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PIPELINE NEWSSaskatchewan’s Petroleum MonthlySaskatchewan’s Petroleum Monthly
June 2009 FREE Volume 2 Issue 1
Saskatchewan Oil & Gas Show June 3 & 4 2009, Weyburn, SKStop by booths 20-21 to meet our Pipeline News Staff
Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, left, and Premier Brad Wall sign a memorandum of understanding which will see Saskatchewan carbon dioxide pumped into Montana geological storage. Story on Page A2. Photo courtesy University of Regina Photography Department
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Page C3
PIPELINE NEWS June 2009A2
NewsNotes
Nordic plans Preeceville well,
seismicWinnipeg-based Nordic Oil and Gas Ltd. has
budgeted $6 million in capital spending for 2009,
including $3.8 million on exploration drilling.
At Preeceville, Sask., the company plans to
spend $1 million for a new well and $500,000 on
seismic with another $500,000 allocated to two
existing well sites at Lloydminster. Nordic also
will spend $200,000 at Joff re on a compressor sta-
tion.
Bonavista lowers drilling
costsBonavista Energy Trust’s oil region of eastern
Alberta/southeast Saskatchewan will see $66 mil-
lion in spending and 57 wells drilled this year, the
company’s annual general meeting heard in early
May. Th at's a drop from the $106.2 million spent
and 108 wells drilled in the area last year.
Th e trust has been able to bring down the av-
erage cost of drilling a well in southeast Saskatch-
ewan to $1.8 million from $2.1 million.
Th e company says it plans to drill half its 110
to 120 wells horizontally this year, compared to 37
of its 200 wells last year.
On the front page of the May edition of Pipe-line News, the photo caption stated: “Nobel Prize
co-recipient Malcolm Wilson heads up the petro-
leum research centre at the University of Regina.”
Wilson is in fact the director of the Offi ce of
Energy and Environment at the University of Regi-
na, not the Petroleum Technology Research Centre.
Th at organization is headed up by Carolyn Preston.
Wilson is on the board of PTRC. We regret the er-
ror and any confusion it may have caused.
Mullen now corp
Mullen Group Income Fund unitholders
have voted in favour of converting the fund back
to a corporation which took eff ect on May 1.
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By Brian Zinchuk Pipeline News
Regina – Saskatchewan and Montana signed a
memorandum of understanding on May 7 which will
see the province and state pursue a joint carbon diox-
ide capture and storage project.
Th e agreement, signed by Premier Brad Wall and
Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, commits the
two governments to work on “one of the largest in-
ternational carbon capture and storage demonstration
projects in the world,” according to a government news
release.
Th e idea is to capture carbon dioxide at a Sas-
katchewan coal-fi red power plant, pipeline it to north-
east Montana, and pump it underground for long-term
storage.
"Today we are formalizing a new era of co-oper-
ation between our province and the State of Montana
and building a clean energy future for our two coun-
tries," Wall said at the MOU signing. "We are taking
the lead in the development of new technologies that
capture carbon from coal and gas fi red power genera-
tion, then store it deep underground. Th is project will
help Saskatchewan to meet the federal government's
target to reduce GHG emissions by 20 per cent below
2006 levels by 2020."
"CO2 is a global concern and it is time to work to-
gether to address this pressing issue," Schweitzer said.
"Montana has 30 per cent of the coal in America and
in order to use our coal we need a solution to CO2. I
am honored to be a part of this important project."
Malcolm Wilson, director of the University of Re-
gina’s Offi ce of Energy and Environment, is one of the
lead players in getting the plan into action.
He explains the MOU is “to work together on
what we’re loosely calling the Saskatchewan-Montana
project.”
It’s really two projects combined, he explains. “Our
portion would be to build a capture unit onto one of
SaskPower’s power plants and pipeline the CO2.”
Montana’s role is the storage of the greenhouse
gas.
“What it triggers is, on Monday, May 11, we
kicked off work with SaskPower. We’re creating a team
with SaskPower and the University of Regina to do
the design work.”
When Pipeline News spoke to Wilson last month
about how close this type of project was to implemen-
tation, he wasn’t kidding when he said “now.”
“We’re targeting having the design work ready
roughly by the end of July.”
Page A3
Saskatchewan and Montana ink CO2 MOU
Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, left, and Premier Brad Wall take questions from the press about the Saskatchewan-Montana CO2 project. Photo courtesy U of R Photography Department
PIPELINE NEWS June 2009 A3
NewsNotes
Oilsands Quest raises $29.8 million (U.S.)
Oilsands Quest Inc. has completed its previ-
ously announced marketed public off ering.
A total of 35.08 million units were issued to
investors at a price of 85 cents (U.S.) per unit for
gross proceeds to Oilsands Quest of $29.8 million,
including the over-allotment option.
Each unit is comprised of one common share
and one-half of a common share purchase warrant
of the company with each whole warrant entitling
the purchaser to purchase one share of the com-
pany for $1.10 until May 12, 2011.
Th e company will use the funds to continue its
testing activities at Test Sites 1 and 3 in Saskatche-
wan, continue its exploration activities on its exist-
ing permits and licenses and for general corporate
purposes. Specifi c allocations of the proceeds for
such purposes have not been made at this time.
Buffalo to start Frog Lake drilling
Buff alo Resources Corp. says it plans to com-
mence its Frog Lake heavy oil drilling program in
early June.
Over the past fi ve months drilling costs have
fallen between 15% and 20% while the price of
WTI crude has improved steadily and the heavy
oil selling price diff erential has narrowed to less
than $6 per bbl, the company noted.
Buff alo is currently realizing a selling price at
the wellhead in excess of $52 per bbl for its Frog
Lake oil, resulting in a netback of approximately
$23 per bbl. With a historical drilling success rate
of 98% and reduced drilling costs, Buff alo expects
fi nding costs of $7 or less per bbl of reserves. As
such, the program represents a superior capital re-
cycle ratio of in excess of three times, the company
said.
Buff alo said it has between 150 and 200 heavy
oil development drilling locations at Frog Lake
under currently approved well-spacing. Th e fi rst 65
wells in the program have been surveyed, received
all regulatory approvals and can be drilled imme-
diately.
Under the MOU signed in Regina on
May 7, the Saskatchewan-Montana partner-
ship will work to achieve the following four
goals:
• Construction of a technology-neutral
CO2 capture plant (reference plant) at an ex-
isting coal-fi red electrical generating station in
Saskatchewan that would have the fl exibility
to rest a range of post-combustion carbon cap-
ture technologies;
• Construction of a North American
CO2 storage facility in eastern Montana in-
cluding injection infrastructure with the op-
tion of using CO2 for enhanced oil recovery;
• Construction of pipeline infrastructure
for the transportation of CO2 from the refer-
ence plant in Saskatchewan to the storage fa-
cility in Montana; and
• Development of a North American
training facility to meet the needs of a growing
CCS industry and regulators, based primar-
ily at the University of Regina and Montana
State University.
A steering committee including Crown
Investments Corporation President Ron
Styles, SaskPower President Pat Youzwa and
University of Regina President Vianne Tim-
mons has been formed to oversee the Cana-
dian component of the project. Th e committee
will complete work on the development phase
by August 31, 2009, including a full project
plan, engineering design, business plan, de-
tailed budget and construction timeline.
With the fi nancial support of the Gov-
ernments of Canada and the United States,
construction of the plant could begin as early
as September 2009 and the plant could be op-
erational as early as the summer of 2011. Th e
goal for the reference plant is to test a range of
technologies in the capture of up to one mil-
lion tonnes of CO2 over a four-year period.
Source: Government of Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan-Montana CO2 project
Saskatchewan - Montana partnership of cial
Page A2“We’re shortening it
up a bit. We’re on tight
timelines. Our goal is
to start moving CO2 by
mid-2011.”
Commenting on the
misconception CO2 cap-
ture and storage is a long
ways off , he talks of a
Discovery Channel pro-
gram that debunks urban
myths. “What we need is
a Mythbuster – a half-
hour Mythbuster. Th ere’s
a myth out there the
technologies aren’t ready
for commercialization.
Th at’s decidedly true for
some technologies, but
not all.”
“We are ready to
test amine-based post
combustion capture on a
commercial scale.”
He notes there are
other eff orts around the
world working in a simi-
lar vein, but explains,
“Th e reality is we’re go-
ing to need multiple
tests and diff erent power
plants.”
Not likely Boundary Dam
Which power plant
are they considering?
Wilson says they
don’t know that yet.
“We’ll fi gure it out in the
next two months. We lit-
erally don’t know.”
But he adds, “It will
not be Boundary Dam.
It will either be Shand or
Coronach.”
“With the rebuild
SaskPower is going to do
on Boundary Dam, No.
3, they’re going to have
more than enough work
going on there. I really
don’t believe Boundary
Dam comes into the
equation.”
“We’re trying to
move sooner, smaller, and
be more fl exible, so that
we can create a large-
scale test unit.”
