David Weldon

In 1980 I started working for the original manufacturer of the Rock-Eval® instrument (Delsi, Inc.) covering the Western Hemisphere of the world for all Installation and support related issues. Later I became the manager of the service department for Delsi-Nermag handling Rock-Evals®, Gas Chromatographs and research grade quadruple Mass Spectrometer (GCMS) support. I specialized in computer data systems which included the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-8 and PDP-11 minicomputers. I designed and programmed the first Rock Eval® Data System, REDS which was used to capture, store and generate text and graphic geochemical reports. After Delsi shut down their operation in Houston in 1991, I went to work for Humble Instruments & Services and was in charge of new instrument development as well as support for existing systems within Humble together with international customer locations. My responsibilities at Humble encompassed developing instruments and software applications. Developed such scientific instruments as the MACT10 Compositional Kinetics instrument, Smart Cryo cryogenic focusing device and the Source Rock Analyzer (equivalent of Rock-Eval®). I also designed and implemented a Geochemical Nigerian laboratory.

In 2007 Humble Instruments was bought out by Weatherford Laboratories and there I supervised a team consisting of engineers, geoscientists and software developers. While working for Weatherford Laboratories I performed numerous installations of instruments in laboratories around the globe including Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Egypt, Canada, Malaysia, China, Russia, Germany and Norway. I also organized and conducted technical workshops and training for clients and internal personnel related to various instrumentation including the Source Rock Analyzer, Thermal Extraction Pyrolysis Inlet, Cryo Focusing Device and the MSSV inlet. Co-authored several papers including "Onsite pyrolysis – using new real-time technology to evaluate reservoir properties" which was presented at the 24th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (IMOG), September 6th to 11th, 2009 in Bremen, Germany.

In November 2010, David was hired by Wildcat as President and Lead Engineer for a
new pyrolysis instrument, HAWK.