Jorge Garduno
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.
Phone: 281.870.8455
Hesketh Streeter
Executive Vice President
Hesketh is an international C Level Oil and Gas executive who has 47 years of knowledge and expertise in all sectors of the industry. He focuses on the future strategic direction, senior client management interaction, and integration of Viking’s core service areas, to access new business opportunities. He also develops a strategic advisory, performance, and risk management unit to complement the Viking expert technical capability that delivers reliable, innovative, and cost-effective solutions to challenging operational and integrity issues.
Phone: 281.870.8455
Peter Erpelding, P.E.
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.
Phone: 281.870.8455
Parveen Sachdeva, Ph.D.
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.
Phone: 281.870.8455
Barry Cresap, P.E.
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.
Phone: 281.870.8455
George King, P.E.
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.
Phone: 281.870.8455
Khalid Hasan, P.E.
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).
Phone: 281.870.8455
Jaime Avendano
Senior Drilling Engineer
Jaime Avendano is a Senior Drilling Engineer with 27 years of experience in land and offshore operations across the Gulf of Mexico, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East.
Phone: 281.870.8455
Alvaro Chan, P.E.
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.
Phone: 281.870.8455
Steve Bradley
Quality Assurance Director
Steve has over 40 years of experience working in the Upstream and Midstream sector of the Oil & Gas industry. His expertise is in drilling and completion equipment, with his specialty being in OCTG’s and threads. He has conducted Vendor Audits/Assessments for compliance to both ISO 9001 and API Q1 of many OCTG manufacturers and processors around the world.
Phone: 281.870.8455
Bruce Gordon
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.
Phone: 281.870.8455
Neil Burns
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.
Phone: 281.870.8455
Peter Leaf
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.
Phone: 281.870.8455
Nelson Osorio
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.
Phone: 281.870.8455
Erika Alvarez
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.
Phone: 281.870.8455
Nick Haddad
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.
Cesar Almazan
Lab Metallurgical Specialist
Cesar has half a decade of experience working in RD and metallurgical labs across Houston. He is currently pursuing a degree in Engineering and Material Science.
Phone: 281.870.8455
Sampath Bukkaraju, P.E.
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.
Phone: 281.870.8455
John Hillier, P.E.
Well Engineering Advisor
Professional Engineer with over 40 years of industry experience. Employers have included Exxon (2 yrs), UPRC (11 yrs), Sonat E&P (5 yrs), Devon (10 yrs) and VIKING (12 yrs). Work has been primarily related to drilling and production operations and has included assignments in both domestic and international work locations with positions ranging from staff engineer, supervisor, drilling superintendent, and drilling manager.
Phone: 281.870.8455
Carl K. Johnson
Well Engineering Advisor
Carl attended Marietta College where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering.
Phone: 281.870.8455