Wilson notes they
are not looking at an am-
monia –based system,
with all its potential asso-
ciated toxicity, but rather
an amine-based system.
Th e project will cap-
ture somewhere between
300 and 1000 tonnes of
CO2 a day. “We’re going
to try to make it as big as
we can with a budget as
big as we’ve got,” he says.
Moving fastWhen do they start
construction?
“We hope pretty
quickly. If we’re going
to meet our deadline, we
have to go very quickly.
We hope to have the go/
no-go decision in weeks,
not months.”
Th e capture plant
itself will likely have
three columns, each ap-
proximately 30 metres in
height and three metres
in diameter. Since they
operate at atmospheric
pressure, there is no need
for heavy-wall, pres-
sure vessel construction.
“Building it will not be
that hard,” he says.
Th e pipeline is esti-
mated in the fi ve-to-eight
inch range. If Coronach is
chosen as the site for the
capture unit, the pipeline
would be less than 30 km
in length, maybe in the
100 km range if Estevan
is the source. One of the
proposed storage sites is
literally just across the
international border.
Th at’s important,
because it means the ge-
ology is very similar to
our geology. “Yeah, it’s
directly applicable to our
side of the border,” Wil-
son says.
Th e rationale for
creating an international
project is spreading cost,
he says. Th ey are still
seeking money for the
project, with hopes of
obtaining it from several
diff erent governments –
Saskatchewan, Canada,
and Montana (by way of
asking the U.S. federal
government) Th e total
bill is projected to be ap-
proximately $270 million
Canadian, of which about
$150 million would be
on our side. Th at includes
capital spending, operat-
ing, and developing a
training program.
“Th e premier has
spoken, Saskatchewan is
on board,” Wilson notes,
indicating we’re in for
around the $50 million
mark.
Malcolm Wilson, front row left, is one of the key players in getting the Saskatchewan-Montana CO2 project going.
Photo courtesy U of R Photography Department
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PIPELINE NEWS June 2009A4 EDITORIAL
Editorial
PIPELINE NEWS INVITES OPPOSING VIEW POINTS. EDITORIALS AND LETTERS TO THE EDITOR WELCOME.
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Is the world getting smaller?
While the corporate oil world hopes for higher
prices, Jeff Rubin, the chief economist and chief strate-
gist at CIBC World Markets – and an oil bull – says
the next spike will turn the world upside down.
Rubin has stepped down from his job to promote
his new book, Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller.
Th e premise of his book is that oil scarcity will
bring about an end to globalization and bring dramatic
changes in our lifestyles from where we work, to where
we live, to what we eat.
As demand outstrips dwindling supplies, it will cost
money to travel and burning carbon will result in bring-
ing overseas jobs back home.
Rubin blames the global economic downturn on
the high oil prices of 2008 and says the current low oil
price will allow the economy to recover only to precipi-
tate another sharp rise that will change the economic
rules.
Rubin says the end of globalization will create
winners and losers. Th e auto industry he says will never
recover from the current oil-induced recession but local
economies will be renewed.
In 2008 Rubin predicted oil would rise to $225 a
barrel and he could be right in the long term.
Oil prices have jumped about 75 per cent since
March on expectations the worst of the recession is
over.
Th e author points out that oil might be less expen-
sive in the middle of a recession, but it will never be
Rising oil and a shrinking worldcheap again. Take away cheap oil, and the global economy
will be getting the shock of its life.
Rubin’s book, released in May is well timed as oil
heads in the upward direction he predicted it will. How-
ever, this is just a book. Th e movie is real life and no one
knows what lies around the corner.
What could limit the impact is the fact everyone
knows oil supplies are dwindling and that is starting to
lead to the development of alternative forms of energy
from solar to nuclear.
Politicians, however, are slow to react and as oil and
gas prices do begin to rise along with a drop in supply
there will be some economic fallout.
Rubin says for generations we built wealth by consum-
ing oil, but he cautions the future will not be a continua-
tion of the past where the world got bigger due to low cost
oil. It’s about to get smaller if oil prices skyrocket again.
Should it lead to the end of globalization then every-
thing from the way we design our cities with urban sprawl
and massive freeways is due for a major overhaul. As
Rubin says it will be too costly to burn carbon especially
for the undeveloped countries of the world.
Regardless of what the future holds, Rubin’s book is
generating a lot attention given trade protectionism and
carbon trading are adding credence to the end of global-
ization.
Th e end of globalization is not to be confused with the
end of the world. We have been through this before – the
Bronze Age, the Industrial Revolution, the Atomic Age
and now the start of the Green Age – and they all make
for wonderful reading.
Letter to the EditorPIPELINE NEWS June 2009 A5
Geoff Lee
Lee Side of Lloyd
If it’s spring, it’s time for an annual potpourri edi-
torial. What this really means is no one topic comes to
mind so this is an opportunity to carry one about a var-
iety of subjects under some clever subheads.
Don’t let analysts pick your lottery ticketAccording to an April Reuters’ poll of where oil
prices are headed, more than 30 analysts predicted a
2009 average of $50.85, up from $49.73 in the March
poll. In July 2008, the last poll to show an increase in the
consensus forecast, analysts predicted a 2009 average of
$115.77.
Th e good news is the analysts also forecast an
average U.S. oil price of $65.95 in 2010 and $80.18 in
2011.
Th e bad news is those analysts’ predictions are not
always accurate as you can tell with their collective call
for that 2009 average of $115.77.
Flow through shares beat the taxmanBeing a journalist and an industry outsider, there
are a lot of things about the energy industry that seem
baffl ing at fi rst – especially on the fi nancial side – like
fl ow through shares.
Just the name makes it sound like this is something
liquid or beyond a layman’s comprehension but a little
research reveals they are actually a tax break that can
help you become fl ush with cash.
Flow through shares are issued by oil and mineral
exploration companies looking to fi nance exploration
and investors get a tax deferral. In addition, if the com-
pany fi nds something of material value, investors also
get a capital gain.
According to tax experts, if you were to invest
$10,000 in fl ow through shares, providing that they
are eligible for the tax breaks, you can claim the full
$10,000 on your tax return. If you are in the 40 per cent
tax bracket, that would equate to a $4,000 tax return for
that year.
Th e more money you make, the greater the return.
It’s one way for the rich to get richer, but being wealthy
helps since fl ow through shares usually sell at premium
to the current stock price.
Open houses popping up like daisies
Maybe it’s a recession thing, but lately there are a
lot of open houses and demo days at new and existing
oil and gas companies. Regardless of the reason, they
are a good marketing and networking tool and help fi ll
a few pages of news coverage in the Pipeline News.Recently, I attended a grand opening of a large
company in Lloydminster and I won a golf bag as a
draw prize which is great since I didn’t get anything for
my birthday.
At the grand opening which was well attended,
I managed my cake and ate it too. Happy birthday to
me. I also took photos for an assignment, gained a few
new story contacts and walked away with a good feeling
about the company. Mission accomplished if that’s the
purpose of an open house.
I have also made a point to fi ll out draw prizes
wherever I go. Call me Lucky Lee.
It’s nearly show time in WeyburnAnother great marketing opportunity for oil and
gas companies to showcase their product, service or
technology this spring is the very recent Saskatchewan
Oil and Gas show in Weyburn held June 3 to 4.
All exhibit spaces were sold out that guaranteed
an immediate success. It’s also nice to know organizers
added a golf game for exhibitors and guests. If you have
read this editorial, guess who has a new golf bag? Tim-
ing is everything.
Madly off in all directions
Dear Editor:
After reading “Cap-
turing the full potential
of the Uranium value
chain in Saskatchewan
Uranium,” the Uranium
Development Partnership
report published March
31 2009, I conclude that
I do not see taxpayers or
the public treasury as the
fi nancier of uranium de-
velopment. After con-
sidering the “Integration
of nuclear power with
the Canadian oil sands”
presentation (http://web.
mit . edu/kadak/www/
oilsands_pres.pdf ), the
“Mahogany research proj-
ect” by Shell and the use
of a novel heating cable
technology to enhance
the overall effi ciency of
extraction (http://tinyurl.
com/qbtnkb) I see a new
opportunity emerging. I
see it as more effi cient or
as we say “green” to use
nuclear energy to power
novel oil extraction tech-
nologies throughout the
otherwise uneconomical
deeply buried Saskatche-
wan tar sands for the Sas-
katchewan oilpatch.
To weigh in on the
nuclear debate, I see the
sale of energy as hydro-
carbons and derivatives
thereof preferable to
simple electricity. Instead
of using one barrel of tar
sands oil to produce one
barrel, use the small re-
actors of the type used in
submarines and aircraft
carriers to generate the
electricity to harvest oil
without disturbing the
surface. Oilsand extrac-
tion with very minimal
carbon emissions means
Saskatchewan taxpayers
get royalties on 100 % of
its extractable oil reserves
instead of 30-60%.
