G. Warfield "Skip" Hobbs is a professional geologist with 52 years petroleum and mineral exploration and development experience in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Russia, Central Asia and the Far East. He is a specialist in domestic and international petroleum and mineral economics, petroleum business development, heavy oil and tar sands, coalbed methane, shale resource plays, regional geological studies, petroleum and mineral prospect evaluation, oil, gas and mining litigation, due diligence, and company appraisals. Mr. Hobbs is the founder and Managing Partner of Ammonite Resources Company, an international petroleum and mineral consulting firm that is headquartered in New Canaan, Connecticut, and has associate offices in Texas, Louisiana, Colorado, Utah, Pennsylvania, Florida, Vermont, Alaska, Calgary and in the United Kingdom.

Hobbs holds a B.Sc. degree in Geology from Yale College, and a M.Sc. degree in Petroleum Geology from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, University of London. Prior to founding the Ammonite Corporation in 1980, and Ammonite Resources in 1982, Mr. Hobbs was employed as an exploration geologist by Amerada Hess Corporation, International Division, New York from 1977-1980; and by Texaco, Inc. in Ecuador, Great Britain, Indonesia and Portugal from 1970-1977.

Skip has been very active in national earth science professional society matters and energy policy. Hobbs is an Honorary Member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), and a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. From 1982-1989 he was on the Board of Directors of the Sierra Madre Foundation for Geological Research, an organization formerly sponsored by Yale, Harvard and Cornell Universities. Between 2002 and 2008 Skip served as the American representative on the board of the Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation in Field, British Columbia. Hobbs served as the elected Secretary (1993-1995) of the then 33,000 member American Association of Petroleum Geologists, and was President of the AAPG Division of Professional Affairs in 2000-2001. From 2004-2012 Hobbs served on the Executive Committee of the American Geological Institute, a federation of 51 geoscience professional societies representing over 250,000 members in every earth science discipline. He was AGI President in 2010-2011. As President-Elect, then President and Past-President of the American Geological Institute, Hobbs was a member of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents in Washington, D.C., from 2009-2012, where he served as Co-Chair of the Committee on Energy and the Environment. Hobbs presently serves as an Alumni Member of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents and was elected to the board of the CSSP in 2021. He is a registered professional geologist in the states of Texas and Pennsylvania, and is an AAPG Certified Petroleum Geologist. Mr. Hobbs is an external adviser to the Geosciences Department of the University of Connecticut. He is the past-president of the Associates of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, and a past-president of the New Canaan Nature Center.

Hobbs writes and lectures frequently on energy and climate policy, and energy economics. In his spare time he manages a family farm and forest in Massachusetts where he raises organically grown vegetables and grass-fed heritage beef cattle.

Robert Merrill is a geologist who has worked over thirty years in worldwide petroleum exploration and production. He is an experienced prospect generator and evaluator, and exploration manager. His expertise includes both conventional and unconventional clastic reservoirs, including fractured reservoirs and tight gas sands, as well as carbonates. Dr. Merrill is also experienced in the evaluation of geothermal resources. In his various staff and exploration positions he has mapped from the reservoir to regional, multi-basin scales. Areas of expertise include the Rockies, West Texas Permian Basin, the Midcontinent, Gulf Coast onshore and offshore, and many international areas, including Central and Southeast Asia, Australia, the North Sea, and Latin America. Dr. Merrill is experienced in applying probabilistic methods to prospect evaluation and reserves estimation, and using this information for comprehensive portfolio management. Additionally, he has been involved with evaluating and optimizing geological and geophysical workflow to reduce cycle time from the origination of an idea to prospect drilling. Bob has taught courses on a range of subjects including structural geology, basin analysis and plate tectonics and geology for engineers.

Prior to becoming a consultant in 2005 and forming Catheart Energy, Inc., Dr. Merrill worked for the Samson Companies, Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he was Technical Manager of Geology from 2000-2002, and then Exploration Manager of Samson International from 2002-2005. From 1989-2000, Bob was employed by the Unocal Corporation, lastly as Chief Geologist 1997-2000 of Unocal's Spirit Energy Division in Sugarland, Texas. As Chief Geologist of Spirit Energy he was responsible for quality assurance for a $600 million capital budget for the Deep Water Gulf of Mexico, Shelf and Onshore Gulf of Mexico and the Permian Basin. Prior to joining Unocal, Bob worked as an exploration geologist for the Cities Service Oil and Gas Corp. and then OXY USA, Inc. between 1974 -1989 in the Rockies, Permian Basin, and Midcontinent. He began his career in 1969 working as a stratigrapher for the American Stratigraphic Company, where he logged well cuttings and cores.

Dr. Merrill has a PhD and MS in Geology from Arizona State University and a BA in Geology from Colby College. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, a Chartered Geologist with the Geological Society, and has served on committees for the American Geological Institute. Bob has served as Secretary and President of the American Institute of Professional Geologists and is an active member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, where he co-edited the Giant Fields of the Decade 1990 - 2000 book and edited Source and Migration: Processes and Techniques for Evaluation. Other publications include papers on risk analysis; deep, over-pressured gas in the Green River Basin; and origin and migration of oils, Wyoming/Utah/Idaho Overthrust belt. He was the Technical Coordinator for the 2006 AAPG National Convention in Houston.

