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NewsNotes

Boyd picks up extra dutiesEnergy and Resources Minister Bill Boyd

picked up a few extra duties in the May 29 cabi-

net shuffl e. Boyd is now Minister of Energy and

Resources, Minister responsible for SaskPower,

the Uranium Development Partnership (UDP),

Innovation Saskatchewan, and the Saskatchewan

Research Council (SRC).

Th e cabinet shakeup saw individual Crown

corporations handed out to individual ministers.

Before they all fell under Ken Cheveldayoff ’s pur-

view as Crown Investments. Boyd’s responsibility

for SaskPower comes at a time when the Crown

has its checkbook out, seeking to invest heavily in

power generation over the next several years.

Glamis successful with horizontal well

Glamis Resources Ltd. says it recently drilled

and completed its fi rst of fi ve separate oil explo-

ration targets that are planned to be drilled in

southeast Saskatchewan and southwest Manitoba

throughout 2009.

Th e 100% working interest horizontal well

was drilled to a total measured depth of 1,770

metres and encountered an oil-bearing Tilston

reservoir. An intensive open hole swabbing opera-

tion resulted in the recovery of nearly all the load

fl uid and established an oil cut ranging from 50%

to 32% in various intervals.

Additionally, based on the corporation's eval-

uation of infl ow performance, management be-

lieves that the well is capable of producing up to

750 bbls of fl uid per day. Initial production is esti-

mated to average approximately 200 bbls of light

oil (39 degrees API) per day.

Glamis expects to drill its next exploratory

target in southeast Saskatchewan by the end of

July.

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By Brian ZinchukPipeline News

Weyburn – Greg Smith, chief operations offi cer

and a senior vice president with Petrobank Energy

and Resources Ltd., was honoured on June 3 as Sas-

katchewan’s Oilman of the Year.

A former Olympic canoeist, Smith graduated

with an honours degee in geophysics in 1983. Af-

ter working with a succession of companies, in 2003,

he joined Petrobank, serving as senior geophysicist,

exploration vice president and senior vice president

of the business unit at the same time. He ended up

focusing on the company’s business unit.

Petrobank has become the second-largest Bak-

ken producer in Saskatchewan, and in 2008 was the

most active driller in the Bakken area.

Smith spoke of StarPoint’s fi rst successful Bak-

ken horizontal well drilled on Petrobank land in

2004, 2005, and off ered kudos to that team for get-

ting the ball rolling.

“Today, when people talk about the Bakken, you

always hear about the multi-stage fraccing and, in

particular, Packers Plus, but there are other compa-

nies out there. Th ese contractors have fi gured out a

way to build a better mousetrap, and it is working out

very well for them.

“Th e process of innovation in the oil and gas in-

dustry involves partnerships between the oil and gas

companies, and their contractors.”

He spoke of contractors becoming partners and

contributing to their success.

“Th e partnership with contractors is very crucial

to us all, applying those technologies and doing it at

reasonable prices.”

“Application of technology is what has made

Bakken reserves accessible to the industry. On behalf

of Petrobank, I extend my thanks to all the contrac-

tors who have helped us make those little steps to

fi gure out how to crack the nut of Bakken play.”

“Th e innovation and activity occurs here because

of the strength of the business environment.” Smith

noted.

“Petrobank is composed of a very strong team of

individuals, of which there are no real heros, unless

they are all heroes.”

“Essentially we are paid to make mistakes. Our

only condition is we learn from them.”

He noted, “Our impact on the environment is

not zero,” but added, “It can be minimized.”

Smith spoke of the “Saskatchewan Advantage,”

saying, “Saskatchewan is our province of choice for

new business.”

Petrobank’s Greg Smith Sask. Oilman of Year

Premier Brad Wall, left, and selection committee co-chair Al Schreiner, right, present Greg Smith with the Saskatchewan Oilman of the Year award. Smith is a senior vice president and chief operations of cer with Petrobank.

PIPELINE NEWS July 2009 A3

NewsNotes

In the boonies?SaskTel today announced June 9 the launch

of SaskTel Satellite Internet powered by Xplornet

providing coverage to all areas of Saskatchewan

not able to receive SaskTel High Speed Internet.

“Providing all Saskatchewan people and busi-

nesses with fair and equal access to the best in-

formation, entertainment, and communication

technologies available has been a priority for the

Government of Saskatchewan,” Minister respon-

sible for SaskTel Don Morgan said.

SaskTel Satellite Internet powered by Xplor-

net provides aff ordable, fast, and easy Internet ac-

cess packages with speeds of up to 1.0 Mbps or up

to 1.5 Mbps starting from $56.95/month.

“SaskTel is pleased to off er high speed internet

service to all its customers in Saskatchewan,” Sask-

Tel President and CEO Robert Watson said. “Th is

is a great accomplishment as Saskatchewan will be

one of only two provinces in Canada that provides

the service to 100% of the province.”

Heating a new shop?Th e provincial government has introduced a

rebate program to encourage the use of geother-

mal heating systems within Saskatchewan’s busi-

ness sector. Eligible businesses can receive a 15

per cent rebate on the cost of installing a Canadian

GeoExchange Coalition (CGC) certifi ed geother-

mal heating and cooling system. Th e maximum

rebate is $100,000.

“Geothermal is an environmentally responsi-

ble alternative to many traditional sources of heat-

ing - especially electric heat,” Crown Corporations

Minister Ken Cheveldayoff said. “Interest in geo-

thermal is growing in our province and providing

these fi nancial incentives will make it feasible for

even more people to install a geothermal system in

their home or business.”

Th e commercial rebate program is funded by

SaskPower and administered by the Saskatchewan

Research Council (SRC). To be eligible for the re-

bate, projects must be professionally designed and

installed by a certifi ed member of the Canadian

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By Geoff LeePipeline News

Regina – ENFORM held its offi cial launch as the

Saskatchewan Petroleum Industry Safety Association

June 17 and quickly got to business with a networking

lunch and safety training needs assessment workshop.

Th e initial needs assessment will help ENFORM

identify the province’s unique requirements and deter-

mine how its safety training products and services can

be customized for use in Saskatchewan.

Follow-up needs assessment workshops with the oil

and gas industry will be held in Estevan, Swift Current,

Kindersley and Lloydminster this fall.

“We are doing all kinds of work with CO2 in the

south end of the province and there are all kinds of in-

herent risks with that,” said Bob Ross, manager of the

new petroleum industry safety association.

“In the fall we will be hitting Swift Current, Este-

van, Kindersley and Lloydminster. Th at will be an op-

portunity for industry to speak about specifi c needs in

Saskatchewan.”

A Saskatchewan Advisory Committee has also been

set up to lead the workshops and address the needs of

the province’s growing petroleum industry. Th e com-

mittee includes representatives from ENFORM’s six

industry associations and the Saskatchewan Workers’

Compensation Board.

“We are are open for business,” said Ross. “We

are the newest industry safety association in Saskatch-

ewan.”

Th e WCB recognized ENFORM as the petroleum

industry safety association for Saskatchewan on Jan. 1,

2009.

ENFORM is also the petroleum industry safety as-

sociation for Alberta and British Columbia and operates

specialized training centres in Calgary, Nisku, Genesee

in Alberta and Fort St. John in British Columbia.

More than 150,000 students a year update their

skills with ENFORM’s self-paced, online e-learning

programs; industry-focused video conference classes

and seminars; or hands-on instruction at the training

centres.

ENFORM has a strong presence already in Sas-

katchewan with the delivery of its health, safety and

training programs delivered by regional colleges.

Th ere are more than 120 industry-leading courses

off ered by ENFORM covering safety, operations, tech-

nology, and environmental management. Courses are

available at the campuses of Southeast Regional College

in Estevan and Weyburn, Lakeland College in Lloyd-

minster, Great Plains College in Swift Current, and

Parkland College in Yorkton.

Ross says Regina was chosen for the ENFORM

head offi ce in the province to “to ensure we are seen

more as an independent and not just affi liated with one

college or one area. We are also close to the airport.

“Th ere is also the benefi t of deferred costs and time

for some of the employers as well. Before today, they

would have to send their people to Calgary or Nisku for

specialized operations.”

Initially, the Regina outlet will be a two-person of-

fi ce staff ed by Ross and offi ce manager Susan Morris.

“Eventually, we hope to have fi ve staff ,” said Ross.

“We are running a leaner operation right now just be-

cause we’re predominantly running a computer online

base right now.

“Once we ramp up for classroom settings, our con-

tract trainers come in to provide specialized training. We

are looking at video communication as well. Hopefully,

by 2010 we will have a venue large enough to accom-

modate that classroom setting.”

Safety services in Saskatchewan will include the

Certifi cate of Recognition (COR) program, Industry

Recommended Practices and safety-related events like

Safety Stand Down Week and the Petroleum Safety

Conference.

A COR designation is awarded to petroleum indus-

try companies who have a Health and Safety program

that meets approved standards.

“Th is is an excellent program which is a require-

ment in a lot of cases to bid on work,” said Ross. “You

have to have a health and safety program in place and an

audit and there is a commitment by the employers and

participants.”

Ross says being based in Regina also gives EN-

FORM closer access to the government ministries and

the type of agencies he is well connected with from his

years of work with petroleum industry safety issues and

legislation.

“We have always worked very cooperatively with the

petroleum sector here,” said Ross, who has more than 24

years of experience in the province’s petroleum industry

and occupational health and safety program.

He participated on the original Petroleum Safety

Council and was a representative on both the ENFORM

Training and Safety Councils.

“I also worked in drilling in my youth so I appreci-

ate the time and the investment industry is making to

ensure their workers are trained,” said Ross. “Th ey are

making the industry more like a career now.”

Ross anticipates working closely with the Energy

and Resources and Saskatchewan Environment minis-

tries and being an active member on the Saskatchewan

Petroleum Industry Government/Environment Com-

mittee (SPIGEC).

“Whenever there are health and safety issues associ-

ated with the worker or quasi health and safety and en-

vironmental issues, we also attend those meeting,” said

Ross.

“In my past jobs, I represented the needs on the

health and safety side. Now with ENFORM we will be

active participants on that too.”

Ross says industry response to ENFORM being

chosen to be Saskatchewan’s petroleum industry safety

association has been positive and lots of calls have come

in since the offi ce opened in mid April.

“We are actually getting calls from heavy oil people

in the La Loche area,” he said. ”Th ey are very interested

in how their needs will be met with the oilsands sector

they will be working in.”

ENFORM becomes Sask.’s energy safety hard hat

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PIPELINE NEWS July 2009A4 EDITORIAL

EditorialAttending two major oil conferences in Saskatch-

ewan this spring, you’re sure to hear from the politi-

cians.

Th eir message has been consistent: a big “Th ank

you” to the Saskatchewan oil patch.

Th ank you for growing the economy, providing

jobs, paying for social services and infrastructure.

Energy and Resources Minister Bill Boyd brought

that message to the Williston Basin Petroleum Confer-

ence in Regina in late April, noting that he had specifi c

instructions from the premier to show gratitude to the

oilpatch.

Th e big guy himself delivered the same message to

the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show in Weyburn on

June 3, during the oilman of the year awards luncheon.

He made the point that he’s the fi rst premier to at-

tend the show since 1999, and before that, it was 1991,

when Grant Devine was still premier.

Now, premiers are busy people who rarely have

complete control of their schedules. If the prime min-

ister calls a fi rst minister meeting, you have to attend.

When the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Munici-

palities has their annual convention, you better be there.

Th e same goes for the Saskatchewan Urban Municipal-

ities Association. But missing a decade worth of shows?

Th at’s the entire duration of the Calvert Administra-

tion. It’s also only once for Roy Romanow.

Wall was present at the Lloydminster Heavy Oil

Show last fall, and said he plans on attending these

shows as much as possible.

People notice these things, which is precisely why

Wall brought it up. It’s sure the industry took notice

the heavy presence of both the top-end politicians and

ministry offi cials at these events.

Wall no wall ower with oil and gasIt’s odd, because former Premier Lorne Calvert brought

in royalty regimes that have done Saskatchewan very well,

in comparison to what the Alberta government has done

in recent years. (i.e., loaded both barrels and shot off both

feet.) Indeed, Wall credited the previous administration for

that, if not actually naming Calvert by name. Th e province

plans on leaving things alone in large part, saying, “We will

not be increasing royalties.”

Wall spoke of investing in infrastructure from where

the money had come from.

“You’re generating a lot of royalties. You deserve good

roads to do that work,” Wall said

Th at statement got applause. Anyone who has driven

around Alida, for instance, realizes that heavy truck traffi c

associated with the oilpatch comes with a price in infra-

structure. It’s even more noticeable in the heavy oil country

around Lloydminster. While there have been eff orts in re-

cent years to assist rural municipalities in dealing with the

issue, you’d have to look long and hard to fi nd an RM that

is satisfi ed with the level of assistance.

With the collapse in energy prices over the past year,

there’s not going to be a lot of extra money to throw into

these things. However, with the recovery of oil prices since

the winter, there’s hope. It wasn’t long ago current prices

were considered astronomical. If they stay at this level or

improve, perhaps the province will be able to put more into

infrastructure.

“We have to invest more in infrastructure.” Wall add-

ed.

Th ere’s an old saying in politics – dance with the one

who brought you. In this case, Wall strode onto the dance

fl oor, and made clear he’s here to dance. It’s probably a good

thing the premier is not a wallfl ower with the oil and gas

industry. Th ey have this habit of paying the bills.


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Brian Zinchuk

From the top of

the pile

Th e other day I hitched up the contraption

meant to carry small children behind a bicycle, and,

with some coaxing, got my daughter to ride her bike

to the park.

Th ere Spencer and Katrina had great fun playing

with the other kids, as a few parents watched. While

watching our kids get soaked in the spray park, I

struck up a conversation with one of the dads.

I can’t remember what he does exactly, but it was

some sort of well-site work, probably directional drill-

ing. Inevitably, we started talking about the activity

level in the patch, and I commented on the fact that

things should be picking up shortly. Oil was, after all,

around $72 a barrel on that day.

His response was that he would like to see it stay

the same for a while. At the pace he was going over

the last couple years, it was tough.

Don’t get to see the kids much? I asked.

More like didn’t want to see the kids, he said. He

was too tired to spend time with them.

I expect to hear more of that in the coming

months. Th e last year has been brutal in many ways

– the frenetic pace of 2008 coupled with the total

collapse of prices by early 2009 has been hard on the

system and families. Th ankfully, the valley was short-

lived, and much of it occurred during the slow season

of spring breakup, anyhow.

Th e Saudis said a while back that they would be

happy with oil in the $75 range, right around where

it is now. If the Saudis are happy, shouldn’t we all be

happy?

It wasn’t that many years ago I was asking the

provincial minister of fi nance what he would do with

all the money fl owing in with $60 oil.

In February, I noted that governments would

likely be saying, “Th e cupboard is bare” at some time

in contract negotiations this year, followed by, “You

can do a lot more with $75 oil than you can with $35

oil.”

Well, we’re at that level now. Th ere’s pretty good

indication it will climb a bit higher towards the end

of the year, which is going to help this province out

a fair bit.

On the drilling side, it’s nowhere near 2008’s, or

even 2007’s pace, but Saskatchewan is faring better

than our neighbours.

When you look at the rig counts, Saskatchewan

is doing pretty well compared to Alberta and BC. As

of June 12, Saskatchewan had 36 of 124 drilling rigs

working, or 29 per cent. Th at’s not great, but look at

Alberta. At the same time, they had 65 of 589 drill-

ing rigs working – with a whopping 524 rigs down.

Only 11 per cent of Alberta rigs were listed as active,

likely due to poor gas prices. BC faired a little better,

with 21 of 122 rigs working, or 17 per cent. Manitoba

saw fi ve of seven rigs active – pretty good for that

province.

In all, Saskatchewan is pulling through. For a

lot of companies, the last eight months may have

been tough sledding, but if they made it this far, they

should probably be okay. Th e provincial budget won’t

likely see billions in oil bounty, but it won’t be starved,

either.

And the guy with his kids at the park? He’ll

probably have enough time to enjoy them, and still

make a buck.

Brian Zinchuk is editor of Pipeline News (www.pipelinenews.ca). He can be reached at [email protected]

Imperial Oil’s decision to start work on the fi rst

phase of its $8 billion Kearl oilsands development

near Fort McMurray could signal the start of other

major oil and gas projects that were put on hold

when oil prices tumbled.

Imperial estimates it will cost $4.50 per barrel

of bitumen for an initial production run of 110,000

barrels starting as early as 2012.

Th is investment is good economic news as oil

heads to the $75 mark that many producers say is

the level where investment in new production is

most likely.

Th e ironic point is that with no further invest-

ment in new production, oil is likely to zoom into

the triple digits again due to a supply shortage.

New production investment now will help to

off set another potentially damaging price spike just

as the economy and oil prices gain momentum.

Investment has been curtailed by low prices, low

demand, high development costs and tight credit

markets along with renewed policy emphasis on al-

ternative green energies.

Demand is due to rise again as the global econ-

omy improves but without new investment in pro-

duction or a massive reduction in demand and con-

servation, oil prices are bound to soar again to our

detriment.

It would seem from past experience that you

can’t have high oil prices and a booming economy

at the same time for any sustained period, especially

for undeveloped countries. Th e price of gas, food

and labour puts all consumers in the poor house.

Th e solution would be to strive for a supply and

demand balance where oil prices are high enough

to spur investment and generate economic spinoff s

while keeping the cost of living in check.

To achieve this, leaders need to realize that oil

supplies are fi nite and as reserves dwindle, govern-

ment and industry need to fi ll the void with alterna-

tive energies so that by the time the last drop of oil

has been consumed, the world no longer needs it.

In a perfect world, this would be achieved but

short-term thinking seems to rule the day along

with the attitude that if we keep drilling everything

will be okay. It’s the ostrich approach that gets pol-

iticians elected and causes economic volatility.

What the world needs are localized energy

sources and solutions that can be ramped up in pro-

portion to the inevitable declining global oil and

gas resources. If you live by a waterfall, use water-

fall power. Energy independence may be the key to

long-term survival.

Sun, wind and tides are here for the long haul.

We need to maximize these energy alternatives as

much as possible so when the oil and gas taps run

dry we are not left powerless. Where is the political

will?

Today oil and gas runs the world – and that’s

okay – for while. Without a replacement source, we

will be back to burning lumps of coal and eating

dinner by fi relight.

Let’s use the next oil boom to purchase our se-

curity and keep the lights on so we see where we are

going.

