Mr Ashby-Rudd joined Tristone Capital in September 2005 as Executive managing Director of International Operations. Prior to joining Tristone, Mr Ashby-Rudd managed the London operations of Waterous & Co between 2002 and 2005 and was responsible for expanding the business threefold over this time period. Before joining Waterous, Mr Ashby-Rudd spent 12 years working in Energy investment Banking, initially for Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and then at Citigroup. Mr Ashby-Rudd has focused throughout his career on the international E&P sector and has significant international experience having worked in Russia, Eastern Europe, the Far East and North America. During this time he has lived in Hong Kong, Australia and the USA which has provided him with a unique insight into the international E&P sector and a diverse international contact base.

Dr. Blanch joined Merrill Lynch in April 2005 and his role focuses on the analysis of commodity prices and derivatives. He publishes the Commodity Strategist, the Energy Strategist, the Global Energy Weekly, and Commodity Derivatives Insights, a set of tactical publications widely followed by Merrill’s corporate and investor clients. In addition, he has developed the Merrill Lynch Commodity index eXtra (MLCX) and 300 related indices, and regularly contributes to the Inflation Strategist and the Global Economics reports. Since May 2006, Dr. Blanch sits on Merrill Lynch’s Research Investment Committee, a group that advises Merrill Lynch’s Global Private Client (GPC) arm, the world's premier provider of wealth management services with nearly $2 trillion in client assets.

Mr. Brister is a registered Professional Geologist with 25 years experience in Western Canada (Alberta,British Columbia, Saskatchewan, NWT), North Africa and the North Sea. Mr. Brister was the President and CEO of three successful junior oil and gas producers that were profitably grown and sold over the last ten years. In that role, he gained valuable oil, gas, heavy oil and power project experience in generation, execution and management as well as capital markets experience in Canada and the United States.

Prior to founding Valiant in 2004, Peter was a Director for Oil and Gas at The Royal Bank of Scotland, with specific responsibility for North Sea structured finance. During his five years in banking, Peter was involved in several hundred million pounds of debt, mezzanine and equity fundings primarily to UK independent oil and gas companies. As a result of various equity investments, Peter represented the bank on several boards. Before moving into banking, Peter had a career spanning 12 years in the oil industry where he held senior technical and managerial roles with companies such as CogniSeis Development Inc (now Paradigm Geophysical Limited), Oil Search Limited and Premier Oil plc. Much of this time was spent in South East Asia (including Papua New Guinea and Myanmar) where he was partly responsible for several significant oil and gas discoveries. After completing an MSc at Imperial College in structural geology in 1986, Peter started his career with BP working with their research function during which time he completed a PhD which was later complemented by a Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment with the Securities Institute of Australia.

Mr. Cadenhead holds a Bachelor's degree in Geology from the University of Calgary. Drew has extensive technical and operational experience in Western Canada and New Zealand. His North American industry expertise will benefit Trans-Orient's operations in Australasia. Prior to working with Trans-Orient, Drew was the CEO of TAG Oil Ltd. and was VP of Exploration for BTU Resources, and was a Senior Geologist of Ulster Petroleums.

Tom Cairns is a Director in the Commodities Principal Investment team at Barclays Capital. Based in London he is responsible for the team’s investments in the oil and gas sectors. Mr. Cairns joined Barclays Capital in 2003 and previously spent four years investing in a range of technology companies, first at Nomura and subsequently at Cazenove Private Equity. Mr. Cairns qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen and graduated from St. John’s College, Cambridge with a double-first in mathematics.

Alec is Head of Mergers and Acquisitions for Oil & Gas in the UK and has specialised in M&A work for over 15 years. He has a broad range of experience advising clients on acquisition, divestiture, fund-raising and strategic planning. In addition, he is the editor of the Oil & Gas EYE, the only tracker index on AIM listed Oil and Gas companies. His broad range of clients include Sovereign Oil & Gas, Dana Petroleum, Expro Group, Nautical Petroleum, First reserve Corporation, Candover Private Equity, Production Services Network, Energy Cranes International, Caledonia Oil & Gas and John Wood Group. Alec is a member of ICAS and a member of the Advisory Council for Europe Middle East, India and Africa for Ernst & Young. He also serves as a Director of the charity The Vine Trust.

Jon is Director of Ernst & Young's London oil and gas M&A team and his considerable experience over 12 years with the firm includes advising clients on corporate strategy, acquisition, divestiture, valuation, deal structuring, bid negotiation and financing assignments. Jon's activities are focused on mid-market transactions and companies. He is the lead author of Ernst & Young's Oil and Gas Eye, a widely published and well respected index and quarterly commentary on the junior oil and gas market. Jon's broad international experience includes three years based in Calgary, another important centre in the junior oil and gas landscape. His diverse client base includes Royal Dutch Shell, Silverstone Energy, Petro-Canada, ONGC Videsh, Ithaca Energy, Salamander Energy, Indago Petroleum, MND, PetroSA, Mitsui and Hellenic Petroleum. Jon is a chartered accountant, a Fellow of the Securities and Investment Institute and he holds the CF professional designation for corporate finance.

Scott Cochlan is a Partner practising securities and corporate law. Scott's practice focuses on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. Scott has extensive experience in representing both issuers and underwriters in a wide variety of complex private and public financing matters (equity and debt), including cross-border financings, mergers and acquisitions, and other business reorganizations and restructurings. Scott has represented senior and junior public issuers in numerous aspects of general corporate law and securities regulatory matters, including corporate governance, continuous disclosure, regulatory compliance and transaction implementation. Scott serves as a director/corporate secretary of certain public and private corporations. Scott is a past chairman of Securities Law (South) of the Canadian Bar Association and was previously a member of the Securities Advisory Committee to the Alberta Securities Commission. Scott is a member of the Firm's Partnership Committee and is Chair of the Associates Committee (Calgary).

