August 2003

TEAM AMMONITE GROWS

    Ammonite Resources is pleased to announce that three new senior consultants have joined Ammonite Resources, significantly strengthening our expertise in the Appalachian, West Texas, and Rocky Mountain regions. We welcome Mary Van Der Loop of Houston, Texas, Dan Billman of Mars, Pennsylvania, and Dr. Russell Stands-Over-Bull of Billings, Montana.

Mary Van Der Loop
(Houston, Texas)

    Mary Van Der Loop is an AAPG Certified Petroleum Geologist with 28 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. She is owner of Sanctuary Oaks Consultants, Inc., a geological consulting firm located in Houston, Texas. Mary holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Geology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a Master’s Degree in Geology from the University of Texas at Arlington. She has a track record of finding oil and gas through both development and exploratory projects, and has been involved in exploratory prospect and play development for most of her career.

     Mary’s former employers include Texaco, Monsanto (District Geologist 1981-1986), BHP, Energy Exploration Management Group, ARCO (Frontiers Exploration Team), Vastar and BP Amoco. She has worked in a variety of producing areas including the Permian Basin, Oklahoma, Central and South Texas, and the Gulf of Mexico Shelf. Her areas of specialization include carbonate reservoirs, deepwater detrital carbonates, tight gas reservoirs, deep water sand reservoirs, fluvial-deltaic sands, chert detrital reservoirs, and paleostructural analysis and basement structural involvement in oil and gas fields. Other areas of expertise are horizontal drilling, old electric log analysis, acquisition/divestiture evaluations, drilling program planning and management, expert witness, and extensive regional studies through utilization and integration of large well databases. Mary’s publications include topics in deepwater carbonates, tight gas sands, and analysis of the potential of the United States’ frontier exploration provinces.

     Mary is a Past President of the West Texas Geological Society and recipient of its Dedicated Service Award; and is Past President and Honorary Life member of the Permian Basin Section SEPM. She is a Member of American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Houston Geological Society, Oklahoma City Geological Society, and Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists.

Dan A. Billman
(Mars, Pennsylvania)

Dan Billman has 14 years of experience in the Appalachian Basin with the last ten as a consulting geologist and President of Billman Geologic Consultants, Inc. Prior to independent consulting, Dan worked as an exploration and development geologist for Mark Resources Corporation and Eastern States Exploration Company. Mr. Billman is a registered professional geologist in the state of Pennsylvania. He has extensive experience both in development and exploration plays in the Appalachian Basin as well as experience in the Illinois, Black Warrior, Anadarko, Delaware/Permian, East Texas and Fort Worth Basins. Mr. Billman received his Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from the University of Toledo and his Master of Science degree in Geology from West Virginia University. He is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, and is currently the AAPG Delegate representing the Pittsburgh Geological Society. Dan is a member and former President (2 terms) and Treasurer (2 terms) of the Pittsburgh Association of Petroleum Geologists. He is also a member of IOGA of Pennsylvania and New York, the Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Association, the Ohio Geological Society, Appalachian Geological Society and the Ontario Petroleum Institute. Mr. Billman has written and co-authored numerous published papers and technical presentations on the geology of the Appalachian Basin.

Russell E. Stands-Over-Bull, Ph.D.
(Billings, Montana)

     Dr. Russell E. Stands-Over-Bull has over 12 years of experience as a sedimentologist and specialist in sequence stratigraphy and reservoir characterization. He has worked most of his professional career in the basins of the Rocky Mountain Region, where in addition to conventional reservoirs, Dr. Stands-Over-Bull also has extensive experience with low permeability reservoirs, coal, and coalbed methane resources. Russell is President of Arrow Creek Resources, Billings, Montana, a company he founded in 2001 to assist Native American Indian tribes in the assessment and development of tribally-owned mineral resources. Prior to forming Arrow Creek Resources, Dr. Stands-Over-Bull was briefly employed as a Senior Geologist by Barrett Resources prior to its acquisition by the Williams Company. He was employed from 1991 to 2001 by Amoco Production Company, and then BP Amoco in Denver, Aberdeen, Scotland, and Houston. At BP Amoco Russell worked as a senior geologist and sedimentologist, providing expertise in evaluating clastic depositional systems and reservoir architecture in basins of the Rocky Mountains, North Sea, Canada, and Bolivia. Russell Statnds-Over-Bull received his B.S. degree in Geology at Montana State University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Geology at the Colorado School of Mines. Russell is a recipient of the National Outstanding Minority Graduate Student Award, and has received numerous scholarships, fellowships and grants in recognition of his outstanding academic achievement. He is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, American Indian Science and Engineering Society-Sequoyah Fellow, Colorado School of Mines Minority Steering Committee, Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, and of the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists.

Russell Stands-Over-Bull in his Billings, Montana office.