UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
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CURRENT REPORT
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PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
DECEMBER 8, 2009
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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)
MORGAN CREEK ENERGY CORP.
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(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
NEVADA 0-25455 201777817
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(State or other jurisdiction (Commission File Number) (IRS Employer
of incorporation) Identification No.)
5050 QUORUM DRIVE
SUITE 700
DALLAS, TEXAS 75254
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(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
(214) 321-0603
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Registrant's telephone number, including area code
N/A
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(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
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SECTION 5. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT
ITEM 5.02 DEPARTURE OF DIRECTORS OR PRINCIPAL OFFICERS; ELECTION OF DIRECTORS;
APPOINTMENT OF PRINCIPAL OFFICERS
Effective on December 8, 2009, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Morgan
Creek Energy Corp., a Nevada corporation (the "Company") accepted the
resignation of Marcus Johnson as a member of the Board of Directors. Effective
on December 8, 2009, the Board of Directors of the Company accepted the consent
of John Clayton Weldy as a member of the Board of Directors. Therefore, the
Board of Directors is comprised of Peter Wilson, D. Bruce Horton, Erik Essiger,
Angelo Viard, Peter Carpenter and John C. Weldy Jr. Mr. Weldy's biography is as
follows:
JOHN CLAYTON WELDY JR. Mr. Weldy has eighteen years of diversified experience as
a petroleum, mechanical and environmental engineer. His areas of specialized
knowledge extend from personal management, completions, operations and
production engineering to project engineering and management. Mr. Weldy's
expertise also includes conceptualization, design, planning and managing people
and projects to achieve goals efficiently. From February 2009 to current date,
Mr. Weldy is a senior completion engineer for Eni Petroleum, where he is
responsible for leading subsea and shelf well completions and intervention
projects in the Gulf of Mexico. From approximately September 2008 to February
2009, Mr. Weldy was the senior operations/production/completions engineer at
SandRidge Energy. He managed all phases of operations, production and facility
engineering for properties offshore, onshore and inland in the Gulf of Mexico.
He was further responsible for engineering design and project management of
Hurricane Ike repairs, managed all rig completions and remedial workover
procedures, including written procedures, completion strategy, cost estimating
and securing of equipment and services. Mr. Weldy was also responsible for the
design, layout and management of the construction of production facilities,
preparation of procedures for and supervision of wellhead remedial operations on
existing oil and gas wells, the performance of nodal analysis on various
production wells using nodal analysis software and the design, troubleshooting
and installation of gas lifts for offshore wells.
From approximately August 2005 through September 2008, Mr. Weldy was the
deepwater subsea completions engineer for Shell International and Exploration
Company. From approximately February 2004, through August 2005, Mr. Weldy was
the vice president of operations for Petroreal of America, Inc. From
approximately January 2003 through January 2004, Mr. Weldy was a self employed
consultant. From approximately May 2001 through December 2002, Mr. Weldy was the
production manager for Century Exploration Inc. From approximately August 2000
through May 2001, Mr. Weldy was the senior petroleum engineer for Watson Energy
LLC. And from approximately April 2000 through August 2000, Mr. Weldy was the
operations engineer for Operational Services Inc.
Prior to 2000, Mr. Weldy worked for nine years at Texaco Exploration Company as
a production, facility and completions engineer.
Mr. Weldy earned a Master of Science degree in environmental engineering from
Tulane University. He also earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical
engineering and in petroleum engineering from the University of Alabama. Mr.
Weldy co-authored a SPE paper on "Best Completion Practices".
The Company intends to grant an aggregate of 200,000 stock options exercisable
at $0.58 per share for a period of ten years.
SECTION 9 - FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS
ITEM 9.01 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS
(A) FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF BUSINESS ACQUIRED.
Not applicable.
(B) PRO FORMA FINANCIAL INFORMATION.
Not applicable.
(C) SHELL COMPANY TRANSACTION.
Not applicable.
(D) EXHIBITS.
Not applicable.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
MORGAN CREEK ENERGY CORP.
DATE: DECEMBER 11, 2009. /s/ PETER WILSON
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NAME: PETER WILSON
TITLE: PRESIDENT/CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
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