OpinionTime for the kids, and to make a living, too

Hold the applause for oil rebound

Geoff Lee

Lee Side of Lloyd


Oil Chat Bruce Penton, associate-editor with the Medicine Hat Daily News and syndicated columnist will be contributing a Q&A with in uential Canadian Petroleum personnel each month for Pipeline News.with Bruce Penton

Pipeline News: Th is will take 15 to 20 minutes tops. I want to start by asking what would happen to the world in the next 100 years if all eff orts to reduce CO

2 emissions were stopped?Malcolm Wilson: You sure you want to keep

it to 15 minutes? We can see signifi cant impacts on

our ability to produce food, for example. I’m most

familiar with the Prairies, obviously. We look at some

of the PFRA forecasts and signifi cant areas of the

Prairies could become sub-marginal for production

of grain crops. So we could defi nitely be in quite a

tight spot in terms of the American breadbasket be-

ing able to produce the level of crops we’re used to.

Certainly you will get a northward movement, where

you will be able to grow crops further north. It’s go-

ing to be pretty good for Alberta, because it has soil

further north, but Saskatchewan and Manitoba . . .

you run out of soil further north. You’re going to see

more intense storms and with growing cities at the

same time, the likelihood of major storms hitting cit-

ies increases, so property damage is going to increase.

Sea level rises; that’s pretty much inevitable. We are

going to see increased pressure on coastlines.

PN: So the world has to step up its eff orts in this regard.

Wilson: And the second part of it is the acidi-

fi cation of the oceans. I’m certainly a long way from

being an expert in that area, but it does raise con-

cerns about the bottom end of the food chain and the

oceans and what will happen.

PN: How would you rate Canada’s eff orts in this whole scenario?

Wilson: On the whole, not very good. Canada

has developed a lot of expertise and from the research

end of things, I think you pat a lot of researchers on

the back and say despite a lack of broad support,

they’ve done a good job in getting Canada into a

leadership position. In terms of taking the next steps,

we’ve been lagging behind. We’re starting to see the

fl ow of money into demonstration, but it’s been slow

in coming.

PN: Who’s leading the world in this area?Wilson: Up until a couple of years ago, I would

say from the research perspective, the two leading

countries were Canada and Norway. Since then we’ve

seen huge eff orts in the U.S. and Australia and grow-

ing eff orts in the European Union. More broadly,

Europe’s starting to take note of . . . like Germany.

Australia’s certainly doing well with its eff orts.

PN: When and how did scientists discover that CO2

emissions were doing irreparable harm to the globe?

Wilson: First warnings were at the end of the

19th Century. Sort of a recognition of the role of CO2

in the atmosphere. It wasn’t leading to any warnings

at the time, but it was a recognition that CO2 and

other gasses were helping to keep the earth warm and

at a liveable temperature. I guess it would probably

be in the early 1980s we started to get some concern

about what was happening and . . . and really brought

climate change to the fore as an issue of concern.

PN: How would you describe your relationship with Al Gore?

Wilson: I don’t have a relationship with him. I

don’t know him personally. Some of my colleagues

that would have gone to the Nobel ceremonies may

have met him, but I think Al Gore faces a lot of criti-

cism. Anybody who steps out to the forefront faces

criticism. I think personally he’s done a good job.

PN: What might Al Gore have done in the area of global warming had he won that election for president in 2000?

Wilson: I think we would have seen much more

engagement at the international level by the United

States. So with Al Gore, they would have signed the

Kyoto Protocol and may actually have seen some-

thing happen. Under the Kyoto Protocol, with the

way it was structured without the United States, it

was, frankly, doomed to failure. We could have been

a few years ahead of where we are today in terms of

taking some serious action.

PN: Th is has been a terribly cold winter and spring in most of the west. You won’t go out and say global warming’s just a myth, eh?

Wilson: (Laughs) No. One year out of the last

15.

PN: I just wanted to get an expert’s perspective on that.

Wilson: You can expect this. You can expect

extremes. Some of those extremes may be cold ex-

tremes. Th e reality is, we’re going to end up with

more hot spells and longer hot spells. Absolute tem-

peratures probably won’t change that much in terms

of our maximums.

PN: What brought you to Canada from England?Wilson: I did my undergraduate in geology at

the University of Nottingham. One of the professors

there had worked as a paleontologist, and I was in-

terested in his studies, so I talked to him about doing

graduate work. He said, ‘well, that works for me, but

you’ll have to do it in Canada, because I’ve just taken

a job at the University of Saskatchewan.’

PN: And you likely said, ‘where?’

Wilson: Yeah, so I checked my geography books

and my atlas. Actually one other professor at Not-

tingham had spent a year in Canada, so I went and

talked to him and he said ‘You’d be nuts not to take

the job, the opportunity. Go for it.’

PN: At the time, did you think you’d stay here for-ever?

Wilson: At the time, I think I fully expected to

stay. Th e opportunities in the U.K. when I left were

almost zero. Th e economy wasn’t doing well. I fully

expected to stay somewhere else.

PN: How did the Petroleum Technology Research Centre come to be?

Wilson: Do you want the full legend?

PN: Th e 150-word-or-less version.Wilson: Basically, at the time we had a (federal)

Liberal government and an NDP government here.

Th e Minister of Natural Resources, Ralph Goodale,

and our minister of energy were both doing a tour

of mine sites in, I believe, it was Kurdistan. And got

talking about the need to do something in the oil and

gas industry in Saskatchewan, recognizing we have

a unique set of issues and opportunities here. Th ey

came back and said ‘we want to start up some sort

of a research organization to meet the needs of the

Saskatchewan oil and gas industry and that kind of

landed on my desk and one of my colleagues with the

federal government in Edmonton. So the two of us

were tasked with pulling it together.

PN: How successful has it been?Wilson: It’s been very successful.

PN: How much of your work is done in Canada and how much in other parts of the world?

Wilson: My role is mostly in the area of look-

ing at funding opportunities, collaborative work, so

most of my travel is to conferences, meetings, etc., to

bring knowledge back to Canada, particularly Sas-

katchewan. Most of the work is actually done here,

although projects like the research program on the

Weyburn Oil Field had an extensive international

component.

PN: What Canadian politician is the best friend of the work you do?

Wilson: Right now, I’d have to clearly say it’s

Premier Wall. He’s a very active proponent.

PN: Why won’t soccer catch on in Canada?Wilson: (Laughs). I think soccer is catching on

in Canada. Everytime I drive down the street, I see

kids out practising soccer.

PN: It makes your heart feel good, eh?Wilson: It does indeed.

Raised nearly all over the world, Malcolm Wilson, currently based at the University of Regina, is one of the world’s foremost authorities on climate change and CO2 capture.

He was born in Egypt but raised in Britain and a number of other centres (Libya, Belgium, Bahrain, Jamaica) because his father was a member of the British military.

He received a geology degree from a university in Nottingham, Eng-land, and then came to the U of R.

A Calgary-based oil publication, Alberta Oil Magazine, said “Wilson is uniting researchers, industry and government under the banner of ‘Energy and the Environment.’

He is director of the International Test Centre for CO2 Capture and is co-founder of the Weyburn CO2 monitoring and storage project.

Wilson said he loves the wide open spaces of the Prairies and doesn’t plan to leave.

In mid-May, he chatted with Bruce Penton about a variety of things connected to climate change and other subjects, such as soccer and Melton Mowbray pork pies.

Malcolm Wilson


PN: In 100 words or less, tell me about the Wey-burn Monitoring and Storage Project that you just re-ferred to.

Wilson: Certainly phase one really thrust Cana-

da and Saskatchewan into the world limelight when

it came to geological storage and research. It’s there

to really understand the integrity of storage and the

sub-surface. It’s not trying to track in-house oil re-

covery. You can see what happens to CO2. And to be

able to utilize that knowledge globally to ensure that

there can be safe, long-term storage of CO2 and I

think we’re doing a very good job of it.

PN: Is there anything from England — a pastime, a food, a tradition — that you wish you could import to Canada?

Wilson: As much as my wife would object . . .

I grew up in the Midlands, and I liked my Melton

Mowbray pork pies.

PN: You can’t get those in Canada, eh?Wilson: No. From a cholesterol perspective, they

are gross, but they taste good.

PN: What’s one thing the average Canadian could do, starting right now, to aid in the salvation of the planet?

Wilson: I can give you all conservation . . . en-

ergy effi ciency, that’s all good. But I really think the

Canadian citizen has to be willing to pay a little more

on his or her electricity bill in order to allow a broad

range of emissions reductions technology to be put in

place. Whether it’s carbon capture storage, or what-

ever, there is a cost, and we have to be willing to bear

it because the cost of doing nothing is going to ex-

ceed any cost we have to bear.

PN: You’d never get elected as a politician if you said your electrical bills are going to rise.

Wilson: (Laughs) I’m afraid not.

PN: What do you like about Canada the best?Wilson: I really enjoy the lifestyle. I enjoy the

open spaces of Saskatchewan. I don’t like crowded

cities, so I have trouble seeing myself living in Lon-

don or somewhere like that.

PN: Your biography says you were born in Egypt and raised in Jamaica, Libya, the U.K., Belgium and Bahrain. Tell me a little bit about your youth.

Wilson: My father was in the British army, so

wherever he went, the family went along. He and my

mother were in Egypt when I was born. Th at was a

leadup to the Suez Crisis and shortly after I was born,

families were evacuated and then it became a round

of three years in England, three years abroad. Our

times abroad included Jamaica, Libya — pre-Gaddafi

days — but it was a great place.

PN: Overall, are we making progress in the area of climate change, or are we fi ghting a losing battle?

Wilson: I really think we’re on the verge of some

serious action. Up to this point, I don’t think we have.

We’ve talked but not acted. But I think that’s about

to change.

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green light to proceed with its proposed

$7 billion (U.S.) Keystone XL crude

oil pipeline from Hardisty to the U.S.

Gulf Coast in Texas, passing through

southwest Saskatchewan.

Th e National Energy Board (NEB)

will convene an oral hearing of the ap-

plication for the Canadian section of

the North American pipeline Sept. 15

at a location to be determined.

Th e Canadian part of the pipeline

will extend from Hardisty, Alberta to

the Canada/U.S. border at Monchy,

Saskatchewan, and would involve con-

structing approximately 525 kilometres

of pipeline and related facilities includ-

ing pump stations, tanks and other re-

lated works and activities.

Once approval is obtained, con-

struction is expected to begin by mid-

2010 and will result in a total capital

investment of approximately $12 bil-

lion (U.S.) when completed by 2012.

Th e project is already being ap-

plauded in Provost which enjoyed the

economic spinoff s from the last Key-

stone pipeline project in the Hardisty

area.

“We watch these approvals closely

and we try to work with companies as

closely as we can to foster the develop-

ment,” said Bert Roach, Provost’s eco-

nomic development offi cer.

“Usually what happens with pipe-

lines construction is we see an increase

in activity when the workers are com-

ing through and hopefully we see an

increase in one or two jobs in the long

term as well.

“Th is project would work to in-

crease the importance of the Hardisty

Terminal area. It continues to establish

the area as an important one for oil and

gas.

“It’s really exciting to see the de-

velopments happening at the Hardisty

Terminal. It’s always been a major

crossroads for pipelines. With the new

pipelines that have gone in the last two

or three years, it further increases the

importance of that terminal.”

Th e new XL pipeline off ers a more

direct route to the Gulf Coast than the

590,000 barrels per day Keystone pipe-

line which is scheduled to go into ser-

vice in early 2010.

Th e entire 3,200 km 36-inch XL

pipeline would incorporate a portion

of the Keystone Pipeline to be con-

structed through Kansas to Cushing,

Oklahoma, before continuing through

Oklahoma to a delivery point near ex-

isting terminals in Nederland, Texas to

serve the Port Arthur, Texas market-

place.

Also proposed is an approximate

80-km pipeline to the Houston, Texas

marketplace.

Th e expansion project in Canada

follows TransCanada’s success securing

long-term contracts of additional oil

that will expand the supply to 900,000

barrels of oil day with an initial volume

of 700,000 barrels.

Th e Keystone XL was announced

last July by Hal Kvisle, TransCanada

president and chief executive offi cer.

“Th e Keystone expansion will be

the fi rst direct pipeline to connect a

growing and reliable supply of Cana-

dian crude oil with the largest refi ning

market in North America,” he said at

that time.

“Th e Keystone Pipeline will be

constructed and operated as an in-

tegrated system with delivery points

in the U.S. Midwest and U.S. Gulf

Coast.”

Keystone pipeline expansion plan to be heard in September

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wan is an ongoing prob-

lem.

Saskatchewan Crime

Stoppers reports dozens

of recent and unsolved

crimes of thefts in the

oil patch including these

outstanding crimes listed

on the website www.sas-

kcrimestoppers.com

Th eft of fuelAbbey –Between 7

p.m. on May 22 and 7

a.m. May 23, approxi-

mately 300 gallons of die-

sel fuel was stolen from a

Cee Gee Construction

Site along Highway 32

southeast of Abbey.

Th eft of toolsEsterhazy – RCMP

are asking for the pub-

lic’s assistance regarding

the theft of tools in the

Bredenbury area during

the early hours of Mon-

day December 29, 2008.

At approximately

12:30 a.m., three white

pickup trucks drove onto

a drilling rig site and

entered several storage

sheds. Once inside the

suspects stole several

drills, grinders, impact

tools, as well as a por-

table heater

Break and enterCarrot River District

– On the evening of May

2, 2009, a shop half a mile

north of Zenon Park was

broken into. Numerous

items were taken includ-

ing a quad, surveying

equipment and various

power tools.

Th eft of doghouseColeville – Kinders-

ley RCMP is investigat-

ing a theft of a trailer

from an oil rig near

Coleville which hap-

pened between the af-

ternoon of May 29 and

May 30th. Th e trailer

is a triple axel 30- ft. by

10-ft offi ce trailer, which

was used as a workshop/

offi ce, known as a dog-

house.

It contained tools,

computers, documents,

clothing and safety

equipment, total value

upwards to $100,000.

Th e Trailer is white with

Phoenix Well Servicing

decals on the sides with

Alberta licence T55 675.

Th eft of crude oilHillmond – Some-

time around April 3,

2009 unknown person(s)

entered an oil well site

North East of Hillmond

and stole 20 cubic meters

of crude oil.

Battery theftsHillmond – Some-

time between March 16

and March 27, 2009 un-

known person(s) entered

four separate oil well sites

in the Hillmond area and

stole an Optima Red Top

battery from each one.

Asphalt pumpWarman – On No-

vember 13, 2007 an as-

phalt pump was stolen

off one of the oil storage

tanks at an asphalt plant

located on the south

side of Highway 16 be-

tween the Dalmeny Grid

and the weigh scales.

Th e pump was a Viking

LL120 and weighted

around 100 lbs. Th e

pump was bolted to the

oil storage tank and the

bolts were taken off when

the pump was stolen.

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Calgary – Canadian

consumers will enjoy

lower energy prices this

summer according to

Canada’s national energy

regulator.

Th e National Energy

Board (NEB) released its

Summer Outlook May

28 in which it forecasted

a signifi cantly diff erent

energy picture from the

one released last May.

Th is time last year

energy prices were on

the rise, with crude oil

hitting a record high of

US $147 per barrel, while

natural gas peaked at

US $13/MMBtu in July.

However the global eco-

nomic downturn led to a

dramatic drop in prices

over the fall and winter.

Th e current econom-

ic situation, combined

with the high invento-

ries of both oil and natu-

ral gas, will continue to

put downward pressure

on energy prices head-

ing into summer.

Th e NEB is predict-

ing crude oil to trade in

the US $50 to $60 per

barrel range, with natu-

ral gas prices to average

between US $3.20 and

$4.20/MMBtu over the

summer.

“Canadians will fi nd

that the price of gas will

not go as high as it did

last summer,” said NEB

chair Gaétan Caron.

“At the same time,

however, companies

may respond to the low

prices by further cutting

production, which would

mean a tighter energy

market in the medium

to long term.”

On the electricity

side, new power genera-

tion came on-line in

several jurisdictions and

transmission capacity

was expanded between

Ontario and Quebec and

between New Brunswick

and the U.S. in 2008. As

a result, electricity sup-

ply is projected to be ad-

equate to meet summer

demand.

Canadian-Amer-

ican electricity trade

volumes reached record

levels in the summer

of 2008, and are ex-

pected to remain strong

this summer. Weaker

economic conditions,

however, may mean less

demand from the indus-

trial sector in the U.S.

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Lloydminster – Dear

Diary: Th e 4th annual Ladies of the Patch PWM Steel Petroleum Golf Clas-sic was a wonderful expe-

rience for me. Th e sky was blue; the course was in great shape and I had a lot of fun golfi ng. I made some new friends and helped raise money for the Lloy-dminster Sexual Assault

Centre.No doubt these

memories were person-

ally shared, if not written

down, by most of the 144

golfers who teamed up

with other female work-

ers from the oilpatch for

a round of golf at the

Lloydminster Golf &

Country Club on May

22.

“As women, we are

in the offi ce every day

and don’t get a chance

to meet each other,”

said Margie Florence, a

member of the organiz-

ing committee.

“We just talk to each

other on the phone. Th is

is a chance to put some

faces to the names that

we deal with.”

Th e Petroleum Golf

Classic groups the play-

ers into foursomes for an

18-hole Texas scramble

format where fun over-

rides score keeping.

“Th is is the only event

of its kind in our area

that allows the women

who work in the oilfi eld

to get together and net-

work, have a drink or two

and shoot a few holes of

golf,” said Debbie Hor-

bach committee chair.

When asked how

the men they left behind

at the offi ce would sur-

vive their day, Horbach

quipped, “Quite frankly

we don’t care. We’ll worry

about that on Monday.”

Aside from fun, the

event is a major annual

fundraiser for the Lloy-

dminster Sexual Assault

Centre to the delight of

the centre’s executive di-

rector, Muriel Ralston.

“Th e fundraising

is imperative to us as a

‘non-profi t’ – and to have

Deb and the Ladies of

the Patch set this up to

organize it – and for us

to just come up and vol-

unteer, it’s hugely impor-

tant fi nancially as well

as for public awareness,”

said Ralston.

“We have to fund-

raise a certain amount

every year and Deb’s

committee does a good

part of that by running

the Ladies of the Patch.”

Th e assault centre

has received over $50,000

from tournament pro-

ceeds with the 2009 con-

tribution to help support

fi ve frontline crisis in-

terventionists who work

with male and female

children, youth and adult

victims of sexual vio-

lence.

