FOR COUNCIL Brad Hayes, P.Geol., PhD, FGC
Brad Hayes was born in Vancouver, B.C. He lived in Vancouver, Calgary, and Mississauga while growing up. His career began with a geology course in high school that piqued his interest in the sciences and led him to a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 1978. A summer job with Shell Canada after his third year of university convinced him that the petroleum industry would be a hugely interesting place to
provincial professional mobility. APEGA has many important issues to address in the next few years, which include our current legislative review and maintaining our high professional standards while facilitating admission of many new Members — at a time when more and more of our new applicants are joining us from other lands and educational systems. To best succeed, Council requires a variety of viewpoints, including Brad’s perspectives as a geoscientist and small-business owner. Brad and his wife, Carol, live in Calgary and have two adult sons, one still attending university. While his boys were involved in minor sports, Brad took active roles in team coaching and management in hockey and soccer. He is also an avid cyclist, traveller, and hiker. Brad continues to enjoy volunteering professionally, particularly with APEGA, the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, and the Canadian Society for Unconventional Resources. APEGA Activities • Councillor, APEGA (2013–2016) • Member, APEGA/Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists/Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists (CSPG) Liaison Committee (2000–2002) • Member (1984–present )
spend a career. He continued his studies at the University of Alberta, where he obtained a PhD in 1982, and had the good fortune to work with leaders in Canadian sedimentary and petroleum geology such as Charlie Stelck, P.Geol., Gordon Williams, P.Geo., and Jack Lerbekmo. Brad was employed by Shell Canada as a summer student while doing graduate studies, and afterward as a full-time exploration geologist. He then joined Canadian Hunter Exploration, an exciting environment for a young geologist, where he explored and helped to open up Deep Basin gas fields in British Columbia. Brad left CanHunter during an industry downturn, and worked several years with junior and intermediate companies. He joined Petrel Robertson Consulting Ltd. (PRCL) in 1996, and is now the president and co-owner of the firm. At PRCL, he directs a team of Professional Geoscientists in a wide variety of petroleum- related projects in Western Canada and around the world. The work has evolved greatly over the years — from evaluation of conventional exploration plays and prospects in the ’90s, to the current focus on unconventional shale and tight sandstone plays. An important component of today’s work is prospecting for and characterizing subsurface water source and disposal zones to support environmentally sound horizontal drilling and multi-frac completion practices. Throughout all this work, a constant has been the need to understand and apply fundamental geological principles and to stay current with modern geoscience and related disciplines such as reservoir engineering. Brad has been an APEGA Member since 1984 and was elected to Council in 2013. He has been an active voice in Council matters and has focused in particular on inter-
Affiliations, Corporate and Community Service • Past-President, President and Vice-President, Canadian
Society of Petroleum Geologists (1999–2001) • Executive Board Member, Canadian Society for Unconventional Resources (2015-2016) • Member, Technical Advisory Committee, Geoscience BC (2006–present) • Member, CSPG (1978–present) • Member, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (1979–present) • Group Commissioner and Section Leader, Scouts Canada (1998–2006) • Team coaching and management — Blizzard, Norwest, and Calgary West soccer clubs (1996–2012) • Midget Division Coordinator and Discipline Coordinator, Crowchild Hockey Association • Director, Scenic Acres Community Association
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