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Petroleum News Alaska Staff

Robert J. Allison, Jr.,

chairman and CEO

Anadarko Petroleum Company

Bob Allison joined Anadarko Petroleum Company as vice president of operations in 1973 and became president and a member of the Board of Directors in 1976. He was named CEO in 1979 and chairman and CEO of Anadarko in 1986. Prior to 1986, Anadarko was owned by Panhandle Eastern Corp. (now Duke Energy), and from 1980 to 1986, Allison served as group vice president and director of Panhandle.

Prior to joining Anadarko, Allison spent 14 years with Amoco Production Company. Following 10 years of domestic responsibilities, he worked for Amoco Trinidad Oil Company from 1970 to 1972 as a chief engineer in Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies. From 1972 to 1973, he worked for Amoco Iran Oil Company as an advisor in Tehran.

Allison is on the Board of Directors of the American Petroleum Institute and a member of API’s Public Policy Committee. He is a member of the executive committee and Board of Directors for the U.S. Oil and Gas Association. Allison is also a member of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, National Petroleum Council, Society of Petroleum Engineers, Natural Gas Supply Association, Domestic Petroleum Council and the Midwest Energy Association.

In 1994, Allison was named the Outstanding CEO in the oil and gas producing industry by The Wall Street Transcript. He was elected to the All-American Wildcatters in 1991 and is chairman for 1999-2000.

Allison is a native of Evanston, Ill., and received a bachelors degree in petroleum engineering from Kansas University. He and his wife Carolyn have three children and six grandchildren.

Anadarko Petroleum is one of the nation’s largest independent oil and gas exploration and production companies with proved reserves equal to over 935 million barrels of oil. Anadarko is active in exploration and production projects in the United States and overseas. Domestic operations are primarily in the Gulf of Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Alaska. International operations are under way in Algeria, Eritrea, Tunisia and the North Atlantic Margin.

Ann-Louise Hittle, director, world oil

Cambridge Energy Research Associates

Ann-Louise Hittle is Director of World Oil for Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a leading independent firm providing insight into the energy future.

Hittle is a respected expert on oil markets and strategies. She has extensive experience analyzing oil markets and OPEC oil politics and economies, and advises CERA clients on global and regional markets, geopolitics and company strategies.

Hittle is co-author of the quarterly World Oil Watch. She directs CERA’s World Oil Scenarios and is a contributor to World Oil Trends 1997 (with Arthur Anderson consulting). She is also a contributor to the major CERA study, Quiet Revolution: Information Technology and the Reshaping of the Oil & Gas Business, which addresses present and future impact of technology on the energy industry. During her tenure with CERA, Hittle has authored or co-authored a number of the firm’s decision briefs and private reports.

Hittle specialized in crude oil and natural gas supply, demand and futures markets as the senior oil and gas analyst at Shearson Lehman Brothers. Previously, she was a Middle East and oil expert at Kissinger Associates. She also served as a market analyst for Gulf Oil Company’s Crude Oil Trading Department.

Hittle graduated with highest honors from St. Lawrence University, earning a bachelors degree. She also holds a masters degree from Harvard University.

Gov. Tony Knowles

State of Alaska

Tony Knowles was elected to his second term as Governor of Alaska in November 1998, having been first elected in 1994.

Knowles spent four years on the Anchorage Assembly (1975-1979), followed by two terms as mayor of Anchorage (1982-1987). In 1988, he was named to the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council and initiated efforts to stop roe-stripping and other waste of Alaska’s fish resources on the high seas. He also served on the boards of directors for the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce (1992-1994) and the Anchorage Convention and Visitors Bureau (1992-1993).

After graduating with a degree in economics from Yale University, the Cook Inlet oil fields attracted Knowles to Alaska in 1968, where he worked as a roughneck. The governor started his first restaurant, Grizzly Burger, one year later. With the help of partners, he quickly expanded to three locations and then opened the Downtown Deli in Anchorage.

Knowles was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Jan. 1, 1943. He is a Vietnam Veteran, having served with the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and other volunteer duty while in Vietnam from 1963-1964.

Tony and Susan Knowles were married in 1958, and have three children; Devon, Luke, and Sara.