“We accompany

them to court and pre-

pare them for court and

follow up with them for

up to a year,” explained

Ralston.

Th e Lloydminster

centre is one of 17 sexual

assault centres in Alberta

and Saskatchewan that

focus strictly on frontline

crisis intervention with

sexual assault victims.

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Page 10“In our position, any money is

wonderful,” said Raltson.

Some of the fundraising dol-

lars come from a lengthy list of event

sponsors such as Ulmer Chevrolet that

donates a package for Temple Gardens

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committee sells draw tickets for.

“Sponsorships have been won-

derful over the past three years,” said

Horbach. “Th is year, it was a bit slow-

er and we think it’s mainly due to the

economy but any of those that could

gave willingly.

“All golfers get a gift bag with

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PWM Steel has been the Plati-

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top draw prize of a pair of diamond

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CNRL. Anna Dumont from E2 Con-

sulting won a fridge.

Aside from silver and bronze

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bronze sponsors, breakfast sponsors,

KP and hole-in-one sponsors, signage

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Golfer Rachel Horbach attributed

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“It was really good the fi rst nine

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tic sensors and monitors

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safety and effi ciency.

Th at’s the forward

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cal companies.

Service rig superin-

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leum Society’s June lunch

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status of a related contin-

uous rod project launched

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“I think down the

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forth.

“My vision for Hus-

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we have guys supervising

service rigs from a com-

mand centre.”

Staniforth began

the presentation with a

photo of a pole rig taken

in 1954 and he noted to-

day’s rigs have telescopic

derricks and high torque

diesel engines that are

very mobile.

“We have come a

long way since 1954,”

said Staniforth. “We are

at a point now where we

need to look at what can

take us to the next level.

“We could see we

needed to get better at

what we did. We needed

to get more effi cient and

be able to service wells for

less money and be able to

operate in low cost envi-

ronments. We wanted to

use automation to help us

with monitoring diff erent

functions of the rig.”

Other projects goals

were using sensors to

boost rig safety with

alarms and improve rig

management and effi -

ciency

“Rig effi ciency was a

big one,” said Staniforth.

“Waiting time is a real

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Th e dollars go up fairly

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“Along with rig ef-

fi ciency, we wanted to

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ties and see how we could

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Some of those activi-

ties are pulling tube and

rods out of a hole, fi shing

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Automation was used

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tubing pressure, casing

pressure and foot pounds

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“Torque oil pressure

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pacity of your rig to pull.

We monitored the things

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tion.

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laptop and printer so the

rig manager can view and

print out the data. Th e

consultant can also view

the data from a laptop in

his truck.”

Benefi ts for Husky

are a projected saving of

$500 for a well servic-

ing job and the opportu-

nity for rig contractor to

monitor their power out-

puts and use data for pre-

ventive rig maintenance.

“Th ere are also some

good capabilities on the

rig monitoring system to

help us eliminate paper

work,” added Staniforth.

“Th e big one is getting

the tower sheet (work

ticket) to download di-

rectly to well-view so

the rig operator gets paid

quickly.”

Staniforth told the

audience that data col-

lection has been the easy

part “but we are not good

at making use of it.”

Husky is working

with a third party com-

pany to quantify up to

nine benchmarks such

as rig wait time, safety

and rig down/up stats.

Benchmarks are com-

pared to control numbers

which are historical data

from rigs doing similar

work to determine the

rig effi ciency.

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“You can’t improve

on something unless you

measure it,” said Stani-

forth. “It’s a tool to help

us to do our job better.”

Th e other tool Stani-

forth came to talk about

was the X-celerator that

dates back to 2003 when

Husky began using con-

tinuous rods.

Th e initial study

resulted in savings of

$25,000 over an eight-

year life of a well that re-

quired two rod and tub-

ing changes.

“Conventional rods

are in 25-foot lengths so

you have to screw them

together as they are go-

ing into the well,” said

Staniforth.

“We have gone to

continuous rods because

it’s on a spool so there are

no connections. You have

less wear on the inside of

the tubing and less back

pressure on the pump.

“Th e continuous rod

helps our run time be

longer on the well. Th e

less you have to service

a well the easier it is to

keep operating in tough-

er times.

“What kept scaring

us away was how to ser-

vice it without needing a

rod rig and a tubing rig.

We wanted to have a one

rig system. We worked

with industry to develop

the X-celerator.”

Th e X-celerator is

designed to fi t on the

service rig and pull the

continuous rod out of

the well and put it on a

spool and run it back in

the well when Husky

is ready to put the well

back on a pump.

Husky and its in-

dustry partners devel-

oped three working rig

models. Th e latter has

a tube handling system

that eliminates the need

to hang the rods in the

derrick. It is mounted on

the derrick and it is half

the weight of the initial

version.

“We are going one

step further and using a

tubing handling system

to lay the tubing down

so we have nobody up

high in the derrick,” said

Staniforth. “We’ve been

testing this on one rig.”

In other news,

the Petroleum Society

monthly lunch ‘n learn

sessions will break for the

summer. Th e next event

is the 16th annual Heavy

Oil Technical Sympo-

sium on new technology

to be held Sept. 16-17.

Lunch host Dale Lu-

edtke told the June audi-

ence that curler Kevin

Martin has been lined up

as the guest presenter.

“I strongly urge you

to come out and see

Kevin Martin and you

can ask him why he did

what he did. I know I

might,” joked Luedtke,

in reference to Martin

throwing away his fi rst

stone in the 10th end of

the 2009 world champi-

onship match in losing

8-6 to Scotland.

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By Geoff LeeLloydminster – Daryl Watt, Deputy Reeve for the County of Vermilion River

ended his remarks at the grand opening of TransCanada Automatic Truck Wash

hoping for rain as that would create mud.

Mud is good for truck washing and so is marketing. A community barbecue,

draw prizes, speeches, a discount car wash for charity and a tour of the truck wash

in operation, worked to win over new customers.

“Th is is a chance for everyone to come and see the wash and how it works,”

said company president Trevor Nysetvold. “It’s unique in the world. Everything

is controlled electronically. We have diff erent washing recipes for diff erent types

of trucks.”

Th e dignitaries included MLA Lloyd Snelgrove and Justin Young from Bex-

son Construction Ltd. to Peggy Bosch, president of the Lloydminster Chamber

of Commerce. Th ey were among those who brought their own vehicle for $5 car

wash in support of the Big Brothers Big Sisters.

“We have a light vehicle wash that a lot of people don’t know about so we

are hoping to gain some exposure for that and introduce everyone to this exciting

product,” said Nysetvold .

Th e truck wash is located off Range Road 14, two kilometers west of Lloyd-

minster adjacent to Highway 16 and bills itself as the “home of the eight minute

truck wash.” Highway directional signage is in the works.

“Th e key is to the system is convenience,” added Nysetvold. “Washing is a

staple. Drivers need to wash their trucks. Image is everything to these guys to

have a clean truck on the road from a maintenance standpoint, a weight stand-

point and a corporate image standpoint.

“Th ey don’t need to spend one to two hours and the amount of money it costs

to hand wash. Th ey can come here and have it done in eight minutes.”

Aside from convenience, another selling point of the TransCanada wash is

the way it washes using a high volume of recycled water – up to 20,000 gallons

for a B-Train – applied with a low 300 psi pressure.

“Th e high volume and low pressure is good for getting into all of the angles

and the undercarriage,” said manager Morten Merrild.

“Low pressure doesn’t harm anything and it allows us to use a high water

volume which gets into places on the truck where you usually don’t get to. You’ve

got water running in all direction and it takes out sand and mud and road salt.”

Th e speedy truck wash system cleans a truck in stages starting with a soap

application and a “mega wash” stage with 1,000 gallons of water per minute for

mud removal. Th e next stage is a high pressure wash of 1,000 gallons a minute at

300 psi. Th en there’s a two-stage rinse with a fi nal rinse of pure water for a spot-

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wash for a semi comes to

$110 and Merrild says

that’s a lot cheaper and

quicker for drivers than

hand washes.

“Th ey don’t have

to spend hours doing

it themselves,” he said.

“Th ey can be on the road

and get their stuff done

that makes them money

hauling. Th e main thing

is the time they save. Th ey

can pull off the highway

and be back on the high-

way in 10 to 15 minutes

if there’s no line up.”

Th e TransCanada

Truck Wash opened in

December but manage-

ment held off the grand

opening to tweak the sys-

tem, train staff , build up

a customer base and wait

for hot dog weather.

“In the beginning, we

had to let everyone know

we were open. Th at has

taken some time,” said

Merrild. “After winter

started to pull back and

there was mud on the

road during the spring, a

lot of business has come

our way.

“Our main custom-

ers are oil hauling trucks

and service trucks like

vac trucks and fl ushbys.

We’ve had a couple of

service rigs come in here.

We can also wash buses.

“In this area, there

are a lot of gravel roads

and oil hauling. So that

means a lot of trucks.

Hauling on gravel roads

makes them dirty and

muddy. In the oil busi-

ness, when it’s busy the

trucks are moving 24/7.

With the time they can

save washing their trucks,

it makes this business

perfect for the area.

“Other than that

there are some highway

guys who go through

Lloyd, see the sign and

come in for a wash. Th ere

are a lot of grain haulers

as well who haul grain

to the canola plant in

town.”

Unlike the car wash

bay which pulls the vehi-

cle through wash stages

on a conveyor system, the

truck wash is set up for

a driver to run his own

vehicle through at a slow

one foot per second pace

after a meet and greet

with staff .

“A lot of this is tak-

ing care of the customer,”

said Merrild. “We make

sure drivers are well in-

formed and know what’s

going to happen. We ride

with every new driver

and make sure they go

the right speed and get

the right wash.”

TransCanada Truck

Wash is owned by seven

family groups in Lloyd-

minster who Nysetvold

said invested on the be-

lief this is a better way to

wash trucks.

“In the research that

we did, given we are all

local, we know there is

demand here and we had

availability of land and

we decided to go forward

with it.

“We are extremely

excited about it. We are

going through some

tough times with the

economy but we can see

the light and it’s working

well.

“Th ere are a number

of manual hand wash lo-

cations in town but what

we are selling is a special

type of service. We’re sell-

ing a good quality wash

and time convenience.

Th at’s the big thing. With

a lot of these heavy haul-

ers, time is money.

“Our wash is a fi xed

cost. With a manual wash

it’s time dependent. De-

pending on the amount

of time they spend is

what they get charged.

Whereas here, you are in

and out in eight minutes

and you have a fi xed cost

and you are gone.”

TransCanada has a

full range of payment op-

tions from fl eet accounts

and VIP cards to credit

cards. No coins or bills

are needed.

MLA Lloyd Snelgrove congratulated the group owners of the TransCanada Truck Wash during the grand opening June 6.

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Calgary – Imperial Oil Limited has been steadily hiring new employees to

work on the fi rst phase of its Kearl oilsands project long before it was approved

by the company’s board of directors on May 25.

Th at fact was revealed by Imperial spokesperson, Pius Rolheiser who said

considerable site preparation has been going on since June 2008 where the proj-

ect received regulatory approval.

“As we were preparing to make an investment decision for Kearl, we were

continuing to do the work necessary,” said Rolheiser.

“We have been hiring on a pretty consistent basis to fi ll critical needs for

the Kearl project.

“Th ere has been a fairly high level of activity over the fall, winter and into

the spring,” said Rolheiser. “We have more than 1,000 people working on the

site at present.”

An initial site ditching and drainage program was completed in the fi rst

half of 2008. Work in the second half of 2008 included clearing and draining

surface water from the initial mining and plant site areas. Muskeg and topsoil

is being removed and stockpiled for use in future reclamation.

Imperial plans to develop and the operator Kearl in three phases with its 30

per cent partner ExxonMobil Canada.

Th e fi rst phase is expected to begin production in 2012 with an output of

110,000 barrels of bitumen per day. Full project production is expected to top

300,000 barrels a day of bitumen, Kearl’s total recoverable bitumen resource is

estimated to be 4.6 billion barrels.

Th e announcement from Imperial to go ahead with the fi rst phase of Kearl

follows a year-long process to reduce development costs now estimated at $8

billion or $4.50 per barrel.

“We took the time to work every aspect of costs with our contractors and

our planning people to make sure when we made the investment decision that

we were confi dent we had a project that could be executed in a quality fashion

at the lowest possible cost,” said Rolheiser.

“We took our time as we do with all major projects. We continue to believe

it’s the right decision.”

In 2005, Imperial had estimated construction costs to be $5.5 billion as part

of its regulatory fi ling including estimated annual expenditures of about $1 bil-

lion to operate the facility at full capacity.

Th e Kearl oil sands project is a mining and extraction project located about

75 kilometres northeast of Fort McMurray on Crown land leases. Th e project

lands are not suitable for recovery using in-situ techniques.

“Th ere will be a mine pit and a central extraction/separation plant where

the oil will be processed,” said Rolheiser,

“We have are plans to build an upgrader as part of the initial phase. We have

not yet made a decision on whether an upgrader would be part of the subse-

quent phase of the Kearl.”

Th e Kearl project will be developed using technology similar to what’s cur-

rently being used at existing oil sands mines in the Fort McMurray area with a

commitment to limit the environmental impact.

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“We have a plan

for the Kearl project we

call progressive recla-

mation,” said Rolheiser.

“Our reclamation work

will be going on at the

same time as mining op-

erations.

“Th e initial mine pit

will operate for a couple

of decades and once that

initial mine is complete

and a new mine pit is

operating, reclama-

tion work on the initial

mined pit will be taking

place.

“Our design plan for

Kearl is geared to imple-

ment the very best tech-

nology to minimize the

environmental impact

specifi cally with issues

like the amount of wa-

ter we withdraw and the

amount of land we dis-

turb and how we handle

tailings.”

Imperial has plans

to develop one external

tailings area that will be

emptied and reclaimed

after space is available to

process and return the

remaining tailings into

mined-out areas of the

pit.

Th ere are also plans

to compensate for dis-

turbance of fi sh habit

and reclaim the devel-

opment site with a mix

of native plants, forest

cover and lakes over the

50 year life of the proj-

ect.

Kearl could generate

about 2,700 person years

annually of ongoing em-

ployment and provide

opportunities for local

and aboriginal business-

es during construction

and operation.

Imperial has also has

oilsands projects in Cold

Lake and owns a 25 per

cent stake in Syncrude.

Th ere has been a fairly high level of activity over the fall,

winter and into the spring. We have more than 1,000 people

working on the site at present.- Pius Rolheiser


By Geoff LeeLloydminster – Heine Westergaard, president of Kenilworth Combustion

Advanced Th ermal Solutions, hopes every customer he meets is as fi red up about

his company’s burners as he is.

Th e hot seller that Westergaard

promoted at the Weyburn Oil and

Gas show is a burner called a com-

bustion process heater module that is

CSA compliant with a small carbon

footprint.

“We have the cleanest burning

burner out there with the lowest emis-

sions and the highest effi ciency,” said

Westergaard at his shop 30 minutes

west of Lloydminster.

Heat produced from a one million

BTU demo burner at Kenilworth’s yard

warms all of the buildings by burning

with 88 per cent effi ciency. Th is com-

pares with 40 to 50 per cent for old

burner systems that Kenilworth has

improved upon.

“We are 100 per cent CSA 149.3

compliant which means we meet or ex-

ceed all of the safety requirements that

are set by governmental standards,”

said Westergaard. “We can reduce your

overall liability when it comes to safety

and reduce your emissions.”

Kenilworth has sold between 500 and 750 of these burners in the past four

years including 300 last year. More sales are pending once customers realize the

burner performs as advertised with no parts to assemble.

“We’ve taken a diff erent approach to the burner system,” says Westergaard.

“We take and pre- assemble everything. Th e customer or the service company

that installs the system in the fi eld doesn’t get a box of parts. Th ey get a system

that’s completely put together.

“It’s engineer stamped. It’s been wired and fi red before it leaves our facility

so we know everything is working.

It minimizes the installation time.

A 500,000 BTU system can be in-

stalled in four hours or less.”

Burners are used in the oil and

gas industry to burn off any hy-

drates produced in the oil and gas.

Th e burner provides the heat to get

rid of that moisture.

“Th e way that our burner works

is quite unique because we have

a recycle tube on the front of our

burner which is pulling hot fl u gas

back into the mixing chamber,” said

Westergaard.

“If you are dealing with using

wet casing gas on site, we can take

that wet casing gas and run that

through a burner and we don’t have

freeze off problems in our burner

systems. It’s absolutely wonderful

for cold weather.”

Kenilworth also manufactures

and sells burner components in-

cluding the valve train, the burner,

the fi re box and the burner manage-

ment system made by Titan Logix Corporation.

In fact, Kenilworth shared booth space with Titan in Weyburn that enabled

Westergaard to show customers how the complete system works from a working

model towed in a demonstration trailer.

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Page 20“Th e trade shows have been phenomenal this year,” said Westergaard. “We’ve

covered the ISA show in Calgary and had a tremendous response there from

diff erent companies. We also went to the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference

in Regina dealing with the Bakken formation. Th e contacts we made there were

amazing.

“From there, we went to Grande Prairie. Th at was another great show. We

had a good response there.”

Kenilworth has also been teaming up with instrumentation and electrical

companies including Syntech Enerfl ex in Brooks and Nomad Electrical Con-

tractors Ltd. in Peace River to provide local installation and servicing of the CSA

approved burners. Th ey also plan to train service specialists at the Kenilworth

plant.

“We have started to train the electrical and instrumentation companies to do

the installation for us,” said Westergaard. “It gives us the avenue of having these

companies out there that are going to be doing the troubleshooting in a local

area. It saves us from having to drive to Grand Prairie for a service job.

“Most of our systems we can troubleshoot over the phone if the person has

a bit of a background on it.

“We’ve done all the work on the system here. We have put them together and

set them up and ran them before they left. When they get installed onsite, we

know exactly what’s missing or is going wrong with each alarm that comes up.”

Kenilworth has sold more than 8,000 burners for applications from 100,000

to 20 million BTU since 1989 after Westergaard and his father started the busi-

ness as a welding company saw a need.

“It was getting into facilities and seeing the diff erent processes and being on

a lot of fi re tube repairs that sparked us to get on to the burners,” said Wester-

gaard.

“Th ere was a need for something better in the combustion fi eld. Our goal is

to make it an easy operation for the guys out in the fi eld.”

