MR. DARRELL G. CARVER is a registered engineer in Texas with international and domestic experience who has worked on facilities in domestic and international locations and both on and offshore. He retired from ConocoPhillips Petroleum Company in 2002. He has more than 32 years of uniquely diverse electronics, instrumentation, and electrical upstream experience, holding senior operational and technical positions on oil and gas projects worldwide. As Principal Controls System Engineer for Phillips Petroleum he was recognized as a company expert for automation and electrical control systems. While with Phillips Petroleum, he served on numerous committees and task forces for the company representing both electrical and instrumentation disciplines. Mr. Carver has authored and co-authored several technical papers and he has been the instructor for numerous in-house courses. In addition, he has participated on numerous process enhancement teams for upstream facilities as the electrical and instrument representative. Mr. Carver received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arkansas.