Advent Energy

David Breeze
Managing Director

Advent Energy Ltd is an unlisted Oil and Gas exploration company with a strong asset portfolio containing near term production opportunities and exploration upside. Advent is pursuing its option to earn 85% in cornerstone project PEP 11 – offshore Sydney Basin.

The Sydney Basin is a proven petroleum basin with excellent potential for the discovery of gas and oil. The recent demonstration of an active hydrocarbon system with seeps reported in the offshore area confirmed the presence of thermogenic hydrocarbon gas; this is considered to occur in basins actively generating hydrocarbons and /or that contain excellent migration pathways. 

Amadeus Energy

Mitchell Wells
Chief Operating Officer

Amadeus Energy Limited is a Perth based oil and natural gas producer and explorer listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX Code: AMU). Established in 1996, the Company has built an extensive portfolio of long-life producing petroleum assets and exploration prospects in the USA, currently spanning the states of Kansas, Louisiana, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Texas.

Amadeus generates value for shareholders by increasing oil and gas production and growing reserves through the acquisition and development of existing long life onshore oil and gas fields and through exploration activity. This is achieved by acquiring properties that have significant development potential and by investing in a combination of low, medium and high-risk exploration activity. Through field enhancements, timely aquisitions and exploration success, Amadeus has successfully recorded incresed revenue of 357% over the last five years.

Bounty
Oil & Gas

Philip Kelso
Chief Executive Officer

Bounty Oil is an Australian based oil production and exploration company with interests in Australia and Tanzania. It is expanding its Australian oil and gas acreage with new acquisitions in the Cooper and Surat Basins.

It has offshore exploration interests holding 75%; PEP 11 offshore Sydney Basin; 100% of WA 324P; Bonaparte Basin and 10% of A/CP 32; Timor Sea. It’s oil production is from the Utopia Block in the Cooper/Eromanga Basin of SW Queensland and it now has gas/condensate production from the Surat Basin and will participate in the Origin Energy operated Eluanbrook oil well in 2009. Bounty has a strong technical team with experience in production and development operations.

Bow Energy

Jon De Stefani
Chief Executive Officer;
Commercial

Bow Energy is a petroleum exploration and production company which listed on the ASX in May 2005. Its primary focus is oil prone areas of Queensland’s premier petroleum Basins, the Cooper-Eromanga and Bowen-Surat, where Bow has a substantial acreage portfolio. Bow also is in the process of reserve certification of a coal seam gas project in the Surat Basin north of Roma. The company also has majority interests in three oil fields in the Surat Basin. 

Bow's business growth model has been to acquire dominant land positions and high equities in oil prone areas of proven petroleum basins. Bow then value adds the areas by collating and re-interpreting all available geological data to firm a portfolio of oil prospects and leads in its tenements. It then seeks ways to fund ongoing oil exploration drilling programs, mainly through farm out, in the areas where it has high equities. The target is to divest risk and preserve capital while retaining sufficient equity after farm out to potentially achieve substantial shareholder growth following any exploration successes.

Carnarvon Petroleum

Ted Jacobson
Executive Director
Chief Executive Officer

Carnarvon Petroleum Limited (“Carnarvon”) is a Perth based company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. The Company’s principal activity is oil and gas exploration and production.

Carnarvon’s immediate objective is to create value from the production and exploration opportunities in its 40% interest in the Phetchabun Basin oil fields and exploration concessions in Thailand. Together with joint venture partner and operator, TSX listed Pan Orient Energy Corp. (POE), Carnarvon is continuing an extensive work programme including a mix of development, appraisal and exploration wells to fully evaluate and test the field.

Cooper Energy Limited

Michael Scott
Chief Executive Officer & 
Executive Director

Cooper Energy is a small cap international onshore and shallow shelf exploration company with onshore production in South Australia. Cooper Energy is the operator of Block C in the Otway Basin, the South Madura PSC in Indonesia and the Bargou Block in Tunisia and is a non-operating participant in Permits PEL 90, PEL92, PEL93, PEL100 and PEL110 in South Australia and the Hammamet Block in Tunisia. Cooper Energy participates in onshore oil production from seven fields in the Cooper Basin, South Australia with a eighth recently discovered oil field to come on line later in 2009. During 2009 the Company will be pursuing a number of new ventures and operational activities that all have the potential to substantially increase the Company value. With a primary objective to “Create Shareholder Wealth” the company has consistently sought to deliver to this objective since listing in March 2002.

