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    PTR.V / < COALBED METHANE>ALL IN CHINA
    CONVENTIONAL O&G OPERATIONS IN CANADA
    Current Price / .12 CDN

    First and foremost...Petromin Resources is a Tier 1 listed company, 59M shares outstading,  with no debt and enjoys current cashflow from producing oil & gas properties it holds in Alberta, Canada.

    Petromin has a Master Service Agreement with their partner Enviro Energy International Holdings Ltd. based out of Hong Kong
    Both companies are founded and operated by the same principals

    Kenny Chan is the founder of PTR and has been partnered with Ross Gorrell since the beginning.

    BIO ON MANAGEMENT & INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL : http://www.petromin.ca/page141.htm


    I think it was announced at the 2003 or 04 AGM
    ( I have attended most AGM's  in the last 8 years) that the new corporate strategy unveiled was to utilize Kenny Chan's  vast network of relationships he has built over the last 30 years with senior level official's in governments and  industry titans along with strong ties to the finance sector throughout Aisa, the South Pacific region and the Middle East to market the Canadian innovational clean energy expertise through what he referred to "Technology Transfer"
    .
    It was shortly after that, PTR announced they had signed a contract for 10 years on a worldwide basis with the prestegious Alberta Research Council. "Specialist's in CO2 Sequestration for Enhamced  Hydrocarbon Recovery along with high level of expertise in Heavy Oil Recovery.
    http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Petromin-Signs-Technical-Cooperation-Agreement-With-Alberta-Research-Council-TSX-VENTURE-PTR-615879.htm

    In case you are not familar with this organization, let me help you as I have worked in the Alberta oilpatch for over 30 years, , ARC has well over 300 patents under their belt and pretty much developed most technologies in the Alberta Oilsands today like SAGD and VAPEX for a couple of examples. 
    Did I mention ARC is a Not For Profit Group............ 
    http://www.arc.ab.ca/home.asp

    Kenny founded Enviro Energy International Holdings Ltd. to spearhead the Asia strategy.
    http://markets.ft.com/tearsheets/businessProfile.asp?s=8182:HKG
    It's key role is a boots on the ground operation to be utilized as a funding vehicle/pulic relations & logistical centre for Asia operations.
    So Kenny resigned as C.E.O. of PTR with Ross Gorrell stepping up to take his place & moved to Hong Kong on a full time basis to execute this strategy
    Cashflow from PTR's O&G production base in Alberta helped fund this transition.

    This is where many other International companies fail to penetrate the Asia market, because they think they can secure significant contracts there, without having a permenent presence there and failing to recognise the signifcance of "Quanxi"  (relationship buiding)  in that region.

    Kenny sucssesfully raised $65,000,000.00 shortly after IPO of Enviro.  JP Morgan took up, if I remember correctly 8% of that financing.
    Shortly after they announced the acquisiton of the TerraWest property from NorWest Corp.
    (who are still active as their geological consulting team) 
    http://www.norwestcorp.com/Experience_Industries_OilGas.aspx
    Don Downing who, before joining with NorWest was the former President of Esso Coal, left NorWest and joined Petromin as their COO for the TerraWest property. 
    Mr. Downing  knows the TWE property and the Junngar basin which it resides, like the back of his hand.

    Founded in 2004, TerraWest Corporation was a privately owned CBM development company established by the principles of Norwest Corporation - Canada's premier coal / CBM consultants. In 2004, TWE negotiated a Production Sharing Contract ("PSC") with PetroChina and CUCBM, receiving full approval in December 2005. It is the first and only CBM PSC in China on PetroChina lands.

    PROJECT LOCATION:

    The Junggar Basin in Xianjiang lies in the Northwest corner of China, and is highly prospective for CBM reserves due to its thick coals and high gas content. In addition to vast gas reserves, the project area is linked to the West-East gas pipeline owned and operated by PetroChina.

    ATTRIBUTES OF THE JUNGGAR BASIN GEOLOGY:
    Monster oil find nobody is talking about

    China's giant new energy source

    ATTRIBUTES OF THE TERRAWEST PROPERTY FINANCIAL INCENTIVES ARRANGEMENT:

    1) preferential pipeline access over conventional gas;
    2) a price subsidy of approximately US$1.00 per thousand cubic feet (mcf) for
    gas sold; and 3) a value added tax rate reduction and rebate on production as
    well as a corporate tax exemption for a certain period. The Chinese Government
    has deregulated CBM natural gas such that producers have the right to
    negotiate their own contracts and sell produced gas directly to end users.




