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
- 15+ 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
- 11+ 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
Phil Besler, P.Eng
Operations & Engineering
- 37+ years in Drilling, Completions and Workovers, Engineering, Operations and Project Management
- Experience in Foothills, Plains, Alberta (including W5M and W6M) Saskatchewan, British Columbia, North West Territories, Montana and North Dakota
- Broad range of roles from Operations Engineering, D&C Management through VP Ops for numerous junior, midsize and major multinational operators
- Managed technical staff; engineers and technologists
Luke Lawson
Operations & Engineering
- 27+ years oil and gas experience
- Completions, workovers, abandonment, drilling engineering
- Preparation and execution of drilling, completion, workover, and abandonment programs
- Management and supervision of conventional, directional, and horizontal wells
- extensive experience in completions, horizontal multistage completions utilizing the gamut of completion techniques
- Supervision of field supervision personnel
Kam Donaghy
Completions Engineering/ Superintendant
- 16+ years of oil and gas experience
- Specialize in completion engineering and operations.
- Experienced in conventional and unconventional multi-stage completions, fracture design, technical support and programming.
- 10 years of hydraulic fracture experience both as an operator and supervisor in Western Canada and Mexico.
Brandt Tracey, P.Eng
Operations & Engineering
- 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
Rushton Davis- Hall
Operations & Engineering
- 3+ years of oil and gas experience
- Workover and completion programming and implementation
- Experience with government compliance and submissions
- Specializing in Drilling Design and Operations
Bryson Jones
Operations & Engineering
- 3+ years of oil and gas experience
- Drilling and Completions experience in various fields throughout Alberta and Saskatchewan, program design, stick / plan creation, AFE generation.
- Offset set review analytics for drilling optimization and performance benchmarking.
- H2S evaluation and release rate engineering support.
- Specializing in drilling design and engineering operations support.
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
Vanessa Brandt
Health & Safety
- 5+ years experience in the oil and gas industry
- Certified Internal Partnerships Auditor-AASP
- Maintain and improve company’s health & safety manual, policies, procedures and forms
- Provide new hire orientations, training, safety meetings and monthly safety bulletins
- Communicate with consultants, maintaining records & documentation
- Carry out safety meetings, communicate safety alerts, incidents and updates to staff
- Manage and maintain ISNet, Comply works and Avetta accounts
