Montello's management team consists of a dedicated group of professionals. Below you will find a list of all the directors and officers as well as a brief summary on each if available.
Board of Directors
William Cawker
Peter Brown
Mike Williams
Phil Emrich
Mr. William (Bill) Cawker, B.A. Position: Chairman of the Board Email:
Asst: Larry Myles (604)408-7600
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Montello Resources retained the services of Bill Cawker initially directly and then subsequently through his wholly owned British Columbia private company, to provide services including corporate and retail investor and shareholder relations, finance and corporate finance assistance, planning, etc. He has had a successful 20 year career most recently with Pacific International Securities and National Bank Financial where he was involved with start up resource companies in oil and gas, uranium-IOCG, base metals and industrial minerals. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Economics and Canadian - US History from the University of British Columbia. He has worked directly and indirectly on three public oil and gas companies with Dwayne Tyrkalo. He joined Montello at the request of both Dwayne Tyrkalo and Patrick Power in mid-October 2005.
Mr. Peter C. Brown Position: President, CEO, Director Email:
Mr. Peter C. Brown - COO, VP of Exploration and Geology, has over 25 years experience in the Oil and Gas Industry, both internationally and domestically. He is a Structural Geologist/Basin Evaluator. Peter has extensive knowledge at "Sarcee-Jumping Pound" and at "Pincher Creek", both of which are well-known gas producing fields in Alberta. His initial work at Montello has focussed solely on Tennessee reviewing all geological, drilling and logging Data recently acquired as well as other data he has sourced for the benefit of our JV Partnership. He will now be heading up our Sarcee and Pincher Creek Projects for example, the planned commencement of the Sarcee recompletion of the 10,957 foot 12-13-23-4 W5M cased Mississippian/ Rundle Gas Well. Peter is intimately involved with Phil Emrich on the pending evaluation of the 17 feet of interpreted pay at the 8200 foot level of our John Bowen #2 Well.
Mr. Brown began his career as a Geochemist with Robertson Research and later specialized in structural geology and basin dynamics, and has always concentrated in creating a tangible asset base. He has worked in areas as diverse as the North Sea and the foothills of the Andes and with such companies as Petro Canada, Lasmo, Bow Valley Resources, Crestar and Gulf Oil. Between 1997 and 2001, Mr. Brown was the Vice President, Exploration for Crestar Energy International, a division of Crestar Energy Inc. He is a proven oil finder as evidenced while at Crestar where he helped build them build their International Asset Base from 0 to 5000 boepd in a space of 3 years and up to 50 million barrels of reserve base. Peter has also recently been responsible for opening up a new condensate playfairway at Pincher Creek in the southern Alberta Foothills. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Aston in Birmingham, UK and a Masters of Science from the University of London. Mr. Brown has a reputation as a pragmatist and a problem solver.
Mr. Mike Williams Position: CFO, Director Email:
Mike became a Chartered Accountant with Peat Marwick & Mitchell in 1959, and was elected a Fellow of the Alberta Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1981. He began his oil and gas career working with the Home Oil Company from 1962 to 1969 and then from 1969 to 1981 he worked with CanDel Oil. Initially their Treasurer, he rose through the ranks to become president over a 12 year period. He subsequently joined Sulpetro Limited in 1981 becoming their CFO, then President International, managing their foreign operations and assumed duties as President from 1985 -1987. Since then, he has been involved in various private and public oil and gas companies. He is analytical, pragmatic, a problem solver, and enjoys new challenges.
Mr. Phil Emrich Position: President Montello Resources USA Ltd., Director
From September 2006 to March of 2007, he was Drilling Supervisor for ConocoPhillips Canada Foothill & Mountain Division; while from June 2003 to September 2006 he was with Smith Services in Abu Dhabi. Phil also spent a number of years with Tesco Drilling Technology (July 1996 - June 2003). His duties included in no particular order: starting up the Algeria Office and project in Hassi Massoud with local company "Sonatrac", 2 years as a Regional Manager for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, 4 years as an "Offshore" Top Drive Supervisor, and finally 1 year as Operations Superintendent (Electric Top Drive Division). From 1984 to July 1996 he worked with Nabors Drilling Ltd. Canada and Nabors Drilling Intl. While with Nabors Drilling Intl. from April 1992 - July 1996, 3 years as Rig Manager (Tool Pusher) and 6 months Driller, he worked on a Multiple Well, long reach horizontal project for Shell and Elf in Gabon, West Africa. His drilling experience in Canada was with directional or horizontal wells drilling mostly deep, high pressure, sour gas wells in the Canadian Foothills on projects for Shell and Petro-Canada.
In the winter of 2006 and spring of 2007, Mr. Emrich was the Drilling Supervisor on 3 wells drilled in the Foothills as well as two Kaybob wells west of Fox Creek, Alberta. Varying depths on these 5 wells was anywhere from 2500 metres to 4000 metres total depth. Phil operates his personal company, Bilsar Oilfield Consulting. He has spent many years with Nabors Drilling in the Canadian Foothills (N.W. Alberta) as well as overseas in West Africa and until last winter, he spent four years in the Middle East specializing in down-hole fishing, whipstocks, and remedial work in the United Arab Emirates.
