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GROWTH AND PEOPLE
RESPEC’s Canadian team grows
Following a very successful 2019, we are continuing our momentum in Canada by adding key people to our team. Our group will continue to focus on the energy sector, as well as drilling procurement and management, and we have hired two key individuals to round out our team.
To assist with our geothermal development in Canada, Matt Minnick added StaffGeologist Evan Renaud to the Canadian team. Evan will be working from Edmonton, Alberta, in the heart of western Canada’s energy sector. Evan will be defending his MSc from the University of Alberta in midMarch. His thesis is titled “Geothermal Reservoir Characterization of the Middle Devonian Slave Point Formation at Clarke Lake Field, Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada.” His primary role will be assisting on geothermal projects, such as the recently awarded Clarke Lake geothermal development project. Evan will also help with the recently awarded Qulliq Energy Corporation geothermal project in Nunavut with an initial focus on examining the sedimentary strata in the Arctic with data taken from several historical wells that were drilled around Resolute Bay. Evan Renaud Edmonton, AB
Michelle St. Louis, a Professional Geologist with more than 15 years of demonstrated geological evaluation expertise, will be working out of our Saskatoon office. She began her exciting geological career in diamond exploration and evaluation programs in Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories. Michelle spent more than 10 years dedicated to the oil-and-gas exploration and development industry at Husky Energy in Calgary, Alberta, and is familiar with reservoir and asset development, operations, and wireline log analysis and interpretation. Before her work at Husky Energy, Michelle spent some time working for a consulting company catering to Athabasca oil sands mining and thermal projects, as well as environmental and construction projects around Fort McMurray, Alberta. She worked alongside massive machinery and drilling rigs and logged hundreds of kilometers of core. Silica sand exploration in western Canada kept her busy for 18 months before starting with RESPEC. Michelle St. Louis Saskatoon, SK
Michelle is excited to join RESPEC and collaborate with the diverse talent within the company. She is passionate about finding opportunities and identifying and solving problems. She will apply her skills in wireline log analysis and interpretation to thermal projects, potash projects, and any projects related to subsurface analysis. She looks forward to seeking opportunities in the oil-and-gas industry and in minerals and mining, including opportunities with frac sand and industrial minerals. Michelle is looking to apply her comprehensive expertise from exploration and drilling, mapping, and reserve analysis to potential production and abandonment opportunities for the Saskatoon office.
We welcome Evan and Michelle to the Canadian team. If you want to learn more about their experience and expertise, Evan and Michelle will be happy to visit with you.
We are pleased to add Michelle and Evan to our Canadian team as they bring unique experience to our growing geothermal and energy sector services.
Every year, RESPEC recognizes outstanding employees with Innovation, Collaboration, and Inspiration Awards. The RESPEC Inspiration Award offers recognition to individuals for providing motivational inspiration to other individuals or teams to achieve excellence. The Inspiration category applies to a person who demonstrates exceptional creative and inventive thinking and, through his or her actions, leads others to the highest level of a special achievement. Pete Smith Rochester, NY
Project Geologist Pete Smith was honored with an Inspiration Award for 2019. Pete has been supporting RESPEC operations in Carlsbad, New Mexico, for more than 7 years, despite being located in Rochester, New York. Pete has traveled and spent much time away from his home office to assistin whatevercapacity was needed.
In the years he has spent working with RESPEC, Pete has diligently built and maintained relationships with client partners. Pete’s inspiring professionalism has led to his progression from ad hoc support to a full-time employee on the Sandia contract. Pete has incorporated improvements into collecting field data and reporting video-logging results to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) hydrology team. Pete also reorganized and improved the A Visionary for the Commemoration of the First Potash Discovery Site, Pete Smith Collaborated With Industry Specialists to Install a Scenic Historic Marker at the First Potash Test Well Site, McSweeney-McNutt #1, in Eddy County, New Mexico. This Site Represents the Start of a New Industry in Southeastern New Mexico and the End of the Nation’s Dependence on Imported Potash in 1925. HonoringthePioneeringEffortsofOurForefathersintheMiningIndustryIsOneoftheFewWaysThat PeteHasDefinedandExemplifiedRESPEC’sCulture.
annual deliverable for this project, which is a Sandia milestone report that is archived in the WIPP Information Center. Pete has become an indispensable member of the Carlsbad team and has expanded RESPEC’s technical workload in support of the project and our partners. The RESPEC team extends a heartfelt thank you to Pete for modeling the attributes of the Inspiration Award.
