EXHIBIT 99.1

                          GLOSSARY OF OIL AND GAS TERMS
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BARREL OF OIL (""BBL"):
     Measurements  which  equal  a barrel of oil include 159 liters, 0.159 cubic
     meters,  35  Imperial  gallons,  and  42  U.S.  gallons.

BARRELS PER DAY (""B/D"" OF ""BPD""):
     The  number  of  barrels of oil produced from a well over a 24 hour period,
     normally  an  average  figure  from  a  longer  period  of  time.

BCF:
     Billion  cubic  feet.

BOREHOLE OR BORE:
     The hole created in the earth when a well is drilled or bored.

CHOKE:
     Device to restrict rate of flow during testing or production of a well.

COMPLETION:
     The  procedure  by  which  a  successful  well  is  readied for production.

CUBIC FEET PER DAY (""CFD""):
     The number of cubic feet of natural gas produced from a well over a 24 hour
     period,  normally an average figure from a longer period of time. Generally
     expressed  as  mcf/d  = thousand cubic feet per day, mmcf/d = million cubic
     feet  per  day,  or  bcf  =  billion  cubic  feet  per  day.

CUBIC FOOT:
     The  amount  of  gas  required  to  fill  a  volume  of  one  cubic  foot.

DISCOVERY WELL:
     An  exploratory  well  that  encounters  a  previously  untapped oil or gas
     deposit.

DOWN HOLE PUMP:
     A pump placed down into a well, which is used to withdraw water and/or oil.

DRY HOLE:
     An  unsuccessful well, drilled without finding commercial quantities of oil
     or  gas.

FIELD*:
     An area consisting of a single reservoir or multiple reservoirs all grouped
     on  or  related to the same individual geological structural feature and/or
     stratigraphic  condition.

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EXPLORATION:
     Search  for  hydrocarbons  by Geological and Geophysical (G&G) surveys that
     may  be  followed  by  exploration  drilling.

EXPLORATORY WELL:
     A  well drilled to find and produce oil or gas in an unproved area, to find
     a  new reservoir in a field previously found to be productive of oil or gas
     in  another  reservoir,  or  to  extend  a  known  reservoir. Generally, an
     exploratory  well  is  any  well  that is not a development well, a service
     well,  or  a  stratigraphic  test  well  as  those items are defined below.

HELD BY PRODUCTION (""HBP"") :
     Typically,  a  lease  payment  holds  the lease on the oil and gas property
     until  drilling  and production occur, and thereafter, the lease is held by
     production  until  production  stops.

INFILL DRILLING:
     Drilling  more wells into the same pool so that oil does not have to travel
     as  far  through  the  rock.

INJECTION WELL:
     A well used for injecting fluids into a formation in an attempt to increase
     recovery  efficiency.

LEASE:
     A legal document conveying the right to drill for oil and gas, or the tract
     of  land  on  which a lease has been obtained where the producing wells and
     production  equipment  are  located.

LEASE BONUS:
     The cash consideration paid by a lessee to the owner of the leasing rights,
     usually  upon  execution of an oil and gas lease. May take other forms than
     cash.

MBBL:
     Million Barrels.

MCF:
     Thousand  cubic  feet.

MMCF:
     Million cubic feet.

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NATURAL GAS:
     A  naturally  occurring  mixture  of  hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon gases
     found  in  porous  rock  formations.  Its  principal  component is methane.

OLIGOCENE
     Third  division of Tertiary period spanning an interval from about 40 to 25
     million  years  ago.

OVERRIDING ROYALTY INTEREST (""ORRI""):
     An  interest  in  production that is created and payable out of the working
     interest.  Usually,  the  term  of  an  ORRI is for the life of the mineral
     lease.

PAY:
     A producing sand.

PLAY:
     A  play  is  a  set  of  known or postulated oil and (or) gas accumulations
     sharing  similar  geologic,  geographic,  and  temporal properties, such as
     source rock, migration pathway, timing, trapping mechanism, and hydrocarbon
     type

PLUG:
     A  permanent plug, usually either cast iron or cement, set in a borehole to
     block  the flow of fluids to isolate sections of the well or to permanently
     plug  a  dry  hole  or  depleted  well.

PRODUCTION DRILLING:
     Drilling of wells in order to bring a field into production.

PRODUCTION SCREEN:
     A  liner  put  in  a well to block the migration of formation sand into the
     well  bore.

