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On August 30, 2006, George L. Hampton III was appointed to the board of directors. Mr. Hampton is President and Chief Geologist of Hampton & Associates, Inc. Hampton & Associates, Inc. specializes in all aspects of coal seam natural gas (CSNG) exploration, drilling, completion and production. Mr. Hampton has 28 years of industry experience and 26 in Coal seam natural gas. He began his career with Amoco Production Co. (Denver) (1978-1986). He was instrumental in Amoco's early CSNG projects in the Piceance and San Juan Basins as well as Green River, Uinta and the Wyoming Thrust Belt. Mr. Hampton formed Hampton & Associates in 1986 and has been an independent geologic consultant most of the time since then. He has worked CSNG plays in most of the active CSNG plays in the US & Canada and has been involved in many international CSNG projects. He has been active in the CSNG desorption (gas content) business since 1988 and he formed Hampton, Waechter and Associates in 1998. He sold out his portion of HWA to his former partners in April 2005. He has also been a Consulting Project Geologist for JM Huber Corp. (1999-2003), Project Manager for Pennaco (1998-1999) and has consulted for many other CSNG companies. Mr. Hampton is active in CSNG prospect generation and is also affiliated with GeoTrends-Hampton International (GHI). This business venture generated several prospects in the Pacific Northwest. Those prospects were sold to Torrent Energy in 2004. Mr. Hampton is now a director of Torrent Energy and a director for Ivana Ventures, a company involved in CBM (CSNG) projects in China. Mr. Hampton holds a B.S. and an M.S. in geology from Brigham Young University. | 