William Daughtrey

Vice President, Business Development

Prior to joining CIOC USA, William Daughtrey was manager of commercial development with Marathon Oil Corporation, having responsibilities for development of international exploration opportunities. Previously, he was employed by an independent publicly traded oil and gas company as Senior Vice-President – Business and Commercial Development, where he developed and managed projects in the C.I.S. Earlier in his career, Mr. Daughtrey was employed by Conoco Inc. for 21 years and held various positions within business development and exploration, including postings in Norway and the U.K., as well as a secondment to DuPont. He was the business development lead for Conoco Latin America’s efforts, and was appointed as President of Conoco Barbados and Conoco Trinidad to manage deepwater exploration operations.

Mr. Daughtrey has negotiated numerous exploration and production agreements around the world. He graduated from Virginia Tech with a B.S. degree in business administration and an M.B.A.

Patrick E. McGee

Controller and Manager of Finance and Administration

Mr. McGee has more than 30 years of broad-based finance and accounting experience in the domestic and international oil and gas industry. Prior to joining CIOC USA, Mr. McGee served for many years as Vice-President and Controller of Frontera Resources Corporation, a mid-sized international publicly traded oil and gas company with operations in the Republic of Georgia and Azerbaijan. Prior to that, he served as Finance Manager for Hess Corporation on multibillion-dollar projects in North and West Africa.

Mr. McGee has travelled extensively in the Former Soviet Union and North Africa and lived abroad for several years in West Africa. While in West Africa, Mr. McGee was instrumental in helping Hess establish operations and offices to support a field development in offshore Equatorial Guinea. Patrick McGee earned his B.B.A. in accounting from Lamar University in 1980 and obtained his C.P.A. certificate in 1982 while working for the Houston office of the accounting firm of Deloitte Haskins & Sells.

David Harwell

Engineering Manager

David Harwell was employed by Conoco and ConocoPhillips for 29 years. He played a key role in the ConocoPhillips, Marathon and Hess re-entry into their Libyan assets. Mr. Harwell was involved in a number of major discoveries in the Rocky Mountain region, after which he provided business development support and leadership for exploration, acquisitions and field development along the Atlantic Margin, North Africa and the Middle East. He has worked extensively with numerous national oil companies in technical and management advisory positions. Mr. Harwell gained experience as a reservoir engineer, development engineer, petrophysicist, supervisor and technical group lead.

Mr. Harwell graduated from Louisiana State University in 1982 with a B.S. degree in petroleum engineering. Prior to earning his degree from LSU, he worked four years for Goldrus Drilling Company. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Louisiana.

Tarek Y. Ghazi

IT and Geoscience Technology Manager

Prior to joining CIOC USA, Mr. Ghazi was employed by Aramco Services Co. in Houston, where he represented Saudi Aramco in geoscience research consortia throughout North America. Previously, Mr. Ghazi was with GeoKnowledge, a provider of stochastic risk and resource estimation software, where he served in product development, testing, training, marketing and sales. Mr. Ghazi was also employed by Landmark Graphics in data management marketing, after which he co-launched Delta R, an integrated asset teamwork consultancy. He and his partner eventually moved their consultancy into Gaffney, Cline & Associates.

Before joining Landmark, Mr. Ghazi enjoyed a long and diverse career with Conoco Inc. in uranium exploration and production, oil and gas exploration research, global new ventures and information technology in Casper, San Antonio, Ponca City, Dubai and Houston. While at Conoco, Mr. Ghazi co-developed a unique uranium ore analyzer for field use, and authored his Computer Mapping Guide, which is still widely used there.

Mr. Ghazi graduated from Stanford University with B.S. and M.S. degrees in geology, is a licensed Professional Geologist in Texas, and is an active member of the Houston Geological Society and the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Daniel R. Burggraf, Jr.

