BIOGRAPHY:  Reginal Spiller

Reginal Spiller is a seasoned businessman with 25 years of Oil and Gas experience. He has worked 10 years US domestically and 15 years internationally in exploration and production; onshore and offshore; government and industry; with major oil company and independent oil company experience. He has worked in over 50 countries in some of the world’s most prolific basins and in some of the world’s most difficult places.
           
Currently he is Executive Vice President of Frontera Resources, a publicly traded Houston based international energy development company recently listed on the London Exchange (FRR). The Company has had activity in the CIS, South America and the Middle East. He oversees all technical aspects of upstream exploration and production as well as downstream refining and gas processing for the company.  He is involved in the sale and marketing of crude.  He was charged with the responsibility of the start up of operations in the Republic of Georgia and Azerbaijan and increased existing production from 2800 bbls per day to over 6000 bbls per day in 16 months.

Mr. Spiller is also currently a member of the National Academy of Science with membership on the Energy Resource Board.  One of the focuses of this group is to address the aging of the current geosciences community and the lack of enrollment at the undergraduate and graduate levels in Petroleum Engineering, Mining Engineering and the Geosciences.  In addition he serves on the American Association of Petroleum Geologist diversity subcommittee, which is a group that is actively involved with seeking minority involvement in the geosciences.  He is also a founding member of the National Association of Black Geologist and Geophysicist, a technical organization that is in partnership with AAPG promoting earth sciences through mentoring and scholarship to minority and female students.  He recently served as an AAPG/NABGG guest lecturer to the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.

Prior to joining Frontera, Mr. Spiller was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Gas and Petroleum Technologies at the U. S. Department of Energy. At the time, he was the highest-ranking geologist in the administration and was the first petroleum geologist ever to hold the position. He took office on December 14, 1993 and completed his term on March 22nd 1996.  This office was part of the Department’s Fossil Energy Program responsible for the development and demonstration of advanced technologies for natural gas, petroleum exploration, production and delivery.   He managed a $400 million dollar R and D budget that supported gas and oil research conducted at the National Labs as well as from the DOE energy centers.  He was responsible in partnering industry and government in this effort.

Prior to joining the Department of Energy, Mr. Spiller was the International Exploration Manager for Maxus Energy Corp.  During his five years with Maxus, Mr. Spiller was responsible for identifying opportunities and developing oil and gas exploration and production projects in Africa, Europe, South America, Middle and Far East.  He has extensive international experience, having represented the company in projects carried out in Algeria, Indonesia, Denmark, Bulgaria, Egypt, Morocco, Gabon, Angola Madagascar, Ethiopia, Slovakia, Australia, Tunisia, Columbia, Ecuador, Spain, and the United Kingdom.  Before leaving Maxus, he also had initiated efforts in Syria, Poland, Yemen, Turkey, Benin, Nigeria and Senegal.

Prior to Maxus, Mr. Spiller was the Offshore Exploration Manager for Primary Fuels, a subsidiary of Houston Industries.  Primary Fuels was an independent oil and gas company with production interests in the Permian Basin and in several countries overseas.  The company held existing production as well as promising exploration acreage   in the Gulf of Mexico.  Primary Fuels recruited Mr. Spiller to initiate and supervise all exploration and production activities in the Gulf of Mexico.  He provided geologic and geophysical support to other projects developed by the company.

Mr. Spiller joined Primary Fuels from Elf Aquitaine Petroleum where he was Manager for the company’s Southern District. He was responsible for prospect analysis in the Gulf of Mexico, the Louisiana and Texas Shelf, and deep-water tracts.  He joined Elf in 1984 as a project leader and responsible for development of an integrated geologic, geophysical, engineering, regional study that focused the company in prospective areas of the Gulf in preparation for the first area wide sales.

Mr. Spiller began his career and spent six years with Exxon USA in Houston.  During his tenure with Exxon he worked on shore and off shore. He served a Reservoir Staff Geologist, a Senior Operations Geologist, and an Exploration Geologist.  As Senior Operations Geologist, he was responsible for exploration well planning and drilling and the evaluation of Federal waters where he developed extensive experience in abnormal pressure detection and drilling.

He has worked extensively in over 50 countries for both major and independent oil and gas companies and has maintained a technical standard of excellence with an eye for promoting the earth sciences to our community with specific emphasis to students throughout the world.

Mr. Spiller, a native of Olean, New York, is the son of Clarence and the late Lois Easley-Spiller. He has three brothers, Ronald, Timothy and Thomas. Reginal is a graduate of Olean High School and a 1979 graduate of Penn State University. He holds an M.S. in Geology and also holds a B.A.S.S. from the State University of New York in Geology. Mr. Spiller is married to the former Alfreda Harrison and the couple has a son and a daughter, Harrison and Alexandria.

Reggie at the  Bayda oil seep in the Republic of Georgia