Kevin B. Hill is a geophysical consultant with more than 38 years of broad U.S. and international experience in seismic earth imaging. He is president of Hill Geophysical Consulting in Shreveport, Louisiana. Mr. Hill specializes in integrating state-of-the-art geophysical technologies with geology. He has designed, processed and interpreted numerous 2d, 3D and 4D seismic surveys throughout the world. Hill recently completed seismic rock property studies of the Hosston, Cotton Valley, Bossier and Haynesville of North Louisiana and East Texas. The studies involved the full integration of available engineering and well control with 2d and 3D seismic data. Results showed "sweet spots" in the targeted formations could be brought out of the seismic data and be used to design the drilling programs to enhance the recovery of hydrocarbons. HGC's clients have put this seismic analysis to the test and have drilled better, less costly exploitation wells in their acreage.

Current work also includes imaging of near-surface geology, unconventional reservoir studies using 2d and 3D seismic analysis, solution mining and mine imaging, and geological studies of the Haynesville, Bossier and Barnett Shale trends. Hill also has been involved in numerous gas and oil storage projects. This work includes processing and detailed analysis of 2d and 3D seismic data for imaging of structural boundary positioning and rock properties. Mr. Hill was involved in the original design of the PC-based seismic workstation software called Kingdom 3D-Pak. He has taught courses on using Seismic Micro-Technology, Inc., Kingdom software at schools around the world. His schools include data loading, interpretation, mapping, post-stack processing, stratigraphic analysis, synthetics, modeling, 3D visualization, and presentation techniques.

Hill received a BS-Professional Degree in Geology in 1977 from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, where he was president of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, and received the H.V. Howe award for outstanding Geology graduate. Prior to becoming a consultant in 1987, he worked as Senior Exploration Geophysicist for Sonat Exploration in Shreveport, LA; Regional Exploration Geophysicist for Forest Oil Corporation in Lafayette, LA, and Jackson MS; and as a Senior Geophysicist for Cities Service Company in Tulsa, OK, and Jackson, MS. Hill has authored and presented numerous technical papers at Gulf Coast professional society meetings. In 2000 he received the Third Place Excellence of Presentation Award at the 50th GCAGS convention. At the 51st GCAGS convention, in 2001, he received the First Place Excellence of Presentation award and the A.I. Levorsen Award.

Mr. Hill is a Professional Geoscientist licensed by the State of Louisiana Board of Professional Geoscientists. He is a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Solution Mining Research Institute, the Shreveport Geological Society, and the Houston Geological Society. He is Past President of the Shreveport Geological Society, and is a Grand Senechal in the Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin.

Dually registered in Alberta, Canada, as a professional geologist and geophysicist, Susan R. Eaton has developed a successful career in the Canadian energy sector. Susan's exploration and production (E&P) experience includes working with multi-national E&P firms, junior oil and gas companies, a federal oil and gas regulatory agency, and with large Canadian, American and international energy advisory firms. Her E&P expertise includes working the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, the East Coast and Arctic Frontiers of Canada, the North Sea, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, Australia, the Caribbean and Central and South America. Susan speaks, reads and writes French, Spanish and German.

Susan began her career in 1980, as an exploration geologist with Esso Resources Canada, a division of ExxonMobil. She has also worked, in geological, geophysical and managerial capacities, with Suncor Energy, Husky Energy and Baker Hughes. Her strong financial background was honed while managing a drilling fund and working as VP Exploration for several publicly-traded and privately-held junior oil companies. Susan has also worked as an expert witness in oil and gas litigation and regulatory hearings.

Susan is skilled at assembling and leading teams comprised of geologists, geophysicists, engineers, economists, lawyers, negotiators and technical writers, on oil and gas evaluation projects from the upstream to the downstream. She has managed energy advisory projects including new technology evaluations, market research, independent reserves and resources evaluations, acquisitions and divestitures, new ventures, and E&P field activities around the world. Her clients have included E&P majors and juniors, state oil companies, pipeline companies, technology firms, oil and gas regulators, investment bankers and equity financiers.

Uniquely equipped with a B. J. (Journalism) Honours degree from Carleton University, Susan is skilled at writing technical reports, press releases, quarterly and annual reports, and magazine articles on emerging plays and technologies in the oil and gas sector. She is the Canadian correspondent for the American Association of Petroleum Geologists' EXPLORER Magazine, and contributes regularly to Alberta Oil Magazine and New Technology Magazine. In 2012-2013, she authored all external communications materials (press releases, advertorials and quarterly and annual reports) for a $4-billion publicly-traded energy company involved in oil sands development and Duvernay and Montney emerging shale plays in Canada.

Susan's technical expertise includes basin analysis, the drilling of wells, and the acquisition, processing and interpretation of 2D and 3D seismic data. With a B.Sc. Honours degree in geology & biology from Dalhousie University, and a M.Sc. in petroleum geology (geophysics specialization) from the University of London (Imperial College of Science and Technology), she is a well-rounded E&P professional. Susan is equally comfortable presenting to corporate boards of directors or working in the field, supervising drilling and seismic data acquisition operations.

A member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), Susan served as the technical vice co-chair, Division of Environmental Sciences, for the organizing committee of the AAPG 2005 Convention in Calgary. A Distinguished Lecturer with the Association for Women Geoscientists, she's received the AAPG Public Outreach Award and the Geological Society of America's Distinguished Mentor Certificate of Appreciation. Susan served as treasurer of the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (CSEG), where she founded and chaired the CSEG’s Superfund, an organization that supports academic and grass roots educational outreach initiatives.

