Approach Resources, Inc. announced that Troy A. Hoefer, will join the Company as Vice President, Reservoir Engineering. Mr. Hoefer has more than 25 years of operating and management experience in the oil and gas industry. For the past 16 years, Mr. Hoefer held increasingly responsible reservoir and operating engineering positions at Pioneer Natural Resources.

Most recently, Mr. Hoefer served as Reservoir Engineering Manager of the South Texas Asset Team, which oversees development of Pioneer's Eagle Ford shale play. In this capacity, Mr. Hoefer managed a team of reservoir engineers and technicians responsible for formulating and executing a large-scale development program for the Eagle Ford shale that included drilling and completing 100 to 130 horizontal wells per year during the past two years. The Company simultaneously announced the promotion of Walter M. Glasgow, Jr., P.E. to Vice President, Operations.

Mr. Glasgow joined the Company in September 2012 as Manager of Operations. Mr. Glasgow has 32 years of production operations and management experience in the industry, including 23 years at Mosbacher Energy Company and its affiliates, and eight years at Wagner Oil Company, a privately held exploration and production company.