Instructor Bios

Drillworks Training Instructor Profiles

Knowledge Systems is a company made up of engineers, geoscientists and software specialists who are focused on the use of innovative technologies to advance the state of the art of geopressure analysis for the oil and gas industry. Instructors come from Knowledge Systems’ staff and include geoscientists and geopressure analysts from the Drillworks Services team.

Instructors of the courses from our staff include:

Timothy Sheehy
Training Manager
20 years experience in wellsite operations, data processing and interpretation.   Tim has performed pre-drill, post-drill and real-time drilling analysis using Knowledge Systems’ Drillworks family of software products.  He has extensive experience in all phases of earth stress analysis of prospects including analyses for geopressure, wellbore stability, uncertainty and seal compartment integrity. 

Ken Williams
VP of Geoscience
Brings more than 29 years of geoscience experience to the geopressure modeling courses he leads.  This includes extensive experience with Texaco and Knowledge Systems on worldwide basin modeling and consulting projects, prospect/play generation and problem solving, petroleum systems analysis and evaluation of potential acreage acquisitions for exploration and new ventures.  

Dr. Saad Saleh
Principal Geopressure Analyst
Dr. Saleh has over 20 years experience in the industry and academia including teaching graduate and undergraduate courses at the Colorado School of Mines and at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.  Dr. Saleh was a major contributor to teh DEA 119 project and has been involved in the Subsalt Geopressure Analysis Joint Industry Project.

Robert (Bob) Dwiggins II
Bob has over 30 years' experience in the oil industry including stints in rig supervision, drilling engineering, earth stress analysis, and technical training. Bob has worked extensively with the DrillWorks family of software projects for customers worldwide. He has also conducted numerous training sessions involving the theory and practical use of the DrillWorks software suite.