    TERRAWEST RESULTS TO DATE:

    Of Note:
    Prior to the acquisition of TerraWest, I believe the number of pilot wells drilled by Norwest Corp. through 2006 and 2007 stood at four.

    Below is what Petromin has released since the take-over

    http://www.enviro-energy.com.hk/sites/al/uploads/1274835410167.pdf                May 26, 2010
    http://www.petromin.ca/?p2=/customcode/petromin/viewcomments.jsp&bid=61   Feb 11, 2009
    http://www.petromin.ca/?p2=/customcode/petromin/viewcomments.jsp&bid=63   May 20, 2009
    http://www.petromin.ca/?p2=/customcode/petromin/viewcomments.jsp&bid=67  July  08, 2009
    http://www.petromin.ca/?p2=/customcode/petromin/viewcomments.jsp&bid=75  Jan   08, 2010
    http://www.petromin.ca/?p2=/customcode/petromin/viewcomments.jsp&bid=77  Jan   18, 2010



    TERRAWEST SHALE GAS COMPARITIVE ANALYSIS TO DATE:

        Location               Formation               Average Thickness

    Comparable Gas Basin TOC data:

        -------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Natural Gas                             Total Organic             Quartz
        Producing Basin                  Age    Content (TOC)%              (Si)%
        -------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Barnett . Fort Worth   Mississippian          1.0-4.5    greater than 50
        -------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Ohio - Appalachian          Devonian          0.5-2.0              40-50
        -------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Marcellus -
        Appalachian                 Devonian         3.0-10.0    greater than 40
        -------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Lewis . San Juan          Cretaceous          0.5-2.5    greater than 40
        -------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Fayetteville -
        Arkoma                 Mississippian          4.0-9.5    greater than 40
        -------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Antrim - Michigan           Devonian         0.5-20.0              40-50
        -------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Utica - Appalachian       Ordovician          1.0-3.1    greater than 40
        -------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Badaowan - Junggar          Jurassic         1.0-11.0              40-50
        -------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Canaccord Adams Inc., 2008; Canadian Society for Unconventional Gas,
        2009; AJM consultants 2009; Energy Resources Conservation Board/Alberta
        Geological Survey 2009.


    Comparable Gas Basin Thickness   

    Location               Formation               Average Thickness

    United States          Barnett Shale           100 meters*

    United States          Marcellus Shale         15-75 metres**

    Junggar Basin, China   Badaowan J1B            750 meters***

    British Columbia       Doig, Doig Phosphate,   300-500 meter*
                               Montney
       

    *  Data is obtained from "An Overview of Shale Gas Potential in
             Northeastern British Columbia", Levson, V. M., Walsh, W., Adams, C.,
             Ferri, F., Hayes, M., Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, 2009
             (CSPG)

        ** Data obtained from Talisman Energy 2008.

        ***Information obtained from Barnett Shale Energy Education Council
             2009 based on 1.4 trillion cubic feet annual total production
             in 2008.

        -   This is the indicated true thickness from geological survey of
            surface outcrops conducted by Norwest.

        -   Other than the data with regards to the Badowan J1B formation, the
            sources of the data in the above table are independent of Petromin.
            The information obtained from the Canadian Society of Petroleum
            Geologists and the Barnett Shale Energy Council was prepared by
            industry groups.

