Fowler Oil and Gas (fka FWOG)

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http://www.fowleroilandgasalaska.com/uploads/01Jun08.pdf

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Rhubarb...What's this?...Who...?

Herrera Names Top DBI Official in Corruption Suit

HERRERA NAMES TOP BUILDING DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL, TECHNOLOGY VENDORS IN MAJOR PUBLIC CORRUPTION SUIT


Investigation by City Attorney’s Public Integrity Task Force and City Controller Uncovers Elaborate Wrongdoing; Criminal Investigation Referred to U.S. Attorney

SAN FRANCISCO (Feb. 10, 2003)—City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed a major public corruption lawsuit today charging Marcus O. Armstrong, the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection’s top technology official, with an elaborate kickback and illegal payment scheme that defrauded City taxpayers of more than one-half million dollars over the last two years. Also named as defendants in the suit are now-defunct technology vendor Government Computer Sales, Inc.; the company’s former chief executive officer and owner, Robert Fowler; and Foster City, Calif.-based technology consultant Raman Kumar.

"In masterminding an elaborate scheme intended for their own self-enrichment, Mr. Armstrong and his cronies have betrayed a public trust and cost our City something more than the money it sorely lacks," Herrera said. "Public corruption diminishes the confidence of our citizens in their government and dishonors the hard work provided by honest public servants every day. It’s a slap in the face not just to taxpayers, but to firefighters and cops, nurses and teachers. They all deserve better—and wrongs such as these deserve the most aggressive civil remedies and damages our office can obtain."

Herrera’s civil lawsuit results from a yearlong investigation by the City Attorney’s Public Integrity Task Force—a specialized unit he created after taking office in January 2001—working in tandem with auditors from the office of City Controller Edward Harrington. Seeking substantial penalties and punitive damages in addition to the recovery of stolen funds, the suit alleges a complex web of wrongdoing that includes fraud, conversion, unfair business practices, false claims, breach of contract and violations of both state and local conflict-of-interest laws. A parallel criminal investigation—which is likely to involve interstate activities—has been referred to U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan and the FBI, with whom Herrera has pledged his office’s full cooperation.

According to the suit filed in San Francisco Superior Court today, the illicit kickback scheme began more than two years ago when Armstrong, information technology director for the Department of Building Inspection, pushed for Government Computer Sales, Inc. to be selected as the technology vendor on three major projects to improve the department’s services to members of the general public. Hidden from City officials at the time, however, was the company’s virtual insolvency: in the process of defaulting to creditors for more than $16 million, Government Computer Sales’ CEO, Robert Fowler, began illegally transferring company assets offshore—to a Caribbean bank Fowler himself controlled—even as the company was assuring City officials of its intention to fulfill its contract with the department. It never did.

Instead, Armstrong intentionally misled superiors and lied to city auditors to gain approval for what were, in fact, illegal advance payments to Government Computer Sales that would eventually total more than $500,000. The company’s work on the projects, which was incomplete at the time, would never be completed. And though most of Government Computer Sales’ subcontractors would go unpaid for the projects, one subcontractor who did receive significant payments from the hemorrhaging company was Raman Kumar.

It was no lucky coincidence: according to the City Attorney’s complaint, Kumar would kick back more than $21,000 of his payments from Government Computer Sales—usually within days of receiving them—in business checks written to "Mindstorm Technologies" and "Monarch Enterprises," both phantom front companies set-up and controlled by Marcus Armstrong. Among Armstrong’s ill-gotten gains from the kickback scheme, according to the complaint, is a 2002 Mercedes-Benz automobile.

"When I set up the Public Integrity Task Force less than a year ago, I envisioned it as an innovative, multidisciplinary vehicle for civil law enforcement enabling us to aggressively pursue those who would violate the public trust," Herrera said. "Today’s lawsuit furthers that vision, and I’m enormously grateful to Chief of Public Integrity Lori Giorgi and Chief of Investigations Timothy Armistead for their dedication and professionalism—not merely on this case, but on all the cases that will continue to strengthen public integrity in our City."

http://www.sfgov.org/site/cityattorney_page.asp?id=16182

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FOWLER OIL & GAS CORPORATION
Alaska Office
COMPANY STATEMENT
March 19, 2008
The Anchorage Daily News published a story today regarding Native American Energy
Group (NAEG) and a tie between Fowler Oil & Gas (FOG) and NAEG.
Fowler Oil & Gas Corporation applied for the Matsu Borough drilling permit in its own
capacity. Native American Energy Group was never an applicant or co-applicant with
Fowler Oil & Gas. Fowler Oil & Gas formed a strategic relationship with NAEG to
provide development support services.
While we sympathize with NAEG and the issues they are trying to address and solve, our
company is not affected by the recent action taken by the SEC against NAEG and the
other 25 companies. We continue with our plan for drilling for CBM gas in the
Matanuska Valley. Fowler Oil & Gas received its Borough drilling permit on October 1,
2007, and has just posted the bond with the Alaska Oil & Gas Conservation Commission
for our State drilling permit. NAEG’s SEC matter does not affect the validity of the
Fowler Oil & Gas permits, nor its efforts to bring a new energy resource to Alaska.
Fowler Oil & Gas was founded by the Fowler Family who has been in the Valley since
the mid-fifties. Our family has always maintained an impeccable reputation, and intends
to be here and do so for the next fifty years as well. Regardless of how hard we work to
comply in good faith, we understand and appreciate that as the first recipient of a CBM
drilling permit under the new Mat-Su ordinance, there will always be critics and
doubters. We accept that. The Fowler family remains motivated by other predecessor
companies that were pioneers in their exploration initiatives that faced similar criticism
and doubt, but ultimately provided significant economic growth to our state.
Fowler Oil & Gas is attempting to create a new industry in the Cook Inlet that provides
clean fuel, uses eco-friendly drilling technology, lowers fuel and power costs and creates
new jobs.
Bob Fowler
CEO & Chairman
http://www.fowleroilandgasalaska.com/uploads/Fog_Statement_19Mar08.pdf

[rbtree]

A couple years ago, when the AKOL/Fowler debacle occured, I had a conversation with a Fowler rep. After I told them of AKOL's pr, they disavowed any arrangement, and warned AKOL. Those AKOL guys were crooks. They later backed off in a pr.

At the time both NVMG and FWOG had symbols, but had never traded. Since then FWOG has only traded a few 100k shares. Don't know if NVMG ever traded.

[coolhand]

I think the ticker was an error by businessweek online. I also think FWOG is legit, although I don't know that much about the company. I began digging into FWOG to learn more about their financial backing, which apparently comes from the same unknown source as Native American Energy Group (NVMG).

Last Friday NVMG management stated on their website to their shareholders that they were in negotiation to take the company private too and was looking to buy us out at .008 to .01 a share. The fact that FWOG recently went private greatly increases the likelyhood that NVMG will too.

Funny thing is I can't find any annoucement by FWOG to their shareholders regarding taking the company private. At least not yet. I was interested in seeing what kind of price they offered for investor shares as well as any other info I could glean.

Thanks for your info.

[rbtree]

FOGC never was a symbol for FWOG, I don't think. FOGL (Frontier O&G) became AKOL, (which falsely claimed to have a JV with FWOG) which became TWOG, then who knows what. It was all a huge scam.

FWOG never traded much volume at all. I think they might be kinda legit. Now kinda a moot point as they're private again, apparantly.