In June 2015, Susan was named one of Canada's top 100 modern-day explorers by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. A polar snorkeler, she explores the world's oceans in the snorkel zone, from Antarctica to the Arctic. During the past five years, Susan has participated in four science-based polar expeditions, studying the interplay between climate, plate tectonics, glaciers, oceans and life. Ammonite Resources has supported Susan's polar expeditions, and she's proudly carried the Ammonite banner to Antarctica, South Georgia, the Falkland Islands, the Canadian Arctic, Greenland and Iceland.

David M. Abbott, Jr., is an AIPG Certified Professional Geologist, a Geological Society Chartered Geologist, and a licensed Professional Geologist in Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. He spent 21 years as a geologist for the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission reviewing natural resource disclosure issues and investigating the natural resource aspects of securities frauds. His due diligence experience is worldwide and covers all types of mineral and petroleum deposits. Since becoming a consultant in 1996, Abbott has continued specializing in reserve audits and litigation support. He has extensive experience as an expert witness. Abbott assisted in drafting the SEC and the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong disclosure standards. He has co-taught the industrial minerals course at the Colorado School of Mines. Abbott holds an A.B. honors degree in Earth Sciences from Dartmouth College and an MS in Geology from the Colorado School of Mines. His professional society memberships include: Fellow of the Geological Society (London); the Society of Economic Geologists; the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy; the Geological Society of America; the American Association of Petroleum Geologists; the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration; the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America; the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists; and the Denver Regional Exploration Geologists Society. He received the Martin Van Couvering Memorial Award from AIPG in 1998 for his service to AIPG, particularly in the area of professional ethics. In 2006, AIPG awarded him Honorary Membership. Abbott is the 2015 recipient of the Ben H. Parker Memorial Medal, the oldest and most distinguished award granted by the AIPG.

Abbott has written a number of papers on the interaction between geology and the securities laws, on mineral reserve and mineral resource definitions and their application to various types of deposits, and on geologic professional ethics and practices. He compiles a bi-monthly column titled "Professional Ethics & Practices" for the American Institute of Professional Geologists' publication The Professional Geologist.

Greg Moroney has more than 30 years experience as an energy finance specialist throughout North and South America. He provides his clients with extensive experience in raising capital for acquisitions and project developments from private sources as well as public capital markets, multilateral agencies (IFC, OPIC) and export credit agencies.

Mr. Moroney held senior positions at Deutsche Bank Securities from 1993 to 2002. He established and supervised a $250 million mezzanine finance program for the junior oil and gas sector. He also led and supervised teams that raised more than $10 billion of funding for upstream, downstream and pipeline projects throughout North and South America. Several of the transactions were awarded "Deal of the Year" by industry magazines including Project Finance International and Infrastructure Finance.

Mr. Moroney worked for Citibank, N.A. and affiliates from 1975 to 1993 in New York, Toronto and Calgary. During this period he was designated both a "Senior Banker" and a "Senior Credit Officer".

In 2003 Greg founded Energy Capital Advisors LLC to assist independent energy companies and energy fund managers in the USA and Canada in their fund raising activities. He has been able to successfully transfer his corporate finance and capital markets experience to assist companies of all sizes to develop optimal capital structures and to identify and access new investors. He offers his clients extensive training and experience in mezzanine finance, private equity, leveraged and project finance, capital markets as well as restructurings.

Mr. Moroney serves on the Board of Directors of Pro-Holdco, a private subsidiary of Provident Energy Co. of Calgary. He previously served on the boards of BreitBurn Energy Partners MLP (symbol "BBEP"), and Xcite Energy Co. (symbol "XER"), a UK based oil and gas company operating in the UK sector of the North Sea. He has dual citizenship (USA and Canada) and is a member of the Energy Forum at the Stern School/NYU. In addition to holding a BA from Yale University, Mr. Moroney has attended numerous professional training programs covering Advanced Financial Accounting, Petroleum Engineering, M&A Evaluations and Transformational Leadership.

For over 30 years Dr. Schamel has been carrying out and/or supervising research projects in support of oil and natural gas exploration and exploitation in the Americas, southern Europe, North Africa, the South Atlantic shelf margin, and the Former Soviet Union. These projects have been supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, international and domestic petroleum companies, large and small, the Utah Geological Survey, and the National Science Foundation. Areas of specific technical competence include basin, structural and petroleum systems analysis; reservoir characterization; organic geochemistry; and enhanced recovery methods. In recent years his work has focused on the identification and development of unconventional gas and oil resources, principally in the Rocky Mountains, California, the northern Appalachian basin, and the Middle Magdalena Basin, Colombia. He has participated in prospect evaluations and advised on mature field redevelopment strategies in the western United States, Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia.

Schamel is President of GeoX Consulting Inc in Salt Lake City, Utah. Until 2004, he also was Research Professor and Associate Director of the Petroleum Research Center, University of Utah. He had been Senior Associate Director of the Earth Sciences & Resources Institute at the University of South Carolina prior to 1995, and Senior Associate Director of the Energy & Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah from 1995 to 2000. He holds degrees from Franklin and Marshall College (A.B.) and Yale University (PhD). He is the author of numerous papers related to petroleum geology and reservoir characterization, and he is a coauthor of Thrustbelts: Structural Architecture, Thermal Regimes, and Petroleum Systems, published in 2005 by Cambridge University Press. Active memberships include the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, and the Utah Geological Association. He has been the President of the AAPG Rocky Mountain Section, Executive Board Chair of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Salt Lake Petroleum Section, and Past-President of the Utah Geological Association. He organized the SPE-ATW on Coalbed Gas Resources of Utah held in Snowbird, Utah in 2003. Utah Professional Geologist 5366337-2250.

