Professional Qualifications

Mr. Bachman has 32 years of engineering experience, managing and conducting large petroleum reservoir/production engineering studies throughout the world within a multi-disciplinary team environment. International experience includes Australia, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Egypt, Italy, Ireland, the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, Yemen and Saudi Arabia), the North Sea (UK, Norwegian and Danish sectors), Libya, onshore UK and the US. He has also been involved in all areas of the Western Canadian Sedimentary basin. He has participated in over a hundred studies encompassing all aspects of reservoir engineering. Areas of expertise include:

• Reservoir simulation of conventional and EOR processes
• Classical reservoir engineering
• Well test analysis
• Production analysis
• Tight gas development
• Gas condensate performance analysis
• Design and analysis of hydraulic fracture treatments
• Evaluations
• Gas storage

Mr. Bachman has developed a unique expertise in the evaluation of tight gas formations. This includes reserves determination, reservoir modeling and hydraulic fracture post-treatment evaluation. The process is described in Chapter 3 of the recent book, Modern Fracturing: Enhancing Natural Gas Production, in which he was a co-author.

Mr. Bachman has also been involved in the formal training, supervision and mentoring of technical staff throughout his career. He has worked as an expert witness on numerous cases at government regulatory hearings. Earlier career activity involved the development and maintenance of reservoir and production engineering software. This has migrated into an interest in data mining for developing a broad overview of field performance.

Education and Professional Associations  

Mr. Bachman attended the University of Manitoba and graduated with a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering in 1976. He received a M.Sc. from the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Manitoba, in 1978.

He is a member of Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), Petroleum Society of the CIM and APEGGA. He has published numerous technical papers through the SPE and CIM, and given a number of featured talks at various technical forums.

Chronology of Experience  

2001-present   Taurus Reservoir Solutions Ltd., Senior Engineer

Primarily involved in conducting special studies in the area of reservoir engineering/geomechanics in a multi-disciplinary setting. These jobs have included traveling and working extensively in a variety of overseas locations. Responsibilities include problem/mechanism identification (an often overlooked aspect of most studies), mentoring of senior client staff, working efficiently in a team environment and doing the basic work. Attention to all the details including an emphasis on sorting out/interrogating large amounts of client data has been emphasized.

At the business level responsibilities include marketing and the implementation of new technology and software. At the professional level he has been involved in teaching and writing technical papers for engineering conferences and a book. He was also involved in the organizing committee of the SPE 2006 Gas Technology Symposium in Calgary.

1999-2001       Duke Engineering & Services (UK) Inc., Project Manager

Responsible for managing, and performing a broad range of geological, reservoir and production engineering studies for the UK office. Typically worked with a diversified technical team to come up with reasonable reservoir descriptions/future production profiles/economics for projects ranging from single well studies to $1 billion strategic investments.

1996- 1999      Duke Engineering & Services (Canada) Inc., Engineering Manager

Responsible for marketing, managing the engineering department, and performing engineering studies for the Calgary office. Additional duties include training junior staff and teaching a variety of internationally sponsored reservoir engineers.

1985-1996             SIMTECH Consulting Services (Canada) Ltd., Senior Consultant

Performed reservoir and production engineering studies throughout Canada and the world. These studies focused on using reservoir simulation models to identify and modify field development strategies. Also involved in designing optimal hydraulic fracture treatments in Western Canada. Other work areas included: well test analysis, EOR/compositional fluid studies, and integrated surface network/reservoir studies. In addition was responsible for maintaining, supporting and enhancing SIMTECH’s reservoir and production engineering software. Taught courses in the applied use of these technologies at the University of Calgary and at various companies.

1980-1985           Intercomp Resource Development and Engineering (Canada) Ltd., Senior Consultant

Responsible for conducting reservoir and production engineering studies in the areas of waterflooding, miscible flooding, and chemical flooding.  Maintained and developed thermal, black oil, chemical and compositional reservoir simulation software for a team of 20 engineers. Also was responsible for client software support and internal computer support.

1978-1980             Mobil Oil Canada Ltd., Reservoir Engineer,

Responsible for evaluating the feasibility of hydrocarbon miscible floods for carbonate reef pools.

Language Capability  

English:     Excellent in speaking, reading and writing

Publications (Books)  

"Modern Fracturing: Enhancing Natural Gas Production", editors: Michael J. Economides, and Tony Martin: “Chapter 3 – Gas Well Testing and Evaluation”(with R.V. Hawkes), Energy Tribune, 2007.