Th e Kenilworth burner cuts noise by up to 50 per cent and nitrogen oxide

emissions by the same amount. Th e burner can also run off any kind of casing gas

or solution gases available on site for fuel savings.

“Any produced gas coming off the annulus is basically a waste gas,” said

New burner garnering attention at trade shows

Westergaard. “Traditionally it’s been fl ared but we are doing is bringing that low

pressure casing gas back into the burners and reusing it.

“We can also run a dual fuel system. We can set up with casing gas as a

primary fuel and we can have propane as a backup. If you lose your casing gas,

propane will blend in and run the burner for the time that it’s needed and when

the casing gas comes back with the appropriate pressure, it just overrides the

system.”

Th e system he says is “a win-win for everyone. We can reduce operating costs

and service costs.”

Regina – As oil prices

rise, so do revenues from

land sales. Th at is the

case for the third time

this year with the latest

June land sale of Crown

petroleum and natural

gas rights that generated

$18.1 million for the

province.

Th e June sale doubled

the year-to-date total for

2009 as oil prices have

reached the $70 U.S. per

barrel mark. Th e year be-

gan with oil lifting off a

$30.28 per barrel low on

Dec. 23, 2008.

Land sale revenues

began the year with a

benchmark of $6.3 mil-

lion in February and rose

to $11.7 million in April

along with the increase in

the price of oil.

Energy and Resourc-

es Minister Bill Boyd

noted there has been a

fairly steady increase in

oil prices since the price

bottomed out at $30.28

(U.S.) per barrel on De-

cember 23, 2008. To-

tal sales for the year are

$36.1 million.

“Th ere has been a

steady upward progres-

sion in revenue raised

over the fi rst three sales

of the year,” said Boyd.

“We remain cau-

tiously optimistic that

this upward trend will

continue through the

second half of 2009.

“Current prices are

around the $70 (U.S.)

per barrel mark, so it is

more than doubled since

December. Over time,

growing strength in mar-

kets will be refl ected in

increased activity in Sas-

katchewan’s oil patch.”

Th e Weyburn-Es-

tevan area received the

most bids with sales of

$11 million. Th e Swift

Current area was next at

$2.9 million, followed by

the Kindersley-Kerrobert

area with bonus bids to-

taling $2.2 million and

the Lloydminster area at

$1.9 million.

Th e June sale in-

cluded two petroleum

and natural gas explora-

tion licences that sold for

$986,000 and 221 lease

parcels that attracted

$17.1 million in bonus

bids.

Both the highest

price bid for a single par-

cel and the highest price

paid on a per-hectare ba-

sis go to LandSolutions

Inc.

Th e company

bid $1.5 million for a

129.5-hectare lease, and

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Story and photos by Geoff LeeMaidstone – Weather topped the news at this

year’s Maidstone Oilmen’s Golf Tournament held at

the Silver Lake Golf Club under a rare blue sky and

light winds on June 10.

“We picked a good day. We’ve had worse,” said

organizer Ross Donald. “We’ve had snow, we’ve had

rain. We’ve had frost. Not too often do you get sun

and no wind.”

Th e overriding economic chill, however; limited

the roster to 72 players and cut the tournament to

one day in the usual match play format.

“Last we ran two days and had 128 players,” said

Donald who is also the treasurer of the Maidstone

Oilmen’s Association and the person in charge of

fundraising.

“We do get a lot of sponsorships from oil and gas

supply companies, service companies and individu-

als. Donations are down this year because of low oil

activity but we pulled it off . I am not sure if we are

going to make any money this year.”

Th e oilmen’s web site has a lengthy list of dona-

tors and sponsors of the 18 fl ights, food and refresh-

ments and hidden holes.

Over the years, the organizing committee has

invested extra profi ts from the tournament for im-

provements at the golf course and the regional park.

Projects have included a large shelter on the fi fth

hole, a gas barbeque for the clubhouse deck and a

registration and storage building at the fi rst hole tee.

Th e oilmen’s association also uses some of the

proceeds to sponsor a $1,000 bursary and two $500

bursaries for Maidstone High School graduates seek-

ing post secondary education in an oilfi eld related

program.

Money was on the minds of 10 lucky golfers

whose names were drawn to compete for $500 in a

closest to the pin chip in on the ninth hole from 100

yards.

Th e cash was pocketed by Lance Wakefi eld who

was eager to recall how it happened.

“It was on ninth hole from 100 yards and it end-

ed up just outside of eight feet – the fi rst bounce – it

was about a foot from the cup,” he said. “It’s a good

way to start the weekend. I used a 54 degree wedge.

I was thinking driver to run it up but I think wedge

is a better play.”

Asked if it were luck or skill, Wakefi eld off ered

that it was both. “You have to be good to be lucky and

lucky to be good,” he said.

Luck was all it took for Walher Kohuch to win

the grand draw prize for a day of golf for four at the

Northern Meadows 18-hole course in Goodsoil. Th at

prize was donated by Darryl Garrison from Lloyd-

minster.

No one won the hole-in-one fi shing trip for four

sponsored by Investors Group but many were moti-

vated to try.

Perhaps the most coveted prize is the Ernold

Priest Memorial trophy awarded this year to Bob

Kenyon chosen the most sportsmanlike player by a

secret ballot vote.

Th e trophy was donated by Wesco Services in

Maidstone in 2001 in honor of Priest who was a

long-time oilfi eld worker in the area.

Donald works for Midfi eld Supply Ltd. in town

and has played in 10 previous Oilmen’s but skipped

this year’s for his son’s graduation. When he does play

the game, he says he’s in it for the fun and entertain-

ment.

“I am not a good golfer. I enjoy the whole course.

Th e guys that are taking it seriously play in the cham-

pionship fl ight,” he said.

Prizes were also awarded to all 18 fl ight winners

including top fl ight winner Robin Moroziuk.

Th e other fl ight winners are Al Cote, a man

with one name called Boone, Kevin Hegseth, Walter

Kohuch, Doug Tuplin, Ron Falcon, Nathan Litch-

fi eld, Trent Graham, Cal Smith, Tim Oman, Paul

Lawrence, Ron Spence, Mick Armstrong, Carter

Makin, Bruce Slade and Dennis Noble.

All of the golfers went home with a prize.

Maidstone golf tourney one day this year

Organizer Ross Donald and his cousin and event volunteer, Shelley Wichman.

Ken Drury from Weatherford in Lloydminster putts his stuff.

Walter Bateson from Redhead and Dennis Noble from Canwest Propane.


By Geoff Lee

Calgary – Oil and gas giant

Encana thinks public awareness is one

of the most eff ective tools to reduce theft

of its oilfi eld equipment.

Rich Neville, security advisor for Encana’s

Foothills division wants the public to know his com-

pany has recently adopted the microdot technology

of Certifi ed Secure Identifi cation Corp in Red Deer

to mark its oilfi eld assets.

“Our company and many of the other energy

companies out there are experiencing an increase in

general thefts in remote or isolated sites from ev-

erything from valves and solar panels to equipment,”

said Neville.

“CSI had done a presentation on their product

a while back. Because we were starting to experience

an increase in theft, and we were at a dilemma how

we were going to mark our existing assets, we saw

that as a possible solution.

“We are marking everything from tools to heavy

equipment. It’s more for retrieval so we can identify

these assets for court purposes.”

CSI’s microdots are microscopic identifi ers as

small as a grain of sand. Th ey can be easily applied to

mark oilfi eld assets using a specially formulated,

clear drying, ultra violet reactant adhesive

that makes them hard to detect.

Th e identifi er includes a serial num-

ber and a web site that can only be read

under a magnifying glass using a UV

black light.

“Th e technology is easy to

apply but we see it as a system

to track property whereas

the other measures we

are taking are preven-

tive with alarms and

camera systems,”

said Neville.

“ W e

started with

CSI mark-

ing solar

panels but we

also saw a n

opportunity

to mark our

other assets with

it. We were already in

the process of upgrading

our security on major gas sites

anyway, so it just kind of worked to-

gether.

“We have also implemented some other security

measures in the past few years. Th e CSI marking is

only one component of it. We protect our assets with

everything from fences to alarm and camera systems.

We have a pretty strong and diligent security system

in place.”

Encana has six full time security advisors on the

Encana adopts CSI technology to deter theft of oil eld assets

A corporate security kit includes a vial of microdots and an applicator to apply tiny microdot identi ers to valuable assets. Photo submitted

payroll they contract out a lot of security work as

well.

Th ey are on the lookout for random thieves who

steal equipment in return for cash and for organized

thieves who have networks of sellers who can move

stolen assets around quickly.

“Th eft has always has been a problem but it

seems to have increased whether it’s related to the

economy or other factors,” said Neville. “We want

to be proactive in preventing it. Most of the theft is

external theft but there is always a certain amount of

internal theft going on with any organization.

“Public awareness helps and we hope with this

article, we get the word out that we are increasing

our security at our gas sites. It’s important to get the

word out that there are proactive enhancements to

try to prevent this.

“As a security group, we communicate back and

forth with other companies and we are all aware of

what is happening to each other. Other companies

are experiencing the same problems we are.”

Neville says the police are familiar with the CSI

marking technology and if they suspect something

is stolen, they can use the black light to identify the

property owner.

“Th ere are a number of products that are similar

to CSI but we found that CSI suited our purposes,”

said Neville. “It’s low cost and it’s not labour inten-

sive to apply. It helps our staff in accepting the sys-

tem.

Encana is also affi xing the CSI warning labels

to some of it remote assets to alert would-be thieves

that the assets have been marked.

“As the word spreads that most of Encana’s

equipment is marked people thieves will be aware of

that,” said Neville.

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Hardisty – Kevin Hayes, area manager of Gibson Energy’s Hardisty Termi-

nal. knows the value of engineer’s drawings.

Th e one is his offi ce helps him keep track of his company’s ever growing ter-

minal assets that includes 13 crude oil storage tanks with four new tanks in the

fi nishing stages at the adjacent Battle River Terminal.

Down the road from their tank farm is Gibson’s fractionation plant where

natural gas liquids (NGL) are separated into ethane, butane, propane and con-

densate. Th e plant has the capacity to process 5,000 barrels per day of NGL.

“Th e oil is shipped here by truck or pipeline and we store it and if it requires

blending we will mix it with condensate and ship it out the door to meet viscosity

and density specs,” said Hayes.

Th e new storage tank construction raises Gibson’s storage capacity in Hardisty

to over three million barrels of crude delivered to the site by pipelines and Gib-

sons’ yellow trucks.

“We just built four tanks and we are just bringing them online now,” said

Hayes. “We will be connected to the Keystone pipeline. Th at’s not done yet but

we are making our connections here before the fall.”

Gibson receives about 30,000 cubic metres of crude oil each day by truck and

pipeline including its own 150-kilometre Bellshill Lake pipeline network that

brings oil in from Forestberg and its 300-km Provost pipeline system.

Th e trucks come from as far away as Fort McMurray with heavy bitumen and

as far south as Lethbridge and unload at crude oil terminals operated by Gibson’s,

Husky Energy and Flint Hills Resources.

Trucks deliveries are coordinated by Gibson’s truck transportation division in

the town of Hardisty.

“We also accept oil from the Athabasca pipeline and the Inter Pipeline Fund

(IPF) and we store it and mix it, blend it and ship it out on two of Enbridge’s

pipelines, the Kinder Morgan Express pipeline, the IPF southbound and Trans-

Canada pipelines.”

Work is under way in Hardisty on TransCanada’s 3,2000-km Keystone pipe-

line expansion that Gibson will tap into to ship it products to the U.S. market.

“Th e economic impact of these projects is huge,” said Hayes. “Th ere are about

eight companies in this complex. Th e majority of people who live in Hardisty are

employed here.

“It’s going to get bigger. Companies keep buying land. We have 300 acres

still left that we could build on and Enbridge has at least that. TransCanada has

bought two and a quarter sections of land and Husky has bought another quarter

of land so it could be huge.”

What’s driving the growth in Hardisty says Hayes is Fort McMurray and the

U.S. demand for energy.

“All of the pipelines go south or southeast. It’s exciting but it’s been like that

for the past three or four years. It’s been busy around here,” he said.

“We haven’t seen a slowdown here. When oil was down to $40 per barrel,

producers – if they had a well that was marginal, they might not have brought it

on line if they had trouble – so that brought down production.

“Right now, unless oil takes a big jump, people are going to fi nish their proj-

ects and that will be it until other funding comes along.”

Hayes says Gibson has no plans for further expansion at Hardisty which

might lighten his managerial responsibilities at the plant until the next project

comes along.

“Basically I oversee all of the operations here,” said Hayes. “I make sure all of

the oil meets ‘spec’ when we deliver it. I am in charge of people development and

make sure our operators are happy and all of the employees are happy. If they have

concerns they come to me.

“Staffi ng is a problem but we have some long-term employees who are 10

years plus. A lot of them have grown up in the community and they are happy the

way Gibson treats them so we don’t have a high turnover.

“Th at is a challenge though when you bring people in. We built a lab year

about eight years ago and we wanted to staff that with lab techs.

“In order to able to attract qualifi ed people, it was a challenge to get them

out of the city. We did get three qualifi ed people. I think a lot of the problem is

Hardisty doesn’t have the facilities to attract people here.”

Th ere is also the realization that a large workforce is required to construct

new tanks and facilities but once they are operational, the system can be con-

trolled remotely with a skeleton staff .

Gibson has what it calls a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system

in Hardisty to remotely monitor all of its key pipeline and terminal functions on

a 24/7 basis.

Hayes gets asked a lot if Hardisty could use a refi nery and he always replies by

saying he doesn’t think Hardisty would be able to attract enough qualifi ed people

to run it but admits he could be wrong.

“If you look at what Fort McMurray started out with and what it’s developed

into, it’s all a matter of infrastructure plans and getting together to develop a

major plan for Hardisty,” he said.

Th e MD of Provost is doing just that with their proposed Rosyth Area Struc-

ture Plan to create municipal policy and regulatory framework to allow for long-

term terminal expansion. Th e plan covers 24 sections of land identifi ed for poten-

tial terminal expansion.

A public hearing was held on the area plan in Provost June 11.

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By Geoff LeeLloydminster – Reliance Industrial

Products Ltd. in Lloydminster is using

a mobile service trailer to pressure test

oilfi eld and industrial hoses on location

saving customers time and money.

Tests are conducted annually on

hoses connected to vacuum trucks, oil

hauling trucks, pressure trucks, coil

tubing vehicles and service trucks.

One of their latest customers was

Conex Rentals in Lashburn who called

out the mobile unit in late June to pres-

sure test and certify their pressure truck

and vacuum truck hoses and iron cou-

plings at their shop.

“It worked out real good for them,”

said Reliance foreman Randy Doull.

“Th ey seemed to be real happy. Th ey

didn’t have to do a lot of this through

the week because we could do all

through the weekend for them. Th ey

didn’t experience any down time.”

Oilfi eld hoses are required by law

to be inspected, pressure tested with

water and certifi ed safe once a year.

A hose blowout can cause the hose

to whip around and damage property

or injure or even kill a worker with the

right amount of pressure.

For some companies, setting aside

the time to bring their hoses to the Re-

liance shop can be like making a dental

appointment. Th ey know they need it

but don’t want to take time off work.

“For companies that want pressure

testing at their site, we are ready to do

it,” said Doull. “It saves them the down

time and they don’t have to do the trav-

elling. We do the travelling for them.”

Th e mobile trailer is self contained

with a water tank, two pumps, pressure

gauges, a computer and printer and a

generator to supply all of the power.

“We start with a physical inspec-

tion of each hose to make sure there are

no scars or exposed wires and then we

apply pressure to make sure there is no

pressure drop-off ,” said Doull.

“We fi ll up the hoses with water

and make sure there are no air bubbles

in there because the air will compress

and make it dangerous if it were to let

go.

“Hoses are made out of rubber so

there is a bit of expansion but you want

the pressure to be steady all the way

across the test for holding and main-

taining the same pressure.”

Reliance usually pressure tests hos-

es from 10 to 50 feet in length at their

working pressure for a full 15 minutes

or longer.

“Every hose has a working pres-

sure,” explained Doull. “Basically with

every product that comes out of our

shop we will apply 1.5 times the work-

ing pressure but in most cases the

working pressure and the testing pres-

sure are the same.”

“If the test passes, the operator is

presented with a paper certifi cate to

keep in his vehicle and a metal band

with an engraved invoice number, test

date and working pressure is affi xed to

the hose.

If a hose fails, Reliance can repair

it in the trailer or make a new one or

leave it failed if it’s beyond fi xing.

Reliance specializes in hose assem-

blies and repairs for hydraulic air, in-

dustrial, composite, thermoplastic and

BOP hose assemblies and can pressure

test hoses with up to 20,000 psi in the

shop.

“Th e testing is important for safety

and it’s important for companies keep-

ing their equipment up to date,” said

Doull who notes there is also an envi-

ronment incentive.

“If you have any oil leaks or hydrau-

lic leaks, you are going to get a mess,”

he said. “Th e government is sticky on

how clean your well sites have to be

now.

“Trucks that take oil to the tanks

have to have their hoses pressure tested

so they don’t have any spills. If they have

a spill, it’s usually going to be fairly big

if a hose lets go.”

Reliance cuts hose pressure test time

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By Geoff LeeLloydminster– Shivers will be a thing in the past

for 63-year-old Arnie Lund, who plans to spend ev-

ery winter of his retirement with his wife Bernie bak-

ing under the hot Arizona sun.

“I never want to be cold. I hope never to spend

a winter again in northern Canada,” said Lund, who

retires on July 31 after 41 years with Nexen and its

various predecessors.

“Once the weather turns cold, I am going to be

like a bird and going south. We bought a house in

Mesa, Arizona. It backs on to the 14th hole of the

Arizona Golf Resort

“Hopefully, as long as my health keeps me there,

that’s where I am going to be. We will live there for

six months in the winter and come back here in the

summer.”

But fi rst things fi rst. Th e day after Lund retires

from Nexen as an area materials coordinator, he will

be heading to Muenster, Saskatchewan, to coach the

Lloydminster Twins baseball team in the Mosquito

AA provincials.

“After that I will go up to my cottage at Loon

Lake and go fi shing and golf and enjoy the sunshine,”

he said. Th e couple sold their house in Lloydminster

last year to become snowbirds.

Warmth is important to Lund who gets a chill

recalling his six and half years as roughneck in the

Arctic. He worked on an Imperial oil rig at Atkinson

Point in the NWT where the company made Cana-

da’s fi rst Arctic oil discovery in 1970.

