Independent natural gas producer Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. will see its senior vice president and COO, Michael B. Walen, retire on May 1, 2010.
Walen has been an employee of Cabot Oil & Gas for nearly 23 years and has lived and worked in all of the company's producing regions. He started with the Houston-based company as a geologist in the Denver office before moving to Pittsburgh as exploration manager and then to Houston. He became an officer in 1998 while running the Gulf Coast regional office, was promoted in February 2001 to senior vice president, exploration and production in charge of all regions and became COO in February 2006.