Paul Colucci, Managing Director, Energy Investment Banking, Thomas Weisel Partners Mr. Colucci has over ten years of Financing and Mergers & Acquisitions experience in the Energy space. He came to Thomas Weisel Partners Global Energy Group in January 2008 as part of Thomas Weisel Partners acquisition of Westwind Partners. Paul worked at Westwind Partners in Toronto, Canada from 2002 before moving to London, UK at the beginning of 2006 to head Westwind's International Energy practice. Previously, Paul was based in Calgary, Canada and worked for a number of Canadian investment banks including CIBC World Market's Global Energy Group and as energy consultant with a globally recognized consulting firm. Paul has raised more than $15 billion of equity and advised on more than $10 billion of M&A transactions for Small and Mid Cap Energy companies over the past ten years. Paul received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Calgary, Haskayne School of Business and holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Lance Crist is Global Head of the Oil, Gas and Chemicals Divisions for IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, which promotes development in emerging markets. In this capacity, Mr. Crist leads IFC’s investment activities in both upstream oil & gas as well as downstream refining & marketing, petrochemicals and fertilizers. IFC’s $1.5 billion portfolio in these sectors includes companies in over 30 countries. Mr. Crist joined IFC in 1992 and has managed privatization advisory mandates, project and corporate finance, and private equity transactions in the areas of general manufacturing and telecommunications prior to his current role. He earned a B.A. from Cornell University, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

As an exploration geologist, Paul Dailly has participated in the exploration and appraisal of major discoveries from the North Sea to Southeast Asia and Africa. Dailly was the geologist and technical team leader responsible for exploration and appraisal of Triton Energy’s eight oil field discoveries offshore Equatorial Guinea. Earlier with Triton, he was involved in the acquisition and exploration of licenses in Indonesia, Madagascar and China. Following the sale of Triton to Amerada Hess Corporation in 2001, he served as Hess’s exploration technical team leader in Equatorial Guinea and later as regional exploration manager in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Before joining Triton, Dailly worked for BP, where he was involved in the exploration and appraisal of the Mungo and Monan fields in the central North Sea and the Lan Tay and Lan Do gas fields in Vietnam. Dailly began his career at BP as an exploration geologist, serving in a number of the company’s international businesses. Dailly graduated from Edinburgh University and holds a PhD in geology from the University of Oxford.

Born in Athens in 1963, Angelos Damaskos graduated from the University of Glasgow with a BSc in Mechanical Engineering in 1985, before adding to his qualifications with an MBA in International Finance from the University of Sheffield in 1989. His early career focused on M&A activity primarily concentrating on natural resources. More recently he worked as a senior banker with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development where he was responsible for some of the bank’s equity investments in Russia and the CIS. In 2004 he set up Sector Investment Managers Ltd, launching the Junior Oils Trust in October that year. Away from the office Angelos’ interests include cinema, theatre, music and shooting.

Grant S. Darnell II is vice president of Graves & Co. and leads its accounting practice. He has an extensive background in accounting, auditing and software development. Prior to joining Graves & Co., Mr. Darnell served as controller of Texoil Company and as an operations manager at Yuma Petroleum. He began his career as a roughneck for Delta Drilling. Mr. Darnell received a Bachelor of Science in Business from Sam Houston State University in 1985. Mr. Darnell is a member of the Petroleum Accountants Society of Houston, Houston Producers’ Forum, Houston Energy Finance Group, the Houston Association of Professional Landmen and the American Association of Professional Landmen. Mr. Darnell volunteers as an election judge and precinct chairman for Harris County Precinct 165.

Shane DeBeer has been advising on complex international transactions since 1992. Mr DeBeer’s practice focuses on oil and gas, liquefied natural gas (LNG) and other energy-related matters. Mr DeBeer’s clients include a variety of Western, Middle Eastern, and CIS-based, private- and state-owned companies, whom he advises on the structuring, financing, acquisition and disposition of projects, including multibillion dollar projects. Mr DeBeer has also advised on energy-related securities offerings and a variety of real estate projects. Mr DeBeer has been listed in Chambers Global – The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2006-2008) for Energy and Natural Resources. He is also listed in Chambers Europe – Europe's Leading Lawyers for Business (2008) for Projects in Central and Eastern Europe, and for Energy and Natural Resources in Russia. Mr DeBeer is a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators, Term Sheet Drafting Committee and Joint Operating Agreement (JOA) Translation Committee (Russian). He is admitted as lawyer in the U.S. jurisdictions of California, Texas and the District of Columbia, as well as being a solicitor admitted to The Law Society of England and Wales. Mr DeBeer is the author of an acclaimed Russian-English/English-Russian dictionary, is fluent in Russian and Dutch, and has some knowledge of Arabic.

