Sanchez Energy COO Joseph DeDominic Resigns; Names Chris Heinson Interim COO

(RTTNews) - Sanchez Energy Corp. (SN) announced Thursday that Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Joseph DeDominic has resigned to pursue a new opportunity. Chris Heinson, Senior Manager of Reservoir Engineering, will assume the role of Chief Operating Officer on an interim basis. These management changes are effective at the beginning of January, 2014.

Chris Heinson, an engineer by training, currently oversees reservoir engineering, business planning, and project management for Sanchez. Before joining to Sanchez in March of this year, he served for Occidental Petroleum Corporation in various planning and reservoir engineering positions. Chris has a strong technical background in unconventional oil resource plays and enhanced oil recovery and has held roles of increasing responsibility while at Occidental and Sanchez.