MARTIN R. LEIPZIG BS, MS: Petroleum Geology

Senior Petroleum Operations /Exploration / Production Geologist – Exploration Manager – Senior Advisor – Neoproterozoicologist – Helium finder

Champaign-Urbana, IL (GMT-6) Muscat, Oman (GMT+4)

1-217-***-**** +968-**-**-**-**

E-mail: acult2@r.postjobfree.com, acult2@r.postjobfree.com

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Senior Staff/Exploration Manager/ Consultant petroleum geologist, currently in Champaign-Urbana, IL. MS Petroleum Geology. Seeking permanent/contract position world-wide. I have global skills in all E&P production/operations matters plus extensive experience in “unconventional” plays (CSG, CBM, BCGA, methane hydrates, shale gas, heavy oil, helium) and enhanced recovery methods (CHOPS, SAGD, MGI, waterflood, etc.). Not keen to just drive workstations any longer; I desire to devise FDPs, drill wells, mentor others, develop fields and turn rocks & reserves into revenue.

KEY-WORD SUMMARY

Oil finder, Abu Dhabi, Argentina, Bahrain, Basin Analysis, Brazil, Carbonate, Central Asia, China, Clastic, Colombia, CSG (CBM), Depositional Environments, Dubai, East Texas, Eastern Siberia, EOR, Exploration Manager, Field Development, Frontier Geology, Genetic Stratigraphy, Geology, Geophysics, GOM, Gulf Coast, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Landmark, Management, Mid-Continent, MS, OFM, Pakistan, Petrel, Qatar, Rockies, Russia, San Juan Basin, Sedimentology, Sequence Stratigraphy, South Texas, Tadzhikistan, Tobago, Trinidad, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, West Texas, Western Siberia

CAREER SUMMARY

Oil finder/working manager with myriad years of lucrative experience in US/international exploration and production geology, geophysics and research. Utilizing my skills in sequence stratigraphy, clastic and carbonate sedimentology, subsurface geology, basin analysis, and computer applications; I have established a rock-solid record of accomplishment in discovering and producing oil and gas the world over. Domestic (US) responsibilities have included exploration and production geology of South Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana; the Houston, East Texas, Rio Grande, Green River and Anadarko Basins. International experience includes exploration and production geology of Eastern and Western Siberia, the Pri-Caspian Basin, the Central Asian republics, and Mongolia. Onshore/offshore exploration/production geological activities include those in China, South America, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Bahrain. Extensive experience with secondary/tertiary EOR methods (water-, fire-, miscible-fluid floods), bitumen, heavy oil and unconventional (tight sands, CBM, methane hydrates) gas. I have also supervised exploration and production personnel as Team Leader/ Exploration/Operations Manager; internationally and domestically.

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

January, 2015 - Present BrontoSaurus Oil & Gas ("BrontOil")

Illinois, USA President & CEO/Chief Consultant

Consulting Petroleum Geologist/Exploration-Asset Manager whose self-formed company has performed short-term contract geological and geophysical analysis of properties, prospects, and projects in the unconventional (CBM, GSG, heavy oil) and conventional realms of the industry in the US as well as internationally.

August, 2011 – August, 2014 DNO Oman Ltd. (Formerly: RAK Petroleum)

Muscat, Sultanate of Oman Exploration Manager - Sultanate of Oman

Responsible for all geological/geophysical/geochemical projects company wide. This includes daily operations of 1 offshore and 1 onshore rig, both in Oman; also in the development of projects/prospects for Blocks 8, 30, 31, 36 & 47, likewise in Oman. Originated and developing the first ever Shale Gas project not only in the Sultanate, but in the Middle East. Also developed first Coal Bed Methane pilot project in the Middle East.

July, 2010 – July, 2011 CC Energy Development S.A.L. (Oman)

Muscat, Sultanate of Oman Exploration Manager

Exploration Manager charged with the responsibilities of all geological/geophysical and exploration/production activities for the company in Oman’s Blocks 3 & 4, comprising over 35,000 km2 area. Management of multicultural and multidisciplinary teams, including mentoring of nationals, while exploring the Infracambrian through Ordovician clastic and carbonates, and production development of 2 new field discoveries: Saiwan East (Khufai Dolomite- Infracambrian) and Farha South (Cambro-Ordovician) Fields. Also instrumental in JVs, partner relationships, Field Development Plans, EOR projects, and obtaining additional E&P blocks in the Sultanate.