Born in India and educated at Athens College in Athens, Greece, from which he graduated cum laude, Leo Drollas attended the London School of Economics where he read economics. Having obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. at the LSE, he then completed a doctorate at the same university, choosing as his research subject a country's foreign trade sector in disequilibrium. After leaving the LSE, Leo Drollas worked in London at the Commodities Research Unit and then joined British Petroleum as the company’s first econometrician. At BP he managed the energy and economic modelling team in the company’s Corporate Planning Department and was responsible for many studies on various aspects of the oil market. Whilst at BP, Leo Drollas was seconded for two years to the Confederation of British Industry, where he held the post of Deputy Director of Economics and completed two major studies – one on the attitude of British business towards exchange rates and the other comparing British and German manufacturing. In 1989 Leo Drollas joined the Centre for Global Energy Studies, a think-tank founded in that year by Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the former Oil Minister of Saudi Arabia. Leo Drollas currently holds the twin positions of Deputy Director and Chief Economist at the CGES, where he is in charge of all the publications and most of the studies produced by the Centre. Leo Drollas also contributes papers in his own right and has dealt with subjects as diverse as oil inventories and prices, oil prices in the long run, the demand for aviation turbine kerosene, US gasoline demand, oil’s shipping needs, oil export tariffs, oil prices and production, oil capacity utilisation and oil prices, oil pipeline tariffs, OPEC’s oil-quota policies, Asian tiger oil demand, the connection between desired oil stockcover, oil futures prices and the effect of oil prices on economic growth. Leo Drollas has co-authored with David Long of Oxford Petroleum Research Associates a major CGES study on the strategic hedging activities of oil companies. Leo Drollas has written many articles and studies on oil, energy and the economy in general, and has completed a book on oil with Jon Greenman called “Oil – the Devil’s Gold”. He has spoken at numerous conferences on diverse oil-related subjects, including the oil market in the short and long term, Asian oil demand, oil’s role in power generation, the oil futures markets, global warming and non-OPEC oil supplies. He has appeared on the business programmes of CNN, CNBC, the BBC's World Service, Bloomberg TV, Williams Energy and other channels, and has contributed to many radio programmes in Europe and the US. Leo Drollas is regularly quoted on the main wire services and in the world's leading financial newspapers in the West and in the Far East.

Kevin is a Managing Director in the BMO Capital Markets Energy Group based in Calgary. He has senior coverage responsibility for a broad cross-section of upstream energy companies. He has significant experience in both public and private debt and equity underwritings and has worked on numerous financial advisory assignments for various energy clients including Falcon Oil and Gas, OGX Petróleo e Gás Participações S.A., Progress Energy Trust and ProEx Energy. Prior to joining the Energy Group, Kevin spent 3 years in Equity Capital Markets where he focused on the origination and execution of IPOs and follow-on offerings. Previous to that, Kevin spent four years in investment banking working in San Francisco and New York. Kevin has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto.

Simon Eyers is a Partner of 4D Global Energy Advisors. He has been providing advice and finance to oil and gas companies since 1987, first at SG Warburg, then at Goldman Sachs in London and New York, and finally at Credit Suisse First Boston Europe (where he was co-head of Utilities investment banking and project finance). In 2000 he left CSFB to become COO of an e-learning company, subsequently starting a networking software business. Mr. Eyers has a BSc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Edinburgh. He speaks fluent English, German and French and working Spanish and Italian. As a Partner, he is a director of Acorn Oil & Gas, Fairfield Energy Limited and Serimer Holdings.

Charez Golvala is a corporate lawyer with a focus on transactions and projects in the energy industry. Mr. Golvala has a broad corporate practice, advising clients from start-ups to multinationals on mergers, acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, corporate finance and many other commercial transactions in a variety of sectors. Since joining Chadbourne & Parke, he has acquired extensive experience in Russia, the CIS and Middle East to add to his knowledge of regions as diverse as Trinidad & Tobago and the UK North Sea. Mr. Golvala has over ten years’ experience in the oil and gas and natural resources sectors, both in the United Kingdom and abroad. His energy and projects experience extends to many different upstream, midstream and downstream oil and gas agreements, project development contracts, abandonment arrangements, renewable energy projects and emissions trading developments. Mr. Golvala also has experience with environmental issues affecting corporate transactions and the energy industry. He has published articles on a variety of energy-related topics and lectures regularly on energy and natural resources issues. Mr. Golvala is a frequent speaker at conferences on the energy industry and in particular has spoken about decommissioning liabilities in North Sea transactions; corporate issues in creating emissions trading systems; issues in mining laws and its application to financing mining projects; alternatives to production sharing contracts; and planning a major disposal in the energy and natural resources sectors. Mr. Golvala is a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators; UK Energy Lawyers’ Group (IBA); the Energy Institute; and The Law Society.

John L. Graves is founder and president of Graves & Co. Prior to founding Graves & Co. he held various management positions over 15 years with Texoil Company, Texoil Inc. and Texoil de Argentina SA. He last served as president and chief operating officer of Texoil, Inc., and as a member of its board of directors. Mr. Graves began his career in the oil business as a roughneck for Greywolf Drilling in 1980. He is a 1980 graduate of Texas A&M University with a B.A. (double) in History and Political Science. Mr. Graves is a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators, The Houston Energy Finance Group, American Association of Professional Landmen, Houston Producers’ Forum, Houston World Affairs Council and the Independent Petroleum Association of America. He serves on the board of directors of The 1940 Air Terminal Museum.

An accomplished professional chartered engineer with over 28 years of experience in a very wide range of engineering, commercial and management positions, in a variety of environments around the world. He assumed the position of Chief Executive Officer of Regal Petroleum in November 2007. In his short time at Regal Petroleum, he has been responsible for implementing a major transformation plan within the Company which, having successfully raised new share capital from international investors, is now very well positioned and resourced to embark on a major expansion of its appraisal and development activities in Ukraine, Romania and Egypt. Prior to this assignment, he worked for Shell International Exploration and Production for 28 years in Netherlands, United Kingdom, Norway, Canada, Oman, Argentina, The Philippines and Russian Federation. In recognition of his work on the Malampaya Project in the Philippines, and in particular in the sphere of sustainable development, David was awarded an OBE in the 2002 UK New Years Honours list.