[coolhand]

Fowler Oil & Gas Corporation (FOGC) offers oil and gas exploration and distribution services. The company, formerly known as Chemfix Technologies Inc., is based in Las Vegas, Nevada with additional operation in Palmer, Alaska. As of January 2, 2008, Fowler Oil & Gas Corporation was taken private.


http://tinyurl.com/yousk4


The problem is, if the company is private why is there a ticker listed as FOGC, which is not even Fowler Oil & Gas.

[coolhand]

Sure does raise my suspicious nature. Scottrade doesn't show quotes either. Hmmmmmm.

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Posted by: plugger
In reply to: None Date:2/3/2008 11:10:15 AM
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I need some help here, I got curious about what our sister company Folwler O&G was up to, remember NAEG was to do a joint venture with the Alaska stuff. Well, Ameritrade, Etrade, Yahoo, Pinksheets no longer shows quotes for FWOG.....

Question: Is there a connection here with NAEG and going private? Does anyone have a handle on FWOG?

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Fowler seeks CBM waivers, Asks for 9 exemptions, says regulations not designed for coalbed methane

http://www.petroleumnews.com/pntruncate/138951827.shtml

Week of January 20, 2008




Eric Lidji

Petroleum News


An Alaska company looking to revive a coalbed methane project near Palmer is asking the state for a handful of waivers to the Alaska Administrative Code before it can start drilling this spring.

Fowler Oil & Gas Co. appeared before the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission on Jan. 15 asking for nine exceptions to the code, including the gas well spacing requirements dictating the proximity of a well to a property line.

The company is pursuing coalbed methane on private land northeast of the intersection of N. Trunk and E. Bogard roads in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, west of Palmer.

The proposed well, the Kircher No. 1, would sit 1,344 feet from the nearest property line, but state code requires wells to be at least 1,500 feet from a property line.

Arlen Ehm, president of Fowler, told the commission, “because of overlapping regulations by the AOGCC and the Mat-Su Borough, it was not possible to locate the Kircher No. 1 well so as to not require a spacing exception for one or both agencies.”



Current regulations designed before CBM

Fowler also requested eight other exceptions, all highly technical in nature.
The need for so many exceptions arises from the nature of the current regulations, which do not address coalbed methane, or CBM, Ehm told the commission in a letter.

“The existing regulations were developed and promulgated long before CBM came in existence and are designed solely for exploration and production of conventional gas resources,” Ehm wrote.

Coalbed methane development is rare in Alaska and the Fowler project, if successful, would be the first well in the state to develop the resource in commercial quantities.

AOGCC Commissioner Cathy Foerster told Petroleum News that the commission and staff have discussed the possibility of writing specific coalbed methane guidelines, rather than relying on exceptions, but decided not to until the process becomes common enough to justify the time and effort needed for a broad overhaul of regulations.

“For one well, it’s much more streamlined to go with the waiver process than re-write all our regulations,” Foerster said.


Looking to succeed where Evergreen failed

In coalbed methane development, a company drills a well into a coal seam to access methane trapped underground.
Denver-based Evergreen Resources attempted to develop coalbed methane resources in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough several years ago, but ran into opposition from landowners, community groups and the borough over the possible negative side effects of the operation.

Pioneer Natural Resources of Irving, Texas, bought out the Evergreen acreage and relinquished it back to the state in 2004.

Bob Fowler, a native of Palmer, started Fowler Oil & Gas the next year. In October 2007, the company got a conditional use permit from the Mat-Su Borough to drill a well for coalbed methane.

Although Fowler plans to drill only one well in the area, the company will explore thousands of feet of coal using multilateral underground wells.

Concerns remain among some property owners

While Fowler has passed many of the hurdles that stopped Evergreen, it still faces some questions from property owners in the area.
Several people came to the AOGCC hearing to testify about the proposed well, many concerned about the effects of the project on ground water in the area and others concerned about the amount of the bond Fowler must post before starting work.

Coalbed methane drilling requires large amounts of water, occasionally causing contamination problems or changes to the water table, critics say.

But Fowler believes new technology will prevent those problems in Palmer, primarily by working below the water table.

The commission did not rule on the nine waiver requests, deciding instead to keep the record open until Jan. 25 to accept more comments about the request.

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Kircher Unit Status Update from December 3rd...

STATUS REPORT
Kircher Unit

Event Start Date Completion

Leases signed May 2006 Aug 2006
Borough application Apr 2007 Oct 2007
State application Oct 2007 Dec 2007
Drill gas well Apr 2007 May 2007
Production starts Summer 2007


http://www.fowleroilandgasalaska.com/uploads/Kircher_Web_Status_Report_Dec_3_2007.pdf

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State fair OKs methane well -- far away from the fun
INCOME: Buildings and electrical and sewage systems need repairs.

By ZAZ HOLLANDER
[e-mail]
(Published: December 15th, 2007)

WASILLA -- The Alaska State Fair board of directors gave a historic go-ahead for gas drilling at the Palmer fairgrounds, until now a place where methane rose only from the farm exhibits.
The seven fair directors approved a contract with Fowler Oil and Gas Corp. to allow a single coal bed methane well on one acre, said fair general manager Ray Ritari.

The well, if drilled, would sit well away from fair exhibits and attractions on the south side of the fairgrounds near Rebarchek Avenue, Ritari said.

Fair-goers -- 300,000 attended this year -- "will not know (Fowler crews) are there at any time," he said. "It's back behind the shop area in a wooded area."

The contract represents the fair's first mining lease, Ritari said. Fairs began at the site in 1936. A nonprofit corporation manages the fair, which has a $4.5 million budget and in recent years has struggled with declining attendance and sagging facilities.

"We've got millions and millions and millions of dollars of work that needs to be done on our electrical system, our sewer system, getting different buildings up to code," the manager said.

"It's difficult, if not impossible, to get those numbers through gate receipts and vendor fees," he said about the well's promise of raising new revenue.

Ritari would not disclose the amount of royalties specified in the contract. He also would not say what the fair spent on environmental and legal reviews of the methane drilling operation, other than to say that "it was pretty substantial for our sized budget."

Fowler Oil and Gas chairman and chief executive Bob Fowler was not available for comment Friday morning. Ritari said Fowler was out of town and did not attend Thursday night's meeting.

The relatively new company, with a Palmer office for its Alaska operations, has yet to drill a well. As part of the fair contract, any drilling must wait until Fowler drills first on farm property near the intersection of Trunk and Bogard roads. The company in October got permission from the Matanuska-Susitna Borough for that pilot well but still needs the go-ahead from the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

Fowler said in an earlier interview he hopes to start drilling that first well next spring if all the permits are granted.



http://www.alaska.com/adn/front/story/9520312p-9430928c.html

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Righty...Mind adding me as an assist MOD? Ill update the Ibox when I get a chance...thanks

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FWOG in the news again 11-18-07

http://www.petroleumnews.com/pntruncate/155478754.shtml

THE EXPLORERS 2007: Mat-Su CBM gets second chance

Fowler Oil & Gas gets unanimous approval from Matanuska-Susitna Borough to drill coalbed methane well; first okayed under tough new ordinance

Kay Cashman

Petroleum News


When Fowler Oil & Gas Corp. first came on the scene in May 2007, it had been four years since an attempt to develop coalbed methane resources in Alaska’s Matanuska-Susitna Borough collapsed amid an acrimonious argument involving the would-be developer, local residents, the borough and State of Alaska.

