Randall B. Luthi was appointed Director of the Minerals Management Service on July 23, 2007. Luthi, a former speaker of the Wyoming State House of Representatives, is a rancher and attorney in private practice from Freedom, Wyoming. He previously served in the Department of the Interior and at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Luthi is a partner in the Luthi and Voyles law firm in Thayne, Wyoming, and manages a cattle ranch in western Wyoming. He was first elected to the Wyoming House of Representatives in 1995, and served as speaker in 2005 and 2006. He served in Washington in career positions as Senior Counselor for Environmental Regulations in NOAA's Office of General Counsel from 1990 to 1993, and as an attorney in the Department of the Interior Office of the Solicitor from 1986 to 1990. Based on his work in the Wyoming legislature, Mr. Luthi developed an understanding of the importance of royalties paid to the federal government by companies producing energy on our public lands and waters. As Majority Leader and Speaker of the Wyoming House, Mr. Luthi was instrumental in formulation of state budgets which relied heavily upon royalties and severance taxes paid by energy companies developing federal leases. In addition, he was a legislative member of the Energy Council, which is an organization comprised of legislative representatives from energy producing states and provinces and private energy-related industries that meets quarterly to learn the latest in developments in energy related technology and to discuss energy policy. In addition, Luthi worked as a legislative assistant in the office of U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming. In this capacity, Luthi provided counsel on legal and legislative issues including oil and gas taxation. Luthi graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in administration of justice, and earned a law degree from the University of Wyoming in 1982.

Stephen R. Brand is senior vice president, Technology, for ConocoPhillips. Brand began his career with Phillips Petroleum Company in 1976 as a geologist for exploration and production (E&P). In 1980, he transferred to Denver as a geologist for the minerals group. He became supervisor of North America E&P in Houston in 1982. In 1989, he transferred to Bartlesville, Okla., as a staff director for E&P and held that position until 1992. Beginning in 1995, he served as Canada region manager of North American E&P. He was also president of Phillips Petroleum Resources, Ltd. and served as E&P business development manager. In 1998, he was named general manager, Australia division. Following the ConocoPhillips merger in 2002, Brand became president, Australasia, then in 2005 was named vice president, exploration and business development, Exploration and Production. He assumed his current role in October 2007. Brand was born in 1949 in Owatonna, Minn. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1971 with a bachelor of science degree in geology. He received a master of science degree in geology in 1973 and a doctorate in 1976, both from Purdue University.

Richard Neufeld was appointed Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources on June 16, 2005. He has served as Minister of Energy and Mines since 2001. Mr. Neufeld was energy, mines and northern development critic for the Official Opposition. He sat on the Select Standing Committees on Forests, Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, and on Agriculture and Fisheries. He also sat on the Official Opposition Caucus Committee on Transportation. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1991 to represent the riding of Peace River North and was re-elected in 1996, 2001 and 2005. Before entering provincial politics, Mr. Neufeld owned and operated a business in Fort Nelson. He has been involved in the oil and gas industry most of his life. He served on Fort Nelson council from 1978 to 1986, for five of those years as mayor. He has been involved with the Fort Nelson and Fort St. John Chambers of Commerce and Rotary Clubs. Richard and his wife Montana live in Fort St. John and have four grown children.

Steven B. Hinchman is executive vice president of Technology and Services for Marathon Oil Corporation and serves as a member of Marathon's Executive Committee. He joined Marathon in 1980. He was previously senior vice president of Worldwide Production from January 2002. In September 2000, Mr. Hinchman was appointed senior vice president of Production Operations. He joined the Company as a field engineer and subsequently held a number of technical, staff and managerial positions of increasing responsibility in the Company's domestic and international exploration and production organizations. Mr. Hinchman received a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1980, and a master's degree in the same field of study from the Colorado School of Mines in 1987. Mr. Hinchman is a member of the board of directors of the American Petroleum Institute. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the U.S. Oil & Gas Association. In 2005, he received the distinguished Penn State Alumni Fellow Award. He is a Visiting Committee Member of the Petroleum Engineering Department of the Colorado School of Mines and a member of the board of directors of the Sam Houston Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He is also a member of the Industrial and Professional Advisory Council of the Department of Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering at Pennsylvania State University.

