About Us - David Weldon
David Weldon worked at Delsi, Inc., the original manufacturer of the Rock-Eval® instrument in the early 1980’s. He was Manager for the service department for Delsi-Nermag handling both Rock-Eval® and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GCMS) support. After Delsi shut down their operation in Houston, David went to work for Humble Instruments & Services in 1991 and was in charge of new instrument development as well as support for existing systems within Humble together with international customer locations. His responsibilities at Humble encompassed developing instruments and software applications. Developed MACT10 Compositional Kinetics instrument, Cryogenic instrumentation and the Source Rock Analyzer (equivalent of Rock-Eval®) series of instruments. David was also key in getting a Nigerian laboratory setup for a client.
Humble Instruments was bought out by Weatherford Laboratories in 2007. David supervised a team consisting of engineers, geoscientists and software developers. He performed installation of Source Rock Analyzer instruments in laboratories around the globe including Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Egypt, Canada, Malaysia, China, Russia, Germany and Norway. Organized and conducted technical workshops and training for clients and internal personnel related to various instrumentation including the Source Rock Analyzer, Thermal Extraction Pyrolysis Inlet, Cryo Focusing Device and the MSSV inlet. Co-authored “Onsite pyrolysis – using new real-time technology to evaluate reservoir properties” which was presented at the 24th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (IMOG), September 6th to 11th, 2009 in Bremen, Germany.
In November 2010, David was hired by Wildcat as President and Lead Engineer for a new pyrolysis instrument, HAWK.