    This updated comparison May 26/2010 -------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Typical  Typical    Annual
    Typical     Well     Gas       Basin
    Net Coal  Spacing  Content   Production
    Basin  Formations Description    (m)     (Acres)  (scf/t)    (2006)
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    San Juan  Fruitland  Bituminous    20-25    320      430        1 Tcf
    USA                   Coal
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Black    Pottsville Bituminous     8-10     80      350       127 Bcf
    Warrior                 Coal
    USA
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Piceance   Williams   Bituminous    20-25   60-80     750        4 Bcf
    USA       Fork        Coal
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Raton     Raton,    Bituminous      10     160      350       105 Bcf
    USA     Vermejo       Coal
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Western  Horseshoe  Sub-bit/low   10-15     80       60     323 Bcf*
    Canadian    Canyon    Vol Bit C
    Sedimen-
    tary
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Surat    Walloon   Bituminous       20     160    125-350 Not available
    Australia               Coal
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Kutai    Pranget      Sub-          20     tbd      50+      Not in
    Indonesia            bituminous                      (est)   commercial
    Coal                                 production
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    TWE Liuhuanggou Project under the PSC
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Junggar  Xishanyao Sub-bit/low     25.74   80-160  30-269
    Xinjiang   (J2X)     Vol Bit C           (Potential)
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Badaowan  Sub-bit/low     19.15   80-160  50-350
    (J1B)     Vol Bit C           (Potential)
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    TOTAL
    J2X+J1B                    44.9   80-160  30-350
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Sources: US GRI, 2004; Stevens, S. "Indonesia Coalbed Methane Indicators and Basin Evaluation", 2004; Robert W. Day, Coal seam gas booms in eastern Australia, June 2009
    http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/rpd/cbmusa2.pdf



    INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE:


    Pictured above is Don Downing on the left and Ross Gorrell on the right, standing beside the second transnational West East pipeline.

    The pipeline is the key transportation vehicle in moving gas from the resource rich west to the densely populated and industrlized East. Spanning over 10 Chinese provinces, the annual gas transmission capacity is estimated by PetroChina at 420 Bcf.
    It runs through the area covered by the PSC, and the Chinese
    Government favors and encourages the production of CBM gas by giving unconventional natural gas producers preferential pipeline access over conventional gas

    The PSC property borders the city limits of Urumqi, which boast's a population of up to 7 million people.
    The city of Urumqi has recently completed its gas pipeline infrastructure
    for residential use of natural gas and has indicated to TWE that it does not
    have enough gas to fill its needs and would welcome any opportunity to secure
    any long term supply when available.




    MASSIVE GOVERNMENT PROVIDED INFRASTRUCTURE TO BE IN PLACE BY 2013:

    Xinjiang Energy Shares Rise as China Pledges Spending

    Tuesday, 25 May 2010

    By Bloomberg News

     May 24 (Bloomberg) -- Energy and chemical makers based in
     Xinjiang rose in Shanghai on a report saying China plans to
     spend 50 billion yuan ($7.3 billion) to expedite coal, power and
     pipeline projects in the province three times the size of France.
     Xinjiang Tianfu Thermoelectric Co. surged by the daily
     limit of 10 percent to 11.75 yuan while oil and gas supplier
     Xinjiang Guanghui Industry Co. advanced 5.2 percent to 28.66
     yuan at 11:29 a.m. local time. Xinjiang Urban Construction Co.,
     a builder of roads, bridges and water facilities, jumped 10
     percent. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index rose 3.1 percent.
     The government in Beijing plans to increase energy
     investment in Xinjiang over the next three years, China National
     Radio reported May 22, citing Wu Yin, a deputy director at the
     National Energy Administration. The province, roiled by ethnic
     violence last year, will also move to taxing resources by price
     than by volume to boost government revenue and spur development.
     “It’s a very sensitive region politically and the
     government wants to make Xinjiang richer and more stable,” said
     Wang Aochao, head of China energy research at UOB-Kay Hian Ltd.
     in Shanghai. “There’s a question mark over whether all
     companies operating there will benefit. Oil and gas companies
     could be affected by the resources tax, but infrastructure
     companies will probably benefit from this investment.”
     Social stability in landlocked Xinjiang has been a priority
     since the provincial capital of Urumqi suffered China’s
     deadliest rioting in decades in July 2009 when clashes between
     ethnic Uighurs and Han Chinese left at least 197 people dead.
     The country’s President Hu Jintao pledged last week to raise per
     capita gross domestic product in the region to the national
     average by 2015.
     
