Robin Bertram

Robin is a professional engineer with 31years of experience in reservoir exploitation, field development, resource determination and economic evaluations. This diverse background enables Robin to provide strategic advice on corporate and field production performance as well as provide insight into prioritization of ongoing and future developments. Having completed resource assessments and evaluations throughout the world, including assessments of shale gas in Canada's Horn River Basin and Montney plays, heavy oil in California, oil shales in New Zealand's East Coast Basin, and conventional oil in Azerbaijan, Kurdistan and offshore Ireland, Robin is well equipped to identify and quantify international opportunities. Today, Robin provides oversight to the company's enhanced recovery practice, which encompasses simulations, advanced reservoir studies, and scoping of candidate reservoirs for secondary and tertiary recovery mechanisms. Robin also coordinates independent evaluations used for corporate reporting and acquisition disposition purposes by clients ranging in size to those in excess of 500 million barrels of oil equivalent.   Evaluation – Extensive experience in both deterministic and stochastic methods of reserve and resource estimation and evaluation. Responsible for the evaluation of heavy oil/oil sands properties utilizing conventional and thermal recovery methods in the Athabasca Oil Sands, as well as California and Trinidad. Coordinated the evaluation of both producing and developing shale gas properties across the Horn River and Montney Basins. Since 2002, managed the continuing evaluation and audit of Devon Canada’s total reserve base.   Development – Coordinated significant exploration and development drilling programs at Encor with involvement in all processes and decisions from selection of locations to production of wells and construction of facilities. Held similar positions within Talisman working on assets across Western Canada. Successfully promoted a major property transaction with a competitor, which allowed both companies to efficiently develop joint lands.   Regulatory – Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers (SPEE)committee member involved in preparing Monograph No. 3, Guidelines for the Practical Evaluation of Undeveloped Reserves in Resource Plays. Robin was a contributing author to the CIM’s Monograph No. 1, Determination of Oil and Gas Reserves, published in 1994.