Digital Gas Names Executive Director of Oil & Gas Exploration &
Production
Wednesday May 17, 3:45 pm ET
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2006--Digital Gas, Inc. (OTC Pink
Sheets:DIGG - News) announced that its Synfuel Corporation oil and
gas production enhancement subsidiary has named Paul McConnell of
Lansing, Michigan as its Executive Director of Exploration &
Production.
Mr. McConnell, who formerly worked for Shell Oil Company as an
engineer, has hands-on experience in all forms of operations,
supervision and engineering associated with the oil and gas business
including drilling, completions, pipelines, facilities, reservoir,
and operations. He has a BS in Petroleum Engineering from the
University of Oklahoma.
Mr. McConnell, who has significant experience working on difficult
shale, coal, and heavy oil projects, will be in charge of Digital's
day-to-day oil and gas business. He is also an OSHA certified
environmental specialist.
Mr. McConnell currently runs his own engineering and consulting
companies, McConnell Engineering and McConnell Consulting Inc. of
Lansing, Michigan. He specializes in conventional, directional, and
horizontal drilling; well completions; stimulation and fracture
techniques; pipeline design and construction supervision; oil and
gas facilities; oil and gas performance predictions, economic
forecasts and reserve estimates; flow and injection testing;
injection and disposal wells; supervision of operations and cost
control; groundwater and soil pollution investigation and
remediation; hydro-geologic studies; and environmental
investigations and reports.
Commenting on the appointment, Mr. McConnell stated, "I am pleased
to be part of the Digital Gas team. I will immediately utilize my
industry contacts to assist the company in developing a world class
oil and gas exploration and production capability."
Stating his reasons for joining Digital Gas, Mr. McConnell indicated
that he was, "impressed by the wide array of clearly advanced energy
products and technologies that Digital Gas and its operating
subsidiaries will deploy in solving modern energy problems." He
added, "the fuel cell oil and gas recovery enhancement technology is
decidedly a superior system to all conventional systems which must
be continuously supplied with fuel considering both economic and
environmental factors."
On a related matter, Digital Gas is pleased to announce that Benelux
Capital is proceeding with the first three proposed financings for
Digital Gas subsidiaries. Mark Watson, Managing Director of Benelux
Capital commented, "we are impressed with the business of every
subsidiary presented to us by Digital Gas and are anticipating early
closings on all pending fundings."
Contact:
Digital Gas, Inc.
Brian Smith, 732-927-4073 |