David has had an in depth involvement with a wide range of Offshore Construction projects including some of the most significant and complex projects insured to date. In particular he focuses on interpreting contracts, drafting policy wordings and negotiating complex claims. David also lectures on Offshore Construction Insurance. He has also worked closely with major Operators and leading market underwriters to develop a dedicated Offshore Dismantling and Removal policy wording for decommissioned platforms and pipelines.

Kevin studied physics at Edinburgh University. He then worked for 8/9 years in the City for Kleinwort Benson and then Morgan Grenfell working in Corporate Finance specialising in Oil & Gas transactions. He joined Cairn as Finance Director in April 1998 (aged 29) and left to become CEO of Bowleven in November 2006.

Simon is an experienced analyst having held senior positions at UBS and Dresdner Kleinwort. He was ranked number one for his coverage of European Gas and number three for European Utilities. Prior to joining the City Simon had eight years’ international experience with Shell, working in economics and finance in London, Nigeria, the Netherlands, Malaysia, Argentina and the US. During his time with Shell he was recipient of the UK’s Young Accountant of the Year award. Outside work, Simon writes pop music for Universal Music Publishing in Nashville, where he is signed as a staff writer.

After an 8 year career in the energy industry Tim worked as an analyst covering the oil and gas sector at Panmure Gordon before becoming the Senior Manager of the Standard Bank Oil and Gas Team. Tim has an Offshore Engineering degree, is a registered Chartered Energy Engineer, Member of the Energy Institute and Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Ken Hersh, 45, is the Chief Executive Officer of NGP Energy Capital Management, the premier investment franchise in the energy industry. Founded in 1988, the NGP platform aggregates approximately $9.3 billion of committed capital and is comprised of Natural Gas Partners, NGP Capital Resources Company, NGP Energy Technology Partners and NGP Midstream & Resources. Mr. Hersh is responsible for directing the strategic and investment activities of the firm. He serves as a Managing Partner of Natural Gas Partners and Chairman of the Board of NGPC. In addition, he chairs the Investment Committees of NGP Energy Technology Partners and NGP Midstream & Resources, L.P. Under his leadership, NGP has invested over $3.7 billion in over 130 energy companies located throughout North America and Europe. In addition, the firm has been the catalyst for some of the larger recapitalizations and merger transactions in the independent oil and gas sectors. In total, NGP has been a leader in structuring and negotiating transactions totaling over $20 billion. Mr. Hersh currently serves as a director of Energy Transfer Partners, Energy Transfer Equity, Eagle Rock Energy Partners and NGPC as well as numerous private companies. Previously he has served as a director of numerous public companies, including, among others, HS Resources, Pioneer Natural Resources, Prize Energy, Titan Exploration and Encore Acquisition Company. In addition, he currently serves on the Advisory Council of The Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University and previously served as a member of the Management Board of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He is a frequent lecturer at industry functions covering topics relating to the energy, corporate finance and private equity sectors. Prior to his involvement with NGP which began in 1989, he was employed by the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley & Company where he was a member of that firm’s Energy Group specializing in oil and gas financing and merger and acquisition transactions. Mr. Hersh was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. He attended Princeton University where he graduated magna cum laude with a bachelors degree in Politics in 1985. In 1989, Mr. Hersh earned his MBA degree from Stanford University where he was awarded the distinction of an Arjay Miller Scholar. Mr. Hersh and his wife, Julie, have two children and reside in Dallas, Texas where they serve on several educational and civic boards of directors.

Dr Hird joined ROC in 1997 and is responsible for all new business ventures, acquisitions, divestments, farmouts and UK based Investor Relations. Dr Hird has over 20 years of experience in the oil industry and has worked in Geologist roles with Shell, evaluating petroleum projects in Asia Pacific, Latin America and Africa. In 1994 he joined JB Were and Sons as an Oil & Gas Research Analyst in Corporate Transaction and Equity Research. He holds a Doctorate in Geology from Durham University.

Mikhail Ivanov is a Partner at Baring Vostok Capital Partners and is responsible for Oil and Gas Investments. He assumed a CEO position of one of the fund portfolio companies - Volga Gas plc in 2006. The company successfully debuted on AIM IPO in April 2007 and continues its aggressive growth. Mikhail has over 15 years experience in the oil and gas industry which includes 10 years working for the Schlumberger Group, beginning his career with Schlumberger Limited as a Field Engineer in Siberian Russia. During his time with Schlumberger Limited he assumed various managerial and technical positions in Russia, USA, UK; he was responsible for Schlumberger operations in Iran, Georgia, Azerbaijan. He was a co-founder of a number of successful ventures. Mikhail holds an M.S. degree in Geophysics from Novosibirsk State University and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University. He is an elected member of SPE.

Mark is PricewaterhouseCoopers UK Oil & Gas Leader. Based in the London office he specialises in audit and advisory work in the oil and gas sector with over 11 years experience in the sector. He primarily works with international companies listed in the US and Europe and has lead the IFRS implementation at his clients. He is currently chairman of the Oil and Gas section of PwC's Global Energy IFRS Experts Committee which works with PwC's energy industry practising partners and our technical functions to consider the application of IFRS to the industry. He is also PwC’s representative on the Oil Industry Accounting Committee.

