So if anyone wishes to copy and paste the long history between Pater Landau and Greg Smith for any "correspondence" Please feel free..
Oct 2008
Appointed as a consultant at Range resources to the Puntland con struction.
Mr Gregory Smith Mr Gregory Smith (age 47) has been involved in the resources business for in excess of 20 years. He has a wide breadth of senior management and executive experience, having been associated with natural resource companies across the globe – coal bed methane in Wyoming; onshore oil and gas in
Guatemala and Colombia; underground and open pit zinc mines in Canada; and corporate finance and advisory services throughout much of the world.
Mr. Smith is Chairman, CEO and founder of AIM-listed International Consolidated Minerals Inc, a South American focused mineral exploration and development company. Mr Smith is a founder of
Texas Energy Advisors, formed in 2007.
From 2004 to
June 2008, Mr. Smith founded and served as Executive Chairman of
Petrolatina Energy Plc, an AIM listed oil and gas company with operations initially in
Guatemala and now in Colombia. Between 2003 and 2004, he provided corporate advisory services to Ontzinc Corporation at its 1,000 tpd Balmat zinc mine in New York State, USA, including advice on financing the exploration program and the acquisition of Hudson Bay Mining. He also investigated and provided advisory services on possible mining acquisitions in Canada and Australia.
Sept 2009
Texas then showed up at Range.
The above commitment is for our consulting agreement with
Texas Energy Advisors LLC. The commitment is for GBP 30,000 per month for a maximum of 3 months (translated at the 30 June 2009 exchange rate of $0.4872 as per
www.rba.gov.au)
The Company has entered into a 12 month rolling agreement with T
exas Energy Advisors LLC to procure an offshore drilling partner in Puntland. If Texas Energy facilitates the introduction of Range Resources to an offshore drilling partner, Texas Energy will receive cash or equity to the value of:
T
exas Energy Advisors LLC was still being paid by Range up to 2014
And who arranged the Texas valuation?
17 June 2010
Range, through its technical consultants
Texas Energy Advisors LLC, engaged Lonquist to compile geological, geophysical and engineering data and provide an Independent Reserves Report and Valuation for the prospect.
By the time Texas got here and after 5 wells, re-enters, fracc's and horizontals that just never seem to happen.
Texas was producing a whole 51bopd!
So there you have it. An association with Greg Smith, Range resources and Peter Landau since 2008
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