Extraction Oil & Gas Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Donald L. Evans and Wayne W. Murdy to serve as independent members of the company’s Board.  Mr. Murdy will serve as Chairman of the company’s Audit Committee.  The appointments are effective immediately and now bring the number of outside, independent Directors to four of the now eight member Board. Donald L. Evans, with over 40 years of energy industry and public service experience, including five years as the United States Secretary of Commerce under President George W. Bush, Secretary Evans brings extensive public energy company and operating expertise and knowledge to Extraction’s Board. He currently serves as Chairman of the George W. Bush Foundation Board of Directors and is Chairman of Energy Future Holdings. Mr.  Murdy retired as Chairman and CEO of Newmont Mining Corporation in 2007.  He joined Newmont in 1992 and served as Chief Financial Officer and later President prior to being elected CEO in 2001.