Mr. Nini co-founded Lantana Oil & Gas Partners in January 2003. Prior to founding Lantana, Mr. Nini worked with Torch Energy Advisors, Inc. from late 2000 until December 2002. Responsibilities included asset acquisitions, due diligence and PSA negotiations.

In 1993, he entered the natural gas commodity trading business at Coastal Gas Marketing until 1995, when he moved to Calgary as part of the group headed by J.P. Bryan that took over Gulf Canada Resources. There he led U.S. gas trading on behalf of Gulf Canada, building a third party U.S. business to 1.5 BCF/month.

Mr. Nini conceptualized and opened a Houston-based office for Gulf Canada to handle all U.S. gas marketing efforts, both physical and financial, Gulf Trading had first year sales over $200 million.

Mr. Nini graduated in 1989 from Texas Tech University with a BA in Public Relations and Marketing. His career following college involved prospect development, title research, land and mineral owner negotiations, oil & gas leasing, title opinions and curative for several majors.

Prior to founding Lantana Oil and Gas Partners, Mr. Taurins worked with Waterous & Co. leading over $270 million in asset and corporate sales for a variety of companies from small privately-owned companies to large publicly traded companies with a geographical focus in the Gulf Coast, Permian Basin, San Juan Basin and the Mid-Continent area.

Mr. Taurins received a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990. He started his career at Coffman Exploration and was responsible for acquisition evaluations. After moving to Houston in 1993, Mr. Taurins spent several years performing reserves evaluation work for Tenneco Energy. He then joined Agip Petroleum where he gained expertise in reservoir engineering through the management of Agip’s Gulf of Mexico assets and complete preparation of annual reserve reports.

Mr. Taurins rounded out his career by joining Waterous & Company in 2000. There he focused his efforts on all facets of the divestment process, from business development, asset evaluation through the completion of transactions.

Mr. Whitmire joined the firm of Lantana Oil and Gas Partners in 2005 as Director of Multimedia. He recieved his Degree from the Art Institute of Houston with Honors and has over 16 years of Design Experience. His Primary focus will be creating innovative marketing strategies that will take complex ideas and develope simple solutions.

In 2002 Mr. Whitmire accepted a position as a Geoscience Technologist with Rock Solid Images and did extensive work in the Gulf of Mexico region and International areas. His Primary duties included developing Interactive Compact Discs that Highlighted the firms Services, Products and Company Technology as well as Market branding for Rock Solid Images Most Popular Product “MOSS”. He worked closely with clients such as Burlington Resources, Dominion Exploration & Production, Inc., and Marathon Oil Corporation on Content Development and Data Management Projects.

Prior to joining Rock Solid Images, Mr. Whitmire worked for Waterous & Co., as a Multimedia Developer and Graphic Artist responsible for Authoring Multimedia Gas and Oil Divestiture Presentation data books to CD-R and DVD-R. He worked with Petroleum Engineers, Geologists and Production Crews on short movies highlighting Waterous & Co.’s current Gas and Oil offerings.