     Rich in Resources
     
     In Shenzhen trading, Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology
     Co. rose 3.4 percent to 23.42 yuan. Xinjiang Zhongtai Chemical
     Co. gained 4.6 percent to 23.06 yuan in the southern city, while
     Xinjiang Zhundong Petroleum Technology Co. advanced 3.6 percent
     to 26.89 yuan.
     Xinjiang holds 15 percent of China’s oil reserves of 2.89
     billion tons, according to the latest figures available from the
     National Bureau of Statistics. The province has the biggest
     reserve of natural gas, accounting for 22 percent of total
     reserves of 3.4 trillion cubic meters. It also has the fifth-
     largest reserves of coal.
     China has discovered 360 million metric tons of heavy-oil
     deposits in Kelamayi in Xinjiang, the official Xinhua News
     Agency said today, citing a unit of PetroChina Co., the nation’s
     biggest oil producer.
     PetroChina gained 2.1 percent to 11.07 yuan in Shanghai
     trading, while its smaller rival China Petroleum & Chemical Corp.
     rose 2.4 percent. China Shenhua Energy Co. advanced 3 percent.
     
     For Related News and Information:
     China Energy Stories: {TNI CHINA NRG BN}
     
     --Wang Ying in Beijing. With assistance from John Duce in Hong
     Kong. Editors: Ryan Woo, Alex Devine.



    PETROMIN CEO COMMENTS ON GOVERNMENT INFRASTRUCTURE ANNOUNCEMENT:

    http://www.stockhouse.com/tools/?page=%2FFinancialTools%2Fsn%5Fnewsreleases%2Easp%3Fsymbol%3DV%2EPTR%26newsid%3D7754143



    RECENT SIGNIFICANT DEVOPMENTS:

    Cheung Kong Infrastructure To Buy Up To 8.2% Stake in Enviro Energy International Holding Ltd.
    http://www.tradesignalonline.com/Markets/Story.aspx?id=602294&cat=3

    ABOUT CHEUNG KONG INFRASTRUCTURE:
    http://www.cki.com.hk/english/about_CKI/home/index.htm

    PARENT COMPANY: CHEUNG KONG HOLDINGS:
    Combined Market Capitalization of $100 Billion USD
    http://www.ckh.com.hk/eng/about/about_chairman.htm

    Canadian Energy Ties: Li Ka-shing (Significant shareholder of Husky Energy)
    http://www.hutchison-whampoa.com/eng/energy/overview.htm

    Of note, Husky is no stranger to Shale Gas, this from their first quarter financial relaease:

    Husky continues to build its gas resource play portfolio and now has 946,000 acres. In the first quarter, Husky acquired 22 sections of additional land in the Komie area of the Horn River shale gas play located in northeast British Columbia, adjacent to 24 sections of existing land. Husky acquired seven sections in the South Bivouac area which increases Husky's holdings in the Jean Marie/Kakisa plays to 629,700 acres. In the first quarter, seven wells were drilled by Husky in the Bivouac area and two wells were drilled in the Ansell area.

     http://www.huskyenergy.com/news/2010/husky-energy-reports-2010-first-quarter-results.asp

    Another point I find of particular interest is Husky has announced their intention to split their stock and list half on the Hong Kong exchange and stay half listed on the Toronto stock exchange.

    Here is news to that effect:

    http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-30/husky-hopes-to-list-asian-assets-this-year-fok-says-update1-.html

     


    OWNERSHIP DIVISION OF TERRAWEST PROPERTY:

    Petromin now hold a 34% interest in the production sharing contract with PetroChina:
    Which consists of a 53% to PetroChina and 47% interest to Enviro and PTR, so EE has a 66% interest of the 47% and PTR has a 34% interest in the 47% share.

    Enviro has also bought 5 million shares of Petromin for .55 cents
    http://www.petromin.ca/?p2=/customcode/petromin/viewcomments.jsp&bid=6


    SIDE NOTE:
    Now I am not 100% on this, but the way I read it PTR gets up to 10% of any project Enviro is involved in ?
    his one is a little grey to me.

    Enviro Energy International Holdings Ltd: is a publicly traded company listed on the Growth Enterprise Market of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.  The Company is principally focused on coalbed methane, enhanced oil recovered, coal mine methane mitigation, greenhouse gas emissions reduction, clean development mechanism projects, and landfill gas projects. In October 2007, Petromin signed a Master Techncial Service Agreement with Enviro Energy. Pursuant to the Agreement, the Company will provide its services through the provision of its personnel, expertise, technology and research services towards the development of Enviro Energy's oil and gas business. In return, Petromin will be granted an interest in the underlying project to which the work pertains, whether as a working or carried interest, or as a royalty interest, of up to ten percent of Enviro Energy's interest in such project.



