Management
NAMOAG's management has extensive industry experience in the San Joaquin Basin, which augurs well for future expansion activities as opportunities arise. Management has the core skills to deliver:
Technical Knowledge
Commercial Experience
Financial Expertise
Robert Rosenthal - President and Chief Executive Officer
Robert has extensive experience in the Californian oil and gas industry where he has been directly involved in and responsible for evaluations, leasing and drilled discoveries. His career in California spans over 10 years. Robert was a founding partner in Orchard Petroleum Ltd an ASX listed Californian company that that was acquired in 2007 by a private consortium. He previously worked as Exploration Geologist and Exploration Project Supervisor for Sohio Petroleum (U.S.), British Petroleum in London as Global Consultant Exploration. In 1995 he left BP to join Novus Petroleum Ltd as its Head of Exploration, for Indonesia, Australia and Pakistan. From 1999 until present day, Robert has been actively involved in numerous exploration activities in California, Texas, Louisiana and Alaska where he has made numerous discoveries in both conventional and unconventional plays. More recently Robert was one of the principal investors and founders of Great Bear Petroleum an Alaskan shale company. Robert has a Master's Degree in Geology from the University of Southern California.
Robert Hoar - Geologist Manager
Robert has 30 years of oil exploration and development experience in mature and frontier basins in the United States, Africa, Europe, South America and Asia. He is trained and experienced as both a geologist and geophysicist. He has worked for a number of large and medium sized companies including Amoco (where he was trained as a geophysicist.), Oryx, and Kerr McGee, where he coordinated the development and implementation of exploration strategies for many successful projects. In his most recent roles as Chief Geologist for Solimar Energy LLC (2009-2012) and Chief Geoscientist Nations Petroleum (2004-2009), Rob was responsible for the technical evaluation, development and identifying new opportunities in southern California. During this period Rob was involved in the drilling of 19 exploration and development wells from 2007 to the present in California which confirmed a large heavy oil field and increased field reserves. Rob holds a Master's in Geology, from the University of Vermont. He is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists and San Joaquin Geological Association).
Donald E Boyd - Petroleum Engineer Manager and Executive Director
Donald is an experienced oil field professional who has assisted many internationally known companies with drilling and infield engineering issues throughout the world. Since 1998 he has provided consulting services to companies such as Exxon, Phillips Petroleum, Sun Oil and Texaco and most recently smaller independent operators, such as Exploration Inc., Jackson Exploration and Kindee Oil and Gas. In 2005, he co-founded Sun Resources Texas, Inc. and currently serves as President. Prior to January 2005 he served as the manager of all offshore operations for drilling and completion for the U.S. Department of the Interior, Oil & Gas Branch. He managed employees with various disciplines, engineers and geologists; certified all foreign offshore drilling units before they could drill in US waters; worked with the EPA to help write regulations regarding offshore environmental concerns; and worked with the USSR Oil & Gas Department to help them refine their government leasing programs to improve oil and gas secondary recovery. Prior to that, he worked as a drilling engineer for Global Marine and a drilling manager for Peter Bowen and Cal Pacific drilling companies. Donald received a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from Cal State Long Beach in 1973. Among the many awards and honors that Donald received are: The Crosnick Foundation Scholarship for Petroleum Engineers; The Kellps Scholarship Award for Petroleum Engineering; and an Excellence Award from the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Linda Gassaway - Chief Financial Officer
Linda is the former Chief Financial Officer of Behavioral Healthcare Inc, former Chief Operating Officer of Omega Computer Services (a federal defense software contractor), and held the Controller position with Bentley-Simonson Inc., once one of the top independent Oil and Gas companies in California. Linda has more than ten years of financial experience in the Oil and Gas sector. Besides heading financial operations for Behavioral Healthcare, of Memphis, TN, Linda was also the Director of Finance for Advanced Health Systems Inc. of Irvine, CA, where she was responsible for the finances of 22 hospitals, 5 acute care facilities, and 40 physician practices located around the country. Recruited by Bentley-Simonson in 2000, she headed an accounting department that dealt with more than thirteen thousand royalty holders and accounted for operations at the giant Sansinena and Las Cienegas fields in Southern California. After the sale of these assets to Plains Exploration & Production Company in 2005, Ms. Gassaway continued consulting in California's Oil and Gas industry, working with Orchard Petroleum Inc. and Solimar Energy LLC. She has extensive experience with federal and state reporting requirements, joint interest accounting, human resources, office management, audit and risk management, royalty management, government reporting, production reporting, and overall financial management and reporting for oil and gas exploration and production efforts.
Advisory Board
Honourable Dr. Wally Oppal, Q.C.
