International Reservoir Technologies Inc.

Mr. Robert J. Skinner

SENIOR ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT - ENGINEERING

Mr. Skinner is a petroleum engineer with over 35 years experience. His primary area of expertise is in applied reservoir simulation and integrated project management. He has experience in all facets of reservoir engineering, including single and dual porosity reservoirs, reserve evaluations, infill drilling, waterflooding, thermal recovery methods, hydrocarbon and CO2 miscible flooding, CO2 immiscible recovery, caustic and polymer flooding, water and gas coning studies, gas cycling, gas deliverability, and pressure transient analysis.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1997 to Present - Senior Consultant, International Reservoir Technologies, Inc.

Duties include directing all aspects of integrated reservoir simulation projects and conducting the engineering phases through to prediction and reporting. Additional duties include advising clients of appropriate study scope and emphasis and preparation of technical proposals.


1995 to 1997 - Senior Petroleum Consultant, Reservoir Technologies Division, Schlumberger GeoQuest Reservoir Technologies

Conducted basic reservoir engineering, PVT development, simulation and forecasting of complex reservoirs including waterfloods of two major fractured carbonate oil reservoirs in Mexico, tight gas sands in New Mexico, and assisted a client with a horizontal well investigation in South America. Also directed economic evaluations, wrote reports and made presentations, prepared several technical proposals and provided client training in use of Eclipse software.


1992 to 1995 - President, R.J. Skinner Engineering, Ltd.

Conducted independent reservoir engineering consulting, including reservoir simulation and client training for simulation and Production Analyst software. Work performed included finalization of model tuning and preliminary forecasting using an existing calibrated model of a Mexican oil field, directing simulation studies of black oil and compositional Egyptian oil reservoirs, training client staff in use of VIP simulation software, acting as expert advisor in completing reservoir simulation studies of a large Californian oil reservoir, conducting reservoir simulation studies for use in a client research project, training client staff in use of O.G.C.I. software - Production Analyst (P.A.), conducting major acquisition evaluation using P.A. software.


1983 to 1992 - Project Manager, Petresim Integrated Technologies, Inc.

Conducted reservoir simulation, waterflood and EOR studies, infill drilling and reserve evaluations, and economic evaluations. Provided client training and coordination. Work performed included simulation studies to optimize exploitation plans for several waterflood projects in massive sandstone reservoirs in California. The work also included a coning and spacing simulation study, a primary depletion evaluation and waterflood feasibility studies, and a waterflood optimization and EOR evaluation including unitization proceedings, all in Canada.


1980 to 1983 - Senior Engineer, Heavy Oil Department, Alberta Energy Company

Conducted simulation and basic reservoir engineering studies (coning, horizontal wells, infill drilling, waterflood, EOR- including thermal, caustic, polymer, CO2 immiscible, as well as CO2 and hydrocarbon miscible). Conducted reserve evaluations, gas deliverability studies, acquisition evaluations, and economic appraisals. Also acted as reservoir engineer on an experimental heavy oil project design and implementation.


1975 to 1980 - Project Engineer, Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board

Conducted conventional oil and gas, as well as heavy oil and bitumen, reserve evaluations, waterflood, gas deliverability, gas cycling, gas storage, and EOR evaluations - including hydrocarbon miscible, steam stimulation, steam flood and fireflood. The work also included processing of industry applications, experimental scheme approvals, and staff training.

EDUCATION

• B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, 1975
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Post Graduate courses and training include:

     
• Eclipse software products training while at GeoQuest
• VIP Software products training while at Petresim
• Oilfield Management Using the Production Analyst. - O.G.C.I., Long Beach, USA, 1992
• Engineer in Training. - Exam Preparation Course, University of California, Long Beach, USA, 1989
• Apollo Unix Course. - Apollo Computer Inc., Costa Mesa, USA, 1989

• Miscible Flooding. - Mungan Petroleum Consultants, Calgary, Canada, 1982
    
• Management Skills. - In-house course at Alberta Energy Co., Calgary, Canada, 1982
    
• Public Speaking. - In-house course at Alberta Energy Co., Calgary, Canada, 1981
    
• Caustic Flooding. - Dow Petroleum Recovery Center, New Port Beach, USA, 1980
    
• Thermal Oil Recovery Methods. - Tejas Petroleum Consultants, Dallas, USA, 1979
    
• Thermal Methods of Recovery of Heavy Oil. - University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, 1978
    
• Geology for Engineers. - AGAT Consultants, Calgary, Canada, 1978
    
• Advanced Reservoir Engineering. - University of Calgary, Canada, 1977
    
• Staff Training and Orientation Program. - In-house training program at the Alberta Energy

• Resources Conservation Board, Calgary, Canada, 1975


ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES

Registered Professional Petroleum Engineer in California

Registered Professional Engineer in Colorado

Previously Registered Professional Engineer in Alberta, Canada

Member, National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying

Member, Society of Petroleum Engineer



STUDIES

ROBERT J. SKINNER



Reservoir Engineering Studies Performed

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