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Patrick R. Oenbring has served as our Chief Operating Officer since March 1, 2006. Mr. Oenbring has over 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry having held several senior executive management positions at Conoco, Inc. and Occidental Petroleum. Mr. Oenbring began his career in 1974 with Conoco as a process engineer. During his 23 year career with Conoco, Mr. Oenbring held a number of increasingly responsible management positions. These included managing projects in Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea, the Middle East, and the Far East, serving as Vice President, Business Development and Production, of Conoco Canada Ltd. where he was responsible for all production operations, business development activities, property acquisitions and divestitures, serving as Manager of Infrastructure Technology for Conoco's central engineering and construction organization, and Manager of Conoco Energy Nigeria. In 1997, Mr. Oenbring joined Occidental Petroleum as President and General Manager, Occidental Petroleum of Qatar where he had complete operational and P&L responsibility as well as overall management responsibility for Occidental's non-operated interests in Yemen and Pakistan. Following Occidental's acquisition of Altura Energy Ltd. in 2000, Mr. Oenbring served as President and General Manager of Occidental Permian, where he managed the due diligence preparation, transition and integration of all personnel and properties of Altura Energy Ltd. into Occidental and managed a three fold increase in drilling activity. During his tenure, Occidental Permian was the largest oil and gas producer in Texas with annual revenues of approximately $1.4 billion.
After retiring from Occidental in June 2003, Mr. Oenbring was self employed as an independent consultant to the oil and gas industry until May 2005. During this time, he provided executive management and technical consulting services to various independent oil and gas exploration companies regarding production operations, optimization, project management and producing property acquisitions. Since May, 2005, Mr. Oenbring has served as Senior Project Manager for Technip Offshore, Inc., a Houston, Texas based petroleum and engineering and construction firm, where he has managed a larger engineering project offshore Nigeria. Mr. Oenbring earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kansas, is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh executive development program, and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. | 