Dr. Caldwell is a Co-founder of The Scotia Group, Inc. He has over 30 years of experience and has authored or co-authored over 20 technical publications. Dr. Caldwell is involved in the evaluation of domestic and international oil and gas properties and companies, reserves and reservoir studies, and generation of Scotia’s risk analysis and resource and reserves evaluation models. He heads Scotia’s research projects, particularly in unconventional resource and reserves evaluation and in the assessment of technology advances. He is active in the design of in-house software and proprietary computer models that support Scotia’s strategic studies service, and developing new analysis methods that address technology advances and the rapidly changing requirement of today's oil and gas business. Dr. Caldwell received the SPE Economics and Evaluation Award for 2000 and is co-author of the recent SPE paper (68592) entitled "Characterizing Uncertainty in Oil and Gas Evaluations."

Mr. Cox has over 30 years of experience in oil and gas exploration and development geophysics and geology in a broad diversity of settings both international and domestic, including over 30 basins in 20 countries and in 12 major domestic provinces in seven states. He is founder and Principal Geophysicist of the on-line consulting service known as avoavaz.com, specializing in real-time AVO modeling and 3D AVO analysis. For the last 10 years, Mr. Cox has been an independent consultant to various groups including D. K. Davies/PEMEX (Chief Geophysicist), Attribute Analysis Group-Conoco Research, Senior AVO Specialist for Scotia Group/PEMEX, and Senior Geophysical Consultant at Meridian Resources. Mr. Cox has focused on emerging technologies such as AVO/AVAZ analysis, rock physics/AVO matched and forward modeling and has specialized in 2D/3D structural/stratigraphic restorations/interpretations, carbonate reservoirs and deepwater clastics reservoirs. Mr. Cox has presented a number of technical papers at SEG, GCAGS and SPE meetings. He has also served as expert witness involving 3D seismic interpretation.

Mr. Crossley was associated with Texaco prior to becoming an independent consultant. He has over 30 years of worldwide experience. While at Texaco, Mr. Crossley worked in several different capacities including Manager of Reservoir Engineering for Texaco UK in London. In recent years, he worked with the Texaco Corporate Reserves Group, performing asset reviews and reserve and resource training seminars at on site locations around the world. During his career, he has been involved in all aspects of reservoir engineering and asset management. Areas of expertise include development and exploration drilling, secondary and enhanced recovery, offshore project development, property acquisition and divestment, and unitization. Mr. Crossley served three years on the SPE Reserve Committee. He is a member of the North American Potential Gas Committee and is a past reserve sub-committee member of the National Petroleum Council.

Mr. Fair is Vice President of Engineering for Scotia Group. He has over 25 years experience in the oil and gas industry as a reservoir engineer and consultant. His experience includes evaluation of oil and gas properties, reserves determination, well performance, production forecasts and economic valuations. He has worked as a member of integrated study teams and on SEC filings, litigation, acquisitions and divestments. Engineering studies in which he has participated have included fields in the U.S., Mexico, China, Yemen, Algeria, Ukraine, Venezuela and Nigeria. He is active in SPEE and SPE, a member of AAPG and HGS, and a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas.

Ms. Goodoff is Principal Geophysicist with Scotia Group and has over 22 years experience. Ms. Goodoff was associated with Exxon as Exploration Geophysicist and with Pennzoil as Geophysical Advisor, prior to joining Scotia. Ms. Goodoff’s responsibilities have included 2-D/3-D interpretation, prospect mapping, new venture assessment and field development studies in South Texas and the Burgos Basin of Mexico. Internationally, she has worked in a variety of areas including subsalt mapping in the Gulf of Suez, venture analysis in North Africa, the Middle East, Far East and South America and regional play analysis in Australia, North Africa, Qatar and Indonesia. Responsibilities in the Gulf of Mexico have included lease sale evaluation, reprocessing, palinspastic restorations, new venture analysis and basin analysis/modeling. Ms. Goodoff is co-author of the AAPG/AMGP article entitle "Northern Gulf of Mexico: An Integrated Approach to Source, Maturation, and Migration." Comments from previous course attendee: "Instructor was very knowledgeable and obviously loves every minute of her work."

Mr. Haag worked for Texaco for 26 years in the Gulf of Mexico and Gulf Coast areas. As Senior Evaluations Coordinator and Business Development Manager, he developed an effective portfolio management strategy while performing and directing reserves and economic analyses for property purchases, trades and sales. In leading data room teams in property acquisition efforts, he synthesized the efforts of the engineering, geological, geophysical, tax, comptrollers, land, operations and fiscal team representatives. He coordinated the marketing, negotiating and closing of hundreds of transactions. Mr. Haag has also performed feasibility determinations for offshore wildcat discoveries, enhanced recovery and new pipeline projects, joint ventures and alternate funding opportunities. He has written texts for and instructed numerous in-house economics and risk analysis schools. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers (SPEE) and is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). Mr. Haag is author of the textbook entitled "The Acquisition and Divestiture of Oil and Gas Property."

