Contango Oil & Gas Corporation announced that James J. Metcalf Jr. joined the company on February 6, 2017 as its Senior Vice President-Operations. Mr. Metcalf will be the company’s principal operating officer and will report to Allan D. Keel, the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Metcalf has more than 35 years of industry experience in oil and gas operations. His experience includes domestic onshore conventional and unconventional resource plays in most major basins, the shelf and deep-water Gulf of Mexico, and internationally. Most recently, Mr. Metcalf was Vice President of Operations at Advance Energy Partners, LLC from October 2014 through August 2016. While there, he was charged with building and growing their operations team and capabilities. Prior to joining Advance Energy Partners, Mr. Metcalf was a consultant to Newfield Exploration Company from October 2013 through September 2014, where he advised multiple domestic and international drilling teams.