About Us - Joyce Holtzclaw, Exploitation Manager

Ms. Holtzclaw joined Nations California in 2007 and serves as the Company's Exploitation Manager and as such is head of reservoir engineering. Prior to Nations, Ms. Holtzclaw served as a Senior Reservoir Engineering Advisor for Vintage Petroleum in Bakersfield, CA. Before Vintage, Ms. Holtzclaw was the Exploitation Asset Team Leader and Senior Engineer for Berry Petroleum Company, also in Bakersfield. While at Berry, Ms. Holtzclaw led development for all of Berry's diatomite and non-traditional California assets. Prior to Berry, Ms. Holtzclaw spent over 12 years with Chevron in various engineering and operating roles working on steamflood projects throughout the San Joaquin Valley. Before Chevron, Ms. Holtzclaw spent time at Coseka Resources, Champlin Petroleum, and Amoco working the Rockies and West Texas. Ms. Holtzclaw is also active in the Society of Petroleum Engineers, where she served on the Board of Directors as the Western Regional Director from 2001-2003. She also Co-chaired the 2005 and 2008 SPE Western Regional Meetings in Irvine and Bakersfield, respectively. She was the 2008 recipient of the SPE Distinguished Member and SPE Public Service Awards. Ms. Holtzclaw studied at the Colorado School of Mines and earned her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and MBA from the University of Nevada, Reno.

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