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
Brent Hughes, P.Tech (Eng)
Managing Partner
- 22+ years of petroleum industry experience
- Worked throughout the WCSB and NE USA in the Marcellus and Utica fields
- Held various field and office based positions working on service and drilling rigs, production engineering, wellsite supervision, completions superintendent and D&C well operations manager
- Experienced in horizontal multi-stage completions, fracture design and operations, critical sour operations, abandonments, workovers/recompletions, production, and acid stimulations designs
- Experience with drilling, completing, and servicing 4300+ mTVD disposal wells
Jason Brown
Operations & Engineering
- 18 Years of Drilling Industry experience
- 7 Years experience as a Drilling Supervisor
- Experience as a Driller, Rig Manager & Drilling Supervisor throughout Western Canada, Mexico & England
- Experience Drilling SAGD, Underbalanced, MPD wells, Monobores of depths varying from 1500m to 4000m, Multi Laterals & Directional Heavy Oil & Deep Gas wells
- Specializing in Cost Control through optimization of drilling operations
- PDC Bit Research & Design Experience
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
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
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.
Rushton Davis- Hall
Operations & Engineering
- 2+ years of oil and gas experience
- Workover and completion programming and implementation
- Experience with government compliance and submissions
- Specializing in Drilling Design and Operations
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
Jaime Bryant- Krausert
Regulatory
- Extensive experience in the coordinating, planning, and support of daily drilling, completions and production operations.
- Preparation and submission of Government compliance’s (licensing, WRS, FIS, etc.) for Alberta, BC & Saskatchewan
- Surface land Administration – 3rd party agreements, input information into CS Explorer, rentals, Road Use, Crown & Forestry Applications
- Environmental Health and Safety – ERP, Waste Manifests, Wildfire Control Plan, Direct contact with Environmental consultants, Safety tickets, Vendor compliance
- Invoice coding and tracking
- Proficient in Microsoft Office System, QuickBooks, Wellman, Dims , PeopleSoft, CS Explorer, JV Nexus and GeoScout, Accumap, Generwell, AMICS
Michelle Pyett
Accounting
- 5+ years of payroll experience (Level 1 Designation)
- 10+ years accounting experience for sole proprietor company
- 10+ years full cycle bookkeeping for sole proprietor company
- Payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable
- Reconciliations – bank and credit card
- Government filings – GST, source deductions, ROEs
