Steve A. Weyel has served as a Director of PDTI since May 2005. Since July 2005, Mr. Weyel has served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Energy XXI Acquisition Corporation (Bermuda) Limited. Previously, Mr. Weyel co-founded and was a principal, and President and Chief Operating Officer of EnerVen LLC, a privately-held company with strategic ventures in the energy industry. EnerVen’s businesses include the start-up of WesCo LLC, a gas compression services company, and EnerVen Compression Services, a joint venture company with Enogex Inc., an unregulated subsidiary of OGE Energy Corp. (NYSE: OGE), providing compression asset rentals. Mr. Weyel was a principal of EnerVen LLC commencing in 2001 and sold his membership interests in EnerVen in September 2005 and resigned as an officer and director of EnerVen at that time.
From 1999 until he co-founded EnerVen in 2001, Mr. Weyel was President of InterGen North America, a Shell Bechtel joint venture in the gas and power business. While President of InterGen, Mr. Weyel was responsible for the acquisition and management of gas assets, including gas storage, midstream gas assets and over 15,000 miles of regulated pipelines, development of greenfield merchant power projects, and board-level oversight of InterGen’s equity ownership in Coral Marketing and Trading.
Mr. Weyel was employed by Dynegy Corporation (previously known as Natural Gas Clearinghouse and then NGC Corporation) from 1994 to 1999. While at Dynegy, he served in several senior executive leadership roles, including Senior Vice President Power Development from 1998 to 1999. Mr. Weyel began his career with Baker Hughes in 1976 and rotated through a variety of assignments, including responsibility for Baker Production Service’s operations in North and South America. In 1985 he formed a start-up technology and engineering driven oilfield services company, Resource Technology Corporation (RTC), evaluating oil and gas reserves around the world. RTC’s assets and ongoing operations were later sold to John Wood Group PLC in 1993.
Mr. Weyel is a 1976 graduate of Texas A&M University and received his MBA from the University of Texas at Austin in 1989. |