Rob Saltiel is Executive Vice President, Performance, for Transocean Inc. Mr. Saltiel, who joined the company in 2003, previously held the positions of Senior Vice President of North and South America Business Unit and Senior Vice President of Marketing and Planning. Prior to joining Transocean, he served as Vice President of Corporate Marketing for Nabors Industries and began his career as a process engineer for ExxonMobil. He later joined McKinsey & Company as a consultant to energy clients in the upstream, downstream and oil services segments. Mr. Saltiel holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Mike Bahorich became Apache Corporation’s Executive Vice President, Exploration and Production Technology in 2000. He joined the company in 1996 as chief geophysicist. He was later promoted to Vice President of Exploration Technology. Prior to joining Apache, Bahorich was with Amoco, where he spent his first decade involved in prospect generation and development. He then spent three years with Amoco Research in scientific and management positions where he invented two geophysical concepts that are now widely used in the industry. He later became a resource exploration manager in the company’s mid-continent operations. A graduate of the University of Missouri at Columbia, he received his master’s degree in geophysics from Virginia Tech. He currently serves on advisory boards at Stanford, Yale, and the Houston Museum of Natural Science. In 1998, Bahorich received the Virgil Kauffman Gold Medal from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and was president of the organization in 2003. He holds eight patents.

Scott Heck was appointed senior vice president of Exploration and Production Technology for Hess Corporation in April 2007. In this role, Heck directs the company’s technology organization, applying the latest technical innovations to further the company’s Exploration and Production around the globe. Previously Heck was senior vice president of Production where he was responsible for Hess Corporation’s production operations in the United States and West Africa. Heck began his career with Hess in 1989 as an engineer in the Gulf of Mexico and subsequently held positions of increasing responsibility in engineering, operations, and management in the Exploration and Production organization. Prior to joining the company, he was employed as an engineer at Tenneco and Arco Oil and Gas. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in petroleum engineering from Marietta College in Ohio. Hess Corporation, with headquarters in New York, is a global integrated energy company engaged in the exploration, production, purchase, transportation and sale of crude oil and natural gas, as well as the production and sale of refined petroleum products. More information on Hess Corporation is available at www.hess.com.

Stephen P. Thurston (Steve) is Vice President of Chevron North America Exploration and Production Company (CNAEP) in charge of the Deepwater Exploration and Projects Strategic Business Unit (DWEP). DWEP is responsible for all of Chevron’s exploration and project development work in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Thurston is a native of Denver, Colorado. He earned a bachelor’s degree in geology in 1979 from the University of Washington, Seattle. In 1982 he earned a master’s degree in geology, with a thesis involving extensive field geology in Alaska, also from the University of Washington. He joined Chevron in 1982 in Concord, California as a development geologist working on onshore and offshore oil and gas fields. In 1984 Thurston began various California exploration assignments, including economic evaluations, and by 1988 was named Exploration District Supervisor for all of California’s Coastal Basins. In 1990 Thurston transferred to New Orleans as Division Geologist and subsequently was Exploration Supervisor for the Gulf of Mexico Shelf from 1991 through 1996. In this period Thurston also participated on the design team for Chevron's Upstream Project Management Process and the supervised the exploration team responsible for the discovery of the Viosca Knoll carbonate trend. In 1997 he coordinated Business Planning for Gulf of Mexico Business Unit, and in December 1997 was named Profit Center Manager for the Eastern Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico. In March 1999 he was named General Manager of Global Procurement for CNAEP responsible for implementing the new Global Procurement initiative within Chevron. In February 2000 he went to Rio de Janeiro as Brazil Country Manager for Chevron responsible for all upstream activities in Brazil until July 2005. In August 2005 he was named General Manager of Strategic Planning for Chevron Corporation responsible for Chevron’s planning and strategy formulation efforts until December 31, 2007. Mr. Thurston was born in December 1957. He is married with two children and his interests include alpine climbing, trekking and photography.

