CONSULTANT BIOS

Mike Cherry has 29 years of industry experience as a petroleum engineer and engineering & operations manager. Prior to his forming CEC Energy Consultants, Mr. Cherry was the CEO for a small independent oil company and prior to that Engineering Manager for a mid-sized independent and District Engineer for a major. In his over 16 years as the CEO he was responsible for all exploration, production, engineering, operations, and business development activities in the Mid-Continent, Permian Basin, East Texas, Rocky Mountain, and Gulf Coast. Because of his diverse experience in the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry, Mr. Cherry is keenly aware of the technical requirements needed to make asset investment decisions in today's competitive environment, and he focuses his technical consulting on providing the analysis necessary to make profitable decisions about the exploitation and development of corporate assets.


Tom Wittick brings 30 years of geophysical experience to the team. In his over 16 years as President and consultant at Lindon Exploration he has spent much of his time using geophysics to map reservoir characteristics and estimate the economic value of producing properties. He has successfully used geophysics to find new reserves in old producing fields and to estimate reservoir properties using seismic data. Before founding Lindon Exploration Mr. Wittick was Division Exploration Manager for a medium-sized independent oil company, and prior to that held positions of Seismic Data Processing Manager, Division Geophysicist and Geophysicist for various oil and contractor companies in the industry.



Les Seibert has been involved in the energy industry for 28 years, prior to his association with CEC Energy Consultants. Since 1986 he has lead Information & Technology initiatives, providing first class technology and data management to the mid-sized energy market. His unique cross-functional background and experiences have become invaluable in supporting an industry that has changed so dramatically over the years.

Beginning with KN Energy (Kinder-Morgan) in a lead position within Gas Supply Services, Mr. Seibert evolved numerous programming projects that revolutionized the company's ability to forecast production, maintain pipeline transportation and exchange check and balances, maintained reserve statistics. During this period he also served on the AGA mid-continental reserve sub-committee.

Providing technical leadership for Plains Petroleum Co., Hugoton Energy Corp. and 3TEC Energy Corp. and as a consultant, similar services to Bristol Resources, Encore Acquisition and Petrohawk Energy Mr. Seibert is very aware of the issues that often dominate the mid-sized energy business. He has managed start-up and ramp-up situations, confronted the impact of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures upon technical services and information management within these companies. He has provided these companies with seamless integration of newly acquired properties, from an accounting, administration, engineering and operations perspective.

With his strong business background, real energy and Information & Technology experience Mr. Seibert has evolved a unique broad-based "Energy/Technology" perspective that insures rapid, accurate and efficient problem resolution.


Dan Abney has 30 years of industry experience as an operations superintendent and field supervisor. Prior to his joining CEC Energy Consultants, Mr. Abney was the operations superintendent for a small independent oil company and prior to that a field supervisor for a mid-sized independent and held various supervisory positions with a major well servicing company over its field operations. In his over 18 years as an operations superintendent he was responsible for all operational aspects to include drilling optimization, completion design, and production operations in the Mid-Continent, Permian Basin, East Texas, Rocky Mountains, and Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana and provides CEC Energy Consultants with world-class operations management capability for out-sourced projects.

 
 
 
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