Wally has dedicated his entire working life to improving social justice and community safety. He was born in the Vancouver-Fraserview neighbourhood, attended law school at UBC, and then practised law for 14 years. He was Crown Counsel and Defence Counsel on numerous high-profile criminal cases.
Wally was appointed to the County Court of British Columbia in 1981 and to the Supreme Court of British Columbia in 1985. In 2003, he was appointed to the British Columbia Court of Appeal.
Wally served as Attorney General and Minister Responsible for Multiculturalism from 2005 to 2009.
Wally's passion for the Canadian legal system is exemplified by the various positions he has held throughout the years:
Wally has been recognized with several awards, including:
Wally has recently been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation and is currently the Chancellor for Thompson Rivers University. Wally is an avid reader, enjoys staying physically fit by playing basketball, as well as coaching in the Steve Nash basketball league.
Board of Directors
Robert Rosenthal - President and Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman
Robert has extensive experience in the Californian oil and gas industry where he has been directly involved in and responsible for evaluations, leasing and drilled discoveries. His career in California spans over 10 years. Robert was a founding partner in Orchard Petroleum Ltd an ASX listed Californian company that was acquired in 2007 by a private consortium. He previously worked as Exploration Geologist and Exploration Project Supervisor for Sohio Petroleum (U.S.), British Petroleum in London as Global Consultant Exploration. In 1995 he left BP to join Novus Petroleum Ltd as its Head of Exploration, for Indonesia, Australia and Pakistan. From 1999 until present day, Robert has been actively involved in numerous exploration activities in California, Texas, Louisiana and Alaska where he has made numerous discoveries in both conventional and unconventional plays. More recently, Robert was one of the principal investors and founders of Great Bear Petroleum an Alaskan shale company. Robert holds a Master's Degree in Geology from the University of Southern California.
Donald E Boyd - Petroleum Engineer Manager and Executive Director
Donald is an experienced oil field professional who has assisted many internationally known companies with drilling and infield engineering issues throughout the world. Since 1998 he has provided consulting services to companies such as Exxon, Phillips Petroleum, Sun Oil and Texaco and most recently smaller independent operators, such as Exploration Inc., Jackson Exploration and Kindee Oil and Gas. In 2005, he co-founded Sun Resources Texas, Inc. and currently serves as President. Prior to January 2005 he served as the manager of all offshore operations for drilling and completion for the U.S. Department of the Interior, Oil & Gas Branch. He managed employees with various disciplines, engineers and geologists; certified all foreign offshore drilling units before they could drill in US waters; worked with the EPA to help write regulations regarding offshore environmental concerns; and worked with the USSR Oil & Gas Department to help them refine their government leasing programs to improve oil and gas secondary recovery. Prior to that, he worked as a drilling engineer for Global Marine and a drilling manager for Peter Bowen and Cal Pacific drilling companies. Donald received a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from Cal State Long Beach in 1973. Among the many awards and honors that Donald received are: The Crosnick Foundation Scholarship for Petroleum Engineers; The Kellps Scholarship Award for Petroleum Engineering; and an Excellence Award from the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Greg Renwick - Non Executive Director
Greg is currently President and CEO of East West Petroleum Corporation (TSX-Venture Exchange symbol: EW) which is a junior, Canadian-based exploration and production company pursuing commercial development of unconventional and conventional petroleum resources globally. Greg brings over 30 years of broad, international petroleum experience to the Company. Greg began his career with Mobil Oil Canada as a geophysicist. Over the next 25 years, Greg held various technical, technical management and progressively senior management positions within Mobil worldwide. Greg has been directly involved in the mapping, the discovery, and development of numerous oil and gas fields in western and eastern Canada, the U.S. Gulf Coast, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and the Former Soviet Union. Greg responsibilities have spanned various disciplines, including geophysics, exploration, field appraisal and development, E&P planning, corporate planning, corporate strategic development, commercial analysis and upstream business development.
Cosimo Damiano - Non Executive Director
Cosimo has over 18 years experience in the finance industry and 12 years in the energy industry, most recently as Director of Upstream Investments for Mercuria Energy Group. He spent 8 years in Investment Banking specializing in the energy sector attaining the role of Head of Australian Oil & Gas Research for Merrill Lynch. Cosimo has wide commercial and investment experience in the oil and gas industry in Australia, Asia, United States, Canada and Argentina. In his previous role with Mercuria Cosimo 's duties primarily involved private equity investments and included the reporting on Mercuria's existing oil and gas investments in Canada, U.S and Argentina and sourcing new investments. It involved the reporting and monitoring of ~10,000boepd of production, setting corporate and financing strategies and Board updates monitoring and evaluating the assets' performance. In his previous and current roles Cosimo has been periodically undertaking advisory roles for several oil and gas companies as well as energy trading companies most notably relating to, M&A advice, capital structure (debt and equity structuring), strategic planning and marketing. Cosimo holds a Bachelor's degree in Finance and Economics from Victoria University.
