NEW YORK, NY and KIEV, UKRAINE--(Marketwired - Dec 30, 2013) - Great East Energy, Inc. (OTCQB: GASE) (the "Company") which controls 420 square kilometers of producing European clean energy holdings through two local operating companies in Ukraine, is pleased to announce that it has named leading international financial executives Thomas Lanier and Igor Umanskiy to its Advisory Board. GASE is publically traded in the U.S. and is a fully-reporting company with the SEC whose wholly-owned Cyprus-based subsidiary controls two Ukraine companies which have been producing gas since 2003, own two gas processing facilities, and 13.5 kilometers of gas pipelines to their customers.
GASE has engaged Mr. Lanier, an emerging market financial expert, and Mr. Umanskiy, the former Acting Finance Minister of Ukraine, to assist GASE with strategy and finance expertise for the further growth and development of Great East Energy.
Mr. Lanier lived in the former Soviet Union for over a decade, and also served on boards for AEGON Insurance (Central and Eastern Europe), Lev Pharmaceuticals (acquired by ViroPharma), and SIGA Technologies (Member of the Audit Committee). He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy and earned an MBA at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
Mr. Umanskiy is based in Kiev and currently in private consulting practice following his government career which culminated in serving as the Acting Finance Minister of Ukraine. He also worked in Ukraine's Agency of Investments and Innovation, JSC Ukrtransnafta, the National Bank of Ukraine, the State Mortgage Institution, the Ministry of Economy and European Integration, and the Cabinet of Ministers. Mr. Umanskiy has a PhD in Economics from the Odessa National Academy of Telecommunications.
GASE owns operating and distributing unconventional gas companies in the Dnieper-Donets Basin of Ukraine, with current production and infrastructure already in place. GASE's 420 square kilometer property has seven major dome structures, and according to its prior owners, has already produced nearly one billion cubic feet of gas (BCF). Twelve core wells and five vent-wells have been drilled on the producing domes to confirm the presence and production of gas.
GASE's assets are surrounded by Royal Dutch Shell's Yuzivske gas field comprising nearly 8,000 square kilometers, which was the featured asset in a USD$10 billion contract signed by Ukraine at Davos, Switzerland earlier in 2013. The preliminary resources estimation of the Yuzivske gas field is up to 300 trillion cubic feet. The GASE Block reserves were evaluated by Marathon Oil in 2007 and an independent NI 51-101 report is expected to be issued in 2014.
ABOUT GASE:
Great East Energy is a producing, development stage company targeting the growing independent natural gas production industry of Ukraine, as Europe's second-largest country by land mass makes energy self-sufficiency from Russia a priority. With Ukraine natural gas priced over three times U.S. levels, the energy industry holds compelling economics as well. Through its local operating subsidiaries NPK-KONTAKT and LISPROMGAZ, the completion of GASE's well development activities are planned to result in a multi-million dollar inward investment into Ukraine.
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