Mr. Wes Hansen Position: VP of Drilling Operations Email:
Mr. Wes Hansen - VP of Drilling Operations, Founder and President of Remote Directional Services, was introduced to Montello by Mr. Phil Emrich, our Montello USA Advising Drilling Manager, Supervisor. Wes subsequently was responsible for all aspects of directional drilling operations on the John Bowen #2 Well at Highpoint, Tennessee. www.remotedirectional.com.
From 2006 to 2008, Wes was VP of Operations and a Director at Canadian Integrity Drilling Inc. He negotiated a contract for the position of project lead which provided directional drilling expertise to Pason Systems Inc. The expertise provided, allowed Pason Systems Inc. the opportunity to develop a directional drilling module add-on to their existing data acquisition systems. Pason Systems is a world leader in drilling data management. Pason Systems presently have 99% market share in Canada and 65% in the US. From 2005 through 2006, his primary responsibilities were as Well Site Supervisor which included safety, logistics, environmental and financials while from 2003 - 2005 he was a Directional Supervisor for Sperry-Sun Drilling Services in Columbia and Ecuador where the deepest well in South America was drilled to 27,000 feet and from 1998- 2003 he was the New Technology Manager, for Sperry-Sun Drilling Services in Calgary Alberta, Wes worked on leading edge drilling projects for such clients as Bissett Resources- multi-tapered casing string for the deepest re-entry horizontal project in North America, and other technology used by companies like Anadarko Canada Bucking Horse River Crossing Project.
The experience from 1998 - 2006 provided him the knowledge and experience in greater detail of the processes necessary to manage drilling oil and gas wells. During 1993 -1998, Wes commenced his career at Sperry Sun Drilling Services, Canada as a Directional Drilling Supervisor and finished as a Lead Supervisor by 1998. Other positions at the beginning of his career include from 1991-1993 being an MWD Operator and Directional Supervisor with Smith International, Canada and from 1979-1989 as a Drilling rig driller with Adeco and Badger Drilling of Canada. Wes is a graduate of the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, (NAIT), in Edmonton Alberta. Email: and
C.M. (Chuck) Baumgart, P. Eng. Position: VP of Infrastructure and Business Development-Consulting
C.M. (Chuck) Baumgart, P. Eng. - Consulting VP of Infrastructure and Business Development, is currently a principal of Middleton Energy Management Ltd. which provides consulting and energy management services to the producing and consuming industry in both natural gas and power. Mr. Baumgart obtained his B.Sc. Eng. in 1981 from the University of Manitoba. He has over 26 years energy industry experience of which 20 years was with Mobil Oil and Renaissance Energy in production engineering and natural gas/power marketing. As a production engineer, Mr. Baumgart has optimized output of conventional light oil, heavy oil, and natural gas from all regions of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
In marketing, Chuck progressed through areas of increasing responsibility and was ultimately responsible for the management of a 500 MMCFD natural gas marketing team. Chuck has been involved in all aspects of the natural gas industry and has an excellent working knowledge of the Canadian and U.S. markets including storage, supply-demand analysis, transportation valuation and optimization, gas procurement and sales, and risk management.
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Mr. Max Sloan Position: Well Site Geologist, Montello Resources USA Ltd.
Mr. Max Sloan, a highly thought of Well Site Geologist in the Alberta Oil Patch as of July 23rd, 2007, is the latest member of the Highpoint Tennessee Drilling Team team and will be joining Drilling Manager Phil Emrich, Field Operations Manager Dave Schofield, and President Dwayne Tyrkalo on location at the John Bowen #2 well site (Morgan Highpoint #1) located in Morgan County, Tennessee.
In the last 20 years, Mr. Sloan has mostly focused on complex over thrust/faulted projects in the foothills/mountains of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta/British Columbia. His most recent work activity with Conoco (which was Burlington and previously was Poco) was in the foothills of Alberta/B.C. in the OJ, Solomon, Palliser areas and also over thrust mountain wells in West Bullmoose, Grizzley, Sukunka, and Bolder.
Between Poco-Burlington, Mr. Sloan was busy with Pan Canadian-Encana in the Ferrier area; also Max was involved in a deep hole in Twin Butte/Pincher Creek; as well as in Newfoundland to do a project on the Portaport Peninsula . In this time period, he also was the well site geologist on a deep test at Brag Creek for EOG. Of note prior to his work at Poco, he spent 10 years with Talisman also in the aforementioned mountain area which also includes Wolverine, Speaker, Brazion, Burnt River , Murray River and Falls. Talisman bought out BP Canada where Max spent a long period of time just like his tenure with Skelly Oil which became Getty Oil. Skelly also worked in the same Rocky Mountains of B.C. and Alberta . Notable projects include Commotion, East Pine, Robb, Cadomin and Onion ( Crowsnest Pass ). Max also looked after wells for Coseka and Oakwood Petroleum in the Coleman/Blairmore area of the Southern Rockies off the Crowsnest Highway as well as a deep test for Hershy on the back side of Turtle mountain.