Nicolaus Petri - Non Executive Director
Nicolaus has extensive investment management experience with major oil and gas companies based in Eastern Europe. He is currently Head of Foreign Asset Strategy and Investments for Gazprom Neft and Deputy CEO for Strategy and Investments for Naftna Industrije Serbije (Russia's 5th largest integrated oil company, Serbian national oil company, respectively). His primary responsibilities have included defining investment strategies, managing and supporting investment projects, implementing and coordinating investment processes, development of long-term business and production plans. Prior to his current role Nicolaus was Head of the Investment Department for SIBUR, the leading Petrochemicals and LPG company in Russia. Nicolaus has previously worked for global consultancy and investment firms such as McKinsey & Co, Bain Capital and Morgan Stanley in various roles including private equity, due diligence and financial advisory. Nicolaus holds a bachelor of Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Philosophy from Harvard College.
Mission
Our mission is to create value for our shareholders through the development, exploration and production of oil and natural gas in various high-margin, domestic onshore play types. We will optimize shareholder value by implementing a strategy in which we focus on high rate-of-return projects and prospects, grow primarily through the "drillbit", make selective acquisitions and divestitures of leasehold and producing properties, manage commodity price risk exposure and maintain a healthy financial condition.
In pursuing our strategy to grow and optimize shareholder value, we expect to maintain a conservative operating and financial approach and adhere to the highest standards in the industry for professionalism and integrity. We intend to maintain and grow our team of dedicated and incentivized professionals, who are committed to delivering value on behalf of our employees, shareholders, customers, vendors and the communities in which we operate.
Corporate Objective & Strategy
NAMOAG's objective is to become a significant oil and gas producer in California by focusing on a balanced portfolio of multiple projects targeting production enhancement opportunities and moderate to high impact exploration located nearby existing discoveries:
- Highly experienced Technical & operational team
- Qualified expertise in Sub-surface appraisal and Surface development
- Extensive Californian Oil & Gas industry knowledge
- Key areas: exploration, development and production optimization
- Strong deal structuring skills
- Global contacts in Oil & Gas - Corporate & Government
- Robust Business Development skills
- Wide Contractual Agreement knowledge
- Access to Capital Markets
- Strong Banking (debt) Relationships
- Extensive Finance & Risk Management
- Alignment of interest partner
- Frequent guest lecturer for Continuing Legal Education Society seminars
- Frequent lecturer and speaker on criminal justice, violence against women and women's justice issues
- President, Law Courts Education Society of British Columbia
- Former Director, Family Services of Greater Vancouver
- Member, Advisory Committee, Law Reform Commission of Canada
- Member, 1993 Ad Hoc Advisory Committee for a National Strategy on Community Safety and Crime Prevention
- Former Director, B.C. Coalition for Safer Communities
- Past Member, Supreme Court National Criminal Law Programme Judges Criminal Law Committee
- Member, Delegation to South Africa on Access to Justice
- Author, 1994 Oppal Report on Policing
- Georges A. Goyer, QC, Distinguished Service Award (2000)
- Lawyers Assistance Program of B.C., Lawyer Helping Lawyer Award (2007)
- Anthony P. Pantages, QC, Medal for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Public Safety (2005)
- RBC Mehfil Magazine, Lifetime Achievement Award (2010)
- Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of the Fraser Valley (2010)
- creating shareholder value through organic growth opportunities;
- the financing, appraisal, development and production of small (Marginal) & medium sized Oil & Gas fields and high impact exploration
- partnering with leading oil and gas majors in California;
- maintain operatorship and substantial interest (leverage) in its projects;
- target moderate to high risk reward exploration and appraisal opportunities with near term reserves potential;
- rapid lead times from drilling to sales revenue, transitioning from exploration to production; and
- abundant infrastructure to support development & strong local demand and market based oil and gas commodity prices make for robust project economics
- maintaining a strong balance sheet and disciplined asset acquisition and disposal strategy.
Exploration and Development Strategy
The company will focus on organic growth through the drill bit. The business strategy is to continue to pursue asset acquisitions through a combination of ground floor acreage acquisitions and asset deals in order to build reserves and production.
Currently the company's portfolio in the San Joaquin Basin comprises three projects, which NAMOAG currently operates. NAMOAG will pursue an integrated strategy of exploration and development drilling in the San Joaquin Basin which will include farmin opportunities, farmout opportunities, further land acquisitions and swaps of property interests.