Tim Barritt, Petroleum Engineer, President, CEO, and Director Email: Tim Barritt is Big Cat's Petroleum Engineer with 32 years of experience in his field. Tim has worked in the Coal Bed Methane industry for 11 years as a consultant and owns his own drilling company drilling Coal Bed Methane wells for various operators. Tim has extensive knowledge of drilling and completion practices in the industry and has worked in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming for over 30 years.
Dick Stockdale, Licensed Geohydrologist, Vice President and Director Email: Dick Stockdale is a licensed Geohydrologist with 35 years of experience in his field. Dick was the State of Wyoming , State Geohydrologist for 28 years and also served as Wyoming State Engineer. Dick has extensive knowledge of Water Law and Regulatory guidelines both in Wyoming and Montana and is well respected in his field. Dick has worked in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming for 35 years.
Ray Murphy, Licensed Geologist, Chief Operating Officer and Director Email: Ray Murphy is a licensed Geologist with 23 years of experience in his field. Ray worked for the State of Wyoming, as the Assistant State Geohydrologist. He has also worked for Barrett Resources and Williams Operating Company as their Regulatory Specialist/Geohydrologist in the Coal Bed Methane industry. Ray has extensive knowledge of the regulatory issues and problems faced by the industry. Ray has 16 years of experience in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming.
Richard G. Stifel, CFO & Secretary Email:
Mr. Stifel previously served as the President of RGS Resources LLC, a Denver
based provider of interim CFO/Controller and Sarbanes Oxley services to
startup and mid sized companies, from February 2007 to September 2007 and
June 2001 to December 2004. Mr. Stifel also served as the Market Leader for
Denver and Phoenix and as a consultant for The Siegfried Group LLP, a
Delaware based provider of professional financial services to Fortune 1000
companies, from December 2004 to February 2007.
Charles W. Peck - Director On August 30, 2006, the board of directors appointed Chuck Peck and George L. Hampton, III to the board of directors. Since August 30, 2006, Charles Peck has been a member of the board of directors. Mr. Peck, co-founder and Vice-President of American Oil & Gas Corporation, is a graduate of Clemson University (B.Sc., Geology, 1979) and the Colorado School of Mines (M.Sc., Geology, 1982). Mr. Peck developed a broad range of experience in generating and evaluating prospects in the Rocky Mountain area for Chorney Oil Company, a Denver-based independent oil company. Mr. Peck joined Bruce Martens to form Bruce Martens & Associates in 1986. American Oil & Gas was subsequently formed by the two partners, and he became Vice-President, the title he retains to this day. American drilled its first coalbed methane well in Campbell County in 1989, and subsequently that play became the company's focus for many years. From 1989 to 1998, American drilled almost 200 Wyodak coalbed methane wells, the production from which proved up the Powder River basin coalbed methane play. Mr. Peck was involved in all aspects of the play, especially drilling, production techniques and overall management. Mr. Peck is a registered Wyoming Professional Geologist and a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He has served on the board of directors for the Children's Museum of Bozeman for the past four years.
George L. Hampton III - Director On August 30, 2006, George L. Hampton III was appointed to the board of directors. Mr. Hampton is President and Chief Geologist of Hampton & Associates, Inc. Hampton & Associates, Inc. specializes in all aspects of coal seam natural gas (CSNG) exploration, drilling, completion and production. Mr. Hampton has 28 years of industry experience and 26 in Coal seam natural gas. He began his career with Amoco Production Co. (Denver) (1978-1986). He was instrumental in Amoco's early CSNG projects in the Piceance and San Juan Basins as well as Green River, Uinta and the Wyoming Thrust Belt. Mr. Hampton formed Hampton & Associates in 1986 and has been an independent geologic consultant most of the time since then. He has worked CSNG plays in most of the active CSNG plays in the US & Canada and has been involved in many international CSNG projects. He has been active in the CSNG desorption (gas content) business since 1988 and he formed Hampton, Waechter and Associates in 1998. He sold out his portion of HWA to his former partners in April 2005. He has also been a Consulting Project Geologist for JM Huber Corp. (1999-2003), Project Manager for Pennaco (1998-1999) and has consulted for many other CSNG companies. Mr. Hampton is active in CSNG prospect generation and is also affiliated with GeoTrends-Hampton International (GHI). This business venture generated several prospects in the Pacific Northwest. Those prospects were sold to Torrent Energy in 2004. Mr. Hampton is now a director of Torrent Energy and a director for Ivana Ventures, a company involved in CBM (CSNG) projects in China. Mr. Hampton holds a B.S. and an M.S. in geology from Brigham Young University.