His start date with Imperial was Sept 20, 1968, at

Rainbow Lake north of Edmonton on a rig number

4 that was torn down that fall and barged from Hay

River to Inuvik and on to Tuktoyaktuk.

Lund and two other men fl ew in from Inuvik on

a single engine Beechcraft to set up the camp for the

rest of the crew. Th e trio arrived Dec. 11, four days

after the Arctic plunged into total darkness with a

welcoming wind chill of -94 on both temperature

scales.

“We just had fl ashlights to get the lights working

and heat the camp,” said Lund. “It took six to seven

hours to heat the camp. My fi rst night in the Arctic

was the worst.

“Th ere were some days with the wind chill that

were -70 to -90. Th ere were some ferocious winds.

Th ere is nothing to slow it down.

“Th e rigs were prefabs from the south. We had

some modifi cations we had to do fairly fast to get our

rigs more adapted to the weather up there.”

Nexen retiree ready to y south with like-minded snowbirds

Arnie Lund, middle, was featured in Imperial Oil’s Annual Report of 1968. Arnie spent more than six years on drilling rigs in the high Arctic.

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Lund said he didn’t like the cold but stayed on

because there was little or no oil exploration happen-

ing in his home province of Manitoba at the time. He

was born in Elkhorn, Man.

“Th e rigs were slow and I was young and didn’t

know any better,” he said. “I just stayed for the mon-

ey. After six years they shut down the operation. Th e

price of oil was too low. Th ey shut it down and con-

tracted out rigs.”

Lund was transferred to Imperial’s Steelman oil-

fi eld near Estevan as a battery operator in charge of

three batteries and 49 producing wells. He worked

there for a variety of Nexen predecessors until trans-

ferring to Lloydminster in 1996.

He says in those early days in Estevan there was

no way to get oil of the Bakken.

“Back when I started, waterfl ooding was just

getting underway. Th ere were no enhanced recovery

techniques in the 60’s.

“Th ey were all pilot projects at the time. Now,

there’s all this new technology with CO2 and pro-

pane. It’s gone crazy as far as technology goes. People

are getting smarter with it,” he said.

Th e Bakken oilfi eld was familiar territory as

Lund started at age 18 working rigs in Virden, Man.,

and Carnduff . It was during a holiday to Edmonton

when he applied to Imperial and launched his Arctic

adventures.

Lund says when people hear he worked in the

Arctic, the fi rst thing they ask is "how cold was it and

how did you manage?"

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“Th e Arctic can kick up some pretty good storms,” he said. “You have to

walk from the camp to the rigs. You can hear the motor but you can’t see it.

We had ropes to walk from the camp to the rigs.”

His overriding memory of drilling in the Arctic was the reckless way the

environment was treated compared with today.

“Th ere were lots of things we did in the Arctic that we would never get

away with today environmentally,” Lund said. “If people were to read about

them all, I would probably be in jail. What was fi ne to do 20 years ago, you

don’t even talk about today.”

Lund has never been back to the Arctic and he likes his nice warm offi ce.

Being a materials coordinator is his favourite job.

“Th e majority of my work is here in heavy oil,” he said. “I price material

when they move it around and I make monthly or quarterly visits to our shal-

low gas operations in Medicine Hat, our coalbed methane offi ces in Leduc

and the Dilly Creek shale gas project in B.C.”

Lund is known for this sense of humour and will be missed by those who

know him well, like adminstrative coordinator Elaine Hewson.

“He makes every day unique,” said Hewson. “He’s always happy and jok-

ing and writing ‘nasty’ funny little e-mails. I’ve enjoyed working with him that

way. You can tell when he’s not here.”

As Lund counts down the days and hours on a company whiteboard, fa-

cilities construction manager Joe Mills is on a mission to shame Lund into

abandoning his beloved green Riders in favour of the Eskimos.

“Riders is what he wears on the outside but in his heart he’s Eskimo,”

quipped Mills who popped into Lund’s offi ce to get his licks in.

Ironically, Lund was wearing green during the interview and says it’s be-

cause but there are “a couple of Eskimo fans down the hall. Every now and

then I have to remind them who the best football team is.”

Lund is proud to state he rode in a company Grey Cup parade fl oat in

Regina when the Riders won the cup in 1989. Lund also likes fi shing and golf

and says he chose to retire early to enjoy life.

“A lot of my friends that I grew up with – a lot of them are not around

and many of them are sick. Th at’s what made my mind up about retiring,” he

said.

“I don’t want to lose the camaraderie. I will do my best to keep in contact

with buddies and that.”

Ernie Lund tracks the hours and days to retirement. By now he has less than three weeks to go.


By Geoff Lee

Paradise Hill – In a small town like Paradise Hill,

the grand opening of Hardy Excavating Ltd.’s new

shop turned out to be a big deal.

It seemed like the entire community showed up

for a tour of the building and a barbecue party with

activities for kids, mule-powered wagon rides, draw

prizes and a backhoe rodeo.

Th e only thing that was missing from the fes-

tivities until the supper hour was the celebrity owner

John Hardes who was called out early in the day for

company business – cleaning up an oil spill.

“Our main business is oilfi eld construction and

maintenance,” said Hardy who owns the business

with his wife Rosemary.

“We do pretty much whatever oil companies

need. We do lease set ups and spill cleanups and fl ow

lines. We work with crews like L & L Oilfi eld Con-

struction and Granite Oilfi eld to set up for wells. We

do gravel leases and help the crews to set up equip-

ment.”

Hardy Excavating also operates Wesco Services

Ltd., a redi-mix concrete company acquired in 2005

followed by the opening of a second redi-mix plant

in St. Walburg.

“It’s been going really good,” said Wesco man-

ager Blaine Fowler. People in the patch are busy and

working hard and building cabins and new houses

and shops. We have 10 redi-mix trucks. We mix the

concrete and deliver it.”

While business was brisk at the grand opening

barbecue pit, Hardes jumps at every chance to earn a

buck excavating as the slowdown in the oipatch leas-

ing continues.

“About 80 per cent of our work is oilfi eld,” said

Hardes. “Th ings are slow. Drilling helps. When drill-

ing is going everything gets going. We will sometimes

get involved in oil cleanups and reclamation.”

Hardy Excavation is currently working with a

paving crew to complete a two mile stretch of high-

way near Onion Lake and is also prepared to take on

more seasonal water and sewer work for farmers.

“In the winter, we do snowplowing and sanding

roads for oil companies,” said Hardes. “Th at lets us

keep our staff through the winter when it’s normally

slower.”

Th e new 9,000 square foot shop with an addi-

tional 7,200 sq. ft. of offi ce space is the result of the

most recent boom time that prompted Hardy to ex-

pand and relocate operations from the family farm

north of Paradise Hill.

“We outgrew our location and we had no privacy

here,” explained Hardes. “We had all that equipment

coming in to where we live. We wanted to separate

our personal life from work a little bit.”

Back in 1981 when Hardes got his start – with

one backhoe – privacy and expansion were non-is-

sues.

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death. I ran it by myself for quite awhile and then

for a long while there was just two or three of us. We

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Hardy Excavating moved its equipment includ-

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said Hardes.

“We had a little bit better turnout than we ex-

pected. We are not sure how many turned up since

not everyone signed the registry. Judging by the food

that went, we had about 500 to 600 hundred. It was

a good turnout.”

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Lloydminster– Th e

Cummins Western Can-

ada dealership in Lloy-

dminster that sells and

distributes diesel and

natural gas engines and

power generation prod-

ucts avoided a food riot

by limiting invitations to

its customer appreciation

day to the local market.

Cummins engines

are found under the hood

of every type of vehicle

on earth from emergency

vehicles and 18-wheelers

to 360-ton mining haul

trucks. Hundreds of their

natural gas engines and

power generators have

been sold to oilfi eld cus-

tomers and recreational

consumers in the Lloyd-

minster area.

Had all these cus-

tomers turned up for a

smokie or a burger on

May 29, things might

have turned out scary for

manager Myron Basset

and his employees who

served about 100 guests.

Some were drawn

to the feast after hear-

ing Cummins would

match all donations for

the Lloydminster Health

Foundation. Others

dropped by to pick up a

product brochure.

“We appreciate every

customer,” said Basset.

“It doesn’t matter wheth-

er they are a gas engine

user or a diesel engine

user. Anybody who does

business with us or is

a potential customer is

welcome to come. Cus-

tomers are our business.

Th ey are our bread and

butter.”

New diesel engine

customers are expected

once word gets out the

dealership has installed

a new a new Diesel Par-

ticulate Filter Cleaning

System to service the

nitrogen oxide emis-

sion fi lters regulated for

on-highway trucks since

2007.

“When the diesel

particulate fi lter (DPF)

is ready for cleaning at

200,000 mile intervals,

we can take it off the

truck and give it a blast

cleaning and it will be

good for another 200,000

miles,” said Basset.

“We are the only

company in Lloyd that

has that unit. We just

received it here and fi n-

ished our set up proce-

dure on it. It is ready for

operation.”

Th e addition of the

DPF service unit is part

of an ongoing plan by

Cummins to add new

products and services

that will give the com-

pany a competitive edge.

“Our business is very

diversifi ed,” said Bas-

set. “Prior to 2000, our

business was 100 percent

highway truck or agri-

cultural and industrial.

“In the last couple

of years, most of our

growth has been from

the oilfi eld. Our business

today in Lloydminster is

around 60 per cent oil-

fi eld.

“We have made

quite a turnaround in the

oilfi eld with our 5.9 and

8. 3- litre natural gas en-

gines. We have about 900

to 1,000 engines currently

running in the oilfi eld.

“It was just a product

that was made available to

use in 2000 that we didn’t

have prior to that. It fi t

a horsepower niche that

the oilpatch needed and

it worked. Th ey needed

between 75 and 100

horsepower and that’s

exactly where those two

engine platforms meet in

this area.”

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Page A29Natural gas engines are commonly used by oil

producers to power pump jacks to lift their product

or to power a fl ow line gas compressor.

“Th ey have to siphon fuel gas off the wellheads

on so what they’ll do it collect that fuel gas and

run a small gas compressor to push it down line,”

said Basset.

“Th e fi rst couple of years in the oilfi eld is al-

ways a trial time because they want to know if your

product is a good as you say it is. We are seeing

upward of 40,000 hours on our engines. Our com-

petitors typically aren’t that high.”

Th e Cummins dealership is also a distributor

of Cummins Power Generation brand products

including diesel and natural gas generators for in-

dustrial and commercial purposes. Th ey also sell

the Cummins Onan brand of generators for rec-

reational vehicle, marine, commercial mobile, resi-

dential and portable applications.

Basset no longer honks at every Peterbilt,

Kenworth or Volvo transport truck driver on the

highway because sooner or later a lot of them are

waved into his shop for service on their Cummins

engines.

“We have 14 locations in western Canada and

distributors all across North America,” said Basset.

“Plus we have a dealer service network with Peter-

bilt, Kenworth, and Volvo – lots of places where

they can get service and parts.

“Th e engine performs well,” said Basset. It’s

one of the top engines in fuel effi ciency.

“As far as our shop goes, we will service those

engines whether it’s a rebuild at time of wear out

or a replacement it if it’s more cost eff ective to the

customer – with an exchange product that is made

and designed by Cummins. We will stand behind

that.”

Basset says Cummins has a one-year unlimited

hour warranty on its natural gas engines that he

says is the best warranty in the industry. Th e en-

gines themselves have been designed on the diesel

since the 1980s.

“We have millions of those engines out there,”

said Basset. “We have so much design money into

those engines and we stand behind them. Th ey pro-

duce great horsepower versus anybody else and we

have the support in parts and services right here.” Lloydminster branch manager Myron Basset dis-played this 8.3- litre natural gas engine on cus-tomer appreciation day.

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By Brian ZinchukWeyburn – Organizers of the Saskatchewan Oil

and Gas Show in Weyburn had about 4000 name tag

lanyards for exhibitors and guests of the show.

Th ey ran out.

With beautiful weather and sold out exhibition

space, the show, also known as the Weyburn Oil

Show, was a hit.

Tuesday, June 2 was setup day and featured a

golf tournament for exhibitors. Th at was followed by

a sold-out steak or lobster supper with about 1,300

people attending.

Th e gates opened on Wednesday, June 3. Pre-

mier Brad Wall was on hand for inductions into the

Saskatchewan Oil Industry Hall of Fame and and

the awarding of Oilman of the Year to Greg Smith,

COO of Petrobank.

Th ese awards are selected by a somewhat infor-

mal selection committee who meet in Calgary one to

two months ahead of the show. “We already have a

fair list of people developed for two years down the

road,” notes Al Schreiner, co-chair of the selection

committee and master of ceremonies. To qualify, a

person must have a Saskatchewan birth rite and have

made a signifi cant contribution to the oil and gas in-

dustry somewhere in the world.

Later on the Wednesday, Energy and Resources

Minister cut the chain, offi cially opening the event.

Two more stalwarts of the industry, Dale Fox and

John Kmita, were honoured as the Southeast Oilmen

of the Year.

Radio talkshow host John Gormley spoke at the

luncheon on Th ursday, June 4. His address focused on

the improvement of the Saskatchewan attitude, being

on the right track economically, and strong prospects

for the province.

Interior displays ranged from large engines at the

Cummins booth to several laboratories who special-

ize in analysis at the molecular level. Page B2

The 2009 Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show committee. In the back row from left to right are Trevor Pandachuk, Doug Dammann, Darryl Ward, Jim Kopec, Jim Hutt and Cal LaCoste. In the second row are Ron Jeffrey, Laurence Woodard, Yvette Delanoy, Johnny Johnston and Don Sealy. In the third row are Don Struthers, Dennis Krainyk, Darcy Cretin, Morley Forsgren, Stan Runne, secretary Sandy Alexander, Darren Woodard and Mark Schneider. In the front row from left are Del Mondor, Larry Heggs, Mayor Debra Button, chairman Ron Carson, Energy Minister Bill Boyd, Ray Frehlick and Jim York.

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PIPELINE NEWS July 2009B2

Page B1

Outside, the largest display was the brand new

Rig 6 for Eagle Drilling Services, which picked up

one of the four awards for displays. Th ere were plenty

of barbecues to keep you fed.

SaskPower cooked several wieners, not on a bar-

becue like everyone else, but with their high voltage

display. It showed what happened if you hit or even

get too close to a power line.

“It’s a great opportunity for the industry to get

together with key suppliers,” Energy and Resources

Deputy Minister Kent Campbell told Pipeline News. “It’s an indication the industry is

looking favourably on Saskatche-

wan. Especially in the southeast,

people are optimistic. Th at’s

good news for us. With oil

prices in the mid-60’s, the

southeast oilfi eld is be-

coming very economic.”

It’s a vast improve-

ment over two years

ago,” says Annette

Woodroff e of ALS

Laboratory Group,

who noted the weath-

er did not co-operate

in 2007. “It’s such a

well-managed show.”

“We got a couple

leads here. It’s defi -

nitely new expo-

sure for us in

southeast Sas-

katchewan,” said

Derek Gardner

of Hawkeye

Industries Inc.,

one of the ex-

hibitors.

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Mclaren Keslering, left and his brother Marek, enjoy the treats at the Weyburn Oil Show.

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Carlyle – You couldn’t

miss it – gleaming yel-

low against the skyline,

spotless. It’s not often

the public get to crawl

all over a brand spanking

new drilling rig, but they

had that opportunity at

the Weyburn Saskatch-

ewan Oil and Gas Show

in early June.

Eagle Drilling Ser-

vices Rig 6 was ready to

go, and at the conclusion

of the show, went straight

to work on its fi rst hole,

near Antler.

Th e journey to that

fi rst hole is a little more

complicated, however.

Initially, it was supposed

to be Rig 7, not Rig 6, at

the oil show. However,

the precipitous drop in

oil prices meant Rig 7

would have to wait.

“We started build-

ing Rig 6 about July ’08,”

says Derrick Big Eagle,

president and general

manager. “Our clients

had requested to pick up

an additional rig.”

Th at rig would be

commissioned to go to

work right away, but the

initial client backed off

on their drilling program.

“It was quite a struggle to

get it out again,” says Big

Eagle. Th ey had three

other clients committed,

but each backed off . Fi-

nally, one chose June 7 to

go to work, which meant

Rig 6 could make an ap-

pearance at the oil show

while still shiny and new.

Th e company got its

fi rst rig going in June,

2005, and had been

on a track of building

a new rig every six to

eight months. With that

schedule, Rig 7 would

have been ready for the

oil show.

Th e decision to hold

off on proceeding with

Rig 7 was made in Oct.,

2008. “We’re a small

company, and don’t want

a big debt load,” Big Ea-

gle says. “Th e drop was

so steady, it wasn’t a wise

decision to go.”

Alberta spill over“Th e Alberta gov-

ernment didn’t realize it

would aff ect that many

people in Alberta,” Big

Eagle says of changes to

that province’s royalty re-

gime. Th e result was rigs

moved to southeast Sas-

katchewan. “Th e crash

of Alberta aff ected what

happened down here. It

fl ooded our market here

for rigs,” he says, noting

rig rates dropped to lev-

els not seen since the late

1970s and early 1980s.

Th e company had

good rigs and still had

them working, though,

according to Big Eagle.

Th eir slowest time was

from Christmas to the

road bans, when one or

two of fi ve rigs were shut

down at a time, resulting

in a utilization rate of 60

to 80 per cent.

“Before that, it was

100 per cent, and we’re

back to that now.”

“We have a few

windows in the summer

we’re in the process of

fi lling. In a nutshell, all

six rigs are booked up

until Christmas time and

beyond.” Page B6

Eagle Drilling Services Rig 6Eagle Drilling Services Rig 6

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Because there is more

choice for rigs now, their

effi cient reputation is

what leads to work, he

explains.

“We draw in the good

people, by being the local

boy and a local company -

our people come fi rst sort

attitude.”

Big Eagle says they

draw the elite of rig work-

ers.

“Our safety record is

second to none. We have

over 700,000 hours with-

out a lost-time accident.

Rig 2 is closely approach-

ing the 1,000 day mile-

stone with zero lost-time

accidents.”

Rig designRig 6 is a cookie cut-

ter of the previous fi ve

rigs run by Eagle Drilling

Services. It’s a telescopic

double, and features inno-

vations meant to improve

safety, reduce fatigue, and

make the whole rig more

effi cient. By staying with

the same design, it makes

planning and staffi ng

easier.

Th e rigs are built to

be effi cient, but to get the

effi ciency, the people have

to have a good working

atmosphere, explains Big

Eagle.

