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PETER I. WOLD, Chairman

Peter I. Wold is the President and co-owner of Wold Oil Properties, Inc. He manages day-to-day operations of the company including acquisitions/divestments and negotiations.

Mr. Wold presently serves on the Governor's Enhanced Oil Recovery Task Force (2003-  ). He is an active member of the Wyoming Association of Professional Landmen (WAPL), the American Association of Professional Landmen (AAPL), and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Independent Petroleum Association of Rocky Mountain States (IPAMS). In February 2005, Mr. Wold was appointed by Governor Dave Freudenthal  to serve a three-year term on the newly created Enhanced and Improved Oil Recovery Institute. The commission, which oversees the work of the Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute, an adjunct of the University of Wyoming will develop programs to assess enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technology and research in recovery processes. Mr. Wold will represent the oil and gas industry.
 

Mr. Wold served in the Wyoming State House of Representatives from 1989-1992 and two terms on the Executive Committee of the Petroleum Association of Wyoming. He completed two terms on the Board of Directors of the Denver Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank, Kansas City District (1993-1998). He is a director of the National Advisory Board, School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Wyoming (2002- ), and a director of the Board of mutual funds of OppenheimerFunds, Inc., an international investment company (2002- ).

A graduate of Colorado State University, Mr. Wold holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biological Science.

Contact Peter Wold at pwold. add @woldoil.com.


 

JOHN P. "Jack" WOLD, Vice President

Jack Wold is Vice-President and co-owner of Wold Oil Properties, Inc., (WOPI) located in Casper, Wyoming and Vice-President of Ramu International Limited Liability Company.

Prior to joining WOPI in 1983, he was a Senior Geologist with Amoco Production Company and Area Geologist with BWAB, an independent oil and gas company in Denver. Mr. Wold has served as President of the Wyoming Geological Association, President of the Rocky Mountain Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, and serves on the executive committees of the Petroleum Association of Wyoming and the Independent Petroleum Association of the Mountain States (IPAMS).. He has served on the Boards of the First Interstate Banks of Wyoming, the Casper Rotary Club, YMCA and Central Wyoming Boy Scouts. He was President and co-founder of the Business Advisory Committee on Education, the Classroom Wyoming Foundation, and past Chairman of the Natrona County School Board of Trustees. Mr. Wold serves on the Board of Trustees of Colorado College and the Taft School. He now manages the branch office in Denver, Colorado.

A graduate of Colorado College with a Bachelor's Degree in Geology, Mr. Wold received his Masters in Geology from Cornell University.

Contact Jack Wold at wopiden. add @aol.com.


 

DAVE SHELLENBERGER, CFO

Dave Shellenberger graduated from the University of Wyoming with a B.A. in Accounting in 1978. He passed the CPA exam in May 1978 and began work as a CPA at Macy & Associates accounting firm in July 1978 in Casper, Wyoming. He worked there until December 1982.

In December 1982 he was hired as the controller/CFO for the Wold Companies. He headed the accounting and finance departments for all of the Wold Family's many partnerships and corporations. As the companies expanded, the role of controller and CFO were segregated with Mr. Shellenberger taking the CFO role.

Mr. Shellenberger has been a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants since 1980, and a member of the Wyoming Society of Certified Public Accountants since 1978. He has been a member of COPAS and has been involved in various committees for oil & gas taxation in the state of Wyoming.

Contact Mr. Shellenberger at dshell. add @woldoil.com.


 

Kevin P. Meenan, Land Manager

A native of Casper, Wyoming, Kevin P. Meenan received his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and his Juris Doctor from the University of Wyoming College of Law in Laramie, Wyoming. Mr. Meenan joined Wold Oil Properties in 2006.

 Mr. Meenan was in private practice in Casper for over ten years engaged in a General and Trial practice. He was elected and served several terms as the Seventh Judicial District Attorney in Casper where he handled extensive trial work and supervised the busiest criminal and juvenile docket in Wyoming.  For the two years immediately preceding his position with Wold Oil Properties, Mr. Meenan engaged in professional consulting on management, business and policy issues in both the private and public sectors.  

Elected three times to serve as President of the Wyoming Prosecutors Association, Mr. Meenan chaired the WPA’s Legislative Committee for 11 years. He was President of the National District Attorneys Association in 2001 and served on their Board of Directors for 10 years. Mr. Meenan served on the Board of Directors for AAA MountainWest in Helena, Montana. Additionally, Mr. Meenan has served on the Boards of numerous national, state and local professional and charitable organizations.  He is a member of the Wyoming Association of Professional Landmen (WAPL).

Contact Mr. Meenan at kmeenan. add @woldoil.com.


 

CHET PARIS, Exploration Manager

Chet Paris has over 25 years of discovering and maturing oil and gas opportunities with both the majors and independents. He has worked with Norwegian, British, and Italian companies and with Native corporations and reservations. He helped start-up PRA, a petroleum consulting group in Alaska. He has been involved in projects as diverse as the start-up of the giant Kuparuk oil field in Alaska to bringing on small gas fields in Texas and Alaska. Chet has worked on extending the viscous oil resource play in Alaska: assembling, drilling, and selling large acreage positions in northern Alaska and the Rocky Mountain overthrust belt; and exploring for oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea. It is this breadth of experience that has given Chet an extensive network that he utilizes in seeking and maturing new opportunities.

Chet received a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Geology from University of Alaska in Fairbanks, Alaska. He is a member of American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, and Wyoming Geological Association..

Contact Mr. Paris at cparis. add @woldoil.com.

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