Tara L. Seaman is vice president--reserves & evaluations for Swift Energy Company. She first joined Swift in 1982 as a reservoir engineer, projecting reserves associated with company properties to be explored and/or developed in West Virginia, Kansas, and Wyoming. Later, as the company began acquiring properties that were already producing, primarily in Texas and Oklahoma but also in other states, she performed evaluations of the properties prior to their purchase. Additionally, she assumed responsibility for periodically evaluating and reporting all the company's reserves as required by the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as all the reserves held by the company's limited partnerships and joint ventures. She was named manager--corporate reserves in 1990 and promoted to assistant vice president--corporate reserves in 1995. In 1996, she was promoted to vice president--acquisitions, dispositions, & reserves with the added responsibility for dispositions of producing properties as older partnership assets are liquidated and dissolved, along with selling non-core corporate properties to streamline and focus on the company's major areas. In 2004, she assumed her present title as vice president--reserves & evaluations.
Before joining Swift Energy, Ms. Seaman worked for Conoco in West Texas fields and offshore Louisiana.
Ms. Seaman is a 1982 graduate of the University of Houston with a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering. She is also a 1994 graduate of Pepperdine University with a master's degree in business administration. |