“Th e weather ele-

ments are the biggest

negative fact for the rig.

Either cold or soaking

wet, your decisions are

blurred,” he says. To that

end, they have made ef-

forts to keep workers out

of the elements.

Th e doghouse has a

slide-out for the driller. It

puts the driller right next

to the drilling fl oor, but

enclosed in a controlled,

heated or air conditioned

environment. It’s a con-

cept similar to camper

slide outs.

Derrickhands have

the benefi t of an enclosed,

heated mud tank system

with a roof.

Roughnecks catching

samples are also inside.

Motormen have an

enclosure at the end of

the hands-off hydraulic

catwalk.

“I think the hydraulic

catwalk is the best piece

of drilling technology in

the 21st century,” says Big

Eagle.

One addition to this

rig that has not been

seen on previous incarna-

tions is a closed-circuit

video system. Th e driller

can choose between four

cameras – derrick, pump,

shaker and catwalk. “Its

angles of the rig you can’t

really see,” Big Eagle

says.

The public were all over Eagle Drilling Service’s Rig 6 at the Weyburn Oil Show.

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Th e fabrication

work was done by Do-

All Metal Fabricating

in Estevan, with some

mechanical work done

at Glenburn, North

Dakota. Assembly took

place at the Eagle Drill-

ing Service’s Carlyle

yard, where they have a

rat hole and mouse hole

on site. “When they go

to the fi eld, they’re fi n-

ished,” Big Eagle says.

“Only one rig in

southeast Saskatchewan

is rated deeper than ours.

We’re capable of drilling

any well southeast Sas-

katchewan has to off er.

“Th ey were built to

drill south of Regina in

our deeper zones out

there.”

Vertically, the rig can

handle 3,500 m Total

Vertical Depth with 4.5

in. drill pipe. Th e racking

capacity is 4,500 m.

“If you were to go

buy one of ours, it would

be $8 million,” says Big

Eagle. “I don’t pay $8

million.”

On sitePipeline News visited

the new rig as it wrapped

up its fi rst hole. Th e well

was for Fairborne En-

ergy Ltd., just across the

Manitoba border and

along Manitoba High-

way 2.

Kim Gavelin is the

rig manager. He’s been

with the company for a

year. Asked how the fi rst

hole went, he says, “Pret-

ty good. Harvey’s got

most of the bugs worked

out before we even leave

[the yard].

Harvey Turcotte is

the fi eld superintendent

for Eagle Drilling Ser-

vices.

Ken Jacobi is Fair-

borne’s consultant. He

says the rig will be do-

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at about 10 to 12 days

a hole, roughly four

months work. Th e wells

are all cookie-cutter,

horizontal multi-stage

frac.

Th e fi rst hole, “went

good,” he says. “We

fought the mud a little

bit. It’s all part of the

game.”

Jacobi adds the rig is

“well thought out.”

Roughneck Jared

Chicoine just joined the

company. He says, “Th e

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Roughneck Dustin

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“I really like it. Th e last

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especially the slide out.

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His responsibilities in-

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a number of properties

acquired in the recent

purchase of Talisman

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tion meant a shifting of

some responsibilities, but

looking after a similar

amount of properties.

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work through his own

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Consulting. It includes

having four operators

and one admin person

directly working for

him, and the rest work-

ing working for TriStar.

Others are contractors.

“Main offi ce is in

Estevan now. It used to

be here, but now it ex-

panded,” Ericksen ex-

plains about TriStar.

“We originally

started in a small offi ce

in Redvers.” In the fall

of 2007, the offi ce was

moved to Estevan.

Ericksen spent 17

years as a mainline pipe-

line welder, before fi nd-

ing a job with Placid

Oil of Houston. “I was

at home. I could stay at

home,” he says.

In 1999, he went on

his own and started P &

M Oilfi eld Consulting,

working for some inde-

pendent oilfi eld compa-

nies. In December, 2005,

TriStar fi red up.

Asked about the

secret behind TriStar,

Ericksen says, “It’s the

people you put in place.

Th e knowledge and ex-

perience and the direc-

tion from Calgary.”

Th e takeover of Tal-

isman assets was a major

one, he notes, but one of

several. “You just go with

the fl ow and pick the

pace up. You have to.”

Ericksen was born

and raised in Redvers. It

was his home base even

while pipelining. He’s

an ardent supporter of

the community, playing

a role on the Redvers &

District Oil Showcase.

At 58 years old, he

rides regularly. In addi-

tion to that broken wrist,

he earned 5 stitches

above his eye. “Looked

like I had been in a fi ght,”

he says with a smile.

“I have fi ve rope

horses, and my daughter

has 20. She bought the

quarter next to me.”

Ericksen’s home is

fi ve miles west of Red-

vers, where he has an in-

door/outdoor arena. “We

rope twice a week there.

Four-H’ers use it,” he

says. Erickson donates

the use of the riding are-

na to the local 4-H club,

and he teaches younger

people how to rope.

Th e western theme

carries through with the

building in which he’s

based. It was once home

to Williston Wildcat-

ters, in Arcola. Ericksen

had it moved down the

road to Redvers, where it

is now offi ces for several

companies.

Fittingly, the build-

ing is called, “Country

Corral.”

Marius Ericksen is the real deal, with scars to match, team roping when he’s not wrangling wells for TriStar. He owns the building behind him, which houses of ces for several companies.

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eventually a decision needed to be made – go big or

go home. Nathan and Barb Dunford decided to go

big.

Now their lease weed spraying company is a

dominant player in the fi eld, with Nathan explain-

ing, “We spray over 6,000 every summer for over two

dozen major companies.”

Th at’s over half the market, he asserts. Each lease

is typically visited twice a year, starting in June and

going into September.

Why spray?

Leases are to be kept clean of noxious weeds, ac-

cording to provincial legislation.

“Our job is to pave the way to make sure the

mowers can get in and out with no problems,” says

Nathan. He adds that controlling weeds reduces fi re

hazard and improves cosmetics.

Th e company uses a special blend of non-selective

chemicals. When done, any weeds end up brown.

Th e company now operates four trucks, but start-

ed with much more humble beginnings in 2002. “I

had weed sprayed for my dad’s company for years,” he

says, adding he also did plenty of mowing.

Th at mowing experience has become an impor-

tant factor, because Dunford sees things from the

eyes of a guy who has to mow the lease. He looks for

places where a mower can’t easily reach, if at all.

Th e fi rst sprayer had a two-inch pump and gar-

den hose, a home built unit. Since then, they’ve been

progressively upgrading.

Th e phone kept ringing, he says.

“Th ey all want to hire local contractors as much

as possible, Nathan explains. But when you’re local,

you don’t always have the same, high level equip-

ment.

“We had to go big or shut it down.”

Th e early years were like many a small business,

with a second job, in this case, working the service

rigs, to help keep the lights on during the off -season.

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If there is one constant is business, it’s paperwork.

Th e paperwork challenges can be daunting to work in the oilfi eld. Pride

Upkeep now holds a SECOR – Small Employer Certifi cate of Recognition. It

wasn’t easy, because it was either hire someone and spend $50,000 for the cer-

tifi cation, or do it themselves. “Because I’m a small company, I basically locked

myself in an offi ce for the winter,” Nathan says.

“It’s what it took to keep my doors open. A lot of companies won’t hire you

unless you have it.”

Barb was working in accounting for a company out of Lampman. Eventu-

ally, she decided to quit her job and join Nathan in the company full time. “I

couldn’t stand see him. He was just stressed out,” she recalls.

Nathan acknowledges that making sure quality assurance was there was

killing him. “As the business expanded, we needed to count on reliable people.”

No dead cylindersTh e problem is, the nature of the business is a new batch of employees

comes on each year. It meant doing some recruiting under the same roof.

Th e pair married in 2004 and have a blended family. Brittany, 22, now has a

diploma in petroleum engineering and works with PennWest. However, she ran

a truck for four years, and even this past June, when she had some time off her

regular job, she was out in the fi eld, helping.

Th eir second daughter, Amber, 18, started working this summer. Before, she

was helping run the household, or looking after her two brothers.

Th eir two twin boys, Jesse and Wyatt, 12, act as a pit crew. When the trucks

come in each day, they’re out there, eager to off er a hand. “We we drive in the

yard, they come out, asking, ‘What do you need?’” Barb says. It might mean

hooking up hoses, restocking the trucks with chemical, or cleaning them out.

Th e two say they’ve been doing it for about four years now.

“No slackers. We have no dead cylinders. It’s a team eff ort,” says Nathan.

Barb herself runs a truck on top of doing the books, after having quit her

previous job in 2006. “Th is is my fourth season running a truck,” she says. “I

was coming home from my job, helping him spray until 9 o’clock, then doing

books.”

She saw potential for the business, and wanted to be a part of it.

Each truck runs with two people, a foreman and swamper.

As for their other staff , Nathan says it’s an ideal job for university students,

with crazy hours, lots of money, and lots of overtime. Scott, for instance, is a

University of Regina engineering student.

But the job is highly demanding, he explains. “Th eir day off is the next

windy or rainy day.”

Th e job starts at 5 a.m. and runs until sundown. Yet his staff stay motivated,

according to Nathan.

“What’s your secret, Nathan?” he says others ask him.

“I pay them very well,” is the reply.

Th at includes safety and performance bonuses, plus lots of overtime.

Driving up to their yard, it’s hard to miss the white pumpjack in the centre

of a go-cart race track. More than just a fun distraction, the track had a real

purpose – keeping staff on board.

At a time when labour has been a real crunch, Pride Upkeep couldn’t aff ord

to lose anyone. Th e track became a make-work project, because there are only

so many times you can sweep the fl oor of the shop. It might be a week of rain or

wind during the summer, and they didn’t want staff to quit. “I need them. I need

them to the end of the season,” he says. Page B11

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Page B10You’ll fi nd Nathan

on a truck as well. “Th is

is not a business you can

run at arms length. You

have to be there in the

trenches with your em-

ployees every day.”

Won’t run drySpeaking of arms

length, a hose can get

heavy over the course of

the day, so they’ve pro-

gressed to high-end hos-

es and reels. Th e hoses

these days are no longer

garden hoses, but light-

weight models that mud

doesn’t stick to. Each

worker carries a wireless

remote control, allowing

the hose reel to pay out

or pull in hose as needed

– as much as 500 feet.

“[With] these new Aus-

tralian units, our produc-

tivity has doubled,” Na-

than says. “Our job out

there is all hand applica-

tion – hoses and guns.”

Th at length means

they can reach anywhere

on a lease, including

muddy areas.

“Th e best weed

spraying equipment is a

human being with 500

feet of hose,” he says,

noting you can’t get

around with a quad and

boom into tight places.

On foot, you can walk in

and walk out.

A substantial com-

petitive advantage for

the company took eight

years to complete – a

mammoth dugout. It’s

100-ft. wide, 25-feet

deep and runs the length

of the quarter section.

Th ey picked up an an-

cient four-stick excava-

tor for cheap, and dug

each winter.

Th at water supply is a

real ace in the hole when

water can become pretty

scarce. While they retain

the ability to scavenge

surface water as needed,

or access wells, the vast

majority of their water is

sourced from home base.

Th e third and fourth

units have custom built

packages with a lot of

thought involved. Th ey

each have portapotties

in vertical tool cabinets,

a consideration for the

women who can make

up over half their staff .

(Barb can’t say enough

about them.)

Th e third unit, a Ford

cab-over, incorporated a

quad storage space with

integrated ramps. Th ere’s

special storage compart-

ments for empty chemi-

cal bottles.

A special front-

mounted sprayer can

cover widths up to 50

ft., either to the front or

either side for ditches.

It’s similar in concept to

the front mounted water

cannons installed on fi re

trucks for fi ghting grass

fi res. It’s a recent innova-

tion that hasn’t seen a lot

of use yet.

Th e fourth unit is a

little smaller, but has a

crew cab and four-wheel

drive.

GPS? No thanksDespite all this ad-

vanced gear, keeping

track of leases is a lesson

in the KISS principle –

Keep It Simple, Stupid.

No GPS units here. In-

stead, they keep detailed

map books, hand drawn,

illustrating each lease’s

location and any notes.

Part of the off -season

is spent updating those

books. Organic land is

highlighted, because

spraying on that land

makes for a real bad day.

Barb says she spent a

month, starting in April,

contacting rural munici-

palities to fi nd out who

now has organic land. It

changes every year.

“Farmers have to

phone in and regis-

ter with the RMs to let

them know what is going

on,” says Nathan.

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It’s all hands on deck for the Dunford family, all of whom are part of Pride Upkeep. From left are Nathan, Barb, Wyatt, Jesse Dunford and Amber Pou-loit. Missing is Brittany Pouliot. The open tool box is the famed portapotty stall.

Keeping busy is not a problem for local business

Th e company usu-

ally works the same area

together, similar to cus-

tom combiners, or, as

Nathan puts it, “A band

of locusts.”

“In this business,

volume is the name of

the game. It dictates

how much you can

cover in a day,” Nathan

says. “We leave the

yard fully loaded, with

enough for the whole

day.”

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skid package

By Brian Zinchuk

Estevan – It’s now

several weeks since Pipe-line News last visited

Waterfl ood Service &

Sales. Th e company is

working on a skid pack-

age for EOG Resources,

and John Reid is the en-

gineer tasked with the

project.

At this point, the

skid package is nearing

completion. Most of the

valves and piping has

been assembled, with

spacers taking the place

of a few components yet

to arrive. Th e skid then

needs the building in-

stalled.

Th e engineer’s work

on a project like this rises

like a crescendo to the

kickoff meeting, where

we last spoke to Reid,

and then tapers off .

At the conclusion

of the kickoff meeting,

Reid takes items raised

and incorporates them

into the plans. “I’ll do

updated drawings of any

changes that came about

in the meeting,” Reid ex-

plains. “Th ey’re normally

small things.”

“We’ll note any

equipment that may take

a long time to get here,

and how to work around

that. In this case, there

were questions about in-

strumentation – brand

and the like,” he says.

With these altera-

tions, it’s now time to

put out the “issued for

construction” drawings,

essentially, the fi nal blue-

prints the tradesmen will

build the project from.

Th e days of rooms

full of draftsmen are long

gone, however. Since they

use three-dimensional

modelling of mostly

standardized parts, these

plans can be put together

relatively swiftly. Pull-

ing up fi les on each part,

with a few mouse clicks,

orthographic line draw-

ings or rendered iso-

graphic views can be put

on the plans. Dimen-

sioning takes only a few

clicks more.

But the sweet thing

is that if something

changes in one portion,

say the length of a cer-

tain section of pipe, all

the other plans, and their

accompanying bills of

materials, are updated

automatically.

“Th ere’s really no

time in building these

parts,” Reid says of the

design end. “Th e time is

in putting them togeth-

er.”

In this case, there

was one pump that re-

quired 3-D modelling to

be inserted in the plans.

“You have to pay a

lot of attention when you

are building the initial

part, but you save a lot

of time in the end,” Reid

says.

Before they leave

the engineering depart-

ment, plans are checked

by another person, in

this case, by Johan Land-

man, a fellow engineer. If

there is a specifi c request

for professional engineer

certifi cation, the on-staff

P. Eng will sign off with

their stamp. Th at was the

case with the base of this

package. Brent Black-

burn is the professional

engineer on staff with

Waterfl ood.

Issued for construc-

tion drawings go to the

shop and customer. Th e

engineer is required to

document the documen-

tation has been transmit-

ted. If that sounds like

a lot of paperwork, it is.

A large portion of his

work is ensuring there

is a paper trail. “Every-

thing is documented, it’s

all part of our ISO 9001

quality control program”

Reid notes.

Copies go into the

job book, which stays

with the engineer, and

the “traveller,” a simi-

lar book which includes

copies of things like the

welder’s certifi cation, X-

ray maps, hydro testing,

gauge calibration, and

materials testing from

the metals supplier. A

lot of the work with the

traveller is done by Ryan

Mittelholtz.

Dan Amundrud is

in charge of quality con-

trol inspections, and has

checklists he fi lls out,

checking things like

welding, and ensuring

dimensions on the as-

sembly are correct.

Plenty of trees go

into this documentation,

with the thickness of a

couple reams of paper by

the time all is said and

done.

Reid makes periodic

checks on the skid pack-

age, but his role at this

point is gradually dimin-

ishing. “At this stage, I

am keeping on top of

these outstanding items,”

he says of delayed com-

ponents. “A lot of the

work is in the design at

the start.”

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“When it’s getting this close to completion, I’ll arrange shipping and when

to pick it up.”

It’s part of the schedule management that falls to the engineer.

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it’s fi tting the company

is named after a fast-

growing tree, because

Poplar Services Ltd. set

up shop in a growing

community, Redvers.

“We specialize in

drilling waste disposal,”

says Brian LeNouail,

president and general

manager. Th eir main

service is land spreading

while drilling. “We off er

environmental service in

the oilfi eld.”

“We acquire land

for disposal, make the

agreements with the

land owners, and then

we test all the drilling

fl uids before anything

is spread. We also com-

plete any necessary gov-

ernment documentation

as well.”

Th e old method of

disposing of drilling

mud was to dig a sump

and fi ll it up. However,

sumps take a long time

to clean up. Th e accept-

ed practice now, accord-

ing to LeNouail, is land

spreading while drilling.

LeNouail is origi-

nally from Redvers,

which he calls a great

place to live and raise

his kids.

“I worked in Alberta

for three years, then was

in Estevan, working for

two diff erent compa-

nies.”

He moved back

from Estevan in 1999.

He fi gured he could

start his own company

and off er better service.

Th e result was Poplar

Services Ltd., which was

incorporated in 2006.

Land spreading is

accomplished by using

a vac truck or a trac-

tor pulling a vac unit.

It sucks up the mate-

rial at the drill site, and

then blows it out on the

designated land, using a

spreader plate to evenly

disperse the material.

“Th e vac driver stays at

the rig. He lives there,”

LeNouail explains.

As for his staff ,

“Th ey’re at the rig, test-

ing mud when it needs

to be spread. If the rig

needs to spread mud at

3 in the morning, they

are there.”

Th e samples are

taken off the shaker ta-

ble. Full tests are done

on site with test kits.

Th ey’re looking for ma-

jor ions, pH, salt and

oil. If it passes, “We tell

the vac driver to suck up

this mud we tested, and

it can be applied to the

fi eld at a specifi c rate.”