Tom O'Connor is an AAPG Certified Petroleum Geologist with 45 years of broad experience in international petroleum management, economics, finance and government petroleum policy. From 1985-1998, Mr. O'Connor was the Principal Petroleum Engineer of the World Bank, in which capacity he represented the World Bank in energy sector policy management dialogues with senior government officials in such countries as Ghana, Benin, Ethiopia, Chad, Cameroon, Algeria, Romania, Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyz Republic. The projects resulting from these discussions included the design and supervision of petroleum sector lending projects, the design of data base management systems, exploration promotions, environmental assessments, executive and general management training programs, management implementation programs and the development of political and economic power sharing between the oil producing regions and the central governments.

Since retiring from the World Bank in 1998, Tom has provided management advice and strategic planning to governments, international and domestic oil companies, service companies and major international consulting institutions. Recent clients have included the Minister of Petroleum and Mines, Republic of South Sudan (working as a sub-contractor to Deloitte Emerging Markets, and funded by USAID), the Government of Afghanistan, Central Bank of Egypt, Egyptian General Petroleum Holding Company, Ganoub el Wadi Petroleum Company of Egypt, Egyptian National Data Base, The National Oil Company of China (Sinopec), KazakhMuniGaz (Kazakhstan), Oil and Gas Mine Company of Yemen, the Prime Minister of Sao Tome and Principe, the Ministry of Petroleum of Indonesia, European Union, the Sultanate of Brunei, Sonatrach (Algeria), IHS-Energy, Compagnie Generale de Geophysique, The World Bank, and the International Finance Corporation.

Prior to joining the World Bank in 1984, O'Connor worked seventeen years with Amoco including two years in Utrecht, The Netherlands; five years in London and five years in Cairo, Egypt where he served as Chief Geologist for the Gulf of Suez Petroleum Company (GUPCO). Following a transfer to Houston, he was Geologic Manger of Africa and the Middle East. In 1980 he became Aminoil's Vice President for International until its sale to Phillips Petroleum in 1984. He received a BSc in Geology from Stanford University and a Masters in Geology from the University of Colorado (Boulder). He is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Houston Geological Society. Tom has published numerous papers and has been invited to speak in a wide range of international scientific academic and industrial conferences and forums. He has lectured at the Yale School of Management, the University of Colorado's School of Economics and the George Washington School of International Affairs on several occasions. Tom served for five years as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Benchmark Oil & Gas AB, a Swedish international company publicly traded on the Swedish Stock Exchange. He has organized and chaired a number of scientific panels with the AAPG as well as other scientific and industrial organizations. He is one of the co-editors, as well as an author of the book "International Exploration and Production Ventures: A Business Perspective" published in 2000 by the AAPG.

Dan Billman has over twenty-three years of experience in the Appalachian Basin with the last eighteen as a consulting geologist and president of Billman Geologic Consultants, Inc. Prior to independent consulting, Dan worked as an exploration and development geologist for Mark Resources Corporation and Eastern States Exploration Company. Mr. Billman is a registered professional geologist in the state of Pennsylvania and an American Association of Petroleum Geologist, Certified Petroleum Geologist.

Dan Billman has extensive experience both in development and exploration plays in the Appalachian Basin as well as experience in the Illinois, Black Warrior, Anadarko, Delaware/Permian, East Texas and Fort Worth Basins. He has performed numerous geologic and economic reviews of natural gas and oil exploration prospects throughout Appalachian Basin, as well as feasibility studies for gas storage and coal bed methane development.

Mr. Billman received his Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from the University of Toledo and his Master of Science degree in Geology from West Virginia University. He is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and is currently the AAPG Delegate representing the Pittsburgh Geological Society. Also, Mr. Billman is a Past-President of the Eastern Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, after serving as the organizations Vice-president, Secretary and Treasurer. He is currently a board member and former President (2 terms), Vice-President and Treasurer (2 terms) of the Pittsburgh Association of Petroleum Geologists. He is a member of the Independent Oil and Gas Assoc. of Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, the Pittsburgh Geological Society, the Ohio Geological Society, Appalachian Geological Society and the Ontario Petroleum Institute. Mr. Billman is a board member of the Pennsylvania Council of Professional Geologists. Mr. Billman has written and/or co-authored numerous published papers and technical presentations on the geology of the Appalachian Basin.

Dan holds Pennsylvania Professional Geologist License # PG 000554G and AAPG Division of Professional Affairs, Certified Petroleum Geologist Certificate #5933.

Mary Van Der Loop is an AAPG Certified Petroleum Geologist with over 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. She is owner of Sanctuary Oaks Consultants, Inc., a geological consulting firm located in Flatonia, Texas. Mary holds a Bachelor's Degree in Geology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a Master's Degree in Geology from the University of Texas at Arlington. She has a track record of finding oil and gas through both development and exploratory projects, and has been involved in exploratory prospect and play development for most of her career.

Mary's experience includes Texaco, Monsanto (District Geologist 1981-1986), BHP, Energy Exploration Management Group, ARCO (Frontiers Exploration Team), Vastar and BP Amoco, in a variety of producing areas including the Permian Basin, Oklahoma, Central and South Texas, and Deep Water Gulf of Mexico. Her areas of specialization include carbonate and shale reservoirs, deep water detrital carbonates, tight gas reservoirs, deep water sand reservoirs, fluvial-deltaic sands, chert detrital reservoirs, and paleostructural analysis and basement structural involvement in oil and gas fields. Other areas of expertise are horizontal drilling, old electric log analysis, acquisition/divestiture evaluations, drilling program planning and management, expert witness, and extensive regional studies through utilization and integration of large well databases. Mary's publications include topics in deep water carbonates, tight gas sands, and analysis of the potential of the United States' frontier exploration provinces.

