The Board of Texas Pacific Land Corporation has appointed Rhys J. Best and Karl F. Kurz as directors, effective April 15, 2022. In connection with these appointments, the Board increased its size to 10 directors. Each of Mr. Kurz, who will serve the remainder of the board term vacated by Dana McGinnis in March, and Mr. Best, who will stand for re-election at the 2022 annual meeting of stockholders, each will bring decades of corporate leadership and industry experience and further advance oversight of TPL's unique assets and business.

Mr. Kurz is an accomplished senior oil and gas industry executive and private equity investor with over 35 years of energy and infrastructure industry experience. He spent nine years at Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, where he held executive roles as Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President of Northern America Operations, Midstream and Marketing, and is currently a non-executive Chairman of the board at American Water Works Co. Inc. Mr. Best is a highly regarded board member and governance expert built upon nearly thirty years of experience as a corporate executive at major corporations.

He is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lone Star Technologies Inc., from which he retired after the successful merger with United States Steel Company.