Steven D. King is a financial analyst and petroleum landman/negotiator. He has thirty years of experience in the geologic, financial and economic aspects of the oil and gas industry. He holds a B.S. in Geology and a Masters in Business. He served as a B-52 pilot in the U.S. Air Force prior to joining Tenneco Oil Company in 1978. At Tenneco, he was promoted to Division Landman for the Gulf of Mexico in 1987. After the acquisition of Tenneco by Chevron, in the late 1980’s, Mr. King was one of the founders of, and an investor in, Newfield Exploration Company (NYSE: NFX). Since the early 1990’s, he has worked as a consultant advising domestic, international, and national oil companies that were operating in the US Outer Continental Shelf, US onshore areas, and foreign countries including Japan, Colombia, Indonesia, Yemen, Cameroon and Nigeria. Mr. King is a member of the Houston Energy Finance Group, Houston Producers' Forum, Society of Independent Earth Scientists, and IPAA. He holds Series Seven and Series Twenty-four securities licenses, and has spoken and contributed articles to various petroleum and finance groups and publications, including the Oil & Gas Financial Journal.

Highly motivated individual with 25 years oil and gas experience with Majors, Independent and small public companies. He holds a BSc. degree in Geology and Geophysics from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia and during the period 1981 - 2007 has held a series of technical positions through to executive positions with Esso Australia, BHP Petroleum, GHP Exploration and Kestrel Energy. Barry joined EOR Inc. as President and CEO in April, 2005.

Tony McClenaghan works with the oil and gas, maritime and mining sectors throughout Africa, South East Asia and Europe developing strategic security procedures and designing solutions enabling clients to continue operating in hostile and difficult environments. Tony previously worked as regional security adviser to a major US-based oil and gas company covering exploration and production, refining and marketing. Prior to that Tony worked in British government service for over 30 years in a range of operational, analytical and representational appointments.

Prior to founding Salamander Energy, James was the Senior Partner in Lambert Energy Advisory, an upstream oil and gas corporate finance advisory business. James spent most of his career with LASMO plc, the UK-listed independent exploration and production company, first as a geophysicist in the UK North Sea exploration team and later in Vietnam and Indonesia. James returned to London head office in 1997 to work in Corporate Development and M&A. As a member of LASMO’s senior management team, James held a variety of corporate positions, including Corporate Affairs, Strategic Planning and Investor Relations. James holds a BSc in Geology from the University of London and an MSc in Geophysics and Planetary Physics from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Simon Munro joined the Lime Rock Partners team in 2002 as a Director. Mr. Munro has played a vital role in many Lime Rock Partners’ investments including Acteon Group, Bridge Energy, Caledus, PSL Energy Services, Reservoir Exploration Technology, Serimax Holdings, Silverstone Energy, Storm Ventures International, Twister, and V-Tech. Mr. Munro’s career began in 1992 at Rutherford Manson Dowds, a Scottish chartered accountancy firm. He gained his professional accounting qualifications in 1994 and thereafter, worked solely on corporate finance transactions. In 1999, he joined Simmons & Company’s Aberdeen office as a Vice President, and in 2001 he joined J.P. Morgan as a member of the Hong Kong-based oil and gas industry team. In 2004, Mr. Munro was named “Emerging Dealmaker of the Year” at the Scottish Business Insider Deals & Dealmaker’s Awards. Mr. Munro currently serves on the Board of Directors of Bridge Energy, Caledus, Gas2, Silverstone Energy, Storm Ventures International, and V-Tech. He formerly served on the Board of Directors of Serimax Holdings. Mr. Munro has over 16 years experience in private equity, accounting, and corporate finance. He is based in Aberdeen.

After completing a Ph. D. at Imperial College, Keith joined BP in 1987 as a geologist. Following a variety of technical roles, he became a Senior Commercial Advisor in 1996 when he led several major negotiations for new business access as well as Business Strategies for BP’s business in Angola and BP’s Strategic Alliance with Statoil. Since 2000 Keith has been an advisor to numerous energy companies on strategy and partnership issues Keith founded Richmond Energy Partners in 2006 to provide independent advice to investors in smaller oil and gas companies. Richmond Energy advise some of the largest funds and institutions investing in the sector. Keith takes a keen interest in oil sector governance and served on the organising committee of the Good Governance of the National Petroleum Sector Project at the think tank Chatham House.

Terry Newendorp, Chairman and CEO of Taylor-DeJongh, has over 30 years of experience in international capital investments, global financial structuring, project financing, and asset acquisition and divestitures. He has negotiated and successfully closed deals in over 70 countries, aggregating over US$70 billion, mostly in the energy, oil & gas, petrochemicals, telecommunications and metals & mining sectors. In addition to extensive experience structuring commercial bank loans globally, he has complete familiarity with government and multilateral financing institutions, including the export credit agencies of most of the developed world. He has extensive experience structuring transactions for capital markets and private placements of debt and equity. He has received numerous awards and recognitions for leadership in international finance. In the past 7 years, his firm has been awarded 13 “Deal of the Year” recognitions. He was given the “25-Year All-Star Award” from Independent Energy for his achievement in independent power project finance. He received from Global Finance, the award of “Superstar Team, Mideast/Asia Oil & Gas Finance”. Mr. Newendorp currently represents major oil & gas companies, chemicals companies, energy companies, developers, international engineering & construction companies, and financial investors in projects around the world. His experience in the oil and gas sector includes EG LNG advisory for Marathon Oil Corporation, Arizona Clean Fuels Yuma refinery project for the Sponsors, Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline for the entire Export Credit Agency lender group, Angola LNG advisory to the Sponsor consortium, several polyethylene projects for Sponsors, and Ras Laffan LNG Train 3 advisory for the Sponsors. Other major project financing successes include the financial advisory and debt arrangement for the ALBA smelter expansion, for US$1.7 billion. Mr. Newendorp received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University and his J.D. cum laude from The George Washington University School of Law.

