| Ralph E. Davis Associates, Inc. has assembled a talented staff of engineers and geologists with the experience to address the varied and changing technology impacting the oil and natural gas industry throughout the world today. Additional technical specialists are utilized on an as needed basis in areas of geophysics, petrophysics, special modeling techniques and operational analyses.
The Davis firm also has an Associates Group of experienced industry specialists that have worked with the company during the past few years. These professionals provide an extension to the Davis staff on both domestic and international projects when a particular expertise may be required as well as time constraints that necessitate the use of additional experienced personnel.
  ALLEN C. BARRON, P.E., President,
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Allen Barron has over forty years of experience as a reservoir engineer in evaluating domestic and international oil and gas properties, providing certification of reserves for public filings and regulatory reporting. The evaluation of properties includes analysis for the sale and acquisition of fields and projects, preparation of development programs and as an expert witness in legal proceedings. He is a University of Houston graduate in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.
Mr. Barron began as an operations engineer with Amoco Production Companyin the Texas Gulf Coast, then as a reservoir engineer with a natural gas transmission company. He performed reserve evaluations of producing properties throughout Texas and in the offshore region. He first joined Ralph E. Davis Associates, Inc. in 1978 as a consulting reservoir engineer, left the firm during the 1980's, joined Golden Engineering, Inc. and was made President of the subsidiary company H.J. Gruy and Company. He rejoined the Davis firm in 1993. He has evaluated properties throughout the world, presented seminars and penned articles for publication.
Allen Barron was named as President and CEO of the firm in early 2001, and has continued his engineering duties as he has taken over the chief officer responsibilities of the company.
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 JOSEPH MUSTACCHIA, JR., Executive Vice President,
Geologist
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Fifty-seven years of experience in geology as both a development and reservoir geologist, providing reserve certification for major corporate regulatory filings and testimony before various regulatory agencies.
A Louisiana State University graduate in geology, he worked at Phillips Petroleum as a paleontologist and development geologist in the Gulf Coast area before joining Ralph E. Davis Associates, Inc. in 1968.
Joe Mustacchia has evaluated exploration and development prospects throughout the United States and Canada and has assisted numerous client companies in evaluating exploration projects for participation, and development programs for potential acquisition. He has performed numerous evaluations of producing and undeveloped properties throughout North America as potential acquisition candidates for client companies, and has testified before various regulatory agencies and in litigation as an expert witness.
Mr.Mustacchia has testified in civil court cases involving energy matters and continues to evaluate oil and gas assets throughout the various North American basins.
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 L. B. (BEN) BRANUM, P.E., Vice President,
Reservoir Engineer
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Over thirty-five years of experience as a reservoir engineer in both domestic and international valuations, including prospect generation, acreage acquisition, drilling and completion, well stimulation, production methods, contract negotiations and reserve and economic evaluation and forecasting. He is a petroleum engineering graduate of the University of Missouri at Rolla and began his career as a consultant in 1981 after working as a reservoir engineer for both an interstate pipeline company and independent exploration and development company.
He has extensive experience in the evaluation of secondary and tertiary recovery projects, and has worked extensively in the international oil and gas arena, including China, South America, the Mid-East and other areas.
Ben Branum joined Ralph E. Davis in 2002 after twelve years with the Ryder Scott Company in Houston and is focusing on international consulting projects involving reserve certification in both conventional and nonconventional reserves.
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 ALLEN L. KELLEY, Vice President,
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Allen Kelley has over thirty years of experience in reservoir studies, prospect evaluation and business development throughout North and South America. He has worked on domestic and international projects including oil and gas producing properties, natural gas transmission systems and gas storage projects. He is a graduate of Texas Tech University with a degree in Geology and is a Certified Petroleum Geologist.
Mr. Kelley has evaluated energy properties throughout the major basins of North America, several South American countries and has done extensive work in unconventional tight gas sand reservoirs in both areas. He has prepared 3P reserve reports of exploration and development projects in South America and Asia. His work has included extensive acquisition analysis and project development studies including gas transmission systems, LNG projects, power generation and refining projects.
Allen Kelley has participated on the U.S. Potential Gas Committee since 1990 and currently serves on the editorial committee.
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 DAVID G. COLE, Senior Reservoir Engineer
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David Cole has over Twenty-five years of industry experience in asset evaluations, reserve studies, field development programs and enhanced recovery projects. The last thirteen years has been predominantly international projects located in Asia, Canada, North Africa and South America. He is a graduate of Texas A&M University with a degree in Petroleum Engineering.
Mr. Cole began his career with an independent oil and gas company involved in the revitalization and development of existing domestic properties, then moved into evaluation of international properties as an engineer with a Houston based consulting company. He continued to evaluate domestic and international properties throughout the world and prior to joining Davis, lived in Argentina providing services as the Production and Reservoir Manager for a company with several producing concessions.
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 NATHAN KUCHARSKI, Reservoir Engineer
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A 2008 graduate from the Texas Tech University with a Bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering Nathan Kucharski began his career with PratorBett LLC reservoir engineering consulting firm in Houston. He provided reservoir assessments of various onshore and offshore U.S. properties including most of the major shale plays. He joined the Davis firm in early 2012.