Fowler Oil & Gas CEO and Chairman of the Board Bob Fowler, a graduate of Palmer High School and longtime Alaskan, believes that his company has the answer to developing coalbed methane without raising concerns about land access and possible pollution that plagued the previous effort. That effort was made by Evergreen Resources, which has since been bought out by Pioneer Natural Resources, which relinquished Evergreen’s Mat-Su coalbed acreage.

Bob Fowler told Petroleum News that he fully understands the concerns of the residents of the Matanuska and Susitna valleys.

“Our family has been in the Valley for over 50 years and so I’m very familiar with the issues up in the Valley and how people would like to see economic development but also coupled with environmental protection,” Fowler said.

A publicly traded company, Fowler Oil & Gas was founded in 2005 to pursue oil and gas opportunities in Alaska. Sister company, Native American Energy Group, is engaged in the development of oil and other minerals in Montana.

Fowler Oil & Gas shares technical staff, including geologists and operations managers, with Native American Energy.



On private land

Bob Fowler said his company was pursuing several coalbed methane sites in Southcentral Alaska, all on private land.
“We’re working with private landowners who own their own mineral rights,” Fowler said in May 2007. (Part of the 2001 to early 2003 controversy stemmed from required access to privately owned surface land to drill into state-owned subsurface.)

The first of these sites, the Kircher block, received unanimous approval Oct. 1, 2007, from the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Planning Commission for a conditional use permit to drill a coalbed methane well on the acreage, which sits on 749 acres of forest and farmland at the corner of Bogard Road and Trunk Road between Wasilla and Palmer. It was the first coalbed methane well approved under a tough ordinance passed by the borough in 2004 after Evergreen’s unsuccessful attempt from 2001 to 2003 to get coalbed methane production established in the Southcentral Alaska valleys.



Praise from borough

The acting chief planner for the Mat-Su Borough, Eileen Probasco, said Fowler Oil & Gas’ success with the borough was due to Bob Fowler’s preparation before filing for the first permit.
Bob Fowler “really did his homework. … He took the time to figure out what was needed to be in compliance with the new ordinance,” Probasco told Petroleum News Oct. 2, 2007.

Sixteen people testified at the planning commission meeting in Wasilla Oct. 1, she said. “Twelve in favor and four opposed. There were four commissioners acting on the request, all voted in favor” of the permit, which she said was issued in the form of a resolution with 18 findings to develop a coalbed methane operation from a well located in the southwest corner of Section 26, Township 17 North, Range 1 East.

Nine conditions were attached to the commission’s approval, none of which were a surprise to Fowler, including a $50,000 bond to cover abandonment, site reclamation and capping.

The findings also said the fortified steel, 10 by 20 by 10 foot, production equipment and security building had to be built to look like a “Colony barn,” painted to blend in with the landscape, and could have no exterior lighting.



Drilling in spring 2008

Following the planning commission’s decision, Fowler Oil & Gas President Arlen Ehm said that the well would be drilled in the spring of 2008.
“I didn’t want to go out there and rig up, spud in the coldest and darkest months of the year,” Ehm said. “You pay at least 150 percent when you try to push something through in the middle of the winter.”

But the company does plan to move equipment into a barn at the site during the winter of 2007-08, in order to avoid having to truck in heavy equipment during spring breakup, when road load limits are reduced, Ehm said.



Horizontal drilling key

A key element in Fowler’s approach to coalbed methane development is the use of horizontal drilling technology. Anchorage-based M-W Drilling, the drilling contractor for the Kircher project, will drill a single vertical well to a depth of about 3,500 feet, Ehm said. Perforated horizontal wells sidetracked from that central well will then thread out through each coal seam penetrated by the vertical well.
The horizontal drilling technique will enable access to thousands of horizontal feet of coal seam from a single surface wellhead, thus eliminating the need for the profusion of surface wellheads that has blighted some coalbed methane developments, while enabling adequate production rates from a single well, Ehm said.

“We’re draining a lot of acres off of one well bore,” Fowler said.

Not only that. The specially designed coalbed methane drill rig has a mast that’s only 60 feet high, but a capability of drilling laterally, Fowler said.

And once a coalbed methane site goes into production, the wellhead production facilities will be hidden inside a single 20-foot barn-like enclosure.

“They won’t even see that it’s a well,” Fowler said. “… We’re in and out on the drilling in about one month.”



No surface water

The technology used will eliminate the water disposal problems that have often plagued coalbed methane production in the past, Fowler said. The technology uses the bottom part of the vertical well, below the level of the coal seams, to dispose of the water into relatively deep sandstone formations. Thus, no produced water will reach the surface or enter the water table.
“We have a downhole separator which separates the gas from the water,” Fowler said. “The gas flows up (the well). The water flows down into some special pumps that pump it into lower sandstone formations below the coal.”

Downhole monitoring equipment will ensure that the disposed water meets state standards, Fowler said.

To prevent contamination of any water wells in the region around the production site, no coal beds less than 1,000 feet below the surface will be tapped. That will ensure that all production occurs below the depth of the water table, Fowler said. And sealed well casing, cemented to prevent water migration around the pipe, will also protect the water table.



EPA has approved

Fowler said that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved the technology for downhole separation of gas and water and that the technique has already been permitted in Texas and Kansas.
But what are the chances of finding economic quantities of coalbed methane in the Kircher unit?

“The Cook Inlet basin is a river of coal that comes all the way down from Talkeetna and up around Chickaloon, all the way down to Homer, onshore and offshore,” Fowler said. The coal is very thick, cumulatively, and the seams are abundant and continuous throughout the area; and the coal contains large quantities of gas, he said.

Fowler Oil & Gas plans to deliver gas to the Enstar transmission pipeline at a low pressure, thus eliminating any possible compressor noise, Ehm said.

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Fundamental Analysis of Fowler's Alaska Operations...

Fowler didn't wanna give out any numbers, so I just used some math and came up with my own, based on his own geological reports and royalty estimates.


DRILLING UNIT PARAMETERS
MATANUSKA VALLEY
Kircher Unit

Land & Ownership

Acreage
840 acres

Location
Township 18 North Range 1 East
Level farmland and forests
Close to Enstar gas lines

Owners
Henry Kircher Leased
Havemeister Family Leased
Riley Family Leased
Ashmore Family Leased

Gas Reserve

Amount of Coal
600’ of net coal at 3000’
25+ seams of 4’ to 30’ in thickness

Gas Content per Ton
422 cu ft per ton

Gas in Place
382 billion cu ft

Recovery 85-90%

Well Life
50 years

Drilling Program

Drilling Pattern
1 vertical to 3500’
4 laterals in same seam at 2500’ each
No gas extraction from 0-1,000’
Later on, additional lateral patterns in each seam will be added

Completion
Downhole water reinjection thus no water to surface
Low pressure surface pump with small footprint
Computer monitoring
Buried pipeline to Enstar grid

Permits
State AOGCC Permit (check status: http://www.state.ak.us/local/akpages/ADMIN/ogc/drilling/dindex.shtml )
Matsu Borough Permit (approved oct. 2, 2007)

Estimated Royalty

We are offering the landowner a 20% royalty based on the gross revenue received at the wellhead with no offsets for any costs or taxes. The surface owner is offered 7 ½ % and the mineral rights owner 12 ½ %. Or the full 20% if they are one and same owner.

Based upon our Geology Report, the estimated royalty payment would be
• Min of $1,000 per acre per year for 50 years
• Max of $6,000 per acre per year for 50 years

We encourage our mineral rights owners to focus on the $1,000 per acre per year and then be pleasantly surprised if we exceed this amount.