PROVED OIL AND GAS RESERVES:*
     Proved  oil  and  gas  reserves  are the estimated quantities of crude oil,
     natural  gas, and natural gas liquids which geological and engineering data
     demonstrate  with  reasonable  certainty  to be recoverable in future years
     from  known  reservoirs  under  existing economic and operating conditions,
     i.e.,  prices and costs as of the date the estimate is made. Prices include
     consideration  of  changes  in existing prices provided only by contractual
     arrangements,  but  not  on  escalations  based  upon  future  conditions.

          1.  Reservoirs  are  considered  proved  if  economic producibility is
          supported  by  either  actual production or conclusive formation test.
          The  area  of  a reservoir considered proved includes (A) that portion
          delineated  by  drilling  and  defined  by  gas-oil  and/or  oil-water
          contacts,  if  any, and (B) the immediately adjoining portions not yet
          drilled, but which can be reasonably judged as economically productive
          on  the  basis  of  available  geological and engineering data. In the
          absence  of information on fluid contacts, the lowest known structural
          occurrence  of  hydrocarbons  controls  the  lower proved limit of the
          reservoir.

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          2.  Reserves which can be produced economically through application of
          improved recovery techniques (such as fluid injection) are included in
          the  proved classification when successful testing by a pilot project,
          or  the  operation  of an installed program in the reservoir, provides
          support  for  the engineering analysis on which the project or program
          was  based.

PROVED DEVELOPED OIL AND GAS RESERVES:*
     Proved  developed oil and gas reserves are reserves that can be expected to
     be  recovered  through existing wells with existing equipment and operating
     methods.  Additional  oil  and  gas  expected  to  be  obtained through the
     application  of  fluid  injection or other improved recovery techniques for
     supplementing  the natural forces and mechanisms of primary recovery should
     be  included  as  proved  developed  reserves only after testing by a pilot
     project  or  after  the  operation  of  an  installed program has confirmed
     through  production  response  that  increased  recovery  will be achieved.

PROVED PROPERTIES:
     Properties with proved reserves.

PROVED UNDEVELOPED RESERVES:*
     Proved  undeveloped  oil and gas reserves are reserves that are expected to
     be  recovered  from  new wells on undrilled acreage, or from existing wells
     where a relatively major expenditure is required for recompletion. Reserves
     on  undrilled  acreage  shall be limited to those drilling units offsetting
     productive  units  that  are reasonably certain of production when drilled.
     Proved  reserves for other undrilled units can be claimed only where it can
     be  demonstrated with certainty that there is continuity of production from
     the  existing productive formation. Under no circumstances should estimates
     for proved undeveloped reserves be attributable to any acreage for which an
     application  of  fluid  injection  or  other improved recovery technique is
     contemplated,  unless  such techniques have been proved effective by actual
     tests  in  the  area  and  in  the  same  reservoir.

POSSIBLE UNDEVELOPED RESERVES:

     Possible undeveloped reserves are those unproved reserves which analysis of
     geological  and engineering data suggests are less likely to be recoverable
     than  probable  reserves  (see above). Additionally, they are reserves that
     are  expected  to  be recovered from new wells on undrilled acreage where a
     relatively  large  expenditure is required and where reserves in formations
     that  appear  to  be  petroleum bearing are, based on log, core and seismic
     analysis.  These  reserves are incremental reserves which are attributed to
     infill  drilling  and  are  subject  to  technical  uncertainty.

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UNPROVED PROPERTIES:
     Properties with no proved reserves.

RE-ENTRY:
     Testing  a  potential zone by using the borehole of a plugged and abandoned
     well,  usually  after new drilling and production has occurred in the area.

RESERVES:
     An  economically recoverable quantity of crude oil and gas that has not yet
     been  produced  from  reservoirs.

RESERVOIR:
     Porous  permeable  rock  containing  petroleum.

SEISMIC:
     Either  two-dimensional  or three-dimensional, computer assisted processing
     of  sedimentary  structures,  assist  in  planning  drilling  programs.

SHUT-IN WELL:
     A  well  which  is  producing  or capable of producing but is not produced.
     Reasons  for  wells  being  shut  in  may  be lack of a pipeline, lack of a
     market,  etc.

WELLBORE:
     The hole drilled by the bit that is equipped for oil or gas production on a
     completed  well.  Also  called  Well  or  Borehole.

WELLHEAD:
     The  control equipment fitted to the top of the well consisting of outlets,
     valves,  blowout  preventors,  etc.

WORKOVERS:
     Major  repairs  or modifications which restore or enhance production from a
     well.

*  These  definitions  are  abbreviated  version  of  the complete definition as
defined  by  the  SEC  in  Rule  4-10(a)  of  Regulation  S-X.  See
www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/forms/regsx.htm#gas  for  the  complete
definition.

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