HOUSTON, June 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- VAALCO Energy,
Inc. (NYSE: EGY) today announced that Cary
Bounds will join VAALCO as Chief Operating Officer effective
July 6, 2015.
Mr. Bounds is a petroleum engineer and has almost 25 years of
domestic and international asset management, business development,
planning and technical engineering experience at large,
multinational energy companies as well as at mid-sized and larger
independent E&P companies.
From 2010 until joining VAALCO, Mr. Bounds was employed with
Noble Energy where he held upstream positions in international
assets management, including Business Unit Manager, Equatorial
Guinea Assets, and Country Manager, North Sea. Prior to Noble, he
held a variety of management and engineering positions with
companies including SM Energy where he was Engineering Manager for
their Gulf Coast and Permian assets, and at Dominion Energy &
Minerals where he was Manager of Business Analysis and Corporate
Development, Planning Manager, and Reservoir Engineering
Supervisor. He began his career at ConocoPhillips in 1991 as a
production engineer.
Mr. Bounds holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum
Engineering from Texas A&M
University and is a resident of Houston.
Steve Guidry, VAALCO's Chairman
and CEO commented, "We welcome Cary to our senior management team
at VAALCO. His extensive background in international asset
management as well as business development, planning and technical
team management is a great fit for us. We look forward to
Cary's involvement in all facets of our operations including our
ongoing development program in Gabon as well as our future drilling plans in
Angola and Equatorial Guinea."
About VAALCO
VAALCO Energy, Inc. is a Houston based independent energy company
principally engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development
and production of crude oil. VAALCO's strategy is to increase
reserves and production through the exploration and exploitation of
oil and natural gas properties with high emphasis on international
opportunities. The company's properties and exploration
acreage are located primarily in Gabon, Angola
and Equatorial Guinea in
West Africa.
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