Topic: Oil and Gas News - Dejour Appoints Harrison F. Blacker to Head US Oil & Gas … - Canada NewsWire (press release)

Blacker is an accomplished senior executive with over 30 years of expertise managing oil and gas operations with major corporations in the United States, South America, China and the Middle East. Blacker was CEO of China Oman Energy Company, a joint venture between Oman Oil Company, IPIC and China Gas Holdings, importing and distributing LNG and LPG from the Middle East into China. Earlier, with 24 years of operations experience with Atlantic Richfield Corporation (ARCO), his positions included Portfolio Manager, Latin American Business Unit and as the General Manager/ President of ARCO Venezuela Energy, where he developed and managed a multi-billion dollar heavy oil development project and several other large multi million dollar development projects based in Venezuela, positioning it as the fastest growing entity in ARCO at that time. Blacker will reside in Denver, assume this position April 1, 2008, and work closely with Dejour Enterprises COO Doug Cannaday (also located in Denver) to maximize the value of Dejour’s US oil & gas land and operations. The growth in competition for LNG from Asia makes the 400+ TCF of potential natural gas resource in the US Rocky Mountains a very important part of the future natural gas supply for North America and we are well positioned to grow in this area. read more

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