Ken Travis, President & CEO

Lyle Filliol, Senior Vice President

Lyle began working in the Canadian Oil and Gas Industry on the drilling rigs in 1969. In 1980 he left his position as driller and moved into Drill Stem Testing. Eleven years later Lyle was named division manager for Grande Prairie, Alberta for Alpine Testers. In 1995, Lyle was promoted to Division Manager for Canadian Operations. He was also responsible for quality control, prototyping and development of new products.

He later moved to a new JCP Company founded by the Alpine principals and was named General Manager. This company was responsible for the development of a new line of Rotating Blow-Out Preventers (RBOP's) and other tools associated with the Underbalanced Drilling (UBD) market. In 1998, another spin off, Transglobal, was created and Lyle was named the President and CEO, where he continued to develop the Underbalanced (UBD) products and worked closely with the Houston Engineering Group to develop new technologies, such as the Down Hole Deployment Valve.

In 2000, Weatherford acquired Alpine and all its affiliates, and Lyle continued in the area of product design and development within the Cardium Group of Weatherford. Lyle now uses his years of related experience as acting VP for Strata Energy.

Mike Hudon, Vice President

Mike began production testing in 1989 in the Alberta oil patch. He gained experience and worked his way up to supervisor in four years. Until 1996, he supervised Production and Underbalanced Projects for Foremost Energy Systems. Then Mike gained valuable international experience working for Halliburton, well testing offshore in West Africa and Trinidad.

In 1999, he started a role as a well testing and Underbalanced Drilling Supervisor for Alpine Oil Services. After Alpine was acquired by Weatherford in 2001, Mike stayed in this position until 2003. He carried on to fulfill the position of Equipment Manager for Weatherford and traveled internationally again to work in Portugal, Mexico, Venezuela and Indonesia. He also spent time working for Devon Canada as Rig-site Manager before Mike was brought on to join the Strata team as the General Manager for the Underbalanced Drilling (UBD) and Production division in 2004.

Jason Scheyen, Chief Financial Officer

After a career as a teacher, Jason returned to the University of Alberta in 2001 and completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree. Prior to going back to school, Jason worked in various capacities in the education field, and was executive director of a not for profit organization. After graduating with a commerce degree, Jason was employed with a major international accounting firm until he joined Strata in 2007. In Calgary, he worked mostly with oil & gas producers and service companies and received a CA designation. While working at PricewaterhouseCoopers he also earned a Masters of Professional Accounting degree (2005) from the University of Saskatchewan. Jason has also passed level II of the CFA program, and has completed the Canadian Securities Course.

Jason Skoreyko, Canadian Sales & Marketing

Jason began his career in the oil and gas industry in 1993 working his way up to Motorman. In 1994 Jason returned to school at the University of Alberta, where he completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Finance and Marketing

After graduation Jason Spent 5 years teaching and coaching hockey in Japan. He returned to Canada to join Strata Energy Services Inc in the position of Canadian Sales and Marketing in 2006.

With 8 years of sales and marketing experience, broad knowledge and experience in intercultural and interpersonal communication, his educational background and ongoing industry-specific education, Jason has proven to be a valuable asset as Strata continues its growth both domestically and internationally.

Stewart Wilson, Manufacturing Manager

Stewart started his career in the oil and gas industry in 1998 after 11 years as a licensed Automotive Mechanic. He initially worked for Foremost Energy Systems, a Production Testing and Underbalanced Drilling company. In 2000, he moved on to Alpine and gained international experience working in Mexico. After Alpine was bought out by Weatherford in 2001, Stewart remained and gained further international experience working in Portugal. Stewart, now a Drill Site Supervisor with Weatherford, was overseeing all aspects of their Underbalanced Drilling operations in Canada and internationally in Thailand and Singapore.

