About CalPetra:

Founded in the fall of 2002 by Robert and Karin Lavoie, CalPetra’s professional engineering, impact assessment, and information research services will be attractive to wide range of organizations and individuals.

About Rob Lavoie, P. Eng.:

Rob Lavoie began his reservoir engineering career with Shell Canada Limited. At that time Rob worked as a reservoir engineer in Shell's Enhanced Oil Recovery Group. From 1983 through 1987, Rob helped design, operate, and interpret the Midale CO2 Flood Pilot in South East Saskatchewan. In 1987 he provided the lead reservoir engineering role in the experimental development of a 90% H2S gas field, The Bearberry Field.

In 1992 Rob provided leadership in the development of the natural gas forecasting software application (SAFIRE) currently used by Transcanada Pipelines Ltd. (formerly Nova). This project was conceived, designed, constructed and implemented by the spring of 1994. After providing support for SAFIRE's users for two years, Rob joined APA Petroleum Engineering Inc.

During his six years with APA, Rob worked as a senior reservoir engineering specialist for offshore and onshore projects in Canada and many international locations. More recently he has provided Opportunity International with consulting services in the area of impact assessment for their Christian Microfinance Projects in Central America (Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, and Honduras).

About Karin Lavoie, B.Mus, MLS

Following the completion of her Bachelor’s degree in Music at Brandon University, Karin spent part of a year traveling internationally with an ecumenical (Christian) music group based in southern California. She returned home to earn a Masters degree in Library Science from the University of Western Ontario in 1984. She then served as Head Librarian at Providence College and Seminary in Manitoba from 1984-1990. Since 1990, when she relocated to Calgary, she has held various positions at Calgary Public Library.

In 1999, she began providing contract research services for the Rev. Dr. Henry Schorr of Centre Street Church and cataloging services for the professional reference library of APA Petroleum Engineering Inc.