December, 2007 – June, 2010 PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN

Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

Sr. Petroleum Geologist/ Studies Team – Birba Studies team

Sr. Petroleum Geologist responsible for constructing, updating and interpreting 2 & 3-D geocellular models (via Petrel™) for the “Birba Sour”(~4.5mmbboe) program. These reservoirs are highly compartmentalized and fractured Late Proterozoic and Infracambrian carbonate stringers and ‘silicytes’ in the Ara (~Hormuz) Salt of the South Oman Salt Basin. Models include limited well data, extensive 3-D Wide Aperture seismic, petrophysics, PT and reservoir engineering data for input into ‘Eclipse’ Black Oil simulator for eventual development of Field Development and EOR program. Sole discoverer of helium sourced from the Neoproterozoic in the Middle East.

January, 2007 – Dec, 2007 PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN

Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

Team Leader– Government Gas Directorate: Oman

Sr. Discipline Lead: Pet. Geol - Gas

Team leader responsible for the daily drilling/completion operations of 12 heavy rigs in Oman; exploiting deep Barik, Miqrat and Amin formations (5,000-6,500m) to fulfill country’s directive for developing natural gas and its collection/distribution infrastructure. This includes entire well delivery process from studies through drilling, frac, clean-out, testing, hook-up and commissioning. Additionally, I am the Senior Discipline Lead for all Petroleum Geologists in the Gas Directorate; responsible for the training, mentoring, assessment and progression of all geologists (both Omanis and expatriates).

December, 2002 – Jan., 2007 PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN

Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

Team Leader – Nimr/Karim-Bahja/Rima South

New Oil Coordinator: New Oil-South; Sr. Production Geologist

Team leader/Senior Production Geologist responsible for the daily drilling/completion operations of 4 rigs in South Oman; drilling single, dual and multilateral horizontal wells exploiting Cambrain-Permocarboniferous heavy oil. Inherent in this is the development of FDP’s, as well as the entire well delivery process; from studies, through reservoir management to New Oil and the individual well proposal. Additionally, as Coordinator of New Oil-South, I am responsible for the coordination, management and implementation of the South’s 12-rig Drilling Sequence, to fulfill delivery of FDP’s, proposals and materiel for the 190 wells drilled annually in the country’s Southern Oil province.

October, 2000 – December, 2002 INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT

Houston, Texas; Bogotá, Colombia; Moscow, Russia; Kuwait City, Kuwait, et al.

Sr. Geological Consultant (Contract)

Contract consultant geologist to provide geological/geophysical exploration and production expertise for the investigation and optimization of oil and gas fields in Pakistan (Indus Basin) as well as other international venues (Saudi Arabia, Colombia, Congo, Yemen) for a large Multi-national Independent Oil and Gas Company. Also, Senior Petroleum Geologist assigned to Russian oil company joint-venture designed to train and mentor Russian geological, geophysical and petrophysical professionals in 'Western style' drilling, exploitation, production and field management methods and methodologies; particularly in developing and implementing comprehensive Field Development Plans. Participated in building geological framework and drove implementation of FSU coal seam gas pilot programs in Russia, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.

July, 1997 - July, 2000 QATAR GENERAL PETROLEUM CORP.

Doha, Qatar

Senior Production Geologist (North Field)

Sr. Petroleum-Chief Geologist responsible for the development and production of Qatar's supergiant North Field (1000 TCFG, 5,000,000 MMBC), as well as exploitation and delineation of Dukhan Field (oil) and exploration of offshore boundary waters.

Oct., 1996 - June, 1997 IITRI - WESTPORT TECHNOLOGIES INT’L . Houston, TX.

Sr. Petroleum Research Geologist

Research geologist and corporate liaison between IITRI and corporate subscribers. Research areas include basin analysis, reservoir characterization, sequence stratigraphy of petroliferous basins the world over; as well as geological, geophysical, and image analytical workstation investigations as they pertain to client's projects.