R. Tim Bradley is President of CO2, for Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: KMP). He joined the company in April 2000 and is responsible for all aspects of CO2 marketing, engineering and production operations. CO2 (carbon dioxide) is used in enhanced oil recovery projects. With more than 900 miles of pipelines, Kinder Morgan CO2 Company is the nation's leading transporter and marketer of carbon dioxide for use in secondary oil recovery projects. Mr. Bradley has more than 25 years of experience in oil and gas field development and operations utilizing primary, secondary, and tertiary recovery technologies throughout the continental United States and offshore Gulf of Mexico. Prior to joining Kinder Morgan, he served as President of Shell CO2 Company, Ltd. Mr. Bradley holds a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla. In addition, he is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

As Vice President of E&P Technology, Dave Latin is currently accountable for BP’s Field of the FutureTM Programme. Dave’s executive leadership and operational management skills have been built on strong scientific and technical foundations in the Earth Sciences. He completed his Geology and Geophysics PhD in 1990. In 1993 Dave made the transition from post doctoral research at Cambridge University to a “hands-on” career first as a Geologist and then as a Reservoir Engineer in BP. Dave has worked across the entire value chain from frontier exploration in Vietnam, through implementation of new developments and operations of producing assets in the North Sea, to reactivation of old fields in Venezuela. In 2000, while leading a program to implement web enabled transactional HR (e-HR) for 100,000 employees across the BP Group he helped propel Exult Inc. from a small start-up company to a significant flotation on the NASDAQ. In 2001, Dave was made General Manager accountable for New Developments in the North Sea, and subsequently, from 2002 to the end of 2006, he was Vice President for the Bruce, Keith and Rhum assets. Until July 2008 Dave was CIO for BP Exploration & Production, leading an IT team of more than 600 staff & contractors operating across 20 countries, contacting and enabling every aspect of the E&P business.

James E. Sigmon serves as Chairman of the Board of TXCO Resources Inc. He was elected Chairman in December 2006 and has been a Director of TXCO since July 1984. He has served as the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer since February 1985. He served as a Director of ExproFuels Inc. through November 1998. As an engineer, Mr. Sigmon has been active for more than 30 years in the exploration and development of oil and gas properties. Prior to joining the Company, he served in the management of a private oil and gas exploration company active in drilling wells in South Texas.

Karen Harbert, Executive Vice President and Managing Director of the Institute for 21st Century Energy, formulates the Institute's policy proposals and helps to direct its programs, operations, and outreach initiatives. She assists General James L. Jones in advancing the Institute's mission with policymakers and the public. Prior to her work at the Institute, Ms. Harbert was the Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy and also the Vice Chairman of the 27 member country International Energy Agency. She was the primary advisor to the Secretary of Energy on domestic and international energy and climate issues, new policy initiatives and implementation of national policy. She was also a member of DOE's Executive Board which approved the annual budget request as well as the Credit Review Board which analyzes applications for DOE's $39 billion loan guarantee facility for advanced clean energy technology projects. Previously, she was the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean at the U.S. Agency for International Development with primary responsibility for foreign assistance programs in South America and the Caribbean. Ms. Harbert had oversight of 1,000 employees and programs totaling more than $800 million in 11 countries. In the private sector, Ms. Harbert worked for a developer of international infrastructure and power projects valued at more than $9 billion in dozens of countries. She also coordinated efforts to open new markets and sectors for the corporation.

Jack H. Stark became Senior Vice President—Exploration and a director of Continental Resources, Inc in May 1998. Prior to joining Continental Resources, Inc as Vice President of Exploration in June 1992, he was the exploration manager for the Western Mid-Continent Region for Pacific Enterprises. From 1978 to 1988, he held various staff and middle management positions with Cities Service Co. and TXO Production Corp. He is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, Houston Geological Society, and Oklahoma Geological Society. Mr. Stark holds a Masters degree in Geology from Colorado State University.

Steve McMillen maintains a multifaceted environmental practice, counseling clients in the areas of climate and carbon markets strategy and project development analysis; contaminated property issues such as remediation and closure under federal and state laws; RCRA regulatory compliance; state and federal release and spill reporting and enforcement; administrative hearings, rulemaking, and advocacy; and environmental litigation. He has wide experience with environmental issues in corporate and real estate transactions such as risk evaluation, limiting liability, and permit transfer. Mr. McMillen is a member of Baker Botts' global climate practice group.