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based on 840 acres and $1-6k per acre, that would be
between $840,000 and $5,040,000, or average of $2,940,000 in royalty costs per year.

remember that he stated a royalty of 20%, that would leave the other 80% for Fowler to cover costs/taxes/permits...

the estimated annual revenue from this project would be bewtween $4,200,000 - $25,200,000, or an average of $14,711,111

now add back on the $890,000 reported from manta.com =

rough total estimate of total annual revenue in Alaska:

$15,601,111

estimate of annual liabilities = $2,940,000


the only info I could get as far as share structure was when I called De and it said 100,000,000 shares authorized for their number.

if you assume the O/S is also 100 mil, then that would be a
rough approx book value (shareholder's equity) of...

$ 0.126 per share

total shareholder equity: $12,600,000


estimated return on equity:

$15,601,111 / $12,600,000
1.238 = 123.8%





this is only a rough estimate and does not inlclude tax, permit costs, or drilling costs, and does not incorporate any assets the company may currently own. There might also be more liabilities we don't know of. Just thought it would be a fun project.

[humboldt111502]

Fowler might claim he is not sharing financial info, but him or someone else did report an estimated annual sales of $890,000 from the Alaska operations to Manta.com

[humboldt111502]

At least is seems more like an "oil man" than Raj N. He must have a good relationship with the locals or his latest permit would never have been passed. I also like his interesting drilling method. He only needs one small well per 680 acres I believe. Then they enclose the well/pump in a small barnlike building with just a small gravel road leading to main road. The all waste water is somehow pumped down into deeper sandstone formations, so he doesnt need a disposal well. Also high pressure is not needed either because the pipelines they are feeding into are low pressure themselves according to Fowler. He seems to be quite open with local news and residents, but tight lipped to outsiders at this time.

[Drillman7]

I find it very interesting that Mr Fowler does,nt want to comment on your question,s asked Email at this time .Kind of makes ya wonder why Hmmmmm Got the same attitude as there sister company.

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Email respose from Robert Fowler....

Pretty tight lipped to outsiders as of now....


Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:03:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Robert Fowler" <[e-mail]> Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
Subject: Re: FWOG
To: "XXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX" <[e-mail]>
Mr. XXXXXXXXXX

At the present time we are not releasing information about our finances or our operations. The only information that we publish can be found on our web sites:

www.fowleroilandgas.com
www.fowleroilandgasalaska.com

robert fowler
ceo


XXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX <[e-mail]> wrote:
Hello, I have recently been interested in investing in FWOG, but I have a few questions that need to be answered first.

1. How is the company doing financially? (assets vs. liabilities)

2. Is the company currently making money? If so where from and is it enough to cover operating costs?

3. With 100 mil shares authorized, just wondering what the current count on outstanding shares is. Also in the near future will there be a need to issue more shares (dilution) to pay for projects?

4. How many oil/gas leases does the company hold? acres? area?

5. Does the company have operations outside of Alaska?

6. Whats your relationship with Native American Energy Group?

I should be able to get some other oil/gas investors interested in your stock if some of these questions can be answered.....thanks.
XXXXXX

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Robert Fowler on KFQD Radio Anchorage Alaska Talk Show...

Talk Show
CBM Gas in the Valley
February 7, 2007
11 am

Host: Cary Carrington

Guest: Robert Fowler, CEO, Fowler Oil & Gas Corporation

Cary Carrington to Bob Fowler at end of program

This drilling program you have seems to solve all the traditional problems associated with cbm drilling. It really looks promising and good luck.

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Fowler hopes to drill for methane at the state fairgrounds.

Fowler


http://www.adn.com/money/story/9228398p-9144215c.html

FOWLER OIL & GAS CORP.: The company eyes placing a well on Alaska State Fairgrounds land too.

By ZAZ HOLLANDER
[e-mail]

Published: August 17, 2007
Last Modified: August 17, 2007 at 07:21 AM


PALMER -- Until it gets results from a new coal bed methane well proposed for a hay field along Trunk Road, Fowler Oil & Gas Corp. isn't doing any other drilling.

But that's not stopping the company from doing the legwork for other potential wells to ply coal seams for the chief component in natural gas, including one at the Alaska State Fairgrounds and another in the Edgerton Parks Road area.

Company chairman and CEO Bob Fowler hopes this fall to sink a pilot well on 840 acres owned by the Kircher family and three others on Trunk Road, near the intersection with Bogard Road.

The Matanuska-Susitna Borough Planning Commission must first approve a conditional-use permit.

A public hearing is scheduled Oct. 1.

If his company secures a permit, drilling would take about a month, Fowler told a gathering of the Greater Palmer Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday. Within about six months, he would know if the well was a success.

Then he would start working on permits for more, Fowler said.

Fowler hopes to drill for methane at the state fairgrounds.

He needs a lease from the nonprofit that runs the Alaska State Fair, as well as permission from a number of adjacent landowners, because state and borough rules require 640 acres for each methane well.

The fair hired Anchorage-based attorney Dean Thompson and environmental consultant Hart Crowser to analyze the legal, operational and environmental aspects of the project, said Ray Ritari, the fair general manager.

So far, the review hasn't revealed any issues and fair staff are negotiating a final contract with Fowler, Ritari said.

The fair's seven-member board could review the contract at a Sept. 13 meeting, or later.

The methane well -- as well as a completely separate proposed gas-fired plant -- would sit on about 20 acres now used for storage and greenhouses east and north of Hermon Brothers Field, Ritari said.

The well site would be shielded by trees and out of view, he said.

"We do truly want to be good neighbors. We don't want to create a problem," Ritari said.

Evergreen Resources Inc. tried four years ago to drill for methane in the Valley, only to be dogged by public criticism and poor results.

Fowler promises his operation will avoid the clanking compressor noise, industrial landscape and water disposal problems that skeptics found fault with in Colorado-based Evergreen.

Instead of numerous wells, the subcontractor used by the company sinks one main shaft and hundreds of horizontal branches to probe coal seams.

Fowler plans to use buried pipes to send gas to Enstar Natural Gas Co. lines, deposit water from coal seams into deeper sandstone layers, and shield the well site itself from view with a shed that looks like a Colony barn.

But at some point, Fowler will run up against one issue that challenged Evergreen: wanting to drill for gas on property where the state owns the subsurface but a private landowner lives above.

All four families involved in the Kircher unit own the mineral rights beneath their property.

But at one potential well site in the area of Edgerton Parks Road, the state owns some of the subsurface rights, Fowler said.

Fowler will have to get surface-use agreements from the landowners without mineral rights, he said.

Then the company will apply for state leases to access the gas.

A surface owner does get some royalties, Fowler said.

Fowler offers a 20 percent royalty based on gross revenues at the wellhead to people who own both surface and mineral rights, according to material the company filed with the borough.

The surface royalty portion of that is 7.5 percent.

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Borouogh approves methane well

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/matsu/story/9348664p-9263165c.html


By ZAZ HOLLANDER
[e-mail]

Published: October 2, 2007
Last Modified: October 3, 2007 at 03:05 AM


WASILLA - On Monday night, Matanuska-Susitna Borough officials gave Fowler Oil and Gas Corp. historic permission to drill for coal bed methane in a hay field along Trunk Road.

Only a few dozen people looked on as four members of the borough Planning Commission - three missed the vote - unanimously approved a requisite conditional-use permit for the well, the first granted under a three-year-old borough law. The company still needs approval from the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. Planning Commission chairwoman Helga Larson asked members to say their votes aloud “because it is a very important issue.”

Commissioners Dick Zobel, Ken Klunder, and David Webster all voted yes.