MIT concludes that
the electrical utility (Sask
Power Corporation)
should be contracted to
operate these units. Th ese
reactors would be designed
to be saleable to SPC and
moved from the oilsands
to conventional southern
Saskatchewan generation
sites perhaps 15-25 years
later and be hooked to
the grid to spend their re-
maining lifetime gener-
ating power for domestic
uses.
An oilsands develop-
ment consortium fi nds
the capital and individual
companies develop nu-
merous sites just like in
conventional oil plays.
From a taxpayer viewpoint,
this leaves Saskpower free
to expand the solar, wind,
clean coal and algae bio-
reactor capacity to meet
expanding domestic needs
in the interim. In this sce-
nario all parties maximize
their rewards while man-
aging the risks in an inte-
grated fashion using each
players area of expertise
appropriately.
Green Oilsands extraction technologies
Morris Johnson, Beaubier, Sk.,
Brian Zinchuk
From the top of
the pile
Walking through Edmonton International Airport,
I discovered the Chapters store has a good idea what
would sell in an airport catering to oil country.
On a stand on the end of the store, three books
leapt out at me, but the fi rst one to get read just hap-
pened to ring a bell.
It’s called Don’t Tell Mom I Work on the Rigs: She thinks I’m a Piano Player in a Whorehouse.
I had heard that phrase before, very likely when
I was doing interviews of overseas oilpatch workers. I
imagined pretty much everyone who has spent a day on
a fl ight to some distant wellsite has thumbed through
its pages during a fl ight. More than one has probably
said, “Yup, been there, done that.”
Paul Carter is the author. It’s not entirely clear what
he does, or maybe I missed it. He appears to be either a
rig manager or company consultant, having worked his
way up the ranks like pretty much everyone else. In later
years, he works on a freelance basis on what must be a
pretty healthy day rate. A lot of his time is spent with
the same crew.
A Brit with an English
father and German mother,
his fi rst job is cleaning the
Mercedes of an oil execu-
tive his mom worked for.
“I left school early – I
wanted money, I wanted
rigs. I wanted to fl y in a
helicopter, and say Gawd-
damn a lot. I wanted to
wear one of those gold
company cigar rings. But
most of all, I wanted an
adventure.”
He got it, alright.
He starts off as a roughneck drilling core samples
in Western Australia. Carter gets the itch and ends up
spending his life in airliners, always off to the next job.
Th e map at the beginning shows rigs all over the
globe, with a high concentration on the western Pacifi c
Rim. Home base is Australia.
He has a few relationships, but nothing pans out.
Only towards the end does he realize he’s missed out
on a family life. Th ere is no real theme, other than he
found the adventure he was looking for. Sure, being held
hostage in Nigeria was exciting, and there were several
scary moments in helicopters. But probably the best part
was the tale of the practical jokes. If you’ve ever been the
victim or taken part in a practical joke, there’s few here
that you should either be wary of, or add to your list. In
particular, be wary of food coloring, forks and steel-toed
boots, as well as Frenchmen bad-mouthing the British
queen.
It’s a compelling tome, right up until the end. Th e
problem is, there is no end. It’s as if the editor let him
get away without writing a fi nal chapter. Th e anecdotes
keep coming, and then suddenly, it stops. You’re at the
epilogue. Where’s the end?
But maybe that’s the point. Th e book is just a mile
marker in the rig worker’s life. Th e story is far from over.
Amazon.ca now says he lives in Perth, Australia, with
his wife. He’s also put out a new book in 2007, called, Th is is Not a Drill: Just Another Glorious Day in the Oil-fi eld.
Hopefully this time he’s written a fi nal chapter.
Brian Zinchuk is editor of Pipeline News (www.pipe-linenews.ca). He can be reached at www.zinchuk.ca.
Don’t tell mom about the rigs
PIPELINE NEWS June 2009A6
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: How big a deal is the Weyburn Oil Show to the economy of the city of Weyburn?
Marlene Nedelcov: It’s a very big deal. A lot
of people come into our community. Hotels are full
and they stay overnight, have some meals, do some
shopping.
PN: How did you become involved in this show?Nedelcov: Well, I was on city council back in
1985. Th at's when I got on, the year the Oil Show
started. It was started by the Weyburn Economic
Development Committee.
PN: Were you appointed or did you volunteer?Nedelcov: No, I was appointed. And it was very
interesting. I enjoyed it, and when I went off council,
they asked me if I would help out with the show and
I said, “sure.”
PN: Th at was 24 years ago when the show start-ed.
Nedelcov: Th at’s a long time.
PN: How has the show changed over the years?Nedelcov: Well, it’s become better known and
there’s lots and lots of interest. Th e exhibitors not
only do good business, but they have a good time.
PN: Lots of partying, etc.?Nedelcov: Well, they have a golf tournament for
them and their guests and then we have a lobster or
steak barbecue. Th ey enjoy it.
PN: Is this your No. 1 job — being the manager of the Oil Show?
Nedelcov: Yes. I don’t come in every day but on
the off -year, I'm probably here once a week for half
a day or so, but it picks up as it gets closer. It’s held
every second year.
PN: With the economy faltering and the oil patch in a similar situation, what kind of impact did it have on this year’s show?
Nedelcov: It didn't have any, and we thought
for sure that it would. We have more than 80 on the
waiting list trying to get in. Every day we have calls
from people wanting to get into the show.
PN: What’s the process involved for picking the Oilman of the Year?
Nedelcov: Th e Saskatchewan Oilman of the
year?
PN: Yes.Nedelcov: Th e board of governors in Calgary,
made up of old Saskatchewan oil people, do that.
Th ey also look after getting the award. Th ey an-
nounce it at the awards’ luncheon.
PN: Would you describe that as the highlight of the
show?Nedelcov: Yes, and then for the Southeast Oil-
man of the Year, people can go online and fi ll out a
form to nominate somebody. Th ere’s a lot of interest
in that, because it's people that they know. It’s an-
nounced that evening.
PN: OK, so who are the winners this year? You can tell me, I’ll keep it a secret.
Nedelcov: I don’t know yet. Th ere’s a committee
that deals with that. Th ey make the choice.
PN: How do you squeeze in being manager of the Oil Show with all the other things you do around the city?
Nedelcov: I like to be busy, so it works out OK.
PN: You said that in the off -year of the oil show, you only work one day a week or so?
Nedelcov: Yes, and then I have some life. But
right now, I don’t have some life.
PN: When do you really start to pick up the pace on the following year’s show?
Nedelcov: Well, this year, we were completely
sold out in January, and that’s highly unusual. Usu-
ally, the last couple of months, you’re trying to make
sure everything’s fi lled, but we didn’t have to do that
this year.
PN: How did you become involved with the Wey-burn Wheat Festival?
Nedelcov: I was on council and worked with
that committee and our tourism co-ordinator packed
it in, so it looked like the festival was going to go by
the wayside, and I didn’t want to see that happen, so
anyway . . .
PN: What’s your title with that one?Nedelcov: Chairman, I guess.
PN: You’ve gotta quit putting your hand up.Nedelcov: (Laughs) I know. My husband is go-
ing to tattoo ‘No’ on my forehead.
PN: What exactly does the Wheat Festival do? Ob-viously it celebrates wheat, but what kind of events do you have?
Nedelcov: We have entertainment in the park,
a grain competition where people bring their grain
and have it judged. And we try to make the children
familiar with how things used to be, and how impor-
tant wheat is to them.
PN: What's more important — wheat or oil?Nedelcov: I think they’re both important. Our
community relies on both.
PN: As an outsider, it appears you have your fi nger in many Weyburn pies. Tell me what you did to win the
Chamber of Commerce Golden Spike award in 2001.Nedelcov: Th ey looked at things I’d been in-
volved with, and I had somebody nominate me.
PN: You work hard and you volunteer for a lot of things for many years and eventually you get a prize like that, eh?
Nedelcov: (Laughs) Th ere you go. Once in a
while you get recognized. It’s kind of nice.
PN: Tell me about your involvement with the Parks Board.
Nedelcov: I grew up here and we always men-
tioned about how with the river running through the
city, it should be beautiful on the banks. And it never
was. Th e buildings turned their back to the river. I
always thought they should be taking advantage of
it. When I got on council, they were in the process
of building new dikes, for 50-year fl ood protection,
and they had a lot of dirt piled around. We had a
very good parks planner, Dan Bruinooge, and he had
always dreamed of a trail system. He got people en-
thused and I ended up chairman of the Parks Board
and . . .
PN: It’s a wonder people don’t call you Chairman Marlene.
Nedelcov: (Laughs) Well, nobody wants to run
a meeting.
PN: You obviously know how to run a meeting.Nedelcov: Well, I don’t like long meetings.
PN: Why aren’t you on city council anymore?Nedelcov: I was there 15 years and it was just
time for somebody else to step up.
PN: Did you get defeated, or just decide not to run again?
Nedelcov: No, I just didn’t run again.
PN: So what would you like to do if you had a little more free time?