Jon David Caron is currently serving as a technical advisor for Anadarko Petroleum Corporation in their Engineering & Technology department. He has more than 24 years of industry experience with a diversified background ranging from reservoir engineering and economics to fracture stimulation and completions engineering. J.D. currently mentors and provides assistance in critical well completions, fracture stimulation design/execution and production engineering problem solving. Prior to joining Anadarko in 2005, he worked for Total E&P USA, Inc. and Fina Oil & Chemical Company for 21 years. He was the onshore stimulation team leader for Total USA E&P, Inc. and also served as an asset team leader for several multi-disciplined teams focused on developing the Vicksburg reservoirs in South Texas. He has been involved with campaigns in China, Indonesia, Venezuela, Jordan and Brazil where he provided support relative to completions and fracture stimulation. Mr. Caron also has about 10 years of reservoir and completions engineering experience working carbonate waterfloods in West Texas.

Arthur Boykiw is Director of the Oil Sand Information Services organization for Petro-Canada based in Alberta. He has a BSC in Computing Science with 24 years experience in the E&P industry crossing all domains of the business including E&P applications (Land, Geophysics, Geology, Reservoir, Drilling); Operations (Field data capture, Process Controls, Facilities, Engineering, Plant Maintenance); Corporate systems (Production, Revenue, Financial accounting, Supply Chain, EH&S, Tax, Treasury); and Project Engineering (Logistics, Program Management, Engineering Design and Information Management). Arthur has implemented executive dashboard and decisions support solutions as well as integrated application suites and mapping technologies. He is currently Chair of the PPDM Association, an international E&P industry standards body (www.ppdm.org); participant on the IT Workforce Market Pressures Advisory Group with the Government of Alberta Advanced Technology and Education department and is a past member of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) CIO Committee. Previously, Arthur served as Director of IS Enterprise Program Office; North American Natural Gas and East Coast Information Services; and Corporate Information Services for Petro-Canada.

Dr. Candy Albertsson is President of Albertsson Consulting Group, a talent management consultancy that delivers best practice and patent-pending solutions for a variety of talent management challenges, including: building a talent strategy; attracting and retaining talent; identifying and integrating the experiences required for success into the development process; identifying and calibrating key talent; creating an infrastructure for high potential development programs; accelerating high potential talent; identifying the highest quality candidates for top 500 succession plans; and strategically analyzing top 500 succession plans to identify key gaps and issues before a business or talent crisis emerges. Since 1999, we have worked with a range of Global 500 companies in twenty-five countries on four continents including Shell Exploration & Production, Shell Oil Products and Saudi Aramco. Prior to establishing Albertsson Consulting Group, Candy spent ten years with BP where she led the design, development and delivery of an integrated set of talent management processes that have been widely recognized as best practice. Candy held the senior talent management position where she was responsible to the Managing Directors for the Group High Potential Programme (top 300 high potentials worldwide), monthly talent reviews, top 500 succession management, assessment to identify talent worldwide and the supporting strategy and infrastructure to develop world class leadership. Candy has delivered more than 75 keynotes, presentations and workshops at European, American and Middle Eastern conferences and professional meetings and written chapters and articles on talent management issues. Candy holds a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from The University of Akron.

Kevin Banks moved to Alaska in 1982 and worked for the Minerals Management Service as an economist in the Social and Economic Studies Program. In this position, he led the agency’s economic research program and directed several engineering assessments of the technologies required to develop the oil and gas resources of the Alaska Outer Continental Shelf. In 1991, Mr. Banks came to the Division of Oil and Gas as its sole petroleum economist. He presided over the establishment of the Commercial Section and was responsible for managing the State of Alaska’s royalty in-kind program, implementing the royalty modification statutes and other oil and gas incentives, and administrating the many royalty settlement agreements between the state and its lessees. Mr. Banks has a B.S. in economics/philosophy from Loyola University Los Angeles, and an M.A. in economics from Washington State University.

