Exploration Co., San Antonio, has elected James E. Sigmon as chairman to succeed Stephen M. Gose Jr., retired after more than 20 years of service.
Sigmon, an engineer and the company’s president and chief executive officer, has been president and a director for more than 20 years. Gose, a geologist, had been chairman since July 1984.
Gose continues with Retamco Operating Inc., Billings, Mont., active in several oil and gas projects, mainly in Rocky Mountain basins.
Other moves
Sonoran Energy Inc., Dallas, has appointed Frank Smith president and chief financial officer.
Smith’s appointment comes 6 months after he joined the company as executive vice-president and chief financial officer. He has more than 30 years of senior banking experience, many of them with oil and gas companies.
Before joining Sonoran, he served as senior vice-president, finance, for Remington Oil & Gas Corp., Dallas.
San Antonio independent Baseline Oil & Gas Corp. has hired Thomas Kaetzer as president and chief operating officer.
Kaetzer has 25 years of oil and gas experience, including 14 years with Texaco Inc.
He has experience in both onshore and offshore operations and production management, asset acquisition, and development, including drilling and workover operations in the US, the Gulf of Mexico, the UK North Sea, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, China, and West Africa.
Since 1995, Kaetzer has worked for and served as a consultant or director for several independent E&P companies, including Vastar Resources Inc. and Crimson Exploration Inc.
Deer Lake Oil & Gas Inc., St. John’s, Newf., has appointed James M. Edwards chairman.
Edwards, of Malakoff, Tex., is responsible for finding experienced oil industry partners to join in the exploration and development of Deer Lake’s 400,000 acres of land holdings on Newfoundland’s west coast.
Patch International Inc. has appointed Terry Buchanan vice-president of exploration, geoscience, and reservoir.
With an extensive knowledge of oil sands projects, Buchanan, will play a key role with respect to the acquisition, exploration, and development of the company’s oil sands interests in Alberta.
He has more than 30 years of oil and gas field experience, specializing in reservoir description, hydrocarbon prospecting, completions, and production.
Most recently, he served as the geoscience advisor for Imperial Oil Ltd.
