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Bob has recently joined the Derek Management Team after spending the past seven years with Occidental Petroleum Corporation ("Oxy") as a Production and Drilling Engineer with their successful Elk Hills project and newly acquired Mukhaizna heavy oil field project. He has over 37 years experience in the oil industry and specializes in improving the drilling/production economics of tertiary recovery projects (with an emphasis on steam soak/flood technology) such as Derek's LAK Ranch project. Bob has worked on thermal projects in California (Midway Sunset, Belridge/McKittrick, Cymric, Kern River/Kern Front, Santa Maria/Cat Canyon, Arroyo Grande and the Brea/Yorba Linda). He was on a thermal horizontal drilling/completion team for Shell Oil Co and drilled over 150 wells in California. Bob designed and drilled/completed the first thermal horizontal producer for Oxy USA that resulted in more than doubling the production as compared to the best vertical producer. He was instrumental in reducing drilling costs and overall capital and operating costs on the Midway Sunset project by up to 30%. He won the ARCO Award for reducing drilling costs at Midway Sunset, the Shell Oil Company Award for coil tubing/slimhole drilling at Belridge/McKittrick and was a finalist for the Occidental Engineering Excellence Award in 2001 and 2003 for applying large HF/HCl acid treatments on horizontal wells at Elk Hills, California. | 