Mr. Kelly Hunter has joined INTERA as Sr. Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). In this role, he will lead INTERA’s corporate sales strategy, teaming negotiations and sales generation activities for federal clients (US Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and Army Corps of Engineers) and support the company’s line of business sales leads in developing and executing business development strategies consistent with corporate and LOB goals and objectives. “Kelly is a highly respected, seasoned business-development professional in our industry. His integrity, values, and expertise in strategic pursuits are a few of the many reasons we are thrilled to have him join the company’s executive team,” said Marsh Lavenue, INTERA’s President & CEO. “I believe he sees an opportunity to make a significant difference in the growth of each of our lines of business.” Prior to joining INTERA, Mr. Hunter held similar senior-level business development positions at Waste Control Specialists, Columbia Energy, and Areva.
Continue ReadingINTERA Acquires CR Petroleum Optimization Technologies Inc.
May 23, 2016. INTERA has acquired CR Petroleum Optimization Technologies Inc. to expand the company’s capabilities in the energy sector. Also based in Austin, Texas, CR Petroleum Optimization Technologies provides production optimization services and software to the oil and gas industry. CR Petroleum Optimization Technologies’ software combines data-driven analytics with physical reservoir engineering principles to increase profitability of oil recovery projects by identifying inefficiencies in operations for conventional and unconventional applications. The software is based on the Capacitance Resistance Modeling (CRM) algorithm developed by Dr. Larry W. Lake, co-founder of the company and holder of the Sharon and Shahid Ullah Endowed Chair in Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.
Mr. Emilio Núñez, Assistant Director of Research Relations at The University of Texas at Austin, and Dr. Lake formed CR Petroleum Optimization Technologies in 2010 to commercialize the CRM optimization software and provide reservoir engineering services to industry clients. “CRM is uniquely positioned as a technology to optimize reservoir performance using data that are already being measured and reported without the need for prior geologic characterization or any additional data collection,” said Dr. Lake.
“INTERA began as an offshoot of a petroleum reservoir consulting company in 1974 but we are more widely known as a groundwater consulting firm. CR Petroleum Optimization Technologies’ expertise identifies the changes needed to increase oil production while minimizing the use of water, a perfect fit for a company like ours,” said Marsh Lavenue, INTERA’s president and CEO. The acquisition is part of a larger growth strategy INTERA set out several years ago. The company is currently in discussions with several other US firms about potential acquisitions.
As part of the transaction, CR Petroleum Optimization Technologies has changed its name to INTERA Petroleum Consultants (INTERA Petroleum) and will operate as a subsidiary of INTERA. Lake will serve as INTERA Petroleum’s Chief Technology Officer and provide technical leadership for reservoir engineering projects. Núñez will serve as Vice President of Technical Services. Ms. Kimberly Gordon, a Principal Engineer and Geoscientist at INTERA for the past two years, will serve as Vice President of Business Development for INTERA Petroleum.
Continue ReadingVisit INTERA at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s 2016 Environmental Trade Fair and Conference
Stop by booth #308 and visit INTERA at the Environmental Trade Fair and Conference (ETFC) being held May 3-4, 2016 at the Austin Convention Center. The ETFC is Texas’ premier environmental education forum featuring topics such as waste management, air quality, and many more. INTERA will be highlighting our environmental site investigation and remediation services.
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INTERA’s Rob Sengebush Publishes Article on Coastal Aquifer in California
INTERA’s Robert “Rob” Sengebush recently co-authored an article on the history and groundwater quality of an alluvial aquifer in the lower San Diego River Valley. Published in the November 2015 edition of Environmental & Engineering Geoscience, the article presents a hypothesis describing the Quaternary history of the Valley based on similar histories elsewhere along the southern Californian coastline and evidence from borehole logs and cores collected in the valley. The hypothesized history is then used to explain the occurrence of brackish groundwater quality in the Quaternary-age alluvial deposits and the deeper, Eocene-age sedimentary rocks beneath the Valley. The purpose of the article is to identify the background groundwater quality in the Valley in order to bring closure to the remediation of a large fuel release from the Mission Valley Terminal. Once demonstrated that the remediation efforts have restored background groundwater quality conditions, the City of San Diego’s goal is to re-develop this groundwater resource.
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