“Th e portion of the

farmer’s fi eld is GPS

mapped.” Th at informa-

tion is sent to the oil

company and govern-

ment.

If the test is negative,

the mud can be treated

before spread, diluted if

too salty, or, barring that,

sent to a disposal facil-

ity. Diesel-based muds,

for instance, are sent to

disposal facilities.

Accepting the drill-

ing mud means another

revenue stream for the

farmer, at about $800 to

$1,000 per well. Drill-

ing mud from one well

will cover about 20 to 30

acres. In summer, it usu-

ally goes on summer fal-

low. In the winter, snow

will be bladed to make

way for the spreader.

Sometimes a farmer

might leave one quarter

fallow if he knows there

are multiple wells.

Other than a little

moisture and a little bit

of nitrogen, LeNouail

says it “does nothing, re-

ally,” for the farmland.

“A lot of our work is

in Manitoba and eastern

Saskatchewan, so Red-

vers was an easy fi t for

us.”

LeNouail says the

cost of business in Red-

vers is an important ad-

vantage, noting it’s a lot

cheaper to operate in

Redvers than a larger

community.

“Everyone around

here is very big on the

community,” he says. In-

deed, he’s one of the or-

ganizers of the Redvers

& District Oil Show-

case, which will be held

again in May, 2010.

His wife, Marie-

France, helps in the

books, while Brian does

the day to day opera-

tions. Th ey have three

full-time staff , and al-

ways bring on a summer

student. “We engage in-

dependent consultants

from time-to-time,” he

notes.

“Th is year, again, we

have a consultant,” Le-

Nouail says, noting it’s

better than the alterna-

tive of not needing one.

“We’re quite busy.”

Spreading it around

Brian LeNouail, here with a gas migration tester, heads up Poplar Services Ltd., of Red-vers.

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Estevan – If you were watching

TSN bowling this past spring, you just

may have seen Estevan oilfi eld worker

Jaime Carter.

Carter, an operator/supervisor

with Guardian Oilfi eld Inspec-

tions for 13 years, took part in the

TSN Classic. Th e thing is, while

it aired this spring, it took place

last year.

Carter competed at the provincial

level in May of ‘08, winning and mov-

ing on to the Pins competition in Cal-

gary in September, 2008. “We bowl all in

one day,” Carter explained, while bowling in

a pizza league in Estevan. Th e broadcast of that

event was spread over many weeks this past

spring.

He took a shot at it again in May, 2009,

in Regina, but qualifi ed around sixth or

seventh. You have to be in the top two to

qualify for the next level. Th erefore, he

won’t be on the tube next spring, when

the event airs.

He won $500 at the 2008 event, but

did not make it to the end in the tourna-

ment.

Carter’s been bowling in Estevan for eleven years,

and has done it off and on throughout his life. He also plays some ball, pitching

the weekend before Pipeline News spoke to him.

Currently he’s on the lanes once a week in a rec league, “bowling for piz-

za.”

During the winter he tries to bowl twice a week, in a competitive and rec

league. “Last year I had to quit Mondays. Th at’s how busy I was.” He says. Th at’s

not the case now, however.

Th e 50-year-old is engaged. Asked if his fi ancé bowls with him, he Carter

replies, "She tried it a couple times - not interested."

Jaime Carter was on TSN this past spring, lmed bowling in the TSN Classic in 2008.

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building a shop in Red-

vers, but a community

promotion scheme end-

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Canells enough incen-

tive to go ahead and do

it.

In the 2008 Redvers

Oil Showcase, the top

level sponsors’ names

were thrown into a lot-

tery, with the winner

being given a serviced

lot, free, in Redvers. Th e

one caveat – the winner

had to act on it within a

year. Th e draw was made

in May of last year, with

the winning company

was Classic Vacuum

Truck Ltd.

“I guess I was lucky

to win the lot,” says

Randy McCannell, who

owns Classic Vacuum

with his wife Tammy.

Th ey’re based on the

east side of Alida, where

their picturesque yard

and prominent sign also

serves as home to their

trucking fl eet. Th e deck

provide a nice place to

go over the mammoth

scheduling book that is

with Randy wherever he

goes.

“We were running

out of parking area,

so we needed parking

space,” explains Tammy.

Th is is after they had re-

cently built a 60 x 80 ft.

shop at their Alida base.

“We were renting shops

in other towns.”

Th e result was an

80 x 152 ft. shop with

six bays, fi nished this

winter. TS & M Supply,

based in Estevan, had

expressed interest in set-

ting up a Redvers loca-

tion. “Th ey were looking

to set up shop. When

they found out I was go-

ing to build a shop, they

approached me and we

went from there.”

TS & M now leases

the front of the build-

ing, which bears the TS

& M logo.

Th e fi nal location

was not where the win-

ning lot was, however. A

few snafus meant they

ended up going with an-

other lot, and picked up

a few more. But the end

result was the same – the

promotion had success-

fully snagged not one,

but two businesses, for

Redvers.

New fi re truck“We do a lot of bat-

tery site turnarounds,

cleaning treaters, tanks

and spills,” Randy says,

adding they also land-

spread drilling mud.

Classic Vacuum

Truck operates six vac

trucks, three fresh water

trucks, two steamers, and

a fi re foam truck. Th e

steamers run under the

name Classic Steamers.

Th e fi re truck is based in

Weyburn.

It’s a new red fi re

truck. “We just got it in

February,” Randy says.

“Th ere’s not one around

like it.”

Th e truck has a

pumper unit, decon-

tamination showers, and

pulls a trailer with tank-

based air supply breath-

ing apparatus.

“We’ll go out to a

battery site. If they’re

going to clean tanks,

we’ll spray foam that

takes away all the H2S.”

Classic Vacuum

Truck company got its

start in 1998. Randy

had been driving truck

for Alida-based Th ree

Star Trucking when the

owner, Jim Boettcher,

approached him to buy a

vac truck. Th e company

has grown since then.

Th ey have two chil-

dren. One is invested in

the business, with his

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of the fl eet.

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Redvers – Oilfield

supply store TS & M

Supply, an affiliate of

NOV, has opened up a

new store in Redvers.

“We were open May

1, and will sometime

this summer be holding

a grand opening,” says

Marc Wolensky, man-

ager of the new facility.

The stock will in-

clude a complete line of

pipe valves and fittings,

in steel and fibreglass,

according to Wolensky.

They also carry fire and

safety lines.

The store has two

people – Wolensky

and Gary Halls. Halls

drives in from Tilston,

Man. He’s farmed most

of his life, and started

working in the oilpatch

four years ago.

Wolensky is a jour-

neyman bodyman, and

was a shop foreman be-

fore deciding he needed

a change. “I had done

autobody for 16 years,”

he says.

“I was looking to

get into the oilpatch. I

go talking to a gentle-

man in town, and he

forwarded my resume.”

While the doors

opened in May, Wolen-

sky actually started with

TS & M in October of

2008. He began learn-

ing the trade in Este-

van, and would end up

laying the groundwork

for the store well before

the opening day. Halls

similarly came on board

at the beginning of the

year.

“We started once

the cement dry. We

started fabricating

stands and racks,” Wo-

lensky says.

Both handle inside

and outside sales. “In

construction, you get to

know quite a few peo-

ple,” halls says.

“Everyone’s glad we

have an oilfield supply

store in Redvers,” Wo-

lensky says.

The common re-

sponse, according to the

pair, is “Oh thank God

we don’t have to drive

25 miles to Carlyle.”

They’re finding

their niche, asking cus-

tomers what they would

like to see. “We’re ask-

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many questions as they

ask,” Wolensky says.

The location came

about in a roundabout

way. At last year’s Red-

vers & District Oil

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nity gave away a devel-

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a lucky winner of a draw

for top level sponsors.

Classic Vacuum Truck

of Alida won, and they

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joined the action, leas-

ing the front part of the

building.

TS & M is leasing

the front 40 x80 ft. sec-

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yard that will eventually

stock rods, steel and fi-

breglass pipe.

“Ultimately, I would

not have this job if it

wasn’t for the oil show

to begin with,” says

Wolensky.

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Engineered to ASTM D3299 and D4097

Red Deer –Th is story

is for oilfi eld thieves and

energy companies in

search of a cost effi cient

tool to reduce or prevent

theft of valuable assets.

Certifi ed Secure

Identifi cation Corp

(CSI) in Red Deer is

off ering the industry a

proven solution to scare

off thieves with its pat-

ented I-DOT Microdot

Asset Th eft Deterrent

Technology.

Microdot technol-

ogy has proven to be an

eff ective deterrent for the

vehicle, power sport and

home asset protection

industry globally.

Liard McLeod, CSI’s

vice president of sales and

marketing is now pitch-

ing the technology solu-

tion to energy companies

who want to crack down

on crime.

“Th ieves will steal

anything from hand

tools to service equip-

ment, electric motors,

solar panels and welders,”

said McLeod. “Basically,

it’s any assets you have.”

Crime Stoppers in

Saskatchewan and Al-

berta reports dozens

of recent thefts in the

oilpatch including loss

of diesel fuel from con-

struction sites to vehicles,

tools, heaters and gener-

ators stolen from drilling

rigs.

“We were contacted

a month ago by EnCana

to explore how our glob-

ally successful microdot

theft deterrent technol-

ogy might to help them

curb their problem of as-

set theft,” said McLeod.

“After a short pilot

project that saw the ap-

plication of our microdot

technology applied to a

few hundred solar pan-

els, a more comprehen-

sive protection program

started.

“It was then suggest-

ed to us that CSI should

initiate an oilfi eld asset

protection program that

would bring together all

sectors of the oil and gas

industry, in a common ef-

fort to reduce the escalat-

ing rate of asset theft in

the oil and gas industry.

“Th is is something

we are keen on working

on and introducing to the

industry this summer.”

CSI’s microdots are

microscopic identifi ers

as small as a grain of

sand. Th ey can be easily

applied to mark oilfi eld

assets using a specially

formulated, clear drying,

ultra violet reactant ad-

hesive that makes them

hard to detect.

Th e identifi er is basi-

cally a serial number that

can only be read under a

magnifying glass using a

UV black light.

“For the most part,

authorities includ-

ing police are equipped

with black lights,” said

McLeod. “We are glad to

work with any of the au-

thorities, the pawn shops

and the oilfi eld surplus

stores that are required to

have this equipment to

participate in this initia-

tive.”

Since thieves can

own black lights too,

McLeod says CSI en-

courages oil and gas

companies to mark their

property in many diff er-

ent places with many dif-

ferent dots.

“A thief needs to have

the peace of mind that he

has not only found most

of them but he’s found all

of them,” said McLeod.

“Th e police only have to

fi nd one to prove stolen

property and who the of-

fender is.”

Th e “I-DOT™ Pro-

tected” warning labels

that come with the prod-

uct also act as a deterrent

when placed at the entry

points of a compound,

lease or vehicle or shop

window.

Microdot technology

been used since the Sec-

ond World War by the

U.S. military but its de-

velopment as a theft de-

terrent device with clear

drying adhesive started

in Australia in 2001 to

address auto theft.

Page B20

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Australian police report that the number of stolen microdot marked vehicles fell by as much as 86 per cent over vehicles that were not protected by microdots.

“Th at success prompted the use of microdot technology to expand into other countries,” said McLeod. “It’s only been the last few months that signifi -cant awareness has been made here.”

CSI is a Canadian owned manufac-turer launched in 2007 to address the growing need to solve the worldwide problem of vehicle theft and identifi ca-tion and asset management.

“What we’ve found over the last two years is that are basically two types of thieves. Th ere is your internal thief and the professional thief.

“Th e introduction of the micro-dot marking almost immediately re-duces the internal theft. Th e internal thief only steals because he thinks the company doesn’t care or that nobody is watching.

“He is deterred because he is im-mediately made aware that the com-pany does care and is looking to address the theft.

McLeod says the career thief preys on the oilfi eld because of the remote-ness of many assets and the ability of the thief to sell those assets easily.

He thinks there is a general con-sensus that oil companies have lots of money and nobody cares and they not going to miss stolen property.

“It was almost like it was the cost of doing business,” he said

“Th is is where we believe an oilfi eld initiative needs to come in. We would like to see the entire industry get to-gether and utilize an eff ective and cost-effi cient technology like microdots to protect all the assets.

“It won’t take long for the profes-sional thief to become aware that the oil patch has become too diffi cult and risky to practice his craft. Th ey will sim-ply move on to easier and more unpro-tected targets.”

McLeod took his product to the Weyburn Oil and Gas show in June and found there was a lot of interest in CSI’s technology from large companies to small rental fi rms and construction contractors concerned about securing tools and equipment.

“One thing I did fi nd was they were

surprised how cost-eff ective the tech-nology is,” said McLeod. “Depending on many times you want to mark an as-set you could get it down to as little as $2 to $3 per asset to mark.”

A corporate kit with up 1,000 mi-crodots with a set of protected entry de-cals and window warning labels retails for $59.95 and can be order online.

“Along with being very cost ef-fective, it is very simple to use,” said McLeod. “You could go through a shop

and mark all the assets in a day with very little money.

“Some companies have utilized other identifi cation systems like en-graving but it’s a much more intensive program than painting dots in dozens

of places on every asset. Our system is as simple as painting by numbers.”

A vial of microdots comes with a do-it-yourself applicator.

CSI manufactures vials of micro-dots for residential, automotive, schools and RV, power sports and agricultural and industrial markets.

Th e company also manufactures information protection systems with computer tracking technology that can be applied to the oil and gas industry where information sensitivity is becom-ing more important every day.”

CSI’s Laptop Cop tracking tech-nology enables the owner of lost or stolen laptop to retrieve or delete fi les remotely.

Liard McLeod applies the tiny microdot identi cation marker to the rims of a truck. Photos submitted


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Mike Murphy

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ting things rolling in

Redvers. It ’s the town

where he grew up,

where he can point

to the house near the

highway where he used

to live, and the farm he

used to work on. Now,

at 53, he’s come back,

with not one, but two

ventures.

The first is MJM

Production Services, a

well testing company

of which he is presi-

dent. With locations

in Grande Prairie and

Redvers, the company

now has six people

working out of Red-

vers, having set up shop

in 2008. He had two

crews working near

Alida the day Pipeline

News visited.

The other venture

is ParaSolve, a company

that deals with paraffin

and asphaltene build-

up. Their new truck

arrived in Redvers in

early June, establishing

a Saskatchewan pres-

ence. They also have

a location in Grande

Prairie, and head office

in Calgary.

“It ’s a blend of all-

natural, non-toxic, bio-

degradable, plant-based

material,” Murphy ex-

plains.

“The basic expla-

nation is the ParaSolve

product encapsulated

the paraffin and keeps

it in a liquid, oil solu-

ble state permanently,”

Murphy says.

According to the

company website,

“ParaSolve's propri-

etary formula works to

emulsify and suspend

deposits enhancing

well performance and

production. ParaSolve's

treatment service in-

corporates the use of a

specialized all natural,

plant based, biodegrad-

able solution. Para-

Solve's proprietary for-

mula works to emulsify

and suspend deposits,

enhancing well perfor-

mance and production.

“Unlike chemical

products which par-

tially dissolve or dis-

perse paraffin only to

have it recrystallize

further down the line,

ParaSolve's product

alters the molecular

structure of the paraf-

fin with dramatic re-

sults. The existing par-

affin is restructured so

it re-enters the crude

and will not precipitate

out again - remaining

suspended. It will not

drop out in another

area of the well or the

flow line.”

The new truck is

a cube unit, with mul-

tiple tanks in the back,

pumps, and two boilers.

It might be a little warm

in there in the summer.

“We heat it, and it ’s

pumped down the an-

nulus or tubing. It can

be done if there’s a pig

stuck in a flowline. If

a pump isn’t pumping

properly, we can do a

flushby.”

“We can put enough

on the truck to do about

10 wells under normal

circumstances.”

The product is

mixed with fresh water

prior to application.

Murphy says they

haven’t yet found the

limits to what it can do

in dealing with paraf-

fin. “We haven’t failed

yet on any attempt to

remove, or any request

asked of us.”

One Alberta field

reported an 18 per cent

increase in production,

Murphy says. “We don’t

know everything it can

do, but we do know it

hasn’t failed us yet.”

According to the

ParaSolve website, “The

company was started in

2004 by Robert Wood-

ward, a veteran of the

oil industry with years

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Th e event started in

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2009, and will be held

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Th e showcase is put

on by local oil businesses,

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Th e Town of Redvers,

RM of Antler No. 61,

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cultural Commercial En-

deavours (RRACE) are

part of the program.

“We highlight local

business in our area,” says

Brian LeNouail, one of

the organizers.

“Just to show you

don’t have to go to Chi-

cago,” adds Marius Erick-

sen, another organizer.

Th ey also want to

promote the idea of set-

ting up businesses in

Redvers.

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showcase were entered

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Supply setting up a store

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nesses to the community.

“We moved into it,” says

Marc Wolensky, manager

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tion and a recent addition

to the showcase organiza-

tion.

“Th e focus was build-

ing up the town,” he adds.

Will they do it

again?

“Defi nitely,” says Le-

Nouail.

Th e last show had 52

displays, including about

20 outdoor displays. Th is

time there will be more

room for outside displays,

with no real limit as to

how much room a com-

pany takes for its outdoor

display.

“It’s a low cost show,

and we’re not restricting

the size outside,” says Le-

Neouail.

It takes a year of plan-

ning to get the show to-

gether, plus three or four

days of “mad madness.”

One of the key points

of the Redvers showcase is

that people in the booths

are mostly the people on

the ground, working in

the area. “Talking to peo-

ple you know,” LeNeouail

says.

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Approximately 375 golfers took part, mostly from southeast Sas-katchewan.

Th ree events took place – 18 holes, 36 holes, and a masters competi-tion. Eldon Rondeau, one of the organizers, noted that 18 holes is growing in popularity. “Who can get away for three days?” he asks.

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Weyburn, Estevan – Th ere’s nothing like good food to get people to-gether, and there’s a crew in the southeast that has been providing stick-to-your-ribs grub for nearly four decades.

You could fi nd them in both Weyburn and Es-tevan in the same week, cooking up steak and lobster at the Saskatch-ewan Oil and Gas Show in Weyburn, followed by a similar meal for the Es-tevan Oilfi eld Technical Society’s 52 Annual Golf Tournament.

Mike LaCoste is the strawboss of the crew of volunteers. “We usu-ally do eight to ten func-tions,” he says between the lobster prep area and the steak pit during the Weyburn Oil Show.

