Robert Van Kalsbeek

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Vice President / Chief Inspector. @
Robert Van Kalsbeek's Location
Coweta, Oklahoma, United States, United States
About Robert Van Kalsbeek

My name is Robert Van Kalsbeek and I am a tenacious and entrepreneurial minded business owner with extensive experience in the oil and gas industry.I have successfully built two successful companies, from the ground up, and am currently the Vice President, overseeing the operations for Cherokee Contractors Corporation, a proudly owned Native American woman owned business.Cherokee Contractors Corporations specializes in providing third party inspection services for the oil and gas industry. In addition to managing contracted projects, I ensure all inspectors are adequately trained and deliver top-tier inspection services on a wide variety of projects. I also work as a Construction Manager/Chief Inspector on projects.My dynamic personality and unique management style allows me to effectively manage multiple projects without compromising on standards.Connect with me today to see if Cherokee Contractors Corporation can be the answer to your project needs.

Robert Van Kalsbeek's Current Company Details
Cherokee Contractors Corporation

Cherokee Contractors Corporation

Vice President / Chief Inspector.
Robert Van Kalsbeek Work Experience Details
  • Cherokee Contractors Corporation
    Vice President Co-Founder, Chief Inspector
    Cherokee Contractors Corporation Jun 2017 - Present
    Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
    and grew an organization with a solid reputation for providing high-quality, well-trained, knowledgeable inspectors. Directly interviews, hires, and trains inspectors to ensure 100% understanding and commitment to compliance standards.Third Party Chief Inspector Key projects:Kinder Established Morgan:• Presently Chief Inspector for a 20" line replacement.Tallgrass Energy:• Buckingham Terminal Expansion: built and installed two 250,000-barrel tanks, five-meter skids, five sample buildings, four transfer pumps, and one PDC building in New Raymer Colorado.• Carpenter Lateral Pipeline: 25 miles of 12" pipe from Colorado to Wyoming.• Buchanan Meter Station: 12" hot tap performed on the 42" Tallgrass Rex line to supply natural gas to Southern Star Energy. Installed equipment including one meter run, one hot cat heater, control room, and two flow control skids.• Iron Horse Depth of Cover: excavated, cut, and added pipe to reach acceptable depth of cover for pipeline reaching 60 locations.• Iron Horse Pipeline Relocation: switch 20" natural gas line to 20" oil line for 43 locations, installed four MLVs in multiple farm and town taps,hydro-tested 40 miles of 20" and eight HDDs with sizes ranging from 4000' to 1000'. Directly led a team of 14 inspectors.Vice PresidentCo-founded and built the organization from the ground up focusing on creating a company dedicated to delivering top-tier inspection services for the oil and gas industry.• Directed and grew the organization to employ over 100 individuals; reached an annual revenue of over $10M in 2019 and successfully held revenue steady through the 2020 pandemic.
  • Furmanite America
    Chief Inspector
    Furmanite America May 2015 - Dec 2017
    United States
    Verified environmental and safety regulations were adhered to over the course of several major projects. Inspected welding, as build drawings, coating, hydro-testing, building forms, pouring of concrete, setting of bolts, excavations, backfill, stringing pipe, hot taps. Collected and analyzed data and complied reports for submission to project managers. Key projects:• Kinder Morgan Gas Line Upgrades, Hydro-testing, and Meter Installations:◦ West Rock Meter Station, AL - Hydro-test and Meter Installation◦ Hokes Bluff, SC - Line Hydro-test◦ Leeds, GA - Hydro-test◦ Oil Dri Hydro-test◦ SCE & G North Augusta, GA - Meter station modification◦ Lexington, MS - Lateral Hydro-test◦ Riceboro, GA - Compressor station expansion project• Kinder Morgan CO2: building and site inspection of a grass roots electric pump station - Blanco Pump Station, Blanco, NM.• Kinder Morgan CO2: building and site inspection of a grass roots electric pump station - Hovenweep Pump Station, Pleasant View, CO.
  • Furmanite America
    Chief Inspector
    Furmanite America Mar 2012 - Jan 2017
    United States
    Manage Projects and Inspection team
  • Furmanite America
    Construction Manager / Chief Inspector
    Furmanite America May 2011 - Mar 2015
    United States
    Managed several concurrent projects supervising other onsite inspectors, ordering and monitoring material usage, and monitoring environmental cleanup and reclamation of locations. Key projects:• Anadarko Petroleum Corporation: completed well connects and performed maintenance on compressor stations and gathering lines. Inspected welds and tested welders, fiber glass piping, well connects, pipe line extractions and backfilling, abatement on asbestos coated piping, fabrication and installation of launchers and receivers, meter removals, cad welding, and hydro and nitrogen testing.• Successfully revamped and upgraded the entire gathering system.
  • Gulf Interstate Field Services
    Third Party Welding And Utility Inspector
    Gulf Interstate Field Services Sep 2010 - May 2011
    United States
    Inspected work on several projects including welding, as built drawings, jeeping, coating of welds, backfilling, replacement of vales, reclamation of locations, pouring on concrete, building of detention ponds, installation of metal buildings, sand blasting, and hydro-testing. Key projects:• (06/2010-09/2010) Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Fort Union Reclamation Project: directly supervised a crew of three performing ROW reclamation for 101 miles of failed zones such as sink holes and settlement areas. Inspected grading, reseeding, fertilizing, placing and replacing pipeline markers, and retrieval of debris. • (03/2015-05/2015) Anomaly Digs, Smart Pigging and Reclamation: Enable Midstream – monitored anomaly digs on 12” gas lines including excavation around piping, abatement of pipe, and removal of anomalies.• (03/2011-05/2011) El Paso Gas Company: Inspector on grass roots compressor station monitoring the clearing and excavation for roads, compressor pad, and final grading.• (09/2010-12/2010) Anadarko Petroleum Corporation: Chief Inspector on EOG Arbalest/EOG Crossbow Gathering overseeing the installation of steel and poly pipe. Inspected welding, lowering in, backfilling, road bores, sandblasting, coating, jeeping, clearing, fusing poly gas lines, pouring of concrete, rebar, sonotubes, cad welding, sleepers, installation of line markers, and reclamation.

Robert Van Kalsbeek Skills

Natural Gas Petroleum Supervisory Skills Gas Onshore Operations Energy Piping Energy Industry Oil And Gas

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Robert Van Kalsbeek works for Cherokee Contractors Corporation

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