HOUSTON, April 18, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- W&T
Offshore, Inc. (NYSE: WTI) 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.
Tracy Krohn, W&T Offshore's
Chairman and CEO, stated, "We appreciate Tom's guidance and
dedication to W&T since he joined the Company in 2006. We wish
him the best in his well-deserved retirement. We also welcome
Shahid Ghauri to the W&T team
and believe he will be a great asset to the company."
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.
About W&T Offshore
W&T Offshore, Inc. is an independent oil and natural gas
producer with operations offshore in the Gulf of Mexico and has grown through
acquisitions, exploration and development. The Company
currently has working interests in approximately 52 fields in
federal and state waters (50 producing and two fields capable of
producing) and has under lease approximately 750,000 gross acres,
including approximately 490,000 gross acres on the Gulf of Mexico
Shelf and approximately 260,000 gross acres in the deepwater.
A majority of the Company's daily production is derived from wells
it operates. For more information on W&T Offshore, please
visit the Company's website at www.wtoffshore.com.
CONTACT:
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Lisa
Elliott
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Danny
Gibbons
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Dennard Lascar
Associates
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SVP &
CFO
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lelliott@dennardlascar.com
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investorrelations@wtoffshore.com
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713-529-6600
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713-624-7326
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SOURCE W&T Offshore, Inc.