Charles D. Haynes P.E.

Consulting in Mining, Petroleum, and Coalbed Methane
P.O. Box 1037
Guntersville, AL 35976
(256) 582-7711
(256) 582-7715 fax
www.mineralconsultant.com
mineralman@charter.net

Providing mineral consulting services since 1967

Summary of Education and Professional Experience as of January 1, 2008

Education

• Ph.D., Petroleum Engineering, University of Texas, 1971
• M.S., Mining Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 1964
• Graduate work in Engineering Economics, University of Houston, 1963
• B.S., Mining Engineering, University of Alabama, 1962

Professional Experience (Minerals and energy-related)

• Outside Director and Chairman of the Compensation Committee, GeoMet, Inc., coalbed methane exploration and production, January 2006 ongoing.
• Consulting practice as Charles D. Haynes P.E. and Haynes Mineral Associates LLC, 1967 ongoing.
• Emeritus Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Alabama, June 1, 2005 ongoing.
• Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Alabama, January 1, 2000 - May 31, 2005.
  • (Courses taught included: Surveying, Construction Finance and Administration, and Airport Design and Engineering)
• Founding Partner, Cedarhill Operating Company, Tuscaloosa and Melvin, AL (oil and gas drilling and production in Alabama and Mississippi), 1998-2006.
• Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, July 1, 1996-December 31, 1999, The University of Alabama.
• Head, Department of Mineral Engineering, May 1, 1993 - June 30, 1996, The University of Alabama.
• Professor of Mineral Engineering, August 15, 1991 -April 30, 1993, The University of Alabama.
  • (Courses taught included: mineral evaluation and appraisal, mineral production operations, and well log evaluation)
• Senior Vice President and President, Belden & Blake Corporation, North Canton, Ohio 1977-1990, oil and gas exploration and production, BELD on AMEX/NASDAQ, now de-listed through private acquisition in 1997.
• Minerals Manager, Gulf States Paper Company, 1975-1977.
• Associate Professor of Mineral Engineering, 1973-1975, The University of Alabama (awarded academic tenure).
• Assistant Professor of Mining Engineering, 1967-1973, The University of Alabama (two-year leave of absence for PhD).
• Project Engineer/Supervisor, Shell Oil Company, 1963-1967, Texas and New Mexico.

Consulting Activities

Mineral Evaluation and Appraisal

·          Court Master, Circuit Court of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama 1995 (coalbed methane)

·          SouthTrust Bank of Alabama NA, Birmingham, AL 1995-2005 (coal, oil & gas)

·          Wachovia Bank NA, Jacksonville, FL 2005-ongoing (coal, oil & gas)

·          Estate of  S. Elliot Belcher Jr., Brent, AL 2007 (coal, coalbed methane)

·          Moore & Cubbedge CPA, LLC, Marietta, GA 1997 (limestone estate)

·          The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 1991-ongoing (coal, coalbed methane)

·          AmSouth Bank NA, Birmingham, AL 1991-2006 (various mineral estates)

·          Regions Bank NA, Birmingham, AL 2006-ongoing  (various minerals)

·          J. L. Meaher & Associates, Mobile, AL 1997-ongoing (oil & gas)

·          Ramsay-McCormack Minerals, Birmingham, AL 1994, 2001 (coalbed methane)

·          Levisa Coal Company, Houston, TX 1997 (coalbed methane)

·          Rosen Cook Sledge Cade & Shadduck, Attorneys at Law, Tuscaloosa, AL 2003 (granite gneiss quarry)

·          King Harrison & Wiley, Jasper, AL 2000-2003 (coal, ROW condemnation)

·          Espy Harrison Scogin & Brantley, Tuscaloosa, AL 2003 (coalbed methane)

·          Court Master, Circuit Court of Etowah County, AL 2004 (limestone quarry)

·          Bane Family Partnership LLP, Tuscaloosa, AL 2001 (coalbed methane)

·          Black Warrior Methane Company, Brookwood, AL 2004-2005 (coalbed methane)

·          Dominion Energy Corporation, New York, NY 1998 (coalbed methane)

·          Vulcan Materials Company, Birmingham, AL 2003 (quarry location)

·          Somerset Oil & Gas Company, Indiana, PA 1997 (coalbed methane)

·          StrataGas Ltd, London, UK 2000-2003 (coalbed methane)

·          U. S. Steel Corporation, Oak Grove, AL 1997 (coalbed methane)

·          Alabama Power Company, Birmingham, AL 1995 (coal reserves)

·          Jamison Money & Farmer CPA, LLP, Tuscaloosa, AL 1995-ongoing (various mineral estate appraisals)

