Empire Energy (USA) LLC

Empire Energy (USA) LLC (96% owned subsidiary of Empire Energy Group Limited) was established as the parent vehicle for Empire Energy E&P, LLC an oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) Company based in  Pennsylvania.

The Company's primary objective is to build onshore USA oil and gas production and reserves through the acquisition of oil and gas producing properties and development leases from both mid-cap E&P companies and private operators. A specific focus is on stable, long life producing assets with upside potential from other either underdeveloped multi-level oil and gas bearing formations, enhanced oil recovery projects, development drilling and exploration opportunities.


IMPERIAL OIL AND GAS PTY LTD

Since early 2010 the Company's 100% owned subsidiary Imperial Oil and Gas Pty Ltd commenced the screening of onshore basins in Australia principally for large scale shale gas exploration. It has identified a target basin in the Northern Territory and secured exploration permits for 14.6 million acres.

All the permits constitute high risk/high return frontier plays at very low historic exploration maturity. There has been no petroleum exploration in the Northern Territory acreage.

The exploration target is for shale oil and gas targets in organic-rich black shales. The shales are proven to be gas-prone, with a mineral core hole igniting and sustaining a 6m gas flare for around 6 months, burning an estimated 1Bcf.

Land holder negotiations are underway at present. At the appropriate time the Company will seek to undertake a review of these opportunities with parties it has developed relationships within its operations in the USA.

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Directors

Mr B W McLeod    
Executive Chairman, Director
B.Sc (Maths), M.Comm (Econ)

Mr McLeod has had extensive experience in the Australian Corporate and Resource Capital markets. Over the past 15 years he has been involved in raising debt and equity capital for a number of property projects and companies, as well as the takeover and rationalisation of listed and unlisted companies. Prior to this he spent six years with the Bank of America subsidiary BA Australia Limited, where he was Executive Director, responsible for the financial and capital markets operations. He is also a Director of Carnegie Wave Energy Limited and Chairman of Mayan Iron Corporation Limited. Appointed a director of the Company on 21 May 1996.


Mr D Sutton    
Non-Executive Director
B.Comm, ASA, ACIS

Mr Sutton has many years experience in sharebroking and investment banking. He is a Director of Sinovus Mining Limited and a Director of Earth Heat Resources Limited. Appointed a Director of the Company on 30 January 1997.


Mr K A Torpey    
Non-Executive Director
B.E., MIE Aus., CP Eng, FAusIMM, (CP)

Mr Torpey has over the last 40 years been involved in the development of many diverse major projects involving oil, iron ore, aluminium, nickel, lead/zinc, uranium, magnesite, coal and gold, located in Australia, Ireland and Indonesia. Most of these projects have been associated with major companies such as Consolidated Goldfields, EZ Industries, Alcan, International Nickel, Tara Minerals Limited (Ireland), Noranda, Denison Mines (Canada), Toyota and Mitsubishi. In recent years he has acted as a consultant to a number of companies involved in mining projects and new technology. He is currently a Director of Latrobe Magnesium Limited and Camberwell Coal Pty Limited. Appointed a Director of the Company on 26 November 1992.


Ms Rachel V Ryan    
General Manager Finance & Joint Company Secretary

Ms Ryan has been employed in the Company's corporate finances division since 2006 and was appointed Joint Company Secretary on 21 July 2010.


Mr David Hughes     
Company Secretary

Before joining Imperial Corporation Limited he held similar positions with other listed companies for over 20 years. He is currently acting as Company Secretary or Joint Company Secretary for a number of other listed public companies. Appointed secretary on 11 November 1992.  


Advisors

Dr David Kahn    
Consultant

Dr Kahn was appointed an advisor to the Company in March 2010. Dr Kahn has 15 years of diverse experience in the petroleum industry. During the past seven years he has been a principal in companies focused on developing strategies for exploiting unconventional oil and gas assets. He has developed expertise in property evaluations, business analysis and development, budgeting and strategic planning, reservoir engineering with particular emphasis on enhanced oil recovery, drilling and completion operations, midstream & downstream technologies, and marketing. Dr Kahn has worked for Baker Hughes, Halliburton and Texacon E&P. Dr Kahn is currently a director of Gale Force Inc, Sonic Technology Inc. and 3P International Limited. His education includes a Bachelor's in Engineering from McGill University and Master's in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, as well as PHD in the same discipline, from Ecole Nationale Superiore du Petroel at des Meteus (Paris).


Dr John Warburton    
Consultant and Director, and CEO Imperial Oil & Gas Pty Ltd
FGS, MAICD

Dr Warburton was appointed as an advisor to the Company in February 2010 and as a director and Cheif Executive Officer to the Company's wholly owned subsidiary Imperial Oil and Gas Pty Ltd on 18 March 2011. John will be responsible for the development of the Company's extensive acreage in Australia new shale oil and gas targets once identified. 

A Geoscientist by profession, John has 27 years of technical and leadership experience in International Petroleum E&P including 11 years with BP and 4 years as General Manager Exploration & New Business for LASMO-Eni in Pakistan. John is a Director of Sydney based Petroleum Exploration Business Consultancy Insight Exploration and he maintains a strong global executive network.

John's extensive operated & non-operated petroleum expertise covers the Middle East, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, North & West Africa, Pakistan, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, PNG, SE Asia, China, Korea and Japan. John has been involved in the discovery of commercial oil & gas fields in Pakistan, UK, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and PNG and he has published 28 internationally recognised technical articles with particular focus on petroleum exploration in complex fold and thrust belts.

John has a first class B.Sc. Honours Degree in Geological Sciences and a Ph.D. in Structural Geology. He is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, an Alumni of Cranfield Business School UK and a Fellow of the Geological Society of London. Insight Exploration is a Sustaining Member of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britian.

On 18th March 2011 John was appointed as a Director and Chief Executive Officer of Imperial Oil and Gas Pty Ltd.