    Visit Enviro Energy's website: http://www.enviro-energy.com.hk/



    ENHANCED COALBED METHANE MULTI-WELL TEST PILOT PROJECT IN THE QUINSHI BASIN:

    Petromin is jointly spearheading CO2 Sequestration in China with the Alberta Research Council, they announced the launching of the world's first Mutli-Well Test Pilot Project to take place in the Quinshi Basin in Shanxi Province, which is regarded as one of the most prolific coalbed methane basins in China
    http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Petromin-Resources-Coordinates-First-Ever-Multi-Well-Pilot-CO2-Injection-Enhanced-Coal-TSX-VENTURE-PTR-751408.htm
    This project came about as a result of ARC's single-well test pilot project (injecting CO2 into a single coalbed methane well) in 1998.
    http://www.cslforum.org/publications/documents/FinalReportCCBMproject.pdf

    China had planned a number of single-well test pilots originally, but when the data came in showing that they could take CBM production from average 35% up to 80%,  Gov't. officials were apparently so impressed they squashed any further sinlge-well pilots and wanted to move right to a mutli-well, which is the pre-requisite to taking the process commercial right across China.

    FINANCING OF THE TEST PILOT:
    A compelling factor of the Multi-Well Test Pilot Project is that Petromin financial obligation to the project has been picked up by Canadian Federal Government giving recognition to the stature and global importance ECBM & EOR through the technological innovation's of  CO2 Sequestration on the world stage.
    http://www.petromin.ca/?p2=/customcode/petromin/viewcomments.jsp&bid=74

    So don't be too surprised once the data starts flowing from this project, if after 3 years they say, we've seen enough and let's go commercial now and roll-out projects across other Provinces and implementation of other projects like this one that is comprehensive.
    http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Petromin-Shanxi-Energy-Inc-Coal-Energy-Agreement-TSX-VENTURE-PTR-642207.htm
    or
    http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Petromin-Resources-Ltd-Letter-of-Intent-with-Heilongjiang-Coal-Geological-Bureau-TSX-VENTURE-PTR-600632.htm


    KUWAIT PROJECTS:

    When looking through Petromins news releases you might notice a L.O.I signed with a Kuwait Group called  U.O.P.
    United Oil Projects to engage on CO2 projects in Kuwait for enhanced oil recovery.
    http://www.petromin.ca/?p2=/customcode/petromin/viewcomments.jsp&bid=27
    A patially owned susiduary called Allied Resources was also named in the L.O.I.  has since been 100% acquired by Enviro Energy which also added an interest in the Qian An Oilfield.
     Enviro operates a 50% joint venture partnership with PetroChina Company Limited (PetroChina) on the Qian An Oilfields. The block located in Jilin Province covers an area of 15 square kilometers with 21.7 million barrels (Mmbbl) original oil in place (OIP). which has been earmarked for potential EOR with CO2 sequestration.
    http://www.enviro-energy.com.hk/sites/al/files/announcements_en/2008/GLN20080220020.pdf

    So as it stands now, the Letter of Intent with U.O.P. has been finalized into a formal agreement,  and is still binding.
    http://www.petromin.ca/?p2=/customcode/petromin/viewcomments.jsp&bid=48
    Although the Kuwait Government has been slow to green light these proposed projects to the bidding stage as yet, Petromin has been advanced tot the pre-approved list of applicants that may submit bids.

    So , when these tenders are eventually made available for bidding on,  I would imagine our group would have a leg up over other International players, what with Petromin been partnered with a Kuwait Company, one would think they might receive preferential consideration...so stay tuned...something could still spring to action on this, perhaps someday in the near future or not.

    For disclosure I own large positions in both PTR & EE and am obviously very bullish on their future.
    That is the extent of my relationship to the company, and yes while I have become very well acquainted with management I am not an employee or paid consultant to the company.

    The strategy for Canadain Junior Resource Companies penetrating lucrative foreign markets has been proven to be a winning venture by many, and I conclude that Petromin & Enviro will be just 2 more examples.
    From an investor standpoint, it is my believe that Petromin win end up being the better play because they only have 58 million shares outstanding and Enviro has over 2 Billion.
    Do the math and always do your own DD, and never buy any stock simply because of the words of someone on a bullboard.

    Cheers and Best Of Luck In Finding the Good Ones Early
    Shaker13

       
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