Director Position 1

William A. Sawyer

Director, President, and CEO

Mr. Sawyer is a proven hands-on energy executive with over 35 years of diversified experience in the energy industry with firms such as ARCO, Houston Oil & Minerals, The Superior Oil Company, and Energy Resources Company (ERCO). He founded the petroleum consulting firm of Exploitation Engineers, Inc. in 1980; The firm of Plantation Petroleum Corporation in 1981; and Lucas Energy, Inc. in 2004. As a registered professional engineer (now called a licensed professional engineer), Mr. Sawyer has provided petroleum consulting services to private investors, independent oil companies, banking institutions, major energy and chemical companies, and the US government. Mr. Sawyer has been an expert witness in federal court, state court, and before several state agencies in Texas and Oklahoma for both private clients and the United States of America. Although his expertise is broad with respect to petroleum engineering, Mr. Sawyer feels his best efforts are to focus on older wells. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Louisiana State University (1970) and his Masters of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University (1976 ).