Saturn Oil & Gas Inc. announced Grant MacKenzie will be joining executive management team as chief legal officer. MacKenzie joins the company from Dentons Canada LLP, where he has been intimately involved with the company during its transformational growth since 2021. MacKenzie was partner with Dentons and the corporate co-lead of the Calgary office since 2018, and brings the experience of a 21 year legal career to the company.

MacKenzie has extensive experience dealing with public issuers, including with respect to capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and stock exchange compliance advice. Saturnalso named two new directors to its board: S. Janet Yang and Andrew Claugus. Yang is research director, energy and mining at GMT Capital Corp.

Prior to joining GMT Capital Corp., from 2018 to 2023, Yang was the executive vice-president and chief financial officer of W&T Offshore Inc., a Texas based oil and gas exploration and production company traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Yang has extensive experience in finance and capital raising, and holds an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, and a BA in economics from Rice University. Claugus is an entrepreneur and independent businessman, with extensive experience in petroleum engineering.

From 2014 to 2022, Claugus was the engineering manager for MECO IV, LLC, which, prior to its acquisition, was a private oil and gas exploration and production company based in Denver, Colorado. Following the sale, Claugus founded WhiteFin Resources, a privately backed oil and gas company investing in non-operated interests in core areas of established basins. Claugus holds a master of engineering in petroleum engineering from Colorado School of Mines, and a BsC in chemical engineering, from Case Western Reserve University.