Management Team

Bill Boykin

Vice President, Global Business Development

Bill Boykin joined NuTech Energy Alliance in 2005.  He is currently responsible for Global Business Development, developing and growing the NuTech domestic and international business across the globe.

Mr. Boykin graduated in 1983 from Oklahoma State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.  In 1996, he also earned his Master of Business Administration degree from Oklahoma State.  His 27 years of experience has included:

• Aggressively developing numerous Midcontinent, Appalachia Basin and the Canadian NuTech client and alliance customers.
• 22 years with Halliburton, working as a Senior Field Engineer, Assistant District Manager, Log Analyst, Senior Sales Engineer and Mid-Continent Regional Sales Manager.

Mr. Boykin's industry affiliations include:  Session Chairman for the National SPE Convention 2004-2008, National Committees for both SPE and SPWLA, Director - Oklahoma SPE, President of the Tulsa SPWLA, Membership Chairman for the Oklahoma City API Chapter.

Bill Scanlan

Vice President, Western Division Sales

Bill Scanlan joined NuTech Energy Alliance in 2005.  Currently he is responsible for further developing and maintaining the Western U.S. markets. 

Mr. Scanlan graduated from the University of Kansas in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering.  His industry experience has come as:

• West Coast Area Manager for Sales and Operations with Reeves Wireline Services, developing the market to implement two new regional districts in Bakersfield, CA and Anchorage, AK; allowing significant expansion for the Midcontinent based company.
• Senior Technical Sales Engineer with Schlumberger Well Services responsible for broad based wireline, open-hole, completion, and testing services.  Mr. Scanlan also championed the introduction of new wireline standards and technology such as electromagnetic propagation and nuclear magnetic resonance tools and capabilities.
• VP of Sales and Marketing with EVP Webbasis Technologies, responsible for securing funding for continued growth of the entrepreneurial web based company.

Mr. Scanlan is affiliated with AAPG, SPE, SPWLA, and CWLS.  Along with being published several times, he is also past President of the San Joaquin Geological Society.

James Fogal

Vice President, NuLook™ Business Unit

James Fogal joined NuTech Energy Alliance in 2004.  Currently, he manages the day to day operations of the NuLook™ Business Unit and petrophysical group.  Mr. Fogal graduated from the University of Dallas in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics, followed by a Master of Arts degree from Rice University in NMR Physics in 1978.  During Mr. Fogal's 33 year career, he has:

• Served NuTech as Senior Petrophysicist, providing petrophysical analysis of single and multi-well projects and aided in the development of petrophysical models.
• Spent 14 years worked with Halliburton as a Sales Engineer, Wireline District Manager, Senior Technical Advisor, and Log Analyst, managed Computing Centers in North America, and led Technical Marketing of Formation Testing and Waveform Sonic Services.
• Spent 10 years with Schlumberger Well Services as Logging and Perforating District Manager, Division Staff Engineer, General Field Engineer, and Junior Field Engineer.

Mr. Fogal's career focus has been on the well log industry, data acquisition, quality control, teaching, and petrophysical interpretation.

Darby Witt

Vice President, NuStim™ Business Unit

Darby Witt joined NuTech Energy Alliance in 2003. Mr. Witt has managed the day to day operations of NuStim™ since leading the business unit’s successful development and launch in 2004.

Mr. Witt graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1996. In his career he has accomplished the following:

• Worked as an operations engineer for Halliburton supporting hydraulic fracturing, acidizing, cementing, coiled tubing, and oil field tool services for the central region of North America.
• Participated in the design and execution of over 5,000 well completions, while personally supervising over 500 hydraulic fracturing treatments for customers throughout North America.
• Created QA/QC scorecard procedure for hydraulic fracturing operations.
• Instrumental in developing a databased workflow for generation of hydraulic fracturing best practices.
• Supported the business development effort through the advance of several workflow and completion design processes currently in use at Halliburton as a member of the Midcontinent Technical Team.
• Developed proprietary software with which to link formation evaluation to well completion results in a predictive manner, allowing for completion optimization to occur efficiently and field reservoir understanding to be achieved.

Mr. Witt’s extensive knowledge of well completion technology, data manipulation, and development of custom software allow him to lead the enhancement of oil and gas production efforts for NuTech's customers. Mr. Witt is affiliated with the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and the American Petroleum Institute (API).

William "Spud" Basham

Vice President, NuView™ Business Unit

William “Spud” Basham joined NuTech Energy Alliance in 2005. He is currently responsible for overseeing NuView™, NuTech’s proprietary 3D reservoir modeling business unit.

Mr. Basham graduated in 1979 from the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology, and later earned a Master of Science degree in Geology in 1983. In his 30 plus years in the industry, Mr. Basham has held numerous positions:

• President / Explorationist with Avalon Energy, focused on prospect generation throughout Texas and Louisiana.
• General Manager/Explorationist with SouthTech Exploration, a group Mr. Basham helped form after developing proprietary 3-D surveys with Spudco Geological Services. As a direct result of implementing these 3-D shoots, and cooperating to generate the prospects, the group completed 79 of 87 drilled wildcat wells averaging 3.5 bcfg per well.
• Sr. Geologist - Gulf Coast Exploration, Enserch Exploration Co, focused on prospect generation and specific drilling recommendations throughout South Louisiana, Texas and State Waters.
• Mr. Basham’s early geological familiarity came while working with Getty Oil, Mobil, and Sandefer Oil & Gas.

Mr. Basham is a Certified Petroleum Geologist affiliated with the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and the Houston Geological Society. Mr. Basham is also licensed by the State of Texas.

Will Deaton

Vice President, Client Services

Will Deaton joined NuTech Energy Alliance in 2006. He is currently the VP of Client Services and responsible for internal process management and ensuring client care through NuTech services. Mr. Deaton initially joined NuTech as Manager of Human Resources and has been instrumental in organizational planning and growth since.

Mr. Deaton graduated from Samford University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management in 2002. He completed his Masters of Business Administration at the University of Houston in 2011.

Prior to coming to NuTech, Mr. Deaton managed Store Operations with Abercrombie and Fitch and later with the Limitedbrands.