Nedelcov: I’d like to travel a little more. Spend
more time with family.
PN: Where would you really like to travel where you haven't been before?
Nedelcov: I’ve never been to Australia. I’d like
to go there someday. And Greece. Spain. I’d like to
spend more time in Italy.
PN: Needless to say you love Weyburn. What’s the best thing about living there?
Nedelcov: It’s a wonderful place to raise a family.
Not too big, not too small. It’s close enough to Regi-
na that if you want to do some of the big city things,
you’re an hour away. Th at’s a disadvantage sometimes
for some of the stores.
Marlene Nedelcov Marlene Nedelcov has been involved with the
Weyburn Oil and Gas Show since it started in 1985. Held every second year, the Oil and Gas Show is a
popular event that was sold out this year by January. A lifelong resident of Weyburn, Nedelcov spent 15 years on city council, but when she stepped away
from the council table, she didn’t quit giving back to her community. She is involved with the city’s Parks
Boards, the Wheat Festival, sits on a committee striving to get a performing arts centre in Weyburn and,
of course, the Oil and Gas show.Nedelcov and her husband have two grown children.
Their son teaches at a university in Tokyo and their daughter lives in Weyburn.
Nedelcov chatted with Bruce Penton as nal preparations were being made for the 2009 Oil and Gas Show.
Photos courtesy of Sabrina Kraft, Weyburn Review
PIPELINE NEWS June 2009 A7
PN: Why is Weyburn better than Estevan?Nedelcov: It’s always had good planning. We’ve
always kept up with infrastructure. It’s always been
better managed.
PN: You’ve always had a pretty good rivalry with Estevan, right?
Nedelcov: We always did, through school and
everything.
PN: You talked about going to Europe before. Was that one of your vacation highlights?
Nedelcov: My husband’s father came from Yu-
goslavia and we wanted the children to see where
his dad and grandparents were from. So when our
daughter was 13 and our son 11, we did. And I had a
sister living in Germany at the time, so it was a good
time to go. It was good for all of us. It put the travel
bug in both of the children.
PN: Where do they live now?Nedelcov: One lives in Tokyo, and our daughter
lives here in town.
PN: What does your son do in Tokyo?Nedelcov: He teaches at a university.
PN: So you’ve got a ready-made excuse to travel to Tokyo.
Nedelcov: We travel there quite regularly.
PN: What’s the trickiest aspect of being the man-ager of the Oil Show?
Nedelcov: I guess staying on top of everything
and making sure you haven’t double-booked some-
body. You’d hate for somebody to arrive and fi nd
somebody else in their space.
PN: Th at’s never happened, has it?Nedelcov: No. We’ve got a pretty good check-
ing system.
PN: Away from work and volunteering, what’s your favourite hobby?
Nedelcov: I like to swim.
PN: Competitively?Nedelcov: I have as a senior.
PN: You’re a senior?Nedelcov: Oh, yeah.
PN: How old are you?Nedelcov: How old am I? I’ll be 70 next year.
PN: Seventy? Where do you get the energy for all this work you do?
Nedelcov: (Laughs) I’ve always had lots.
PN: What do you recall about the day you turned 18?
Nedelcov: It was 21 that I wanted to reach.
PN: You couldn’t drink or anything . . .Nedelcov: No, not until you were 21.
PN: OK, what do you recall about turning 21?Nedelcov: A feeling of freedom, I guess.
PN: What were you doing?Nedelcov: I was working as a lab technician at
the old mental hospital that they’re tearing down
right now, as we speak.
PN: What’s one TV show you just can’t miss?Nedelcov: I like Without a Trace. I like that guy
(laughs).
PN: Who among women in the world do you re-ally look up to?
Nedelcov: We had a female mayor here for
quite a few years, Isabelle Butters, and she was a
good person.
PN: Is she still around?Nedelcov: She is, and she’s still active and we’re
together on a committee trying to get a performing
arts centre here in town.
PN: Knowing you and how you operate, you’ll succeed. How about men? What men do you look up to?
Nedelcov: Auburn Pepper was one. He used to
be an MLA. He wasn’t a politician; he was more of
a statesman. I liked that.
PN: What’s the best compliment you’ve ever heard about the Oil Show?
Nedelcov: Just that it’s phenomenal. It’s run
by volunteers and the guys who come in with all
their equipment, they can’t believe how helpful the
volunteers are. No matter what they need or what
they want, they fi nd it for them and do whatever is
needed.
PN: Everything is done right, and it all goes back to the chairman, right?
Nedelcov: No. We just have great people, right
from the beginning and a lot of them are still on the
board and they always make sure that everything is
done right, and how can you go wrong with people
like that?
Marlene NedelcovGeneral Manager, Saskatchewan Oil & Gas Show - Weyburn
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By Brian ZinchukRegina - Th e Williston Basin Petro-
leum Conference kicked off on April 27
with updates on what has been going on
over the past year in their respective prov-
ince or state.
Th e conference started with a sign-
ing of a co-operative agreement between
North Dakota and Saskatchewan to con-
tinue working together for another fi ve
years. Th e conference alternates each year
between the two provinces, and will next
be held in Bismarck, N.D.
SaskatchewanJane McLeod of Saskatchewan Ener-
gy and Resources spoke of a steady decline
in natural gas production since 2003, but a
slow and steady increase in oil production.
Light oil production has increased, but
heavy and medium crudes have decreased
since 2006. Th e bulk of the increase comes
from growing Bakken production in the
southeast. Th e number of Bakken produc-
ers doubled from 494 to 1,101 wells from
2007 to 2008.
Not surprisingly, 82 per cent of 2008
land sales were in the southeast.
Th e Williston Basin, she noted, made
up 85 per cent of all horizontal drilling
in Saskatchewan. Fifty three per cent of
southeast Saskatchewan wells were hori-
zontal, as of December, 2008. Th e bulk
of production in southeast Saskatchewan
– 83 per cent – comes from horizontal
wells.
“We had amazing results from the
Williston [basin] and Bakken formations,”
McLeod concluded.
ManitobaKeith Lowdon, director of the Mani-
toba Petroleum Branch, gave his province’s
update. He noted the Surface Rights Act
is under review this year.
Page A9
Sum it up in one word: BakkenSum it up in one word: Bakken
Director of the Manitoba Petroleum Branch Keith Lowdown tells the Willi-ston Basin Petroleum Conference of Manitoba’s growth in Bakken produc-tion.
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Page A8Manitoba had 314
wells drilled in 2008.
Bakken production is
now about half of Man-
itoba’s oil production.
Last year saw re-
cord production valued
at $800 million. There’s
an estimated $500 mil-
lion of production ex-
pected in 2009. January
of 2009 broke a Mani-
toba production record.
“We’re starting
to see some increased
production,” Lowdon
said of the Tundra Oil
& Gas carbon dioxide
pilot project in the Sin-
clair field. That pilot is
just across the border
from Saskatchewan.
The province has
Hired Epic Consulting
to prepare a study on
the viability of CO2 use
within Manitoba’s oil
fields. The Report will
be made available on
the Petroleum Branch
website.
At the end of 2008,
the province extended
its drilling incentive
program for another
five years.
Solution gas is
also on the agenda for
Manitoba, with minis-
terial direction to seek
out more gas collection.
They will focus on the
Waskada area.
For 2009, he’s fore-
casting about 200 wells
to be drilled, mostly
horizontal.
North DakotaLynn Helms, of the
North Dakota Depart-
ment of Mineral Re-
sources, spoke of this
state’s progress. It can
be summed up in one
word, he said. “Bak-
ken.”
In November of
2008 they had 98 rigs,
with 90 per cent-plus
drilling horizontally,
meaning that each was
doing the equivalent
work of four to eight
vertical rigs.
Most of the action is
in the state’s northwest.
“Today, of 40 wells, 100
per cent are horizontal,
39 are Bakken,” he said.
There are over
4,500 hundred produc-
ing wells in the state,
not very many com-
pared to Saskatchewan,
he said. “The Bakken
has greatly surpassed
all the other pools in
North Dakota.
They are seeing
some wells producing in
excess of 4,000 bbl./day
initial production. It is
common to see 20 frac
stages on a well, at 500-
ft. intervals. An average
Bakken well is 740 bbl.
day initial production.
One Red River pool
is “crying out to get
some carbon dioxide in
the next three to five
years,” Helms said.
There are diffi-
culties, however. One
quarter of North Dako-
ta gas was flared. Wells
are being drilled where
there is no infrastruc-
ture to collect the gas.
Price and transpor-
tation constrains pro-
duction, he noted, with
just three pipeline out-
lets for oil to leave the
state.
The state has put
out a new stratigraphic
column, he noted, the
first since the 1980s.
“Managing rock
jocks is a bit like alliga-
tor wrestling,” he added,
to a few laughs.
South DakotaDue to budgetary
constraints, the South
Dakota representative
could not make it, so
Helms spoke for his
southern neighbour as
well.
South Dakota has
also set record, with
major shallow gas
eclipsing their oil plays.