Mr. Nicol joined Tristone Capital in September 2005 to build the international research, sales and trading capabilities in London. Prior to joining Tristone, Mr Nicol was Global Sector Director for Oil and Gas at ABN AMRO from 1999 to 2005, where he led the oil research into one of the top-rated teams in London. Previously Mr Nicol was Head of European Oil Research at Goldman Sachs (1993-1999) and S.G. Warburg 1988-1993. Mr. Nicol has extensive experience in oil industry privatisations including PetroChina, Petrobras, Repsol, ENI and Total and corporate transactions in the UK E&P sector involving Enterprise Oil, Lasmo and Ultramar. Prior to entering the financial community Mr. Nicol spent 6 years working for the British National Oil Corporation in a variety of commercial roles.

Tony O'Reilly is a graduate of Brown University in Rhode Island. He is currently Chief Executive of Providence Resources having served on the Board since incorporation. He has previously worked in mergers and acquisitions at Dillon Read and in corporate finance at Coopers and Lybrand, advising natural resource companies. He served as Chairman of Arcon International Resources (having been Chief Executive from 1996 to 2000) until April 2005 when Arcon merged with Lundin Mining Corporation. He joined Wedgwood in 2001 becoming Chief Executive (2002 to 2005) following which he became Chief Executive of Providence. He is a non executive director of Independent News and Media, Lundin Mining Corporation, Fitzwilton Limited and a number of other companies.

Charles R. Parkerson is an analyst and petroleum landman. Previously, he was employed by Houston Merchant Energy Advisory Partners where he planned and organized the company’s Houston office. He has also worked as an equity research analyst with Dahlman Rose & Co., CIBC World Markets Corp., Sterne, Agee, Leach, Inc. and Jefferies and Co., Inc. Mr. Parkerson received a B.S.B.A degree from Loyola University New Orleans.

Mr Parks has a Masters of Petroleum Engineering (MEng) degree from Imperial College, London, and has been practising as a Petroleum Engineer for over 12 years in the UK and Australia. Alex joined Otto Energy in December 2006 as CEO. He has extensive technical and management experience in projects in Europe, North Africa, North America, the FSU, SE Asia (specifically the Philippines), Australia and New Zealand. Prior to his current position at Otto Energy, Alex held senior management positions in Perth, Western Australia, including as Managing Director of Troy-Ikoda Australasia and Technical Director of Geoscience and Engineering for RPS Energy (Australia / SE Asia). In 2006, he was awarded the prestigious Young Petroleum Engineer of the Year (SE Asia) from the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Janan Paskaran is an Associate practising in the areas of corporate and securities law. Before moving to the London office, he articled and worked in the Firm's Calgary office. Janan has extensive experience representing public and private issuers in a wide variety of financing, business combination and acquisition transactions, including both private and publicly traded issuers in financing transactions, such as private placements and public offerings of various debt and equity securities. He has been involved in numerous cross-border debt and equity financings and mergers and acquisitions. Janan also provides counsel with respect to securities compliance matters, commercial transactions and corporate finance, procedures and governance.

John Pearson, 45, is the Managing Director for the Europe and West Africa Region of AMEC’s - Natural Resources division. John joined AMEC in 1990 and his roles have included Engineering, Project and Business Improvement Management. More recently John’s specific responsibilities have included the management of the Europe and West Africa region and leading the Asset Support business stream globally. In May 2006, AMEC created an expanded Natural Resources division which covers AMEC’s global activities in oil and gas, oil sands and mining & metals. John graduated with a BSc Hons Engineering degree from Aberdeen University and has 19 years experience in the oil, gas and petrochemicals sector. Since joining AMEC, John’s various roles have allowed him to obtain a multi-discipline background with hands on experience of offshore construction and commissioning in addition to design. John is a keen supporter of industry development and is currently a board member of the Offshore Contractors Association. As well as the challenges posed by the continuing internationalisation of the business, John has specific interests in the utilisation of technology in the project execution business process. Prior to joining AMEC, John was with Chevron and has worked in the UK, US and Caspian region.

Frank joined Calyon as Head of Reserve Based Lending in early 2007 after a 16-year banking experience, including 8 years within oil and gas structured finance. Frank started with Natexis in 1992 in the Corporate Banking department in charge of relationship with oil & gas companies. He joined the Energy Structured Finance department in 2000 and has been involved as an MLA in several oil & gas transactions in Africa, Russia, Central Asia and the North Sea. Prior to its current assignment, Frank took the charge of the Natixis' worldwide Energy Structured Finance department in 2004, including Reserve Based Lending. Below is a list of selected transactions Frank has led in the recent years, most of which together with visible roles such as Facility Agent and/or Technical Bank: - Arranged and underwrote several large transactions for Addax Petroleum including a US$ 1.6 billion Reserve based facility in 2007 and a US$450 million Corporate facility (Nigeria and Gabon) in 2008 - Arranged a US$ 600 million re-development financing for Total Gabon in 2008 - Arranged a US$75 million transaction for Vitol-Arawak (Kazakhstan) in 2008 - Arranged and underwrote several large Reserve based transactions including a US$500 million facility for Burren Energy (Congo and Turkmenistan) in 2007 - Arranged a US$200 million Reserve based facility for CH4 (North Sea) in 2006 - Arranged and underwrote a US$300 million Reserve based facility for Maurel & Prom (Colombia and Gabon) in 2006

Mike Powell is a Managing Director and Head of the Investment Banking Oil and Gas team for EMEA at Barclays Capital, based in London. Mr. Powell joined Barclays Capital in July 2007 from Calyon where he was a Managing Director and Global Head of Energy and Structured Finance Advisory. Prior to that, he worked at CSFB, The Chase Manhattan Bank and Barclays Group. Mr. Powell graduated from Oxford University with a BA (Hons) in Theology.

