Our Team

Dr. Amir Paknejad is a Texas board-certified professional engineer with 20+ years of experience in well control engineering. A recognized subject matter expert in transient multiphase flow analysis and wellbore dynamics, he has played a pivotal role in managing complex source control operations.
As the leader of IMR’s 24/7 dedicated Source Control Emergency Response Center, Amir has overseen rapid response efforts for a wide range of source control events, conducted drills, and provided expert support for Flow Engineering, Relief Well planning, Capping, Flowback, and SIMOPS. During his tenure at Boots & Coots, he developed the Well Intervention Toolkit, a critical resource that has been successfully utilized in multiple intervention and P&A operations.
Beyond responding to well control incidents, Amir has contributed to over 500+ blowout and kill contingency plans and has played a key role in supporting more than 100+ planned and unannounced real-time source control and emergency response drills conducted by MWCC, HWCG, and OSRL in the U.S., Europe, and Australia.
Amir proudly holds both an MSc and a PhD from Texas A&M University. Gig 'em Aggies

Arash Haghshenas is a senior well control engineer with 20+ years of experience in supporting and developing engineering programs for well control incidents, contingency planning, critical well design reviews, well intervention, and P&A operations.
His expertise spans a wide range of drilling and P&A activities, including relief well design, dynamic kill operations, well control modeling, wellbore re-entry, and casing design. Dr. Haghshenas has played a key role in several high-profile well control incidents, including the CO₂ leak in Delhi, LA, and the gas storage leak in Porter Ranch, CA. Internationally, he has been involved in major well control responses in Nigeria, Congo, and Indonesia.
He holds a BSc from the Petroleum University of Technology, an MSc from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and a PhD from Texas A&M University. An active member of IADC, AADE, SPE, API, and Pi Epsilon Tau, Dr. Haghshenas has contributed extensively to the industry through authorship and collaboration on numerous technical papers and publications. His notable works include contributions to the Managed Pressure Drilling Book, the IADC Drilling Manual, and IOGP 598.

Ray Oskarsen is a Texas licenced professional engineer with 25+ years of management, engineering, business development, and academic experience. Ray graduated with a Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University and began his career working for John Wright Company as a relief-well specialist.
He continued his career in Boots & Coots as technical service manager, add Energy as Sr. vice president and as US wells manager at Three60 Energy. Dr. Oskarsen has been involved with high profile well control incidents including drilling the relief well for Deepwater Horizon incident, drilling relief wells for well control and P&A operations all around the world.
Ray has managed 250+ projects primarily blowout contingency studies, source-control training and emergency response for wells typically located in the Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, Africa, Australia and Arctic region. Responded/supported the coordination of 10+ relief well projects, including the primary relief well drilled to control the 2010 Macondo blowout and worked with operators, partners, and regulators, hosting over 30 large-scale post-Macondo spill response exercises.
Developed industry accepted guidelines for subsea source control operations.
Patented concept and subsea device for killing challenging offshore blowouts. He has published several papers and holds patents on offshore well control operations. Dr. Oskarsen is member of SPE, IADC, and IOSC.

Well control engineer with 10+ years of experience in multiphase flow modeling. High proficiency in Olga and PVTsim software for advanced blowout and kill simulations including flows from multi-reservoir, soft shut-in, staged-mud weights kill, and bullheading operations. Problem solver involved in complex wellengineering projects that were successfully completed to clients' satisfaction by logical analysis, efficient planning, team communication, and active listening. Key engineering experiences include:
- Responded to several challenging onshore well-control incidents and critical well-integrity failures.
- Completed 300+ projects, primarily blowout and kill simulations study and gas kick tolerance modeling for planned wells in the Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, Africa, Australia, Southeast Asia, and the Arctic region.
- Supported operators and regulators participating in over 30 large-scale post-Macondo spill response exercises. Performed soft shut-in simulations and wrote procedures to safely stop a blowout with a capping stack.

Senior well control engineer with 45+ years of experience in 15 countries and all operational settings including Canada, Kuwait, Oman, Malaysia, Indonesia, Argentina, Nigeria, Norway, Yemen, Egypt, Algeria, and India.
Rolly holds a BSc from Texas A&M University.