Kenneth Knott

Vice President – Business Development & Land

Kenneth Knott was appointed vice president of Business Development and Land and assistant secretary in August 2008. Mr. Knott joined SM Energy in November 2000 as senior landman for the Gulf Coast region in Lafayette, Louisana, and later assumed the position of Gulf Coast regional Land manager when the office was moved to Houston in March 2004.  He has worked for 21 years in the energy industry, holding various Land and Business Development positions with ARCO, Vastar Resources, and BP Amoco. 

Between 1987 and 1993, Mr. Knott worked for ARCO in a land capacity, handling land and business development responsibilities in several geographic areas such as Permian, Mid-Continent, Michigan, and California. Upon ARCO’s spin-off of Vastar Resources in 1993, he joined Vastar Resources as a senior landman working the Gulf Coast and Gulf of Mexico regions until 1999, at which time he assumed the role of director of Business Development for the Gulf Coast region. He remained in that capacity until the merger of Vastar Resources into BP Amoco in September 2000 when he assumed a senior landman position working the Gulf Coast region.