Paul DeBonis – Advisor to the President
APEX Petroleum Engineering is pleased to announce that Paul DeBonis has joined our Denver Team as Advisor to the President.
Paul DeBonis is Advisor to the President at APEX Petroleum Engineering in Denver, CO. He will be heavily involved in the sales process, leveraging his extensive network of industry contacts; while assisting the BD team in developing new business offerings based on APEX’s current integrated service workflows.
Paul has 37 years of experience in the oil industry mainly focused on developing businesses in the completions engineering segment. He recently completed an 8.5-year career at the KEANE Group where he was one of the founding members of the executive team along with serving as COO and Advisor to the Chairman. While Paul was in the COO role, Keane grew from 80 employees and one frac crew into a multibillion-dollar public company and safety leader in the plug and perf fracturing space. Paul is widely known as an industry leader for the advancement of stage frac’ing focusing on efficiencies at the wellsite, driving down costs, and maximizing production via technology application.
Prior to the KEANE Group, Paul was US President-Pipeline Construction at Big Country Energy Services; US President-Fracturing, Wireline Services, Testing and Flowback Services at Pure Energy; and 23 years at Schlumberger (Dowell) in various business development roles throughout the Rockies. During his tenure at Schlumberger Paul co-authored 2 SPE Papers and was given recognition as one of the inventors of the POWERSTIM process, receiving multiple Chairman Awards.