About WRP Energy, Inc.

WRP Energy, Inc. is the parent company of WRP Energy Services, LLC, Kentucky Reserves II, LLC, a heavy oil development company, Kentucky Reserves III, LLC, a New Albany shale development company and Western Reserve Petroleum, an Ohio producing company. It is also an affiliate of BioLogical, LLC, an enhanced oil recovery company and MagmaChem Energy, LLC, an energy services company.

WRP Energy Services

WRP Energy Services, LLC is the oil and gas leasing company charged with acquiring leases for development by WRP Energy, Inc.. It operates in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Kentucky, with offices in Canfield, Ohio.

Kentucky Reserves

Kentucky Reserves was founded in 2004 when Nils Johnson met his future head geologist, Jack Byrnes, at an AAPG conference in Columbus, Ohio, where Nils had been looking for drilling projects for his Ohio company. In reflecting on his career, Jack mentioned that he had once worked in the 'tar sands' in Kentucky. Nils, who was familiar with the developing tar sands play in Canada, had been unaware that a heavy oil deposit existed in Kentucky and was intrigued. Within several weeks courthouse records were checked, landmen deployed and plans made to take fresh formation samples.

Over the next two years the Company quietly leased nearly 25,000 acres. During this time Questa Engineering of Golden, Colorado was retained to create a thorough geologic database and to perform engineering simulations.

The Company is currently working with MegaWest, of Alberta Canada, to understand the characteristics of the heavy oil in situ. Test wells are currently being drilled, with hopes for commencing the full drilling program in early 2009.

Company Members

Nils Johnson

Education: BA, Dartmouth College 1973 (with honors); JD Boston University, 1976
Career: Nils took over the Canfield, Ohio Johnson & Johnson law firm started by his grandfather Walter Johnson in 1921 and continued by his father, retired judge, Nils P. Johnson, Sr. Nils practices in the areas of oil and gas, estate planning, probate and business law. A practicing attorney for thirty years, Nils has spent an equal amount of time pursuing oil and gas projects. Nils founded the national energy magazine, The American Pipeline, as well as the Russian business magazine, How's Business? Perhaps the most notable is the Kentucky Reserves Tar Sands project developed from 2005 to 2007. This project included leasing, engineering and testing thirty thousand (30,000) acres of leases prospective for heavy oil in south central Kentucky. Kentucky Reserves has partnered with Calgary heavy oil producer, MegaWest Energy for development of the play. A description of the project can be found here: http://www.megawestenergy.com/projects/kentucky.html

Eric Johnson

Education: BA, economics, Ohio State University; JD University of Cincinnati, 1983
Career:Eric is Nils' partner in Johnson & Johnson. He is a member of the Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers and the Mahoning County Bar Association, having chaired or served on numerous committees over the years. Eric is past President of the Mahoning County Bar Foundation and has served on the Ohio Supreme Court's Board of Grievances and Discipline. His areas of practice are oil and gas, personal injury law, real estate, contracts, litigation and appeals. Eric has won a number of oil and gas class action lawsuits representing landowners against large drilling companies.

Molly Phillips

Education: BA, Communication & Spanish, Denison University 2005
Career: Molly has worked in the oil and gas industry since graduating from college in 2005. She has taken leases for several companies in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Kentucky. She is responsible for land operations for WRP Energy Services, LLC in Ohio and Pennsylvania. She is currently also working on her JD at the University of Akron School of Law.