·          Friedman-Loveman Company, Dallas, TX 1999, 2008 (coal, coalbed methane)

·          William T. Watson, Attorney at Law, Tuscaloosa, AL 1991-ongoing (coal, oil & gas)

·          AAA Minerals, Inc, Jasper, AL 2006 (gas)

·          Butler & Gardiner, Demopolis, AL 2007 (coal)

·          Graco Resources, Inc, Birmingham, AL 2007 (coal company acquisition, oil & gas investment appraisal)

·          Phillips Family Partnership Ltd, Lee County, AL. 2003 (limestone)

·          American Financial Group, Cincinnati, OH, 1997 (coalbed methane operation)

·          Chambers Family Limited Partnership, Tuscaloosa, AL 2007 (oil & gas appraisal)

·          Kaufman Family, Asheville, NC 2005  (oil & gas royalty issues)

      Expert Witness (*denotes deposition or trial testimony)

·          ExxonMobil Corporation, Houston, TX 1999-2001 (gas measurement and sampling)*

·          Drummond Company Incorporated, Jasper, AL 1999-2004 (coal reserves)*

·          Walston & Wells LLP, Birmingham, AL 2000 (coal measurement and stockpiling)

·          PELA, Inc. Tuscaloosa, AL 2002 (salt water oilfield spill)*

·          Hortman Harlow Martindale Bassi & Robinson PLLC, Laurel, MS 2003 (prudent oil & gas operations)

·          Hardwick Hause Segrest & Walding, Dothan, AL 2004-ongoing (prudent bauxite production operations)*

·          Bradley Arant Rose & White, Birmingham, AL 2001-2007 (coalbed methane)*

·          Black Warrior Methane Company 2004-2005 (coalbed methane)

·          Balch & Bingham LLP, Huntsville, AL 2005-2007 (directional drilling)

·          Zeanah Hust Summerford & Williamson, Tuscaloosa, AL 2006 ongoing (oil field accident)

·          Jim Walter Resources, Inc, Tuscaloosa, AL 1997 (joint ownership of coalbed methane)*

·          Starnes & Atchison LLP, Birmingham, AL 2007-ongoing (surface subsidence)

·          Redi-Mix /Pioneer Materials, Inc, Clanton, AL 2004 (sand & gravel)

·          City of Mobile /Volkert Engineering Company, Mobile, AL 2003 (sand & gravel)

·          Dinsmore & Shohl, Attorneys at Law, Cincinnati, OH, 1993 (gas property valuation)*

·          Maloy-Morgan Group, Birmingham, AL, 1997 (ROW minerals evaluation)

·          Monroe Tripp Brown & Adair LLP, Birmingham, AL 2007 (oil gas & mineral lease)

·          Maynard Cooper & Gale, Birmingham, AL  2005-2006 (coal lease litigation)

·          Blair & Bondurant LLP, Jackson, MS 2005 (oil & gas ownership)

      Mineral Consultation

·          Gulf States Paper Company (now The Westervelt Company),Tuscaloosa, AL 2006-ongoing (coal, coalbed methane, limestone)

·          Lonicera Company LLC, Birmingham, AL 2005-ongoing (coal)

·          South Carlton Operating Company, Natchez, MS 2004-ongoing (oil)

·          Center Coal Company Ltd, Tuscaloosa, AL 1991-ongoing (coal)

·          The Belcher Family, Brent, AL 1995-ongoing (coal, coalbed methane)

·          Longleaf Petroleum Company, Brewton, AL 1998 (oil and gas)

·          Paramount Petroleum Company, Jackson, MS 2001 (oil and gas)

·          Circuit Court of Mobile County, AL 1998 (oil and gas)

·          J. L. Meaher & Associates, Mobile, AL 1997-ongoing (oil and gas)

·          The River Gas Company, Tuscaloosa, AL 1995 (coalbed methane)

·          Tensaw Land & Timber, Inc. McIntosh, AL 1995 (oil and gas)

·          Leitman Siegal & Payne, Birmingham, AL 2007-ongoing (oil and gas)

·          Falcon Gas Storage Company LLC, Houston, TX 2007-ongoing (gas storage)

·          Mr. John S. Hart, Charlotte, NC  2007-ongoing (oil and gas)

·          Taylor Production Company, Natchez, MS 2007-ongoing (oil and gas)

·          Calton & Calton LLP, Eufaula, AL 2007 (bauxite lease)

·          Tom Joiner & Associates, Inc., Tuscaloosa, AL 2003 (coalbed methane, oil & gas)