Publications (Papers)  

"Reservoir and Fracturing Engineering Challenges in Tight Gas Development”, First Break of EAGE, April 2009, (with A. Settari).

“An Alternative Method in Determining Permeability in Fractured Tight Gas Wells Dominated by Either Linear or Bilinear Flow”, SPE 113325, 2008 SPE Europec Conference June 2008, (with R.V. Hawkes).

“Decoupling Damage Mechanisms in Acid-Fractured Gas Condensate Reservoirs”, SPE 100570, 2006 SPE Gas Technology Symposium, May 2006, (with A.Settari and D.A. Walters, Z. Rahim and M.S. Ahmed).

“Evaluation of Nonlinear Fracture Relative Permeabilities and Their Impact on Water-Frac Performance in Tight Gas Sands”, SPE 98329, 2006 SPE Symposium on Formation Damage Control, Lafayette, L.A., February 2006, (with R.Sullivan, J.Rushing, A.Settari, L.Ji, M.Conway and R.Barree).

“How To Approximate Effects of Geomechanics in Conventional Reservoir Simulation”, SPE 97155, SPE Annual Technical Meeting, Dallas, October, 2005, (with A.Settari and D.A. Walters).

“Coupled Simulation of Reservoir Flow, Geomechanics, and Formation Plugging with Application to High-Rate Produced Water Reinjection”, SPE 79695, SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium, Houston, Texas, February 2003, (with T.G Harding, A.Settari and D.A. Walters).

“The Modeling of the Effect of Water Blockage and Geomechanics in Waterfrac”, SPE 77600, SPE Annual Technical Conference, San Antonio, Texas, September 2002,  (with A.Settari and R.B. Sullivan)

“General Correlation for the Effect of Non-Darcy Flow on Productivity of Fractured Wells”, SPE 75715, SPE Gas Technology Symposium, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, May 2002 (with A.Settari, A.Bale, and V.Floisand)

“Evaluation of a Horizontal Gas-Condensate Well Using Numerical Pressure Transient Analysis”, SPE 71588, SPE Annual Technical Meeting, New Orleans, October, 2001 (with R.Harisch, P.Puchyr and G.Strashok)

“Productivity of Fractured Gas Condensate Wells: A Case Study of the Smorbukk Field”, SPE RE , November 1996, pp236-244, (with A. Settari, K.Hovem and S.G.Paulsen)”

“Partially Decoupled Modeling of Hydraulic Fracturing Processes”, SPE PE, February 1990, pp. 37-44, (with A. Settari and P.J. Puchyr).

“Gas Coning Correlations for Reefs with a Diminishing Oil Leg”, Paper 89-40-57, 40th Annual Technical Meeting of the Petroleum Society of CIM, Banff, (May 1989), (with K.J. Meagher and A.G. Harrington).

“Investigation of Gas Cycling Schemes for the Westerose D-3 Pool”, Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology, May-June 1988, Volume 27, No. 3.  (with W. Papst and R.F. Legere).

“Numerical Simulation of Hydraulic Fracturing Treatments with Low Viscosity Fluids”, Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology, September-October 1987, Volume 26, No. 4. (with A. Settari and D.C. Morrison).

“Polymer-Augmented Waterflood in the Rapdan Upper Shaunavon Unity”, Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology, July-August 1987, Volume 26, No. 4. (with T. Campbell). 

"Wave Propagation in Rods with Multiple Wave Speeds”, Mathematical Procedures of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, (1979), (with H. Cohen).

Industry Talks  

"An Alternative Method in Determining Permeability in Fractured Tight Gas Wells”, Luncheon talk at Canadian Section of the SPE, Calgary Alberta, Canada, April 2008.

“Resolving Inconsistencies between Well Test and Designed Fracture Lengths”, International Seminar on Tight Gas Sands, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 2007.

“New Ideas with Respect to Reserves Evaluation in Tight Gas Wells”, Luncheon talk at “The Reservoir Evaluation and Production Optimization” technical interest group of the CIM, Calgary Alberta, Canada, January 2007.

“Analyzing Horizontal and Fractured Gas Condensate Wells”, SPE Forum on Gas Condensates, Houston Texas, May 2004.

“Well Test Analysis Using Finite Difference Reservoir Simulation Models”, Canadian International Petroleum Conference (CIPC) Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 2003.