Hefner’s Grand Energy Transition forecasts the decline of coal and oil and an energy future he calls The Age of Energy Gases.  America’s clean, abundant natural gas, along with wind and solar, will be the bridge fuel to a fully sustainable energy future. We need an energy policy to use domestic natural gas to replace coal in power generation and oil in the transportation sector, so Americans can have clean air and stop sending trillions of dollars to foreign oil producers. The expanded use of natural gas can provide America with jobs, prosperity and greater national security.

“My vision of energy use I call The Grand Energy Transition or, for short, The GET; that civilization is in a one-time energy transition taking us away from our past of dirty, inefficient, limited, unsustainable solid sources of energy through what history will someday record as a brief liquid transition, on to a future of clean, efficient, unlimited, sustainable gaseous sources of energy.” – Robert A. Hefner III
		Robert A. Hefner III, in western Oklahoma 2011, at the site of his record-setting 1969 #1 Green - at the time, the second deepest well in the world and the highest pressure then ever recorded at the surface.

Credits

Director – Greg Mellott
Mellott is an Emmy award winning director and writer. He is Director of Film and Video Program and a Professor of Cinema at Oklahoma City Community College in Oklahoma City. He has worked with Jackie Chan in First Strike, David Caruso in Black Point, Dolph Lundgren in Direct Action, Gary Busey in The Rage, Thomas Ian Griffith in Avalanche, Casper Van Dien in Road Rage, Ben Cross in The Corporate Ladder, and Jordan Chan in San Tau Chi Saidoi. His filmography also includes: Under Heavy Fire, Fraternity Row, Black Belt Angels, Shootfighter II, Skyline Cruisers, Going Back, American Soldiers, The Four Horsemen and Dream No Little Dream: The Life and Legacy of Robert S. Kerr. In 2009 Mellott was named a DaVinci Fellow, which recognizes faculty members in Oklahoma’s higher education institutions who have made an innovative and significant contribution to their academic discipline.

Executive Producer – Gray Frederickson
Frederickson is an Academy Award winning producer -- he won an Oscar as co-producer of The Godfather Part II and also received an Academy Award nomination as co-producer of Apocalypse Now. Frederickson served as production manager and producer on The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, and on Candy, Little Fauss and Big Halsey, Making It and Hit!. He produced One From The Heart and The Outsiders and was co-producer of The Godfather Part III, associate producer of the original Godfather film, and executive producer of UHF and Ladybugs. Other recent producing credits include Heaven’s Prisoners, South of Heaven-West of Hell, Cloud 9, Surveillance, Soul’s Midnight, Fingerprints, The Hunt, The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano and Boston College Point Shaving Case. Frederickson is a graduate of The University of Oklahoma.

Producer – MeiLi Hefner
Mrs. Hefner was born in Singapore and has traveled and lived abroad extensively for much of her life. She specialized in hotel management and worked in leading hotels in Europe and Asia. Mrs. Hefner owned her own company for many years, specializing in global branding, marketing, communications and design. She oversees The Hefner Collection of Contemporary Chinese Art, the single most important private collection representing art of the Post-Cultural Revolution period in China, and also oversees the Robert and MeiLi Hefner Foundation.

Producer – Mark Stansberry
Stansberry is Founder and Chairman of The GTD Group, an Oklahoma-based firm that assists clients in developing and managing trade along with international investments. Stansberry serves on the Board of the University of Central Oklahoma Foundation, the Board of Trustees of Oklahoma Christian University, and is a Board member for various organizations including the Academy of Leadership and Liberty, The Fund for American Studies, and the Oklahoma Heritage Association/the Gaylord-Pickens Museum. He is Chairman of People to People International, a Kansas City-based nonprofit founded in 1956 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to promote world peace. Stansberry is a graduate of Oklahoma Christian University.

Narrator – John Herrington
Herrington was born in Wetumka, Oklahoma and is an enrolled Chickasaw. He was the first Native American selected for the space program and logged over 330 hours in space, including three EVAs (space walks) totaling almost 20 hours - flying, in 2002, aboard STS-113 Endeavour on a visit to the International Space Station, and carrying a Chickasaw flag. Herrington holds a bachelors of science degree in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado and a masters in aeronautical engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. He has been awarded the Navy Commendation Medal, Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation, Coast Guard Meritorious Unit Commendation, Coast Guard Special Operations Service Ribbon, National Defense Medal, Sea Service Deployment Ribbons plus various other service awards. Herrington received his commission from Aviation Officer Candidate School in 1984, was designated a Naval Aviator in 1985, and was selected by NASA in 1996. He retired from the Navy and NASA in 2005.

Robert A. Hefner III
Hefner is Founder and Owner of The GHK Company (www.ghkco.com), pioneer of ultradeep natural gas exploration and production. During the 1960s through the 1980s, GHK led in the development of technology necessary to successfully drill and produce many of the world’s deepest and highest pressure natural gas wells. In the 1970s & 1980s, Hefner was virtually alone in his belief that America has vast quantities of natural gas. As a leader in the industry’s successful efforts to deregulate the price of natural gas, he testified before congress 18 times about America’s natural gas abundance. These technological and political accomplishments subsequently led to the development of vast new domestic natural gas resources. In the 1990s, Hefner discovered then one of America’s largest onshore natural gas fields. He is a member of numerous professional societies and organizations and in 2010 was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. His book – The Grand Energy Transition (GET) – was published in 2009. Hefner is a graduate of The University of Oklahoma.


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