Mary has gained extensive experience in working in unconventional gas shale and oil shale plays since 2004, including the Woodford, Fayetteville, Barnett, Haynesville, Bakken, and Avalon/ Bone Spring. In addition she has done extensive regional studies in the Wolfcamp shale plays in both the Midland and Delaware Basin provinces of the Permian Basin, including thermal maturity, lithology and regional correlation analyses.

Mary is a Past President of the West Texas Geological Society and recipient of its Dedicated Service Award, Past President and Honorary Life member of the Permian Basin Section SEPM. She is a Member of American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Houston Geological Society, Oklahoma City Geological Society, and Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists.

Betsy Suppes has 33 years of oil and gas experience as a petroleum and minerals geoscientist. She has spent the last 15 years performing due-diligence reviews for private investors, independent oil and gas companies, legal counsel and financial institutions. As a geologist with an MBA, she specializes in risk analysis of individual oil and gas prospects and portfolio analysis from both a geologic and business perspective. She has prepared and presented oil company employee professional development courses in well log evaluation, core analysis, micropaleontology, seismic interpretation, and prospect presentation. Betsy is a Certified Minerals Appraiser. Ms. Suppes started her career at Freeport McMoRan in 1987, exploring for sulphur in Texas, the offshore Gulf of Mexico, Italy, Spain, Tunisia and Gabon, and for phosphates in Florida and Tunisia. Her work included designing frontier basin exploration projects in Gabon, West Africa, and leading a 4-month field study in the Atlas Mountains of Tunisia. She also worked on the development of new aeromagnetic and geochemical exploration techniques that were used in West Texas and the USA Gulf Coast. From 1990 through 2001, Betsy worked for Texaco, initially in the New Orleans office, then in Houston. She worked as a development geologist in the offshore Gulf of Mexico, generating prospects, making workover recommendations, evaluating seismic data and well logs, and coordinating the geoscience work for producing property divestments. Suppes also had several international assignments for Texaco. These included serving as a member of the Northwest Australia Evaluation Team, and as wellsite geologist offshore Thailand. In 2000, Betsy became a Senior Business Analyst for the Texaco Venezuelan heavy oil project. Her duties included economic modeling and evaluation, risk management, and preparation of a strategic plan for the multi-billion dollar Hamaca venture. Betsy became an independent consultant in Pennsylvania in 2002, and has worked onshore Texas, Louisiana, California and the Appalachian Basin. Ms. Suppes holds an M.B.A. and M.S. in geology from Tulane University, and a B.S. in geology from Dickinson College. Betsy is a member of The American Association of Petroleum Geologists, New Orleans Geological Society, Houston Geological Society, International Institute of Minerals Appraisers and the Pittsburgh Association of Petroleum Geologists. She is a past Vice President and Treasurer of the New Orleans Geological Society.

Travis Hudson is a professional geologist with over 40 years experience in developing, applying, and communicating the geologic understanding needed to address mining, petroleum, environmental, and educational challenges. Research activities have generated new understanding of regional geology, ore-forming processes, petroleum systems, and Earth's crustal character. Mining-related experience has included developing and managing grass-roots exploration programs (tin, tantalum, tungsten, gold, silver, and base metals), prospect drilling evaluations (tin, gold, base metals, and graphite), and extensive mineral deposit characterization. Petroleum-related experiences include managing geoscience support for production at the Kuparuk River field, Alaska (300,000 BOPD) and managing exploration that discovered the Alpine, Tarn, Fiord, and Kalubik oil fields (Alaska). Environmental studies initially focused on surficial processes, active faulting, and related earthquake hazards evaluations in Alaska. Understanding surficial processes also became important to accurately characterizing geochemical base lines for soils and waters regionally and at mining-related sites such as Rico, Colorado. Accurate geochemical base lines were important to evaluating environmental risk and remediation alternatives for mining-related sites including several Superfund sites in Montana and Utah. The environmental work at Superfund sites included support for ongoing litigation and negotiations with regulators and principal responsible parties. During his 18 years as Director of Environmental Affairs at the American Geosciences Institute, Travis contributed extensively to public education and outreach focused on explaining Earth Science and its relation to environmental issues.

Travis obtained a BS in Geology from San Jose State University and a MS and PhD in Geology from Stanford University. He has been a member in good standing of many professional societies and is a registered geologist in the state of Washington. An extensive publication record demonstrates his ability to provide timely and effective communication of project results (one of his publications is Living with Earth, a college-level environmental geology text published in 2010). His scientific communication experience also includes extensive technical review, editing, and evaluation of the professional contributions of other earth scientists.

Nick Fedorko is a professional geologist with 39 years of experience in the Appalachian Basin. He began his career in 1975 with the West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey (WVGES) Coal Resources Study. Fedorko and the other study geologists organized and interpreted all of the data collected from fieldwork and industry and used them to create a series of coal bed maps drawn on USGS 7.5-minute quadrangle map overlays. These maps were then used to calculate original in-place, mined, and remaining coal resources following USGS guidelines. In 1990, Fedorko was named Head of the WVGES Coal Program, serving in that role until 2006. In addition to the Coal Resources Study, he oversaw cooperative coal work with the USGS such as the Coal Availability Study, the Coal Recoverability Study, other projects aimed at better understanding coal and coal-bearing rocks, and cooperative geologic mapping of 7.5-minute quadrangles in coal-bearing areas. In 1996, Fedorko was instrumental in launching a new and expanded mapping effort at WVGES, called the Coal Bed Mapping Project. This effort embraced Geographic Information System technology to digitally create coal bed maps and calculate resources. These maps are now available on-line.

