VINCENT REX RAMIREZ

1802 North Carson Street, Suite 154

Carson City, NV 89701

775.434.7333

vince@3PLOperating.com

EDUCATION

University of California, Santa Barbara. M.A. Geology, 1984

Honors: Campus Fellowship

University of California, Santa Cruz. B.S. Geology, 1978

Honors: Regent’s Scholar

WORK EXPERIENCE

3PL Operating Inc., (2017 – Present), CEO

Strategic minerals company.

Rexplore LLLP, (2009 – 2020), Managing Member

Joint venture with Marathon Oil in the Bakken Shale.

Hangtown Energy, Inc., (2012 – 2015), CEO

Development of Kettleman Middle Dome oil properties, California.

HANGTOWN OIL, LLC (2006 – 2015), Managing Member

Exploration and development of oil and gas properties in California.

VOSTOCHNAYA TRANSNATIONAL CO. (VTK) 12/98 – 6/2004, Chairman of the Board

(Lundin Group principal shareholder). Founder; managed development of 80 million bbl oil company in Siberia, Russia. Lived full-time in Siberia. Company market cap ~1 BUSD.

TOMSK ZAPED NEFT COMPANY (TZN) 02/2000 – 12/2004, Board Director

Managed oil exploration activities for a licensed block in Siberia, Russia; 325,000 acres.

CONSULTANT, 8/92 - 12/98, Geologist

Evaluation of oil assets in Russia and California. Numerous projects, including: Ucinsk, Niznevartovsk, Astrachan, and Tomsk, all in Russia; as well as seven exploration projects in California.

SHELL WESTERN E&P, INC., 1987 -- 8/92, Exploration Geologist

Operations Geologist for Yemen project (320 MMBO, 21 wildcats).

Production Geologist for San Joaquin Valley operations and exploration wildcats.

Exploration Geologist, North Slope and Beaufort Sea areas, Alaska.

Instructor for Structural Geology and Shallow Water Deposition.

RESEARCH PLANNING INSTITUTE, 1985 -1987 Research Scientist

Structural Geologist and Seismic Stratigrapher for regional subsurface studies with Tor Nielsen.

METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 6/84 - 10/84, Geologist

Structural Geologist for proposed Tehachapi water tunnel (32 miles, $3.2 billion) designed to route the California Aqueduct 3,000' under the Transverse Ranges.

U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 1979 - 1981, Research Assistant

San Andreas fault studies.

AMOCO (Standard Oil of Indiana), 6/78 - 9/78, Geologist

Evaluation of Tertiary oil shales in California.

CONSULTANT, 1975 – 1977 summers, Geologist with Clyde Wahrhaftig (U.C. Berkeley)

Field mapping of the Tower Peak Quadrangle, CA.

CONSULTANT, 1975-1977 part time, Geologic Assistant for Cotton and Associates

Performed geophysical surveys and geologic trench investigations on active faults in California.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILITATIONS:

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), member

Certified Petroleum Geologist #6238 (AAPG, Division of Professional Affairs),

Reserves Evaluator and Reserves Auditor qualification for Oil, Gas, and Energy Minerals

Nevada Petroleum and Geothermal Society, lifetime member

Nevada Mining Association, member

American Exploration & Mining Association (AEMA), member

PUBLICATIONS * denotes public presentation

Ramirez, V.R.* and Loomis, K.B., 2022, Pliocene Lake Livada and the discovery of a valuable super-brine complex in Railroad Valley, Nevada, Nevada Petroleum & Geothermal Society, Abstract for NPGS presentation, Reno.

Ramirez, V.R.* and Loomis, K.B., 2022, Pliocene Lake Livada and the discovery of a valuable super-brine complex in Railroad Valley, Nevada, AAPG-SEG International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy (IMAGE), Houston, Texas, August 28‑September 2, 2022, Program with Abstracts p.57.

Dudley, C.M., Putnam, T.W., Loomis, K.B., Ramirez, V.R., 2022, Reservoir characterization of a lithium-bearing super-brine complex using seismic inversion and magnetotellurics, AAPG-SEG International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy (IMAGE), Houston, Texas, August 28-September 2, 2022, Program with Abstracts p.113.

Ramirez, V.R., 2020a, Tertiary and Recent deformation by compression and thrusting in Railroad Valley, NV (abs.): in Geological Society of Nevada Technical Proceedings Symposium, Reno, Nevada.

Ramirez, V.R., 2020b, The Sierra Nevada fault is a landslide slip surface, not a major tectonic feature (abs.), in Geological Society of Nevada Technical Proceedings Symposium, Reno, Nevada.

Loomis, K.B. and Ramirez, 2020a, Discovery of a super-brine complex in Railroad Valley, Nevada (abs.): in Geological Society of Nevada Technical Proceedings Symposium, Reno, Nevada.

