 Roger Pilkington, PhD
Expertise
- Ice observation, forecasting and analysis services to support
operations of offshore petroleum exploration, transportation and
production projects
- Design of specialized software, instrumentation and analytical
techniques for sea-ice
- Creation, promotion, design, management and execution of sea-ice
research projects
- Management of engineering consulting firms focussing on applied
research and operations support
Experience
Following his Ph.D. work and a Post Doctoral Fellowship in Germany, Roger
commenced working with an Arctic consulting company in 1973. In 1975
he joined Dome Petroleum, a company which pioneered drilling with ships in
the ice covered waters of the Beaufort Sea. His work there involved
operational support of drill ships, R&D in ice, ice forecasting, and field
projects to learn more about the ice conditions in the arctic and extending
the use of the drillships. Roger was responsible for the
instrumentation of the first artificial island which resulted in the
development of several novel pressure measuring systems. In 1983 Roger
joined Gulf, where he was Supervisor of Systems Support; namely Gulf's new
circular drillship and the bottom founded Molikpaq. In 1988, Roger and
3 colleagues started Canatec. For the past 9 years, Roger has been
part of a team of Canadians and Russians that has worked in the Sea of
Okhotsk to assist Shell with their oil production operations in ice covered
waters. In 2004, he was part of an international team that drilled a
432m core out of the Lomonosov Ridge, about 120 miles from the North Pole.
The Ice Team, of which Roger was a part, made the geotechnical operations
�routine� despite continuously moving ice over 3m thick. Roger has
been involved in numerous operations support projects and in house studies
of the ice conditions in the north. He has developed an ice display
software package, which is being well used by industry. He has over 30
publications and holds 6 patents.
Education
Ph.D. Upper Atmosphere Physics, U of Calgary, 1970
M.Sc. Upper Atmosphere Physics, U of Calgary, 1965
B. Sc. (hons) Physics, Imperial College of Science and Technology,
London, Eng, 1962
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