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Mr. Wiebe is as Advisor to Avalon for Latin American petroleum development projects. He has 36 years of energy industry experience as a geologist and manager in international exploration and development projects.
He was, until recently, based in Bogota as Vice President of Exploration for Solana Petroleum Exploration, a very active exploration and production company in Colombia. He is currently involved in Surge Global Energy, a US based Heavy Oil Acreage Aggregator which holds a large land position in the Canadian Oil Sands sector. He also previously served as an officer and director of Deep Well Oil and Gas, as the owner of Jacobean Resources and as the CEO and a director of Pertacal Energy Inc., of Calgary, Canada. Mr. Wiebe was the Vice President and General Manager of Hall-Houston Oil Company in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for 8 years and General Manager of Husky Oil in Jakarta, Indonesia for 4 years. He held senior geologist positions with Bow Valley Industries (Indonesia), Occidental Petroleum (Libya, Scotland, USA, India, and Australia) and Hudsons Bay Oil and Gas (CONOCO) in Canada. His educational background includes a BSc (Honours) in Geology from the University of Manitoba, Canada and an MBA from the University of Warwick, England. | 