Retiring from the WVGES in 2006, Fedorko opened Cove Geological Services, a sole proprietorship consulting firm. He clients include coal mining and coalbed methane producing companies which he supports with exploration, geotechnical core logging, mapping, and submittal reviews. Branching out, Fedorko has identified producible beds for a limestone aggregate producer and aided in an issue concerning insoluble residue in limestone. He has also prepared court documents and appeared in court as an expert witness in cases involving disputes of ownership and value of coal, limestone, and shale.

Nick Fedorko received a B.A. in Geology from Lehigh University and an M.S. in Geology from West Virginia University. His M.S. thesis melded his interest in coal and paleopedology. He has authored and co-authored many talks and publications. He is a member of the Geological Society of America, a Registered Professional Geologist in Pennsylvania (PG001858G), an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Geology and Geography at West Virginia University, and a member of the WVGES STATEMAP Geologic Mapping Panel.

Mike Canich has over 39 years of experience as a Petroleum Geologist, beginning with 2 years in the offshore Gulf Coast working for The Superior Oil Company. Mike moved to the Appalachian Basin where he worked for Cabot Oil and Gas, Eastern States Exploration Company, Statoil Energy, EQT (formerly Equitable Resources), Sylvan Energy and Trimont Energy. Mike is a registered professional geologist in the state of Pennsylvania and an American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Certified Petroleum Geologist.

During his career Mike has held numerous leadership positions, the two most notable were as Director of Business Development for Statoil Energy, and as Director/VP of Geology for EQT (formerly Equitable Resources). During Mike’s 4 year tenure as Director of Business Development at Statoil, his team performed due diligence on 21 asset packages resulting in the $575 MM acquisition of Blazer Energy, a subsidiary of Ashland Oil company in 1997. After the acquisition, Statoil Energy owned 1.7 million acres of mostly HBP acreage in Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania. He oversaw the assimilation of the Ashland acquisitions into the Statoil corporate structure, and the subsequent purchase of a high percentage of Ashland’s joint venture partner’s working interests and overriding royalties. As Director/VP of Geology for EQT, Mike increased the drilling program size from just over 200 wells a year in 2000 to over 650 wells in 2008, with a 950 well program planned for 2009. The increase was due to Mike’s institution of team building and operational process awareness in each of the three asset teams in the company. Each geologist, engineer, landman, drilling engineer, production engineer, and administrative support person was made aware of their importance in the overall drilling process which extended from project inception to the sales meter. He also directed Equitable’s first 3D seismic program in the Appalachians. Mike Canich was responsible for drilling over 5000 wells during his 39 year career. Over 100 of these wells were drilled horizontally in the Huron and Marcellus shales in Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania when Mike worked at EQT. Mike was instrumental in the drilling of EQT’s first Utica Shale well in southwestern Pennsylvania. Based on the strong geologic foundation created by Mike during his tenure, EQT has become one of the premier Marcellus shale operators in the Appalachian basin.

In 2009 Canich joined Sylvan Energy as Chief Operating Officer, and was Sylvan’s President from 2010-2013. The company was active in the Gulf Coast and Michigan basins. From 2013-2015, Mike was President and COO of Trimont Energy where he managed operations of Trimont and Grandview Drilling LLC in the Appalachian Basin. He became an independent consultant in 2016.

Mike Canich graduated from Penn State University with a BS in electrical Engineering and a MS in Geology. He is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and has been very active in the AAPG Division of Professional Affairs (DPA) serving in all of the Executive Committee positions including President. He currently serves as the Chairman of the board of certification for DPA. Mike was also co-founder and three times President of the Pittsburgh Association of Petroleum Geologists. He is currently involved with Penn State University professors in bringing geologists, geophysicists and engineers, who are working carbonate and shale plays in the subsurface of the Appalachian Basin, to the numerous outcrops in Central Pennsylvania. Discussions occur at each outcrop regarding similarities and differences in stratigraphic, structural and geophysical aspects that can be expected between the outcrop and the subsurface. The objective of the field trips is to provide the geologist, geophysicist and engineer with a different perspective of the rocks they are encountering in their exploration and development programs. From a less academic perspective, these trips to the outcrops are also of interest to investors in the unconventional plays.

Mike holds Pennsylvania Professional Geologist License # PG 001287G and AAPG Division of Professional Affairs, Certified Petroleum Geologist Certificate #4177. He resides in State College, Pennsylvania.

Francois Auzerais is a recognized executive with 30+ years of experience in the energy and technology industry. He is currently a senior advisor to private equity, venture capital and angel investors. In this capacity, he works with investors on due-diligence and post-investment value creation. Prior to his retirement in 2016, Francois worked 34 years for Schlumberger, initially as a field engineer in South America in 1982, and subsequently in a variety of roles around the world before assuming a number of leadership positions. His main impact at Schlumberger was as General Manager of Schlumberger-Doll Research, Vice President Research, and then VP of Product Development, where he worked with the executive management team on value creation and technology enabled solutions to increase market share, revenue and profitability. Francois commercialized hundreds of technology projects taken from early phase research concepts to successful development. He worked worldwide with technology partners including academic institutions, government labs and commercial partners. Dr. Auzerais is an innovator in the oil & energy industry and holds thirty-one patents. As Vice President Research and Development at Schlumberger, he oversaw the R&D budget and $200MM of profit & loss for Product Centers.