Terry Engelder's (Penn State B.S., 1968; Yale M.S., 1972; Texas A&M, Ph.D., 1973) research focus covers a range of subjects encompassing structural geology, rock mechanics and tectonophysics. His Ph.D. and early post doctoral work involved experiments on the frictional properties of rocks as they pertain to fault zone development and earthquake mechanics. While at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory he developed several techniques for determining in situ stress through strain relaxation of rocks and hydraulic fracture. This work was compiled in Terry's research monograph, "Stress Regimes in the Lithosphere". Presently, he has both field and lab studies on the development of rock fractures and joints. His research in the development of joints in sedimentary basins includes both theoretical work on natural hydraulic fracturing as well as field work in such mountain ranges as the Appalachians, the Coast Ranges of California, the Apennines of Italy, the Salt Range of Pakistan, and the Rocky Mountains. Other research interests include the tectonics of foreland fold-thrust belts with particular focus on the Appalachian Mountains. He has documented one of the world's best exposed petroleum geosystems during his work on outcrops of the Appalachian Basin. For the past decade Terry has organized a consortium of oil companies to support his work on the development of abnormal pressure and seals in the important petroleum producing basins of the world. Major academic honors include a Senior Fulbright Fellowship to study in Australia in 1984 and the Wilson Distinguished Teaching Award at Penn State in 1992.

Mr. Lytal was elected as Executive Vice President of the General Partner in September 2004. Previously Mr. Lytal served as a Director of GulfTerra Energy Partners, L.P. since 1994 and as its President since 1995, as well as Chief Commercial Officer beginning in 2003. He was also Vice President, El Paso Field Services from 1998 to 2004. Prior to 1995, Mr. Lytal served as Senior Vice President with GulfTerra (then Leviathan) and was previously Vice President of Business Development for American Pipeline Company and for United Gas Pipe Line Company. Earlier in his career, Mr. Lytal served in various capacities in the oil and gas exploration and production and gas pipeline industries with Texas Oil and Gas, Inc. and American Pipeline Company. Mr. Lytal holds a Bachelor of Science degree in petroleum engineering from The University of Texas.

Jim Farnsworth is an industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience. Prior to joining Cobalt, Jim was at BP, where he served in various capacities since 1983, and since 2002 was Vice President of World-Wide Exploration and Technology. In this role, he was responsible for BP's global exploration strategy and execution. Prior positions at BP include: VP of North America Exploration; VP of Gulf of Mexico Exploration; and Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Production Manager. Mr. Farnsworth earned his B.S. in Geology from Indiana University and his M.S. in Geophysics from W. Michigan University.

Jim Guion is currently the Vice President of Commercial Development for Enterprise Products. Jim is a registered professional Mechanical Engineer with an MBA and has over 35 years of management experience in the oil and gas industry. During his career, Jim has managed a Project Management Consulting Firm and served in a number of senior management positions with a major independent oil and gas exploration and production company. Most recently, Jim has represented Enterprise as project manager for the Marco Polo TLP development in 4,700 ft and the Independence Hub development in 8,000 ft water depth in the Gulf of Mexico.

Doug Bloom is president of Spectra Energy Transmission’s western operations, responsible for three of the company’s western-based divisions: BC Pipeline; BC Field Services; and Empress NGL. Prior to his current role, Bloom served as President of Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline, a company 77.53 percent owned by Spectra Energy and based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Bloom joined the company in 1987 as a regulatory affairs supervisor for Westcoast Energy in Vancouver. He held a series of management positions in information technology, regulated businesses and marketing, and was appointed vice president, customer service and marketing in 1994. In 1996, Bloom was appointed vice president of business services, responsible for the company’s engineering and construction, supply chain, information technology, human resources and administrative functions. Following Duke Energy’s acquisition of Westcoast Energy in 2002, Bloom became vice president of business integration, responsible for the assimilation of Westcoast into Duke Energy. He was then named vice president of strategic planning and risk management for Duke Energy Gas Transmission, and in 2003 was appointed president of Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline. Before joining the company, Bloom served as manager of market analysis for Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission in Calgary, and prior to that spent seven years in economic consulting with Columbia Pacific Group in Vancouver, serving energy and transportation clients. Bloom holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics, both from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. He has previously served on the board of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association and the External Advisory Board for the Simon Fraser University Executive MBA program. He has served on the board of the Greater Halifax Partnership, and chaired its Audit Committee. Bloom has been a long-time volunteer with United Way and served in fund-raising capacities in Vancouver and Halifax, chaired the fund-raising campaign for the United Way of the Halifax region in 2004 and currently serves on the board of the United Way of the Halifax region.

