Bill Roggensack, Ph.D. P.Eng.
President and Principal Engineer
In 1998, he joined Noetic Engineering Inc. as its President. Noetic offers specialist consulting services, primarily to the energy resource industry, and has focused on technology development and enabling market entry for new products. Since 2001, Bill has also been President of Volant Products Inc., a manufacturer of specialty drilling tools, casing appliances, cementing tools, and completion components. A recent collaboration between Noetic and Volant is aimed at revolutionizing pipe handling and casing running operations on top-drive drilling rigs, while also improving safety for rig workers.
Previously, Dr. Roggensack was Vice President of C-FER Technologies Inc. from 1989 to 1998. He began his career as a geotechnical engineer with EBA Engineering Consultants Ltd. where he held positions of increasing responsibility from 1975 to 1987, working primarily on hydrocarbon and mineral resource development projects in Arctic Canada, Alaska and overseas.
Bill has served on various APEGGA committees and boards, and has served as an elected member of Council. He has been active in the CGS, SPE, CSCE and ASCE. He served as a Distinguished Lecturer for SPE in 1998, speaking internationally on the subject of downhole oil/water separation. In November 2004, he was an invited presenter at the CGS “Canadian Legacy Symposium” on Permafrost and Arctic Geotechnology.
Bill holds a B.Sc. (1970) and Ph.D. (1977) in Civil Engineering, both from the University of Alberta.
Bill pursues gardening and reading as hobbies, but has an inexplicable interest in pre-war acoustic blues and old time music. He frustrates his wife by collecting CDs re-mastered from obscure 78 rpm recordings, complete with surface noise. Bill has been learning to play guitar for about twenty years, and acquired a mandolin a few years back. Every August, he and at least one of his vintage instruments travel to Port Townsend, WA for the annual Country Blues Workshop where he is known as “FrontPage.” He plans to travel the world on proceeds from busking, and despite his notoriety, he has followed his son’s advice: “Don’t quit your day job Dad!” So far.
