confirmation of reserves, page-5

Below is the response from a mail I snet to Lon Whitman (who made the presentation in December.

Mr Taylor,

Thank you for contacting me regarding the presentation I made in Midland, Tx - Dec 6/7, 2007 which included reference to Elk Petroleum's Grieve Field study done by EORI.

I am not aware whether or not Ryder Scott has completed their reserve study on Grieve Field. My reference to confirmation by Ryder Scott was to do with the reservoir modeling and simulation runs done in the EORI study. I am sorry if that created confusion.

Hopefully this clarifies things for you.

Best Regards,

Lon Whitman, P.Eng.