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NEWS RELEASE

August 30, 2007

Acorn International is pleased to announce that two of our staff have been selected to participate in

the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) International Health, Safety and Environmental

conference, to be held in Nice, France in April 2008.

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Atma Khalsa (Associate Consultant) has been selected to present his paper “"Stakeholder

Engagement Programs: Balancing International Best Practices and In-Country Leadership" in the

Stakeholder Engagement session of the conference on April 15. Atma’s paper was selected by a

peer review committee from among hundreds of paper abstracts that were submitted by

professionals worldwide. The paper presents an approach to improving stakeholder engagement

practices overseas by integrating global best practices and lessons learned with the commitment

to relying on and building the capacity of local, in-country resources to lead on-going interactions.

Atma’s paper has also been accepted and will be presented as a poster session at the

International Petroleum Environmental Conference being held November 6-9, 2007 in Houston.

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Dean Slocum has been appointed to co-chair a session on Monitoring and Reporting. The

Session will include presentations by industry experts from the Oil and Gas Producers Forum,

Total, TTI Production Company, and Akvamiljo, a contract laboratory in Azerbaijan on emerging

practices in monitoring and reporting the environmental performance of the oil and gas industry

worldwide.

SPE is the premier industry organization of over 70,000 members supporting the technical interests of

global oil and gas exploration and production activities. Acorn is proud to be an active participant in

SPE, including serving as a member of the Environmental Subcommittee for six SPE International

HSE conferences over the last 10 years.

For more information on our capabilities, including staff resumes, please visit

www.acornintl.net

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Acorn International, LLC

is a professional consulting services company dedicated to delivering

world-class, affordable EHSS assurance and straight-forward results for overseas development

projects. The company operates not through a traditional consulting services model but by

providing structured tools and guidance to qualified host-country teams, maintaining a link

with international clients and building capacity in the host-country team. Acorn delivers:

1. Established teams of local country experts partnered with and directed by an expert in assuring

world-class EHSS assessment and management performance standards are met

2. Advice to international industry needing to build world-class EHSS programs

3. Recruitment and oversight/management of partners and service providers (EHSS and other)

overseas

Working with Acorn will allow international industries to better manage the increasingly delicate

balance between meeting corporate requirements for reliable, simplified service while satisfying host-

country demands for maximum local content.

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