Our Team

Pajak Engineering Ltd. has spent decades finding the right personnel and management to make our team one of the best in the industry. Learn more about the people that make Pajak great.

Mickey Sutherland B.Sc., P.Eng. 
President, CEO and Manager of Projects
 

Mickey Sutherland has been working since 1976 in the oil and gas industry, starting as a roughneck on a drilling rig.
Mickey graduated from Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology in 1976. He worked as an operations engineer prior to forming a turnkey drilling operation that provided services in Canada and the United States. In 1984, Mickey joined Anderson Exploration and was their manager of drilling and completions from 1988 through to 1996. He subsequently joined Pajak as project manager and vice- president.

Mickey has extensive foothills and N.W.T. drilling experience along with multi-rig project management experience both in Canada and internationally. He has been a member of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta since 1979.

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George Myette
International Business Development
 

George has over thirty years' experience on drilling rigs, drilling tools, directional drilling. He has over 15 years' experience in the coiled tubing industry. George worked in England for Kenting Drilling and Venezuela for Dowell Schlumberger Directional Services. He was president of Flextube Inc./Matrix Well Services from 1989 through to 1997 and joined Pajak in 1999.

George is a graduated from Mount Royal College in 1975 with diploma in Applied Social Sciences. He is a member of various industry associations, including the Drilling and Completions Committee and the International Coiled Tubing Association.

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Barry Rookes
Senior Business Development & Technical Sales

Over thirty years of oilfield experience in Western Canada, including eighteen years working in the field with a major E&P company and eight years in a technical sales capacity with specialty Service/Engineering companies. Barry has extensive experience in production operations, optimization and workover design, specializing in remedial stimulations. Pajak has challenged Barry with supporting and developing the Completions Engineering Services and initiating industry awareness of our Production Engineering Services.

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Kirk Cottrell
International Marketing / Business Development Consultant

Kirk brings Pajak’s clients nineteen years of oil and gas service sector experience in a varied range of progressive roles. Beginning with an educational background in business and marketing as well as technical diplomas from SAIT Poly in drilling and completion discipline, Kirk progressed through field technical, sales /business development and management roles for privately held and multinational service companies in Canada and abroad.

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Gerry Edwards
Directional Drilling Advisor
 

Gerry has over fifty years of directional drilling experience throughout Western Canada, Canadian Arctic Islands, offshore / onshore Eastern Canada, Middle East, Europe, Soviet Union and West Africa. He is familiar with open hole / cased hole directional drilling operations, surface and underground mining directional drilling applications, drilled pipeline river crossings and other uses of controlled well bore trajectory. He owned and operated Whipstock Systems Inc. (a directional drilling service provider) for 20 years.

Gerry attended University of Regina where he studied mathematics and physics. Additional training includes Drilling Practices School by Dr. Preston Moore; Optimized Drilling by Frank Cole and Horizontal Drilling Technology by Frank Schuh. He is a current member of CIM and SPE and past secretary of Canadian Drilling Research Association.

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Colin Stang P.Eng., B.Sc.
Drilling Engineer

Ten years of industrial project management experience in Alberta and the Northwest Territories. Graduated from the engineering co-op program at the University of Alberta in 1997. Worked as a project engineer with ATCO Electric following graduation. Joined the Northwest Territories Power Corporation in 1999 as a civil engineer and project manager. Started with Pajak Engineering Ltd in 2006. Colin has experience managing multiple projects and is familiar with the land use regulations and unique logistical constraints encountered in the Northwest Territories. He is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA) and the Northwest Territories Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists (NAPEGG).

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Cory Thibert
Business Development / Recruitment

"I am an entrepreneur at heart and my career has taken many shapes and forms over the last 15 years before coming to Pajak Engineering Ltd. I am a business development professional and my core skill is connecting with people and bringing them together. This is something in today's age of iphones, BBM, facebook and email I feel we have forgotten how to do. I come to Pajak with over nine years of experience working within the Canadian Energy Industry, five years of Technical Sales and 4 years as a Business Development consultant, with a track record of producing results for several national and international organizations."

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