Blackbird Energy has appointed Craig Wiebe to the position of vice president, Exploration. Prior to this appointment, Wiebe held the position of consulting geologist with Blackbird. Ralph Allen, previous vice president, Exploration has moved to the role of vice president, Geoscience, providing a key role in working with Wiebe on the company’s exploration projects.
Wiebe is a professional geologist with over 20 years’ exploration and development experience, the majority being in unconventional resource plays. Wiebe was responsible for establishing a dominant position in a multi-TCF gas play for a major oil and gas exploration and production company, as well as co-founding a successful start-up company that was one of the first to develop the Montney with horizontal multi-stage fracs.