Dr. David Kahn - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Kahn has in excess of 19 years of experience in the oil and gas industry having served in senior roles for Halliburton Energy Services, Baker Hughes and Weatherford PPG. From 1998 to present, he has pursued actively the commercialization of various unconventional assets both in the Lower 48 and internationally.
His accomplishments include being a principal of Ensyn Petroleum which was sold to Ivanhoe Energy, a large heavy oil project (6+ Billion Original Oil In Place -- OOIP) in West Texas (San Miguel reservoir) that was later sold to Pearl Exploration & Production, a new independ
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New management team:
Dr. David Kahn - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Kahn has in excess of 19 years of experience in the oil and gas industry having served in senior roles for Halliburton Energy Services, Baker Hughes and Weatherford PPG. From 1998 to present, he has pursued actively the commercialization of various unconventional assets both in the Lower 48 and internationally.
Quinton Rafuse - President and Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Rafuse is a geologist with more than ten years of experience in the oil and gas industry in various technical and leadership roles. Most recently, he held the position of Vice-President Geoscience for Ember Resources Inc., a junior resource play company with assets in Western Canada. During his time with Ember, the company's coalbed methane (CBM) production increased to 5,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) from 300 boepd.
Prior to, he worked as a geologist at Thunder Energy Inc. and EnCana Corporation. The bulk of his experience has been unconventional gas-coalbed methane (CBM), shale gas and tight sand-from new basin exploration to large-scale, resource play development. Mr. Rafuse holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Calgary. He is a professional geologist registered with the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA).
Wally Rudensky - Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Rudensky, CA, has more than 25 years experience in public accounting as partner at EvansMartin LLP Chartered Accountants in Toronto and previously with Arthur Andersen (now Deloitte). He is President of DFF Management Inc., a private company providing financial management and governance services to Canadian and U.S. listed companies. He has extensive experience in taxation and finance with particular attention to corporate reorganizations in the domestic and international markets.
Dr. Yuriy Koltun - Country Manager
In 1977 Dr. Koltun graduated from the geological department of Lviv University. In 1977-1978, Dr. Koltun was an engineer-geologist of the Ukrainian Scientific-Research Geological-Prospecting Institute. There, Dr. Koltun worked on evaluation of reservoir properties of the rocks from the Ukrainian oil and gas provinces. From 1978 to present, Dr. Koltun has served as Engineer, junior scientist, senior scientist of the Institute of Geology and Geochemistry of Combustible Minerals of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. During the first years he worked on investigation of geology of the Lviv-Volyn Coal Basin (Western Ukraine). Then the Carpathians and their foreland became the main area of Dr. Koltun's study. ■
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