Loomis, K.B. and Ramirez, V.R., 2020b, Fault scarps or shorelines? Implications for lithium exploration in Railroad Valley, Nye County, Nevada, USA [Poster Session Abstract], in Koutz, F.R. and Pennell, W.M., eds., Vision for Discovery: Geological Society of Nevada Symposium Proceedings, Reno, NV, Poster Abstract P-31.

Loomis, K.B.* and Ramirez, V.R.*, 2020c, Lithium in Three Easy Steps: Railroad Valley Case Study: Nevada Petroleum & Geothermal Society, Abstract for NPGS presentation: https://nbmg.blog/2020/02/27/npgs-monthly-meeting-thursday-march-5-nevada-petroleum-and-geothermal-society/

Ramirez, V.R.*, 2019, Seismic Examples of Obduction Tectonics in the western United States (abs.): Nevada Petroleum and Geothermal Society invited speaker.

Ramirez, V.R.*, 2018, Lake Livada and other lithium exploration activities in Nevada (abs.): Nevada Petroleum and Geothermal Society invited speaker.

Ramirez, V.R., 2013, Observations of Post-Miocene Compression in Central Nevada, in Garside, L.J. (ed), Geothermal and Petroleum Developments in Several Extensional Basins of the Central Walker Lane, Nevada: Nevada Petroleum and Geothermal Society 2013 Field Trip Guidebook, p. 47-63.

Ramirez, V.R.*, 2013, Structural Geology and the Cooking Pot: an example of the Kreyenhagen Shale at the end of Pliocene time, presentation for: Second Annual Tight Oil Reservoirs Conference, California, American Business Conferences.

Ramirez, V.R.*, 2012, Fresno County well test of the Kreyenhagen Fm with the Hangtown Oil "COHO 1-31" Wildcat, presentation for: First Annual Tight Oil Reservoirs Conference, California, American Business Conferences.

Ramirez, V.R.*, 1996, Evolution from thrust to strike-slip tectonics along the California margin during the Tertiary (abs.): Spring Meeting American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bakersfield, CA.

Ramirez, V.R.* and Unruh, J.R., 1994, The Coast Range Thrust and Plate Boundary in Northern California from Seismic Reflection Data (abs.): 1994 Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union p.683-684.

Ramirez, V.R.*, 1993, Evolution of the Coast Range thrust as interpreted from seismic reflection data (abs.): Cordilleran - Rocky Mountain Sections, Geological Society of America Abstract with Programs, p. 136.

Ramirez, V.R., 1992, Geology and deep structure of the Rumsey Hills area, Sacramento Valley, California, in Erskine, M.C., Unruh, J., and Lettis, W.R., eds., Field Guide to the tectonics of the boundary between the California Coast Ranges and the Great Valley of California, GB-70: Pacific Section, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, p. 85-94, 2 pl.

Ramirez, V.R.*, 1992, Deep structure of the Rumsey Hills interpreted from outcrop, well and seismic data, Sacramento Valley, California (abs.): Pacific Section Program and Abstracts, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, p. 36.

Phipps, S.P., Unruh, J., Moores, E. and Ramirez, V.R., 1992, Transpressional deformation in the Sacramento Valley and Coast Ranges of California: Decoupled strike-slip and thrust-wedging above a master detachment (abs.): Pacific Section Program and Abstracts, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, p. 35.

Unruh, J.R., Ramirez, V.R., Phipps, S.P., Moores, E.M. and Davis, D.L., 1991, Tectonic wedging beneath fore-arc basins: ancient and modern examples from California and the Lesser Antilles (abs.): Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 72, p. 443.

Unruh, J.R., Ramirez, V.R., Phipps, S.P. and Moores, E.M., 1991, Tectonic wedging beneath fore-arc basins: ancient and modern examples from California and the Lesser Antilles: GSA Today, v. 1, p.185-190.

Ramirez, V.R.*, 1990, Post-Eocene movement on the Coast Range thrust, northern Sacramento Valley, California (abs.): American Association of Petroleum Geologists, v. 74, p. 745.

Ramirez, V.R.*, 1987, Introduction to the geology of the San Andreas fault at Tejon Pass area, California, in Link, M.H., ed., Sedimentary facies, tectonic relations, and hydrocarbon significance in Ridge Basin, California: Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, p. 1-4, 2 pl.

Ramirez, V.R.* and Nielsen, T. H., 1986, Tertiary geology of the western U.S., presented as Keynote Speech at the annual Penrose Conference, in Moving Under, Around, and Through the Miocene Reconstruction of Southern California, Ojai, California.

Ehlig, P.L., Crowell, J.C., and Ramirez, V.R., 1984, Geologic feasibility study of the proposed low-level Tehachapi tunnel for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California: Metropolitan Water District of So. California, Los Angeles, p. 33-44, 4 pl.