Drillsearch Energy Ltd
Peter Simpson
Chairman

Drillsearch Energy Limited has over 20 years of petroleum production and exploration experience, with a balanced development pipeline of permit interests containing a portfolio of production interests and exploration interests right through the development charts in Australia, Canada, and Papua New Guinea. This mix offers shareholders asset growth with real upside potential.

Drillsearch is an upstream petroleum company formed to explore, and develop, the conventional petroleum potential of a number of highly prospective areas specifically selected because of their potential to either yield significant discoveries and early cash flow or provide potential for high impact, "company maker" discoveries. 

Eastern Star Gas

David Casey
Managing Director

Eastern Star Gas is an Australian listed coal seam gas company (ASX:ESG) that is currently focused on development of the CSG resource of Petroleum Exploration Licence 238, near Narrabri in NSW.  The PEL 238 area contains one of Australia ’s largest onshore accumulations of gas.

ESG is presently conducting NSW’s biggest ever CSG exploration and appraisal programme, the initial results of which have been outstanding.   

ESG aims to quickly prove up reserves of gas to underwrite Memorandums of Understanding that are already in place with Macquarie Generation and Babcock & Brown, and which together represent a 50% increase in the current size of the NSW gas market.

Elk Petroleum

Andy Rigg
Chief Executive Officer

Elk Petroleum was originally established to take advantage of petroleum redevelopment opportunities in the USA. The corporate strategy has been to

• acquire large equity in historic producing and non-producing oil/gas fields in the Rocky Mountains region
• enhance productivity through integration of field engineering and geology and the application of modern oil extraction techniques such as either CO2 or chemical EOR
• form JVs for development to extract value and share risk, and
• use in-house expertise for acquisition of high potential offset acreage with unevaluated exploration potential, then seek farm outs to provide exploration funding

Eromanga Hydrocarbons

Phil Galoway
Chief Executive Officer

Eromanga (ERH, ERHO, ERHCA) is developing production and exploring for oil on-shore Brazil. Eromanga’s three successful exploration wells last year have demonstrated that Brazil is highly prospective and is a low cost operating environment. Brazil also has excellent fiscal terms and a professional oil industry regulator. 

Eromanga is focussed on developing two discoveries in the Sergipe Alagoas Basin. These are at Block 330 and Block 430 and are close to existing production and infrastructure in the Basin.  Eromanga has a 40% interest in these fields with a local private company, UBX, operating and holding the remaining 60%.  Block 330 is the more advanced project with production coming from the PACA 1 well since October 2008 and flow testing underway at the PACA 2 well some 1 km away. A testing and development plan will commence at Block 430 in Mid-2009. Eromanga is also participating in a number of exploration projects. 

European Gas

Anthony McClure
Chief Executive Officer

European Gas Limited (ASX: EPG.AX) is a hydrocarbon producer/developer/explorer with projects in western Europe.  The strategy of the company is to develop Coal Bed Methane and Coal Mine Methane projects, in particular in France where the company has major holdings under licence.  The permit and application portfolio covers over 10,000 km2 in France , Italy and Belgium and contains the largest unconventional gas resources ever assembled in continental western Europe.  The western European natural gas market is substantial with advanced infrastructure, including extensive pipeline networks and a free and open market.  European Gas Limited has certified reserves of 380PJ (3P reserves) and contingent resources of 12,542 PJ.

Incremental Petroleum

Gerry McGann
Managing Director

Incremental’s strategy is to acquire low risk oil and gas assets and apply world class technical expertise to develop their productivity.

Incremental’s major asset is the Selmo oilfield in Turkey, the second largest oilfield in Turkey by cumulative production, with annual production of approx 500,000 barrels.

A second major asset in Turkey is the Edirne gas project in which Incremental has a 55% interest. Seven gas discoveries have been made in seven wells drilled in 2007 and 2008. First gas sales are targeted for mid 2009.The company also has significant exploration acreage in Turkey.