He is currently providing technical assistance in performing economic and reserve analyses of various oil and gas assets throughout North America and has worked in the preparation to Competent Person’s Reports for companies preparing new offering memorandums for a foreign stock exchange. He has also been involved in performing statistical analysis related to probabilistic evaluation of client acreage holdings in various resource plays.
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 CATHERINE SCHOFIELD, Senior Engineering Analyst
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Ms. Schofield has eight years experience in office management and has moved into a position as an Engineering Analyst with the company, with particular emphasis in the PHDWin economic analysis software. She also provides assistance with database development and analysis using ARIES economics software. She has previous experience with exploration and development companies including Occidental Petroleum Corporation and CarMac Energy Corporation.
She is providing data acquisition and management services, development and organization of databases and the analyses of client properties for acquisition evaluation and reserve filings with financial and regulatory organizations.
Ms. Schofield holds a Bachelor of Business Administration with a Minor in Small Business Management from the University of Houston - Downtown. She joined the firm in early 2008.
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 RICK PARO, Senior Support Analyst
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Rick Paro joined the Davis firm in mid-2011 to provide technical capabilities in the integration of Microsoft Office software systems with varous sortware programs utilized by Davis, with emphasis on data transfer and management within the ARIES and PHDWin economic programs. He is working to provide standardize methods of data entry and report generation for the Davis staff and electronic storage and retrieval of documents.
He is serving as Network Administrator and provides IT support for all the firm’s needs. Mr. Paro has experience in the financial industry providing creation, administration and maintenance of various hardware and software systems. He has attended the University of Notre Dame in South Bend.
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 JO M. SEQUEIRA, Office Manager
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Mrs. Sequeira joined the firm in 2009 to take over the position as Office Manager. She brings over eighteen years experience as an executive assistance and manager of office operations and personnel benefit programs. Her responsibilities include the handling all the daily operations of the company including accounts receivable, payable, preparation of invoices, administration of benefits programs, interfacing with vendors including IT support and maintaining office equipment and supplies.
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The following industry personnel are part of an Associates Group that has worked with Ralph E. Davis Associates, Inc. on recent projects requiring either an expertise in a particular discipline or as an additional professional to facilitate the time requirements of the project. These industry professionals expand the staff of the Davis firm to meet the needs of its client companies.
KEVIN J. LANT, P.G., P.G.S.
Kevin Lant has over 30 years of experience in the domestic and international energy industry as both an exploration and development geologist. He began his career as a geologist-geophysicist working various basins throughout the Mid Continent, Rocky Mountains and West Coast basins. He then worked within the Gulf Coast and Mid Continent regions before beginning his international experience in Algeria and North Africa. Mr. Lant moved to Indonesia where he was instrumental in the discovery of significant gas reserves before returning to the United States as an independent consultant.
Kevin Lant has extensive experience related to the evaluation and management of exploration projects in both the domestic and international oil and gas arena, the direction of seismic studies and data reprocessing and interpretation, preparing regional play analyses and the evaluation of merger and acquisition opportunities and providing due diligence support and negotiation advisory services.
Mr. Lant received his Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from California State University at Northridge and his Master of Science degree in Geology from Ohio University. He is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the American Institute of Petroleum Geologists, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and several geological societies such as OCGS, HGS, TGS and WTGS. He served as a part time faculty member at C.S.U.N. and has authored numerous field studies and development papers for clients throughout the world. He currently teaches an introductory geology course as an adjunct professor at the University of Oklahoma at Norman.
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DAN A. BILLMAN, P.G., C.P.G.
Dan Billman has twenty years of experience in the Appalachian Basin with over fifteen years 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.
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 his areas of expertise, as well as feasibility studies for gas storage and coalbed 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. He is a member and former President (2 terms) and Treasurer (2 terms) of the Pittsburgh Association of Petroleum Geologists, a member of IOGA of Pennsylvania and New York, the Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Association, the Ohio Geological Society, Appalachian Geological Society and the Ontario Petroleum Institute. Mr. Billman has written and co-authored numerous published papers and technical presentations on the geology of the Appalachian Basin.
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RUSSELL C. RIDGWAY
Russ Ridgway has over thirty years experience in the domestic and international energy industry as a petroleum engineer, reservoir engineer, an analyst in natural gas transportation, planning and financing projects, and advisor in the design and financing of natural gas storage, LNG and fuel oil projects. He has significant international and domestic experience in merger and acquisition due diligence, financial modeling, operational risk assessment, fuel supply pricing and contract negotiations. He has also provided confidential litigation support and expert witness testimony.
Russ Ridgway has performed technical (gas reserves and deliverability determination) and commercial reviews of numerous proposed and complex gas agreements for international gas pipeline projects in Bolivia, Peru, Argentina and Venezuela. This work has required analysis of various national gas industry standards, rules and regulations under existing energy laws and regulatory agencies. He has negotiated both transportation and purchase agreements on behalf of client pipeline companies.
Mr. Ridgway received his Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from Marietta College and a MBA in Finance from the University of Houston. He has been a member of the National Energy Services Association, the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the American Gas Association and INGAA. He has presented papers at both meetings of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and Institute of Gas Technology.
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