Ramirez, V.R., 1984, Geology of the San Andreas fault at Tejon Pass, California: M.A. Thesis, U.C. Santa Barbara, 256 p., 3 pl.

Ramirez, V.R., 1983, Hungry Valley formation: evidence for 220 km of post-Miocene offset on the San Andreas fault, in Anderson, D.W. and Rymer, M.J., eds., Tectonics and sedimentation along faults of the San Andreas system: Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, p. 33-44.

Crowell, J.C. and others, 1982, Geologic map of Ridge Basin, California, in Crowell, J.C. and Link, M.H., eds., Geologic history of Ridge Basin, southern California: Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, 2 pl.

Crowell, J.C. and Ramirez, V.R., 1979, Late Cenozoic faults in southeastern California, in Crowell, J.C. and Sylvester, A.G., eds., Tectonics of the juncture between the San Andreas fault system and the Salton trough, southeastern California: Geological Society of America Annual Meetings Guidebook, p. 27-40.

UNPUBLISHED REPORTS

Ramirez, V.R. and Handschy, J.W., 1991, Petroleum geology of the San Joaquin, Santa Maria and Ventura Basins, California: Shell Western E &P Inc., 301 p., 3 pl.

Ramirez, V.R. and Clifton, R.O., 1991, Five Pliocene angular unconformities in the western San Joaquin Valley, California: Shell Western E & P Inc., 7 pl.

Ramirez, V.R., 1990, Pre-wrench tectonics of the western San Joaquin Valley, California: Shell Western E &P Inc., 10 p., 38 pl.

Ramirez, V.R., 1990, Notes on Cretaceous rocks in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California: Shell Western E & P Inc., 8 p., 6 pl.

Ramirez, V.R., 1988, Seismic expression of marine fan deposits in the Kaktovic Basin, Beaufort Sea, Alaska: Shell Western E & P Inc., 12 p., 7 pl.

Ramirez, V.R., and Nilsen, T.H., 1986, Geologic feasibility study for the proposed TSD toxic nuclear materials disposal site, Kern County, California: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX, San Francisco, 16 p., 3 pl.

Ramirez, V.R., 1986, Structural geology of the central Sacramento Basin, Colusa and Sutter Counties, California: RPI Pacific, Inc., 23 p., 11 pl.

Nilsen, T.H., Ramirez, V.R. and Anderson, K.S., 1986, Outcrop and core studies of the Forbes formation, Colusa and Sutter Counties, California: RPI Pacific, Inc., 75 p., 2 pl.

Ramirez, V.R.*, 1986, Miocene geologic history of the western United States, Penrose Conference speaker, Oxnard, CA. (Referenced in Barron, J.A., PALAIOS, August 1986, vol. 1, pp 427-428).

Nilsen, T.H., Ramirez, V.R. and Imperato, D., 1985, Field guide to the Forbes formation in Sutter and Colusa Counties, California: RPI Pacific, Inc., 103 p.

Ramirez, V.R., 1985, Yegua formation seismic study, Wharton County, Texas: RPI Texas, Inc., 10 p., 7 pl.

Ramirez, V.R., 1985, Structural framework of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming and Montana: RPI Colorado, Inc., 35 p., 22 pl.

Ramirez, V.R., 1984, Guidebook to non-marine sedimentary deposits in the Los Angeles Basin, Salton Trough, Soledad Basin and Ridge Basin regions, California: SAGA Petroleum, Norway, 271 p.

PROFESSIONAL COURSES

Deepwater Clastic Depositional Systems: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1985, 3 weeks.

Modern Clastic Depositional Environments: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1985, 2 weeks.

Geophysical Methods: Shell Oil Company, 1987, 2 weeks.

Introduction to Wireline Logs: Shell Oil Company, 1987, 1 week.

Presentations Workshop: Shell Oil Company, 1987, 1 week.

Seismic Stratigraphy: Shell Oil Company, 1987, 1 week.

Wellsite Geology: Shell Oil Company, 1987, 1 week.

Applied Sedimentology, Sedimentary Petrology and Sedimentary Petrography: Shell Oil Company, 1988, 5 weeks.

Basic Exploration Stratigraphy: Shell Oil Company, 1988, 3 weeks.

Exploration Economics: Shell Oil Company, 1988, 1 week.

Hydrocarbons: Shell Oil Company, 1988, 1 week.

Structural Styles of Hydrocarbon Provinces: Shell Oil Company, 1988, 2 weeks.

Applied Petroleum Engineering Concepts: Shell Oil Company, 1989, 1 week.

Basin and Play Analysis: Shell Oil Company, 1989, 2 weeks.

Capillarity of Rocks: Shell Oil Company, 1989, 1 week.

DST and RFT; Subsurface Pressures and Hydrodynamics: Shell Oil Company, 1990, 1 week.

Depositional Sequences in the Colorado Foothills: Shell Oil Company, 1992, 1 week.