Dr. Auzerais received a PhD from Princeton University in 1989 and a MSc from the University of Houston in 1980. His undergraduate degree is in Chemical Engineering from INP_ENSIACET (France). He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineering (SPE), and has been involved in many engineering professional activities, including: Offshore Technology Conference IEEE-Oceanic Engineering Society Committee Member (2013-Present); Advisory Committee member of the SPE Productions & Operations Discipline (2009-2012); service as a Session Chair at numerous Offshore Technology Conferences; and Chairman of SPE Production and Operation Young Professionals Task Force subcommittee (2012). Dr. Auzerais has served since 2013 as an Advisory Council member, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University. He was a member of the MIT Energy Initiative governing board (2012-2016); and was an External Advisory Committee member, Department of Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering, at The University of Texas at Austin (2004-2006). Auzerais served as a board member for Diamould Ltd., UK, and 3 Phase Measurements, AS. He resides in Westport, Connecticut.

John Hogg has 38 years of experience in frontier exploration, mostly in Canada, including the offshore Atlantic margin of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, the Gulf of St. Lawrence and offshore Western Greenland. He has extensive experience in the PanCanadian Arctic, including the Beaufort Sea, Mackenzie Delta, the Sverdrup Basin and Baffin Bay. John has been directly involved in numerous discoveries throughout his career including the discovery of the North Triumph and Deep Panuke gas fields in Nova Scotia; the Mizzen and King’s Cove discoveries, offshore Newfoundland; and the Ellice discovery, on the Mackenzie Delta. John lead the exploration team in the early 2000’s that drilled the first subsalt wells, offshore Nova Scotia, and while at MGM, John’s team drilled the first unconventional well just south of the Arctic Circle.

During John’s career he has held various leadership positions in PanCanadian Petroleum, EnCana, Burlington Resources, ConocoPhillips Canada and MGM Energy Corporation. At MGM Energy Corp., from 2007-2014 John was Vice President of Exploration and Operations, and was involved in drilling exploration wells in the Mackenzie Delta and the Central Mackenzie Corridor, looking for both conventional and unconventional resources.

Since becoming a consultant in 2015, Hogg has worked, on Canadian exploration opportunities in the Arctic and Atlantic Canada, and on a number of new venture exploration opportunities in the Eastern Mediterranean, Central Africa, and onshore and offshore Southeast Asia, including Myanmar. John has also provided expert testimony for the Oil and Gas Committee of the Canada Newfoundland Offshore Petroleum Board on discovered resources in the Jeanne d’ Arc Basin; the Canadian National Energy Board on natural gas supply capacity for Atlantic Canada; and for the Government of the Yukon on the potential use of fracture stimulation technologies in the Canadian Arctic.

John obtained his BSc. in Geology from McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario Canada in 1981. He is a Professional Geoscientist (P. Geo.), and is registered in Alberta, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Hogg also holds a Certified Petroleum Geologist (CPG) designation from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. He was the President of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Geologists in 2004, and in served as the President of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in 2015-2016. John has an extensive professional volunteer service record, including serving as a technical Panel Member of the International Ocean Drilling Program (IODP); a two-term elected Councilor with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta; and has served on a number of Executive Policy Committees of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP). John served as an outside director of the former Windsor Energy, a private Calgary-based junior exploration company, and the former EOS-Petro Inc., based in Los Angeles. He is currently an adviser to Jaguar Resources Ltd. a Calgary-based start-up exploration company with an interest in the Eastern Mediterranean.

John Hogg has received numerous awards during his career which include the designation of Fellow of Geoscientists Canada (FGC). He has also received Honorary Memberships from the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Bill Heins in a licensed New York Professional Geologist (#1223) with 35 years of experience in geoscience, finance, and strategy, especially as they intersect in global unconventional and frontier hydrocarbon exploration.

As a former consultant (1985-1993) with the Strategic Management Group (SMG) of Philadelphia (now part of BTS), as a former geology professor at Vassar College and Lewis-Clark State College (1993-2001), and as a researcher and explorer at ExxonMobil for 18 years, Bill has concentrated on the quantitative, probabilistic, description of complex systems in order to predict and risk outcomes. Today he uses this approach to value individual prospects or properties and to evaluate investment portfolios of properties or exploration portfolios of prospects for maximum expected returns.

At ExxonMobil Bill helped risk the chance of Oil vs. Gas in prospects offshore Nigeria using genetic analysis and interpretive geophysics; collaborated to develop and patent the Sand Generation and Evolution Model, unique in the petroleum industry for predicting sand character in undrilled locations; and explored worldwide for unconventional hydrocarbons from the Bakken and Eagle Ford of the US, to opportunities across Europe, to frontier plays in South America and the Caucasus. Prior to moving to ExxonMobil in Houston in 2013, Bill worked in Germany and the UK for ExxonMobil between 2008 and 2013. Following his retirement from Exxon in 2019 as a Senior Exploration Advisor, Bill moved from Houston to New York City.

Bill Heins is a frequent keynote speaker on sediment genetics and play-element prediction at international scientific meetings, and an instructor in reservoir-quality courses for industry and academia.