·          Alabama Cherokee Properties LLC, Birmingham, AL 2007 (gas leasing)

·          McDonald Investments, Inc, Birmingham, AL 2006 (oil & gas exploration)

·          Herbert G. Taylor, Jr., Attorney at Law, Birmingham, AL, 2007-ongoing (oil & gas)

·          Midroc Operating Company, LLP., Dallas Texas 2005 (landowner relations)

      Mineral surveillance and Audit Support

·          Center Coal Company, Tuscaloosa, AL 1991-ongoing (coal)

·          Drummond Company Incorporated, Jasper, AL 2003-2005 (coal)

·          The Westervelt Company, Tuscaloosa, AL 2006-ongoing (various minerals)

·          Wachovia Bank NA, Birmingham, AL and Jacksonville, AL 2001-ongoing (gas)

      Continuing Education (Short Courses taught)

·          Drummond Company Inc, Jasper, AL 1994 (financial management)

·          Energen Corporation, Birmingham, AL 2002 (financial management)

·          International Coalbed Methane Group, Inc, Denver, CO, 1998 (coalbed methane)

·          Rike Service, Inc, New Orleans, LA 1996-2002 (oil & gas well logging)

·          Society of Petroleum Engineers, Inc, Richardson, TX 1989-2000 (review for the professional engineer’s examination)

·          The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 1997-2000 (coalbed methane, risk management, financial management for engineers)

·          Petroleum Technology Transfer Council, Jackson, MS, 2000 (oil & gas property evaluation)

Accident Investigation

·          Black Warrior Methane Company, Brookwood, AL  2005 (coalbed methane operations)

·          Jim Walter Corporation, Inc, Brookwood, AL 2003 (coal mining)

·          South Carlton Operating Company LLC, Natchez, MS 2005-2007 (oilfield)

Professional Registration

• Engineer in Training, New Mexico, 1964
• Licensed Professional Engineer, Alabama PE # 7963, 1967

Publications (partial list)

Mineral-related

• Haynes, C.D., and Johnson, P.W.: A Method of Appraising Lost Production For Mined-Through Coalbed Methane Wells, Journal for Exploration and Mining Geology, V. 15, No. 1-2, pp. 1-7, 2006.
• Mancini, E. A., Haynes, C.D., et al: Improving Hydrocarbon Recovery from Mature Oil Fields Producing from Carbonate Facies through Integrated Geoscientific and Engineering Reservoir Characterization and Modeling Studies, Upper Jurassic Smackover Formation, Womack Hill Field (Eastern Gulf Coast, USA.), Journal of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, December 2004.
• Blasingame, T. et al, and Haynes, C.D.: A Petrophysical and Reservoir Performance-Based Reservoir Characterization of the Womack Hill (Smackover) Field (Alabama), SPE 77758, September 2002.
• Dobbs, M. T., and Haynes, C. D.: The Effect of Railroad Tariffs on the Coal Mining Industry of Alabama, University Transportation Center for Alabama Report 00113, December 2001.
• Haynes, C.D.: "Modern Mining Mixes Profits with Risks," The Birmingham News, October 7, 2001.
• Pashin, J., Groshong, R., Jin, G., Schneeflock, R., and Haynes, C.: Characterization of Salt Dip Reservoirs in Fractured Chalk using Well-Based 3-D Models, Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 2001.
• Haynes, C.D.: Appraisal of Coalbed Methane Resources in an Underground Mining Environment, Paper 9902, Proceedings of the 1999 International Coalbed Methane Symposium, The University of Alabama, May, 1999.
• Haynes, C.: Articles as follows:
  • Underground Mining
  • Methane
  • Oil Wells and Drilling
  • Mineral Ownership
  • Stone and Rock

       published in Natural Resources, a 3-volume set by Salem Press, Pasadena, CA, 1997.

• Haskew, T. A., and Haynes, C. D.: Coalbed Methane/Fuel Cell Operation for Direct Electric Power Generation, SPE 35624, Gas Technology Conference, Society of Petroleum Engineers, Calgary, Canada, April, 1996.
• Haynes, C. D. and Hanby, K. P.: Evolution of Severance Tax Policy by Litigation: The Coalbed Methane Industry v. State of Alabama, Natural Resources Tax Review, Vol. 8, No. 6, June, 1995.
• Przybylek, A.R., Haskew, T.A., Lasseter, E.L., Haynes, C.D., and Boyer C.M. III, Utilization of A Fuel Cell Power Plant for the Capture and Conversion of Gob Well Gas, Final Report, Contract No. DE-AC21-95MC32188, U. S. Department of Energy, December 1995.
• Haynes, C.D.: In Conflict: Marginal Reserves vs. Regulatory-Enforced Abandonment, SPE 27709, Permian Basin Oil and Gas Recovery Conference, March, 1994.
• Haynes, C.D., Johnson, P. W., and Carlson, E. S.: Producing High GLR Stripper Wells with an Automatic Casing Swab, The Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology, v. 33, No. 1, January, 1994.
• Haynes, C.D., Corp, J.G., and Miller, T.C.: Field Experiments with Automatic Casing Swabs, SPE 21695, Society of Petroleum Engineers Production Operations Symposium, Oklahoma City, April 8, 1991.

