Mr. Downey has over 40 years of experience in upstream oil and gas and energy technology development. Prior to Shale Ingenuity, he held numerous executive and technical professional positions at Amoco, Encana, Synthetic Genomics, Ciris Energy Inc and Gunnison Energy.
Mr. Downey has been awarded several patents in coal bioconversion, reservoir simulation modeling, reservoir engineering and well drilling and completions. Mr. Downey earned a BS in Petroleum Engineering from The Colorado School of Mines.