June 27, 2002

LESLI J. WOOD , Ph.D.
EXPERT ON SEISMIC SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY
JOINS AMMONITE 

     Ammonite Resources is pleased to announce that  Dr. Lesli J. Wood has joined Ammonite as the firm's expert consultant on sequence stratigraphy.  Dr. Wood, is a Research Scientist and Lecturer with the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences, Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. Prior to her current position, she worked for six years in the oil and gas industry, first with the research division of ARCO, and then with Amoco Production Company. Her initial assignment was to their worldwide exploration organization, then with the E&P Technology Division, researching the development and interpretation of seismic attribute technologies, and as the lead geologist of Amoco's Sequence Stratigraphy Group.  Dr Wood's work over the past 12 years has focused on projects in Trinidad, Venezuela, Argentina, Egypt, Brazil and the U.S.  Her scientific interests are in applied sequence stratigraphy petroleum basin analysis, seismic attribute interpretation and risk evaluation. Her current research at UT includes industry-sponsored study of the morphology and processes in deep marine depositional margins, gas hydrate development and distribution, quantitative seismic geomorphology, shale diapirism and clastic reservoir architecture. Dr. Wood received her Ph.D. in Earth Resources from Colorado State University

     Lesli Wood was awarded the AAPG 2001 J.C. "Cam" Sproule Award for best paper by an author under the age of 35 for her paper titled "Chronostratigraphy and Tectonostratigraphy of the Columbus Basin, eastern offshore Trinidad" which was published in the December 2000 Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.  She is also a very talented blue grass musician - composing and singing her own songs.