The state drilled a total
of 39 wells last year.
Montana Monte Besler
of Holm Engineer-
ing spoke on behalf of
Montana. “The slow-
down has hit Montana
like everyone else,” he
said.
The Bakken is re-
sponsible for half of
Montana’s production.
The state has exceeded
its production levels
achieved in 1986, the
tail end of their last big
boom. “We did move a
long ways up the learn-
ing curve – operators
and service companies,”
he said.
The majority of the
action is on Richland
County on the eastern
side of the state. It’s vir-
tually all Bakken.
Drilling permits
peaked in Montana in
2005, with a lot of coal
bed methane action. An
environmental impact
statement pretty much
shut down CBM on
federal leasing lands,
however. There were
just 400 wells drilled in
Montana in 2008, less
than half of 2006.
Jane McLeod of Saskatchewan Energy and Re-sources details the province’s progress in 2008 to the Willison Basin Petroleum Conference in Regina.
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Regina – There are
just three universities
in Canada offering pe-
troleum engineering as
a distinct engineering
discipline, in the same
manner of mechani-
cal, electrical or civil
engineering. The Uni-
versity of Calgary and
University of Alberta
in Edmonton both of-
fer programs. In Sas-
katchewan, it ’s offered
at the University of
Regina, as part of the
Faculty of Engineering
and Applied Science.
Assistant Professor
Daoyang “Tony” Yang,
Ph. D, is the new pro-
gram chair for petro-
leum engineering. He
came to Regina in 2000
to do post-doctoral re-
search, after complet-
ing his first Ph.D in
petroleum engineering
in China.
“We used to be the
largest,” explains Yang,
noting, “Calgary just
surpassed us a few years
ago.”
At engineering
colleges throughout
Canada, the first year is
typically a general year,
where undergraduates
get a grounding in the
basics of engineer-
ing. It ’s in the second
year when a discipline
is chosen, specializing
that student’s training
in their desired field of
expertise.
Counting years two
through four, the pro-
gram had 102 students
in 2008. Numbers were
not available for 2009,
but until 2008, the
program peaked at 118
undergrads in 2006.
What differenti-
ates the program?
Most of the fo-
cus is on reservoir and
production engineer-
ing, says Yang. At the
University of Calgary,
for instance, there is a
higher concentration
on chemical engineer-
ing, he explains.
The students need
to know the geology
and geophysics, he says,
and they will need to
differentiate and jus-
tify their conclusions
regarding a reservoir,
working as a team to
decide where to put the
well.
There is a course
which speaks about
horizontal drilling and
fracturing stimulation.
“We are teaching the
fundamentals of the
stimulation process,”
he says.
A very popular
option is the co-op
program, where work
terms are interspersed
between academic
terms. For the faculty,
it means having to of-
fer some courses more
than once a year, but it
also has many benefits
to the students. Fre-
quently students will
end up staying with the
companies they spend
their work terms with.
One big advantage,
according to Yang,
is that after students
come back from their
work terms, they have a
better idea of what they
want to focus on, help-
ing in course selection.
Currently the facul-
ty has two students on
a one-year internship
with Husky, and reports
are they are finding the
experience “very good.”
When they return, they
will be going into their
fourth year.
Research“Our major research
direction is Enhanced
Oil Recovery (EOR),”
Yang says. That reflects
back into the under-
graduate curriculum,
where he notes, “We
have one course spe-
cializing in heavy oil
recovery.”
That includes
looking into vapour
extraction (VAPEX),
Steam Assisted Grav-
ity Drainage (SAGD),
and hot oil/water sepa-
ration. Page A11
U of R U of R Petroleum Petroleum Engineering Engineering focuses on focuses on reservoirsreservoirs
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Program focus: Th e Petroleum
Systems Engineering undergraduate
program at the University of Regina is
a nine-semester program that teaches
evaluation, design, application, and
management with respect to petroleum
engineering. Areas of study include
evaluation of oil and gas reserves, sur-
face collection, reservoir production,
and oil and gas treatment, and adap-
tation of technologies to extraction of
other important minerals. Advanced
computer utilization and automation
are also key components of the pro-
gram. Petroleum Systems Engineers
also contribute to activities such as pol-
lution remediation and greenhouse gas
reduction.
What our students do: Our stu-
dents are ideally suited to applying and
developing advanced technologies for
oil and gas production, while address-
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Source: University of Regina website
U of R Petroleum Systems Engineering
Page A10The petroleum engineering program is closely tied with the Petroleum
Technology Research Centre, to the department’s faculty offices are in the
same building as the PTRC, as opposed to with the rest of the of the engi-
neering faculty. “We have a good number of projects approved every year,”
Yang says of PTRC’s involvement.
Associate Professor Koorosh Asghari, Ph.D, part of the petroleum en-
gineering faculty, is instrumental in founding a new research centre at the
University of Regina, called the International Performance Assessment
Centre for Geological Storage of CO2. He is the coordinator between the
PTRC and the university, Yang explains.
As the price of oil drops, the interest in pursuing studies, particularly
graduate work, increases, according to Yang. Recently they can get as many
as ten applications for master or Ph.D work a day. As the slowdown hits,
more people are interested in coming back, he explains. It also means they
can choose the best students.
As for undergrads, at the completion of their degree, most go to Alberta
to work, Yang says. Some stay in Saskatchewan, “but the ratio is very low.”
That’s much to his chagrin, as Yang would like to seem more work in
Saskatchewan for their graduates. As chair of the program, he says, “I would
like to have a closer relationship with industry, growing in the direction of
reservoir and production engineering.”
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Dempsey Laird calls Halbrite home
By Brian Zinchuk
Halbrite – In most
communities, a busi-
ness whose workforce is
the equivalent of 55 per
cent of the population,
that would be the biggest
business in town. Well,
Dempsey Laird Truck-
ing in Halbrite isn’t the
biggest in town, but they
are substantial, especially
for a village of 98.
Dempsey Laird
Trucking Ltd. was co-
founded by husband and
wife Dempsey and Mari-
on Laird. Dempsey came
to Halbrite in 1960, and
went on his own in 1978,
when he bought out the
Halbrite operation of
RE Line Trucking.
Th e company is a
family business, with
three of fi ve siblings ac-
tive in the operation.
Th ey include Trevor
Laird, Nancy St. Jules,
and Ione Scott.
Earl Duncan is the
operational manager.
“We haul crude and
salt water and provide
trucks for service work,”
says St. Jules.
Th eir fl eet includes
around 45 company
trucks, and another 13
leased operator units,
bringing staffi ng to about
55. Most of those people
come from Weyburn and
Midale.
Having leased op-
erators is a relatively new
development for the fi rm,
according to St. Jules,
who says, “We just start-
ed lease guys when the
boom came, in 2006.”
“At one time, we
couldn’t get the equip-
ment to keep up even if
you had the money.”
Most of their work is
in the Weyburn, Midale
and Stoughton districts.
Trucking has picked up
the slack while fl ow line
capacity is built for new
wells.
While a lot of people
are sitting during spring
breakup, Dempsey Laird
did not. “We haven’t laid
anyone off ,” she says,
noting it is common for
them to work through
breakup. “Most of the
RM’s around here don’t
shut down. We can still
haul partial loads.”
Th e company built a
fenced in dugout behind
their shop in Halbrite
last year. It gives them
their own fresh water
source for service work.
It’s been a bit of a lake
this spring, having been
a slough before.
St. Jules grew up
here, playing on that
slough. She says the vil-
lage of about 100 people
felt the impact when
the school closed in the
late 1980s. It just lost it
post offi ce at the end of
March, making it a real
pain to mail an oversized
letter. But there is a rink
and hall, she notes.
St. Jules anticipates
an active summer, noting,
“I think it looks good. It
may not be as booming
as it was.”
(Editor’s note: Last month’s story on Dempsey Laird Trucking in Halbrite contained typographical and factual errors. Pipeline News apologies to Dempsey Laird Trucking for publishing the wrong version of the story. Th is is the correct version.)
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Story and photos by Brian ZinchukEstevan – Some people might have saved the hood
ornament from their fi rst car. Kelly Lafrentz did one
better. He saved the chrome grill from his fi rst truck.
It’s been re-chromed, with the red Kenworth logo
lovingly retouched with model paints. It used to be on
the wall in the old shop as part of the cabinetry, and
has yet to fi nd its place in the new offi ce. But one thing
is for sure, it will be a place of honor.
See, that truck, and all the blood, sweat and tears
that went into it and all that followed it, is a big part
of why Kelly Lafrentz Trucking Ltd. is celebrating its
25th anniversary this June.
Th e anniversary coincides with a move to a new
shop, consolidating operations on the west side Es-
tevan. Th e shop is on Breeze Street, overlooking the
Boundary Dam Power Station. Th ey have 11 acres
there, included a shop that Kelly’s father used to oper-
ate as Lafrentz Construction.
“We consolidated everything into one operation,”
explains Lafrentz.