Senior Geoscience Consultant

Prior to joining CIOC USA, Mr. Burggraf worked primarily in new ventures exploration and basin analysis, developing expertise in basin modeling and applied geochemistry, including managing the Basin Modeling and Structural Geology Group during a 27-year career at Conoco and ConocoPhillips. His exploration work concentrated internationally as part of teams evaluating basins and plays worldwide, with many successful acreage acquisitions. Among regions he has investigated are Asia (India, Bangladesh) and Southeast Asia (Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines), Australasia (Australia and New Zealand), Europe (Norway), FSU (Russia), North Africa (Tunisia, Libya), South America (Venezuela, Barbados, Brazil) and North America (Gulf of Mexico, Alaska, East Coast U.S. and Canada, Western Canadian Basin). Mr. Burggraf’s initial professional experience focused on minerals exploration (uranium) in the intermontane basins of the western U.S. In 1983, he joined Conoco as a petroleum research geoscientist in the technology center in Ponca City, Oklahoma.

Daniel Burggraf earned his B.S. degree in geology from Lehigh University in 1973 and an M.S. in geology from Iowa State University in 1976.

Henry M. Lieberman

Senior Geoscience Consultant

In a career spanning more than 30 years, Mr. Lieberman has worked for a number of companies, both North American and European, primarily involved in new ventures but also involved in operations. Mr. Lieberman has evaluated basins and opportunities in North Africa (Tunisia, Egypt), Latin America (Ecuador, Peru and Brazil), Europe (Germany, Hungary, Albania), the Caspian area (Azerbaijan), Northeast Asia (Sakhalin–Russia), Asia Pacific (Vietnam, Indonesia, Australian NW Shelf), Sub-Saharan Africa (offshore Congo & Gabon), and more recently North America (Western Canada Sedimentary Basin). He was directly involved in two oil discoveries (Oriente Basin, Ecuador, and Lower Congo Fan, offshore Republic of Congo).

Henry Lieberman obtained his Ph.D. degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Vienna, Austria, in 1978 and taught for a year at the University of Fortaleza, Brazil (in Portuguese). Mr. Lieberman has lived and worked extensively in the international arena of the industry (residences in France, P.R. of China, Ecuador, U.K.) and is fluent in several languages beyond English (French, German, Portuguese, Spanish).

David L. Brewster

Senior Geoscience Consultant

Prior to joining CIOC USA, Mr. Brewster worked for Conoco and ConocoPhillips in a number of different positions. Most recently, Mr. Brewster pursued unconventional plays in the midcontinent, drilling the Granite Wash in the Anadarko basin. Previously, Dave Brewster interpreted and supported development operations for fields in the Central Graben of the North Sea for several years in Stavanger, Norway. He also worked in Houston, Denver, Oklahoma City and Midland as he explored for and developed fields in most of the petroleum basins in the U.S., adding significant reserves in the Powder River and Anadarko basins and in South Texas, and making new field discoveries in the Delaware and Val Verde basins. Mr. Brewster worked exploration and development in the Gulf of Mexico and offshore California, as well as brief stints in seismic processing and shear wave research.

David Brewster obtained his B.S. degree in physics in 1974 and his M.S. degree in geology/geophysics from the University of Michigan in 1978. He is also a licensed Professional Geoscientist-Geophysics in the State of Texas.

Diane Deer

Corporate Accountant and Assistant Administration Manager

Diane Deer has more than 30 years of accounting and administrative managerial experience in the domestic and international oil and gas industry. Prior to joining CIOC USA, Mrs. Deer served 15 years as Corporate Accountant for Frontera Resources Corporation, a mid-sized international publicly traded oil and gas company with operations in the Republic of Georgia and Azerbaijan. In this capacity, Mrs. Deer handled all day-to-day accounting and benefits administration, and coordinated the financial reporting consolidation of the U.S., Georgian and Azeri operations. Mrs. Deer had daily contact with accounting personnel in the overseas subsidiaries, and was instrumental in assisting with worldwide audit, which was performed by a Big 4 accounting firm. Previously, she was employed for 10 years at Hunting Oilfield Services as Corporate Accountant.