Hart Energy’s A&D Achievement Award for 2012 went to Steve Herod and Floyd Wilson, the pair who in 2011 turned their 7-year-old indie energy company, Petrohawk, which had focused on massive acquisitions in the Haynesville, Eagle Ford and Permian Basin, into a $12 billion divestiture to BHP Billiton.
Herod, now president of Halcón Resources, accepted the award at Hart Energy’s A&D Conference in Dallas on Sept. 6 on behalf of himself and Wilson, now CEO at Halcón, who was absent.
Herod entered the oil and gas industry in 1981 as ...