新葡京 Appoints 大卫·米. 木头总统, Chief Executive Officer and Member of the 董事会

Brings Four Decades of Oil and Gas Industry Expertise to Gulfport

俄克拉荷马城，12月. 18, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 新葡京 (NASDAQ: GPOR) (“Gulfport” or the “Company”) today announced that its 董事会 has appointed 大卫·米. 木, a 40-year oil and gas industry veteran, to serve as 总统 and Chief Executive Officer, 立即生效. Mr. 木 will also join the Company’s 董事会. 唐尼摩尔, who served as Interim Chief Executive Officer during a nationwide 搜索 led by Heidrick & Struggles for a chief executive to lead Gulfport for the long term, will continue to serve as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer and report to Mr. 木.

Mr. 木 joins Gulfport from Arsenal Resources LLC, a West Virginia focused natural gas producer and First Reserve Corporation portfolio company, where he most recently served as Chairman of its 董事会 and previously held the role of Chief Executive Officer. 从2013年到2016年，Mr. 木 served as a Senior Advisor to First Reserve, a premier energy-focused private equity firm, serving on several portfolio company boards. 在那之前, he spent more than 17 years at Murphy Oil Corporation, including as Chief Executive Officer, 总统, and Director from 2009 until his retirement in 2012. 从1980年到1994年，Mr. 木 held various senior positions with Ashland Exploration and Production. He began his career as a well-site geologist in Saudi Arabia. Mr. 木 currently serves on the board of Lilis Energy, 公司. (NYSE: LLEX), an exploration and development company operating in the Delaware Basin.

Mr. 木 commented, “I am excited to join the Gulfport team. The opportunity to build upon the asset base and drive value creation from the Company’s tremendous platform is very attractive and compelling. I look forward to getting to know our people over the coming weeks, immersing myself into the details of our asset base, and working to help drive shareholder returns.”

大卫L. 休斯顿, 湾港董事会主席, 说, “We are very pleased to welcome David as Gulfport’s new chief executive. 经过广泛的搜索, the Board is fully confident that David has the right mix of industry vision and experience, leadership skills and deep industry knowledge to lead Gulfport into the future. We look forward to drawing upon David’s experiences with a preeminent energy-focused private equity firm and as a CEO of a Fortune 100 company as well as his skills as a disciplined allocator of capital. We believe his strategic and operating experience in all stages of the energy value chain will further enhance our strategy and help us capitalize on the Company’s attractive assets.”

“We also want to thank Donnie for taking on the additional responsibility of serving as the Company’s chief executive on an interim basis during the 搜索 period,”先生继续说。. 休斯顿. “His nearly three decades of management and technical experience in the industry allowed him to seamlessly integrate into the role, continue to drive efficient execution of Gulfport’s operations, and maintain the strong performance standards for which the Company is known. We look forward to his continued valuable contributions as our Chief Operating Officer.” 

大卫·米. 木头拿着B.S. (Hons) Geology from the University of Nottingham in England and completed Harvard University’s Advanced Management Program. Mr. 木 previously served on the 董事会 and as an Executive Committee Member of the American Petroleum Institute. He was also a member of the National Petroleum Council and is a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. His past board affiliations include Crestwood Midstream GP LLC, Crestwood Equity GP LLC, 深海湾能源有限公司, 和Berkana能源公司, when it was majority owned by Murphy Oil.

约格尔夫波特
Gulfport Energy is an independent natural gas and oil company focused on the exploration and development of natural gas and oil properties in North America and is one of the largest producers of natural gas in the contiguous United States. Headquartered in Oklahoma City, Gulfport holds significant acreage positions in the 尤蒂卡页岩 of Eastern Ohio and the 独家新闻 木ford and 独家新闻 Springer plays in Oklahoma. 除了, Gulfport holds an acreage position along the Louisiana Gulf Coast, has an approximately 22% equity interest in Mammoth Energy Services, 公司. (NASDAQ:TUSK) and has a position in the Alberta Oil Sands in Canada through its 25% interest in Grizzly Oil Sands ULC. For more information, please visit zsw.michiganroom.net.

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2018年12月18日发布