Leading Experts in Drilling Rig Experts

John Ackerman is the President and Owner of Knox Resources Inc. Knox is a consulting firm providing strategic planning, joint ventures and acquisitions planning and negotiations, market and business development, and project management services to small and mid-cap industrial minerals, specialty metals...

Bob Alford is a Global Energy Consultant, providing strategic planning and analysis of large investments in the upstream/midstream oil and gas sector. Mr. Alford also consults on the valuation, acquisition and divestment of new oilfield services technologies. His technical and commercial expertise covers...

Fred Aminzadeh, PhD, was the President of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists with over 30000 members worldwide and chairman of Advisory Board of Western Standard (ticker WSEG). Dr. Aminzadeh worked for Unocal (now Chevron) in E&P. He has consulted on risk, reserves and other investment issues...

William Baron, PhD, is the Chief Executive Officer and President of Seraphim Energy, an upstream oil and gas company. Dr. Baron is responsible for company direction, negotiating and developing business in Former Soviet Union, the Middle East and Europe. He is an expert in international law and business...

Kevin Boyle is an Independent Consultant, providing consulting with more than 30 years of management experience in petrochemicals, plastics, and Natural Gas Liquids (NGLs). Mr. Boyle focuses on olefins and aromatics which include: ethylene, propylene, benzene, toluene and xylene; and their derivatives,...

Emmet Brown is a Principal Consultant and Managing Director at Milesian Oil and Gas, a firm providing consulting services in the upstream oil and gas industry. Mr. Brown has over 20 years of experience in oil and gas exploration and development projects, having worked for multi-national and independent...

Richard Currence was Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer of Tidewater until he retired in March of 2003. He spent 36 years of his 39 year career in the offshore marine service business – providing services to the majors, independents and national oil companies as well as offshore drilling...

George Dorkhom is President and managing partner of AD&A Worldwide, a corporate restructuring group. Prior, Mr. Dorkhom was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Ingersoll International, a global manufacturing company that manufactures large machine tools and cutting tools and specialized machines...

Dennis Fagerstone is an independent consultant in the oil and gas industry. Prior, Mr. Fagerstone was an Executive Vice President of International Operations at Pioneer Natural Resources. He began as Executive Vice President following the August 1997 merger of Parker & Parsley with Mesa to form Pioneer....

Jonathan Feffer is President at JF Maritime, Inc., a successor company to Mystic Shipping & Trading of which he was principal and Managing Director. These firms engaged in arranging sale and charter of ocean-going vessels of all types and offshore drilling rigs. In addition, these companies provided...

Andy Flower is the Principal Consultant at Flower LNG. As an independent consultant, Mr. Flower has advised clients in all parts of the world on issues such as strategy, markets, supply and demand, project structures and development, pricing, LNG shipping, and contracts. He is a frequent speaker at...

Marc Garrison is the President of Onyx Energy America and has experience in conventional and unconventional gas production such as coal bed methane and shale gas in Eastern Kansas, Northeast Oklahoma, Illinois, Indiana, and Western Kentucky. Onyx primarily provides consultancy and project management...

Philip Hyatt is the Managing Partner of Petronomics Partners of Texas, a consulting firm providing economic analyses to oilfield service providers, and exploration and production (E&P) operators. Mr. Hyatt has more than 30 years of experience at various executive levels, primarily in line management...

Som Konar is a Manager of Projects at Bechtel Corporation, where he is responsible for overseeing management of contractors performing engineering, procurement, fabrication and installation of oil/gas field and pipeline facilities worldwide. Mr. Konar has over 38 years of experience and is currently...

Soon Heng Lim is an independent consultant in Singapore providing consulting services on the shipbuilding industry in the Asia Pacific region, particularly Japan, Korea, China and Singapore. Most recently, he was the Deputy Project Director with Keppel in Doha for the construction of a shipyard in the...

Greg Manuel is a Petroleum Engineer at Pioneer Natural Resources. Mr. Manuel has worked in the Barnett, Fayetteville, EagleFord, Atrium, and Bakken Shales. For carbonates systems, he leads the completion team on the Edwards Lime Project of South Texas and Sligo/Andros formations. Sandstone formations...

Allen May is the CEO and Co-founder at Elang Energy, a new exploration and development (E&P) business, a company focused on exploration and development of oil and gas in the Asia Pacific region. Prior, he was the President of Samson-International, an E&P business unit focused on the international arena...

Debbs Nelson is an operations manager at Arena Offshore, an independent exploration and production company focused on the Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Nelson is responsible for managing capital expenditures and stewarding operating expense. He has more than 23 years of experience in various exploration and production...

Jens Rasmussen is the Owner of Raza Service. Mr. Rasmussen has 28 years of professional experience in the marine and offshore industry. He is site manager for Floatel International's newbuilding of two deep water semisubmersible accommodation units in Singapore. Mr. Rasmussen has held executive management...

James Ritter is a Subsea Manager at Chevron. Mr. Ritter is responsible for the Tombua Landana Deepwater Project in Angola, West Africa. He has experience in design, installation, and operation of offshore pipeline systems. Mr. Ritter also has experience in oil and gas pipelines and subsea systems for...