Ottaviani named president of Zion Oil & Gas

Feb. 1, 2010
Zion Oil & Gas Inc., Dallas, has named William L. Ottaviani as president and chief operating officer.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Feb. 1
-- Zion Oil & Gas Inc., Dallas, has named William L. Ottaviani as president and chief operating officer.

Ottaviani, a petroleum engineer, has been with Chevron Corp. in 1982-2007 working in Angola, Indonesia, and the US. He was chief operating officer of Rex Energy Corp. in 2007-09.

Zion Oil & Gas holds three petroleum exploration licenses that cover 327,000 acres in Israel.