Mr. Devon Dowell

Mr. Dowell received a BS in Geology from San Diego State University in 1981. From 1971 to 1975 he served in the United States Navy, Honorable Discharge, where he received the Presidential Unit Citation, the Republic of Vietnam Meritorious Unit Citation, the Vietnam Campaign Ribbon, the Vietnam Service Medal and the National Defense Service Medal. In 1981 he joined Geophysical Service Inc. (GSI) as a Geophysicist in the Data Processing Research and Development department. In 1987 GSI merged with Halliburton Geophysical Services (HGS) where Mr. Dowell worked as Senior Geophysicist until 1993, when HGS was acquired by Western Geophysical. At HGS Mr. Dowell continued his position in the Data Processing R&D group working on the development of different seismic processing applications, training, and Technical Sales. Mr. Dowell continued at Western Geophysical until 1995 as Senior Geophysicist.

In 1995 Mr. Dowell together with three colleagues from Western Geophysical founded Coherence Technology Company (CTC) a 3D seismic data processing company that pioneered Coherency Technology in the oil-and-gas market. At CTC he served as Vice President of Operations and helped grow the company from 3 people in a small office to 125 employees in five international processing centers: Houston and Dallas in the US; Calgary, Canada; London, England; Jakarta, Indonesia; Lagos, Nigeria.

In 1999 Mr. Dowell co-founded ESeis Inc., a company providing lithologic prediction and well planning services and software. As Chief Operating Officer he was responsible for processing operations, information systems, contract negotiation, financial planning and human resources. He negotiated the acquisition and merger of Ulterra Technologies, Geoscope Exploration Services and Expro to secure intellectual property, and raised seed capital.

In 2002 Mr. Dowell formed ADC Petroleum, an independent oil and gas exploration, geophysical and geological consulting company. As President/CEO he negotiated a joint exploration agreement with Royal Dutch Shell to prospect in the onshore GOM applying emerging seismic imaging and drilling technology to reduce risk and enhance reserves.

In 2008 Mr. Dowell joined 3DGeo as Senior Geophysicist in charge of Special Projects, and in 2010 Mr. Dowell joined Z-Terra Inc.