Petra Petroleum Appoints VP, Exploration and Operations

- Petra Petroleum Appoints VP, Exploration and Operations

Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Petra Petroleum Inc.

Petra Petroleum announced that Christopher Brown has been appointed as Vice President, Exploration and Operations with immediate effect. Mr. Brown has a B.Sc. (Exeter University, UK) and a M.Sc. (Imperial College, London) in Geology. He has over 30 years of international petroleum exploration experience, including a variety of technical, operational and management roles with Shell International, Enterprise Oil and Suncor Energy, where he was the Exploration Director for the North Africa and the Near East Business Unit. Mr. Brown has worked in many different parts of the world, including Qatar, Egypt, London, Rome and Athens. His most recent position was Exploration Director for AIM-listed Aurelian Oil and Gas plc where he was based in London and responsible for the company's exploration activities across 22 licenses in Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Bulgaria. In 2010, this involved acquiring eight seismic surveys and participating in several exploration and appraisal wells. Robert A. Lambert, Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation commented, "I am delighted to welcome such an experienced and well-respected petroleum exploration executive to the Petra Petroleum management team."

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Petra Solar Turns Jersey City Into Solar Farm

- Petra Solar Turns Jersey City Into Solar Farm



Jun 16, 2011

Jersey City, New Jersey is now the home to Petra Solar's newest utility-scale solar farm. Petra Solar is using utility poles all across Jersey City and other urban and suburban areas of New Jersey. Five-foot by two-and-a-half foot solar panels are attached to the utility poles about 15 feet above the ground, tilted south towards the sun.

Each panel generates about 225 watts of power, adding to generation capacity and helping utilities meet renewable-power requirements. Petra Solar is a privately held clean-energy technology firm based in South Plainfield, N.J.

Petra Solar Chief executive Shihab Kuran stated, "It allows you to deploy quickly and cost effectively because you don't have to invest in land, you're not building substations or transformers."

Petra Solar is under contract with Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. (NYSE:PEG), and is about halfway through their $200 million commitment of providing 40 megawatts of solar power in six cities, spanning 300 rural and suburban communities. Petra has put up 95,000 panels, producing 20 megawatts, enough power for 3,250 homes.

The energy company says it takes roughly 30 minutes to install one panel on the utility pole. The panels feed electricity directly into the power lines.

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