Sheldon Van Voast

Say hello to the man who’s been in the oilfield since bell-bottoms were still a thing. Sheldon Van Voast, NOS’s Co-Founder and CEO, got his start in 1980 as a scrub hand before heading offshore as a roustabout with Transworld Drilling. In 1986, he earned his BS in Petroleum Engineering from Montana Tech, eventually co-founding Northern Oilfield Services in 2017 alongside Jimmy Robinson. Sheldon’s a big-picture thinker who still gets fired up by the NOS crew’s ability to “think outside the box” and tackle tough problems. He’s a proud husband, dad of four, grandpa of eight—and still one of the hardest-working guys in the yard.