In France, Vermilion is a dynamic and growing company that employs nearly 400 people (direct and indirect jobs).
Vermilion strives to attract and retain the best talent, and to create a great place to work –because the best technologies only reach their potential through the efforts of the best teams. Focused on continuous improvement, Vermilion ensures our employees have the benefit of our comprehensive human resources policies and practices, notably through a confidential annual employee satisfaction survey.
We owe these numerous recognitions to the active involvement of our talented team, and to our ability to offer our employees and subcontractors a stimulating work environment in which the values of credibility, respect, fairness, pride and team spirit are just as important as the resources we extract from the subsurface.
Gerard Schut, P.Eng, is the Vice President of European Operations. With over 25 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry, he has strong knowledge of HSE, subsurface, operations, asset development, and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Vermilion, he was General Manager of Chevron’s E&P business in The Netherlands, responsible for business development and production activities offshore. There he successfully increased the gross production of 795 m3 (795,000 liters) per day in 2005 to 3,975 m3 (3,975,000 liters) per day in 2011, and led the acquisition and development of the first shallow gas development in the North Sea. During his ten years with Unocal in Thailand, Gerard successfully introduced new drilling techniques (slimhole drilling, with monobore completion), reducing investment costs and improving recovery efficiency. As asset manager, he initiated the fast track appraisal and development of the Plamuk, Surat and Yala oil reservoirs in the area around Platong, with production rates reaching over 7,950 m3 (7,950,000 liters) per day. Gerard holds a Master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering from Delft University (1986) and a Bachelor’s degree from Henley, The Management College, Brunel University (1996).
Ms. Etcheverry has more than 20 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. After a short period at the Bureau de Recherche Géologique et Minières and ATOFINA (now TOTAL), she began her career as an environmental engineer at Vermilion in 2003, serving in various roles, including Permitting and Environment Manager and HSE and Regulatory Affairs Director before becoming Managing Director in 2023. Ms. Etcheverry has been particularly involved in the development of Vermilion’s conventional oil assets and the execution of drilling and geophysical acquisition work in France. She has also contributed to the reform project of the Mining Code, and the development of a new semi-quantitative approach to risk assessment of deep well integrity. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the GEFISS project, focused on subsurface engineering, and is member of the Board of Directors of UFIP ENERGIES ET MOBILITE.
Pantxika holds a Master’s degree in Sciences and Environment, University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour; she also holds a Master in Water and Environment Engineering, ENSIL-ENSCI.
(Unless otherwise noted, references on this website to “Vermilion”, or “the Company”, or “we”, or “our” collectively refer herein to any or all of the people and operations associated with Vermilion Energy Inc. and/or its subsidiaries including its French subsidiary Vermilion Energy France REP SAS whose operations and activities are the focus of this website)
Route de Pontenx
40160 Parentis-en-Born, France
Phone +33 (0)5 58 82 95 00
Email vrep@vermilionenergy.com
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