The Sky Hunter Team

Meet the team behind our incredible technology.

Leadership Team

  • Ken Bradley

    FOUNDER

    This is a Direct Hydrocarbon Indicator (DHI)

    In his over forty years of oil and gas experience in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, Ken Bradley has been associated with both private and public companies engaged in exploration and production in Western Canada. Early in his career, he worked in geological capacities with intermediate resource companies in Calgary. Later, he held senior executive positions with oil and gas companies such as Prism Petroleum, Colony Energy, and Trenton Energy. In 1999, Bradley co-founded Sky Hunter Technologies Inc., a private company that developed an innovative airborne hydrocarbon detection system to map occurrences of fully pressured oil and gas accumulations both onshore and offshore. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Math and Physics and a Bachelor of Science in Geology.

  • Russ Duncan

    FOUNDER

    A Challenging Application of Airborne Science

    Russ Duncan has over forty years of oil and gas experience in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, gained while working in a variety of engineering positions of increasing responsibility. Between 1971 and 1984, he worked in several engineering capacities with Alberta Eastern Gas and Ocelot Industries. In 1984, Duncan joined Paramount Resources Ltd., a public company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange; in 1986, he was appointed Vice President of operations and a director. At Paramount, he was involved in day-to-day drilling, facilities construction and production operations, gas marketing, and contract matters. He has also been a director of Newalta Corporation and Alberta Laterals Company.

  • Daniel R. Horner

    BOARD MEMBER

    Worldwide, both onshore and offshore

    Daniel (Dan) Horner obtained his law degree from the University of Saskatchewan in 1992. Upon graduation, he articled with a prominent firm in Calgary, completing his articles and remained an associate there until 1996 after which he joined Scott Venturo Rudakoff LLP. Dan became a partner in 2000.

    He has a sound corporate business sense. His corporate practice involves negotiating, structuring and financing complicated corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions in a wide variety of industries. He provides excellent strategic business planning advice to his clients and ensures his clients’ corporate governance requirements are met. His primary areas of practice include commercial, transactional, corporate finance, commercial and residential real estate, exempt market/private equity investment, and energy law. In addition, Dan deals with intellectual property issues, including franchise law and trade-marks and is a registered Trade Mark Agent.

    He represents the firm within Mackrell International, one of the world’s major networks of over 90 independent law firms that have more than 100 offices on five continents.

About Sky Hunter

Sky Hunter Corporation is a Calgary-based company that provides a valuable exploration tool to oil and gas companies worldwide. Sky Hunter uses proprietary technology to conduct airborne surveys that map microseep data. In turn, this data predicts the presence of pressurized hydrocarbon reservoirs for further exploration, development, and production by traditional methods.

The original concept was developed by a mining Engineer in Australia after he measured hydrocarbons in a surgery or operating room. The Airborne system was developed and tested in Canada. Ken Bradley believed the system had merit and set up joint ventures to validate its effectiveness. 

Sky Hunter Technologies purchased the system in the early 2000s. In order to further validate the technology, over 100,000 km of data was gathered in Canada, the USA, and Australia. Third-party evaluations of the predictability of the mapping indicated a two-out-of-three well predication rate. 

A commercial system was then developed based on the original prototype and launched in the spring of 2013. This system is a collaboration of the onboard sensor system by MDA Systems of Richmond, BC, and aircraft modifications by Aries Aviation of Springbank, AB.

Additional surveys have been completed and over 100,000 line kilometers of data have been gathered. The prediction rate is at 80 % based on look-back information. In early 2023 a survey was completed in India.

Sky Hunter Corporation does not hold a Permit to Practice under The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta.

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