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2.0 Key Personnel

2.1 President & CEO - Dustin Kinch, P.Eng

Academic History Bachelor of Science, Petroleum Engineering (Honors)
Montana Tech University, USA (2007)

Graduated Petroleum Engineering Technology (Honors)
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (2005)

Summary of Experience

An engineer with 17 years of varied drilling operational and engineering experience including the
following:
 Various experience with; horizontal; stac frac horizontal wells; HTHP / ERD drilling
technology, under balance operations; cavern storage; deviated wells; off shore drilling &
CBM wells.
 Foreign experience in Gulf of Mexico; Equatorial Guinea; Egypt (North Red Sea) drillship as
a Drilling Engineer and Drilling Supervisor.
 Night Drilling Supervisor Gulf Mexico 6000 m HTHP wells. Multiple casing strings, liners,
expandable liners, fishing and side track operations.
 Drilling supervisor looking after field operations in Canada with wells ranging from 500 -
1600 meters. Including CBM, Heavy oil & gas wells
 Specializing in Salt Cavern Drilling & Completions Engineering Design and
Operations.
 Started in industry on drilling rigs for two years, prior to school.

Summary of Past Positions

SubTerra Group of Companies
March 2018 – Current President & CEO

CBW Resource Consultants
2011 – April 2019 Engineering & Operations / Partner

Hess, Egypt North Red Sea
2010 - 2011 Offshore Deepwater Drilling Engineer

Hess, Equatorial Guinea
2009 - 2010 Offshore Night Drilling Supervisor

Husky Energy, Canada
2008 – 2009 Drilling Consultant

Chevron, USA working in the Gulf of Mexico
2007 - 2008 Offshore Night Drilling Supervisor

Apache Corporation, Canada
2005 – 2006 Drilling Consultant

Affiliations

 CSA 625 Well Integrity Voting Member
 CSA Z341 Technical Committee as an Associate Member
 Member of The Association of Professional Engineers, and Geoscientists of Alberta
 Solution Mining Research Institute (SMRI)

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