STRAT PETROLEUM, LTD.
(SPRL: OTC. BB)
www.stratpetroleum.com
Strat
Petroleum, Ltd. (the "Company") was the result of a reverse takeover of
F2 Broadcast Network, Inc. which was organized under the laws of the
State of Nevada, to acquire licenses to develop oil and gas properties
in the Russian Federation. The Company redomesticated to Wyoming on July
9,2004 Management intends, during the next six to twelve month period,
to acquire interests in licenses for oil and gas properties that have
proven reserves and where possible capped or producing wells.
Proposed Business
The
Company has entered into a Memorandum of
Understanding to acquire 49% of a license in a property in the Region of
Orenburg called the Rozhdestvenskoe Oil Site.
Company Direction & Vision
Strat
Petroleum's envisions building a strong vertically integrated petroleum
company based on opportunities available in the Russian Federation and
neighboring countries. This will be accomplished through acquisitions of
interests in licenses to develop crude oil sites with proven reserves,
an equity investment in one or more refineries, and through the sale of
refined products secured from a number of refineries with which the
Company has very strong contact.
The Opportunity
The
Company stands to acquire interests in licenses to explore and develop
oil and gas properties in the Russian Federation. The Company's
management and advisory team have developed a very strong network of
contacts within the various levels of government, banks and independent
associations in the local oil and gas industry, which we believe will
provide access to many opportunities to bring value to shareholders.
The
Company has currently signed a memorandum of understanding to secure a
49.0 percent interest in a field in the Orenburg Region with proven
reserves of at least 70 million barrels of oil, based upon reserve
reports filed with Gazprom.
The
Company initially will be targeting acquisition of interests in licenses
to properties with proven reserves and where possible with commercially
producing or capped wells, i.e. focusing on development and not
exploration.
The
Company has also established contacts with a number of refineries that
will allow it to have access to refined products for sale into
international markets. All product sales will be in U.S. dollars and may
be sold to both international and local customers.
The Region of Orenburg
The
initial opportunity is the right to acquire a working interest in one or
more oil and gas fields in the Region of Orenburg, Russia, which is
located in the Urals of Western Siberia.
The Urals
and Western Siberia are home to Russia's leading producers of oil and
gas. This region represents a major potential market for U.S. companies
interested in sales and medium to long-term investment in the petroleum
industry. The oil and gas sector in the Urals and western Siberia
possesses major advantages, which include not only its enormous
prospected oil and gas resources, but the proximity of deposits to oil
extraction equipment suppliers, and to the European market.
Orenburg
Oblast (Province) is also a leading oil and gas producer. Exploration
has revealed over 140 oil and gas deposits. Proven reserves of oil
exceed 127.4 million
metric tons, while gas estimates are 821.1 billion cubic meters. The
region has an estimated 40 to 50 years of commercially exploitable
natural gas reserves. Orenburg
currently produces between 8.4 and 8.5 million metric tons of oil.
[Barrels is the commonly understood measure.] However, substantial
investment is required in order to further develop the region's oil and
gas extraction industries.
Only
about 1% of proven reserves have been extracted which not only leaves
significant quantities yet to be extracted but large tracts of land
still untested.
Russia's Oil Industry
New
Russia has had two major and paradoxical effects on the oil industry:
production has dropped sharply but the industry's importance in terms of
the foreign currency it earns has risen dramatically.
At its
peak, the Soviet oil industry produced over 11 million barrels of crude
oil per day (mbd) in 1987 - that was more than Saudi Arabia, more than
every other country in the world in fact except the United States and
over a sixth of total world production.
In 1995,
production was about 6 mbd - a reduction of almost half from the 12.5
mbd achieved in 1988. The reduction in production has several reasons;
most significantly is the decline in the massive infrastructure needed
to keep the oil fields operational. Many
Soviet oil fields were thousands of kilometers away from their markets
and thousands of kilometers inland, in Siberia or Central Asia. The
industry needed massive maintenance for pipeline systems and machinery.
Partly it
was an effect of political chaos. In Soviet days, the strong machinery
of the state had ensured that an industry like oil, vital for the whole
economy, was kept running no matter what. Once central control was
weakened, Russia's captains of industry started competing among
themselves for resources, and oil could not be guaranteed primacy.
That
Russia has substantial reserves of oil is old news. What is new is the
dramatically enhanced role in Russian politics, oil technology, and
energy markets have given to its petroleum sector. Throughout the
1990's, privatization in Russia and innovations in exploration and
drilling technologies brought into production oil fields that had until
then been underperforming or completely off-limits, has resulted in
increased production to
8.2 mbd in 2003.
To energy
companies worried about growing domestic instability among the major oil
exporters of the Middle East, Russia has become an even more attractive
hedge. Regardless of its political turmoil, Russia will continue to
appeal to oil companies, which know how to operate profitably in
countries with weak property rights and unstable politics. |
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OTC.BB SPRL
Recent Price $0.17

Management
Key
management personnel has considerable and varied experience in
establishing
and building companies and in combination with knowledge, strong network
of contacts
and many years of experience in navigating through the Russian
bureaucracy to ensure success of ventures entered into.
H. Sam Hyams - President & CEO
Mr. Hyams holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from York
University in Ontario and is a Chartered Accountant. His experience over
the past 20 years in Canadian industry and on the international scene
has included positions in finance and accounting to assisting in
establishing new ventures by securing financing, and managing their
business plans. Mr. Hyams has also acted as a consultant to small and
medium sized businesses, advising them on strategic plans for growth,
acquisitions and divestitures.
Chaim Flatt - Executive V.P.
Business Development
Mr. Flatt holds B.Sc. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Kaunas
Polytechnic
University in Russia. He brings over 30 years of knowledge, experience
and network of
contacts developed in the areas of project development, financing and
international
trade. Mr. Flatt is President of Arad Energy Products Co. which has been
involved in
projects in the Russian Federation and other CIS countries since the
late
1980's with focus on the natural resource sector. In the past few years
Mr. Flatt has concentrated on trade of oil and oil products, which has
allowed him to build a very good network of contacts in the Russia and
the CIS
Lev Perelman - Consulting
Engineer
Mr. Perelman holds BS and MS degrees in Civil Engineering and gas supply
systems
from the University of N. Novgorod (Russia) and holds a BS degree in
Power
Engineering from Southern Alberta Institute of Technology of Calgary
(Alberta, Canada) In Russia he was employed by Gazprom and has been
actively involved in oil/gas, development, processing and consulting
since 1973. He was involved in the
development of the Volga "transgas" and Moscowgaspipeline" oil and gas
pipelines.
Chyang Wen - V.P. Business China
& Far East
Mr. Wen holds an M.B.A. degree from York University in Ontario, and his
career spanning more than 20 year includes banking with experience in
commercial credit and comptrollers division. He was involved in
establishing a manufacturing business in the pesticide industry where
his responsibilities including all financial and marketing
functions. For the past several years he has been a consultant to
business and
businessmen in China and the Far East in attracting investment and
investors to
Canada. Mr. Wen will use his strong network in those countries to secure
investment and contracts for the sale of crude oil and oil products. |