Position: President, CEO & Director
Barry is a founder of Derek Oil & Gas Corporation with over 25 years of experience working with public companies in the oil & gas sector. Barry is an entrepreneur who has held several senior management positions in public companies and has been successful in raising millions of dollars in capital to fund the exploration & development of projects in North America & internationally. Barry was a fundamental force in the negotiations to acquire the 7500 acres on the LAK Ranch in NE Wyoming and in the establishment of the strong & successful Joint Venture partnership that exists today with Ivanhoe Energy Corporation.
Position: Chief Financial Officer
Greg is a Chartered Accountant with 19 years experience with the resource industry. He has held senior management positions with numerous public resource companies. He has raised $20 plus million in financing for public companies.
Position: Chief Operating Officer
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.
Position: Corporate Secretary/Communications
Brent has been with Derek Oil & Gas Corporation since 1998.
Brent works with the Derek Management Team with Office/Corporate Administration, Banking Matters, Shareholder Mailings and Communication.