About Us

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Margaret Collins is a licensed professional geologist in the States of Texas and Louisiana with over 20 years of experience in exploration, production, and environmental geology. Margaret is experienced in acquisitions of oil and gas assets primarily in Texas, Louisiana, and RockyMountain region. After graduating from University of Texas, at Arlington, with her degree inGeology, Margaret started her career at XTO Energy while working on her master’s degree in Geochemistry. At XTO Energy, she was responsible for evaluating existing fields for proven, non-developed reserves, and making recommendations for well re-completions.Later, her responsibilities turned to water flood management, optimization (enhanced oil recovery), and geomodelling. She was later hired by Laredo Petroleum where, as operational supervisor and geologist, she was instrumental in the drilling of over 100 vertical and horizontal wells utilizing 7 rigs over a 24-month period.  As a chief geologist at BTA Oil Producers she gained invaluable experience working with carbonate rocks in the Anadarko Basin. At Enervest, as senior geologist in Houston, Texas, she led a team of engineers in projects that resulted in additional reserves of 104.5 BCFG with a drilling budget of $30MM. Margaret found her niche in consulting for family offices in Louisiana following her stint with EnerVest where she brokered deals with saltwater disposal wells and a $3.5 million dollar divestiture of oil and gas assets in Colorado. In 2023, she earned her MBA from Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University

Gabriel Lemock is a graduate of Penn State University with a B.S. in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering. He has over 13 years of onshore and offshore experience spanning drilling, workovers, completions, production, operations, pipelines, and field development across global oil and gas markets.

Mr. Lemock began his career with EQT Corporation, where he held multiple engineering roles focused on production optimization, digital operations, well interventions, and operational KPI development. He also played a key role in the integration of several major acquisitions involving assets, production systems, and regulatory compliance.

He later joined Specialty RTP to help establish and expand its international operations, leading the growth of the company's non-metallic pipeline business across the Middle East and international markets. While living abroad for more than five years, he developed strategic partnerships and contributed significantly to the company's global expansion, engineering development, and revenue growth.

In parallel, Mr. Lemock joined Energy2 Partners, where he focuses on the development and growth of conventional oil and gas resources in South Texas.

Gerard S Bono, Mr. Bono, has over 49 years of petroleum experience, most of which is in the field of reservoir engineering. Mr. Bono is a graduate of Louisiana State University with a degree in Petroleum Engineering in 1971. Over the course of his career, he has approximately thirty years of varied reservoir simulation and other reservoir engineering activities related to reserve determination and field optimization studies. He has broad geographic knowledge having worked fields in the Gulf of Mexico from shallow water to deepwater, West Texas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, South Louisiana, the Texas Gulf Coast, Alaska, onshore and offshore California, Libya, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Mexico, almost every country in South America, and the Republic of Georgia in the Former Soviet Union.Mr. Bono also resided in Venezuela for eight years and Indonesia one year.Mr.Bono provides expertise in integrated study project management, having managed and participated in several large integrated studies. Recent technical experience includes monitoring and evaluation of wells in the Republic of Georgia for the last six years, the simulation of the giant McArthur River Field, Cook Inlet, Alaska for Unocal, evaluated three hundred low permeability gas wells in the Bossier trend in East Texas, the Cleveland sand and the Barnett shale using the RPI production modeling method. Provided a technical evaluation of Braxton Devonian producing properties in West Virginia for acquisition and has participated in two nitrogen screening studies in the continental U.S. for two different industrial gas companies.Mr. Bono was pastVice President and Chief Reservoir Engineer for a small independent oil and gas company that operates internationally.Mr. Bono is well versed in how to obtain practical and simple solutions to complex technical problems in the most efficient manner possible

Mr. Orr is a degreed geologist with over 48 years of experience in the fields of oil and gas geology and production operations. His geological expertise spans numerous basins in the lower 48 states primarily in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming.Mr. Orr has drilled over 250 wells with a success rate exceeding 70%. Additionally, Mr. Orr has worked over or rejuvenated more than 200 wells as owner and operator.Mr. Orr began his career as a junior geologist with Texas Oil and Gas Corporation in 1976.Within 2 years he was elevated to a supervisory position with 5 geologists on his team, most of whom had 5-10 years’ experience. After 3 years, the company was selling more than12,000,000 cubic feet of gas per day and 200 bopd from wells drilled at Mr. Orr’s direction.In the late70’s he helped form an independent oil and gas company called AmericanShoreline. American Shoreline sold several oil and gas fields discovered by Mr. Orr for $45million, a 300% return on investment in less than 5 years.After practicing geology successfully for almost 20 years Mr. Orr made the decision to become more directly involved in and responsible for well operations, field management, and production supervision. Today, as a previous operator of oil and gas production, Mr. Orr combines his extensive geological knowledge and experience with almost three decades of hands-on well operations and field oversight and management.In 2002, Mr. Orr became involved with a relatively new and exciting technology called under balanced drilling or UBD. Weatherford International is the world leader in under balanced technology. To maximize his knowledge and experience in this relative new field Mr. Orr accepted a position with Seven Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of Weatherford International in 2005.While with Seven Energy Mr. Orr pioneered numerous innovations in UBD including drilling with unconventional, non-damaging materials, and devising the methodology for unlocking the productive capacity of the Buda Limeusing UBD. This methodology maximizes the oil flow from a horizontal drain hole while eliminating very expensive hydraulic frac technology.Mr. Orr founded XNP Resources in June2009 as a Texas limited liability company. In June2010, XNP teamed up with Tahoe Energy Partners, LLC to acquire oil and gas leases for drilling in the Rocky Mountain region. At Mr. Orr’s direction, XNP began by acquiring a

