UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
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FORM
8-K
_____________________
CURRENT
REPORT
Pursuant
to Section 13 or 15(d)
of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of
Report (Date of earliest event reported): October 7, 2010
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PLATINUM
ENERGY RESOURCES, INC.
(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Delaware
(State
or other jurisdiction
of
incorporation)
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000-51553
(Commission
File Number)
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14-1928384
(IRS
Employer
Identification
No.)
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11490
Westheimer Road, Suite 1000
Houston,
Texas 77077
(Address
of principal executive offices and zip code)
Registrant’s
telephone number, including area code: (281) 649-4500
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Item
5.02
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Departure
of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of
Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain
Officers.
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On
October 7, 2010, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Platinum Energy
Resources, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Martin Walrath to the
Board. Mr. Walrath has been designated a Class A director of the
Company. As a Class A director, Mr. Walrath will hold office
until the Company’s first annual meeting of stockholders and until his successor
is elected and qualified or until his earlier death, resignation or removal from
office.
Mr. Walrath (57) has been with Triple
Five since 1980 and has been primarily responsible for the financing activities
and banking relationships of the company. He has been involved in several
multi-billion dollar financings for Triple Five. Before joining Triple
Five, Mr. Walrath was Senior Vice President at Mellon Bank. Mr. Walrath is
also Director of Peoples Trust Bank, the largest privately held financial
institution in Canada.
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Item
5.02
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Departure
of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of
Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain
Officers.
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On
October 7, 2010, the Board of the Company appointed Victor David Rahmanian to
the Board. Dr. Rahmanian has been designated a Class A director of
the Company. As a Class A director, Dr. Rahmanian will hold
office until the Company’s first annual meeting of stockholders and until his
successor is elected and qualified or until his earlier death, resignation or
removal from office.
Dr. Rahmanian (62) has a B.Sc.,
Masters, and PhD in Geosciences from the Colorado School of Mines and
Pennsylvania State University, Dr. Rahmanian brings over 35 years of
far-reaching and in-depth knowledge and experience in Exploration, Development,
and Production of Hydrocarbon Resources in a global scale. In addition to
experience in Coal Exploration and as an Assistant Professor of Geology in
University of Vermont, Dr. Rahmanian’s career is distinguished by 30 years of
Research, Exploration, & Production work experience with the ExxonMobil
Corporation, the world largest Oil & Gas Company. He is richly- experienced
with diverse & advance expertise in Outcrop, well log, Core Facies Analysis,
Seismic Stratigraphic Analysis, Subsurface Reservoir Description,
Characterization & Prediction, Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis, Research
& Development of Predictive Reservoir Concepts, Stratigraphic Data Analysis
Techniques & Methodologies. Dr. Rahmanian has systematically and
successfully applied this expertise to Exploration and Production practices in
major hydrocarbon Exploration and Production rends as well as in numerous major
Field Studies and Enhanced Oil Recovery projects throughout the world. His work
experience and history extends over 25 sedimentary basins across five continents
of the world, including, but not limited to, Gulf of Mexico, Texas &
Louisiana Gulf Coast Regions, North Slope Alaska, US & Canadian Rockies,
Alberta & East Coast Canada, Trinidad, Venezuela, Columbia, North Sea, Paris
Basin, NW German Basins, Gippsland &Otway Basins Australia, Malay Basin
Malaysia, Sumatra Basins Indonesia, Egypt, and Israel. As a result, he is
directly responsible for and/or significantly contributed to discovery and
production from numerous major, both conventional and unconventional, Oil &
Gas reservoirs throughout the world. He is globally acknowledged and recognized
for excellence in teaching, lecturing, and “Significant Contribution to Geology”
for being one of the original architects of the Parasequences & Sequence
Stratigraphic Concepts and their application to Hydrocarbon Exploration &
Production practices. He is a co-author of a Best Seller book in Exploration
Series of the American Association of the Petroleum Geology. In Triple Five
Group of Companies, Dr. Rahmanian is applying his deep and wide-ranging
experience to manage and direct Exploration and Production practices of multiple
Oil & Gas Fields in North America. He is also playing a leading role in
world-wide Oil & Gas field acquisition and Exploration & Production
ventures.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has
duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto
duly authorized.
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PLATINUM ENERGY RESOURCES,
INC.
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Dated:
October 12, 2010
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By:
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/s/
Al Rahmani
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Al
Rahmani
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Interim
Chief Executive Officer
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