Wishart is the Climate Change Advisor to the President and CEO of Nexen Inc. In that capacity he works with the Board and senior management of Nexen to develop strategic and tactical responses to regulatory and market challenges associated with the evolving political, social and economic aspects of domestic and international climate-related developments. Wishart has almost 40 years experience, augmented by working in more than 50 countries, with a wide range of safety, environmental and regulatory issues associated with oil and gas exploration, development and transportation. He has worked for Nexen for the past 10 years; he was previously with Petro-Canada during the early development of the Terra Nova field and before that with Halliburton in West Africa. Mr. Robson has spent the past 25 years working in the oil and gas sector where he held increasingly senior environmental and safety positions while working in Canada and 50 international locations on exploration, development and transportation projects including offshore developments in Nigeria, Australia, the UK sector of the North Sea as well as Hibernia and Terra Nova off the coast of Newfoundland. He currently represents Nexen on several national and international industry associations, the International Emissions Trading Association and ICO2N, the Integrated CO2 Network, which is an initiative that is investigating the options available to Canadian industry and government to make carbon capture and storage a viable option for significant carbon emissions from various energy production operations and other industrial processes. Mr. Robson has attended many of the UNFCCC meetings, representing industry on the Canadian delegation at CoP 8 in Delhi.

Rob Morgan is Harvest's Chief Operating Officer, Upstream. He is a Professional Engineer with 20 years of technical, operations and management experience in the oil and natural gas industry. He was most recently Vice President Operations and Corporate Development of Viking Energy Royalty Trust since June 2004, and prior thereto had been Manager, Planning at Canadian Natural Resources Limited. Previously, Mr. Morgan was a member of the management team of Petrovera Resources, holding positions of Vice President Corporate Development and Vice President Engineering. Prior to the formation of Petrovera Resources in 1999, Mr. Morgan held management and senior technical positions at Pan Canadian Petroleum Limited and CS Resources Limited, and technical and field operations positions with Murphy Oil Company Ltd.

Howard Anderson was appointed to the position of Vice-President Engineering and Chief Operating Officer in February, 2008 . Mr. Anderson brings more than 28 years of senior management and petroleum engineering experience to Triangle. Most recently, Mr. Anderson was a founder and Vice-President Engineering at Rockyview Energy Inc. (2005 to 2008), a startup E&P company which increased production from under 1,000 BOE/day to over 3,000 BOE/day, including significant coalbed methane development in Alberta. At Pioneer Natural Resources Canada Inc., between 2002 and 2004, Mr. Anderson was Vice-President Engineering & Development, sharing responsibility for the company’s success in deep underbalanced horizontal Foothills drilling, shallow gas infill development, and medium depth exploitation. At Canadian Hunter Exploration Ltd. from 1987 to 2002, Mr. Anderson participated in and led teams which established several new high-value areas such as the Brassey miscible oilfield development, Ring-Border gas field, Claresholm gas field, and corporate M&A. Following the acquisition of Canadian Hunter by Burlington Resources in 2001, he continued with Burlington’s New Ventures group, gaining exposure to unconventional gas development from coals and shales. Mr. Anderson started his career at Esso Resources Canada Ltd. in 1979, developing skills in reservoir engineering, resource economics and production operations in a progression of engineering roles. Mr. Anderson received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics from Queen’s University at Kingston in 1979.

Francisco Ortigosa received his MSc. in Geophysics from the University of Barcelona. After three years of research, Francisco has dedicated 16 years to the petroleum industry holding geophysics related positions in Spain, Venezuela, Colombia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Egypt and currently in USA. He is Worldwide Manager Geophysical Operations and Subsurface Imaging for Repsol-YPF. Francisco has authored or coauthored numerous technical papers presented in International Conferences. Francisco is affiliated with the SEG, EAEG, AAPG and AGGEP.