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Emerald Oil Inc. has reported that the Board of Directors has appointed Mike Dickinson to the position of Chief Operating Officer, effective January 1, 2015. Mr. Dickinson will be replacing David Veltri, who resigned from his position as an officer of the Company.
Mr. Dickinson has 20 years of experience in the oil and natural gas industry, during which he has managed operations in six basins across the U.S. Mr. Dickinson held operations and engineering positions at Noble Energy for the past 10 years and most recently served as the Director of Operations of the DJ Basin. He began his career with Schlumberger and spent 10 years in various roles for operations and completions in the Gulf of Mexico, East Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. Mr. Dickinson earned his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Refining from the Colorado School of Mines.
McAndrew Rudisill the Chief Executive Officer of Emerald stated "We are all excited to have Mike Dickinson join the Emerald team. Mike has many years of large scale unconventional resource development experience with Noble Energy in facilities and infrastructure engineering as well as unconventional reservoir completion design. Mike is a great fit for the next stage of Emerald's development which will be focused on efficiently managing our large resource base in the Williston Basin. On behalf of our senior management and our Board of Directors, I would like to thank David for the significant role he has played in Emerald's growth and wish him the best in his future endeavors."