Brian is partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Energy, Utilities and Mining sector and currently leads the mid-tier oil and gas practice. He has 18 years of oil and gas experience with the firm working on key global oil and gas clients in Dallas, San Francisco and for the past 11 years in London. His client base has been diverse from leading the Group audit of Royal Dutch Shell to working on the start-up oil and gas companies which has been his focus for the past 3 years. Brian has considerable experience with independent Oil & Gas companies including Lundin Petroleum, Max Petroleum, Arawak Energy, Canamens Energy, Tethys Petroleum Newfield Exploration, Triton Oil and Maxus Energy. He has significant international experience working on transactions throughout Africa, Russia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, North America and all over Europe. Over the past year Brian has worked on several IPOs including the recent listing of Arawak Energy on the London Stock Exchange and Tethys Petroleum on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Lachlan Rhodes, Partner, moved from the army into the oil industry, holding business development roles with Armco Steel and Ramco Energy. In 1986 he joined Russell Reynolds and was later a Director of the UK's market leader in management recruitment, where he established an international energy practice. Lachlan is one of the UK's leading and most experienced energy recruiters, handling Board and senior level appointments across the sector.

Alec Robinson has over 30 years of international experience in the upstream oil and gas industry, primarily with Amoco Corp., a former Chicago-headquartered $36-billion-in-revenue oil and gas conglomerate which was the fifth largest U.S. oil company before it merged with BP to become BP Amoco in January 1999. While at Amoco, Mr. Robinson held international exploration and production positions, including President and Resident Manager in the Sultanate of Oman and Colombia, and Exploration Manager in Norway and Argentina. Mr. Robinson has extensive experience working and negotiating with host governments and state oil companies. Mr. Robinson received a Master's degree in petroleum geology from the prestigious Imperial College, London, England, and is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London.

Christof Rühl is Group Chief Economist and Vice President of BP. He manages BP’s global economics team. Christof analyses the global economy and energy markets, to provide economic underpinning for BP’s commercial strategy. Christof joined BP in 2005. He has a distinguished track record as an academic economist and in economic policy making. From 1998, he was at the World Bank, where he served as the Bank’s Chief Economist in Russia and Brazil. Before that, Christof worked in the Office of the Chief Economist at the EBRD (from 1996). Earlier, he was an academic economist, first in Germany, and from 1991 as Professor of Economics at the University of California in Los Angeles. He also held Visiting Professorships at academic institutions worldwide, including the University of Western Ontario and the University of Chicago. His area of specialization is macroeconomics and energy economics, and he has published widely in these fields. Christof is a German national.

Rob Shepherd is the Finance Director of Dominion Petroleum Limited, an AIM-listed exploration company with licences in Uganda, Tanzania and the DRC. He is also a non-executive director of Imperial Energy Corporation, a FTSE250 company with exploration and production assets in Western Siberia. Prior to joining Dominion, he was an executive director with ABN AMRO bank where he had nine years of experience in international financing, particularly in the oil and gas sector. Before this, he was a facilities engineer with Shell, working in field development projects for four years.

Mr. Soden has valuable experience in the finance and energy industries, as well as living and working in emerging markets. He started his career in the mergers and acquisitions group at Salomon Brothers in New York. Afterwards, Mr. Soden managed private equity investments in Czech Republic, Russia, Ukraine and Silicon Valley. He was then Senior Policy Advisor on oil and gas markets for the U.S. Secretary of Energy. Prior to joining PetroFalcon, Mr. Soden was an equity research analyst covering oil and gas exploration and production companies for Lehman Brothers in New York. Mr. Soden holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the London School of Economics and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School.

Al Stanton is an equity research analyst with RBC Capital Markets, based in Edinburgh. He is responsible for researching European and Canadian-listed internationally-focused oil and gas exploration and production companies, with a specific responsibility for companies operating in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. His universe of stocks under coverage includes, Addax Petroleum, DNO International, Gulf Keystone, Gulfsands Petroleum, Heritage Oil, Tullow Oil and WesternZagros Resources. Al became an equity analyst in 1998 with BT Alex Brown, and he has subsequently worked for Deutsche Bank, Bridgewell Securities and RBC Capital Markets. His career includes a brief stint in industry and five years with Wood Mackenzie, the oil and gas consultancy. Al has a degree in Geology from Royal Holloway University of London, an MSc in Subsea Engineering from Heriot Watt and an MBA from the University of Edinburgh Management School.

Mr Stobie was the Managing Director of Chiron Capital, a merchant banking and corporate finance boutique from 2004 to 2006. Prior to joining Chiron Capital, Mr Stobie acted as the Managing Partner of Mint Capital, a venture capital company interested in the Russian telecommunications, media and technology sectors, which he founded in 2000. Mr Stobie was a Founding Partner of Baring Vostok Capital Partners and acted as a member of the investment management team of First NIS Regional Fund since inception in 1994 to 1998. Mr Stobie was responsible for identifying, negotiating and monitoring private equity investments for Baring Vostok Capital Partners, including the fund’s investment in Burren Energy PLC, where he was a director from 1995 to 1998. He graduated from Keele University with a B.A. in International Relations. Mr Stobie is 40 years old.

Dana N. Sweet is a petroleum landman and attorney who studied law at the University of Houston Law Center. She earned Bachelor degrees in Economics and Political Science at the University of Houston. Ms. Sweet studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the Universitait Amsterdam, and the Universiteit Hohenheim in Stuttgart. She is fluent in Dutch and German. Ms. Sweet is a member of the American Bar Association, the Houston Young Lawyers Association, and the Association of Women Attorneys. She serves as a volunteer at Houston Hospice.

