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.
Ken Kindjerski, P.Eng President
Operations & Engineering
- Professional engineer with 30 years industry experience, both domestically and internationally.
- Range of experience includes project management and field supervision of drilling, completion, and construction on wells.
- Projects include critical sour, horizontal, cavern storage, disposal wells, coal bed methane, multi-lateral horizontal, stac frac horizontal and under balanced operations.
Dustin Kinch, P.Eng Partner
Operations & Engineering
- 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
Keith Simard, P.Eng
Operations & Engineering
- 12+ years oil and gas experience
- Designed, drilled and completed wells from Deepwater to onshore, Jackups to semi-submersible.
- Specializing in Duvernay deep drilling (>5000m), Extended reach drilling, hole cleaning best practices, BHA design, etc.
- Completion programs from cased-hole frac packs to dual zone IWS SMART completions.
- Held roles as Drilling Supervisor, Drilling Engineer, and Deepwater Drilling Engineer.
- Contract tendering and bid awards on all facets of services for the D&C industry.
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
Clarence Murray
Operations & Engineering
- 40+ years in all aspects of preparation, implementation and supervision of drilling/completion programs and production operations including facility construction, expansion and procurement
- Manage and Co-ordinate Drilling, Completions and Production Operations
- Experience in drilling and completing vertical, directional and horizontal wells
- Managed sour oil facilities, operating in a safe and cost effective environment
Brennan Holowaty, E.I.T
Operations & Engineering
- 3+ years of oil and gas experience
- Worked on drilling rigs through Dawson Creek (>5000m), Grande Cache, Kindersley
- Operated over 100 wells as a field operator
- Specializing in Drilling Design and Operations
Piotr Kukialka, P.GEO.M, MSc
Solution Mining & Geology
- 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
Peter Christensen, P.Eng
Operations & Engineering
- 11+ years of oil and gas experience in the roles of Engineer (Field, 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
Beatrice Leer
Engineer Technician
- +18 years Oil and Gas industry experience working in the Operations area
- Knowledgeable in regulatory submissions requirements
- Technical analysis and evaluation of well information, assessment of operations cost comparisons
- Co-ordination of rig supervisor placement
- Experience in HS&E including TRIF, KPI’s orientations and training
Vanessa Brandt
Health & Safety Administrator
- 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
Doug Vass
VP Sales & Marketing
- 15+ years Oil and Gas industry experience
- Technical experience in Hydraulic Fracturing, Cementing, Acidizing, Coil Tubing and Production Testing
- Business Marketing Diploma
- Permanent Land Agent License in Alberta
Noelle Carrier
Procurement Manager
- 15 years industry background with experience in Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, Accounting, Ordering & Inventory to large corporations.
- Bachelor degree of Science in Business Operations
- Technical training in Scale, Bacteria, Parraffin & Asphaltene
Lorelei Wendland
Accounting
- 20+ years of accounting experience
- 10+ years full cycle bookkeeping
- Payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable
- Reconciliations – bank and credit card
- Government filings – GST, source deductions, ROEs
- Various administrative experience
