Cygnus Oil and Gas Corporation Adds Three New Board Members.HOUSTON -- Cygnus Oil and Gas Corporation (CYNS.OB) is pleased to announce the appointment of three new members to its Board of Directors - Mr. Ted E. Davis, Mr. Ralph D. McBride, and Mr. Alfred J. Moran. The Cygnus Board is now composed of four independent directors in addition to our Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . Mr. Ted E. Davis retired in 2000 after thirty-five years with Conoco, Inc. from his position as President, Exploration & Production for International Operations in Africa, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East. In the last 18 years of his career with Conoco, Mr. Davis held a number of senior management positions, including Vice President, Upstream North America with responsibility for exploration, production, natural gas and gas products, natural gas and LPG LPG: see liquefied petroleum gas. 1. LPG - Linguaggio Procedure Grafiche (Italian for "Graphical Procedures Language"). dott. Gabriele Selmi. Roughly a cross between Fortran and APL, with graphical-oriented extensions and several peculiarities. pipelines and gas processing operations; Vice President, Natural Gas & Gas Products with oversight responsibility for all Conoco and DuPont worldwide natural gas, LPG, LNG LNG (liquefied natural gas): see under natural gas. operations including primary responsibility for gas processing, pipelines, supply, marketing, and distribution in the Western Hemisphere; and all natural gas and LPG marketing, supply and distribution for both Conoco and DuPont. He also served as a corporate Vice President of DuPont from 1986 to 1998 when Conoco owned Dupont. Active in industry professional organizations, Mr. Davis has held a variety of positions with the American Petroleum Institute The American Petroleum Institute, commonly referred to as API, is the main U.S. trade association for the oil and natural gas industry, representing about 400 corporations involved in production, refinement, distribution, and many other aspects of the industry. , including Chairman of Training and Development and Chairman of the Liquefied Hydrocarbon Gas Committee and has served on several API committees, including the General Committee and the Operating Committee for Exploration and Production. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Natural Gas Supply Association; the U.S. Natural Gas Council, the National Offshore Industry Association; and the U.S. Oil and Gas Association, Southwest Research, and the Gas Research Institute, a $200 million pure research organization administrated by the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is the United States federal agency with jurisdiction over electricity sales, wholesale electric rates, hydroelectric licensing, natural gas pricing, and oil pipeline rates. as Chairman of the Board from 1994 to 1996. Mr. Davis holds B.S. and M.S. Degrees in Industrial Engineering and Management from Oklahoma State University Oklahoma State University, at Stillwater; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1890, opened 1891 as Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1957. . He also received the OSU (Open Source UNIX) Refers to the Unix variants that are maintained as open source, which were primarily BSD Unix and Linux until Sun made its Solaris operating system open source in 2005. Distinguished Alumni Award and was elected to the University's Engineering Hall of Fame. Mr. Davis currently serves on the OSU "O" Club Hall of Fame selection committee and the College of Engineering Advisory Council and has previously served on the OSU Foundation's Board of Governors. Ted Davis is also a graduate of the University of Texas Executive Management program. Mr. Ralph D. McBride is a Senior Partner and Trial Attorney at Bracewell & Giuliani and is the former head of its Trial section. He has been with Bracewell for over 30 years. Mr. McBride is active in the Texas community, having served on or currently serving on the boards of Fannin Bank and Sunbelt National Bank, the Memorial Hermann Foundation, the Memorial Hermann Hospital Memorial Hermann Healthcare System is composed of two separate hospital systems which formed in the late 1990s when the Memorial and Hermann systems joined. Both the Memorial and Hermann health care systems started in the early 1900s. System, the Good Samaritan Foundation, and Pride International, Inc. a New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. international drilling company. He has completed six years of service on the State Bar of Texas Grievance Committee. He graduated cum laude with his J.D. from Baylor University School of Law in 1974 and holds a B.A. in Psychology and an M.A. in Psychology from Baylor University. He is admitted to the State Bar of Texas and the State Bar of Arkansas. Mr. Alfred J. Moran is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Moran Group, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , a Value Creation, Crisis Management and Turnaround consulting firm specializing in strategic, operational and financial turnarounds and Interim CEO engagements. For many years he was a Senior Managing Director and Partner of Kibel Green, Inc., the leading Value Creation, Interim CEO, Turnaround, Restructure, Strategic Breakthrough consulting firm in the Western United States Noun 1. western United States - the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River West Santa Fe Trail - a trail that extends from Missouri to New Mexico; an important route for settlers moving west in the 19th century . Alfred Moran is a seasoned Professional Chief Executive Officer and Value Creation Consultant with over 35 years experience in building and enhancing shareholder value for companies ranging in annual sales of $3.0 million to $2.3 billion. He has been CEO of public and private companies and has provided professional assistance to the boards and CEOs of many companies in diversified industries. He is credited with the turnaround and/or value enhancement of 50 companies. Mr. Moran is currently a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Cornell Companies, Inc., an owner and manager of 80 private prisons throughout the United States. He was recently Chief Restructure Officer of Cooperheat MQS MQS Military Qualification Standards MQS Machine Quilters Showcase (trade show for standup machine quilters) MQS Minimum Quality Standard (trade) MQS Maximum Queue Size MQS Micro-Quadlock System , headquartered in Houston with 33 offices throughout the United Stares and Canada. He has been CEO of Microelectronic Packing, Inc. - which was sole source to Intel and Schlumberger. He was founder, Chairman, President and CEO of SeraCare, Inc., a public national hyper-immune blood plasma company; President and COO of WET, Inc., which creates, designs, engineers and builds high tech, entertainment Water Features worldwide including Disney Theme Parks, Universal Studios Theme Parks, Salt Lake Winter Olympics Flame, Rockefeller Center, Tokyo Dome, Texas Medical Center, Houston Galleria and many others; and a partner in Coenen and Company, Inc., a NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange Member Investment Banking and Institutional Brokerage firm in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Mr. Moran has an MBA from the Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. and a BA in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public, coeducational, research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Also known as The University of North Carolina, Carolina, North Carolina, or simply UNC . He is a Member of World Presidents Organization in Houston, Texas. Roger Abel, President and CEO of Cygnus, said, "It pleases me we have been able to attract such an energetic and well-respected group of independent board members to serve on the Cygnus Oil and Gas Corporation Board. Their broad range of experience will be a definite strength as we build Cygnus into the company we all believe it can be." ABOUT CYGNUS OIL AND GAS Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Cygnus Oil and Gas Corporation. is an oil and gas exploration and production company. Primarily a resource player, its key assets consist of shale acreage in Woodruff County, Arkansas Woodruff County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of 2000, the population is 8,741. The county seat is Augusta. Woodruff County is Arkansas's 54th county, formed on November 26, 1862 and named for William E. and McIntosh County, Oklahoma, and it also owns a variety of producing and non-producing oil and gas assets in Texas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and New Zealand. Since August 2005, the Company has made significant changes in its management, Board of Directors and the nature of oil and gas assets it acquires to better equip itself for future company growth. FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS This news release contains forward-looking statements, including, in particular, statements about Cygnus's plans and intentions. These have been based on the Company's current assumptions, expectations and projections about future events. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, the Company can give no assurance that the expectations will prove to be correct. |
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