Floyd C. Wilson

FLOYD C. WILSON is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of 3TEC
Energy Corporation. He joined 3TEC Energy on August 27, 1999,
concurrent with the investment by W/E LLC. Mr. Wilson founded W/E
LLC in 1998. Mr. Wilson began his career in the energy business
in Houston in 1970 as a completion engineer. He moved to Wichita
in 1976 to start an oil and natural gas operating company, one of
several private energy ventures which preceded the formation of
W/E LLC. Mr. Wilson founded Hugoton Energy Corporation in 1987,
and served as its Chairman, President and Chief Executive
Officer. In 1994, Mr. Wilson took Hugoton public, and sold the
company in 1998 to Chesapeake Corporation.