By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Aug. 27 -- Stephen A. Thorington has been named executive vice-president and chief financial officer of Plains Exploration & Production Co. LP, a unit of Houston-based Plains Resources Inc. The company reported that Jere C. Overdyke will remain executive vice-president and chief financial officer of Plains Resources.
Thorington comes to Plains E&P from Ocean Energy Inc. of Houston, where he served as senior vice-president, finance and corporate development. He joined Ocean when it merged with Houston-based Seagull Energy Corp. (OGJ, Dec. 28, 1998, p. 26), where he served for 3 years as vice-president, finance and treasurer. Before working for Seagull, Thorington served as a managing director of Chase Manhattan Bank in New York and Houston.