Dalton Hallgren is a well-qualified manager and drilling engineer, having worked extensively, inter alia, in the Marcellus, Bakken, Haynesville and Barnett shale gas and shale oil plays in the USA. He had managed the drilling of numerous horizontal multi-stage fracced wells in such plays for companies such as Halliburton Project Management, Burlington Resources, Headington Oil, St Mary, Peak, Encana, Hess, Marathon and Conoco. He also saw military service in special operations with the US Army, retiring with the rank of Captain and has extensive experience with remote desert operations both in this role as well as in oilfield operations. He has also worked extensively on international well control assignments as a specialised well control engineer with Boots and Coots.
