Leadership

Mr. Knight, President and COO of UGC since March 2017, brings over 30 years of industry experience to UGC’s operations and growth strategy. In addition to owning and running Knight Well Service Inc. for nearly 20 years, he has also held leadership roles at Chevron U.S.A., Williams Companies, and WPX Energy. Most of his career was spent in the San Juan Basin, a massive natural gas field in the Four Corners area of the southwestern United States.

Mr. Knight is a long-time fixture in the communities where UGC operates with the skill and demeanor for building strong stakeholder relationships and community involvement, including board service and youth sports coaching in western Colorado.

Ms. Mestas joined UGC in 2021 to head up the company’s regulatory and compliance programs as Regulatory Manager. She draws on more than two decades of wide-ranging experience that began in 2004 as a Technical Professional at Halliburton, later advancing through roles in operations engineering, planning, and regulatory affairs at WPX Energy and QEP Energy.  At UGC, Ms. Mestas applies her industry knowledge and experience to ensure compliance with the complex environmental and permitting regulations that vary across Colorado, Utah, and other federal and local jurisdictions.   

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. 

Ms. Weiner joined Utah Gas Corp in 2023 as Manager of Air and Sustainability. A Senior Air Quality Engineer with over 20 years of experience, she specializes in air quality permitting and compliance across oil and gas, manufacturing, and consulting sectors with decades of proven performance in managing complex local, state and federal regulatory requirements.

Ms. Weiner was previously an Air Quality Supervisor at Crestone Peak Resources in Colorado, overseeing air compliance for 350 facilities, leading an eight-member team, and launching initiatives like the STEM program, Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) updates, and Crestone’s first Sustainability Report. She also worked at global infrastructure firm AECOM as well as at Noble Energy where she handled Title V Air Permit applications, large-scale compliance, and emissions calculations for up to 1,500 facilities.

She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Colorado State University as well as an Engineer in Training certification.

Mr. Wilkinson’s 20+ years of oil and gas experience has primarily focused on engineering and management across upstream and midstream operations. At UGC, his expertise is applied to project execution, safety and operational excellence in gathering, compression, and processing, as well as to infrastructure development and regulatory compliance.  

Before UGC, he held engineering and leadership roles at Caerus Oil & Gas, Encana, and Bill Barrett Corporation, gaining broad expertise in production, facilities, and operations in the Uinta and Piceance basins where UGC currently operates. Mr. Wilkinson earned a BS in Petroleum Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, graduating Magna Cum Laude.