John L. Perkins, President

John Perkins spent 20 years of his career with major multi-national companies, and an additional 17 years as a self employed Petroleum Engineering Consultant as detailed below.

John Perkins started his career as a production and reservoir engineer with Shell Oil Company in Louisiana (1974 to 1981) , introducing himself to the oil industry. He was responsible for day to day management of oil and gas production from offshore and coastal oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico. After a successful career at Shell and to diversify his experience, John Perkins took an assignment as a reservoir management specialist with Saudi Aramco in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He was responsible for the successful management of a super giant offshore oilfield in the Arabian Gulf where a number of new wells were drilled and substantial reserve additions made. After this assignment in Arabia in 1989, Mr. Perkins returned to the USA and contracted as a reservoir management consultant to Texaco EPTD research center to support the building of reservoir simulation models for Middle East oilfields. He also was a consultant to Saudi Arabian companies seeking to establish links with American companies to do oilfield business in Saudi Arabia.

In 1992, John Perkins left Texaco to take over as president of BreakThrough, an emerging enzyme solution manufacturing and service company. Over the last 17 years, Mr. Perkins has developed products, expertise and experience with using the enzyme solutions for oil well stimulations, environmental remediation and oil water separation for international and domestic businesses.

John Perkins has been a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers for over 35 years. While much of his petroleum engineering work was proprietary to his various companies and was kept confidential, he did co-author two public SPE Papers; SPE 17956-MS: “Case History: Application of a Three-Dimensional Carbonate Reservoir Simulation Model”, 1989 while at Saudi Aramco and SPE 24438: “Electronic Publishing of SPE Papers: A Report and Demonstration of the CD-ROM Project”, 1992 while at Texaco Research.

John Perkins graduated from Rice University in Houston in 1974 with a double major in Physics and Mathematics. He successfully completed various classes in business and finance in the Tulane MBA program before leaving the program to take the overseas assignment with Saudi Aramco.

Kehinde A Kuyinu, Vice President

Kehinde Kuyinu spent 29 years of his career with major multi-national oil companies working in both technical and management capacities. His first assignment as a petrophysical engineer with Shell Oil Company in Louisiana (1977-1981) where he was introduced to the oil industry. He was responsible for day to day wire line log evaluation of Shell Oil’s oil and gas wells onshore fields located in Jackson, Mississippi and Southeast Texas.

After a successful career at Shell oil, and to diversify his experience, Kehinde Kuyinu took an assignment as a petrophysicist with Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Lagos, Nigeria. He was responsible for providing petrophysical support to a special integrated Nigerian study team (NST) in SP DC. He also provided support to the lateral prediction team in the geological exploration department of the company. In 1983 Kehinde was transferred to SPDC-Warri as a senior petrophysicist in charge of operational activities in the division. In 1994 he was appointed the divisional petrophysicist responsible for the Northern Swamp operation of SPDC-W. In 1998 Kehinde Joined the management team of the then community development department of SPDC-W as head of the newly constituted Education Section, where he was charged with the responsibility to implement the company’s education initiatives for their host communities. He held this position until his retirement in 2005.

Kehinde Kuyinu has been a member of both the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and Professional Well Log Analysts (SPWLA) for over 25 years. Much of his petrophysical engineering work was proprietary to Shell and was kept confidential.