      Aviation-related

• Haynes, C. D.: Runway Topographic Considerations in Airport Licensing, University Transportation Center for Alabama, Report 03108, January 31, 2004.
• Abraham, R., and Haynes, C.D.: A Web-Based Airport Inspection and Licensing Procedure for the State of Alabama, University Transportation Center for Alabama Report 02101, May 2003.
• Haynes, C. D., et al: "Airport Infrastructure Report Card for the State of Alabama," included in the Alabama Section ASCE Issue Brief , Montgomery, Alabama, February 19, 2002.
• Smith, D. Z., Abraham, R., and Haynes, C. D.: Comparing Airport Licensing Requirements: Alabama vs. Selected States and the FAA, University Transportation Center for Alabama Report 01111, December 2001.
• Wind Gusts: Main Entry Individual Event (Delta Flight 191 Accident) published in Natural Disasters, by Salem Press, Pasadena, CA, 2000.

      Environmental

·          Haynes, C.D. and Park, J.: An Overview of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM) in the Petroleum Industry, July 18, 1995. Listed in the publication "Assessment of Oil and Gas Related Environmental Research by Others,” distributed by Technology & Management Services, Inc., November 6, 1994."

·          Brett, E., Durrens, R., Haynes, C., and Vitton, S. Temperature Profiles in Deep Wells for Estimating Historical Ground Surface Temperatures, Final Report, Southeast Regional Center, National Institute for Global Environmental Change, November, 1996.

      Higher Education

• D. Cordes, J. Parker, J. Richardson, and C. Haynes, Institutionalizing a Prototype Freshman Year - Alabama’s TIDE Program, Proceedings of the 2000 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference, CD-ROM, Roanoke, VA, April 2-4, 2000.
• Haynes, C. D., and Freeman, N.: Retention of the 1994 Freshman Class: A Six-Year Longitudinal Study, Southeastern Section of the ASEE, Charleston, SC, April 2001.

Scientific and Professional Society Membership

• Society of Petroleum Engineers (Senior Member and Legion of Honor)
• Society of Mining, Metallurgical, and Exploration Engineers (Member)

Honors and Awards

• Tau Beta Pi (engineering honorary), 1962
• Pi Epsilon Tau (petroleum engineering honorary), 1970
• Old Timers Watchman (mining engineering senior award), 1962
• Distinguished Fellow, College of Engineering, The University of Alabama, 1987 (top 1% of graduates in College)
• Distinguished Fellow, Department of Mineral Engineering, The University of Alabama, 1987
• American Society of Civil Engineers Student Chapter Professor of the Year Award, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004
• Alabama Coalbed Methane Association Leadership and Service Award, 2005
• Society of Petroleum Engineers Legion of Honor, 2008

Service and Leadership Activities

·          Founding President, Black Warrior Section of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, 1991-1992

·          Member, Alabama State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors (2002-07 appointment),

               Chair 2005- 2006

·          Reviewer, AAAS Science Books & Films, 2000 ongoing

• Member, Construction Committee, DCH Regional Medical Center, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 2002 -2006
• Director, Alabama Section, Society of Mining, Metallurgical, and Exploration Engineers, 2002-2005
• International Coalbed Methane Symposium,
  • Executive Committee, 1991 ongoing
  • Symposium Chair, 2004
• Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology ("ABET") Program Visitor, Society of Petroleum Engineers, 1993-2005
• Member, Airport Board, City of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2001-2005
• Member, Airport Advisory Board, City of Guntersville, AL 2007 ongoing

Aviation-related Professional Activities

• FAA Commercial Pilot License with Multi-engine, Tail Wheel, and Instrument Ratings, 3800+ flight hours
• FAA Aircraft Repairman License (Vans RV-4, 1989)
• FAA Ground Instructor License, 1973
• Pilot, research aircraft, The University of Alabama/NOAA AERO project, 2004-2006