THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Nov. 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ring Energy, Inc. (NYSE American: REI) ("Ring" or the "Company") today announced the addition of a new senior technical executive.

Mr. James J. Parr joins Ring as Executive Vice President, Exploration and Geosciences. Mr. Parr is an experienced petroleum geologist with over 30 years of energy leadership in all aspects of the upstream petroleum business in multiple global organizations. As a key member of the executive team, Ring Energy is enhancing its ability for further value creation through identification, capture, and execution of both organic and inorganic growth opportunities.

Mr. Paul D. McKinney, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, commented, "I have had the pleasure of working closely with James in the past, who is a respected oil finder with an established history of successful capital allocation and portfolio management resulting in impactful, low-cost reserve additions, and related positive contributions to the bottom line. We look forward to leveraging James' extensive technical background and industry experience to help grow our opportunity set of highly attractive drilling prospects targeted to further maximize the Company's cash flow, improve the balance sheet, and drive increased value for our stockholders."

About Mr. Parr

Prior to joining Ring, from June 2022, Mr. Parr served as Vice President, Global New Ventures for Woodside Energy, where he was responsible for core exploration and business development activities worldwide while also supporting upstream M&A. Preceding BHP's merger with Woodside in 2022, Mr. Parr served as Head of Growth, Petroleum for BHP Petroleum from 2021. Mr. Parr served as Director of International Exploration for Anadarko Petroleum Corporation from 2018 until acquisition by OXY at the end of 2019. From 2011 to 2018, Mr. Parr was Vice President, International New Ventures and Gulf of Mexico for APA (formerly Apache) Corporation. Before joining Apache, from 2004 to 2011, Mr. Parr served as Director, Exploration and Business Development for Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation after serving in several roles of increasing responsibility with Anadarko, ARCO and BP.

Mr. Parr earned a B.S. degree in Geological Sciences (Honors) from the University of Aston (Birmingham, England) followed by doctoral studies in Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, England). Additionally, Mr. Parr has participated in executive management programs at Thunderbird School of Executive Management (Arizona State University), Wharton Business School (University of Pennsylvania), and Cox School of Business (Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas). Mr. Parr is a Texas Certified Professional Geologist (#5600).

About Ring Energy, Inc.

Ring Energy, Inc. is an oil and gas exploration, development, and production company with current operations focused on the development of its Permian Basin assets. For additional information, please visit



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