March, 1995 - Oct., 1996 CONSULTING PETROLEUM GEOLOGIST

Houston, TX

Independent Geological Consultant

Geological, geophysical and workstation consultant to US and international oil and gas companies. Responsibilities included petroleum geology of fields in the US Mid-Continent, Gulf Coast (onshore and offshore), South America and Western Siberia; the design, acquisition, processing and interpretation of 3-D seismic surveys; and frontier regional geology and basin analysis in China, Mongolia and Central Asia.

October, 1988 - Mar. 1995 COASTLINE EXPLORATION, INC.

(Note: other *Coastline companies were concurrent wholly owned subsidiaries or Joint-Venture companies of Coastline Exploration, Inc.)

Houston, TX Exploration Manager

October, 1991 - Feb. 1995 *COASTLINE INTERNATIONAL - UZBEKISTAN

Houston, TX, Senior Geological Expert - Uzbekistan

October, 1990 - Feb. 1995 *COASTLINE INTERNATIONAL- TRINIDAD

Houston, TX, Senior Geologist - Trinidad

October, 1989 - Feb. 1995 *VOLZHSKAYA EXPLORATION

Houston, TX, Geological Expedition Leader – Volga Basin

October, 1989 - Feb. 1995 *SYMSKAYA EXPLORATION

Houston, TX, Denver, CO, Exploration Manager – Eastern Siberia

Salt Lake City, UT

May, 1988 - October 1988 TEXAS CHALLENGE OIL COMPANY

Houston, TX Independent Petroleum Geologist

October, 1987- May, 1988 LEXCO, INC.

Houston, TX Independent Petroleum Geologist

July, 1981 - September, 1987 CONOCO, Inc.

Houston, TX

1986 – 1987 Senior Staff Geologist

1983 – 1986 Operations (Development) Geologist

1981 – 1983 Associate Geologist – K/T Group

1980 - 1982 UNIV. OF WISCONSIN - MILWAUKEE

Milwaukee, Wisconsin Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant

1980 – 1982 MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM

Milwaukee, Wisconsin Curatorial Assistant and Geological Consultant -

Department of Geology

EDUCATION

M.S., (Hons), Petroleum Geology, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee 1982

B.S., Geology, University of Wisconsin - Parkside 1980

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Geological Society of America (GSA), American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), Houston Geological Society (HGS), Geophysical Society of Houston (GSH), Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), Geological Society of Oman

TECHNICAL COURSES

Landmark -

Openworks

SeisWorks

StratWorks

Zmap

Petrel

Kingdom SMT

H2S Training

Arctic Survival

Desert Survival

Offshore survival training

Helicopter Underwater Egress Training (HUET)

ADDENDUM 1:

BASINS OR REGIONS AND FORMATIONS INVESTIGATED

DOMESTIC (US)

East Texas Interior Salt Basin: Cockrill, Carrizo Wilcox, "Salt Basin Midcox", Austin Chalk, Sub-Clarksville, Woodbine, Eagleford, Buda, Edwards, Georgetown, Glen Rose, Rodessa, James Lime, Travis Peak, Sligo (Pettet), Smackover

Houston Embayment - East Texas: Queen City, Vicksburg, Sparta, Weches, Reklaw, Yegua, Cook Mountain and Wilcox

Maverick Basin - Texas: San Miguel 1-5 Sands, Olmos Sandstone, Anacacho Lime

Midland and Delaware Basins - West Texas: Ellenburger, Simpson, Fusselman, Devonian and Abo reef trend

Rio Grande Embayment - South Texas: Expanded Wilcox (Fandango Series equivalent), Lobos, Hinnants, Midway

San Juan Basin, New Mexico: Kirtland Shale, Fruitland Formation, Pictured Cliffs Sandstone, Ojo Alamo Sandstone, Gallup, Entrada and Hospah Sands

State and Bay Waters - Texas, Louisiana, Alabama Florida: Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene Clastics

The Mid-Continent (Kansas, Oklahoma, Illinois & Missouri): Mesozoic-Paleozoic Clastics, Coals and Carbonates (Mid-Continent Rift System)

Wisconsin Arch, Michigan Basin: Paleozoic Clastics and Carbonates, Precambrian sedimentary section.

