Board of Directors

Brian Hall has been a Director of Aminex and its predecessor company, Eglinton Exploration, since 1987 and has managed the group since 1991. He was an early western pioneer in the Russian oil industry, taking Aminex into Russia in 1994 and successfully exiting its main project in 2001. He began his oil industry career in 1973 with Hamilton Brothers (now part of BHP Billiton) as a member of the team which developed & brought on-stream Argyll, the UK North Sea’s first oilfield. Subsequently he built up an international exploration & production portfolio for Lochiel Exploration of Canada. He has served on the board of several oil & gas companies. He is a Chartered Accountant and founded Halyard Offshore Ltd., an oil industry contracting company, which has since become part of the Aminex Group.

Didier Murcia is an Australian lawyer and was appointed a Director of Aminex in May 2002. He was the founder and formerly the Managing Director of Tanzoil NL, which Aminex acquired in March 2002 and which provided the Company’s entry into Tanzania. He is Honorary Consul for the United Republic of Tanzania in Australia and also a director of Gindalbie Gold NL, a company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. He was appointed an Executive Director in January 2004 and has been fully involved with the Company’s projects in Tanzania and elsewhere since that time.

Mike Rego graduated as a Petroleum Geologist. He joined Aminex in 1998 as Resident Manager in Tatarstan, subsequently working for the Company in the Komi Republic of Russia, then becoming Group Exploration Manager in 2001 and Group Exploration Director in 2006. He has formerly worked for BP and LASMO and has lived and worked in Russia, Libya, Egypt and USA as well as in the UK. He is well known in the oil industry for his work on the geology of the East African Margin.

Tony Prado joined the Aminex Group in 1984. He has an MBA from the University of Arizona and manages the Group’s US operations, while also involved in the Group’s international operations. He is a former Vice-President Finance at City Exploration Company, Houston and for nine years managed its Latin American operations including oil production in the Republic of Ecuador. He has held a number of management positions in other, publicly-traded US oil and gas companies and became a Director of Aminex in 1996.

David Hooker holds degrees in both geology and law and has previously managed Candecca Resources, Plascom (oil & gas subsidiary of Tarmac PLC) and Aberdeen Petroleum PLC. From 1993 to 1995 he was Chairman of Bakyrchic Gold PLC. He is a non-executive director of Oceaneering International Inc. and various other companies and was appointed a Director of Aminex in June 2001.

Derek Tughan was formerly a partner in Tughans, a leading firm of solicitors in Northern Ireland. He has built up a property development and investment business throughout the UK and the Republic of Ireland. He is Chairman of two leading and long established Charitable Housing Associations in Northern Ireland and was formerly a Belfast Harbour Commissioner. He joined the Board of Aminex in March 1991 and was Chairman from June 2006 until June 2007.

Andrew Hay has spent his career in investment banking in London and New York. Since 1999 he has been Head of Corporate Finance at LCF Edmond de Rothschild Securities, the London arm of the LCF Rothschild Group. He is a graduate of Oxford University and has held senior positions at both Schroders and ING Barings. Mr. Hay has been advising Aminex since 2002 and was appointed a Director in April 2007.

Keith Phair has held a number of senior global product management positions in the capital markets with major international banks and investment banks. He holds a Masters degree in Business Studies from London Business School and has acted as a capital markets consultant to major companies and pension funds, also advising on strategic issues. He has been an active and engaged investor in various oil and gas exploration companies for many years.

• Audit Committee
• Nomination Committee
• Remuneration Committee