Incremental has consistently returned funds to shareholders. 17 cents per share has been returned since the company listed in late 2005.

Key Petroleum Ltd

Ken Russell
Chief Executive Officer & 
Managing Director

Key Petroleum Ltd is a Perth based, internationally focused ASX listed Australian Company (ASX code KEY)

Key is taking advantage of international petroleum opportunities identified by the Company’s technical and corporate team who placed emphasis on quality assets, in proven oil and gas regions and where early exploration opportunities had already been identified.

The Company also wanted its projects to be located in politically stable countries with attractive fiscal terms and where possible, existing well built and operated, quality infrastructure.

Metgasco

David Johnson
Managing Director

David Johnson is the Managing Director of Metgasco Limited. He graduated with a B.App.Sc in Geology in 1985. Between 985-1989 he worked primarily in gold exploration in the south west Pacific area as well as in base metals and uranium exploration in Australia and Africa. In 1990 David commenced post graduate studies at University of New South Wales and graduated with a Master of Business Administration in 1991. Between 1991 and 1996 he worked in corporate finance. David co founded Metgasco Limited in 1997 and has managed the company through to the current time.

Mosaic Oil

Andy Rigg
Deputy Chairman

Mosaic Oil N.L. (ASX: MOS) is a successful junior Australian explorer and producer of oil and gas.  The Company’s principal producing assets are based in the highly prospective proven producing Surat and Bowen basins of southeast Queensland, where the company has recently launched its largest ever operated drill campaign. Mosaic also participates in the Santos-operated joint venture WA-208-P (MOS 6%) on the North West Shelf, and has an interest in the Oil Search-operated Kimu gas field (PRL 08; MOS 28.6%) in PNG. 

New Zealand Oil and Gas

David Salisbury
Chief Executive

New Zealand Oil & Gas Limited is an independent public company listed on both the NZX and ASX. In its current portfolio it has significant oil production through the Tui Area Oil Fields, gas and condensate development through the Kupe Project, quality exploration permits in the Taranaki basin and a major shareholding in the Pike River coking coal mine development on New Zealand’s West Coast. With strong cash flows and an ambitious growth strategy, the company is actively pursuing new opportunities.

Nido Petroleum Ltd

Jocot De Dois
CEO & President 

Nido Petroleum Limited is an ASX (ASX: NDO) listed oil and gas exploration and production company with production, development and exploration assets in the NW Palawan Basin, Philippines.

Nido has strategically positioned itself to seize first mover advantage and become one the most significant oil and gas companies in the Philippines.

· 3 million hectares of prime contiguous exploration acreage within the most prolific hydrocarbon basin in the Philippines

·  An extensive technical database secured through extensive seismic acquisition in the last four years

· Cashflow to support development and exploration activities from a 22% direct interest in the Galoc oil field

· Nido’s Head Office in Perth is staffed by an internationally experienced team of oil and gas professionals and supported by a highly regarded Filipino management group in Manila.

· A keen understanding of the business and regulatory environment in the Philippines and South East Asia.

Otto Energy

Alex Parks
Chief Executive Officer

Alex Parks will be presenting the Otto Energy story (ASX OEL). Otto has a portfolio of operated assets in the Philippines and non-operated interests in Turkey, Italy, and Argentina. The portfolio includes an 18.3% beneficial interest in the Galoc Field located offshore Philippines, which is scheduled to commence production in late April 2008. Otto will be reinvesting most of the profits from Galoc in an extensive exploration program in the Philippines, and Otto’s other worldwide assets. Success in the exploration program has the potential to turn Otto into a significant mid-cap company.

Pheonix Oil & Gas

Andy Carroll
Managing Director

Phoenix Oil and Gas Limited (Phoenix) is an oil and gas exploration and production company that has acquired and continues to build a portfolio of oil and gas production and near production assets as well as exploration interests.

Phoenix has acquired oil and gas royalty rights from tenements in some of Australia’s most prolific offshore oil and gas provinces:

• Bass Strait ; and
• The Browse Basin off shore Western Australia.

These royalties are likely to provide both income and exposure to exploration upside without exposure to drilling and other capital costs.