New shop
Th e company used to operate on two sites on op-
posite ends of town. Kelly Lafrentz Trucking was on
the east side, just off Highway 39, whereas Border
Tank Rentals, the other side of the business, was on
the west side.
“We had outgrown the other facility, offi ce-wise,
shop-wise, room-wise,” Kelly says.
Th ey’re a little off the highway now, but that’s not
a big deal. “Our business doesn’t depend on drive-by
walk-in traffi c,” he explains, nothing they have built
long-standing relationships over their 25 years in
business. With a new highway bypass going in around
Estevan, they are just an easy mile from its western
terminus.
Th e new shop is substantially larger, boasting a 20
x 120 ft. wash bay, a welcome addition. “You can fi t
three trucks at a time, or a truck and a trailer and a
truck. Th is is our biggest improvement to our facility,”
says Kelly.
It’s got four overhead wands, four foam brushes,
and a spot-free rinse on the way.
“We’re still doing the odd fi nishing touches on the
building,” he says.
“We like clean trucks. Th rough the winter, trucks
got grubby looking,” he says.
Th ere’s a water tanker for the RM of Estevan
parked in the washbay at this time. Th ey’re doing a
leak test for the RM’s fi re fi ghting water tanker. Kelly
Lafrentz was elected onto the RM council recently,
and is now a fi rst-term councillor.
Th e main shop area is large enough for the whole
fl eet of trucks, plus room for expansion. Upstairs is the
coff ee room, overlooking the shop. Energy effi ciency
measures, such as motion sensor lighting and even a
timer on the bathroom fan, are incorporated through-
out.
Construction started on the new shop in May of
2008. Th ey moved in February of 2009, with the offi ce
making the switch in March.
Arlene Lafrentz, Kelly’s wife and offi ce manager
for the fi rm, notes they were initially supposed to be
moved in by January. However, they were hung up by
the delays that aff ected everyone else.
Page A15
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Page A14 Th e shop is 9,600 square feet, and the
offi ce is 2,000 square feet, a near doubling
in size from their east-side location.
“Our fl eet is eight trucks, 25 trail-
ers,” says Kelly. “We have pickers, winch
trucks, bed trucks, lowboys. We can move
pretty much anything under general oil-
fi eld hauling.”
Th ey do not, however, do rig moves.
“We haul the support equipment
to and from drilling sites, batteries, gas
plants – all aspects of the drilling and
production side of the business.”
A good chunk of what they haul is
their own iron. In 2002, they acquired
Border Tank Rentals.
Border has been around since 1992,
and Lafrentz points out it’s the longest
exclusively Saskatchewan-owned and op-
erated company of its type in the south-
east. A lot have been in and out of the
business, he notes.
Th e yard is full of blue tanks of every
shape and confi guration. “Pretty much
every kind of mud tank, production, stor-
age, liquids, solids,” he says.
On a tour around the yard, we fi nd
a large stack of rig matting. Generator
sets are at one end, while lighting towers
are at the other. Th ere’s fl are tanks near
the pre-mix and processing tanks. A tank
storage farm surrounded by secondary
containment is near the fenceline. “We
have various companies that, from time-
to-time, want to store drilling mud.”
Th e tank farm as up to 3,000 bbl. ca-
pacity.
Th ere are low wall and high wall
shale tanks, which hold cuttings from
drilling wells. Usually two to six of these
will be on a location. “You have to have
enough to keep the rig going, and to have
reserve capacity,” he explains.
25 years in business
This is the business end of a picker outrigger. Watch where you put your toes. Page A16
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Page A15 Beside them are the fl oc tanks, used to settle out
solids in drilling mud. Basically, it’s all solids control
equipment, he says.
Along a row of trees are three rows of storage
tanks.
Support local“We try to support our own here,” Arlene says.
David Mack, operatons manager, says, “In the down
cycle we’re in now, the ones who came in late are the
fi rst to leave. Th e locals support the economy.”
Kelly lists a number of local projects they have
supported, including the hospital, leisure centre, sports
teams, Souris Valley Th eatre, local 4-H clubs and the
rink. “Yes we can, we’re Estevan,” notes Arlene.
Th e company has a payroll of around 20. Th at in-
cludes two mechanics, two in maintenance, drivers,
swampers, and admin staff . Th ey’re down about a half
dozen due to the slowdown.
“We generally keep our people during the slow
times. We didn’t lay people off ,” Kelly says. Th ose who
left did so on their own accord.
He says they always guarantee 40 hours a week,
and have only had two layoff s in 25 years of business,
in 1986 and 1998. Th ose were two major downturns,
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In the middle of May, things were just starting to
pick up with a slow trickle of work. Lafrentz says it was
one of the longest road bans in recent history. “In the
previous three years, we didn’t really have a road ban.”
“We took advantage of the slow time and have
done a huge amount of maintenance, repair, painting,
and cleaning.”
One old Kenworth“We started in June of ’84 with one truck, unit No.
6,” Kelly recalls. “Th at was basically me doing it. My
wife worked at a local lawyer’s fi rm, and did books out
of the basement.
“I worked all day, and fought with the truck all
night, got three hours of sleep.”
It was an old and tired 1966 Kenworth highboy
winch truck. Th at aforementioned grill from the ‘66
Kenworth is destined to return to a wall one of these
days, something like a mounted buck or moose head.
Arlene says, “He’s done a lot of sow’s ear-into-silk
purse conversions to build the business,” Arlene says. A
lot were bought at auction.
A year later, they bought a one-tonne truck and
trailer, and soon had two one-tonnes. By 1986, they had
the two tandem Kenworths as well. Page A18
Kelly Lafrentz, left, Spencer Lafrentz, Ivan McKay and Brad Hagel with a sampling of the Kelly Lafrentz trucking eet.
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Page A17 “Th at’s when the fi rst big hit in oil prices came, in
’86. Th at’s when we got rid of our one-tonnes.”
“We added our fi rst picker in 1988. It took until ’88
to get going again,” he says of those tough times.
It was really diffi cult in 1987. “My wife wept in the
banker’s offi ce, signing the loan for that picker.”
“Th at was a huge amount of money then - $88,000,”
Arlene recalls.
“Th at was when the oilpatch was making the transi-
tion to pickers. You had to have a picker, or you wouldn’t
work.” Kelly says, noting it was a safety evolution. Prior
to that, ginpole trucks were common.
“Th e future was pickers,” Arlene says.
“We stuck our neck out to buy that,” Kelly goes on.
Th ey now had three trucks – two winch and one picker.
Th en in 1990, disaster struck.
Darkest dayIn June, 1990, the picker blew a tire and laid on its
side in the ditch. Kelly was driving, and had compres-
sion fractures and a neck brace as a result.
“I was pregnant, Spencer (their son) was in the hos-
pital with a very serious viral infection. We thought he
was going to die,” Arlene says.
“I wasn’t supposed to work for six weeks, but I was
back in two, because we had to eat,” Kelly says. “It took
129 days to get [the picker] repaired.
It also didn’t help this was a slow time due to the
fi rst Gulf War.
“It was a dark, dark day,” Arlene says.
Turned corner“We turned the corner in our business in 92-93,”
Kelly says. “Up until then, we didn’t know month to
month if we were still going to be in business. Until ’92,
I had to pry out every job.”
It took eight to ten years before people started call-
ing them, he says. At that point, they were able to start
buying new equipment.
“To build a business in southeast Saskatchewan,
you better be prepared to put in ten years of dues,” he
says.
With better times, they got newer, better equipment.
In 1996, they acquired their fi rst big 30-tonne picker. In
1998, the shop on the east side was purchased.
“Th en she died in ’98, big time,” Kelly says of the
business.
“’97 was one of our best years ever. It was like some-
one turned the lights off and shut the door after road
bans in ’98.”
Once they had several pieces of equipment paid for,
they were in a better position to expand. In 2002 came
the Border Tank Rentals acquisition. It’s been steady
growth from then until 2008, which was the “biggest,
best year on record for everyone,” Kelly says.
Page A19
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Page A18 Th ey had done a fair bit of work for Border, so
it made sense to buy the company. “If you had rental
equipment, you had trucks,” Kelly says.
Now most of the fl eet is under fi ve years old, and
everything is under ten. Border had 160 pieces of equip-
ment when purchased, and around 450 today. “We’ve
grown it quite a bit,” Kelly says. “Most of that equip-
ment was manufactured and purchased in southeast
Saskatchewan. We spend our money where we make
it.”
Key staff Kelly LaFrentz acts as general manager.
Arlene Lafrentz is offi ce manager and chief fi nan-
cial offi cer.
Chad Farr is the sales manager with Border Tank
Rentals, and has done so since the acquisition.
Alfred Hamrin and Bill Scott both handle mainte-
nance with Border Tank.
David Mack is operations manager, and came on in
March of 2007.
