Thomas L. Jones Jr.
                                     Mr. Jones has a total of twenty-nine years experience exploring for oil  and            
                                     gas in South Texas.  This experience includes two years at  Exxon                          
                                     Company, U.S.A. as an exploration geologist working in the King Ranch                  
                                     Project and another two years at Texas Oil and Gas as an Area                              
                                     Geologist in South Texas.  The prospecting experience  gained at                           
                                     Exxon and Texas Oil and Gas enabled Mr. Jones to  begin a career as an              
                                     independent geologist in 1979.  Success as an independent led Mr. Jones             
                                     to found the prospect generating company of Scout Petroleum, L.L.C.

                                     Mr. Jones is a member of the American Association of Petroleum                           
                                     Geologists, Houston Geological Society, Corpus Christi Geological Society             
                                     and the Society of Independent Earth Scientists.  Mr. Jones earned a                     
                                     Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from the University of Illinois and a             
                                     Master of Science degree in Geology from the University of South Carolina.



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