Principal Profiles

Pictured clockwise from front left are:

John Kingsbury, Dave Esau, Bill Armstrong, Ib Moller, Bart Van Schaayk, Bob Child

Bill Armstrong, P. Eng., a Principal since 2008, brings 40 years of broad energy industry experience including a demonstrated track record in business management, oil and gas production and operations, project management, asset evaluation and process engineering and design for a large integrated energy company. Bill has worked a variety of assignments in both Canada and the US including the design, project management and start up of large sour gas production and processing facilities in Alberta and Wyoming as well as several smaller facilities. Bill has lead teams responsible for the management of both oil and gas development and operations including large sour gas and oil fields. More recently Bill headed a team that separated midstream and liquids marketing functions from producing functions and set up, managed and divested the midstream business. Bill is currently providing consulting services to the industry in a variety of areas including asset evaluations, determining strategy for management of midstream assets and front end evaluation of feasibility and options for development of facilities. Contact Bill

Bob Child, P. Eng., a Principal since 2009, brings over 34 years of extensive exploration and production (E&P) and midstream/gas infrastructure experience. His background encompasses the full natural gas value chain from finding and development (F&D) through field and plant operations to gas processing and infrastructure management.  Bob brings a demonstrated track record of leadership and delivery as well as a background in the technical aspects that comprise the business.  He has worked a variety of leadership assignments based both in Calgary and the field, including: 10 years of hands on field based oil and gas (sweet and sour) engineering  and operational supervision; oil and gas production management; the re-engineering and overall leadership of the Canadian gas finding and development activities for a major multi-national E&P company (exploration/exploitation, drilling, completions, land acquisition and management, reservoir optimization and management, project and operations engineering); President and CEO of a major Canadian midstream/gas infrastructure business leading the redefinition, management, packaging and successful sale of the company; and President of a Canadian midstream business for a U.S. based oil and gas producer leading the business definition, strategic, tactical and business setup and initial operation. In addition, Bob has previously provided consulting support in the areas of business performance improvement and measurement systems, strategic planning and tactical implementation and leadership development and mentoring.  With his broad background he will provide support in the areas that are currently GPMi’s focus as well as to the broader oil and gas industry business. These areas would include: improvements in F&D performance (portfolio management, risk management, delivery and process), production operations (lifting cost and overall performance improvements), safety and leadership development (coaching, mentoring and delivery systems). Contact Bob

Dave Esau, P. Eng., M.B.A., a Principal since 2005, brings over 35 years of technical and commercial experience in the upstream, midstream and gas transmission sectors of the oil and gas industry, including 17 years in a consulting capacity. Dave’s experience includes oil and gas exploitation, reserves and property evaluation, gas supply assessment, marketing and customer account management, infrastructure business and project development, financial and business issues analysis, joint ventures and business management. With GPMi, Dave’s principal areas of focus have been business and project development, infrastructure commercial management support and gas supply analysis. Dave is a member of the Gas Processors Association of Canada, Petroleum Society of Canada, Society of Petroleum Engineers and Petroleum Joint Venture Association. Contact Dave

John Kingsbury, P. Eng., a founding Principal of GPMi, brings over 39 years of varied work experience in the oil and gas industry including reservoir engineering, gas plant and field operations, facility project management, business development, joint venture, and corporate economics.  In 1993, John started his own oil and gas company, Tekerra Gas Inc. (later amalgamated with another junior oil and gas company) and also consulted in the gas processing industry for midstream business development, and was a developer of several midstream projects. In 1999 John teamed up with Ib Moller to form GPMi. John has been very active in industry associations, serving as President of the Canadian Gas Processors Association in 1994 and as a board member of the Petroleum Joint Venture Association in 1985 and 1997. John has also served as a member of the JP-90, JP-95 and JP-05 industry task forces to develop and expand the industry processing fee guidelines; as vice-chairman of the CAPP (formerly CPA) Economics Committee and chairman of the Alberta Fiscal Committee; on the Alberta royalty and information review committee; as the  Small Explorers and Producers Association of Canada (SEPAC) representative on the Alberta Aboriginal and Northern Development Industry Advisory Committee, and as SEPAC representative on the Company to Company (C2C) Dispute Resolution Task Force and the Appropriate Dispute Resolution (ADR) Council. John is currently on the Board of Directors of SEPAC. John has appeared as an expert witness before the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board on several occasions and at a formal arbitration on gas processing commercial issues in New Zealand. He has also been both a mediator and arbitrator for numerous industry disputes on gas production and processing issues. He has taught courses on many aspects of the gas business including economic analysis, production measurement and accounting, project management, operations, and process design. John has received several industry awards. Contact John

Ib Moller, P. Eng., a founding Principal of GPMi, brings over 30 years of varied work experience in the oil and gas industry, including gas plant operation, engineering and construction of gas facilities, reservoir engineering, oil and gas exploitation, business development, joint ventures and gas processing business relations. This includes over 14 years in a consulting capacity focused on planning and organizing the relationships between the owners and users of oil and gas facilities, and developing and negotiating agreements to document these relationships including oil and gas unitizations, facility construction, ownership and operating (CO&O) agreements, processing agreements and tie-ins between gas transmission companies. Ib has also evaluated and sold gas transmission and processing facilities, resolved disputes regarding the cost of gas processing and acted as an expert in numerous hearings regarding access to gas processing facilities and the cost of processing. In 1999, Ib teamed up with John Kingsbury to form GPMi. Through much of his career, Ib has been an active member of the Petroleum Joint Venture Association, serving as President in 1995-96 and has served as a member on several of its task forces including the Environmental Issues task force and those that were responsible for developing the Model Unit and Unit Operating Agreements and the Model Construction, Ownership and Operating (CO&O) Agreement. Ib also served as a member of the JP-95 industry task force to develop and expand the industry processing fee guidelines. Ib has taught courses on joint venture agreements, unitization and gas processing fees for the PJVA, CAPL, Mt. Royal College, CPI (Canadian Petroleum Institute) and a number of oil and gas companies. He has spoken on gas processing fees and cost equalization at industry seminars, luncheons and conferences. He has also appeared before the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board and the British Columbia Utilities Commission as an expert witness on gas processing fees, before the Court of Queen's bench as an expert on deductions from gas royalties and as an expert on unitization, and he recently worked for Imperial Oil as an expert on the business design of gathering and processing facilities in the Mackenzie Delta. Ib has also received industry awards. Contact Ib

Bart Van Schaayk, P. Eng., a Principal since 2006, has over 30 years experience in the Western Canada and East Coast natural gas industries. His areas of expertise include business development, project development and evaluation, strategic planning, joint ventures, acquisitions and divestments, third party processing fee negotiations, and regulatory affairs. Since beginning his consulting practice in 2004, Bart has advised a diverse range of clients on numerous issues relating to commercial natural gas and NGL related infrastructure matters including strategic planning, disputes and pending litigation, commercial negotiations, project management, project development, infrastructure optimization and rationalization, divestments and regulatory filings. Bart has appeared before the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board as a subject matter witness, a policy witness and as panel chairman. He has also contributed back to the industry serving as a task force committee member and seminar lecturer with the Petroleum Joint Venture Association and as an executive member of the Gas Processing Association of Canada. In addition he has spoken at a number of industry conferences and seminars in both Calgary and Halifax. Contact Bart


Associates

Our Associates are integral to our ability to meet a wide range of client needs. Each is an independent business partner, and capable of performing at a high level in a team environment or independently. They have been carefully chosen to ensure that they bring the experience, skills and ethics for which GPMi is known.