Vice President

Bill Lewis is vice president in the business development group of Hunt Oil Company, which seeks to match new technologies with the appropriate resources to create new opportunities for the company.

Previously, Lewis conducted Hunt LNG Company's interest in the Yemen LNG Project, with a focus on the expansion of the upstream facilities. He also has oversight responsibility for Hunt Oil Company’s operations in Yemen.

Joining Hunt in 1979, he has served in numerous positions, including vice president LNG, vice president and general manager of Hunt Oil Company of Canada, Inc., senior vice president of Yemen operations, vice president and general manager of Yemen Hunt Oil Company, manager of exploration and production and manager of reservoir engineering in Yemen. He was previously responsible for operating several of Hunt’s U.S. production districts and had served in various engineering positions in the company. In addition, he co-directed the company’s business process review and the implementation of a new E&P information management system.

He began his career with Phillips Petroleum Company, where he held several engineering positions.

Lewis earned a bachelor’s in petroleum engineering from Louisiana Tech University, where he was a member of Pi Epsilon Tau, the Petroleum Engineering Honor Society. He was a founder of the Yemen chapter of the Society of Petroleum Engineering, where he served as program chair and later as section chair.

January 2009