Chief Operating Officer – Northern Region and Executive Vice President – Engineering and Acquisitions, age 49, is a Petroleum Engineer with over 25 years of diversified domestic and international experience with both major oil companies (ARCO International / Vastar Resources) and independent oil companies (Hunt Oil / Hugoton Energy / Anadarko Petroleum). From October 2000 through February 2004, he was employed by Anadarko Petroleum Corporation as a petroleum engineer with increasing responsibilities.  The last position as Development Supervisor consisted of a multi-faceted technical and administrative team. From March 2004 through December 2004 he was employed by AROC, Inc. as Vice President, Acquisitions and Divestitures. He was involved in the formation of Southern Bay Energy, LLC in January 2005 where he was Vice President, Acquisitions and Divestitures. Mr. Anderson was involved in the merger of Southern Bay into GeoResources in April 2007. His professional experience includes acquisition evaluation, reservoir and production engineering and field development, and project economics, budgeting and planning. Mr. Anderson’s domestic acquisition and divestiture experiences include Gulf Coast Texas and Louisiana (offshore and onshore), east and west Texas, north Louisiana, Mid-Continent and the Rockies. His international experience includes Canada, South America and Russia. He has an undergraduate degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Wyoming (1986) and also holds an MBA, Corporate Finance, from the University of Denver (1988).