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Market Cap:$732.9M
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$116.4M
  • Public
  • US
Dow Jones Description

Contango is a Houston-based, independent natural gas and oil company. The Company?s core business is to explore, develop, produce and acquire natural gas and oil properties primarily offshore in the Gulf of Mexico and onshore along the Gulf Coast. As a recent addition to our business, we will begin acting as an operator on certain offshore prospects through our wholly-owned subsidiary, Contango Operators, Inc. (?COI?). The Company also owns a 10% interest in a limited partnership formed to develop an LNG receiving terminal in Freeport, Texas, and holds investments in the alternative energy venture capital market with a focus on environmentally preferred energy technologies. Our Strategy Our exploration strategy is predicated upon two core beliefs: (1) that the only competitive advantage in the commodity-based natural gas and oil business is to be among the lowest cost producers and (2) that virtually all the exploration and production industry?s value creation occurs through the drilling of successful exploratory wells. As a result, our business strategy includes the following elements:

Chairman, President, CEO, CFO & Secretary
Kenneth R. Peak
Number of Employees 6
Contact Information

3700 Buffalo Speedway Ste 960

Houston, Texas 77098

www.contango.co...

(713) 960-1901

NAICS Code Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas Extraction: 211111

Recent Events

  • Contango Oil & Gas Q4 Profit Plummets - Update

    9/14/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story

News & Analysis

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  • Victor Fasciani Likes Contango Oil & Gas

    Seeking Alpha - 2009-07-16

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Decision Makers

Name (plus bio) Position
Sergio Castro Treasurer & Vice President
Cherylin Plair Manager, JIB AP
Lesia Bautina Controller & Senior Vice President
David Holcombe Treasurer
Joseph S Compofelice Director

Board of Directors

Name (plus bio) Position
Kenneth R. Peak Chairman, President, CEO, CFO & Secretary
B. A. Berilgen Board of Directors
Charles M. Reimer Board of Directors
Darrell W Williams Board of Directors
Jay D Brehmer Board of Directors
Steven L. Schoonover Board of Directors

Mr. Peak has been Chairman, CEO, and CFO of Contango since its formation in September 1999. Mr. Peak entered the energy industry in 1972 as a commercial banker and held a variety of financial and executive positions in the oil and gas industry prior to starting Contango in 1999. Mr. Peak served as an officer in the U.S. Navy from 1968 to 1971. Mr. Peak received a BS in physics from Ohio University in 1967, and an MBA from Columbia University in 1972. He currently serves as a director of Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc., a provider of onshore contract drilling services to exploration and production companies in North America.

Organization Position Status
Contango Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Director Current
Contango Oil & Gas Co Chairman, President, CEO, CFO & Secretary Current
Contango Chief Financial Officer Current
Contango Capital Partners Current
Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. Director Current
Contango Oil & Gas Co Chief Financial Officer Former
Forest Oil Corporation Chief Financial Officer Former
U.S. Navy Officer Former
Columbia University MBA Former
Ohio University BS In Physics Former

Mr. Castro joined Contango in March 2006 as Treasurer and was appointed Vice President and Treasurer in April 2006. Prior to joining Contango, Mr. Castro spent two years as a Consultant for UHY Advisors TX, LP. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Castro was a lead credit analyst for Dynegy Inc. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Castro worked as an auditor for Arthur Andersen LLP, where he specialized in energy companies. Mr. Castro was honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy in 1993 as an E-6, where he served onboard a nuclear powered submarine. Mr. Castro received a BBA in Accounting in 1997 from the University of Houston, graduating summa cum laude. Mr. Castro is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner.

