Prior to their employment with IRT, all of our personnel gained extensive experience with operating companies and/or other major international consulting companies. Years of experience, as stated herein, equates to years of industry or related experience since graduation and includes post-graduate studies. Detailed resumes of all our personnel including several consulting associates not included here are available upon request.

Mr. Vernon S. Breit (Chairman of the Board / Senior Consultant - Engineering) has over 40 years experience in reservoir engineering and simulation studies in both conventional and EOR areas. In the past, he has managed both software development and consulting groups. Mr. Breit has taught courses and assisted in training client personnel in simulator usage. He has recently specialized in full field compositional studies of clients reservoirs using models with large, complex grid systems.

Mr. Nick Cavaleri (Senior Consultant - Engineering) has 40 years petroleum engineering experience in on-shore / offshore projects within the United States as well as internationally. Areas of expertise consist of, but are not limited to the following: reservoir simulation, reserve and performance determination, reserve characterization, waterflood evaluation and design, log interpretation, pressure transient analysis, simulation and report writing/editing, and project management. Mr. Cavaleri has participated in projects located in Mexico, South America, Africa, Russia, Indonesia, the Middle East and the United States.

Mr. Richard G. Dillon (Vice President / Senior Consultant - Engineering) is a registered professional engineer (Wyoming and Texas) with over 32 years of experience in all aspects of reservoir engineering including numerical simulation, technical and economic project evaluation, secondary and tertiary recovery processes, and property acquisitions. His background includes a wide range of experience and skills gained from reservoir, production, and drilling assignments. Recent projects include constructing and utilizing multi-reservoir compositional models, gas storage reservoir analysis and EOR evaluations.

Mr. Joseph A. Dozzo (President / Senior Consultant - Engineering) is a reservoir engineer with over 33 years’ experience in computer based reservoir studies ranging from multi-well petrophysical studies, to reservoir simulation studies and reservoir simulation software development and support. As President and a senior consultant with the company, his responsibilities include both management of multi-disciplinary study teams and active participation in the technical work to ensure the successful execution of reservoir studies for industry clients, both large multi-nationals, and local independents. His experience includes the building and history matching of both large and small, two phase, black oil and compositional single and dual porosity VIP and Eclipse reservoir models, and their subsequent application in performance predictions. His prior experience includes management of software development and client support efforts, development of simulation models and their associated pre- and post-processing software, technical support for computer hardware and software installations, and the application of mapping and simulation tools in both consulting and production environments. Mr. Dozzo has international consulting experience in Algeria, Tunisia, Kuwait, UK, Norway, Spain, Yugoslavia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico and Colombia, as well as many areas within the U.S.

Dr. Thomas L. Gould (Vice President / Senior Consultant - Engineering) has over 40 years experience in the industry. He has been responsible for research and development in reservoir, pipeline, real-time, training, and graphics software. Dr. Gould has gained a broad range of experience as a reservoir engineering consultant. He has conducted numerous oil, gas, and gas storage reservoir simulation studies. Recently, he has specialized in integrated studies management, thermal recovery simulation, EOR simulation, and mentoring. Dr. Gould has received the Cedrick K. Ferguson Medal from SPE and he is a Distinguished Member of SPE.

Mr. James S. Kalbus (Senior Consultant - Engineering) is a petroleum engineer with over 26 years of experience conducting reservoir simulation studies. His responsibilities have included all aspects of simulation studies from data gathering, data preparation, model construction, model calibration, and optimization of field development. Geographic areas of expertise include Mexico, Middle East, China, Indonesia, and the US. He has special expertise in naturally fractured, vuggy carbonate reservoirs, and has developed methods to numerically simulate this type of triple porosity reservoir.

Dr. Darrell L. Kramer (Senior Consultant - Geophysics) is an innovative, problem solving geophysicist skilled in Landmark 2-D and 3-D Workstation software including: OpenWorks, SeisWorks, ZMAP+, TDQ, Syntool, GeoGraphix and PostStack/PAL, LogM, RMS, and TerraStation. He has over 30 years’ experience in the geoscience field. For the past twenty eight years, Dr. Kramer has worked in the areas 2D and 3D of seismic interpretation (carbonates as well as clastics), seismic processing, seismic acquisition, geophysical log analysis, and software development. He has worked using multicomponent analysis of both surface and borehole data for the identification of in-situ stress and fracture detection. He has worked and managed cross-functional teams. His background includes positions in exploration, production, and research; and he has worked both domestically and internationally.

Mr. Michael T. May (Senior Consultant - Geoscience) has 22 years exploration and production experience including 15 years with a major international operator. Mike specializes in all aspects of integrated reservoir studies including seismic interpretation, velocity modeling, well log correlation, pressure data analysis, routine and special core analysis, and all aspects of geocellular modeling. Mr. May experience includes clastic and carbonate reservoirs within the varied structural settings of Alaska, US Onshore, deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Canada, Colombia, Venezuela, and Kuwait.

Mr. Michael A. Sena (Senior Information Technology) has over 30 years experience in UNIX, LINUX and Windows based networking systems.  Mike has a broad based and in-depth knowledge of design, procurement, installation and support of networking environments for both domestic and international projects. He provides on-site and remote support for a wide range of systems file servers, database servers, email services, print services, backup/restore services, firewall/VPN services, as well as multi-leveled virus protection. Whatever the computing demands, Mr. Sena makes sure the system is up and running in the most cost effective manner possible.

Mr. Robert J. Skinner (Senior Consultant - Engineering) is a petroleum engineer registered in Colorado and California and has over 35 years of experience with emphasis on reservoir simulation. His background includes coordinating fully integrated studies, providing reservoir engineering input to unitization, drilling and facilities groups, acting as an expert advisor, and providing staff training. In addition to heading his own consulting company, he has held senior engineering positions with two other international consulting firms, an independent producer, and with a government regulatory agency.

Mr. Kevin Turco (Senior Consultant - Geoscience) has 32 years petroleum industry experience with an ongoing emphasis on integrated reservoir studies. He has been a proven and insightful contributor in all geologic aspects of reservoir studies including mapping, geocellular modeling, volumetric and reserve studies, depletion planning, well planning and operations, field surveillance, risk analysis, and core studies. His career and training have been with a major international operator and include positions as a geologist, petrophysicist, geocellular modeler, operations, and various leadership positions. He has considerable experience with both clastic and carbonate reservoirs in the Shelf and Deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Permian Basin (TX-NM), East Texas, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Suez (Egypt), Llanos Basin in Colombia, North Slope, Alaska, and the West Siberian Basin.

Mr. Craig A. Williams (Senior Consultant - Engineering) has over 34 years experience in designing and conducting reservoir studies. He has planned and completed reservoir simulation studies involving dual porosity and compositional and miscible flood simulation, as well as conventional black oil simulation studies. He has also led and managed large multi-disciplinary teams. His assignments and experience are worldwide. Recent projects include Kuwait, Columbia, Alaska CO2, and Algeria as well as teaching IRT’s reservoir simulation course.