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Namibia say 5 weeks
June 26th story regarding Namibia expects results from Sintez in 5 weeks.
MANAGEMENT - Dr. Bill St. John
Senior Adviser for African and other international oil and gas exploration operations EnerGulf Resources Inc. (TSXV: ENG) is pleased to announce that Dr. Bill St. John has agreed to join the company as its Senior Adviser for African and other international oil and gas exploration operations. Dr. St. John is a world-renowned international geologist and petroleum explorationist and a recognized expert on Africa’s geology having lived and worked in Africa for many years. He has been active in exploration there for Hunt Oil and Vanco Energy and as technical advisor to the World Bank. Dr. St. John holds Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Geology from the University of Texas. His distinguished international career began as a geologist with American Overseas Petroleum (CalTex) in Libya in 1960, and progressed through various, primarily international, positions with Exxon Corp. and as President and CEO of Primary Fuels Inc., (a subsidiary of Houston Industries/Reliant Resources (RRI)) where Dr. St. John built Primary Fuels into a worldwide exploration and production operator. Primary Fuels was sold in early 1989 for US$310 million. In the 1990's, Dr. St. John was Technical Adviser to Ethiopia for the World Bank and Vice President and General Manager for Ethiopia Hunt Oil and Niger Hunt Oil Companies. He subsequently was appointed Vice President, New Ventures for Vanco Energy and was instrumental in helping Vanco to acquire acreage in Morocco, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Namibia and Madagascar. Houston-based Vanco is now the world’s largest deepwater license holder, offshore Africa. Dr. St. John is particularly well known for his expertise on East Africa geology having authored the 12 volume "Hydrocarbon Potential of East Africa Offshore". Additionally, Dr. St. John has authored numerous articles throughout his career dealing with tectonics, sedimentary provinces, giant fields, and frontier areas. EnerGulf has granted Dr. St. John a stock option exercisable to purchase up to 50,000 common shares of EnerGulf at a price of Cdn$0.20 per share for a period of five years. Commenting, Jeff Greenblum, Chairman of the Board of Directors, said: "We are very pleased to have Dr. St. John join EnerGulf. His expertise and experience will add much to the success of our strategy in positioning EnerGulf in high impact exploration opportunities, especially in West and East Africa".
MANAGEMENT - Mr. Jeff Greenblum
Chairman of the Board Mr. Greenblum is the managing director of Rio Mining and Energy, Inc., a natural resource consultancy and investment firm. He is formerly a senior executive with Diamond Fields Resources, Inc., which was later acquired by Inco, Ltd. (C$4.3 billion transaction - Voisey’s Bay Nickel Discovery). Prior to his association with Diamond Fields, Mr. Greenblum served as a senior Bush administration official under President George H.W. Bush at both the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Commerce. While at the Department of Energy, he served as Senior Executive in the Office of Fossil Energy. Among his responsibilities were the Naval Petroleum Reserve (in charge of Elk Hills Field - 1.719 Billion/Bbls recoverable reserves:AAPG-Giant Field), Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Clean Coal Technology Program and the Enhanced Oil Recovery Technology Program. At the Department of Commerce, Mr. Greenblum served in international trade administration as Director, Office of Africa, responsible for U.S. investment and trade policy with Africa. Previous to his service in the Bush administration, Mr. Greenblum was a senior executive with KP Exploration, Inc., a wholly owned oil and gas subsidiary of Kidder, Peabody and Company. During his tenure with KP Exploration, the company drilled over 200 oil and gas wells, primarily in south Texas and Oklahoma