It’s a family business, and son Spencer, 22 is active,
spending a lot of time on tank maintenance. Spencer’s
sisters, Avery Lafrentz, 18, and Evanne Wilhelm, 26,
worked there during their summers. Evanne’s husband
was the contractor on the new shop.
Janine Carlisle, Kelly’ sister, handles reception and
safety.
Mack and Kelly both spent their share in the truck
cab last year during the peak times. “We tell our new
hires we expect staff to do whatever needs to be done
to provide good service. If it means the guy who owns
the business needs to drive truck, he drives truck,” Kelly
says.
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By Brian ZinchukRegina - Tayebeh Jamshidi’s two kids are old enough to keep themselves oc-
cupied, so now the third-year petroleum systems engineering student is devoting
herself to achieving knowledge.
She’s a mature student, with a mathematics degree and 12 years of teaching
math at the high school level before returning to school.
Th ere’s more potential for employment in petroleum engineering than math,
she notes, having changed her major.
Her husband, Farshid Torabi, is an assistant professor in the faculty of engi-
neering, specializing in miscible and immiscible fl ooding and drilling.
Th e couple are from Iran, having come to Canada in 2003.
When she graduated high school in Iran in 1990, women were not allowed
to go into petroleum engineering, she explains. Th at changed fi ve years later, how-
ever, but by that time she had pursued mathematics.
In her third-year fundamentals of reservoir engineering class, she’s the only
one to ask a question of the professor. “I like this course, I told my husband,” she
explains later to Pipeline News.“In petroleum engineering, in this course we study the knowledge that God
had made it. It’s nothing to do with humans,” she says, noting that petroleum was
not a creation of man.
She’s considering doing her masters eventually. “I raised my kids already. It’s
time for myself,” she says. Her husband did his masters in England and his Ph.D
in Canada.
She had been part of the co-op program, but dropped it because it was delay-
ing her schedule.
Goal: to achieve knowledge
Tayebeh Jamshidi has a degree in mathematics, but is now studying petro-leum engineering. Her husband is an assistant professor with the Petroleum Systems Engineer-ing program.
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Regina – Th e Wil-
liston Basin Petroleum
Conference showed there
was still some steam in
the Saskatchewan oil
boom of the last couple
years.
Th e turnout came in
around 930, over double
the usual attendance of
450. “I think it’s still the
after-eff ects of the Bak-
ken,” says Chris Gilboy,
director of the Saskatch-
ewan Subsurface Geo-
logic Laboratory and one
of the event’s co-chairs.
It meant greatly
expanding the exhibit
space, about three times
as much as prior confer-
ences.
Th e conference alter-
nates between Saskatch-
ewan and North Dakota.
Next year it will be in
Bismarck.
Th e conference ran
over fi ve days, starting on
Sunday, April 26, but the
meat and potatoes were
on April 27 and 28.
April 26 featured
well-attended core lab
workshops at the Sas-
katchewan Subsurface
Geological Laboratory.
“Th ey seem to be really
popular. Th ey’re always a
major feature of a confer-
ence like this,” explains
Gilboy. “Th ey like to see
how people interpret
what they see in the core,
and how they can develop
that into exploration.
April 27 and 28 saw
participants in the Ca-
sino Regina show lounge,
a much larger venue than
used in the past. Th ere
were no break-out ses-
sions during these days,
rather everything was
held in one room.
Minister of Energy
and Resources Bill Boyd
provided the keynote ad-
dress.
Finally on April 29
and 30, there were some
log analysis workshops.
Th e commercial dis-
plays, known as the Pros-
pect Expo, took place in
Delta Regina convention
centre.
Presentations includ-
ed heat fl ow and thermal
maturity in the Williston
basin, by Will Gosnold of
the University of North
Dakota.
On the topic of ge-
ology of the Gull Lake
North alkali surfactant
polymer tertiary fl ood,
upper Shaunavon forma-
tion, Sid Leggett of Hus-
ky Energy noted, “Gen-
erally speaking, this is an
excellent reservoir for an
ASP fl ood.”
David Hume of Ca-
nadian Discovery prob-
ably got the most smiles
during his presentation
on the potential of the
Bakken. “All the oil in
Saskatchewan has mi-
grated from south of the
border. On behalf of the
people of Canada, we’d
like to thank you for
sending us your oil. We’re
slowly sending it back to
you, a barrel at a time.”
Migration pathways
of the Bakken merge in
the Viewfi eld area, near
Stoughton, he explained.
If Hume knew that a few
years ago, he says he’d be
on a yacht.
One presentation
looked into the question
of whether Manitoba had
the right geological con-
ditions for economic shale
gas production. Michelle
Nicolas of the Manitoba
Geological Survey talk-
ed about fi nding wells
in southwest Manitoba
from 1906 and 1927, one
of which currently has a
barbecue hooked up to it.
Page A23
Williston Basin Conference draws
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On lineament mapping and analy-
sis in the northeastern Williston Ba-
sin of North Dakota, Fred Anderson
of the North Dakota Geologic Survey
described how lineaments manifested
themselves on the surface, and what
can be drawn from
that.
Steve Whita-
ker of the Petro-
leum Technology
Research Centre
in Regina spoke
on Saskatchewan
phanerozoic fl uids
and petroleum sys-
tems assessment.
Bob McKish-
nie of Apache Can-
ada provided an up-
date on the Midale
CO2 miscible fl ood expansion project.
Th ey’ve currently installed 18 patterns
of the proposed 42 for the three-phase
project. Th e expansion is planned to be
completed by 2015. “It’s still early in the
life of the fl ood,” he noted when de-
scribing how they are still forecasting an
incremental 15 per cent recovery factor.
Th at would bring their recovery factory
overall to about 45 per cent, after having
recovered about 27 per cent to date.
James Sorensen of the University of
North Dakota spoke on matching car-
bon dioxide sources with geologic stor-
age. Specifi cally, he mentioned carbon-
dioxide enhanced coal-bed methane
from lignite coal. Part of the Plains CO2
Reduction Partnership’s work is moni-
toring, mitigation and verifi cation, mak-
ing sure carbon dioxide stays where it is
supposed to.
Most of the
p r e s e n t a t i o n s
were highly tech-
nical – engineer
and executive
level. Tuesday in-
cluded multiple
presentations on
an intense seismic
imaging project
for side-by-side
horizontal wells
and a comparison
of well completion
techniques.
Peter Taylor, business manager for
Enbridge Saskatchewan and one of the
presenters, said, “Th e interaction with
the rest of the industry has been help-
ful.”
He noted it’s an opportunity to see
people you don’t see on a regular basis,
and a chance to interact with diff erent
regulatory bodies. “It’s very benefi cial
for us as a group on both sides of the
border.”
For Gilboy, it’s his last conference.
He’ll be retiring soon, and hopes to get
in a little travel.
Conference co-chair Chris Gilboy.
Microphones for questions got some use towards the end of the conference.
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Alida – Free-standing rigs may be on their way,
but in the meantime there is still a need to make sure
rigs stay vertical in strong prairie winds.
Calvin Annetts owns and operates Force An-
chors out of Alida. “I run it mostly myself, and I got a
guy that works part time, mostly pulling anchors.
On this sunny May day, Annetts is welding, do-
ing repairs on an anchor. “Th ey get bent from rocks,”
he explains.
Annetts jokes that his welder friend might get
upset if he sees the picture, because he’s taking work
away from the welder. “Welding and repairs – there’s
always something to fi x.”
Th e screw anchors Annetts installs are meant to
stabilize rigs. Mostly it’s service rigs, but he handles
drilling rigs as well. “I screw the anchors into the
ground, and they tie the guy lines to them.”
Each location has four anchors sunk in a box pat-
ter, angling the lines to the middle. Typically they are
about 120 ft. out, and need to be placed within about
a 2-foot circle.
“I’ve been doing this for 18 years, on my own for
fi ve,” Annetts says. He used to work for a Weyburn
outfi t. Marilee Annetts, Calvin’s wife, does the books
for the company when she’s not working for NAL
Resources.
Th e anchors themselves are a square rod, four
or eight feet in length, with a few turns of fl ighting.
Th ey are turned in by a rig mounted on the back of
a one-tonne dually Dodge. “You’ve got to have four
wheel drive,” he says.
Page A25
Anchored down for ve years
This anchor installation rig is mounted on a one-tonne dually. It pulls with 21,000 pounds of force to determine if an anchor is properly set. Calvin Annetts, left, operates the rig.
PIPELINE NEWS June 2009 A25
Calvin Annetts of Force Anchores does some re-pair work in his Alida shop.
Page A24The anchor usually goes in a minimum of
eight feet.
Once installed, a cable sling is attached to the
anchor and the rig yards upward on the anchor. If
it can take 21,000 lbs force, that’s good enough. A
printout from the on-board computer showing the
pull test is attached to the ticket. If it gives, then
another four feet are screwed in. “I’ve gone as deep
as 40 ft. in an old drilling sump,” he explains.
In the winter, he drills a pilot hole through the
frost fi rst.
