Effective September 2, 2014, US Oil Sands Inc. will welcome the addition of Ed Koshka as Vice President, Business Development & Marketing. Mr. Koshka has 28 years of business development and crude oil marketing experience in the oil &gas industry, the last 10 of which has been focused specifically on applying technology innovation to oil sands development. Prior thereto, Mr. Koshka was a Principal Consultant at Purvin & Gertz Inc. following a 13 year career at Petro-Canada in various downstream roles.

Mr. Koshka is a Professional Engineer. Mr. Koshka will be focused on developing oil sands opportunities utilizing US Oil Sands' proprietary bitumen extraction process in the Athabasca oil sands region and in other worldwide jurisdictions where his previous experience developing three unique oil sands projects will be invaluable. From a crude marketing perspective, project values can be enhanced by selling production into the most beneficial markets and Mr. Koshka will apply his considerable downstream expertise, initially to the company's near-term PR Spring Project, to capture that value.