Ausam Energy Corporation is led by a solid, well-rounded senior executive team with extensive experience in business and the oil industry. This team has broad and unique experiences in business management, and knows first-hand what it takes to build a sustainable and successful business. Find out more in the biographies featured below.
Mark G. Avery - President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Mark Avery has over 20 years experience in various facets of the oil and gas development and exploration and oil service industries. His background includes a wide range of domestic and international experience in project development, acquisitions, corporate finance and manufacturing operations. In addition, Mark brings a keen understanding of foreign operations in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Vietnam, Mexico and Argentina. Before joining Ausam Resources and then Ausam Energy, Mark served as President of Galveston-Houston Company, an energy services company with operations in Texas and Australia as well as international projects. He has a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Geology from the University of Texas.
Richard G. Lummis - Vice President - Compliance and Secretary and Director
Richard Lummis is a private investor and consultant with over 20 years of business and legal expertise. Before joining Ausam Energy, Richard was an attorney for the Houston-based law firm of Butler & Binion. Holding degrees in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University, a law degree from University of Texas and an MBA from The Jones School at Rice University, Richard brings education combined with experience to the Ausam group.
Ralph D. Davis - Chief Financial Officer
Ralph Davis has been Chief Financial Officer of the Company since April 2008 and Chief Financial Office of Noram Resources Inc. since November 2007. Before this he was Managing Director of Siemens Industrial Turbo-Machinery and Financial Director of Alstom Power Industrial Turbines.
Curtis Weddle- Vice President, Engineering - Noram
Mr. Weddle is a principal of Cherokee Offshore Engineering, a company that he founded in 1999 to provide project management, well engineering,
dual gradient drilling, well control, and technology development services to the industry worldwide. Prior thereto, he had 16 years of experience with BP
Exploration and the Standard Oil Company of Ohio as a drilling engineer, business analyst, and global drilling consultant. Mr. Weddle earned a B.S. in
Civil Engineering from Oklahoma State University in 1978.
Todd Regalado - Vice President, Operations - Noram
Mr. Regalado has over 26 years experience in worldwide drilling operations (onshore/offshore)
firefighting, blowout control, project management, and equipment design. For the past 20 years he has acted as Manager of Operations for industry leading
oilwell firefighting firms. Mr. Regalado was a Team Leader during the Al-awda project in Kuwait and has controlled exploratory and production wells onshore
and offshore in 34 different countries. Mr. Regalado's well control experience includes conventional capping methods, drillpipe capping operations,
underground blowouts, shallow gas blowouts, relief well design and implementation, critical well environments (H2S), nitrogen, geothermal and
sub-zero environments. He is a member of SPE, ADE, IADC and API and maintains his certifications in well control (Operators Level), Incident command, H2S,
first aid, and Haz-waper (40 hour). Mr. Regalado is also a certified IADC Well Control Trainer.
Arnold Milton - Vice President, Exploration - Noram
Mr. Milton has over 40 years experience as a geologist and geophysicist, originating and screening oil and
gas deals for major oil companies, independents, and private investors. He has
worked both domestically and internationally and, in addition to his technical
background, has experience and credentials as a certified broker-dealer,
working for A. G. Edwards and Associates. Mr. Milton earned a BSc. degree in
Geological Engineering in 1961 from Colorado School of Mines and a M.A. in
Geology from the University of Texas in 1963.
Frank Lytle - Vice President, Land - Noram
Mr. Lytle has over 40 years experience as a petroleum land man and environmental
site assessor. He is a member of the AAPL, HAPL and AAPG and holds a B.A. from the
University of Houston.