“And I vote yes also,” Larson said. “So this motion … passes with all in favor.”

Bob Fowler, a Palmer native and company CEO, pumped his fist in celebration of a major step in his mission to bring a major new resource industry to Cook Inlet. Fowler also became the first to do something his predecessor, Colorado-based Evergreen Resources Inc., could not: The straight-talking local boy made major gains on the public relations front.

“I’d have no problem with him drilling a well right next to my house,” said John Nolan, who owns 100 acres in the borough, along with the mineral rights. “How many people are on natural gas in this room? I know I am. It’s a clean, effective way to heat.”

A firestorm of controversy erupted in 2003 over Evergreen’s proposal to drill for methane on state-owned mineral leases scattered across the Valley. Landowners without mineral rights feared the prospect of drinking water pollution and industrial development in their backyards. Evergreen abandoned the project without drilling a successful well.

In 2004, the borough enacted one of the strictest coal bed methane laws in the country.

Fowler Oil and Gas promises hundreds of underground, horizontal drilling arms rather than numerous surface wells. Fowler pledges to protect the water table down to 1,000 feet and to not use dangerous chemicals to fracture coal seams.

In one of his biggest selling points, Fowler also tries to put wells on property where surface landowners also hold mineral rights. But that could change soon. Several other wells are in the works, including one at the Alaska State Fairgrounds, and others in the area of Farm Loop and Edgerton Parks roads. Not all of those wells involve landowners with mineral rights.

The majority of 15 people testifying Monday night gave mixed support, if not total approval, for Fowler’s proposed pilot well on 840 acres owned by four farm families. Five spoke against the well, largely based on concerns about drinking water safety. “I applaud the borough for developing that ordinance,” testified Mike Chmielewski, president of the board of Friends of Mat-Su, a pro-planning group that came out strongly against Evergreen’s plans in 2003. “I also applaud Mr. Fowler for being willing to spend whatever time it took for working very slowly through that process to ensure any questions would be answered.”

FEARS FOR AQUIFERS Several people urged the borough to protect their drinking water from contamination and also make sure Fowler’s efforts don’t drain local aquifers.

Plumbing coal seams for methane, the chief component in natural gas, requires first separating the methane from millions of gallons of water in the coal. Fowler plans to separate the water underground and then inject it into deep sandstone layers. “What do we do when we keep sucking our groundwater on out?” asked Greg Hall, who lives next to the well property. “I’d love to see all kinds of alternative energy on that property … but don’t take our water.”

Chris Whittington-Evans, a former Friends of Mat-Su board president, said he was particularly concerned about the apparent lack of information regarding Fowler’s water disposal plans.

“Just knowing precisely what you’re re-injecting into, the permeability of that formation, just how much it will take for how long, those questions are key to making this proposal a viable one,” Whittington-Evans said.

Planning commissioners quizzed Fowler on water concerns. He said the state is working with the federal government on new injection standards, and that the practice is already performed at oil wells.

“There is no migration of groundwater, no extraction of groundwater,” Fowler said. The issue is not settled. The state’s Oil and Gas Conservation Commission would also need to sign off on any water injection, in addition to the actual well-drilling. The commission had not received an application as of Monday, said commissioner Cathy Foerster. Fowler said his company was still working on specific information on blowout prevention equipment. Fowler said he expects the state permit to take 30-45 days once he applies.

PERMIT NO FREE RIDE The permit comes with conditions, including monthly water testing and a $50,000 bond to pay for reclamation and well-capping in case Fowler abandons the project. The borough ordinance limits well density, requires setbacks from homes and schools, and sets forth rules for notifying the public.

In an earlier interview, Fowler said he hopes to have both permits in hand within 45 days, and start drilling then. The company could know within a month of drilling whether the well will produce. Fowler told planning commissioners Monday he will not apply for another borough drilling permit until the pilot well pans out. “We want to come before you and say it’s doing what we expected it to do,” he said.

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Methane wells reviewed; fair grounds may be drilled

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/matsu/story/9203367p-9119769c.html

NEW GROUND: Borough works through permitting process for the first time.

By ZAZ HOLLANDER
[e-mail]

Published: August 8, 2007
Last Modified: August 8, 2007 at 05:41 AM

PALMER -- Fowler Oil & Gas Corp. promises a new kind of coal bed methane industry in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, a low-key gas boom involving willing landowners and few industrial downsides.
But that doesn't mean the company is escaping scrutiny.

Borough officials say they're exercising caution as Fowler's proposal -- the first under the borough's coal bed methane ordinance -- goes through the permitting process.

The borough planning director earlier this summer hired an Anchorage consulting firm with experience in coal bed methane to provide an informed review, said Frankie Barker, a borough environmental planner.

"We wanted to look at this really carefully," Barker said. "We are not experts in coal-bed methane. We know that."

Officials pushed back until Oct. 1 a public hearing originally scheduled for Aug. 20 to give themselves enough time to "get all the pieces together," Barker said.

Bob Fowler, a Palmer native who serves as Fowler Oil & Gas chairman and CEO, said the borough actions came as no surprise.

"They told me even before I submitted the application back in April they would bring in a consultant just to do a final review on it; that was nothing new," Fowler said. "I recommended it too."

The Anchorage-based consultant, Bristol Environmental & Engineering Services Corp., asked for more information about water monitoring, permitting, and historical and cultural issues, according to both Barker and Fowler.

A Bristol representative said she could not discuss specifics without permission from the borough. Barker, in an e-mail, declined to release letters from Bristol until the review is complete.

Fowler said the issues raised were no big deal.

"It's a little bit of everything," he said. "The application covered about 98 percent of everything and they just wanted some clarification, that's all."

TESTING THE NEW LAW

The borough law on coal bed methane drilling, enacted in 2004, limits well density, requires setbacks from homes and schools, and sets forth rules for notifying the public.

It sprang from the firestorm surrounding Evergreen Resources Inc., a Colorado firm, the year before. The company wanted to explore for methane, the chief component of natural gas, in coal seams across the Mat-Su.

To that end, the company acquired state subsurface leases beneath some 300,000 acres.

Scores of residents balked at the prospect of a new industry bringing industrial gas operations into their backyards without their permission, potentially threatening drinking water wells. Evergreen left the state without sinking one commercially viable well.

Now, some who fought the Evergreen bid say Fowler's success could pave the way for a different company down the line, one with less integrity.

The state requires proven prospects be "unitized" to conserve oil or gas resources, a process that can make it easier for other developers to extract the gas in the future, said Chris Whittington-Evans, a Palmer business owner who served as board president of the pro-planning group Friends of Mat-Su during the Evergreen debate.

"As much as we might like to hope that [coal bed methane] development is a small scale mom-and-pop, local-guy deal, everywhere else it proves otherwise," Whittington-Evans wrote in an e-mail. "Fowler may do it right, and I am happy he's working in that direction, but his success may be our undoing. If the gas is there, they will come."

Friends of Mat-Su executive director Kathy Wells said such concerns illustrate the need for the borough's new conditional use permit process. The process allows the public to seek safeguards from planning commissioners.

"This is, I think, a very good opportunity to test this ordinance because he's stepped up to the plate, filled out the paperwork and the planning commission is going to get their very first (condition use permit) on this," Wells said.

"Maybe they'll want more conditions -- I don't know."

If everything falls into place for Fowler, he wants to drill a single well in a hayfield owned by Henry Kircher's estate near Trunk and Bogard roads.

