UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K/A
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported) October 29, 2008
AMERICAN EXPLORATION CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Nevada
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)
333-141060
(Commission File Number)
98-0518266
(IRS Employer Identification No.)
Suite 110, 1915 - 27 Avenue NE Calgary Alberta T2E 7E4
(Address of principal executive offices and Zip Code)
(403) 735-5009
Registrant's telephone number, including area code
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
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ITEM 5.02 DEPARTURE OF DIRECTORS OR PRINCIPAL OFFICERS; ELECTION OF DIRECTORS;
APPOINTMENT OF PRINCIPAL OFFICERS
Effective October 29, 2008, Manmohan Minhas resigned as President and Chief
Executive Officer and Ravinder Minhas resigned as a director, Secretary
Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of our company.
Effective October 29, 2008, Steven Harding was nominated as a director and
appointed President and Chief Executive Officer and Devinder Randhawa was
nominated as a director and chairman of our company. Manmohan Minhas was also
appointed Secretary Treasurer and remains as a director. The appointments of Mr.
Harding and Randhawa as Directors shall be effective 10 days subsequent to the
filing of a Form 14F-1 with the SEC.
Mr. Harding has 26 years experience in the oil and gas exploration industry
within numerous geological basins both within and outside of North America. He
has occupied various senior positions within EnCana Corp., and its predecessors
Alberta Energy and Husky Energy. From October 2003 to December 2004 he was the
Vice President, Northern Canada and the Vice President Alaska/MacKenzie Delta
from 2002 to September 2003. From 1998 to 2002 he was an exploration manager for
Alberta Energy in their New Ventures Group and the Chief Geologist/Geoscientist
at Husky Energy from 1994 to 1998. Since March 2005 he has acted as a self
employed consultant, responsible for evaluating oil and gas assets for a number
of private and public companies from a technical and business viability
perspective.
In the latter half of the 1980's, he was responsible for developing the
geological model, which lead to the discovery of the White Rose field in
offshore Newfoundland. The White Rose field is believed to hold estimated
reserves of 450 - 500 Million barrels of oil and 3-4 trillion cubic feet of gas,
and currently produces approximately 120,000 barrels per day. While at EnCana,
he also negotiated and secured the largest exploration position in the US and
Canadian Arctic, leading to the discovery of the Umiak field 2004 and receiving
a Department of Minerals Management Service corporate citizen award in 2003 for
outstanding cultural and environmental efforts in Alaska.
He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Geology is from McMaster
University in 1982 and his Masters degree in Geology from the University of
Alberta in 1984.
Mr. Randhawa founded Strathmore Minerals Corp. in 1996 and served as its
Chairman and CEO until January, 2008. Strathmore is a uranium exploration
company publically listed on the TSX venture exchange in Canada, with assets in
the US, Canada and Peru. Mr Randhawa was also the founder of Royal County
Minerals Corp. and served as President, CEO and Director from May 1998 to July
2003. Royal County was a publically listed gold exploration company which traded
on the TSX venture exchange. In 2003, he arranged the sale of Royal Country
Minerals to Canadian Gold Hunter Corp. He was also the founder, and from
December 2005 to May 2006 acted as the President, CEO and Chairman of Pacific
Asia China Energy, a TSX listed public company involved in the coal bed methane
exploration business in 3 provinces of China. In July 2008 he was instrumental
in arranging the sale of the company to a third party. In addition, Mr. Randhawa
currently provides his services to the following TSX venture exchange listed
companies as:
- Chairman and CEO for Fission Energy Inc.
- CEO for Ballyliffin Capital Corp.
- President, CEO and Director for Jalna Minerals Corp.
- Vice Chairman for Sernova Corp.
Mr. Randhawa received his MBA from the University of British Columbia in 1985
subsequent to graduating with High Honors from Trinity Western University with a
BA (Business Admin) in 1983.
On effectiveness, our board of directors will consist of Devinder Randhawa,
Steven Harding and Manmohan Minhas.
There are no family relationships between any of our directors or executive
officers.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
AMERICAN EXPLORATION CORPORATION
/s/ Steven Harding
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Steven Harding
President
Date: November 3, 2008
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