • Registered Professional Engineer
David is a registered Professional Engineer and is known as a results oriented engineering and project development executive. David has over 35 years of experience in water infrastructure design, construction and funding. In the last 7 years, David has focused on the oil and gas business. He has led efforts to develop water midstream business units and marketed, designed and obtained ROW green field projects worth over $150 million. He has evaluated multiple fresh water pipeline systems, produced water gathering and disposal systems, as well as gas lift pipeline delivery systems, all with evaluations between $20 million and $150 million. He has implemented and monitored the construction phase and developed the operation protocol and operation training on a 370,000 barrel per day pipeline and disposal system. He has recently implemented an automation system and water well drilling program to maintain a 350,000 barrel per day production and a 450,000 barrel per day distribution system in west Texas. David has many years of state and local legislative experience. David was responsible for the development, permitting and implementation of a solid waste treatment and disposal system. As part of the disposal system David obtained legislation through the state legislature to allow transformational opportunities to water and solid waste disposal and recycling for the oil industry in ND. David also was instrumental in obtaining state legislation to create the Western Area Water Authority, as well as securing funding for the Western Area Water Supply Project which supplies treated drinking water to a 4 county region and the oil industry in North Dakota. David served as the Governor's appointee to the Missouri River Recovery Implementation Committee. He also was the state team leader representing the Garrison Diversion Conservancy District as joint lead agency on the Red River Valley Water Supply project EIS, which is a $700 million water supply project to serve eastern North Dakota.

J. Francis Rivers

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of Business Development
John is a marketing and communications professional with over a decade of experience in the food and beverage industry. He has also managed several startups, including his tenure as owner/operator of the award-winning restaurant Venue 45 and co-founder of a branding and promotional product development business in Denver, CO. Years of work in consumer products have given him a strong sense of project feasibility as it relates to the end-user. John also brings an entrepreneurial perspective and communications-driven skill set that allows him to effectively manage teams and facilitate the flow of high-level information throughout the organization. Adept at operating in fast-paced and dynamic environments, John helps keep the 3RE team informed on current trends in the RNG industry and is the head of our business development arm, where he leads our research and communications efforts for potential partners and future projects.

John F. Rivers - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Cofounder
John was the co-founder of Hillstone Environmental Partners and it was his fourth such successful start-up business in the Energy sector. Having started Hillstone in 2015 from scratch with zero accounts to its recent sale of the company for over $600MM, he has been able to secure long term agreements with several notable companies like Exxon, EOG, and Devon to name a few. One of his most recent infrastructure agreements generating an estimate of more than $1.2Billon and is considered to be one of the country's largest of its kind. John was instrumental in the company achieving recognition since its inception as one of the premier U.S. environmental water handling companies in the energy sector. John's insight in the Oil and Gas industry/Energy Sector earned him a congressional recommendation for a Presidential Appointed Position with the Department of Energy (DOE). As well as his work providing infrastructure to the energy sector, John has been involved in development of industrial-related energy products as well as aircraft design and manufacturing. At Nuverra Environmental Solutions and at AE2S, John created and negotiated freshwater pipeline projects that brought oil and gas companies together with local and state governments for their mutual benefit.

Louis Buck

Job Titles:
  • Governments Relations and Public Affairs / Digestate Nutrients Development
Louis combines technical and executive expertise with proven leadership in natural resource management and global economic development. From business development and private finance support of regional commands in Afghanistan to emerging alternative energy technologies and their supply chains, he clearly sees the "big picture". He has served nearly two decades in senior executive positions within both republican and democratic administrations at all levels of government.

Randy Johnson

Randy is a seasoned professional with a background in dealing with complex energy and environmental issues. He has 40+ years of experience, and his current focus is professional energy consulting services and the development of projects related to sustainability, waste to renewable energy, and economic development. Prior to starting JES 5 years ago, he worked ten years in turnkey engineering and construction and then 27 years in the electric utility industry. Professional Affiliations American Society of Testing & Materials Pollution Control Users Group Electric Power Research Institute Tennessee Advanced Energy Business Council Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition