The AWT Team

Board of Directors

CAMERON MANIFOLD – Managing Director

Graduating from Queensland University in 1985, Cameron has gained in excess of 18 years experience in the upstream oil and gas industry. Commencing initially with Australian onshore oil and gas fields and moving to the offshore industry in 1988, Cameron has extensive experience in oil and gas field development, particularly in sub-sea developments. He has worked both onshore and offshore in Australia , S.E.Asia, Africa and the UK and has complimentary broader skills in Reservoir, Petroleum and Production Engineering. Cameron has specific expertise in horizontal well completion design and intervention technology.

In November 1996, Cameron co-founded the Advanced Well Technologies (AWT) consulting engineering group to provide quality Petroleum Engineering Services to the Australasian region.

In addition to technical responsibilities on a series of projects, Cameron is Managing Director for AWT. He also serves as director on the boards of several companies both within Australia and the United Kingdom . In 2002, in recognition of the capabilities and growth of the organization, Cameron was a recipient of the Business News’ award as one of the top 40 businessmen under 40 years of age in Western Australia.

DOMINIC BRUEHWILER – Executive Director

Dominic Bruehwiler joined BHP Petroleum in 1990. During his 7 years with them, Dominic reached the position of lead engineer and was involved in the planning and execution of workovers and completions on all BHP Petroleum's Timor Sea and North West Shelf operations. He was also involved in all aspects of exploration well testing in these regions. Following this, he transferred to the Production Department in Darwin where he was the Senior Production Engineer for all three Timor Sea FPSO's (Challis, Skua, Jabiru) and later for Griffin Venture on the NWS.

Dominic joined Advanced Well Technologies in February 1997 and after working on an initial contract with BHP Petroleum moved on to various projects for well testing and completions contracts with numerous operating companies in Perth. Dominic returned to the AWT office as Director Operations and currently co-ordinates the work of some 50 engineering staff within AWT while also project managing some projects for the company.

Dominic can be contacted at dominicb@awtgroup.net

KEVIN LAY – Executive Director

Kevin Lay joined BHP Petroleum in Melbourne as a graduate in 1982 and held a number of positions in Australia and Vietnam with roles in production operations, reservoir engineering, well services, well testing, completions engineering, production technology and asset management. In 1996, Kevin departed BHPB and co-founded AWT and performed consultancy work for a number of clients in Australia and Asia .

Kevin is currently consulting to BHPB as their Completions Engineering Supervisor based in Perth , Western Australia . In his current role, Kevin is responsible for the planning and operational aspects of the company's well completion activities in the Australia/Asia region.

Kevin has authored and co-authored several SPE papers in the fields of Completion and Subsea Engineering.

Kevin can be contacted at kevlay@awtgroup.net

JOHN URE – Executive Director

John Ure is a practicing Petroleum Engineer, born and educated in Edinburgh, Scotland. He holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, a Masters' degree in Petroleum Engineering and has 22 years diverse experience in the oil and gas business. He spent the first half of his career working in the North Sea , gaining experience in reservoir and production engineering with Britoil, Marathon Oil (UK) Ltd and Amerada Hess.

From 1990 to 1996, John operated as an independent consultant Production Technologist/Completions Engineer, working with Woodside Energy in Perth , Australia , Petroleum Development Oman and Brunei Shell Petroleum. He also spent over three years working for Ampolex/Mobil on the Wandoo heavy oil field development, focussing on completion design and sand control. In 1996, John co-founded Advanced Well Technologies in Perth , and through AWT, has continued to consult to a variety of companies in the Asia Pacific region. Currently John is focussing on the delivery of a field development plan for a UK North Sea discovery.

John can be contacted at ure@awtgroup.net