ONE WELL WITH 800 BRANCHES

Fowler's horizontal drilling strategy probes coal seams sideways with some 800 branches from the main stem, like an upside-down tree.

Four landowners across 840 acres stand to gain royalties. Over the next 50 years, Fowler hopes to extract much of the 382 billion cubic feet of methane he estimates lies trapped in coal seams.

Along with the borough permit on the Kircher well, Fowler needs a drilling permit from the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, as well as permission to inject water pulled from coal seams into deeper sandstone formations.

Fowler said his company is waiting to file an application.

First, he said, company president Arlen Ehm hopes to get an exemption from state regulations that require the firm to obtain a separate permit for each of the 800 lateral branches they hope to drill.

Once an application is filed, the commission tries to process it within a week, commissioner Cathy Foerster said, though Fowler's unconventional proposal may take a bit longer.

Fowler said it would take about a month to drill the pilot well. Then gas would start flowing immediately. He expects to know right away if the well pans out.

Fowler said he is also considering wells near Palmer-Fishhook and Farm Loop roads, as well as the Alaska State Fair grounds, but won't apply for any permits for new wells until this first well proves out.

"I have no qualms about it but I just have to be careful how I phrase it," he said. "To me, it's a slam dunk, but not everyone looks at it that way.

COMMENTS WANTED

• The borough is accepting public comment on the Kircher well until Sept. 10. A public hearing before the planning commission is scheduled for Oct. 1 at 6 p.m. at the Central Public Safety Building, Station 6-1. For more information, go to www.matsugov.us/Planning/publicreviewdocs.cfm and scroll down to the bottom of the page. To avoid trouble with landowners who don't own rights to subsurface resources beneath their property, Fowler Oil & Gas Corp. CEO Bob Fowler is looking for coal bed methane on large parcels of land where owners also hold title to the mineral rights.

That category includes the Alaska State Fair.

Along with potential well sites near Palmer-Fishhook and Farm Loop roads, the company is considering drilling for methane at the fair grounds on the Glenn Highway south of Palmer, though Fowler still needs permission from the fair, as well as two to four other adjacent landowners, he said.

Fair officials declined to discuss any specifics this week.

Fair general manager Ray Ritari said he forwarded a letter of intent from Fowler to an attorney for review. He wouldn't identify the attorney, saying, "It doesn't matter."

The three members of the fair's energy subcommittee researched the proposal as well, subcommittee member Mari Jo Parks said.

The subcommittee will address the Fowler proposal, as well as a separate proposal to build a natural gas-fired power plant at the fairgrounds, at the board's regular meeting Thursday.

The fair board meets at 7 p.m. in the boardroom of the fair's main office.

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Fowler has contracted Scientific Drilling, of Houston, Texas, and Anchorage to do the drilling. The company has drilled more than 2,600 coal-bed methane wells.

About Scientific Drilling...

http://www.scientificdrilling.com/index.php

Anchorage, Alaska
5631 Silverado Way, Unit G
Anchorage, Alaska AK 99518

Tel: [phone]
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District numbers:
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Local Representatives:
VP Marketing:
Len Duncan

Business Dev:
Jon Lightfoot

District Manager:
John Mason

Directional Coordinators:
Steve Blount



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Since the late '60s, Scientific has been at the forefront of survey technology offering innovative solutions for today's demanding market. Scientific is the only company to offer a complete navigation solution for all projects.

Electromagnetic MWD - "Efield", Mud Pulse MWD in addition to Magnetic Ranging, and high end Memory Production Logging tools have been introduced to the market. An extensive array of drilling motors are available to compliment our Directional Services. Gyro MWD is also available as well as Resistivity and Annulus Pressure.

Operating throughout the world, Scientific Drilling is expanding its range of services with a continued emphasis on research and development. This web site allows access to data on all of our services, office locations and even a file library so you can view, print and download product information as you require. We hope you enjoy your visit.

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FOWLER OIL & GAS LLC Nevada SOS Info...

Fowler Oil & Gas LLC is the Alaska operations I believe, with Fowler Oil & Gas Inc being its' parent.

https://esos.state.nv.us

FOWLER OIL & GAS LLC

Business Entity Information

Status: Active
File Date: 9/19/2007 1:36:01 PM
Type: Domestic Limited-Liability
Company Corp Number: E0672662007-1
Qualifying State: NV
List of Officers Due: 10/31/2007
Managed By: Managing Members Expiration Date:


Resident Agent Information

Name: GARY KRAPE
Address 1: 6370 W FLAMINGO STE 12
Address 2: City: LAS VEGAS
State: NV Zip Code: 89103

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Delaware SOS info on FWOG...

https://sos-res.state.de.us
[phone]

Authorized Shares: 100,000,000


File Number: 3917184
Incorporation Date / Formation Date: 01/25/2005(mm/dd/yyyy)
Entity Name: FOWLER OIL & GAS CORPORATION
Entity Kind: CORPORATION Entity Type: GENERAL
Residency: DOMESTIC State: DE

REGISTERED AGENT INFORMATION

Name: DELAWARE BUSINESS INCORPORATORS, INC.
Address: 3422 OLD CAPITOL TRAIL SUITE 700
City: WILMINGTON County: NEW CASTLE
State: DE Postal Code: 19808
Phone: [phone]

[copleybmt]

Anyone know the O/S and float? I called IR and left a message.

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Video of FWOG featured on KTUU Channel 2 News in Alaska...

http://www.youtube.com/v/C7L0iNE_SBs

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Fowler Oil & Gas Alaska operations webpage...

lots of good info on Alaska developments...

http://www.fowleroilandgasalaska.com/

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Huge detailed summary of FWOG and its operations....

http://www.fowleroilandgasalaska.com/uploads/Kircher_Unit_MSB.pdf

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Letter from Mat-Su approving Fowler Oil and Gas Drilling Permit...

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Status Report on Kircher Unit....

http://www.fowleroilandgasalaska.com/uploads/Kircher_Web_Status_Report.pdf

STATUS REPORT
Kircher Unit

Event Start Date Completion

Leases signed May 2006 Aug 2006

Borough application Apr 2007 Oct 2007

State application Jun 2007 Oct 2007

Drill gas well Nov 2007 Nov 2007

Production starts Dec 2007

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Fowler Oil & Gas plans horizontal drilling and patented separation technology to avoid environmental problems...

