The Team

Mr Sears currently serves as the President of H2Helium LLC since 2020 and Oklahoma Oil Company since 2019, the latter merged with Inter-American Corporation, both established by his father, Wheeler M Sears. Previously he was Chief Technical Officer at The Edelgas Group from 2022-2023, and President of Weil Helium LLC from 2012-2019. Mr Sears graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1994 with a BSc in Political Science and Government, followed by an MBA from the University of Dallas in 2002. He published ‘Helium: The Disappearing Element’ in 2015.

Mr Minchin has significant experience in the exploration space and was previously the Chief Executive Officer at Helium One Ltd from 2020-2023 and ScandiVanadium from 2018-2020. Prior to this Mr Minchin was Director Geology at African Minerals Exploration & Development (AMED) from 2013-2018 and Senior Geologist at Cleveland Potash from 2006-2013. Mr Minchin’s early career was as a geologist with Rio Tinto and the British Geological Survey. He graduated from the University of Southampton in 2004 with an MSc in Geology.

Mr Neates holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia and is a member of Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand with 10 years plus experience in finance across public and private sectors. Mr Neates has extensive experience in the public small cap space through his role as Director of Operations at the Corporate Advisory firm, Orana Corporate LLP and also acts as the finance director (non-board) on a number of other publicly listed companies.

Mr Spickelmier graduated from the University of Nebraska at Kearney in 1983 and subsequently gained a law degree, JD (Juris Doctor) in 1986 from the University of Houston. He became a Partner at the law firm Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand prior to establishing Westside Energy. Mr Spickelmier currently serves as Chairman of Sintana Energy Inc, previously Northbrook Energy since 2008, co-Founder and Director of BlockMetrix LLC since 2021 and co-Founder and Chairman of Discovery Energy Corp since 2012. Previously, he was co-Founder and Chairman of Westside Energy Corp from 2004-2012, co-Founder and Chairman of JK Acquisition from 2005-2010 and co-Founder and Chairman of Willow Park Cable, LLC from 1998-2007.

Mr Peters currently serves as a Non-Executive Director at Blue Star Helium Ltd since 2023 and Chief Operating Officer at Edelgas Group since 2022. Additionally, he is a Director at Disruptive Resources LLC, his consultancy vehicle, since 2021. Previously he was employed at Praxair Inc (subsequently Linde PLC following a merger in 2018) from 2001-2019; he commenced as North American Marketing Manager and culminated as Director of North American Helium. Mr Peters’ early career was spent working in a family-owned industrial gas distributor. He graduated from Valparaiso University in 1986 with a BSc Marketing, followed by an MBA Operations from Loyola University in 1992.