Management

Directors and Executive Officers of the Company

KRI’s management team is comprised of seasoned veterans of the energy and oilfield services industry. They bring extensive experience in energy industry leadership, corporate finance, exploration and development, engineering and management.

D. Ronald Harrell, Chairman of the Board

Ronald Harrell recently joined Kerogen Resources, Inc. as Chairman of the Board of Directors after retiring from his position as Chairman and CEO for Ryder Scott Company. Mr. Harrell began his distinguished career at Ryder Scott as a reservoir engineer in 1968 and worked his way through various technical and managerial positions that culminated in him becoming President in 1998, and CEO in 2000. Projects he personally oversaw include reserves certifications, property evaluations for sale, purchase or financing, reservoir management, gas supply analysis in support of the pipeline construction, gas storage studies, contract compliance and litigation support. He is highly regarded both domestically and internationally, having represented clients that include oil and gas producers, pipeline companies, utilities, banks, insurance companies, universities, municipalities, governmental agencies, law firms, investors, estates and royalty owners.

Mr. Harrell is a well-published, noted authority and speaks often on various reservoir engineering subjects. Some of his areas of expertise include: oil and gas appraisal, property sales and acquisition, oil and gas reserves definitions and classifications, differences in reserves estimates, engineer's role in litigation, professional standards and ethics training, qualification of evaluation engineers and underground natural gas storage. He is highly respected world-wide as a recognized expert in petroleum reserves and resources classifications and standards.

Professional organizations Mr. Harrell is a member of include: American Petroleum Institute, Society of Petroleum engineers, Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association, Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers and Independent Producers Association of America.

Murray Grigg, Acting President and Executive Vice President of Geosciences & Engineering

Mr. Grigg is a co-founder of Kerogen Resources, Inc., and has over 30 years experience in the oil and gas business as an exploration and development petroleum engineer. In the past 9 years he has specialized in the exploitation of gas produced from gas shales. From 1981 through 1995 he worked with Canadian Hunter Exploration Ltd where his technology innovations led to the discovery and development of the Ring Border Field in NEBC (600 BCF) and the development of the July Lake Jean Maria formation play. When he was employed by EOG Resources, Canada, he completed CBM evaluations in the Eastern Green River Basin near Labarge, CBM east of the Rock Springs Uplift and CBM in the eastern rim of the Green River Basin.

As Chief Exploration Engineer for EOG Resources and then Tom Brown, he worked play types to include tight gas sands, coalbed methane and gas shale evaluations.
He recognized the hydrodynamic pressure distribution and gas saturation distribution properties necessary to make the Big George coal seam in the Powder River Basin
a commercial prospect. Mr. Grigg recognized and defined a “Newark East” type gas shale accumulation analog in a new basin. Under his direction, his former employer acquired more than 400,000 acres for less than $8MM exposure. A new basin play that was developed has a potential resource assessment of 12.0 TCF of gas.

Early recognition of the Southern Fort Worth Basin Barnett shale potential in Johnson County resulted in the acquisition of 40,000 acres of land. Johnson County position has a potential resource assessment of 500 BCF gas. He developed 6 large unconventional projects, and captured opportunities in 10 additional unconventional projects which were scheduled to mature in the second year. Mr. Grigg developed unconventional prospects with each division and spread technology and commercial knowledge of the unconventional business into other work units.

Mr. Grigg has a BASc of Applied Science with honors in Chemical Engineering from the University of British Columbia, as well as a Master of Petroleum Engineering from the University of Calgary.

Jon R. Nelsen, Vice President of Land

Mr. Nelsen is Vice President – Land for Kerogen Resources. Joining Kerogen in late 2005, he manages the real property holdings and joint venture relationships for this unconventional shale development company. Since joining Kerogen, he has added 3 land professionals to his team and together they have assembled a resource based shale acreage position of 300,000 gross and 50,000 net in 1 year. They are working seven resource projects including a drilling program on 21 prospects in the Fort Worth Basin.

In 2004 he joined Wynn-Crosby Energy as its Vice President of Land. As part of the management team he helped facilitate the merger with Petrohawk Energy, which closed in November 2004. He assisted Petrohawk in their transition after the acquisition along with providing management - land consulting services for several industry clients.

Prior to joining Wynn-Crosby, Mr. Nelsen had a 19 year career with El Paso / Coastal Oil & Gas Corp. He held the following positions, Area Landman, Regional Landman, Land Manager, Director of Business Development – Land, Vice President Onshore Land and Vice President of Land Administration. He negotiated and/or assisted closing divestitures that brought in almost two billion dollars and also worked on El Paso’s debt restructuring. Prior to the El Paso Merger with Coastal, in his capacity in the Business Development group, he participated in more than a dozen acquisitions that were valued in excess of one billion dollars. Nelsen has also worked a land brokerage business with his father.

Mr. Nelsen earned a Bachelor of Science, Business Administration with an emphasis in Mineral Land Management from the University of Colorado.

Mr. Nelsen has been active in the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation; Chairing the Landman’s section of the Annual Meeting, presenting several papers and working on the Special Institutes Committee. He served on the Board of the Houston Professional Landman’s Association, where he chaired several special institutes. He is also a member of the American Association of Professional Landmen Association and CPL.