He received undergraduate degrees in Geology and Finance from the College of Arts and Sciences, and from the Wharton School, at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Benjamin Franklin Scholar. He obtained a doctorate in Geology from UCLA. Heins was a Fulbright Scholar at Eotvos University in Hungary in 1992. He is functionally fluent in German, Hungarian, and Chinese.

Brian is a consulting engineer with 38 years of experience in the oil and gas industry in both the public and private sectors with particular expertise and experience in the fields of regulatory affairs and environmental, health, and safety (EHS), with a focus on the U.S. Rocky Mountain region, particularly Colorado. Brian provides advisory, expert witness, and professional services to a broad range of oil and gas stakeholders, including operators, mineral and surface owners, local governments, and non-governmental organizations to help them navigate the complex world of oil and gas permitting, regulatory compliance, due diligence, and participation in legislative and regulatory requirement development. Brian is a registered Professional Engineer in Colorado, and holds B.Sc. degrees in both Petroleum Engineering and Civil Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.

Brian is best known for serving as the former Director of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) from 2004-2007 preceded by being the Deputy Director of the agency from 1993-2004, and Professional Petroleum Engineer based in Grand Junction Colorado from 1990-1993. During the time with the COGCC, Brian led the agency during a transformative period that included extensive regulatory rulemaking and development of a modern publicly available data system. He supervised the Colorado oil and gas well and location permitting and environmental protection programs, including being the chief staff representative for adjudicatory, enforcement, and rulemaking hearings, which required an extensive knowledge of oil and gas engineering and government regulatory principals. Brian served as the Governors Official Representative to the U.S. Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission and was also the agency’s primary media contact.

Macke worked extensively in the private sector both before and after working for the COGCC. Prior to public service, Brian worked for Ocelot Oil Corporation, Bow Valley Petroleum, and Ladd Petroleum Corporation in various drilling, completion, reservoir, and gas pipeline and plant engineering positions. After COGCC service, Brian has held positions with Delta Petroleum Corporation (2007-2012) as Vice President of EH&S and Regulatory Compliance, Chesapeake Energy Corporation (2012-2015) as Manager of Environmental and Regulatory Affairs, and Regulatory Affairs Advisor, and most recently with SRC Energy (2015-2020) as Director of Health, Safety and Environmental, and Director of Government Affairs.

Brian Macke was a member of the Board of Directors of Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA) from 2008 – 2012. Since 2012 he has been on the Board of the Denver Petroleum Club, and was the President of the Denver Petroleum Club in 2014. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Paul Dudenas is an oil and gas engineering consultant who recently retired as General Manager and Chief Technical Officer for East Management Services, L.P./ JKLM Energy. He has more than 46 years of experience in the U.S and internationally, primarily in the area of reservoir engineering. Dudenas is an expert in unconventional reservoir development and has managed the design, drilling, completion and production of hundreds of horizontal shale wells.

Dudenas began his career with Amoco Production Co. in West Texas, gaining experience in drilling, formation evaluation, production, waterflooding and reservoir engineering. Subsequent Amoco assignments in Houston, Michigan and Pennsylvania followed for 7 years. Afterwards he obtained his M.S. degree while researching the use of pure Penn State dilute surfactants for enhanced oil recovery. He taught Petroleum Engineering at Marietta College for 4 years before spending 13 years working for Saudi Aramco. At Aramco he oversaw development plans for two newly discovered oil fields prior to working in Reservoir Management, focusing on field development optimization at Ghawar, one of the largest oil fields ever discovered.

Paul joined East Resources in 2002 as manager of engineering in East’s Warrendale, Pennsylvania office. Since 2006, he has worked primarily on the exploration, planning and development of unconventional shale resources. He was involved in all aspects of the grass roots development of the Marcellus Shale in northeastern Pennsylvania with East Resources. This included exploration, planning, drilling completing and optimization of all aspects of field development. Production reached 140 MMCFD from 150 Marcellus wells in some stage of drilling, completion or production. The assets were sold to Shell Oil in 2010 for $4.7 billion. At the time it was the largest transaction in the Appalachian Basin.

In 2011 Paul’s team at East Resources began two additional grass roots shale developments - the Marcellus Shale in northern West Virginia, and the Utica shale in Ohio. After having 60 wells in various stages of drilling, completion or production and producing over 120 MMCFD, these assets were sold to American Energy Partners, (AEP was an Aubrey McClendon company) in 2014 for $1.75 billion.

Paul Dudenas has done extensive evaluation work in other unconventional assets including the Eagle Ford, Haynesville, Bakken, Niobrara, Scoop/Stack and West Texas shale plays. He has worked to mitigate the negative aspects of parent-child well interactions during field development. His knowledge and experience in field development of both conventional and unconventional resources is wide-ranging. While at East Resources/JKLM Energy, Paul managed all of the reserve evaluations for budget and reserve-based lending purposes utilizing the Landmark Aries economic software. He has done extensive individual well rate, reserve forecasting and economic evaluations on many thousands of horizontal unconventional oil and gas wells and also for conventional wells.

Paul taught an industry short course from 2011-2012, titled "Evaluating and Developing Unconventional Shale Resources" for the oil and gas training company PetroSkills. Course material is currently being completed for his "Unconventional Resources Exploration & Development Fundamentals in 2020" course, a more comprehensive and modern version of the course he previously taught. He has presented numerous lectures on Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources for Carnegie Mellon University, The University of Pittsburgh and Penn State University.

Dudenas grew up in Western Pennsylvania, attended The Pennsylvania State University where he obtained B.S. and M.S. degrees in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering. Paul is a registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania.