Ronald Collings P.E.
Vice President and Senior Engineer

Ron Collings is a Registered Professional Engineer in Colorado, U.S.A., with specialized knowledge in petroleum engineering and coal bed and coal mine methane recovery. Ron has worked in various aspects of hydrocarbon exploration and production since 1976. He was a Petroleum Engineer with Chevron Corporation for 18 years from 1981 to 1999, primarily in the capacity of reservoir engineer, where he was responsible for oil and gas reservoir characterization, modeling and simulation, improved oil recovery processes, reservoir management, project economic risk assessment and petroleum reserves determination.

Since 1999 Ron Collings has become a leading authority in coal mine methane resource and reserves determination. He has developed an approach to numerically model methane recovery from active and abandoned mines using an industry standard simulation software package. Using this tool, Ron has helped the U.S. EPA develop a methodology to determine the abandoned mine methane emission inventory for the United States, which was submitted to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for approval. He has also applied this simulation methodology for various corporate clients interested in determining the economic feasibility of recovering methane from active and abandoned coal mines. Ron has presented his findings relating to coal mine methane recovery at many international conferences. His extensive background in the oil and gas and coal mining sectors provides a unique understanding of how methane emissions can be economically reduced through the appropriate implementation of technology in these two sectors.

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