Former NY Gov. George Pataki Joins Advisory Board of Mesa Energy

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Former New York Gov. George Pataki has joined the advisory board of Mesa Energy Holdings (headquartered in Dallas). Mesa holds leases and has active gas drilling operations in Wyoming County in Western New York State. Gov. Pataki, since leaving office, joined a law firm and started a consulting practice with a focus on environmental and energy issues.

According to the press release:

Headquartered in Dallas, TX, Mesa Energy Holdings, Inc. is a growth-oriented, exploration stage oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) company with a definitive focus on growing reserves and net asset value per share, primarily through the development of highly diversified, multi-well developmental and defined-risk exploratory drilling opportunities and the acquisition of solid, long-term existing production with enhancement potential. Although the Company is constantly evaluating opportunities in the nation’s most productive basins, the Company’s primary focus is currently on the Devonian Black (Marcellus) shale in the northern Appalachian Basin in western New York.*

Never mind the press release gobbledygook. What it means is this: Right now Mesa owns pipelines and active vertical wells in Western NY, but they’re betting big-time that horizontal drilling and hydro fracturing is coming to New York in the not-too-distant future, and they want an ace in the hole when it does. Welcome George.

*Business Wire (Mar 15) – Mesa Energy Holdings, Inc. Names Former New York Governor George E. Pataki to the Advisory Board