Th e most of the core of the group work with Prairie Petro-Chem or Prairie Mud in Estevan.

Ray Frehlick, head of the two fi rms, says the whole idea started up 38 years ago, when the late George Blades with Sun-cor Resources “gathered a bunch of oilfi eld guys up.”

“My feeling’s always

been, if the community’s good to you, you should be good to the communi-ty, or communities,” Fre-hlick told Pipeline News. For the Estevan OTS golf tournament, he says, “We cooked there for 35 years, and we still do.”

Speaking of the im-portance of community service, Frehlick says it is important to give back, raising money for cancer and the like.

“It’s all volunteer,” he says.

Th e workers donate their time and eff orts, and the proceeds go to the or-ganization that brought them in.

Chuck Haines is one of the current crew, fol-lowing in the footsteps of his dad, Bob Haines. “Th ey’ve done it enough, so they’re passing the torch to the younger guys,” he says. “Th ey all started in the early sixties. Before them, there was another crew.”

Th e current core group is made of up Brent Frehlick, Prai-rie Petro Chem; Wayne Hein, Prairie Mud; Dean Gilliss, Gilliss Power Tongs; Darrin Leptich, Prairie Petro Chem; Chuck Haines, Prairie

Mud; Dale Whitfi eld, BJ Services; Perry Wenham, Do-All Fabricators; Kirk Haines, Trican; Mike LaCoste, Prairie Petro Chem, Barry Bridges and Jack Meesham. Others come in and help, espe-cially for bigger events. Some longtimers come back to help when need-ed.

“My dad came and helped us with the beans,” says Chuck Haines.

“It’s a secret recipe, like Col. Sanders,” says LaCoste.

“We get called a lot of things, I don’t think you can print it,” LaCoste says with a laugh. “Th ey call us ‘Ray Frehlick’s Cooking Crew.”

LaCoste has been on the crew for 13 years, Chuck Haines for about 10.

LaCoste says they’ve never been forced to do it, but have been encouraged by Ray. “You get to see a lot of customers there, and they see us doing it,” he says, noting it’s good P.R. “We’re local, inde-pendent companies.”

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Page C3 “Th is is where you

see all the customers,” says Gilliss.

Th e crew took care of the Spectra Credit Union event and then Oxbow in the weeks after the oil show and Estevan OTS golf tournament. “We also do a cancer one in Lampman in Septem-ber,” LaCoste says.

Division of labourWhile the men typi-

cally do the cooking, there are a number of women who help out in the serv-ing. Elaine Shykitka and Yvonne Sheane can be found getting the serv-ing tables just so. “We’re originals, aren’t we?” says Sheane to Shykitka.

“It keeps getting big-ger and bigger,” Shykitka replies.

“Th e guys do the cooking, and the ladies do the serving. We’re al-ways looking for help,” Sheane adds.

“My husband used to work at Prairie Petro Chem. He’s retired,” she says, noting he was a reg-ular on the cooking crew.

On the female side, it is also multi-genera-tional, with one of the ladies pointing out her daughter helping.

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When you’re feeding hundreds of hungry peo-ple in a short period of time, you have to scale up.

You don’t fi nd a couple little barbecues in the back. Rather, they have a special steak pit and a pair of lobster boilers.

Th e process of the steak pit is that of an

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Page C4“We baste them with

a new mop. It keeps your hand out of the fi re, too,” says LaCoste.

Th e steaks, in the case 12 oz. New York strips, were purchased through a local restaurant, whom they’ve been working with for two years.

Lobster made largeTh e lobster boil-

ers are a sight to see in and of themselves. “We saw them in Brooks,” LaCoste says. First they used to have the boil-ers shipped down, but eventually built two for themselves. One belongs to Spectra Credit Union. “Our welder, Eugene Hagel, built them,” he says.

Th e boilers are steel boxes with a tube run-ning down the middle of the bottom. At one end of the tube is a tiger torch, shooting fl ames into the tube. At the other end of the tube is a chimney. Along the tube are baffl es to defl ect the heat, similar to a hot wa-ter tank.

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taceans turning bright red at one time. It takes 15 minutes in the boiler before they are done.

Before they get to the boiler, however, the lobsters are fl own in by courier to Regina. At the Sask. Oil and Gas Show, it fi lled the better part of a small trailer. Th ey usu-ally come from one main supplier in St. John, New Brunswick. Usually in each batch there is one big one, which can be used for promo purposes.

Coming out of the trailer, the crew tackles the lobsters with a me-thodical vengeance. Don’t get too close, as they use banana knives to cut off the rubber bands on each lobster’s claws. Heavy gloves are worn, for good reason. Bands removed, it’s into the baskets and then the boiler.

At the other end of the boiler, workers split the lobsters. Th e crew re-cently picked up several hundred lobster crack-ers, paid for by a number of local companies. Th ey had used pliers before, but purpose-built crack-ers are much more use-ful.

Artery cloggersTh e usual menu is

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steak or a one to one-and-a-half pound lobster. Th e beans are a secret recipe. Th ere’s baked potatoes, cole slaw, and buns. “If we’re not doing lobster, we’ll do corn,” LaCoste says.

“We’ll go to local stores and run up a tab, take back what we don’t need, and the group will settle up,” he says.

Th ere’s a lot of clean-up involved with the boil-ers and lobster crackers.

If there are any lobster left over, they are sold at the end of the event.

“It’s just a bunch of

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“Th is RFP is an-other major milestone as we continue to develop our business case for the demonstration project,” said Mike Monea, vice-president, Integrated Carbon Capture and Se-questration. “It is also an important development within the emerging clean coal industry, as this is expected to be the fi rst steam turbine in the world designed from the outset to fully integrate a coal-fi red power plant with carbon capture.”

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By Brian ZinchukWeyburn – John

Kmita and Dale Fox were both honoured as Southeast Saskatch-ewan Oilmen of the Year during the Sas-katchewan Oil and Gas Show in Weyburn on June 3.

Minister of Ener-gy and Resources Bill Boyd was on hand to make the presenta-tions.

John KmitaKmita started his

own service rig com-pany, John Kmita Ltd., in 1972. It ’s still in operation as a family business at Weyburn.

“Be nice to your

roughneck. He might become your boss one day,” Kmita told the crowd in accepting the award.

After thanking his wife, Sandra, he noted, “All these ups and downs in the oil prices are my fault.”

Each time he bought a rig, prices plummeted. “I built a new shop last year, and oil plummeted $100 a barrel.”

Dale Fox Started to work in

the oil patch in 1959, and ended up as a part-ner in TS & M Sup-ply. He retired in 1999 when the business was

sold.“If he didn’t have a

part in stock, he would work day and night

until he found it,” Ray Frehlick told the crowd about Fox.

Fox noted oilfield

supply stores are im-portant to the industry.

He had planned on going to university after a year of work, but never did get there. While at work one day as a young man he observed others play-ing cards. He felt they should be looking for business, not playing cards.

“Back then [in 1959], they told me the oilpatch would be done in 20 years.” Page C9

Kmita, Fox SE Oilmen of Year

Minister of Energy and Resources Bill Boyd, left, and Ray Frehlick, right, present Dale Fox with his plaque for Southeast Oilman of the Year.

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John Kmita, centre, is presented with his plaque for Southeast Oilman of the Year. On the left is Minister of Energy and Resources Bill Boyd.

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Weyburn – If you looked closely at the deep blue trucks in

the middle of the Sas-katchewan Oil and Gas show’s outdoor displays, you might have noticed something a little dif-ferent.

Instead of the fa-miliar “Carson Weld-ing & Maintenance” stickers on their doors, the trucks now dis-played “Carson Energy Services Ltd.”

Carson Energy Services is one of the largest players in the oilfi eld service sec-tor for southeast Sas-katchewan, with head-quarters in Lampman and another 10 offi ces in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Th e company

works throughout the prairies. It was incorpo-rated in 1974

“We’ve been want-ing to do it for a while,” Ron Carson, head of the company, told Pipe-line News between his duties as chair of the oil show.

Th e new name is more appropriate, he said. “We do so much more now.”

“Now we have lots of diff erent tasks – pipeline, lease building, environmental sales and service, safety.”

Th e name change was eff ective Mar. 1, 2009.

Internally, a lot of things have to change – paperwork, manuals, etc. “Maybe more than we thought,” he said.

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New stickers show off a new name for Carson, now known as Carson En-ergy Services.

Ron Carson of Carson Energy Services says the company’s name change re ects their broader range of services. Carson acted as chair for the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show in Weyburn, as seen here.

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Edmonton - Th ere’s a lot of talk about isotopes in the news these days, particularly in the short-age of nuclear isotopes for medical diagnostic testing. Did you know that isotope testing is also used in the oilfi eld?

In this case it is naturally occurring iso-topes. Analyzing natu-rally occurring isotopes from production water can tell you a lot, enough for them to refer to it as isotope fi ngerprinting. Th at’s what Isobrine So-lutions of Edmonton is doing.

Th ey were one of the display participants in the Williston Basin Pe-troleum Conference in Regina in April.

“We do a lot of work in the plays throughout Saskatchewan and the Williston Basin,” says Greg Rose of Isobrine, noting they have isotope data from many forma-tions throughout the Ba-sin.

People had asked for help in identifying where formation water was coming from. Rose teamed up with Ben Rostron, Ph.D., an as-sociate professor at the University of Alberta, who had been develop-ing on isotope database since 1996 to form Iso-brine Solutions in 2003. Th e duo later approached Serguey Arkadakskiy, Ph.D., to bring his ex-pertise in fi ngerprinting natural gases.

Specifi cally, Isobrine uses naturally occurring isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen and other iso-topes to trace the under-ground path of forma-tion waters. “We also measure alkalinity, metals in water and halogens. It depends on the clients,” Rose explains.

How is this used?Is there an over-

frac’d well breaking into zones above or below a target formation, for in-stance? In the Bakken

formation, “overfractur-ing can lead to large pro-duction of out-of-zone water, but how do you know where your water is coming from?” Rose says.

“By using isotopes, we can provide clear evi-dence of the presence of out of zone water, and identify which zone the water is from,” Rose says. “We don’t solve the prob-lem for them, but we tell them where it’s coming from. Companies have used the information to adjust how heavy the frac jobs are.”

Th e samples are collected as Drill Stem Tests (DST) or normal production tests “and used to validate DST’s or deal with production al-location,” Rose explains. “We also use it for base-line studies.”

It that case, they will look at a number of wells in an area to determine what the water looks like regionally.

“Client’s submit one litre samples to us. We split the sample, do our tests, and report our fi ndings.”

Samples are typi-cally shipped by courier

to Isobrine. A fast turn-around can be done in 24 to 48 hours, normal ser-vice is three to fi ve busi-ness days.

“ D i f f e r e n t i a t i n g production waters using chemistry may not pro-vide clear answers, using isotopes and our data-base provides much more clarity," he says.

Just where did that water come from?

Greg Rose, left, and Serguey Arkadakskiy are two-thirds of isotope ngerprinting company Iso-brine. Missing is Ben Rostron. Photo submitted

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Weyburn – Brandon, Manitoba, machine shop and manufacturer Atom-Jet Industries is seek-ing to make the oilpatch a much bigger part of its business.

“For this industry, we’re a manufacturer of fi n-ished parts,” says Barry LaRocque, co-owner, at his booth during the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show in Weyburn. “We do custom carbide applications, with support systems like Parkerizing.”

Some examples he provides include packer parts and drill stem adapters.

Stefan Venzky, who handles business develop-ment, adds, “We’re heavy into valve sub-assem-blies.”

Th at includes diff erent valve parts, fl anges, and lots of stainless steel work.

“We started in the oilpatch two and half, three years ago,” says LaRocque. Th e company started as a small machine shop, doing local repairs. “We now have our own products in agriculture around the

world.” LaRoque says. Th ey have full time staff in Saskatoon, Regina,

Winnipeg, North Dakota and Russia.Currently, about fi ve to 10 per cent of their

business is oilpatch, but they are aiming to make that sliver a much larger slice of the pie. Th is is At-om-Jet’s second appearance at the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show, and they’ve been to Calgary and Lloydminster.

“We want to get that number to 30 per cent,” says LaRocque, citing a desire to diversify. Th ey would like to see a more even split between agri-culture, oil and gas, mining, and manufacturing.

“Everyone knows oil and gas is up and down. When it is up, we want to be a part of it. When it is down, we have other segments we go after,” he says.

Th ey are taking a tact that is not often seen – promising to deduct penalties off their invoice if an order is late. Th ose penalties accrue daily. “It’s about us being on time,” says Venzky. “We put our money where our mouth is.”

This assortment of stainless steel products is just a sampling of what Atom-Jet Industries is capable of. The Brandon company is seeking to diversify into the oilpatch. In the background is Barry LaRocque, co-owner.

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AGAT Laborato-ries is considering an Estevan location, ac-cording to company representatives at the oil show.

“We’re thinking of building one in Este-van,” says Jason Nico-lay. “It ’s really serious. It ’s been talked about for a couple years.”

The company’s work includes oil and gas testing, but they also do soil, air and water testing. It can be sampling at gas plant compressors, oil sam-pling for engines, or benzene emissions on site. They have loca-tions across Canada, including 10 depots in Saskatchewan. Howev-er, they are principally

Jason Nicolay, left, and John Casella show an oil-sampling vial for AGAT Laboratories. The company is considering a southeast Saskatchewan location.

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Th e oilfi eld servic-es and rentals company

used the opportunity to meet new custom-ers and hold a charity barbecue in support of the Calgary Homeless Foundation.

TOMCO provided all of the supplies for the barbeque and off ered a free hot dog and cold drink to all and encour-aged people to make a donation to show their support.

TOMCO themed the BBQ as “hot dogs for a good cause” and it worked to fi ll empty stomachs and spread good cheer.

When the last tube steak was served, TOMCO president and CEO Rod Tomyn pre-sented Fred Prior from the homeless founda-tion with the proceeds jar fi lled with more than $2,000.

Fred Prior from the Calgary Homeless Foundation receives a jar lled with $2,000 in donations collected from the TOMCO barbecue. Pictured are Dar-en Anderson, Doug Stickley, Fred Prior, Rod Tomyn, West Tomyn, Robert Cunningham and Tammy L’Heureux.

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P quick, easy installation (well shutdown during installation is recommended)P separate models available for any style stuffi ng boxesP spacious, semi-transparent holding tank - instantly monitor fl uid levelsP EnviroTrap two-piece cover is easy to remove and replace to accommodate packing changes and cleaningP available with Murphy Auto shutdown switch

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Environmental damage from wellhead packing failure and seepage costs the oil industry millions each year.

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ADVANCED DESIGN FEATURESfully enclosed and self-containeddurable, rust-free constructionU.V. resistantall hardware is corrosion-resistant stainless steelsloped collection tray provides natural drainage, making the unit more drainage effi cient and maintenance-freetapered polish rod washer drains migrating fl uid back into collection unitautomatic pumpjack shutdown also available360º installation

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I am pleased to say the operators are ecstatic about the new version of covers on this last round of containments. We tried some of your competitors

containments and I surely wish we had not.

In any case we will be putting in an order later in the fall and you will be our only supplier from now on.

Bruce MinersenerPLUS RESOURCESPembina Lead Operator

Regina – Th e June land sale of Crown petroleum and natural gas rights generated $18.1 million for the province with the Weyburn-Estevan area leading the way.

Weyburn-Estevan area Th e total bonus received in the area was $11 mil-

lion, an average of $451 per hectare.Th is compares to $9.6 million, an average of $482

per hectare at the last sale.Th e top purchaser of acreage in this area was

LandSolutions Inc. that spent $4.2 million to acquire four lease parcels.

Th e top price paid for a single lease in this area was $1.5 million paid by LandSolutions Inc. for a 130 hectare parcel situated within the Lost Horse Hill Frobisher-Alida Beds Pool, 15-km north of Stoughton.

Th e top price paid for a single licence in this area was $609,879 paid by Th e Soo Line Resource Group Ltd. for an 8,859-hectare block situated 10-km southwest of the Minton Winnipegosis Oil Pool, 18 km southwest of the village of Minton.

Th e highest dollar per hectare in this area was received from LandSolutions Inc. that paid $17,529 per hectare for each of two separate 65-hectare par-cels located within the Lost Horse Hill Frobisher-Alida Beds Pool, 15-km of Stoughton.

Swift Current area Th e total bonus received in the area was $2.9 mil-

lion, an average of $145 per hectare.Th is compares to $509,012, an average of $100.83

per hectare at the previous sale. Th e top purchaser of acreage in this area was

Standard Land Company Inc. that spent $1,393,671 million, to acquire 15 lease parcels.

Th e top price paid for a single lease in this area was $187,759 paid by Standard Land Company Inc. for each of four separate 259-hectare parcels situated adjacent to the Illerbrun Upper Shaunavon Oil Pool, 13-km southeast of the town of Gull Lake.

Th e highest dollar per hectare in this area was received from Canadian Coastal Resources Ltd. who paid $3,483 per hectare for a 32-hectare parcel lo-cated within the Whitemud Shaunavon Oil Pool, 17-km southeast of Eastend.

Kindersley-Kerrobert area Th e total bonus received in the area was $2.2 mil-

lion, an average of $283 per hectare. Th is compares with $970,917, an average of $125 per hectare at the April sale.

Th e top purchaser of acreage in this area was O & G Resource Group Ltd. that spent $672,914 to acquire four lease parcels.

Th e top price paid for a single lease in this area was $313,100 paid by Standard Land Company Inc. for a 259-hectare parcel situated adjacent to the Plen-ty Viking Sand Oil Pool, nine km east of Dodsland. Th is is the highest dollar per hectare in this area at $1,209 per hectare.

Lloydminster area Th e total bonus received in the area was $1.9 mil-

lion, an average of $475per hectare. Th is compares to $602,533 an average of $438 per hectare at the last sale.

Th e top purchaser of acreage in this area was Windfall Resources Ltd. that spent $563,168 to ac-quire one lease parcel.

Th e top price paid for a single lease in this area was $563,168 by Windfall Resources Ltd. for a 241-hectare parcel situated adjacent to the Big Gully North Mannville Sands Oil Pools, 15-km northwest of Lloydminster. Th is is the highest dollar per hectare in this area at $2,334 per hectare.

Estevan - Weyburn tops the province in June land sales revenue

WonderlandRegina band Wonderland specializes in one-hit wonders. They were the entertainment for the Este-van OTS golf tournament steak or lobster supper on June 6. Here, they are warming up in preparation for the show. Photo by Brian Zinchuk

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