Our Team

President of Viking Engineering

Jorge Garduno has a broad range of experience in the oil industry with the majority of his experience in deepwater developments and specializes in the areas of Subsea Well Operations, Production Engineering, Flow Assurance, Subsea Engineering, and Operations Readiness. He leads Viking's strategic plans and firm's direction as well as integration with GATE Energy.

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Independent Subject Matter Expert

Peter is a consulting engineer for Viking Engineering and specializes in mechanical and thermal analysis of drilling and completion equipment. Mr. Erpelding is heavily involved in engineering projects involving deepwater, high pressure, high temperature, and highly corrosive reservoirs. 

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Engineering Manager | Renewables & Special Projects

Parveen Sachdeva has over 18 years of oilfield experience. His expertise is in critical well design, flow assurance modeling and thermal analysis of wellbore heat transfer.

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Director | Well Engineering

Barry has over 20 years of oil and gas experience, primarily working as a lead / senior drilling engineer over a variety of campaigns and rig types including land rigs, jack-ups, semi-submersibles, and drillships. His engineering experience spans across both conventional and unconventional designs and operational practices including deepwater, shelf, and horizontal drilling. 

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Independent Subject Matter Expert

George E. King is a Registered Professional Engineer with 50 years of continuous oilfield experience starting with Amoco in 1971. He has held senior engineering positions in Amoco, BP, Rimrock Energy, and Apache Corp. He currently researches and consults on well interventions, casing deformation, fracture-driven interactions, unconventional resources completions, and shut-in/start-up operations. He has presented over 100 technical papers, podcasts, webinars, and book chapters.

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Senior Well Design Engineer

Khalid Hasan, P.E., is a tubular design specialist with more than 22 years of experience supporting complex well design in both Offshore & Onshore environment. He has designed numerous deepwater, HPHT wells around the world. His career includes over 14 years with Hess Corporation as a tubular design Subject Matter Expert (SME) and Technical Authority (TA).

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Failure Investigations Manager

Alvaro Chan, P.E., is a Materials and Mechanical Engineering Consultant with Viking Engineering and brings more than 25 years of experience in metallurgy, materials engineering, failure analysis, laboratory testing, and technical consulting. Throughout his career, he has supported the energy industry in engineering, product development, asset integrity, and operational reliability roles across North and South America.

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Engineering Manager | Materials, Corrosion & Integrity

Bruce has over 40 years of experience in materials, corrosion, and asset integrity engineering within the oil and gas industry. His career spans both research and field application, with a strong focus on materials selection, corrosion management, and system-level integrity across offshore and onshore facilities.

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Failure Investigation Manager

Neil has over 30 years of experience in metallurgical engineering, corrosion, and failure analysis, supporting oil and gas, chemical, power generation, and industrial clients worldwide.

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Discipline Lead – Protective Coatings

Peter Leaf has over 25 years of experience in construction and engineering, serving clients on a variety of projects ranging from the development of specifications to materials and corrosion technical assurance through all phases of major capital projects.

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Engineering Manager | Production & Reservoir

Nelson is a Chemical and Petroleum Engineer with more than 20 years of experience. Nelson started his career as a Field Operations Engineer in Colombia and later moved to the USA working with ScandPower Petroleum Technology (now part of Schlumberger), GATE, and currently Viking Engineering. His experience includes onshore and offshore projects worldwide.

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Operations Manager

Erika Alvarez is an operations, engineering, and project management professional with over 19 years of experience spanning engineering design, supply chain analysis, project delivery, production management, quality management, and organizational improvement.

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Operations Manager | Quality Assurance

Nick is a quality professional who has been in the quality arena for more than 14 years. He currently holds certifications as an AWS Certified Welding Inspector and ASQ Certified Quality Inspector. Additionally, previously held his NACE CIP Level 1 and NDE Level II MT, PT, and UT Level 1.

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Wellhead & Tree Discipline Lead

Mr. Blank is a Professional Engineer with over 38 years’ experience in the design, manufacture, and installation of surface and subsea completion equipment.

Engineering Manager | Viking Digital Services

Sampath Bukkaraju is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Texas with over 16 years of experience in the management and execution of deep water, shallow water and onshore projects in GoM, Permian, South Texas, West Africa, Caribbean Waters and Offshore Brazil.

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Facilities & Systems Engineering Manager

Deodath Mahase, P.E., MBA, PMP, is Facilities & Systems Engineering Manager at Viking Engineering, where he is growing Viking’s facilities, systems engineering, asset management, and operations readiness capabilities in support of brownfield and greenfield capital projects across the upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors.

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Topsides Operations Senior Advisor

Howard has 38 years of work experience, with 15 years in Petrochemical Industry in process and project design roles. For the last 23 years, he has been in Oil and Gas consulting roles with the 12 years being involved specifically in Systems Engineering.

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