TITLE:

Introduction to Cold Production

Held: April 24 - 25, 2005 in Calgary Alberta
 

INSTRUCTORS:

Kirby Hayes, Bob Mottram, Ron Sawatzky
 

Instructor Profiles: Kirby Hayes has an extensive cased hole wireline background.  Currently his company, KHI, represents 9 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, and prepared many presentations on wide-ranging topics of interest to heavy oil producers.  Bob Mottram, R.E.T., R.P.T. (Eng.), has more than 23 years of heavy oil experience, in various engineering and operations roles with both heavy oil E&P and service companies.  Bob has conducted numerous heavy oil training courses.  He currently works for Grit Industries and Cold Weather technologies in Lloydminster and is primarily responsible for the development of new technologies aimed at increasing the efficiency and profitability of heavy oil operations.  Ron Sawatzky is a senior research scientist with the Alberta Research Council in Edmonton, with more than 16 years of experience working in research and development for heavy oil recovery processes.  For the past 13 years he has served as one of the team leaders for the cold production research group at ARC.