Advisory Board

Darren A. Steffes: MSc. Petroleum Geology - Director

Mr. Steffes has been associated with the oil and gas industry for 17 years and has successfully managed oil and gas operations, private corporation start-ups, public corporation start-ups, as well as corporate mergers with several companies in Alberta.  Mr. Steffes is currently Chief Geologist for Mustang Resources Inc., a TSX listed junior oil and gas company.  Prior to Mustang, Mr. Steffes was a Geologist/Project Leader at PanCanadian Petroleum from 1988-1993.  In 1993 Mr. Steffes became a founding shareholder and Exploration Manager for Post Energy Corporation, a Toronto Stock Exchange listed company.   Post Energy was sold to Ketch Energy Ltd. in 2001 for $157 MM.  In 1998 Mr. Steffes became a founding shareholder, officer, and director of Result Energy Inc., a publicly traded TSX corporation.  Originally a privately held Canadian corporation (Daybreak Energy), Result successfully raised over $5 million dollars privately for oil and gas exploration. Mr. Steffes has served as a consultant to several junior oil and gas companies including Cypress Energy Inc. (Senior Geologist: 1997-1999), and Omax Resources Limited (Exploration Manager: 1999-2001).  He is a registered Professional Geologist in Alberta and a member of several technical societies in North America.

Robert D. Waymouth: B. A.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering), M. Eng., - Director

Mr. Waymouth holds mechanical engineering degrees from the University of Windsor, a B. A.Sc., and an M. Eng., from the University of British Columbia. He has more than 30 years of technical and operational experience in the oil industry both in Canada and internationally. Mr. Waymouth's career was spent initially with Aquitaine Company of Canada and its successor Canterra Energy Ltd. where he held a number of increasingly senior positions. He was part of the teams that designed, built, started-up and operated the 200 mmcfd sour gas plant at Ram River, Alberta, and later did the reservoir simulations of the gas fields for this plant. After two years of offshore studies in Paris, he was transferred to Denver responsible for all production operations of Aquitaine's U.S. subsidiary. He was Manager of Canterra's offshore drilling activities on Canada's east coast and the resultant offshore development studies. Subsequently, as a Chief Engineer of A/O Samotlor PanCanadian Fracmaster Services, he was effectively operations vice-president of a Russian joint venture shipping 18,000 bopd. After three years as Production Manager of Montana Power's Canadian subsidiaries, where he was responsible for their Canadian production operations producing over 5,000 boepd, he has recently been a petroleum consultant in Calgary for a number of smaller oil and gas companies.