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All corporate and operational activities for Tundra Engineering Inc. and Tundra Engineering LLC TundraEng.com
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Principal Engineer at Tundra Engineering Inc. (2016-01 – Present)
All corporate and operational activities for Tundra Engineering Inc. and Tundra Engineering LLC TundraEng.com
- Regulatory- Tundra performs all of its own regulatory work in-house: regulatory applications, approvals and regulator information requests for facilities, pipelines, batteries and power projects, as part of every scope from design through start-up.
- Numerous multi-well pads for horizontal oil well
- $300MM Biochar project in Colorado
- $10MM Cielo Aldersyde BioDiesel refinery upgrade
- $10MM Cielo Fort Saskatchwan BioDiesel refinery pilot facility
- $100MM nda client 5MW Power Peaker plants
- $2.5MM GMT Exploration Zama Lake Single Well Sour Battery
- $12MM Halo Exploration 10,000 boed sour oil battery c/w sol’n gas compression
- $3MM Halo Exploration Single Well Battery
- $65MM Crew Energy 16” x 60km Monias BC pipeline including two river crossings.
- Developed CommittedCost.com project control tool and Specbreak.com asset management tool.
Vice President Production at Rife Resources Ltd. (2013-11 – 2016-01)
Rife Resources is a private oil and gas company (10,000 boed) that also manages Freehold Royalties Ltd. (tsx-FRU, 10,000 boed) and Canpar Holdings Ltd (3,000 boed).
- Production management- while managing a total production portfolio of 25,000 boed across the 3 companies with Rife’s operating costs decreasing by $10/boe.
- CapEX- $135 million comprised of liquids rich Montney gas HZ wells, Cardium oil HZ wells, Lloydminister heavy HZ oil wells and SE Sask HZ oil wells.
- Corporate reporting to two separate BOD’s and annual reserve bookings.
- Business development and A&D functions. In 24 months, bids were submitted for over $1.6 billion worth of assets with success in $760 million worth of assets requiring public financings of approx. $500 million. Most of this activity was through Freehold Royalties Ltd.
- Corporate development and reservoir evaluation.
- Responsible for directing, administering and coordinating all engineering activities in accordance with the policies, goals, and objectives of Rife. This responsibility included Facilities, Drilling, Completions, Production, Exploitation, A&D, Operations, EH&S, Marketing, and Reserves for 3 corporate entities reporting to two separate BOD’s.
- This portfolio was managed within my department of 34 head office staff and 30 field staff.
Chief Engineer at Rife Resources Ltd. (2011-11 – 2013-11)
- Corporate development analyzing corporate portfolio of legacy lands (7MM acres) and recommending course of action to maximize asset value.
- Analyzing every acquisition target that comes on the market providing recommendation on bid price and structure.
- Type curve development, economic analysis and reservoir evaluations to direct new play development.
Co-founder, Vice President Engineering, Director at Petrospirit Resources Ltd. (2010-02 – 2011-10)
- Business development resulting in the acquisition of 40 contiguous sections of lands in SE Sask, 13 contiguous sections of Cardium/ Notikewin, and 12 contiguous sections of Alberta Bakken in Southern AB.
- Responsible for all operational activities including reservoir/ economics, drilling, completions, facilities and production.
- Ongoing financing efforts resulting in $12MM in initial capital.
Vice President Engineering at Stetson Oil & Gas Ltd. (2007-09 – 2010-01)
- Deal negotiation, reservoir evaluation, regulatory approvals, drilling, completion and production including securing a 20,000-acre North Dakota Bakken land base and a horizontal test well.
- Conduct project economics and A&D evaluations.
- Managed annual reserve audits and bookings.
- Ongoing financing efforts resulting in $12MM in initial capital.
Engineering/Production Manager at Onefour Energy Ltd. (2005-11 – 2007-09)
- Conducted project economics and A&D evaluations.
- Managed annual reserve audits and bookings.
