Management Team
Copper Tip offers engineered solutions and effective management to ensure that any project will be performed to specifications within the anticipated time frame. Our management team have years of experience supplying services within the oil and gas industry and we’re confident that we can exceed our client’s expectations.
Key Personnel
Roger StokowskiChief Executive Officer
Roger has over 20 years in building and operating Energy Service companies. He was founder of Big Eagle Services and served as the Chairman and CEO from 1996-2011; growing it to over 180 million a year in sales. Roger has extensive knowledge in both small to large operations, putting a high quality team of staff in place, and maintaining the highest level of safety and service to take great care of the customer. In 2006 Roger was awarded the Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for Energy Services-Prairie Region.
Ben FertuckPresident
Ben has ten years of nitrogen pumping experience including fracturing, coiled tubing support, and plant and pipeline purging. Ben with his past experience in managing a nitrogen division was responsible for coordinating all activities between the client and equipment operators at the field level. Ben’s team had the enviable safe work record of zero recordable incidents and accidents.
Matt Walter, P.Eng.Engineering Manager
Matt graduated from the University of Alberta in 2008 with a degree in Petroleum Engineering, and he also holds a Petroleum Engineering Technology diploma from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. In his previous experience Matt has served as field engineer, project engineer, and engineering manager for many different service lines including pre-commissioning, commissioning, and maintenance for both process plants and pipeline.
Brian GarnettChief Operating Officer
Brian has over 20 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Brian’s past experience saw him overseeing maintenance, transportation and operations of over 800 pieces of equipment at 17 branches within three provinces. He has also received training in root cause analysis for HSE investigations and currently heads the HSE department at Copper Tip Energy Services Inc.
Rod KrushelniskiCanadian Operations Manager
Rod has over 20 years of coiled tubing experience operating, managing, and coordinating in deep well milling, drilling, high pressure well treatments, e-line coil string applications, plug and perf, CBM, annular fracing, cup to cup fracing, cementing, logging, fishing, acid stimulations, and all aspects of well clean outs.
Dustin WoodcockUS Operations Manager
Dustin has over 20 years of experience in the petroleum industry working in both downstream and midstream businesses. Dustin also has 12 years of experience operating, managing and coordinating high profiled projects in the pipeline and industrial nitrogen service industry.
Craig ScharfenbergRegional Manager – NE
Craig has over 10 years of experience within well, process and pipeline services. He has acted as both a supervisor and project manager for service lines including but not limited to fracturing, hydrostatic testing, pneumatic testing, pipeline pigging, and line drying.