Dr. Hamilton is a consulting geologist with over 20 years international experience in the petroleum industry including over 10 years as a reservoir geologist conducting fully integrated geological and engineering reservoir characterization projects. Specialist disciplines include sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, basin analysis, subsurface stratigraphic mapping, play analysis, facies analysis, and reservoir characterization from core and wireline log analysis. Dr. Hamilton worked at the Bureaus of Economic Geology, Austin, Texas, for 10 years on fluvial, lacustrine, and shallow marine oil and gas reservoirs from the United States, Venezuela, Mexico, Argentina, Australia and Trinidad. Dr. Hamilton has authored more than 40 publications on depositional systems and reservoir characterization, and received several Best Paper awards for his research on reservoir characterization. Dr. Hamilton holds Bachelor’s (Hons) and Ph.D. degrees in Geology from the University of Sydney, Australia.

Mr. Kulha is an independent consultant with 29 years experience in petrophysical and petroleum engineering studies related to exploration, development, reserve determination and property acquisition. Within the petrophysics discipline, his specialties include multi-well exploration, evaluation and development studies in complex lithologies and in shaly sands, dual-porosity systems, log-seismic interrelationships, and the integration of rock data, production performance and log interpretation. As a recognized authority in the identification and evaluation of low resistivity, low contrast (LRLC) pay zones, Mr. Kuhla has presented seminars world-wide to energy companies, professional societies and academe on LRLC pay evaluation as well as petrophysics and reservoir characterization. He has authored over a half dozen technical papers on topics related to LRLC pay evaluation. Comments from previous course attendee: "Fast moving! Covered a large spectrum of information in a short time. Didn’t get bogged down in any specific area. Format was flexible enough to address details in specific areas of interest of class. John knows his stuff!"

Mr. Lewis is Principal Petrophysicist for the Scotia Group and has over 28 years worldwide experience. Prior to joining Scotia, he was associated with DeGolyer and MacNaughton for ten years and was assigned to their Europe/Middle East/Africa division. Other company affiliations include NUMAR Oilfield Services, ARCO, Sun E&P, and Dresser Atlas. Mr. Lewis has evaluated petrophsycial data for numerous projects in areas including Algeria, Austria, Iraq, Madagascar, the North Sea, Yemen, Russia, Gabon and Timor Sea. He has traveled to Russia for extended periods and is very knowledgeable of Russian logging practices and interpretation techniques.

Dr. Mayerhofer is a consulting engineer for Pinnacle Technologies in Houston. His responsibilities include the design and evaluation of hydraulic fracturing treatments, reservoir engineering, integrated field studies and assistance with tiltmeter and microseismic hydraulic fracture mapping. His twelve-year involvement with hydraulic fracturing and reservoir engineering includes fundamental research and real field applications in various global producing areas and has resulted in over 20 technical papers and journal articles. Prior to joining Pinnacle Technologies in 1997, he worked for Union Pacific Resources, where he was involved with developing innovative fracturing technology, integrated field studies, reservoir engineering for tight gas sands and production engineering operations. He was a member of the SPE Well Completions Committee from 1998 to 2001 and has a doctorate in Petroleum Engineering from Mining University Leoben in Austria.

Mr. Scott has more than 12 years of coalbed methane experience and has published more than 65 senior author papers and abstracts on various aspects of coalbed methane exploration and development. He has participated in numerous coalbed methane workshops and short courses in the United States as well as internationally, and has received more than a dozen awards for his research efforts from a variety of geological groups. Prior to starting Altuda Geological Consulting, Mr. Scott held a position of Research Associate at the Bureau of Economic Geology, the University of Texas at Austin, where he worked on a wide variety of research projects and served as Program Director of Domestic Energy Research and Texas Region Director for the PTTC. Mr. Scott is immediate President of the Energy Minerals Division of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Mr. Tabb is an independent consultant after working for the same company for 24 years under the names of Skelly, Getty, Texaco and Chevron–Texaco. The first half of his career involved production and operations engineering in West Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. His primary focus in recent years has been portfolio management, involving oil and gas property acquisitions, sales, trades, and reserves determination. During his four years with the Texaco Corporate Reserves Group, he developed new reserves reporting processes, performed worldwide audits and taught numerous in-house training schools concerning reserves methodology and accounting. He worked on several transition teams during and after the Chevron–Texaco merger which included participation in the reserves manual re-write team and conversion of reserves data and PC programs. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and is a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas.

Mr. Wiggins is Executive Vice President for Scotia Group. He has over 24 years experience in the upstream oil and gas business as a consultant and in business development capacities for various companies. His primary focus has been on all phases of the evaluation of oil and gas properties with emphasis on reserves determination, production forecasts, well performance, economics and market valuation. Mr. Wiggins has presented numerous courses, seminars and speeches relating to oil and gas property evaluation issues for organizations including AAPG, GCAGS, SIPES, NOGS, SPE, and SPEE. He was the 1998 National President of the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers and is author of "Oil and Gas Property Evaluation" which is Chapter 12 in AAPG’s volume entitled The Business of Petroleum Geology.