Beta Energy Corp. announced that Wes Siemens has joined the Board of Directors. Mr. Siemens, P.Eng, brings over 30 years of operations, production and reservoir engineering, project management, planning and leadership experience.

He was Oil Sands General Manager at Nexen (2009 to 2014) and grew production from 15,000 bbl/d to 45,000 bbl/d. Mr. Siemens discovered and developed the Hay medium oil field in NEBC which ramped production to >10,000 bbl/d from over 300 horizontal wells and became the larger producing oil field in British Columbia at that time.