http://fowleroilandgasalaska.com/uploads/Petroleum_News.pdf

Alan Bailey
Petroleum News
It’s been three years since an attempt to develop coalbed methane resources in
Alaska’s Matanuska-Susitna Borough collapsed amid an acrimonious argument
involving the would-be developer, the local residents, the borough and the state.
But a new company, Fowler Oil & Gas Corp., believes that it has the answer to
developing coalbed methane without the concerns about land access and possible
pollution that plagued the previous effort.
Fowler Oil and Gas CEO Bob Fowler, a graduate of Palmer High School and
longtime Alaskan, told Petroleum News May 2 that he fully understands the
concerns of the residents of the Matanuska and Susitna valleys.
“Our family has been in the Valley for over 50 years and so I’m very familiar
with the issues up in the Valley and how people would like to see economic
development but also coupled with environmental protection,” Fowler said.
Fowler Oil & Gas is a publicly traded company founded in 2005 to pursue oil and
gas opportunities in Alaska. Sister company, Native American Energy Group, is
engaged in the development of oil and other minerals in Montana. Fowler Oil &
Gas shares technical staff, including geologists and operations managers, with
Native American Energy Group.
On private land
Fowler Oil & Gas is pursuing 11 separate coalbed methane sites, all on private
land, in Southcentral Alaska, Fowler said.
“We’re working with private landowners who own their own mineral rights,”
New approach to Mat-Su Valley CBM - May 06, 2007 - Petroleum News Page 1 of 3
http://www.petroleumnews.com/pnarchpop/070506-18.html 5/4/2007
Fowler said (part of the 2003-04 controversy stemmed from required access to
privately owned surface land to drill into state-owned subsurface).
The first of these sites, the Kircher unit in 840 acres of forest and farmland at the
corner of Bogard Road and Trunk Road between Wasilla and Palmer, has reached
the permitting stage. Negotiations with landowners are still in progress at the
other sites. Fowler Oil & Gas has applied for permits from both the Matanuska
Borough and the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission for drilling and
development at Kircher.
“We’d like to be drilling in mid-summer to late summer,” Fowler said.
Production from Kircher would hook into an Enstar Natural Gas Co. pipeline,
Fowler said.
Horizontal drilling
One key element in Fowler Oil and Gas’s approach to coalbed methane
development is the use of horizontal drilling technology. The drilling contractor
will drill a single vertical well to a depth of about 4,000 feet from a central
location in a coalbed methane unit. Perforated horizontal wells sidetracked from
that central well will then thread out perhaps 2,500 feet through each coal seam
penetrated by the vertical well.
“With that one vertical well bore we might have eventually 100,000 feet of
perforated pipe in the coal,” Fowler said. And the huge length of perforated pipe
will eliminate the need to frac the coal to sustain adequate gas flows, he said.
The drilling technique effectively eliminates the need for a profusion of surface
wellheads. It will also eliminate the need to drill additional wells from the surface
when earlier wells run short of gas.
“We’re draining 600 to 1,000 acres off of one well bore,” Fowler said.
Not only that. The specially designed coalbed methane drill rig has a mast just 60
feet high, but a capability of drilling laterally out to about a mile, Fowler said.
And once a coalbed methane site goes into production, the wellhead production
facilities will be hidden inside a single 20-foot barn-like enclosure.
“They won’t even see that it’s a well,” Fowler said. “… We’re in and out on the
drilling in about one month.”
Fowler Oil & Gas plans to deliver gas to the Enstar transmission pipeline without
any compression, thus eliminating any possible compressor noise.
No surface water
Patented technology will eliminate the water disposal problems that have often
plagued coalbed methane production in the past, Fowler said. This technology
will entail using the bottom part of the vertical well, below the level of the coal
seams, to dispose the water into relatively deep sandstone formations. Thus, no
produced water will reach the surface or enter the water table.
New approach to Mat-Su Valley CBM - May 06, 2007 - Petroleum News Page 2 of 3
http://www.petroleumnews.com/pnarchpop/070506-18.html 5/4/2007
Petroleum News - Phone: [phone] - Fax: [phone]
[e-mail] --- http://www.petroleumnews.com ---
S U B S C R I B E
“We have a downhole separator which separates the gas from the water,” Fowler
said. “The gas flows up (the well). The water flows down into some special
pumps that pump it into lower sandstone formations below the coal.”
Downhole monitoring equipment will ensure that the disposed water meets state
standards, Fowler said.
To prevent contamination of any water wells in the region around the production
site, no coal beds less than 1,000 feet below the surface will be tapped. That will
ensure that all production occurs below the depth of the water table, Fowler said.
And sealed well casing, cemented to prevent water migration around the pipe,
will also protect the water table.
EPA approved
Fowler said that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved the
downhole separation of gas and water and that the technique has already been
permitted in Texas and Kansas. And he said the drilling contractor, Scientific
Drilling, has experience of drilling more than 3,000 coalbed methane wells,
including horizontal wells.
Great Northern Engineering is designing the production facility, Fowler said.
But what are the chances of finding economic quantities of coalbed methane in
the Kircher unit?
“The Cook Inlet basin is a river of coal that comes all the way down from
Talkeetna and up around Chickaloon, all the way down to Homer, onshore and
offshore,” Fowler said. The coal is very thick; the seams are abundant and
continuous throughout the area; and the coal contains large quantities of gas, he
said.
And who might purchase the gas?
“We’re talking to a number of buyers,” Fowler said, adding that he would prefer
to see use of the gas in the Cook Inlet area rather than supplying the gas for
export.

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FWIW Fowler Oil & Gas (FWOG) was previously known as Chemfix Technologies, Inc.

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Ehm named president of Fowler Oil & Gas (Alaska)

http://www.petroleumnews.com/newsbulletin/661501063.html

June 20, 2007 --- Vol. 13, No. 55

Bob Fowler, CEO and chairman of Fowler Oil and Gas Corp., has appointed longtime Alaska explorationist Arlen Ehm as president of the company’s Alaska subsidiary, which is based in Palmer.
A petroleum geologist with a master’s degree from Wichita State University, Ehm began his Alaska career in 1965 when he was on the first well drilled from the first platform in Cook Inlet. Since then he has been on wells in various parts of the state, conducted geological field parties and created numerous proprietary reports alone and with partners. One of these is a study of the surface geology of the 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Ehm was recently vice president, Alaska for Pelican Hill Oil and Gas, a California company that drilled two wells in the Cook Inlet basin in search for natural gas. When the company left the state, Ehm went back to consulting, which he has been doing in Alaska for 31 years.

Fowler, a graduate of Palmer High School and also a longtime Alaskan, told Petroleum News May 2 that he fully understands the concerns of the residents of the Mat-Su area regarding coalbed methane development.

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Info on FWOG Alaska office....

from Alaska Division of Occupational Licensig Department...

http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/occ/bussearch/BusDetail.cfm?LicNum=737715

LicNum: 737715
Business Name: FOWLER OIL & GAS (ALASKA) LLC
Address: PO BOX 2056 PALMER AK 99645
Status: ACTIVE
Original Issue: 09/06/2006
Current Issue: 09/06/2006
Expiration: 12/31/2007
Business Type: LLC
Tobacco Endorsements: 0
Line Of Business: Mining
Primary Activity: 211111
Secondary Activity:
Owners: FOWLER OIL & GAS CORPORATION

================================================================

from Manta.com

Fowler Oil & Gas Alaska L
705 S Bailey St Ste 204,
Palmer, AK 99645-6978,
United States
Phone: [phone]

SIC:Petroleum and Petroleum Products Wholesalers, Except Bulk Stations and Terminals

Line of Business:Whol Petroleum Products


Company Profile: Fowler Oil & Gas Alaska L

Year Started:2006

State of Incorporation:N/A

URL:N/A

Location Type:Single Location

Stock Symbol:N/A

Stock Exchange:N/A

Also Does Business As:N/A

NAICS:N/A

SIC #Code:5172

Est. Annual Sales:$890,000

Est. Employees:3

Est. Employees at Location:3

Contact Name:N/A

Contact Title:N/A

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Updates on FWOG Alaska Drilling...

Ive been in email contact with the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Planning Department, which has kept me updated on FWOG getting the permits needed to start drilling. With one permit in hand, FWOG expects to have all the others within a month. Could start to get interesting....

Subject: RE: Fowler Oil and Gas
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:45:02 -0800
From: "Frankie Barker" <[e-mail]> Add to
To:<[e-mail]>

"Hello ******,

The MSB Planning Commission approved the Fowler Oil and Gas application for a conditional use permit for a coal bed methane operation at their meeting on October 1. Fowler still needs to get permits from several state and federal agencies before they can begin, but they expect to start in the next month or so if all the permits are approved.



