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T. Allan Blood
Chairman
Australian Energy Company, Ltd (Perth, Australia)
Australian-American Energy Company, LLC (Houston, Texas)
With over 30 years experience, Allan Blood has gained substantial project and company development experience in Australia and internationally. He was formerly Managing Director of Value Engineering Australia and later Chairman of the Bulgarian-Australian Manganese Company. He was also Executive Chairman of Schefferville Iron & Minerals Inc in Canada.
More recently, Mr. Blood was the founder and former Chairman of Australian Power & Energy Limited (APEL) now Monash Energy Limited, a subsidiary of Anglo American Group plc (the world’s third largest resources company). APEL was established in 1998 to develop brown coal (lignite) coal reserves in the Latrobe Valley, Victoria, Australia. In 1999, APEL won a competitive tender for 34 billion tonnes of brown coal from the Victorian Government and initiated the development for a 50,000 barrels/day coal-to-liquids (CTL) plant. This $5 billion project was designed with Shell gasification technology with Syntroleum FT technology integrated with a power plant.
Following the takeover of APEL by Anglo American in 2004 (and further strategic alliance with Shell), Mr. Blood resigned from APEL and formed Australian Energy Company Limited (AEC). As Chairman of AEC, Mr. Blood reassembled his experienced development team and initiated the company’s current $1.5 billion undertaking, a combined power/ammonia urea project based on coal gasification of brown coal in the familiar Latrobe Valley of Victoria. This project has completed preliminary engineering and is expected to enter Front-End Engineering Design in late 2008 with start of construction expected to occur in 2009.
In 2006, AEC initiated a new venture, Australian-American Energy Company, LLC (AAEC), headquartered in Houston, Texas USA with the intent to leverage upon the strong track record of Mr. Blood and the AEC Australian team in project development and financing to establish world-class project development teams in the U.S. AAEC’s mission is to develop new coal gasification projects in the U.S. similar to the ones previously developed in Australia by AEC utilizing the same technologies and engineering designs, coupled with both current shareholders and new venture partners. Mr. Blood is Chairman of both AEC and AAEC as is the largest individual shareholder in both companies.
Richard D. (Dick) Lyon
Chief Executive Officer
Australian-American Energy Company, LLC (Houston, Texas)
Dick Lyon has more than 34 years experience in the energy and mining industry’s major project development business sector, specializing in the overall planning, engineering, and construction implementation of numerous technically complex mega-projects worldwide ($5 – 20 billion each).
Prior to joining AAEC, Mr. Lyon spent 33 continuous years with Chevron Corporation, a major global energy developer that implements leading edge energy projects in over 100 countries worldwide. Mr. Lyon was Chevron’s Senior Executive and Project Director on numerous projects in the United States, Canada, and West Africa throughout his career, served as a technical advisor on additional mega-projects internationally and filled numerous senior commercial, technical and business development roles during his outstanding career with Chevron.
Mr. Lyon’s career legacy is delivering safe, on-time and on-budget complex petrochemical and mining projects in an environmentally responsible and operationally reliable manner while forging exemplary business relationships with all project stakeholders. During the most recent past 15 years, Mr. Lyon directed key commercial, engineering, and/or construction activities for the recently implemented Angola LNG Project in West Africa, the completed Athabasca Oilsands Project (Phase 1) in northern Alberta, Canada, and the completed Hibernia Oil & Gas Development Project offshore Newfoundland, Canada. Each project is considered a world-class pacesetter energy project that other energy companies are regularly using as models to hopefully replicate elsewhere.
As Global Projects Director for AAEC, Mr. Lyon will be responsible for overall planning and development of the Many Stars Project, leading the AAEC and Crow team and all contractor teams forward in planning, development, and implementation activities.
Mr. Lyon holds a Bachelors of Science Degree (with Highest Honors) in Civil Engineering from Michigan Tech University.
Kenneth R. Roberts
Executive Vice President Corporate Development and Chief Financial Officer
Australian-American Energy Company, LLC (Houston, Texas)
Ken Roberts has over 35 years experience in the petroleum industry and major project development sector with a broad spectrum of responsible positions, from Fortune 50 corporations to new venture start-up firms.
Prior to joining AAEC, Mr. Roberts spent 10 years with Syntroleum Corporation, a leading provider of gas-to-liquids (GTL) and coal-to-liquids (CTL) technology. In his business development role, Mr. Roberts supported several major GTL and CTL project development efforts for clients worldwide. He also served as Vice President/Chief Financial Officer for Syntroleum prior to his appointment as Sr. Vice President Business Development in 2002. Most recently, Mr. Roberts led Syntroleum’s U.S. Government sponsored programs, including demonstration of single-battlefield fuels for the military. He also initiated Syntroleum’s business development efforts in the coal-to-liquids sector where he established key relationships with the DOE, DOD and Congressional delegations to support development of the CTL industry in the U.S. Mr. Roberts has also presented at numerous forums on GTL and CTL around the world.
