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TAG Retains Unconventional Experts & Establishes East Coast Basin Office
VANCOUVER , Oct. 23, 2013 /CNW/ - TAG Oil Ltd. (TSX: TAO) and (OTCQX: TAOIF), announces ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\nVANCOUVER, Oct. 23, 2013 /CNW/ - TAG Oil Ltd. (TSX: TAO) and (OTCQX:\n TAOIF), announces that unconventional oil and gas specialists Stephen\n L. Dutnell, P.E. and David B. Cornue P.G., C.H.M.M., have joined the\n Company's operational team on a long-term contract basis. Mr. Dutnell\n and Mr. Cornue will be based in TAG's newly established operational\n base in the city of Napier on the East Coast of New Zealand's North\n Island.\n\n\nTAG is pursuing the major unconventional resource potential that has\n been demonstrated by TAG's extensive geotechnical studies and the\n results of the Ngapaeruru-1 well, drilled in spring, which intersected\n 155 meters of unconventional oil-and-gas pay in the source rock. The\n addition of Mr. Dutnell and Mr. Cornue to the Company's operational\n team, and TAG's newly established East Coast office, will facilitate\n TAG's expanding operational plans and drilling activity, with a goal of\n establishing the East Coast Basin's first unconventional oil and gas\n production.\n\n\nBoth Mr. Dutnell and Mr. Cornue are highly respected senior petroleum\n and environmental experts, with extensive experience in all facets of\n unconventional oil and gas exploration and development. Their\n collective 57 years of petroleum experience includes work in many\n unconventional oil and gas developments in the United States, including\n the Bakken, Eagle Ford, Marcellus and Utica Shale plays.\n\n\nDavid B. Cornue\n\n\nMr. Cornue obtained his Master of Science degree from State University\n of New York, Stony Brook, and his BA in Geology from the University of\n Maine. He has managed, performed, or contributed to numerous\n unconventional oil and gas projects, including the preparation of\n several environmental manuals specific to oil and gas development\n prepared for the Department of Energy, National Energy Technology\n Laboratory, and also the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission.\n Since 2009 he has represented the Independent Oil and Gas Association\n of New York in preparing and presenting their formal commentary\n regarding new regulations applicable to unconventional development. And\n in February 2012, he was instrumental in a report prepared for the New\n Zealand Ministry of Economic Development and the Institute of\n Geological and Nuclear Sciences Limited (GNS Science) for onshore\n unconv...