INTERNATIONAL

Argentina: Mesozoic Erathem, Ischigualasto Fmn.

Canada: Athabascan Heavy Oil Sands, Red Deer River, Judith River, Belly River, Oldman Formation, Tensleep, and Hell Creek Formations.

China: Tarim Basin, Bohai Bay, Sichuan Basin

Colombia: Upper and Middle Magdelena Basins, Cravo Norte area.

Kurdistan: Cretaceous-Tertiary, NE Iraq

Kirgizstan: Chu-Sarysui Basin, Karatau Ridge: Paleogene-Neogene, Suprasalt Formations, Middle-Upper Mesozoic

Middle East: Qatar, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Iran, Kuwait: Mesozoic Arab series, Permotriassic Khuff, Umm er Radhuma, Kharaib, Laffan, Amin, Al Khlata, Maddud, Mahwis

Mongolia: Eastern Govi Basin, Tamtsag Basin, Nyalga Basin, Delgerkhann Subbasin

North Sea - United Kingdom and Norway: Rotligendes, Westphalian and Hounslow

Pakistan: The Siwaliks, Lower Indus Basin: Upper/Lower Goru, Sembar, Chiltan Lime

Russia, Kazakhstan: Northern PriCaspian Basin: Subsalt Suite, Kungurian-Moscovian, Suprasalt Formations

Russia: East Siberian Platform: Frontier exploration of Yenisey Oil and Gas Region, Evenk Autonomous Okrug, Kraznoyarsk and Yakutsk Krais, Eastern Siberia: Precambrian Riphean, Vendian, Halogenous Cambrian, Lower to Upper Paleozoic, Mesozoic Erathem

Russia: Western Siberian Basin: Mesozoic Erathem, Upper Paleozoic Formations; Tyumen, Khanty-Mansisk, Tomsk, Nizhnevartovsk, and Urengoy regions

Sultanate of Oman: Al Khlata, Amin, Nimr, Ara Silicytes, Haima, Ara carbonate stringers, Gharif, Buda, Khufai, Masirah Bay, Ghadir Manqil

Tadzhikistan: Alai Basin, Afghan-Tadzhik basin: Paleogene-Neogene, Suprasalt Formations, Middle-Upper Mesozoic

Trinidad and Tobago: Central Range: Oligocene-Eocene; Southern and Northern Basin: Paleogene-Neogene

Turkmenistan: Kopet Dag Anticlise, Amu-Dar'ya Basin: Paleogene-Neogene, Suprasalt Formations, Middle-Upper Mesozoic, Permocarboniferous

Uzbekistan: Amu-Darya Basin, Gazli Uplift, Kyzyl Kum, Fergana Depression: Paleogene-Neogene, Suprasalt Formations, Middle-Upper Mesozoic Erathem

Venezuela: Maracaibo, Falcon, Barinas-Apure Basins, Orinoco Heavy Oil Belt

ADDENDUM 2:

UNCONVENTIONAL RESOURCES & EOR PROJECTS

Coal seam gas/ Coal bed methane:

Russia: Timan-Pechora Basin – West Siberia, Kuznetsk (Kuzbass) Basin – SW Siberia, Tunguska Basin – East Siberia, Orenburg Basin

USA: Black Warrior Basin - Alabama, Cherokee Basin - Kansas, Powder River Basin - WY and MT, Raton Basin - CO and NM, San Juan Basin - Colorado & New Mexico

Horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing, de-watering

Oil shale:

USA: Green River Shales, Western US

Hydraulic fracturing, In-situ retort, Externally generated hot gas, In Situ

Vapor Extraction

Shale gas:

Europe: Germany - Lower Saxony Basin, Hungary – Mako Trough,

Poland – Baltic Basin

USA: Antrim Shale - Michigan, Barnett Shale - Texas, Caney Shale - Oklahoma, Conesauga Shale - Alabama, Fayetteville Shale - Arkansas, Floyd Shale – Alabama, Gothic Shale – Colorado, Haynesville Shale – Louisiana, New Albany Shale - Illinois Basin, Pearsall Shale – Texas, Devonian shales - Appalachian Basin, (Chattanooga and Ohio Shales & Marcellus Shale), Woodford Shale – Oklahoma

Horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing

Gas hydrates (clathrates):

Russia: North Siberian Basin - Messoyakha gas field

Thermal methods, CO2 injection, hot oil, gas-cap depressurization

Basin-Centered Gas Systems (BCGS):

USA: Frontier Formation - SW Wyoming, Tight Gas Uinta - Tertiary East,

Tight Gas Uinta - Tertiary West, Basin Flank - Uinta Mesaverde, Deep Synclinal Uinta Mesaverde.

Oman: Saih Rawl and Kauther Fields

UBD (Under-balanced drilling), Anhydrous hydraulic fracturing, CO2 fracing, Huff-n-Puff (gas-recycling flood)

Fractured Carbonates:

USA: Austin Chalk, Pearsall - Texas

Horizontal drilling, UBD

Russia: Verkhnechon and Verkhnevilyuy Fields

Russia, Kazakhstan: Astrakhan Field

Oman: Budour and Budour NE Fields (Ara), Fahud Field (Shuaiba), Natih

field (Natih), Saiwan East (Precambrian Khufai fractured carbonate)

Sour/acid gas re-injection, gas recycling, sour waterflood, sour gaslift

Heavy oil:

Canada: Athabasca Heavy Oil Sands

In-situ Cyclic Steam Stimulation (ISCSS)

Vapor extraction (VAPEX)

High-temperature gas injection

Toe-to-Heel Air Injection (THAI)

Russia: Anabar-Lena, Vilyuy, Yenisey-Khatanga, Tunguska regions

Bitumen: Kir, maltha, asphalt

Olenek – Upper Cambrian carbonates

Chun’ya – Middle-Upper Ordovician carbonates

Chekurovka – Vendian-Lower Cambrian clastics

DEH: Downhole electrical heating

Electromagnetic oil recovery

ES-SAGD: Expanding Solvent Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage

Simultaneous injection of heated exhaust gas (mainly CO2 and N2) and

steam

Oman: Nimr, Marmul, Karim, etc, Fields – Al Khlata and Amin Fmns.

Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand (CHOPS), horizontal drilling, FEWD, MWD, EZIPs (Elastomeric [External] Zonal Isolation Packers)

Neoproterozoic-sourced accumulations (including helium):

Ediacarian- VendCambrian:

USA: Mid-Continental Rift System, Central USA

Oman: Ara Carbonate stringers (sole discoverer of economic quantities of

Helium in Middle East from Neoproterozoic-sourced rocks)

Russia: Eastern Siberia - Sredne-Botuobinsk Field, Kovykta Field

China: Sichuan Region - Weiyuan Field

Riphean:

Russia: Eastern Siberian Platform: Yurubchen –Tokhom Field, Kuyumba

Field, Omorin Field

Gravity, magnetics, VLF, 2-D/3-D seismic and magnetotellurics.

Fractured (and weathered) basement:

Igneous:

Alaska: Jurassic tuffites and volcanic sands - McArthur River Field

Canada: Archean – Fort McMurray

Egypt: Granite wash: Hurghada Field, Zeit Bay Field

Vietnam: Fractured Granite: White Tiger (Bach Ho) Field, Dragon (Rong) Field

Metamorphic:

China: Fractured Palaeozoic metamorphics: Yaerxia Oil Field

Fractured Archean metamorphosed granite: Xinglongtai Oil and Gas Field

Egypt: Granite wash and metamorphics: Zeit Bay Field

USA: Fractured Precambrian quartzite: Orth Field, Ringwold Field, Silica Field, Trapp Field, Eveleigh Field - KS

Volcanic:

Algeria: Fractured basalt

Brazil: Fractured basalt: Campos Basin, Badejo Field, Linguado Field

Chile: Fractured volcaniclastics: Magallanes basin: Jurassic Tobifera

USA: South Texas : “Serpentine plugs” - Maverick Basin: Hidalgo Field, Travis Field

Pakistan: Deccan traps

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