Stewart parted ways with Weatherford in 2005 to join Strata Energy as a Senior Underbalanced Drilling Supervisor. There, he continued his career in the field working all over Canada and Australia. In 2007, Stewart accepted the position of Manufacturing Manager with Strata, where he is responsible for the design and manufacturing of equipment. His extensive knowledge and experience of underbalanced drilling makes him a definite asset to the company and his expertise will assist in the expansion of Strata’s presence in the Global Oil and Gas Market.

Fred Jones, Operations Manager

Fred began his career in 1994 as a production tester in the Oil and Gas industry with Northland Energy. He worked his way to Supervisor in 1999, supervising crews for all aspects of production testing and Underbalanced Drilling. He gained valuable Underbalanced Drilling experience in northern Alberta, British Columbia, and in Venezuela. In 2000, he took on a new role as HSE coordinator for Precision Drilling (TSG group) before joining Weatherford UBS as Operations Manager in 2004 for their production testing division. There he was responsible for day-to-day operations of more than 40 employees.

In 2006, he took on a new challenge as Operations Manager for a new company before joining Strata Energy’s team as Operations Manger in 2008. Fred, with his long experience managing Underbalanced Drilling Service Operations, is another valuable addition to the Strata team.

David Speed, Country Manager USA

Dave began working in the Canadian Oil & Gas industry in 1976 as a field operator in the Production Testing industry. Ten years later Dave was promoted to Operations Manager for a Central Alberta testing company that grew from a staff of 20 to in excess of 150 field personnel. In 1993, Dave was promoted to VP of Operations for the same company and was in charge of operations both in Canada and abroad. In 1998 the company was purchased by a large Canadian drilling contractor, where he stayed on as Global Advisor until 2008.

In 2002, Dave moved to a large multinational service company and worked and lived in various international locations until 2006, when he took on the role of Global Training Manager and developed the training materials for UBD, Production Testing, Compression, Membrane Nitrogen and Rotating Control Heads. 

Scott Cooper, HSE Manager

Scott’s safety experience began seven years ago while working for a concrete company as the employee representative on the Joint Health & Safety Committee. His interests in this career has lead him to work towards the Occupational Health & Safety Certification from the University of Alberta, to be completed in 2007, as well as the designation of Certified and Registered Safety Professional (CRSP), recognized nationally and internationally. While working in the construction industry Scott completed courses required to design and implement safety programs for companies that desire to obtain their Certificate of Recognition (COR).

Scott looks forward to supplying the safety needs of Strata Energy Services Inc. by providing current training and leadership in hazard identification, evaluation, and control. He is committed to the principles of loss control, accident prevention, and environmental protection.

Gordon McIvor, Country Manager Mexico

Gord started in the oilfield in the early 90’s with Nowsco Well Services and moved to international projects in the mid 90’s in Ecuador as Project Coordinator for the City Investing project in the Amazon Jungle. Gord moved to Casanare, Colombia as Well Intervention Services cell leader with Schlumberger looking after CT and Nitrogen services for BP. Gord was then assigned as the Schlumberger Service Quality Manager for Mexico North based in Reynosa Tamaulipas Mexico, moving from the assignment in the North to ultimately become the Service Quality Manager for Mexico and Central America. This allowed for client visits and business development in Guatemala as well as Nicaragua. 

Gord then moved to line management as the Field Service Manager for Well Intervention Services in Mexico Marine based in Ciudad del Carmen and watched over the extensive growth there, moving from 15 employees to a final headcount of 140 personnel. From Mexico Marine Gord went to Russia to take on the Service Quality role again, this time at the area level and being responsible for the newly designated Russian geomarket. 

After a few years in Russia, Gord moved to West Africa, specifically Angola as Sclumberger Well Services Country Manager where he spent another two years. Gord left the SLB group of companies and worked independently for a year before accepting the assignment with Strata. We are confident Gord’s wealth of experience and the relationships he has developed in his time in our industry will be invaluable to Strata’s continued growth in Mexico and Central and South America.