Applegath joins HHEX as chief operating officer

John Applegath has joined Huntley & Huntley Energy Exploration LLC (HHEX), Canonsburg, Pa., as senior vice-president and chief operating officer, responsible for HHEX's operational and technical activities.

Applegath recently retired from Range Resources Corp., where he served as senior vice-president of operations from 2014 to 2018, leading both the Marcellus shale division and, more recently, the North Louisiana division.

HHEX is a privately held energy company that specializes in upstream and midstream development of natural gas resources in the Appalachian basin. HHEX has assembled more than 100,000 largely contiguous and operated acres within the core Marcellus, Utica, and Upper Devonian fairways in southwestern Pennsylvania.