Prior to joining Syntroleum, Mr. Roberts was a key development team member of several multi-billion dollar projects with Oman Oil Company. He served as Project Financial Consultant for two greenfield petroleum refineries in India for Bharat-Oman Petroleum Company and Hindustan-Oman Oil Company. Following Mr. Roberts’ position as Financial Consultant for Oman Oil Company in Moscow, Russia, he was later was appointed Chief Financial Officer for the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, a joint venture among the governments of Russia, Kazakhstan and Oman along with 10 major international oil companies including Chevron, ARCO, Mobil and Shell.
Mr. Roberts also served 12 years with ARCO Oil and Gas Company where he held various management positions in the areas of finance and strategic planning, including Manager Investment Analysis for the Exploration Division in Dallas and Finance/Planning Manager for ARCO’s Southern District in Houston. During this time, Mr. Roberts taught petroleum economics and modeling at ARCO’s in-house engineering schools.
Mr. Roberts early career experience with other firms included financial management, human resources management and technical positions in engineering/construction and environmental services companies both in the U.S. and the Middle East.
Mr. Roberts holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering/Operations Research and an MBA in Finance/Strategic Planning from the University of Texas at Austin.
James F. Leahy
Manager of Engineering
Australian-American Energy Company, LLC
Jim Leahy has over 35 years experience in process development, small project management, and process plant technical support in the petrochemical and synthetic fuels industries. He has managed the engineering, construction, and start-up of a first-of-a-kind gas to liquids (GTL) plant.
Mr. Leahy began his career with Shell Chemical in 1969 where he was a Process Engineer working on various ethylene, ethanol, n-butanol, and sulfur plants. He later became the Chief operator on the Shell NBA/2-EH hydroformylation plant during a four-month strike. In 1976, after a short stint with M.W. Kellogg, Mr. Leahy joined ARCO where he held project management positions for ARCO Chemical and ARCO Exploration.
As Project Manager, Mr. Leahy prepared commercial GTL designs and cost estimates for ARCO projects in Qatar, Alaska, and Indonesia. He also, prepared the first process design for Gas-to-Liquids conversion using the Syntroleum ATR process and slurry bubble column technologies.
In 2000, Mr. Leahy joined Syntroleum as Director, Special Projects. There, he developed integrated flow sheets for Coal-to-Liquids conversion processes using Siemens, Shell, and Lurgi gasification technologies, Lurgi Rectisol technology, and utilities interfaces. He also developed Syntroleum’s process for GTL syn gas clean-up and Syntroleum’s first design for the fuel-air mixing device used for its Autothermal Reformer. In addition, he composed plans for a catalyst testing program exposing Syntroleum GTL cobalt FT catalyst to synthesis gas produced from coal at an existing gasification site. Since his retirement from Syntroleum, Mr. Leahy has coordinated the efforts of technology providers in the development of a process design incorporating all areas of the coal-to-liquids process for the Many Stars Energy Project.
Mr. Leahy has a M.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Houston and a B.S. Chemical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology.
John H. Lummus
Project Commercial Advisor
John Lummus has over 30 years experience in providing engineering and financial expertise to domestic and international clientele in the areas of project development, investment analysis, business strategy, acquisition support, economic modeling and reserve analysis.
Mr. Lummus started his career as a petroleum engineer with Tenneco E&P Company. He was later promoted to corporate staff engineer in the Oil and Contracts group where his responsibilities included technical support for litigation and liaison to operating divisions on federal and state oil and gas regulations.
He later served as Manager of Reservoir Engineering and later as Manager of Planning and Analysis for two Houston-based independents. These groups were responsible for work-over, re-completion and drilling recommendations, reserve estimates, budgets, strategic planning, property acquisition and disposition and engineering and valuation of international projects.
Mr. Lummus joined JPMorgan as Vice President in the Energy, Minerals and Power Group where his responsibilities included providing financial advice to international corporations and governments on numerous international and domestic projects including corporate finance, project finance and mergers and acquisitions.
Following his tenure with JPMorgan, John became an independent consultant, providing engineering and financial expertise to a wide array of domestic and international clientele in the area of investment analysis, business strategy, acquisition support, economic modeling, reserve analysis, contract development, fiscal system analysis, supply and demand analysis, multi-national pipeline feasibility analysis, stranded gas monetization and analysis of coal-to-liquids technologies.
John has B.S. Petroleum Engineering from the University of Tulsa.
Jemima C. Cameron
Manager-Workforce Development, Community Engagement and Human Resources
Jemima Cameron joined the Many Stars Project following her graduation from Harvard University in June 2009 where she received her Master’s degree in Education with focus on International Education Policy. While at Harvard, Ms. Cameron prepared a Strategic Workforce Development Plan for the Many Stars Project as part of her studies in the Native American Nation-Building Program. The work that Ms. Cameron performed at Harvard in early 2009 led to the development of the workforce development strategies being implemented by the Many Stars Project today. Ms. Cameron’s prior experience includes youth sports education and program administration. She coached women’s field hockey at Harvard University and Indiana University and managed sports development programs in isolated rural areas of her native Australia. Ms. Cameron received her Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Political Science from Wake Forest University.
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