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From 1979 to 1998, James G. Azlein held positions including President and Chief Financial Officer and was a principal of Cyrus Eaton Group ("CEG''), a private company that specialized in project development, including securing technologies, management, financing and marketing for a variety of projects, for hotels and resorts, agricultural projects and manufacturing plants. In early 2000, Mr. Azlein formed Methane Management, Inc., to acquire the interest of various partners in a CBM project in southern Illinois in which BPI owned a minority interest. In August 2001, BPI acquired Methane Management, Inc., and Mr. Azlein became President of BPI. He began assembling a new management team that refocused BPI's attention on CBM development in the Illinois Basin, which started with the initial CBM project, now referred to as the Southern Illinois Basin Project.
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