VAALCO hires new COO

VAALCO Energy appointed Cary Bounds as the new chief operating officer starting 6 July 2015.

Houston resident, Bounds is a petroleum engineer and has almost 25 years of domestic and international asset management, business development, planning and technical engineering experience at large, multinational energy companies as well as at mid-sized and larger independent exploration and production companies.

From 2010 until joining VAALCO, Bounds was employed with Noble Energy where he held upstream positions in international assets management, including business unit manager, Equatorial Guinea assets, and country manager, North Sea.

“We look forward to Cary's involvement in all facets of our operations including our ongoing development program in Gabon as well as our future drilling plans in Angola and Equatorial Guinea," said Steve Guidry, VAALCO’s chairman and CEO.

VAALCO Energy is a Houston-based independent energy company principally engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and production of crude oil. The company's properties and exploration acreage are located primarily in Gabon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea in West Africa.

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