Don LeBlanc
40+ years of petroleum engineering experience spanning reservoir engineering, hydraulic fracturing, and reserves estimation across Canada, the US, and internationally.
About Don
Don LeBlanc, PEng, has an in-depth background in petroleum engineering spanning reservoir engineering, production engineering, hydraulic fracturing, field development, reservoir management, formation evaluation, reservoir modelling, production modelling, and reserves estimation — built from extensive independent and operating-company experience in Canada, the US, and internationally.
During his 40+ year career he has lived in Indonesia, Denmark, and the US, and worked with super-majors, national oil companies, small independents, and consulting firms around the world — on projects spanning the US, SE Asia, Australia, Croatia, the North Sea (Denmark/Norway/UK), Russia, Egypt, East Coast Canada, the Beaufort Sea, and Alberta, across green and brown fields, offshore and onshore, and conventional to unconventional and shale reservoirs.
Don has extensive experience with reservoir and production engineering and simulation of conventional and unconventional reservoirs, having worked with unconventional and shale reservoirs for over 20 years — work that led to the development of PE Essentials, a toolset for evaluating conventional and unconventional wells and reservoirs. Along with Dr. Okouma, he developed and published the LeBlanc-Okouma Power Law (LOPL) decline curve model in the March 2018 issue of World Oil, and published the Artificial Neural Network Oil Recovery Factor model in the March 2019 issue of World Oil.
He has extensive experience with field development and rehabilitation, including IOR/EOR and water and gas flooding, and is highly knowledgeable in Eclipse, CMG, Exodus, BOAST, IPM, IAM, and numerous other reservoir and production simulators — with a career that includes roles as Chief Reservoir/Production Engineer, Reservoir Engineering Advisor, and Team Leader of Subsurface Teams across offshore, onshore, and unconventional assets.