About Viking Engineering
Viking’s 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.
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.
Your Specialty Engineering Guides
President of Viking Engineering
Jorge Garduno has a broad range of experience in the oil industry with the majority of his experience in deepwater developments and specializes in the areas of Subsea Well Operations, Production Engineering, Flow Assurance, Subsea Engineering, and Operations Readiness. He leads Viking's strategic plans and firm's direction as well as integration with GATE Energy.
Phone: 281.870.8455
Executive Vice President
Hesketh is an international C Level Oil and Gas executive who has 47 years of knowledge and expertise in all sectors of the industry. He focuses on the future strategic direction, senior client management interaction, and integration of Viking’s core service areas, to access new business opportunities. He also develops a strategic advisory, performance, and risk management unit to complement the Viking expert technical capability that delivers reliable, innovative, and cost-effective solutions to challenging operational and integrity issues.
Phone: 281.870.8455
Quality Assurance Director
Steve has over 40 years of experience working in the Upstream and Midstream sector of the Oil & Gas industry. His expertise is in drilling and completion equipment, with his specialty being in OCTG’s and threads. He has conducted Vendor Audits/Assessments for compliance to both ISO 9001 and API Q1 of many OCTG manufacturers and processors around the world.
Phone: 281.870.2476
Operations Manager | Quality Assurance
Nick is a quality professional who has been in the quality arena for more than 14 years. He currently holds certifications as an AWS Certified Welding Inspector and ASQ Certified Quality Inspector. Additionally, previously held his NACE CIP Level 1 and NDE Level II MT, PT, and UT Level 1.
Director of Lab & Failure Investigation
Mario has over 18 years of experience in the areas of metallurgy, welding engineering, failure analysis, corrosion engineering, environmental assisted cracking, fracture mechanics, sour service fit for purpose testing and evaluation, materials specification development, and HPHT equipment materials engineering design.
Phone: 281.870.4016
Lab Metallurgical Specialist
Cesar has half a decade of experience working in RD and metallurgical labs across Houston. He is currently pursuing a degree in Engineering and Material Science.
Phone: 281.870.8455
Engineering Manager | Viking Digital Services
Sampath Bukkaraju is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Texas with over 16 years of experience in the management and execution of deep water, shallow water and onshore projects in GoM, Permian, South Texas, West Africa, Caribbean Waters and Offshore Brazil.
Engineering Manager | Well Engineering
Barry has over 18 years of oil and gas experience, primarily working as a lead / senior drilling engineer over a variety of campaigns and rig types including land rigs, jack-ups, semi-submersibles, and drillships. His engineering experience spans across both conventional and unconventional designs and operational practices including deepwater, shelf, and horizontal drilling.
Phone: 281.870.8455
Well Engineering Advisor
Professional Engineer with over 40 years of industry experience. Employers have included Exxon (2 yrs), UPRC (11 yrs), Sonat E&P (5 yrs), Devon (10 yrs) and VIKING (12 yrs). Work has been primarily related to drilling and production operations and has included assignments in both domestic and international work locations with positions ranging from staff engineer, supervisor, drilling superintendent, and drilling manager.
Phone: 281.870.8455
Engineering Manager | Materials, Corrosion & Integrity
NOLA Office Team
Bruce is a chemical and materials engineering specialist with over 40 years in the energy industry. He has worked for Shell Development and Shell Offshore in the materials and corrosion specialty and has spent the last 25 years working as a project and process consultant for both onshore and offshore developments ranging in size from a single well or vessel upgrades to many of the biggest offshore projects in the world.
Phone: 281.870.8455
Failure Investigation Manager
NOLA Office Team
Neil is a metallurgist with over 25 years of practical experience conducting failure analyses, materials assessment, and corrosion testing on a broad range of industrial and commercial equipment and components.
Phone: 281.870.8455
Discipline Lead – Protective Coatings
Peter Leaf has over 25 years of experience in construction and engineering, serving clients on a variety of projects ranging from the development of specifications to materials and corrosion technical assurance through all phases of major capital projects.
Phone: 281.870.8455
Engineering Manager | Production & Reservoir
Nelson is a Chemical and Petroleum Engineer with more than 20 years of experience. Nelson started his career as a Field Operations Engineer in Colombia and later moved to the USA working with ScandPower Petroleum Technology (now part of Schlumberger), GATE, and currently Viking Engineering. His experience includes onshore and offshore projects worldwide.
Phone: 281.870.8455
Topsides Operations Senior Advisor
Howard has 38 years of work experience, with 15 years in Petrochemical Industry in process and project design roles. For the last 23 years, he has been in Oil and Gas consulting roles with the 12 years being involved specifically in Systems Engineering.
Viking’s Integrated Management System Policy
Viking Featured Services
Viking has the expertise to help operators better understand past well failures and frac performance by working together to develop improved frac designs and execution.
Preparing for operation of a major oil and gas facility is a daunting task. Viking provides standard operating procedure (SOPs) generation, maintenance planning (CMMS, Spares), FMEA and RCA studies and Control System Tuning and HMI Screen Development.
At Viking, we take flow assurance engineering and modeling to operations. By using a systems engineering approach, Viking addresses the challenges from modeling to development of operational strategies to optimize flow assurance engineering in the production system. Flow assurance modeling is a key aspect of engineering design work, especially in deepwater oil and gas developments.
Viking’s Materials and Corrosion Team is involved with detailed material selection and qualification support with the goal of ensuring the selection of fit for service materials and their appropriate manufacture and fabrication.
Failure analysis is a critical process in determining the physical root causes of problems. The process is complex, draws upon many different technical disciplines, and uses a variety of observation, inspection, and laboratory techniques
Provides fit-for-service evaluations, testing and analysis for evaluating complex downhole failures, pipeline failure investigations and forensic services for midstream and downstream clients and also provides services to the renewable energy sector.
Planning for the disposal of equipment, sealing of the well safely, and recycle and reuse purposes must be performed within the regulation authority.
Provides fit-for-service evaluations, testing and analysis for evaluating complex downhole failures, pipeline failure investigations and forensic services for midstream and downstream clients and also provides services to the renewable energy sector.
The Corrosion and Materials Team for oil and gas developments and water and gas injection systems forms one of Viking’s core oil and gas engineering services.
Scalable to turnkey pipeline blockage remediation using our systems engineering approach.
Extensive knowledge and experience is required not only to fully understand how an asset should work, but also to know how to maintain efficient working conditions. Each facility is different, presenting new and unique challenges.
Viking’s Chemical Systems Engineering team is engaged in all aspects of chemical-related technology for offshore and onshore facilities. The team focuses on production chemistry solutions, chemical injection system design and chemical umbilical commissioning.
The primary focus of the Water Injection Team is to provide systems engineering solutions to waterflood design, commissioning, and system operability.