Frankie



Frankie Barker
Environmental Planner
Matanuska-Susitna Borough
350 E. Dahlia Avenue
Palmer, AK 99645
907-746-7439
907-745-9876fax"

[Drillman7]

Right on Its going to be interesting watching the developments take place here alot of CBM to be tapped into.

[righty]

honor bestowed, for service above and beyond the call of duty.

welcome to the FWOG MOD CREW

KICK AND SCREAM PIZZ AND MOAN IF YA OBJECT.

[righty]

THANKS DRILLMAN7, nice catch by the way heres the story for those who didnt read up.
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Borough approves methane well
FOWLER OIL AND GAS: Coal bed drilling along Trunk Road to be a test.

By ZAZ HOLLANDER
[e-mail]

Published: October 3, 2007
Last Modified: October 5, 2007 at 02:39 AM

WASILLA -- On Monday night, Matanuska-Susitna Borough officials gave Fowler Oil and Gas Corp. historic permission to drill for coal bed methane in a hay field along Trunk Road.

Only a few dozen people looked on as four members of the borough Planning Commission -- three missed the vote -- unanimously approved a requisite conditional-use permit for the well, the first granted under a three-year-old borough law. The company still needs approval from the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

Planning Commission chairwoman Helga Larson asked members to say their votes aloud "because it is a very important issue."

Commissioners Dick Zobel, Ken Klunder, and David Webster all voted yes.

"And I vote yes also," Larson said. "So this motion ... passes with all in favor."

Bob Fowler, a Palmer native and company CEO, pumped his fist in celebration of a major step in his mission to bring a major new resource industry to Cook Inlet.

Fowler also became the first to do something his predecessor, Colorado-based Evergreen Resources Inc., could not: The straight-talking local boy made major gains on the public relations front.

"I'd have no problem with him drilling a well right next to my house," said John Nolan, who owns 100 acres in the borough, along with the mineral rights. "How many people are on natural gas in this room? I know I am. It's a clean, effective way to heat."

A firestorm of controversy erupted in 2003 over Evergreen's proposal to drill for methane on state-owned mineral leases scattered across the Valley. Landowners without mineral rights feared the prospect of drinking water pollution and industrial development in their backyards. Evergreen abandoned the project without drilling a successful well.

In 2004, the borough enacted one of the strictest coal bed methane laws in the country.

Fowler Oil and Gas promises hundreds of underground, horizontal drilling arms rather than numerous surface wells. Fowler pledges to protect the water table down to 1,000 feet and to not use dangerous chemicals to fracture coal seams.

In one of his biggest selling points, Fowler also tries to put wells on property where surface landowners also hold mineral rights.

But that could change soon. Several other wells are in the works, including one at the Alaska State Fairgrounds, and others in the area of Farm Loop and Edgerton Parks roads. Not all of those wells involve landowners with mineral rights.

The majority of 15 people testifying Monday night gave mixed support, if not total approval, for Fowler's proposed pilot well on 840 acres owned by four farm families. Five spoke against the well, largely based on concerns about drinking water safety.

"I applaud the borough for developing that ordinance," testified Mike Chmielewski, president of the board of Friends of Mat-Su, a pro-planning group that came out strongly against Evergreen's plans in 2003. "I also applaud Mr. Fowler for being willing to spend whatever time it took for working very slowly through that process to ensure any questions would be answered."

FEARS FOR AQUIFERS

Several people urged the borough to protect their drinking water from contamination and also make sure Fowler's efforts don't drain local aquifers.

Plumbing coal seams for methane, the chief component in natural gas, requires first separating the methane from millions of gallons of water in the coal. Fowler plans to separate the water underground and then inject it into deep sandstone layers.

"What do we do when we keep sucking our groundwater on out?" asked Greg Hall, who lives next to the well property. "I'd love to see all kinds of alternative energy on that property ... but don't take our water."

Chris Whittington-Evans, a former Friends of Mat-Su board president, said he was particularly concerned about the apparent lack of information regarding Fowler's water disposal plans.

"Just knowing precisely what you're re-injecting into, the permeability of that formation, just how much it will take for how long, those questions are key to making this proposal a viable one," Whittington-Evans said.

Planning commissioners quizzed Fowler on water concerns.

He said the state is working with the federal government on new injection standards, and that the practice is already performed at oil wells.

"There is no migration of groundwater, no extraction of groundwater," Fowler said.

The issue is not settled. The state's Oil and Gas Conservation Commission would also need to sign off on any water injection, in addition to the actual well-drilling.

The commission had not received an application as of Monday, said commissioner Cathy Foerster. Fowler said his company was still working on specific information on blowout prevention equipment.

Fowler said he expects the state permit to take 30-45 days once he applies.

PERMIT NO FREE RIDE

The permit comes with conditions, including monthly water testing and a $50,000 bond to pay for reclamation and well-capping in case Fowler abandons the project. The borough ordinance limits well density, requires setbacks from homes and schools, and sets forth rules for notifying the public.

In an earlier interview, Fowler said he hopes to have both permits in hand within 45 days, and start drilling then. The company could know within a month of drilling whether the well will produce.

Fowler told planning commissioners Monday he will not apply for another borough drilling permit until the pilot well pans out.

"We want to come before you and say it's doing what we expected it to do," he said.

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/matsu/story/9350844p-9265324c.html
(courtesy of drillman7's keen eye)

[Drillman7]

If this pilot well is a success it will be good times for FWOG

[Drillman7]

Finally Fowler Oil and Gas is making progress

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/matsu/story/9350844p-9265324c.html

[Rhubarb]

when i first ran accross the news artical in the
Alaska petroleum news about Fowler O/G it looked like it had
stopped trading or been halted or gone private.

There was no clear explanation but if i recall correctly it was November last year when that happened.

Then silent mode untel the Alaska News was found, Website as of May was incomplete and under construction.

Now it looks up and complete....
Least far further ahead than before...

[onemaninnj]

June 20th news
June 20, 2007 --- Vol. 13, No. 55 June 2007

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Ehm named president of Fowler Oil & Gas (Alaska)

Bob Fowler, CEO and chairman of Fowler Oil and Gas Corp., has appointed longtime Alaska explorationist Arlen Ehm as president of the company’s Alaska subsidiary, which is based in Palmer.
A petroleum geologist with a master’s degree from Wichita State University, Ehm began his Alaska career in 1965 when he was on the first well drilled from the first platform in Cook Inlet. Since then he has been on wells in various parts of the state, conducted geological field parties and created numerous proprietary reports alone and with partners. One of these is a study of the surface geology of the 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Ehm was recently vice president, Alaska for Pelican Hill Oil and Gas, a California company that drilled two wells in the Cook Inlet basin in search for natural gas. When the company left the state, Ehm went back to consulting, which he has been doing in Alaska for 31 years.

Fowler, a graduate of Palmer High School and also a longtime Alaskan, told Petroleum News May 2 that he fully understands the concerns of the residents of the Mat-Su area regarding coalbed methane development.

[onemaninnj]

Hope somebody finds out why this does not trade. The only thing I ever saw was insiders and a few others pretty much have the entire float tied up.

[Drillman7]

Ahh there is a FWOG board good have to keep an eye on this company the Alaska ANWR could be a huge play coming trading has resumed last trade june 21/07 straight jump up .75

[rookinvestor]

Righty...any luck contacting anyone from company? Share structure? Why it hasn't traded a share in the longest???(besides three trades on 6-21, last trade was in Nov....)

[plastipunk]

Yo righty, good luck with your new board.