Experience

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  Husky Energy

  • Calgary, Alberta

  • District Manager, Tucker Thermal Project

    • 2009 - 2012
    • Calgary, Alberta

    • Led a team of 100 Husky staff and consultants/contractors in taking production at Husky Energy’s Tucker Thermal Project from 3000 bopd to 10000+ bopd. • Developed plans to take the project to 20,000 bopd using the installed steam generating capacity (Five x 280 MMBTU/hr. OTSG’s).• Responsible for all Health, Safety and Environment aspects of the project.• Managed a Capital budget of between $ 30 and $100 Million per year• Managed Operating budget of $70 to $100 Million per year.• Responsible for Field operations – through a subordinate Field Manger.• Responsible for Reservoir engineering and furthering technical understanding of SAGD performance in this reservoir• Responsible for facilities design, fabrication, construction and installation of new wells and well-head facilities to bring on new production.• Responsible for preparation and adherence to all budgets, capital and operating plans for the project.• Responsible for reserves booking, development and additions at the project.

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  Pine Petroleum Limited

  • Calgary, Alberta

  • Principal and Chief Operating Officer

    • 2002 - 2009
    • Calgary, Alberta

    • With three partners, founded and operated a private Canadian Oil and Gas Exploration and Production company, Pine Petroleum Limited. •Pine Petroleum is solvent but inactive.• Used Russian-developed technology – Remote Sensing Direct Detection of Hydrocarbons (RSDD-H) to identify surface indications of sub-surface hydrocarbons in order to high-grade and acquire – usually with operating partners – land in yet-to-be discovered plays or play-offsets.• Provided prospectivity studies on a contract basis to a number of Canadian Exploration and Production Companies, both junior and senior.• Develop prospects and leads throughout onshore Canada to Pine Petroleum’s account.• Acquired lands throughout Western and Northern Canada and developed several projects to production.• Achieved maximum production rate of 140 boe/d early 2006. • COO responsibility encompasses all day-to-day operations including supervision of contract geology and geophysics personnel, land acquisition and administration; production/revenue accounting; general accounting and bookkeeping; management and financial reporting; banking and bank covenant reporting and compliance; contracts, legal and tax management issues; joint ventures negotiations and administration; government compliance; and all other administration functions necessary to keep the company operating.

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  Alberta Energy Company

  • Senior Engineer and Project Manager, Mackenzie Delta

    • 2000 - 2002

    • Responsible for preparations and acquisition of all approvals, engineering and field operations required for the exploration of AEC’s petroleum and natural gas leases in the Mackenzie Delta.• Provided engineering support to the exploration group leading to decisions to farm in on McCovey, Grizzly and other prospects and to purchase new leases at 2000 land sales.

  • Senior Acquisitions Engineer

    • 1999 - 2000

    • In a development posting in the Acquisitions and Divestitures group, evaluated numerous properties and companies.

  • Team Leader, British Columbia

    • 1996 - 1999

    • Led the British Columbia Sub-Business Unit. Developed the strategy, rationalised the exploration and land portfolio. Supervised the building of the Maxhamish project and the negotiations with Westcoast on pipeline tariffs. Built the unit from a small staff of 6 to an operating unit with 15 people and a significantly larger portfolio of exploration opportunities.

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  Caribbean Oil Ltd.

  • Calgary, Alberta

  • Independent Consultant

    • 1995 - 1996
    • Calgary, Alberta

    • Petroleum Engineering consulting domestically and internationally (primarily for Caribbean Oil Ltd., an Israeli Company operating in Cuba)

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  Talisman Energy

  • Oil and Gas
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Manager Engineering, International

    • 1994 - 1995

    • Led a multidisciplinary team of Talisman personnel in both Canada and Indonesia to quantify Talisman’s gas reserves in the Corridor Block PSC in South Sumatra, Indonesia.• Provided engineering services to Talisman’s Indonesian operations (Tanjung and Ogan Komering) and co-ordinated reserves booking and standards for UK and Indonesia asset groups.• Directed engineering feasibility studies for development of prospects in international exploration plays including Cuba, South America, North Africa and Indonesia.

  • Manager Petroleum Engineering

    • 1990 - 1994

    • Founded and set-up the Petroleum Engineering branch after a corporate reorganization.• Managed a staff growing from 15 to 22 and a capital budget growing from $20MM to $35MM per year.• Managed all non-operated production and joint venture agreements. Production averaged 8,000 bopd and 75MMscf/d gas building to 16,000 bopd and 120 MMscf/day gas.• Managed an internal consulting group of senior petroleum engineers and specialists who provided operations support and performed value-add medium to long-term studies for major pools in the operating districts.• Managed the corporate reserves including bookings, reporting and the computer database.• Managed all computer hardware and systems for the Operations Department.• Managed all Research and Development contracts for the Operations Department. Eliminated programs that were not being used to add value.

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  BP

  • United Kingdom
  • Oil and Gas
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Manager Development, Oil Sands and Manager Engineering and Development, Oil Sands

    • 1988 - 1990

    • Managed a staff of 20 and a budget of approximately $8MM.• Directed all geology, reservoir development engineering, planning and governmental affairs, new ventures and upgrading/marketing work in support of medium and long-term plans for Oil Sands projects and investments.• Directed all geological and engineering studies and work in support of the Wolf Lake operations, including production maintenance drilling and completions.• Co-ordinated the compilation and presentation of all technical issues and documentation in support of sale of the Wolf Lake operation (final assignment as BP Canada divested its Oil Sands project in 1990).

  • Manager Joint Ventures

    • 1987 - 1988

    • Managed a staff of 7 and a capital budget of approximately $13MM.• Managed all non-operated oil and gas assets and all the joint venture agreements required.

  • Petroleum Engineer

    • 1985 - 1987

    • In a development posting to the United Kingdom with the intention of acquiring international and technical experience, performed a number of tasks of increasing complexity.• Co-ordinated the technical report required to quantify BP’s equity in the Forties Field Final Redetermination. This was the largest geo-technical study ever performed by BP on a North Sea field and resulted in an executive settlement seen as fair to all parties (BP and Shell/Esso). One percent of Forties was worth about $250MM.• Prepared reservoir deliverability forecasts for four Southern North Sea gas reservoirs (Cleeton, Ravenspurn, Hyde, and Hoton).• Evaluated all Central North Sea oil reservoirs as candidates for depletion by SWOPS (single well oil production system) technology.• Performed routine prospect evaluations of Central and Northern North Sea oil reservoirs and compiled British Petroleum Exploration Ltd.’s Long Term Oil Forecast.

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  BP RESOURCES CANADA LIMITED

  • Manager Business Development, Oil Sands

    • 1984 - 1985

  • Manager Marguerite Lake Area, Oil Sands

    • 1980 - 1984

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  RANCHMEN’S RESOURCES (1976) LTD

  • Calgary, Alberta

  • Production Engineer

    • 1978 - 1980
    • Calgary, Alberta

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  CONSOLIDATED NATURAL GAS

  • Calgary and Medicine Hat, Alberta

  • Operator and Trainee Engineer

    • 1978 - 1978
    • Calgary and Medicine Hat, Alberta