- Business development resulting in doubling the significant land position in the Red Earth area prospective for Keg River and Slave Point oil.
- Ongoing responsibilities for reservoir management, waterflood design & implementation, and production operations. Directed all aspects of drilling, completing and producing Bluesky / Gething gas wells, Slave Point oil wells (horiz., deviated and vertical) and Keg River oil wells.
- Directed drilling, completions, production operations and facility design for a $40 MM program.
President, Owner at Juggernaut Petroleum Inc. (2004-06 – 2006-01)
- Built heavy oil company from 1 bpd to 130 bpd (23 vertical CHOPS wells).
- Marketed assets, solicited buyers and executed a sale of these interests
- All aspects of a "non - operating" oil company including geological mapping and land acquisition strategy, drilling and completions operations in an audit capacity, marketing, royalties, production accounting, financial accounting (WolfPac).
- Assembled an effective part time team of specialists including land, geology, production accounting, and financial accounting.
- Note: Juggernaut was sold to Stetson Oil and gas (above).
Manager of Projects at Tundra Engineering Ltd. (2001-11 – 2005-08)
- Responsible to ensure successful execution of up to 150 simultaneous projects under my direct supervision supervising 14 engineers and 20 support staff.
- Substantial expertise in compression, refrigeration, dehydration, gas processing, pipeline design, control, oil handling, well site design, operations and construction.
- Indirectly responsible for all projects at Tundra involving the full staff of 80 people and working to execute 400 simultaneous projects.
- Initial project scoping, process design, cost estimates, scheduling, resource planning, execution, construction management and start-up.
- Business development- developed all client relationships for project portfolio.
- Regulatory- all regulatory work for the project portfolio performed in-house: preparing regulatory applications and obtaining approvals for facilities, pipelines and well sites.
President and Chief Operating Officer (tsx:IVI) at Ivrnet Inc./ Global Industrial Solutions Net. Ltd. (2000-03 – 2001-11)
- Executed our Asset Management business plan for the online management of equipment.
- Oversaw product design and implementations with major energy companies.
- Secured business and reseller relationships with Fortune 500 consulting firms.
- Responsible for fund raising, day to day operations, sales and marketing.
Senior Project Manager at Tundra Engineering Ltd. (1997-02 – 2000-03)
- Design, procure, and construct a 10 MMscfd amine plant for CO2 sweetening.
- Design, procure, and construct a 25 MMscfd expansion to existing plant c/w refrigeration, dehydration, and 2800 Hp compression for Rio Alto at Edson.
- Design and procure a 15 MMscfd gas plant c/w amine sweetening, compression and dehydration for Rio Alto in the Ells area.
- Multiple large-scale compression projects.
Assistant Manager at McConnell Welding & Construction Ltd. (1994-05 – 1997-01)
- Company project manager overseeing all aspects of up to 5 projects each up to $1MM contracts in various stages simultaneously employing up to 190 people.
- Set up new accounting system.
- Ongoing responsibility of estimating and managing projects.
Reservoir Engineer, Heavy Oil Pod (Co-Op Work Term) at Husky Oil Operations Ltd. (1993-01 – 1993-09)
- Design scoping and economic evaluation for cogen project for Pikes Peak.
- Performed study to determine optimum oil temperature for steam flood.
- Evaluated possibility of depressurizing an aquifer to establish favorable pressure gradients.
- Prepared regulatory applications for Pikes Peak facilities expansion and multi-well drilling program.
- Evaluated steam zone profile to determine optimum steam injection rate.
- Determined formula to evaluate marginal well profitability.
Field Engineer, Husky Bi-Provincial Upgrader. (Co-Op Work Term) at PCL Industrial Constructors Inc. (1992-08 – 1991-12)
- Monitored daily construction progress of the hydrocracker unit.
- Identified and eliminated deficiencies in piping systems.
- Worked directly with Husky operations executing pre-startup tests and loop checks.
- Prepared bid packages, hydrotest packages and As-builts.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering – University of Alberta, Edmonton (1994)