Prior to the Skelly/Getty commitment, Mr. Sloan spent a few years with Pacific Petroleum which was later bought out by Petro-Canada. A few of the higher profile wells were Brule' Lake near the Jasper Park border, Lodgepole, and also Long-View in the southern Rocky Mountain foothills.
Max was on retainer with Ocelot industries for several years where he sat the discovery hole at Poco, south of Edson, and helped define that pool and others where he was also responsible for some of the drilling operations. During this time Mr. Sloan (Max) employed three geologists under his company M.D.Sloan Consultants Ltd.
Mr. Sloan had an extensive contract with Jefferson Lake (CanOxy) during the 1960's/1970's in the Alberta foothills looking for sour gas in the Okotoks/High River/Crossfield areas. Jefferson Lake duties also included looking after drilling activities, such as cementing, drill stem testing and day to day operations. Max's expertise covered Alberta , B.C., Manitoba and Saskatchewan with many other companies including Hudson Bay Oil & Gas, Canadian Homestead, Canadian Superior, Canadian Reserve, Oakwood Petroleum, Murphy Oil, Sun Oil, and Apache. Prior to establishing his consulting company in 1967 he worked with California Standard (Chevron); Canadian Pacific Oil & Gas (Pan-Canadian/Encana) and Pan American Petroleum (Amoco) and Helton Engineering. It was not uncommon to look after more than one well at a time; often for different oil companies for example: Jefferson Lake Crossfield - Canadian Reserve Chestermere Lake - Canadian Homestead Moose Mountain ).
A personal highlight for Mr. Sloan was doing a few geology stints on the discovery hole at Pan Am A-1 Pointed Mountain, on the NWT BC/Yukon border which Max tells us was one of the biggest wells to come on in the 1960's as well as Steamboat Mountain in the early 1970's near the BC Yukon border while with Canadian Superior.
Max thought he was hanging it up for good until Phil Emrich told him about the opportunity to hunt for potential elephants in Morgan County, Tennessee. Max is totally enthused about putting his 40 years of expertise into the hunt for big oil and/or gas at Highpoint in the Central-Southern Appalachians. "It is just too exciting a project for me to pass up given success to date in the Northern Appalachians by one of my former employers whom I have great respect for."
Mr. Darrell Davidson Position: Land and Right of Way Advisor
Mr. Darrell Davidson is from Calgary, Alberta and has 30 years of business management experience that encompasses " Pipeline and Power Line Right of Way Management", as well as Land Brokerage for the resource industry for surface, freehold and crown mineral and oil and gas leases in British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. Mr. Davidson has extensive experience in sales , marketing, and business development including joint ventures in the private sector as well as with First Nations. Darrell thrives on the challenges posed by startup situations and brings an innovative mindset due to his broad range of experience. and contacts, Montello welcomes his participation as the Company attempts to solidify its foundation in the oil and gas sector.
Mr. Ross Moulton Position: Consulting Manager of Geology, Sarcee Project
Mr. Ross Moulton - Consulting Manager of Geology, Sarcee Project. While acting as the Geologist for Extreme Energy and subsequently Arapahoe Energy, Ross organized the opportunity for the high impact deep drilling play on the T'su T'ina Indian Reserve with the initial drilling of the 10,957 foot 12-13-23-4 W5M cased Mississippian/ Rundle Gas Well. Bill Cawker and Dwayne Tyrkalo worked with Ross at the commencement of the project as well as on and off over the past 5 years.
Mr. Dave Schofield Position: Operations Field Manager, Montello Resources USA Ltd.
Dave Schofield is the President of Sundance Ventures Ltd., an oilfield service company. He has worked for over 25 years in the Peace River Arch, Northwestern Alberta. He has a long-standing working relationship with a number of Montello's present management team. He has extensive training in the operation of down-hole equipment, perforating procedures and the testing of different geological formations. Further, he has a solid understanding of requirements for well quality control and safety procedures, both as an operator and as a subcontractor. Mr. Schofield's experience includes high and low pressure oil and gas wells, supervising service rigs, swab rigs, wire-line crews, maintenance crews, road and lease construction, pipelines and facility construction, Ammine Systems, Acid Gas Compression, Acid Gas Re-injection Refrigeration Equipment and Water Injection Facilities. This has allowed him to make a seamless transition, applying his extensive skill set in Tennessee. Mr. Schofield is well versed with His accreditations and licenses include: H2S Certificate, St. John Ambulance Certificate, Transportation of Dangerous Goods Certificate, W.H.M.I.S. and Well Service B.O.P. ticket.
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