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About Us
Wildcat Technologies started in 2010 with an idea to revolutionize laboratory and well-site pyrolysis instrumentation for the oil and gas industry.
David Weldon
PRESIDENT
In November 2010, David joined Wildcat as President and Lead Engineer to spearhead the development of the HAWK pyrolysis instrument. He oversees the design and development of analytical instruments and innovations. Under his leadership, Wildcat has excelled in reliability, accuracy, and support. David also played a crucial role in designing and implementing the HAWK-Eye software, a unique database-driven tool that streamlines data setup and analysis.
Since joining Wildcat Technologies, David has continued to drive improvements and innovations in design functionality. To date, Wildcat Technologies' HAWK Instruments has been deployed in laboratories, universities, and well sites worldwide, including in the USA, Canada, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Japan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Korea, Denmark, China, Pakistan, Russia, UAE, Colombia, Taiwan, Belarus, Libya, Egypt, and Germany.
David’s career began at Delsi, Inc., the original manufacturer of the Rock-Eval® instrument, in the early 1980s. As Delsi-Nermag’s Service Department Manager, he managed support for both Rock-Eval® and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GCMS). After Delsi closed its Houston operations in 1991, David joined Humble Instruments & Services, where he led new instrument and software development and provided international customer support. He developed the MACT10 Compositional Kinetics instrument, cryogenic instrumentation, and the Source Rock Analyzer series, equivalent to Rock-Eval®. David was instrumental in setting up a laboratory in Nigeria for a client.
Following the acquisition of Humble Instruments by Weatherford Laboratories in 2007, David supervised a team of engineers, geoscientists, and software developers. He installed Source Rock Analyzer instruments in laboratories worldwide, including in Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Egypt, Canada, Malaysia, China, Russia, Germany, and Norway. Additionally, he organized and conducted technical workshops and training for clients and internal personnel on various instruments, including the Source Rock Analyzer, Thermal Extraction Pyrolysis Inlet, Cryo Focusing Device, and MSSV inlet.
David co-authored “Onsite pyrolysis – using new real-time technology to evaluate reservoir properties” presented at the 24th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (IMOG) in Bremen, Germany, in 2009.
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