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| Torch Energy Advisors, Chuck Strain 8th Annual  Micro/Midcap Oil & Gas  Conf.
 @ Waldorf :  Contact 
|10:2| Comment overheard :  Russian business even more centralized in Moskow
 now than before breakdown of command economy .
|10:4|  Teton Petroleum  : Howard Cooper : cdn venture exchange | US Corp .
 CDNX .yty.u | filing 10 sp reg for US OTB
 | Largest oil basin in Russia - south of permafrost . 300 mi S o arctic
  circle . Existing pipeline . 100MBrl field US gov gave loan to Haliburton ,
  BP , lot of western eqp around . 4M$ cash flow last 3 yrs .
 In Winter , truck oil . new 6M$ pipline online soon .
 Based Steamboat Springs CO .
 Proven resv : 147M$ 87M$ , before , after tax
 Russian trading grp : Mediteranian Overseas Trust , does the exporting
  transactions .
 Inside Ownership by small collection of overlaping investment partnerships .
 Pipeline w b flowing April .
 This & Toronto , their coming out parties .
  Present val ( disc .1 ) , $87M
 Been producing & selling for hard money since first aq in `97 .
 Share price =  .56 % brl reserves .  Russia export 3.5M$ % day , lot of
  money staying there .
 ABN-AMRO Moskow < -- > Co Springs .
 Urals Blend , $1 under Brent .
 Loaned money into Russia rather than equity .
 getting net net 9.82$ % brl .
 flowing brl :  25000   |  P%E 4.9
|10:26| how deep ? 7000 ft deep wells |  Well 16 - 1000 % day for > 4 yrs .
 Million brl potential in international areas - rare in mature US & Cdn .
RC : Want extra cash to buy reserves @ .26 % brl in ground , can sell for
 $26 .  Bill John & Arden started in Kahzikstan before learning of
 Siberian . Gregory - head of Geology ministry - picked field - still a
  partner .
 US Insiders own > .4 , Anolly(?) ( Fiat ) family owns some .
  www.tetonpetroleum.com 
 Currently flowing3 of 5 wells because can only haul 500 bl % day .
 w have 13 soon . want additional interest in GolOil .
 .04 $ % B paid for  .9 B Brl .
  Oil fields tenders not given away .
 employ 80 people from viliage w .5 unenployment .
 w b > 70 wells drilled , 33 in 1st phase . predict based on analog fields .
 100MB field is hell of big field . Lot of work to do .
 Looking for ~ $5M . more after listed & known in US .
 Every tender offered has been bought in thin mkt .
 Sergut , T&k .
 -55 c today - water buildup in north flowing rivers .
 now lot of shut downs . after pipeline will be continuous flow .
 not a big paraffin problem , their oil light .
 Azurbijan - were 500 illegal taps off one stretch of pipeline .
 Under Breznev : lot of wells ruined by water flooding to increas immediate
 cash .  

|11:7| North Coast : NASD : NCEB .
  Omer Yonel , CEO . ( essentially runs it as division of NUON of The
  Netherlands ) : 
 PA OH VW border shales .
 .96 Nat Gas , own , operate , pipe ;
 Doubled size of rsv , stock price  | 131 B |
 Acq Peak - supplied finance .
 w drill 22 more wells by eoy .
 > 300 development locations .
 10K mcf directly piped to aluminum co . 
 .5 .6 US pop , mfg w/in 500 mi .
 Appalacian  .23 premium over NYMEX
 .27 gas avail to (spot) mkt , expect to grow to .55 thru expiring contracts .
 future 2ndary offer .
 Fixing leaks in pipelines . Exploration potential , electric generation .
 NUON , ex official Netherlands , owns .86 of capital .  15M$
Omer Y. CEO . only investment .
  have surpassed 5 yr busn plan .   Ex ABB .
 Launched total remanagement of company from previous 18 yr - swept out all
  old mngt . Only corp culture & vision holy .
  was like a farmer`s organization .  [ Back in the late `70s
   I saw amazingly ancent centrally powered mechanically linked oil wells
   over acres of woods around Bradford PA . like sugar maple farmers ] 
 Totally new company now . New Busn Plan just issued .
  attacking liquidity problem : 30 M 15 yr ago , now 130M $ today .
  want to grow to 500Bcf .  event driven .
  3rd fastest growing O&G co last 12 mo .
  131  reserves must be consolidated .
  expand outside Appalachans , hedged on predictable cash flow .
  emp - energy split
  Business practices reengineered , new software ,
 Refining ? No
  Hedge thru nature of internal revs
  Break even price :  1.3 | 

|12:54| Chuck Strain  w Chet Paulson , John Westergaard , 8th conf
 Torch 5 partners : Frost Cochran :
|13:1| foreign impact US mkt thru CND .   Apache , Evergreen .
 spun out of AL Ins co Torchmark , M&A mkt advisor & principal .
 co-invest w institutions . Torch Capital , Operating ,
 Novastar tek joint w Oracle .  heavily regulated , transaction intensive .
 Real Property system in US . Individuals do not own mineral rights anywhere
 else .
 10ks of royalty checks % month . Regulatory like health industry .
 net profit , royalty structures .
 Some companies cheaper than the oil they own . will be bought .
 Cambridge Resources told Clinton admin clearly that energy price would
 rebound sharply . Ignored . 
|13:44|
|14:2| Evergreen :  Raton basin , UK  CoalBed Methane Tek leader .
 sold all other O&G properties . Consolidated 240K acers in Raton Basin
  530 wells drilled in basin .
 do own wells so can experiment .  .98 drilling sucess rate .
 Domestice E&P producer . Upward reserve replacement .  822 BCFE .
 45 MCF % sare    1.2B$ SEC PV 10% proven reserves .
 from 1 in `94 to 53 MMCF % day now .
 Mkt Cap 700 
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