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David Urquhart Director
Business Experience The following is a brief account of the education and business experience of each director, executive officer and key employee during at least the past five years, indicating each person's principal occupation during the period, and the name and principal business of the organization by which he or she was employed, and including other directorships held in reporting companies.
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DAVID URQUHART, PENG.Mr. Urquhart has been a director since March 19, 2008.
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Mr. Urquhart's experience involves production operations, drilling and completion operations, exploration and exploitation operations, plant and facility design and construction, process equipment fabrication, product marketing, project economics, preparation of operating budgets and acquisitions and divestitures.Mr. Urquhart has designed and applied programmable systems technology for business analysis and reporting outcomes for IMB Systems, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Visio and Lotus Notes.He has also had extensive national and international exposure in business development, facility construction and project management, including marketing and sales in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, the Orient and Africa.
From 1991 to present, Mr. Urquhart is the founder and principal of Westhampton Ltd., a company specializing in project management and market development.Mr. Urquhart provides contract operations expertise and project management services to various companies and organizations seeking to establish themselves in unfamiliar or offshore environments.These assignments often included the delivery of new technologies directed at solving modern day production and process problems.Some of the projects undertaken were delivered through contracts with Cal-Bow Industries, an offshore associate company focused primarily on the oil and gas industry markets of Russia, North Africa and the Middle East.Mr. Urquhart is also an officer and director of Morgan Creek Energy Corp., a publicly traded company.
From 2007 through 2008, Mr. Urquhart contracted with Geneva Resources, Inc. pursuant to which he was responsible for due diligence investigation on the potential associated with two large lease blocks controlled by Allied Minerals Ltd. in Plateau State, Nigeria.From 2005 through 2007, Mr. Urquhart contracted with Mart Resources, Inc. ("Mart") to provide design and procurement services for production facilities and pipelines in the three Nigerian joint venture projects being undertaken by Mart.His responsibilities also included overseeing the day-to-day operations of the company in Nigeria.He was subsequently appointed chief operating officer and elected to the board of directors of Allied Minerals Ltd.From 2003 through 2005, Mr. Urquhart contracted with KC Wellsite Services as the engineering director.He provided drilling programs, casing design, well license applications, rig selection recommendations, site construction advice, third party services selection, cement design, well log interpretation and operations management to company clients.Mr. Urquhart also developed a joint design initiative for an Internet site that would provide historical well drilling graphs and drilling program design formats to the independent oil and gas operators in Western Canada. From 2002 through 2003, Mr. Urquhart contracted with TESCO Corporation to develop a deep-well water drilling joint venture initiative for TESCO in the Sahara Desert Region of Algeria, Tunisia and Libya utilizing the company's unique casing drilling technology.During the same period, he also acted as an advisor to Mohamed Djoua, Director of Drilling for Sanatrach SpA, Algeria's national oil company, in the use of horizontal drilling techniques suited to the optimization of deep sandstone formations.
Prior to founding his own company, Mr. Urquhart served as Vice President, Energy Group for Finex Capital Corporation of Calgary, Alberta.Finex was a Calgary based merchant banking entity owned by First City Trust, and charged with the management of an extensive investment portfolio in both energy and commercial real estate assets.He also served as the senior officer in the establishment of all Finex owned and operated oil and gas service companies, as well as being responsible for providing operational management to all Finex oil and gas production related subsidiary operations.
From the 1960s until 1983, Mr. Urquhart was employed in a variety of successive senior management positions, primarily in charge of drilling and production operations for established petroleum development and production companies.
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