Mr. Talstad started his career with Statoil in 1986 as reservoir engineer and transferred later to Statoil E&P International as Senior Petroleum Engineer where he held responsibility in regions including Azerbaijan and Venezuela. In 2000, Mr. Talstad was appointed Vice President within Exploration and Reservoir Exploitation and in 2004 he took over the responsibilities for the subsurface technologies area in Statoil. From 2007 until joining AGR Petroleum he acted as Vice President in StatoilHydro, in charge of the Sleipner field area, consisting of the Sleipner East field, the Sleipner West field and the Sleipner Outside area. Mr. Talstad holds Master Degrees in Petroleum Technology and in Industrial Economy from the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim.

Read Taylor has held management positions in the Oil Industry for over 26 years. Read recently served as General Manager and President of Devon Energy Brazil Ltd. (NYSE:DVN; Market Cap USD $38.79 B) where he was responsible for the discovery of the 200Mbbl Polvo Field in the Campos Basin. Prior to his work in Brazil, Read served with UNOCAL and Anadarko. His experience includes interpretation in geophysics and geology for exploration and development, gas marketing and business development. Read has a B.Sc. in International Business from Pepperdine University, a B.Sc. in Geophysics and M.Sc. (Masters) degree in Geology from University of Southern California, USC.

Nexus Energy’s managing director Ian Tchacos is a petroleum engineer with over 25 years international experience in a range of technical and commercial roles, from exploration and development operations to marketing and energy finance. Prior to joining Nexus Ian held a number of senior managerial positions in a range of junior and mid sized oil companies. Since Ian’s appointment at Nexus in August 2002, the company has undergone a substantial growth period, securing a quality portfolio of exploration and appraisal assets in the Gippsland, Browse and Bonaparte Basins. Under Ian’s stewardship Nexus’ market capitalisation has grown from A$2 million to A$970 million in the last six years. The company is now poised to progress two major development projects, the Longtom gas project in the Gippsland Basin and the Crux liquids project in the Bonaparte Basin.

Michael has 30 years' experience in the natural resources industry and has worked in 33 countries in exploration and project acquisition. His US experience was primarily directed at the Permian Basin of west Texas and his international work involved basin development Egypt, Brazil and Argentina.

Graeme has held a number of senior finance and management positions in quoted companies. In 1989, he co-led a management buy-in to AmBrit International plc, which was taken over in 1992. He then joined the Kirkland Group, which later became Dragon Oil plc, where he served as Finance Director and Company Secretary until April 1999. A founder partner of Endeavour and Sterling, he has assisted unquoted and quoted companies, including Sterling LP and the Company, with their corporate finance, accounting, commercial and strategic affairs. He was appointed as a non-executive of the Company in July 2001, and as an executive in October 2002.

Doug Urch joined Bankers Petroleum Ltd. as Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer in January 2008; Bankers Petroleum Ltd. is a Canadian-based exploration and production company focused on developing large heavy oil reserves in Albania and is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and AIM Market in London. Mr. Urch had previously been Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Rally Energy Corp. an oil and gas company with operations in Egypt, Pakistan and Canada from September 2000 until its acquisition by Citadel Capital in September 2007. He has over 25 years of industry experience, is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and a Commerce graduate from the University of Calgary, Canada. Prior to September 2000, Mr. Urch provided management services for a variety of public and private companies.

Mr Virani has over 10 years’ experience of Finance and Mergers & Acquisitions. Prior to joining Afren in 2006, he was a Vice President in the Corporate Finance and Advisory group of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. He worked on a variety of Mergers & Acquisitions and Equity Capital Market transactions, with a primary focus on the oil and gas sector. While at Afren, Mr Virani has played a key role in the Company’s financing, in diversifying the shareholder base, broadening the analyst research coverage and in contributing to the overall growth of the Company’s portfolio of assets. Mr Virani is a Fellow of the Securities Institute, and has a Master of Finance & Investment (with Distinction) and a Master of Philosophy in Emerging Market Finance.

Dr Mike Watts holds a First Class Hons degree and a PhD in Geology. He joined Shell in 1980, Burmah in 1985 and Premier in 1986. In 1991 he was appointed Managing Director of the Amsterdam listed Holland Sea Search, becoming CEO in 1993. At this time he also carried out new ventures in India, Yemen and Vietnam for Command Petroleum and SOCO International, who were major investors in HSS. In 1996, HSS was acquired by Cairn and Mike was appointed Exploration & New Business Director of Cairn in 1997. He has been closely associated with numerous oil and gas discoveries (in the North Sea, Pakistan, Myanmar, Thailand, Bangladesh and India), the south Asian strategy at Holland Sea Search / Command / Cairn, the acquisition of Command by Cairn, the Bangladesh and Rajasthan transactions with Shell and the emergence of Cairn as the pre-eminent foreign-owned oil and gas company in India.

Hamish graduated as a geologist from Edinburgh University in 1978, joining BP shortly after. Whilst at BP, Hamish worked as an exploration geologist in the North Sea and South East Asia, and as a development geologist in Alaska. His career in BP took a turn when he became project manager of corporate database development. After 10 years at BP, Hamish left to study for an MBA at IMD. On graduating, Hamish formed Paras Ltd and was shortly after joined by Alan Smith. Although through the early years of Paras Hamish’s skills and the services offered by Paras were synonymous, the recent growth has cause further specialisation. Outside work Hamish is happily married with three sons. He is passionate about rugby and sailing.