Richard L. Olver, executive VP exploration & production

BP Amoco

Dick Olver was appointed to the Board of BP Amoco on Jan. 1, 1999, and became an executive vice president (exploration & production) on the same date. He was previously a managing director of BP and CEO of BP Exploration.

Olver is a chartered engineer with a First Class Honors degree in Civil Engineering and is also a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He is a non-executive director of Reuters Holdings PLC and also a Director of Sidanco, the third largest Russian vertically integrated oil and gas company.

Joining BP in 1973, following a brief period designing and building highways and bridges, his early career involved a wide range of oil, gas and refining projects in Britain, Canada, Scotland, the Middle East and Norway.

He was appointed vice president, BP Pipelines Inc., BP North America, in 1979, which involved responsibility for BP’s share of the trans-Alaska pipeline. In 1983 he became divisional manager for new technology with responsibility for offshore, Arctic and enhanced oil recovery technology development. He also chaired the BP Exploration Research and Development Committee.

In 1985 Olver became divisional manager of corporate planning for British Petroleum and led the strategic team on the acquisition by BP of Standard Oil in the United States.

In 1988 he was appointed Managing Director of Central North Sea Pipeline Ltd. where he set up a new company and negotiated with the British Department of Energy and Marathon Oil for the export and sale of gas from the Miller field in the North Sea. Later that year he became general manager, gas, BP Exploration Europe, responsible for the operation, new business development and asset management, of BP and Britoil’s European gas portfolio.

He was made Chief of Staff to the chairman of BP and head of corporate strategy for the BP group in May 1990.

In April 1992 he became chief executive, BP Exploration, USA, where he led BP’s growth in deep water exploration in the Gulf of Mexico.

Olver was born in 1947 and is married with two daughters. His interests include education, sailing, skiing, ballet and fine arts. He is a Governor of New Hall School.

Mark R. Hamilton,

president

University of Alaska System

Mark R. Hamilton became the 12th president of the University of Alaska system on Aug. 10, 1998. As one of his first official actions, Mr. Hamilton set up scholarships intended to persuade the state’s brightest high school graduates to stay in Alaska for college. The program provides high school graduates in the top 10 percent of their class with $10,800 in scholarships over four years if they attend a University of Alaska campus. The program has received national attention.

Just prior to accepting the university‘s chief leadership position, Hamilton was a U.S. Army major general in charge of recruiting. During his 31 years of active duty, he was twice assigned to Alaska, where one of his sons and a granddaughter currently reside.

Hamilton earned a bachelor of science degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1967, and a master‘s degree in English literature from Florida State University, Tallahassee, in 1973. He is also a graduate of the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Vir., and of the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle, Penn .

Hamilton received the Army‘s highest peacetime award, The Distinguished Service Medal, and the Armed Forces‘highest peacetime award, the Joint Distinguished Service Medal.

He has been married to the former Patricia Behrens for 31 years.

Eugene M. Isenberg, chairman of the board and CEO

Nabors Industries, Inc.

Gene Isenberg is the chairman of the board of directors and CEO of Nabors Industries, Inc. Nabors is the world‘s largest land and offshore platform drilling company. Isenberg has led the Houston-based company since 1987.

Isenberg is a director of Danielson Holding Corp., an insurance holding company. He is also a member of the Board of Governors of both the American Stock Exchange and the National Association of Securities Dealers, which overseas the NASDAQ Stock Exchange, where he also serves as a director.

From 1969 to 1982, Isenberg was Chairman of the Board and principal shareholder of Genimar Inc., a steel trading and building products manufacturing company, which he sold in 1982. From 1955 to 1968, he was employed in various management capacities with Exxon Corporation.

Isenberg earned a bachelors degree from the University of Massachusetts in 1950, and a masters degree from Princeton University in 1952. He participated in the program for senior executives at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966. He was also an instructor at Princeton from 1951 to 1952. From 1952 to 1955, he served as an officer in the United States Navy.

Isenberg has been the principal sponsor of the Parkside School for learning disabled children. The University of Massachusetts’ Eugene M. Isenberg School of Management is named in recognition of his significant contributions toward new facilities, his funding of scholarships, and his endowment of a professorship. He also supports the performing arts and other various charit