American Petro-Hunter Appoints Barry Whelan to Board.Business Editors TULSA, Okla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 11, 2001 Patrick McGowan, President & C.E.O. of American Petro-Hunter Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :AAPH AAPH Amidinopropane Hydrochloride AAPH American Association of Professional Hypnotherapists AAPH ASEAN Association for Planning and Housing AAPH American Association for Partial Hospitalization AAPH Asian-Americans in Public Health ) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Barry Whelan, B.A., B.Sc. to the Board of Directors, effective immediately. Mr. Whelan earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in geology in 1961 from the University of Western Ontario Western is one of Canada's leading universities, ranked #1 in the Globe and Mail University Report Card 2005 for overall quality of education.[2] It ranked #3 among medical-doctoral level universities according to Maclean's Magazine 2005 University Rankings. , and a Bachelor of Science Noun 1. Bachelor of Science - a bachelor's degree in science BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies , Honours Geology in 1965 from McMaster University McMaster University, at Hamilton, Ont., Canada; nondenominational; founded 1887. It has faculties of humanities, science, social sciences, business, engineering, and health sciences, as well as a school of graduate studies and a divinity college. . Mr. Whelan has over 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, including 14 years with Gulf Oil Corporation. During that time he gained international experience in Northeastern British Columbia British Columbia, province (2001 pop. 3,907,738), 366,255 sq mi (948,600 sq km), including 6,976 sq mi (18,068 sq km) of water surface, W Canada. Geography , the Northwest Territories Northwest Territories, territory (2001 pop. 37,360), 532,643 sq mi (1,379,028 sq km), NW Canada. The Northwest Territories lie W of Nunavut, N of lat. 60°N, and E of Yukon. , the Beaufort Sea Beaufort Sea (bō`fərt), part of the Arctic Ocean, N of Alaska and Canada, between Point Barrow, Alaska, and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The Mackenzie River flows into the sea, which is always covered with pack ice. , the North Sea (Copenhagen, Denmark), the Congo Basin (Kinshasa, Zaire), and in the offshore Niger Delta, (Lagos, Nigeria). His specific duties included evaluation of Landsat technology, reservoir geologic studies, reserve calculations, exploration and development of the offshore Congo Basin, production geology, field mapping, extensive well-site work and project co-ordination. Mr. Whelan acts as a consultant to development companies with natural resource holdings in oil, gas, and minerals. His responsibilities include: economic evaluations of properties; research and development of projects which have economic potential; evaluation of projects and their requirements for capital; economic analysis of resource properties and co-ordination of acquisition, development and production for resource properties; and assessment reports and property evaluations for petroleum companies on resource properties. The geographical areas of operations and research include North America, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Ghana, Kazakhstan, and China. Mr. Whelan was responsible for designing the first computer program to facilitate tracking of directionally drilled wells and translating the information to plan and section maps. "We are pleased to have Mr. Whelan's extensive international experience, which will significantly strengthen our management team" says American Petro-Hunter president Patrick McGowan. AMERICAN PETRO-HUNTER INC. Patrick McGowan, President & C.E.O. Certain information included in this communication (as well as information included in oral statements or other written statements made or to be made by Travelport Systems Inc.) contains statements that are forward looking, such a statements related to the future anticipated direction of the oil & gas industry, plans for future expansion, various business development activities, planned capital expenditures, future funding resources, anticipated sales growth and potential contracts. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual operations or results to differ materially from those anticipated. |
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