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Dominic Bazile, Chief Operating Officer
Dominic Bazile joined Teton in February 2007 as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President. Mr. Bazile came to Teton after four years at Bill Barrett Corporation as Senior Vice President of Operations and Engineering. While at Bill Barrett Corp., Mr. Bazile grew a technical and operational staff from one to 100 in four years and implemented annual budgets in excess of $300 million to grow production and reserves. Mr. Bazile also played a key role in taking Bill Barrett Corp. public on the New York Stock Exchange, whose initial market capitalization was over $1 billion. Prior to Bill Barrett Corp., Mr. Bazile was a Drilling Manager at Barrett Resources Corporation where his responsibility was to oversee all the drilling, completions and workovers for the company. He skillfully led efforts to reduce drilling time and costs in the Wind River Basin by designing and executing successful drilling of 18,000 to 22,000 feet high temperature and high pressure sour gas wells. Mr. Bazile was an Area Engineer at Plains Petroleum before the company was acquired by Barrett Resources in 1996 where he was responsible for Permian Basin Assets, including successful efforts in horizontal drilling projects and maintaining lease operating expenses through capital improvements. Mr. Bazile began his career as a petroleum engineer with Gulf Oil Corporation in the gulf coast region. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from Louisiana State University and has completed the Harvard Executive Management Program. | 