Phoenix’s aim is to have a broad portfolio of leads and prospects in multiple basins and play types. This allows selective progression of ranked targets according to commodity pricing, infrastructure developments and results of various programmes.

Rodinia Oil Corp

Matthew Philipchuk
Executive Vice President

Rodinia Oil Corp. is a private energy exploration company with a prestigious board of directors and an experienced management team, including Paul Bennett (President and CEO with 30+ years in senior management positions with Mobil/Exxon-Mobil) and Dr. James Buckee (former CEO of Talisman Energy Inc.).

Rodinia holds an 80% working interest in 18.3 million acres of the most prospective lands in the Officer Basin in South Australia with potential undiscovered, unrisked, prospective recoverable resources of 180.6 billion barrels of oil from multiple pools.

Rodinia’s affiliate company, Australia Energy Corp. holds an 18% working interest (with a right to earn up to 50% working interest) in 5.5 million acres in the Georgina Basin (Northern Territory, Australia) with potential undiscovered, unrisked, prospective recoverable resources ranging from 13 - 93 million barrels of oil per structure (structure density unknown).

Note: There are no discoveries to date on either property.

Samson 
Oil & Gas

Keith Skipper
Non-Executive Director

Samson Oil & Gas Limited is an Australian based oil & gas company holding extensive development and exploration acreage in the USA .

Samson is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) and American Stock Exchange (AMEX), ticket code SSN.

Strike Oil Limited

Simon Ashton
Managing Director

Strike Oil Limited (Strike Oil) is an Australian based oil and gas explorer and producer with operations the USA onshore Gulf Coast Texas and in the Carnarvon and Cooper Basin’s in Australia (www.strikeoil.com.au).

Founded in 1997, Strike Oil has been trading on the Australian Securities Exchange since 2004. Strike Oil’s office is located in Perth, Western Australia.

The December 2008 quarter capped a successful 12 month period of growth for the Company during which its gross production from its two fields Mesquite and Rayburn in the Gulf Coast totalled 5,140 barrels of oil equivalent per day (Strike Oil’s working interest share being 1,175 barrels of oil equivalent per day).

• Gas and oil-condensate revenue of AUD 13 million – up 8% on the previous quarter.
• Gas production of 1,111 mmcf – up 55 % on the previous quarter.
• Oil-condensate production of 27,922 barrels – up 60% on the previous quarter.
• Outlook - strong operating cash flows and focus on high quality Gulf Coast Texas interests.

Stuart Petroleum

Tino Guglielmo
Managing Director

Since its inception as an oil explorer in 1999, Stuart Petroleum Ltd has successfully grown to the point it currently provides around 20 percent of oil production in the South Australian sector of the Cooper Basin. 
Stuart’s focused strategy and experienced team delivers strong production and cash flow performance. Stuart’s current land holdings ensure several years of high quality exploration. The next phase of growth is founded on a strong and stable platform.

Stuart’s growth has and will remain targeted at:

• The acquisition of additional Cooper Basin acreage to leverage off excellent operating capabilities
• Product processing, refining and marketing to capture the value add component of hydrocarbon discoveries
• The acquisition of additional exploration tenements elsewhere in Australia and overseas to provide further organic growth potential
  This will be Stuart’s first venture offshore, with drilling expected to commence in the third quarter of 2008. 

Tap Oil

Peter Stickland
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer

Tap Oil Limited is an independent oil & gas exploration and production company with interests in Australia and South East Asia. Headquartered in Perth, Western Australia, Tap was incorporated in 1995 and subsequently listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX:TAP) in September 1996. At the time, Tap’s primary asset was 12.2229% of the Harriet oil and gas fields. In 1997, Tap participated in the Woollybutt exploration well, resulting in a commercial oil discovery. Commissioned in 2003, the Woollybutt field has exceeded expectations and produced 29 million barrels of oil from an estimated 40 million barrels ultimately recoverable. In 2006, Tap expanded its focus to include South East Asia by acquiring interests in the Philippines and Borneo. In addition, Tap has acquired a significant offshore acreage position in the Australian North West Shelf and intends to continue a measured exploration and development program over the coming years.