strategic leasehold position in the Sand Wash Basin in Colorado because of Mr. Orr’s evaluations. As a result of Mr. Orr’s foresight, XNP was able to secure a major lease hold position in the heart of what has become the highly competitive Niobrara Shale play in westernColorado. By virtue of its early entrance into the play, XNP was able to sell a portion of its ownership for a substantial profit exceeding700% in a short 14-month span of time.More recently, Mr. Orr, as co-founder, president, and executive member of the board of directors, formed a new start up called HNR Acquisition Corp (NYSE American: HNRA) in the early part of 2000. By 1st Quarter 2021, Mr. Orr had secured the services of EF Hutton(formerly Kingswood Capital) as a sole underwriter, K&L Gates as the primary security firm,Continental Stock Transfer as the transfer agent, Citadel Securities as our chief market maker,Marcum as our chief auditing firm, and Morgan Stanley as our main financial institution. My intentions were to list HNRA on a major exchange and to offer shares through a SPAC IPO.On February 11, 2022, HNRA commenced its IPO on the New York Stock ExchangeAmerican, and within 5 hours it raised $75MM by offering its 7.5mm shares to its IPO investors. EF Hutton elected to exercise its right to acquire another 1.25mm shares of stock in HNRA for a total raise of $86,250,000. To date, HNRA has purchased oil and gas assets from a private company. The assets are located on the NW Shelf of the Permian basin inNew Mexico, and currently, the assets are averaging 1100 BOE with significant upside. A 3rd party engineering firm estimates the grand total PV10 is over $500MM in proved oil and gas reserves. Immediately following the purchase and closing of the aforementioned property on November 14, 2023, Mr. Orr resigned as president and executive board member of HNRA.Mr. Orr is currently seeking oil and gas producing properties and premier drilling opportunities.

Mr. Martin is experienced oil and gas landman

with 45 years of experience all phases of land acquisition, contract negotiations and

preparations, pipeline right-of-ways and gathering system acquisitions, extensive

background in oil and gas title examinations, and division of interest title curative specialist.

Mr. Martin started his career in 1979 as a Junior Landman by negotiating oil and gas leases

and title examination and curative work, managed permitting processes, and ensured

company activities were industry standard and complied with local, state, and national

rules and regulations. By 1984 Mr. Martin was promoted to VP of Land for an

independent oil company, Manitou Exploration Co. Inc., where he managed property

acquisitions, negotiated purchase and sale agreements, managed leasing activities.

Over the course of his career, Mr. Martin has worked on behalf of the General Land

Office, State of Texas, Highway Department, State of Texas, R. W. Stewart & Associates,

Petrohawk, Union Pacific Resources, U. P Fuels and U’ P Highlands, and Duke Energy

Services, and Sandridge Oil and Gas.

Mr. Martin attended University of California where in 1972 with his major was Real

Estate. He has earned his certification and license with the Texas Real Estate, California

Real Estate, and is a Texas Easement or Right of Way Agent.

A resident of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mr. Garrison is a graduate of the University of

Oklahoma and holds an MBA from Southern Methodist University. He worked over 40 years registered as a CPA

in Texas or Oklahoma. He is a past President of the American Business Council in Dubai and is a

trustee of the American School of Dubai. After graduation from OU, Mr. Garrison began

his career in 1975 in the Oklahoma City office of the public accounting firm of Arthur

Young and Company before eventually becoming the Director of Tax in its Hong Kong

office. In 1987 he joined Caltex (a Chevron-Texaco joint venture company) in its Irving,

Texas office before being posted to Caltex’s Dubai office in 1994 as its Managing Director,

responsible for downstream and marketing activities in the Middle East. In 2001 he

founded Downstream Developments Inc. in Dubai and consults on and develops ventures

for transportation and logistics, oil and gas infrastructure projects, and petroleum product

marketing. Recently he has worked with the Falcon Group of Dubai, a FEDEX

subcontractor in the Middle East and North Africa, as its Managing Director. He also

worked with Specialist Group Dubai as its executive officer in charge of operations for its

British Military contracts providing logistics, bulk fuels transportation, and waste

management services in Iraq during the conflict there.