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IndustryFocus: Companies, People and Products
PEOPLE

KAREN
OLSON

Karen Olson has joined Well Data
Labs as a senior completions adviser.
Olson has 37 years of industry experience. She previously served as director
of technology at Southwestern Energy,
where she led a multidisciplinary team
responsible for optimizing Marcellus
completions. Before coming to Southwestern, she was BP's completion team
leader for the newly-discovered deepwater
Paleogene/Lower Tertiary fields in the
Gulf of Mexico.
Olson is co-founder and chair of the
Society of Petroleum Engineers' Women
in Hydraulic Fracturing group. In 2019,
she received SPE's International Sustainability and Stewardship award. ❒

Petroteq Energy Inc., an integrated
oil company focused on developing a
technology for extracting oil from oil
sands without water or a tailings pond,
has hired George Stapleton as its chief
operating officer.
Stapleton has 40 years of experience
in design, construction, fabrication and
project management for onshore and
offshore plant- and energy infrastructure-related projects, including 20 years
with the engineering, construction and
procurement firm McDermott Inc. He
also served as director of E-T Energy
Ltd., where he helped prove an environmental remediation technology for producing bitumen from shallow Athabasca
oil sands.
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JASON
BROUSSARD

The International Association of Oil
& Gas Producers (IOGP) has appointed
Iman Hill its executive director, effective
Dec. 1.
Hill is a petroleum engineer with 30
years' experience, including various
leadership roles at BP, Shell and BG,
among others. She has worked in the
Middle East, North and West Africa,
South America, the Far East and the
North Sea in diverse settings ranging
from on shore to ultradeep water. Before
joining IOGP, Hill was Energean's chief
operating officer. ❒

Abrado has appointed Jason Broussard its president and chief executive
officer. He will be based at the company's
office in Broussard, La.
As a senior leader with two decades
of experience in upstream well operations,
Broussard joins Abrado from Wellbore
Fishing & Rental Tools, where he served
as senior vice president of operations.
Before that, he spent four years at Schlumberger, where his roles included director
of operations for North America.
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Fernando Araujo is joining Berry
Corp. as executive vice president and
chief operating officer.
Araujo has 30 years of experience
with Shell Oil, Repsol S.A., Apache Corp.
and Schlumberger. He most recently
served as Schlumberger Production Management's director for Western Hemisphere
assets. Based out of Houston, he was responsible for 260,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day of production from fields in
Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico,
the United States and Canada.
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W Energy Software has appointed
Danielle Villegas its vice president of
product.
Villegas has 15 years of experience
developing energy software and managing
products. Before joining W Energy, she
held product management, product marketing and consulting roles at Allegro
Development, a commodity trading and
risk management software company, including senior director of product operations. Previously, Villegas was an IT
adviser for KPMG.
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MACKENZIE
LEE

Foster Marketing has promoted
Mackenzie Lee from digital intern to
digital associate.
Lee is a 2020 graduate of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette with a
degree in business administration, majoring in marketing. While at ULL, she
was a member of the women's soccer
team and earned placement on the Dean's
List and the All-Louisiana women's soccer team.
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Ring Energy Inc. has appointed Paul
D. McKinney chief executive officer
and chairman of its board of directors.
McKinney began his career in 1983
with Anadarko Petroleum Corp., where
he spent 23 years and ultimately served
as vice president of reservoir engineering
for Anadarko Canada Corp. He also
spent six years with Apache Corp. as
manager of corporate reservoir engineering and region vice president for
Gulf Coast onshore. McKinney's most
recent role was president, CEO and director of SandRidge Energy.
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Ted Williams has joined EnCore
Permian as partner and chief operating
officer. He will be responsible for building
the company's operations department as
it transforms from a transactional leasehold and mineral acquisition firm to an
exploration and production company.
While most of his background is in
energy finance, Williams most recently
served in executive officer roles in partnership with Luxe Energy and Luxe
Minerals. As president of Luxe Minerals,
Williams grew the company to 15,000
net royalty acres in the Permian Basin.
As vice president of business development for Luxe Energy, he helped production reach 25,000 net barrels of oil
equivalent a day from 33 Delaware
Basin wells.
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