IRT Personnel

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 36 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 - Engineer) has 36 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, Syria, Africa, and the United States.

	Mr. Joseph A. Dozzo (President / Senior Consultant - Engineering) has over 29 years of experience in reservoir engineering and with simulation software. He has managed software development projects and provided technical assistance to a worldwide client base. Mr. Dozzo has considerable experience in the development of interactive graphics software and modern workstation technology. His recent projects range from tight gas sands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming to the fully compositional massively parallel Prudhoe Bay Full Field model.

	Mr. Richard G. Dillon (Vice President / Senior Consultant - Engineering) is a registered professional engineer (Wyoming and Texas) with over 29 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 accomplishments in reservoir simulation, secondary and tertiary recovery project analysis, economic project evaluation, and field development. He has successfully led integrated study teams.

	Dr. Thomas L. Gould (Vice President / Senior Consultant - Engineering) has over 37 years experience in the petroleum 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, and mentoring. Dr. Gould has received the Cedrick K. Ferguson Medal from SPE and he is a Distinguished Member of SPE.

	Mr. Toby Jermain (Senior Consultant - Petrophysics) is a skilled petrophysicist with 35 years experience in the oil and gas industry, including 4+ years in management and 24+ years of intensive petrophysical computer analysis. While with Tarnsco, Toby worked on many domestic petrophysical projects including Gulf Coast, Rocky Mountains and California. While with Maraton, Toby worked on many projects outside the US including Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Egypt, Gabon, Indonesia, Ireland, Korea, North Sea, Russia, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, and Venezuela. His most recent petrophysical project involved a secondment to Anadarkos Groupement Berkine Algerian joint venture with Sonatrach.

	Mr. James P. Keay (Senior Consultant - Geoscience) has over 28 years experience in the international oil and gas industry. He is a licensed professional geoscientist (Texas), specializing in structural geology and with a strong background in fractured reservoirs, wellsite, core and cuttings description, prospect generation and field development. Mr Keay has worked basin and prospect evaluations and structural projects globally. He has extensive experience in Western Canada in exploration and exploitation, and in regions including Trinidad, the Subandean of Bolivia and Peru, Argentina, Ecuador, and Venezuela. His background also includes senior roles in project and operations management.

	Mr. David Kisselman (Senior Consultant - Petrophysics) has 13 years experience performing world-wide hydrocarbon reservoir description / reserves determination studies using conventional (deterministic), non-conventional (numerical, stochastic, simulation, etc.), and statistical analysis techniques of all types and vintages of open / cased hole well logs and core data. Duties included well log analysis, results mapping, report authoring, on-site supervision of well logging operations, teaching, and project management.

	Dr. Darrell L. Kramer (Senior Consultant - Geophysics) has 26 years of experience encompassing 2-D and 3-D seismic interpretation, seismic processing, seismic acquisition, multi-component seismology, fractured reservoirs, AVO and attribute analysis, integrated studies and software development. His background includes exploration, production, and research with projects located in Venezuela, Colombia, Australia, Trinidad, Gulf of Mexico, Sacramento Valley and Canada.

	Mr. Michael T. May (Senior Consultant - Geoscience) is a certified professional geoscientist (Texas) with 18 years exploration and production experience, specializing in integrating 2D and 3D seismic interpretation into structural and stratigraphic frameworks. Mr. May is highly skilled in the use of workstations with projects including clastic and carbonate reservoirs within varied structural settings of Venezuela, Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, Canada and Kuwait.

	Mr. Keith McKamey (Senior Consultant - Geoscience) has twenty-eight years of experience and training as a multidisciplinary geoscientist in geological, geophysical, and petrophysical analysis of oil and gas reservoirs. He has worked for major oil companies and small independents with the emphasis on practical, cost-effective analysis to find and produce commercial oil and gas reservoirs. His goal is to seek out the key that unlocks the answers to production by assembling and evaluating data from the ground floor up. He has been employed both as a staff geologist and as an exploration manager which gives him insight to solving problems with realistic solutions. In these capacities he accumulated a wealth of experience and expertise in numerous depositional environments such as fluvial and marine sandstones, shelf edge stratigraphic carbonates, and granite wash extensional basins.

	Mr. M Anthony Quinn (Consultant Reservoir Engineering / Geostatistics) is a registered professional engineer (Colorado and Texas) with over 15 years of petroleum consulting experience in the area of reservoir engineering and 3-D modeling. His specialties are the development of detailed reservoir models through the application of statistical methods and the quantification of uncertainty through probabilistic methods. Such technologies include Geostatistics, object modeling, conditional simulation, neural networks, and Monte Carlo simulation. He has built a number of full-field geologic models, several in mature fields conditioned to a large number of wells. He has also conducted reservoir simulation studies.

	Mr. Michael A. Sena (Senior Information Technology Specialist) has over 21 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 (Vice President / Senior Consultant - Engineering) is a petroleum engineer registered in Colorado and California and has over 32 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. John C. Wells (Board Member / Senior Consultant - Engineering) has over 19 years of experience in the petroleum and minerals industries. His experience includes compositional and black-oil simulation studies, hydraulic fracture analysis, well log analysis, economic studies, and computer mapping. Previously, Mr. Wells has managed software development and client support efforts, and has participated in development of reservoir simulation pre- and post-processing applications.

	Mr. Craig A. Williams (Senior Consultant - Engineering) has over 31 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.

