Guest Speaker – Technology

H.B. (Howie) Dingle
Vice President, Operations
Imperial Oil Limited

Howie Dingle is vice president, operations, for Imperial Oil Limited’s resources division, based in Calgary.

Howie was born in Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, Canada. He graduated from The University of Calgary with degrees in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. In 1971, he joined Imperial Oil’s Engineering Division in Sarnia, Ontario, and was transferred to Imperial Oil’s Production Department in Calgary in 1976.

From 1978 through 1980, Howie successively supervised a number of engineering sections in the Production Department and then spent one year as the Business Automation Coordinator.

In 1981, Howie was transferred to Red Deer as Area Manager of Esso’s conventional oil and gas production operations in southern Alberta.

In 1983, he was transferred to Cold Lake, Alberta as District Manager of Esso’s in-situ oil sands pilot and commercial operations.

Howie was transferred back to Calgary in 1987 as Engineering Manager for Esso’s Cold Lake Operations, followed in 1990 with an appointment as General Manager, Oil Sands.

In 1991,  he was appointed Manager, Research and Technology, responsible for all research and technology development for Imperial Oil Resources.

In 1994, Howie was appointed Manager, Technical Services, responsible for providing technical services to Imperial Oil Resources.

In 1995, Howie was appointed Vice President and General Manager, Oil Sands, responsible for all Imperial’s oil sands research, development and operations.

On October 1, 1998, Howie was appointed to his current position, with responsibility for all of Imperial’s conventional oil and natural gas, oil sands, joint venture, and operated-by-others operations, which represented production of 330 kboe/d in 1998.

Howie is past President of Board of Directors of the Petroleum Research Institute of Calgary, past President of the Canadian Heavy Oil Association, and past, founding Co-Chair of the Canadian Oil Sands Network for Research and Development (CONRAD). Howie is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the C-FER Technologies, Inc.

Howie is Chairman of the Advisory Committee to the Department of Chemical and petroleum Engineering at The University of Calgary, past Chair of the Project Management  Advisory Committee at The University of Calgary, and a member of the Advisory Committees to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and the Faculty of Management at The University of Calgary. He was recently appointed the founding Chairman of the Advisory Committee to the Project Management Council of the Confederate Board of Canada.

Howie is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta.