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W&T Offshore Reports Retirement of VP / General Counsel

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   |    Tuesday,April 18,2017

W&T Offshore announced that Thomas F. Getten, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of W&T Offshore has retired and has been succeeded by Shahid A. Ghauri, who joined the Company in March 2017.

Previously, Mr. Ghauri served as a partner with Jones Walker, where he focused primarily on business and commercial transactions in the oil and gas sector. Prior to that, Mr. Ghauri was the Assistant General Counsel of BHP Billiton Petroleum, where he managed the legal team responsible for unconventional resource plays. Prior to joining BHP, he worked in private law practice as an oil and gas lawyer with top tier law firms. Before earning his J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center, he was employed as a wireline logging engineer for Schlumberger.

Mr. Ghauri also received a B.S. and M.S. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of the State Bars of Texas and Pennsylvania, the Houston Producers' Forum, the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators.



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