Ron Harisch, P.Eng
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Credentials
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Experience
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Sunstone Energy Advisory Services (SEAS)
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Canada
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Oil and Gas
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1 - 100 Employee
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Reservoir Engineering Specialist
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Jan 2022 - Present
Sunstone Energy Advisory Services provides geosciences and engineering consulting services for oil and gas investment and international growth, assisting clients to achieve their goals through technical excellence and sound decision-making. Responsibilities include:• Prepare technical proposals outlining technical work scopes, project deliverables, and costs. • Review project progress to ensure technical robustness while adhering to timelines and budgets.• Conduct stand-alone and integrated reservoir studies for clients using numerical modelling, incorporating advanced fluid characterization and flow assurance, as required.• Provide reservoir engineering technical assurance for clients.
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Husky Energy
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Canada
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Oil and Gas
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700 & Above Employee
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Sr. Manager, Reservoir Engineering
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Dec 2018 - Jan 2021
Responsibilities:• Led a high-performance team of engineering professionals tasked with solving challenging subsurface technical problems across Husky’s diverse asset base.• Performed pressure-transient and rate-transient analysis for conventional and unconventional reservoirs.• Conducted peer reviews, peer assists, and gate reviews for exploration and development projects across Husky’s entire asset base.• Directed the technical work of reservoir engineers within Husky's corporate Petroleum Engineering Group.• Key contributor to Husky's corporate Reserve Review Team, reviewing reserve bookings and reserve booking practices across all the upstream assets.• Contributed to reservoir engineering knowledge sharing through mentorship, authoring white papers, and technical presentations.Key Accomplishments:• Co-developed corporate reservoir engineering technical standards.• Co-developed Husky's subsurface uncertainty guidelines and processes for applying uncertainty principles to production forecasts and volumetric recoverable resource estimates. This process provided decision makers an understanding of project potential ranges outcomes, thereby allowing for more informed business decisions.• Introduced tools and techniques allowing application of uncertainty principles to reservoir engineering studies• Provided subsurface technical assurance reviews for Husky assets. Reviewed assets across the entire Husky upstream asset base. I served as the principal corporate reservoir engineering subject matter expert for Husky, where I completed over 50 assurance reviews between 2019 and 2020.
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Reservoir Engineering Specialist
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Oct 2011 - Dec 2018
Responsibilities:• Conducted reservoir studies using reservoir simulation and analytical techniques, incorporating wellbore and surface network modeling, advanced fluid characterization and flow assurance, where required. These studies spanned all of Husky's upstream business units with projects in Asia Pacific, Western Canada, Heavy Oil, Exploration, and the Atlantic Region.• Performed pressure-transient and rate-transient analysis for conventional and unconventional reservoirs.• Conducted peer reviews, peer assists, and gate reviews for exploration and development projects across Husky’s entire asset base.• Key contributor to Husky's corporate Reserve Review Team, reviewing reserve bookings and reserve booking practices across all the upstream assets.Key Accomplishments:• Co-developed Husky's subsurface technical assurance process designed to ensure project technical work was sufficiently robust and accurate enough to support project business decisions.• Provided subsurface technical assurance reviews for Husky assets. Reviewed assets across the entire Husky upstream asset base. I served as the principal corporate reservoir engineering subject matter expert for Husky, where I completed over 100 assurance reviews between 2012 and 2019.• Engineering technical lead for Husky's participation in the Hebron hearing adjudicated by the Oil and Gas Committee. Guided the reservoir engineering analysis, managed project timelines, wrote Husky's direct evidence submissions, reviewed ExxonMobil and C-NLOPB direct evidence submissions, and guided Husky's legal team on reservoir engineering related issues.• Appointed Husky's technical expert witness, representing subsurface engineering, for the Oil and Gas Committee hearings related to waste within the proposed Hebron Field development plan.
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Reservoir Engineering Specialist/Team Lead
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Jul 2006 - Oct 2011
Responsibilities:Responsible for all Reservoir Engineering activities in Husky’s Cold Heavy Oil in the Lloydminster area, including:• Led a team focused on identifying development opportunities, performing reservoir engineering studies to assess optimization opportunities, and reviewing new and promising cold heavy oil recovery methods.• Served as the subject matter expert on cold heavy oil exploitation technologies.• Performed reservoir engineering studies to assess optimization opportunities and new and promising cold heavy oil recovery methods.• Responsible for the technical validity of all Husky’s cold heavy oil reserves bookings.• Developed and maintained the long-range plans for cold heavy oil assets.• Provided technical guidance to EIT’s, co-op interns and more senior staff in the Heavy Oil group.Key Accomplishments:• Provided reservoir engineering advisory for a technically successful, novel solvent cold heavy oil EOR process.• Conducted asset acquisition evaluations and reviews and was instrumental in successful acquisitions of assets producing >8,500 BOE/d.
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Schlumberger
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United States
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Oil and Gas
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700 & Above Employee
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Consulting and Solutions Manager/Principal Engineer
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Oct 2000 - Jul 2006
Key Accomplishments:• Responsible for production enhancement review of oil and gas wells in Western Canada including screening and candidate selection, detailed engineering review and recommendations for intervention programs resulting in significant production gains for clients.• Served as Schlumberger Canada's technical expert for pressure transient analysis. Designed, analyzed, and interpreted pressure-transient tests for domestic and international clients, including Mini-Frac tests, Modular Dynamics Tester (MDT) tests, pulse-tests, drill stem tests, and flow and build-up tests. Designed and interpreted Schlumberger's first Mini-Frac (similar to a DFIT test) run in Canada.• Performed property valuations, provided technical guidance, and served as peer reviewer for all internal Schlumberger Canada property valuations. These valuations resulted in Schlumberger participating in risk-reward business opportunities. This business model was new to Schlumberger Canada.• Provided reservoir engineering leadership and advisory for Schlumberger's PowerSTIM initiative designed to produce better engineered, higher performance hydraulic fractures in the reservoir.• Developed analytical techniques and methodologies that were adopted as part of Schlumberger's proprietary rapid infill development analysis product.• Mentored less experienced technical staff and provided technical leadership on key Consulting Services projects.
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Engineering Manager/Senior Reservoir Engineer
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Oct 1995 - Oct 2000
Key Accomplishments:• Performed black-oil and compositional numerical reservoir simulation studies on a variety of fields located in Canada and internationally, as required by clients for AER submissions, regulatory compliance, and acquisitions and divestitures.• Analyzed pressure-transient tests with complex geological and fluid characterizations using numerical simulation.• Authored two technical papers related to numerical pressure transient analysis that were published and presented at SPE annual technical conferences.• Invited to present at an SPE Forum on advances in multiphase pressure transient analysis.
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Petroleum Engineer
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Jul 1990 - Oct 1995
Key Accomplishments:• Conducted property evaluations, including reserve determinations, production forecasting and economic analysis, of domestic and international oil and gas properties that were used for financing, acquisition and divestiture, and stock exchange regulatory purposes. • Seconded to several companies for 2 years to assist with reserves bookings and reservoir simulation services. Key Accomplishments:• Conducted property evaluations, including reserve determinations, production forecasting and economic analysis, of domestic and international oil and gas properties that were used for financing, acquisition and divestiture, and stock exchange regulatory purposes. • Seconded to several companies for 2 years to assist with reserves bookings and reservoir simulation services.
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Education
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University of Calgary
B.Sc., Chemical Engineering
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