Viking’s Mission
Viking Engineering will continue to provide the energy industry with the most thorough design and analysis solutions that meet our customer’s needs from initial pre-planning through abandonment. To accomplish this we will:
Fully understand the client’s needs, challenges, and timing to meet their expectations.
Seek only the most qualified and experienced engineers and support staff while encouraging leadership development.
Foster continuous personal improvement via company and industry training and access to the latest technologies.
Provide a collaborative, professional, and fit-for-purpose work environment including an option for working from home or on the road.
Strive to continually improve based on client feedback, benchmarking every phase of our business, and understanding our competition.
Maintain and grow our client base of operators and manufacturers by fostering personal relationships to develop well-engineered answers to our client’s needs.
Viking’s Footprint
Our engineers have worked all over the world both onshore and offshore. Viking principals have each worked for over twenty-five years with major and independent operators. We're ready to take on your toughest challenges.
Our History
Viking Engineering's history began in August, 2001 when Bob Moe and Carl Johnson combined their oilfield experience of over 55 years to offer consulting services to the industry. After being exposed to “downhole” engineering as practiced at several major and independent oil companies, they felt that linking their varied backgrounds and expertise would be a formula for success.
From deepwater well design off Eastern Canada to tubular optimization and testing for a major Gulf of Mexico deepwater project to the development of a new completion configuration for South Texas, Viking is involved in many of the industry's leading projects. We also provide training throughout the world and hold focused training session for various operating companies. In addition to having a world-class downhole materials and failure analysis team, Viking is a strong believer in applying lessons learned from our failure analysis group back to the design phases and into field practices via our quality assurance and engineering teams.
If you have a challenging prospect in your future, consider Viking for planning and design, asset integrity, operation readiness, risk assessment and optimization and troubleshooting assistance, as well as training needs.
As of June 2023, Viking is now a 100% employee-owned Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) operated as a trust for the benefit of its employees.
What Does 100% Employee-Owned ESOP mean for Our Clients?
The ESOP marks the turning of a critical page in the history of GATE Energy and the family of companies that it represents. We are now a new business, with new owners, whose formation has opened new possibilities for how we do our work and how we plan and build for the future. GATE Energy and Viking see ownership as a key motivational and alignment tool for employees and management. An ESOP also:
Incentivizes employees to see the business grow and prosper
Aligns with our values and a people-first culture
Rewards employees at all levels
Ensures everyone across all companies and the globe is aligned with what is best for all
From a client's perspective, the value of working with an ESOP company entails having staff with a true sense of ownership, continuity of top talent, continuous improvement, commitment to safety, collaboration, and quality delivery. All employees have a stake in the future growth of the company, staying true to our values, and building dedicated clients. The ESOP is a powerful tool to retain top talent and continue to grow through the energy transition.
Viking’s Integrated Management System Policy
Our Key Team Members
We have assembled a team of some of the best well engineering experts.
