Natural Resources >> CEO Interviews >> March 4, 2002
WALTER B. RUCK has served as a Director and Officer of Ridgeway
Petroleum Corp. since 1983 and is currently President and Chairman of
the Board. Mr. Ruck has over 40 years in the petroleum industry as a
corporate executive. His efforts have resulted in a number of
discoveries in North America including the Plato Oil Field, the Forgan
Oil Field, the Greenan Gas Field and the Senlac Oil Field, all in the
Province of Saskatchewan, as well as the Ricinus West Gas Field in the
Alberta foothills and the Bayou Secret Oil Field in southern Louisiana.
In 1994, Mr. Ruck was instrumental in the discovery of a significant
helium and carbon dioxide accumulation in Apache County, Arizona. This
discovery has the potential of becoming one of North America's largest
producers of helium and CO2. Profile
Petroleum?
Mr. Ruck: We are in what I guess you could call an 'unusual business' '
inasmuch as there's not a lot that's known
