CBW’s core of expertise pulls together teams of subject matter experts in office and field to successfully plan, engineer and execute each specific project.
Dustin Kinch, P.Eng
President, CEO
- 17+ years oil and gas experience
- Worked on the drilling rigs; 7 years as drilling engineer
- Worked throughout Canada, Equatorial Guinea, Egypt, Gulf of Mexico on and offshore
- Specializing in Salt Cavern Drilling & Completions
- Supervised drilling, completion operations, technical support and programming
Peter Christensen, P.Eng
Vice President, COO
- 15+ years of oil and gas experience in the roles of Engineer (Field, Senior, Design, and Production) and Drilling Engineer/Superintendent
- Experienced in well design, drilling and completions cost estimates, casing design, preparation of drilling/completions/workover programs, well integrity management, execution of programs, operations lead and optimization
- Drilled Cardium and Glauc industry pacesetters in the Ferrier field and country pacesetter well in Algeria
- Proven track record of driving down drilling time and cost
Chad Huffman
VP Corporate Development
- 17 years of oil and gas experience
- Experience in sales, business development and strategy development and sustainable business approaches
- Brings experience world leader in operations and safety in the global oil and gas market
- Member of Canadian Energy Executives Association
- Active member of multiple charitable organizations in the Calgary oil and gas comunity
Brandt Tracey, P.Eng
Operations Engineer
- 13+ years of oil & gas experience
- 11 years as drilling engineer with background in Project Management and Operations
- Experience in SAGD, HPHT Deep Gas horizontal drilling, multi-stage fracturing, thermal delineation, directional heavy oil, multi-laterals
- Worked throughout Western Canada as well as onshore and offshore Saudi Arabia
- Previous roles as Drilling Superintendent and Team Lead
- In-depth offset well review analytics for benchmarking and optimization
- Mentoring/training junior engineers
Piotr Kukialka, P.GEO.M, MSc
Solution Mining & Caverns
- Provide technical and geological support in solution mining field
- Specialize in geological evaluation for salt cavern localization and mining
- Create coring programs and monitor onsite drilling and coring processes
- Design wireline logging programs and logs evaluation
- Salt core evaluation and salt leaching rate testing
- Cavern design and creation of cavern mining programs
Jarret Luhr
Completions, Abandonment Lead
- 15+ years of oil and gas experience
- Experience in complex completions and abandonment design & operations
- Worked throughout Western Canada on multiple diverse and challenging abandonment programs (Conventional, Thermal, High Pressure, Critical Sour)
- Experience in well design, programing, planning and project management
- Managed re-entries, re-abandonments, well repairs
- Successfully remediated 70+ vent flows with a first attempt rate of success over 90%
- Significant SAGD experience, Smart Completions with ICD’s, multiple strings and ESP assemblies.
