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Thomas K. Hohn, P.E.
Sr. Registered Petroleum Engineer
Manager/Owner
Specialties: Reservoir engineering, property evaluation, property acquisitions, field operations, drilling and well completions, project management
Mr. Hohn is a registered professional engineer who has been active in Northern Rocky Mountain region since the late 80’s. He graduated from Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology in Butte, Montana with a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering in 1974. His career includes 4 years with Unocal in Southern California offshore and onshore operations, 6 years with Petro Lewis Corp in all phases of engineering and operations management throughout the domestic industry. He has been an independent consulting petroleum engineer since 1984. He has extensive experience in property operation and management, property evaluation, reservoir engineering, project management and field operations. Over the last 15 years he has worked extensively in the shallow gas plays of the Northern Rockies. He has personally drilled and/or completed in excess of 600 shallow gas wells, as well as planned and managed several programs for a wide variety of clients. His extensive and unique combination of experience in all phases of petroleum engineering, corporate management, and hands-on field operations make him one of the leading experts in Northern Rockies gas exploration and development. In 1999, he founded Hohn Engineering, PLLC, a full service Petroleum Engineering firm in Billings, Montana. Mr. Hohn is a Registered Professional Petroleum Engineer in the States of Montana and Oklahoma.
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Monte R. Besler
Sr. Associate Petroleum Engineer
Specialties: Well completions, stimulation design, fluid and reservoir chemistry.
Mr. Besler has 22 years of experience in the industry with extensive Williston Basin and Montana knowledge and experience. He spent over 18 years in the oilfield service business, primarily with Halliburton, and 4 years with Amerada Hess as a production engineer in the Williston Basin. His focus has been to maximize economic production of oil and natural gas wells by creatively utilizing available and emerging technology. He has substantial experience in the drilling, completion, production evaluation, and stimulation of horizontal wellbores. He has been instrumental in developing new solutions to old problems throughout the Northern Rockies. Examples include an acid stimulation program for horizontal open-hole laterals and vertical saltwater disposal wells, now considered a standard practice in the Williston Basin; a new acid system for use in sour wells; a hydraulic fracturing fluid system and process that has become the accepted standard for shallow natural gas reservoirs throughout much of Williston Basin and Montana. Monte is an industry recognized expert in hydraulic fracturing and acidizing. He has authored ten published technical articles, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. Mr. Besler graduated from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology with a BS degree in Geological Engineering.
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Justin Hohn
Associate Engineer
Specialties: Project supervision and coordination, field operations, drilling and well completions, pipeline design and construction, SCADA and flow computers, well testing and data acquisition.
Mr. Hohn is currently working towards his PE in petroleum engineering after passing his fundamentals of engineering exam in October of 2002. He graduated from Montana Tech in Butte, Montana with a Bachelor of Science degree in General Engineering with emphasis on Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering in May of 2003. His career began with Baker Oil Tools in Corpus Christi Texas where he gained one year's worth of experience with wellhead equipment, surface safety systems, and subsurface safety systems. During his stay with Baker, Mr. Hohn designed and constructed several pneumatic and hydraulic compressor control panels for clients. In July of 2004, Mr. Hohn moved back to Montana to assume an associate engineering role with Hohn Engineering. While working with Hohn Engineering, Mr. Hohn has been exposed to all phases of project management and planning for gas well development including: well evaluation, completion procedures, permitting, drilling design and communications system design. In addition, he has been active in the design and construction of natural gas pipelines.
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Brian Hohn
Associate Engineer
Specialties: Environmental permitting, field operations, drilling and well completions, project management, well testing and data acquisition.
Brian has a BS in Petroleum Engineering from Montana Tech. Since joining Hohn Engineering in the fall of 2005, Brian has done project management for drilling operations, work over operations and completions. Brian also conducts environmental audits of existing facilities for compliance with State and Federal regulations.
Brian has over 16 years of experience in the Environmental field, primarily in the Air Quality media. Brian has spent eight years with the Montana Department of Environmental Quality as an environmental specialist in both air quality compliance and rule development, most recently Brian worked with the oil and gas industry to develop administrative rules that acted as a permit shield for producers to complete wells prior to obtaining a Montana Air Quality permit. Brian also spent eight years as an environmental engineer and industrial hygienist in the primary aluminum smelting industry. His duties included compliance management of the air, water, hazardous waste and industrial hygiene activities of a 600 employee facility.
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Bill Froman
Field Supervisor
Specialties: Project management and planning, drilling, well completions, workovers, well operations.
Bill has nearly 50 years of experience in the oilfield – from roughneck, to owner of his own drilling and production companies, to oilfield consultant. Early in his career, Bill worked for several different drilling contractors throughout the United States, beginning as a roughneck and progressing to tool pusher. He founded Froman Drilling Company in 1977. Under his ownership and management the company drilled thousands of shallow gas wells throughout the Northern Rocky Mountain region. The company started with one rig and had grown to five rigs when he sold the company in 1977. He then founded Blue Diamond Petroleum. This company drilled and operated oil and gas wells in the Northern Rocky Mountain region until 1989. In that year, Bill began consulting as a wellsite field supervisor. Bill has worked for numerous operators on all types of projects throughout the Rockies. Montana projects include several multi-well and multi-rig shallow gas drilling programs, well completions, pipelining, and production supervision and management. He has supervised deep well drilling, completions, and workovers in Northern Colorado and Northwestern Wyoming. He has successfully managed and supervised several exploratory wells along the Northern Rocky Mountain front, areas known for tough drilling and difficult logistics. Bill has extensive experience with coil tubing and its applications for completions, workovers, and production on shallow gas wells. Bill’s wealth of experience, his energy, and his ability to plan and execute a project are tremendous assets to any project.
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Bill Keel
Field Supervisor
Biography Coming Soon
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