1. AndrewSquires P.Eng. Oil CareerBIO
Since starting his petroleum career with Dome Petroleum in 1984, Mr. Squires has spent the past
30+ years working in all aspects of the energy industry . From designing and manufacturing
equipment , production/operations optimization, facility/plantoperations, engineering and
business consulting, senior and executive level management, BODpublic and private, company
founder . He has workedfor and consulted globally to numerous U.S. and foreign oil companies
such as Exxon, AERA, Mobil, BP,Pioneer, Dominion, Caltex, PEMEX,Pertamina,Devonand many
others. His workfor these companies has covered conventional,cold and thermal heavy oil
recovery technology,production optimization, and commercial play development. A noted
authority on conventional heavy oil production, his field workand paper on cold heavy oil sand
production mechanisms resulted in a fundamental change in the understanding of primary heavy
oil production and its recovery process, particularly concerning wormholes and CHOPS.
Andrew has been instrumental in the foundation and building of public and private companies in
recent years through enabling major asset development projects, creativejoint agreements
capitalizing on the development of proprietary technologies, and successful private financings in
the hundreds of millions of dollars.
He is one of the 4 founding members of OSUM Oil Sands Corp., a multi- billion dollar marketcap
Canadian private oil sands company formed in 2006. Andrew is also currently an advisor to or a
director forthe boards of several energy and resource companies and is a member of the SPE ,
Canadian Heavy Oil Association, Petroleum Society of the CIM and a practicing member of the
Association of Professional Engineers and Geophysicists of Alberta.