Organization Position Status
Contango Oil & Gas Co Treasurer & Vice President Current

Organization Position Status
Contango Oil & Gas Co Manager, JIB AP Current

Organization Position Status
Contango Oil & Gas Co Controller & Senior Vice President Current
Contango Oil & Gas Co Senior Vice President & Controller Current

Mr. Berilgen was appointed a director of Contango in July 2007. Mr. Berilgen has served in a variety of senior positions during his 37 year career. Most recently, he was Chairman, CEO and President of Rosetta Resources Inc., a company he founded in 2005. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President of Calpine Corp. and President of Calpine Natural Gas L.P. from October 1999 through June 2005. In June 1997, Mr. Berilgen joined Sheridan Energy, a public oil and gas company, as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Berilgen attended the University of Oklahoma, receiving a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering in 1970 and a M.S. in Industrial Engineering / Management Science.

Organization Position Status
Contango Oil & Gas Co Board of Directors Current

Mr. Reimer was elected as a director of Contango in 2005. Mr. Reimer is President of Freeport LNG Development, L.P, and has experience in exploration, production, liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) and business development ventures, both domestically and abroad. From 1986 until 1998, Mr. Reimer served as the senior executive responsible for the VICO joint venture that operated in Indonesia, and provided LNG technical support to P. T. Badak. Additionally, during these years he served, along with Pertamina executives, on the board of directors of the P.T. Badak LNG plant in Bontang, Indonesia. Mr. Reimer began his career with Exxon Company USA in 1967 and held various professional and management positions in Texas and Louisiana. Mr. Reimer was named President of Phoenix Resources Company in 1985 and relocated to Cairo, Egypt, to begin eight years of international assignments in both Egypt and Indonesia. Prior to joining Freeport LNG Development, L.P. in December 2002, Mr. Reimer was President and Chief Executive Officer of Cheniere Energy, Inc.

Organization Position Status
Contango Oil & Gas Co Board of Directors Current

Organization Position Status
Contango Oil & Gas Co Board of Directors Current

Organization Position Status
Contango Oil & Gas Co Treasurer Current

Mr. Brehmer has been a director of Contango since October 2000. Mr. Brehmer is Managing Director of Catalina Capital Advisors LP, a boutique financial advisory, merger and acquisition investment bank. From November 2002 until August 2004, he advised various energy and energy-related companies on corporate finance and merger and acquisition activities through Southplace, LLC. From May 1998 until November 2002, Mr. Brehmer was responsible for structured-finance energy related transactions at Aquila Energy Capital Corporation. Prior to joining Aquila, Mr. Brehmer founded Capital Financial Services, which provided mid-cap companies with strategic merger and acquisition advice coupled with prudent financial capitalization structures. Mr. Brehmer holds a BBA from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.

Organization Position Status
Contango Oil & Gas Co Board of Directors Current

Organization Position Status
Contango Oil & Gas Co Director Current

Mr. Schoonover was elected as a director of Contango in 2005. Mr. Schoonover currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Cellxion, L.L.C., a company specializing in construction and installation of telecommunication buildings and towers, as well as the installation of high-tech telecommunication equipment. From 1990 until its sale in November 1997 to Telephone Data Systems, Inc., Mr. Schoonover served as President of Blue Ridge Cellular, Inc., a full-service cellular telephone company he co-founded. From 1983 to 1996, he served in various positions, including President and Chief Executive Officer, with Fibrebond Corporation, a construction firm involved in cellular telecommunications buildings, site development and tower construction. Mr. Schoonover has been awarded, on two occasions with two different companies, Entrepreneur of the Year, sponsored by Ernst & Young, Inc Magazine and USA Today.

Organization Position Status
Contango Oil & Gas Co Board of Directors Current

Executive News

  • Contango Apparent High Bidder at Western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale No. 210 and Updates Operations

    Business Wire - 8/19/09 - View Story

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     MCF $46.30 +0.61 (1.34% )
Average Volume 82,800
Shares Outstanding 15.83M
Market Cap 733.0M
Year High 58.99
Year Low 31.69
Earnings Per Share 2.34
P/E Ratio 19.79
Dividend N/A
Yield N/A
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