Capstone prioritizes quality for our clients through intentionally developing a leadership team backed by excellence in their trade. Our team showcases some of the best in the industry.

    • 22 years of oilfield experience in servicing, drilling, and completions.
    • Extensive experience on high profile and/or critical sour operations
      • including sites with up to 93% H2S and surface pressures up to 100MPa
    • Initiated and managed the development of the Well Site Supervisor Competency Certificate program at Lakeland College
    • Developed the Thermal Completions Leadership Network to share ideas to improve completions and work-over performance across this segment of industry
    • Development and instruction of Enform Emergency Ignition Course
    • An authoring member of IRP #18 committee
      • Fire and Explosion Hazard Management
    • Crew chief of a Blowout Recovery team; capping blowouts on all types of wells within the WCSB including prolific sour gas wells
    • Abandonment of wells up to 70 years old including complex operations within urban boundaries and river ways
    • Completions Operations Manager at a major Canadian Operator for 6 years
    • Co-chair of the IRP #7 Commitee
    • Member of the CAODC Service Rig Executive Committee
    • 38 years of managing oil & gas risk
    • 32 years of direct well control experience
    • Leadership experience in operations, safety, and well control groups
    • Recognized leader in well control, with extensive international experience
      • Canada, Alaska, Middle East
    • Fires of Kuwait
      • Rob participated in the capping of 185 wells in extreme conditions
    • Key part of shift to working on wells while burning to mitigate toxic gas risk
    • Experienced in providing Blowout Contingency Planning for operators
    • Graduating from SAIT’s Petroleum Engineering Technologies program
    • 15 years of experience with a firm background in oil & gas completion operations in both conventional oil and gas and thermal operations
    • 7 years of field experience in both drilling and field production operations as a DRILLING SUPERVISOR and a Production Technologist
    • Suncor Energy as a Completions Superintendent for the SAGD completions group responsible for Suncor’s thermal operations
    • Driven and dedicated with over 14 years of progressive accounting, finance, treasury and oil & gas experience, expanding from Senior Financial Analyst, Controller to Senior Accountant
    • Bachelor of Commerce, Majoring in Accounting
    • Chartered Accountant
    • Chartered Business Valuator
    • Extensive experience managing financial reporting & accounting, audit, treasury & cash management, forecasting, budgeting and analysis
    • Skilled at financial modelling for amalgamation, capital fundraising and debt management
    • 22 years in oil and gas public safety, safety management and emergency management
    • An established high-risk event manager in all phases from pre-planning to full-scale emergencies
    • Served as the Media/Crisis Communication liaison for the Pembina Nisku Development program
    • CAPP Planning and Proliferation Workshop panel presenter regarding Stakeholder Consultation programs
    • Served as the industry co-chair of the Pembina Sentinel Air Monitoring Society. A non-profit organization founded to manage the industry-funded air monitoring system in the Pembina area
    • Major International Oil and Gas Company's emergency Response Exercise Project Supervisor
    • Contributor as a Content Author with the Lakeland College Well Site supervisor Certificate program
    • 12 years experience in the oil and gas industry working directly with well integrity testing and monitoring
    • 10 years working in the aviation industry performing roles in aviation EH&S, Quality Assurance, development and successful implementation of an Integrated Management System compliant to federal regulations.
    • Is an established technical specialist in the field of well integrity testing
    • Graduate of MBA program from McGill University
    • Awarded Canadian Patent for developing system for emissions detection, monitoring, and quantification
    • NFPA 1001 Professional Firefighter designation, and member of Capstone Blowout Recovery team