Kirby Hayes has an extensive cased hole wireline background.  Currently his company, KHI, established in1999, represents corporations offering services and products primarily involved in heavy oil production in the Lloydminster area.  Kirby has conducted various seminars, short courses and workshops; co-authored technical papers, articles and patent applications, and prepared many presentations on wide-ranging topics of interest to heavy oil producers.  Kirby is a member of the Oilfield Technical Society.  He was an integral part of the establishment and the fund raising for the OTS Heavy Oil Science Center.  In 2003 he received an Outstanding Service Award from the Petroleum Society of CIM.  He has also consulted internationally on CHOPS pilots in Venezuela, Argentina, Alaska and Kuwait.  Kirby is on BP Alaska’s Heavy Oil Advisory Board.