Since commencement of operations Western Petroleum Management (WPM) clients have been extremely pleased with the cost effective, professional services they have received. Our senior personnel have over 100 years of operational experience, both office and field based. We can supply consultants and/or manage your operation from the construction phase all the way through to initial production.

Our senior personnel within WPM are:

• Bernie Cabot
  President
  Bernie has over 26 years of experience in the industry both domestic and international. He graduated from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in 1988 with a diploma in Petroleum Engineering Technology. Internationally Bernie has held positions with Nexen Inc. in Yemen as well as with Saudi ARAMCO in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. In 1997 he co-founded a private oil and gas company and was director and manager for all operations until the company was sold in early 2001. Bernie was directly responsible for developing and implementing all drilling, completion, workover, optimization, pipeline and facilities operations for this company plus he was heavily involved in property acquisition and team lead on all property due diligence. Bernie has also been active in oil and gas research and development and has a number of technologies that he currently holds patents on. Since 2005 at WPM, Bernie has been providing technical advice and services to a diverse group of oil and gas companies located in western Canada and internationally. In 2007 Bernie moved WPM into the international market and in early 2009 was successful in acquiring a business license in Libya where WPM (Libya Branch) is currently negotiating oil and gas service related contracts. Bernie has been advising oil and gas companies for over 16 years and brings an accomplished level of business and technical management expertise to the industry.
  
  
• Dennis Besler - B.Sc. Engineering
  Vice President Western Petroleum Management Ltd.
  President Western Petroleum Management (Libyan Branch)
  Dennis is a seasoned engineer with over 30 years of engineering and management experience in the petroleum industry. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 1977, he worked at Amoco Corporation. In the late 1990’s, Dennis co-founded a private oil and gas company, Lyse Petroleum Ltd., which benefited from a number of significant successes including new pool discoveries and identifying bypassed pay in mature fields. Dennis was also successful in developing the company’s first field out of a single well that had been shut in for over ten years. The company was ultimately acquired by a US base petroleum company, Aspen Resources Group, where Dennis was promoted to the position of vice president of Canada. In conjunction with his position at Aspen, Dennis served as president of Cubacan Exploration Inc., a publicly listed Canadian subsidiary of Aspen with exploration concessions in Cuba. During his career Dennis has acquired extensive knowledge in the areas of drilling, completions, operations and workovers. He has developed specialized expertise in the areas of horizontal drilling, completions and production optimization. This broad engineering background has complemented his property evaluations expertise when looking at acquisitions or the optimization of fields. Dennis has operated on the international scene for a number of years as president of Ridgestarr Petroleum Management Ltd. pursuing oilfield service contracts in India, Pakistan, Kuwait and Trinidad-Tobago.
  
  
• Stuart Y. Chow - B.Sc. Engineering
  Advisor
  Stuart has over 30 years of experience in the oil industry and is the founder and president of Bravo Energy Inc. (a private oil and gas company) since February 2003. Prior to forming Bravo, Stuart was the founder and past president of Onward Energy Inc., a publicly traded junior oil and gas company, from 1993 until it was acquired by Avenir Diversified Income Trust in 2003. Prior to forming Onward, Stuart was the founder and president of Ryanda Resources Ltd. from 1990 until it was amalgamated with Onward in 1994. Stuart was the engineering manager of Orbit Oil & Gas Ltd. from 1985 to 1990 and was also the senior reservoir engineer for Tricentrol Oils Limited from 1982 to 1985. He was employed as a petroleum engineer with Dome Petroleum Ltd. and predecessor companies (Kaiser Oils Limited and Ashland Oil & Gas Ltd.) from 1978 to 1982. Stuart graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Calgary in 1978.
  
  
• Phillip (Phil) A. Johnson - B.Sc. Geology
  Manager Geology & Petrophysics
  Phil is a senior professional geologist and manager with a “big-picture view” of the industry. Phillip graduated from the University of Western Ontario with honours in Geology and has participated in successful oil and gas discoveries since 1968. In 1996 he founded Phil Johnson Exploration Ltd. where he generated and sold exploration projects in British Columbia and Alberta. Phil has discovered numerous substantial oil and gas pools in North America including Saskatchewan, Colorado, Montana and Wyoming. With a strong mind for the oil business economics, Phil is proficient at the design of exploration and development strategies and is well versed in preparing drilling and exploration budgets for both major and junior energy companies. Phil has to his credit over 200 BFC of gas and 20 MBOE of oil discoveries.
  
  
• John Charles (Chuck) Curtis Jr. - B.Sc. Engineering Physics
  Manager Geophysics
  Chuck is a veteran geophysicist and brings 30 years of experience to WPM International. He graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 1977 with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics. Chuck first joined Amok Nuclear as a junior geophysicist and was later hired by Amoco Corporation as a senior and then Pembina Corporation reporting to the chief geophysics where he spent 15 years. With Pembina, Chuck worked on the company’s most important discoveries and made a significant contribution to the company’s value before it was sold. In 1997 he became the exploration manager for Lyse Petroleum Ltd. where he evaluated land holdings and adjacent lands, defined drilling locations on land holdings and planned layout and operated seismic acquisitions. Chuck has worked to develop new techniques and geophysical software in conjunction with a Canadian developer and has been directly responsible for the discovery of a number of substantial reef finds in western Canada. Chuck has also worked on international prospects in India and Bolivia. Chuck’s achievements and his strive for excellence makes him a leader in the industry.
  
  
• Don Keith
  Don has over 18 years of experience in the oil and gas construction industry. Don is very familiar with managing construction projects and the complicated regulatory process involved with construction and reclamation projects within western Canada.
  
  
• Joe Ilg
  Joe brings 22 years experience in the oilfield industry: 17 years in production operations in the Valleyview area and 5 years consulting. Joe's years of consulting have been in wellsite completions, facilities and pipeline construction. His industry experience includes multi-zone gas well completions, 3000m horizontal sour workovers, heavy oil directional wells in Lloydminster area, and 15 plus years of both sweet and sour wells. He also brings CT cleanout and fracturing.
  
  
• Contract Personnel

All too often a carefully prepared program falls apart in the field due to lack of experience or improper guidance, resulting in unacceptable technical problems and cost overruns. With our motto "Construction to Production" we get the job done right the first time.

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