Peter C. Brown

President, CEO and Chairman

Mr. Peter C. Brown - COO, VP of Exploration and Geology, has over 25 years experience in the Oil and Gas Industry, both internationally and domestically. He is a Structural Geologist/Basin Evaluator. Peter has extensive knowledge at "Sarcee-Jumping Pound" and at "Pincher Creek", both of which are well-known gas producing fields in Alberta. His initial work at Montello has focussed solely on Tennessee reviewing all geological, drilling and logging Data recently acquired as well as other data he has sourced for the benefit of our JV Partnership. He will now be heading up our Sarcee and Pincher Creek Projects for example, the planned commencement of the Sarcee recompletion of the 10,957 foot 12-13-23-4 W5M cased Mississippian/ Rundle Gas Well. Peter is intimately involved with Phil Emrich on the pending evaluation of the 17 feet of interpreted pay at the 8200 foot level of our John Bowen #2 Well.

Mr. Brown began his career as a Geochemist with Robertson Research and later specialized in structural geology and basin dynamics, and has always concentrated in creating a tangible asset base. He has worked in areas as diverse as the North Sea and the foothills of the Andes and with such companies as Petro Canada, Lasmo, Bow Valley Resources, Crestar and Gulf Oil. Between 1997 and 2001, Mr. Brown was the Vice President, Exploration for Crestar Energy International, a division of Crestar Energy Inc. He is a proven oil finder as evidenced while at Crestar where he helped build them build their International Asset Base from 0 to 5000 boepd in a space of 3 years and up to 50 million barrels of reserve base. Peter has also recently been responsible for opening up a new condensate playfairway at Pincher Creek in the southern Alberta Foothills. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Aston in Birmingham, UK and a Masters of Science from the University of London. Mr. Brown has a reputation as a pragmatist and a problem solver.