D r. John F. Arestad (Associate-Senior Consultant – Engineering / Geophysicist) has over 32 years experience in exploration and development strategies with a strong emphasis in geophysics / geology and extensive familiarity and use of various geophysical methods. Areas of experience include South America, Mexico, Yemen, Rocky Mountains, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico and California. Shallow seismic reflection environmental and land use projects in Nebraska, California and Oklahoma. Project management of seismic reflection projects including survey design, implementation, data processing quality control and interpretation. Extensive use of personal computers and UNIX workstations for database management, economic evaluations, geological and geophysical data analyses utilizing Landmark, ProMax, Excel, Geographix, Radian, Terra Sciences, GMA, SMT (Kingdom), AutoCAD and other software.
Dr. Robert E. Ballay (Associate-Senior Consultant – Petrophysicist) Dr. Ballay is a flexible, multi-disciplined, integrated hand-on professional who particularly enjoys the international arena. His 28 year career has focused on integrated (routine and special core, geology, wireline, MWD-LWD) petrophysics, applied in a variety of environments: clastic & carbonate, light and heavy oil, gas single-and multi-well, vertical => horizontal orientations. During this Saudi Arabian assignment he directly participated in three multi-billion barrel start-ups as the petrophysical representative to discipline-integrated teams, in addition to operational responsibilities.
Mr. Charles W. Bloomquist (Associate-Senior Consultant – Engineer) Mr. Bloomquist is a petroleum engineer with 30 years of industry experience in reservoir and surface facilities engineering. Principal areas of focus have been resource indentification, assessment, evaluation, field development, improved oil recovery, surface facilities and project management. He is a former surface facilities coordinator and has experience in Algeria, Hungary, Indonesia, Venezuela, as well as the United States.
Mr. Terry B. Eschner (Associate-Senior Consultant – Geoscientist) Mr. Eschner is a geologist with over 24 years of experience in exploration and production, prospect generation and evaluation, structural analysis, sequence stratigraphy, core studies, sedimentology, seismic interpretation, reservoir characterization and reservoir management. He has a strong background in the thrust belts of Colombia, Bolivia, Argentina, Wyoming and Montana. He has exploration and production experience in Algeria, Kuwait, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina, Guyana, and many basins in the U.S.A. including those in the Mid-Continent, California and Alaska. He is highly skilled in prospect generation and evaluation, identifying deeper-pool, step-out and behind-pipe opportunities, regional and field-scale structural analysis, siliciclastic core description and the integration of geological, geophysical, petrophysical and engineering data. He has strong expertise in working with deposits from various depositional environments, particularly eolian, fluvial, deltaic and shallow marine. He has used the Statistical Curvature Analysis Technique to evaluate dipmeters from hundreds of wells.
Dr. Steven M. Goolsby (Associate-Senior Consultant – Geologist / Petrophysicist) Dr. Goolsby has 28 years of digital log analysis (shaly sandstone, multi-mineral complex lithology, thin bed, unusual environmental conditions), rock to log petrophysical integration, and neural network and resistivity inversion modeling. His background also includes petrographic studies, formation damage evaluation and remedial recommendations, prospect and play generation and evaluation, basin studies, geologic well-site supervision and core description.
Mr. Darrell L. Hoyer (Associate-Senior Consultant – Petrophysicist) Mr. Hoyer has over 27 years experience and has performed formation evaluations and made recommendations incorporating geophysical logs, core data, geological data, pressure transient analysis and reservoir modeling on a wide variety of international and U.S. domestic conventional oil and gas projects. Wrote reports and made presentations to management, other oil companies and foreign government officials. Authored and presented papers which are published in professional symposium transactions and industry magazines.
Dr. Killian C. Ikwuakor (Associate-Senior Consultant – Geoscience) is a multidisciplinary geoscientist with training and experience in geological, geophysical and petrophysical characterization of oil and gas reservoirs. In over 30 years, he has worked as an entrepreneur, researcher and consultant, and in the exploration and development departments of major multinational oil companies. In these capacities he accumulated a wealth of experience and expertise in the areas of oil and gas exploration and development, business development, project management, research and development, training, technology transfer, and integration of business and technology strategies. His pioneering work in the interrelations between rock property measurements has lead to development of predictive petrophysical models for multicomponent reservoir characterization and quantification of reservoir properties. He has international work and consulting experience in Nigeria, Mexico, and several basins in the Rocky Mountain Region, USA. Dr. Ikwuakor brings into every project strong technical leadership, problem solving, multicultural and multidisciplinary team-working capabilities. He has a passion for teaching and continuing education.
Mr. James S. Kalbus (Associate Senior Consultant - Engineering) is a petroleum engineer with over 19 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. Wayne P. Kraus (Associate-Senior Consultant – Engineer) has over 29 years of experience in the petroleum industry covering both upstream and downstream refining operations. He has been responsible for research and development in the areas of reservoir simulation and facilities process design simulation. He has developed and taught industry courses in reservoir simulation and process simulation. Over the past 22 years he has been involved in reservoir engineering consulting work for a range of petroleum recovery processes including primary recovery, waterflooding, EOR and thermal recovery projects. Much of this consulting work involved the application of simulation models to achieve optimal integrated recovery strategies. He served as director for heavy oil research for the Canadian affiliate of a major United States oil company.