It typically takes about an hour and a half per
lease. “When the rig is done, I unscrew my anchors
and move them to the next location.
Why not just leave them in permanently?
“Th ey’re in the road for the farmers,” he says,
recounting how one farmer hit an anchor (not one
of his) and smashed his very expensive header. It
was not a cheap day for the oil company.
Since sinking an anchor is considered a ground
disturbance, it’s important to have underground
utilities marked. Most companies have that done
beforehand, but he is capable of doing line locat-
ing as well.
Free-standing rigs threaten the business, get-
ting around the whole ground disturbance issue.
“It’s been a trend in Alberta, and it’s coming to
Saskatchewan,” he acknowledges. “Most of it is the
fear of hitting underground utilities.”
“Th ere’s still lots to go around so far, but an-
chors are slowly fading out.”
Th ere’s something to be said about a solid an-
chor, however. “I’m sure some of these drillers and
toolpushes have sleepless nights when they hear 80
km/h winds.”
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added a third concrete
pumper to their opera-
tion, scooping one up
at a Fort Worth, Texas,
Ritchie Bros. sale.
Th e big beast was one
of 35 concrete pumpers
up for bid. Marty Han-
son fl ew down, bought
it, and drove it up in the
space of a weekend.
Th ey got it for a good
price, reports his busi-
ness partner, Davin Em-
mel. He was working on
getting it safetied when
Pipeline News stopped
by, checking the electrical
wiring.
Th is model is what’s
called a “Z-fold,” describ-
ing the shape of the boom
arm. Emmel describes it
as a back saver, and works
well for shop fl oors, with
32 metres of reach.
Th e third unit comes
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Estevan – It used to
be the school division
offi ce building, now it’s
home to Midwest Sur-
veys in Estevan.
“Th e reason for the
move was to increase our
offi ce space,” says David
Quirk, who runs the local
operation.
Th e new facility on
King Street has about
7,000 square feet in of-
fi ce place, plus a sizeable
shop. Th e old facility
on 4th Street had about
5,000 square feet in total,
so they’re close to double
in size now.
Th ere’s also a lot more
parking available.
Th at’s handy when
you operate a small fl eet
of one-tonnes carrying
quads. Eight crews of
surveyors and survey as-
sistants work out of Es-
tevan.
Th e back has a charg-
ing area for all the equip-
ment, as well as locker ar-
eas for fi eld staff . Th ey’re
in the process of setting
up desktop space for the
fi eld staff as well.
Th e building is now
home to about 35 to 40
staff , with a few students
having recently joined for
the summer. About half
of that works in the of-
fi ce, the other half in the
fi eld, covering southeast
Saskatchewan and south-
west Manitoba. Regina is
the nearest neighbouring
offi ce for Midwest.
Th e old location was
cramped to the point
where they had converted
the boardroom into of-
fi ce space, an had people
sharing offi ces.
“We’ve been steady
Midwest Surveys moves into new digs
David Quirk shows the locker and battery charg-ing area in the back of the new Midwest Surveys facility.
Once used to hold school division meetings, the boardroom at the new home of Midwest Surveys in Estevan is substantially bigger than their old boardroom. They had to convert the boardroom in the old location into of ce space.
enough all along,” he says
when asked about house
business is going. “Th ese
activity levels are defi -
nitely enough to carry us
through.
“We were really, re-
ally busy last fall.”
Th ere’s a certain level
of activity due to mainte-
nance, i.e. pipeline integ-
rity surveys, he explains.
Th e vast majority,
about 80 to 90 per cent,
of their work is oilpatch
related. Th ey’ve picked
up more and more sub-
division and construction
work, but that is again
driven by the oil industry.
Recent work includes
having completed 120 km
of pipeline for Enbridge
in southeast Saskatche-
wan. Th ey will have to do
staking when the project
goes ahead.
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Edmonton – Love is in the air this spring for Eveready Inc., an Edmonton-
based provider of industrial and oilfi eld maintenance and production services.
Eveready has been wooed by a handsome $387 million merger proposal from
U.S. based waste-management company Clean Harbors Inc. and is recommending
its shareholders bless the union.
“We believe that this transaction is a win/win scenario for our employees, cus-
tomers and shareholders, said Rod Marlin, Eveready’s chief executive offi cer on
April 29.
“Our employees will become part of a larger, growth-oriented organization
that is a well-managed industry leader.”
Under the terms of the agreement, Clean Harbors will buy Eveready through a
combination of cash, stock and debt that totals a reported $220 million.
“In addition to the cash they receive, our shareholders will participate in the
future growth of the top
environmental services company in North America, whose value has been sig-
nifi cantly enhanced by the
acquisition of our organization,” said Marlin.
Th e deal off ers Eveready shareholders a premium of 200 percent, based on clos-
ing share price of Eveready shares of $3.47 on the TSX on April 28.
“Eveready’s board of directors fully supports this transaction and will strongly
recommend it to our shareholders,” said Marlin.
Th e combined company following the completion of the deal will have $130
million in cash and $250 million in debt reported Clean Harbors’ CEO Alan Mc-
Kim on a conference call with analysts.
“Th e acquisition of Eveready greatly enhances our presence in the attractive
industrial services
market and broadens the range of services we can off er customers of both com-
panies,” said McKim,
“We envision substantial cross-selling opportunities with Eveready’s blue-chip
customer base, particularly with respect to refi neries and other energy companies.
“Geographically, this transaction will signifi cantly advance our position in the
Canadian marketplace, and aff ord us with expanded service off erings in our existing
U.S. and Canadian locations.”
Clean Harbors said it will maintain current workforce levels at both companies.
Th e company has about 4,808 employees.
Eveready has 79 locations in Canada, the United States and internationally has
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Th e off er is well timed for Eveready, given their revenue decline in the fi rst
quarter of 2009 of 12 percent to $162.7 million from $184.7 million in 2008 for
the same period. Net earnings also declined to $4.9 million in the quarter compared
to $18.7 million in 2008.
Th e fi rst quarter of 2009 was the fi rst quarter of negative growth for Eveready
in over fi ve years.
“Although, our revenue remained relatively strong in the months of January and
February, our revenue was signifi cantly lower in the month of March compared to
the prior year,” reported Marlin.
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core hole drilling support services provided in the Alberta oilsands region in the
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sicians and Surgeons.
Lawyers have law societ-
ies. In Saskatchewan, en-
gineers and geoscientists
have APEGS – the As-
sociation of Professional
Engineers and Geosci-
entists of Saskatchewan.
Jon Gillies, a retired
full professor of Univer-
sity of Saskatchewan and
University of Regina, is
also a recent past-presi-
dent of APEGS as well
as the current examiner
of professional certifi ca-
tion.
He moved to Reina
when he became presi-
dent of APEGS, in part
to be close at hand to the
organization’s headquar-
ters.
“Th e role of APEGS
is to regulate the profes-
sion,” he says, noting the
organization is legally
charged with the re-
sponsibility under Sas-
katchewan legislation.
Engineering and
geoscientists fall under
the Engineering and
Geosciences Professions
Act. Geoscientists fell
under the same umbrella
in the 1990s as a way to
regulate the profession
without creating a whole
new act, according to
Gillies.
Th e key point of the
regulation is to ensure
a professional engineer
(P.Eng) or professional
geoscientist (P.Geo) “are
fully competent to prac-
tice in their discipline
and to make sure that
in doing the public and
environment protected,”
according to Gillies.
In layman’s terms,
whatever the engineer
says will be safe for pub-
lic use within its design
lifetime should actually
be safe.
“I’m the provincial
examiner,” Gillies says
of his current role with
APEGS. Before an
engineer or geoscien-
tist can be given their
professional designa-
tion, they have to pass
an exam focussing on
ethics and professional
practice. Basically, it’s
the engineering equiva-
lent of the legal profes-
sion’s bar exam.
To become certi-
fi ed as an engineer, one
must fi rst graduate from
an accredited Canadian
program.
Th at’s followed by
a four year internship
within the guidance of
a mentor, a professional
engineer. In a way, it’s
similar to an apprentice-
ship under a journeyman
tradesman.
Towards the end
of those four years, the
exam is written. To pass,
they must get a mini-
mum of 65 per cent.
In a world where
garbage collectors are
sometimes called ‘sani-
tary engineers,’ it’s the
job of APEGS to make
sure that anyone calling
themselves and engineer
truly is one. Th ey don’t
have to use their regula-
tory powers that often,
but it happens. Th e dis-
cipline committee has
the legal authority to
withdraw licenses and
can issue fi nes.
APEGS doesn’t
have an inspection role,
instead relying on re-
ports.
“If you want en-
gineering services, call
APEGS. Ask if they are
a professional, and com-
petent, qualifi ed and li-
censed to practice in that
area,” Gillies off ers.
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B-SectionJune 2009
First in a two part-series on engineering a project
Story and photos by Brian ZinchukEstevan – Water-
fl ood Service & Sales
of Estevan builds skid
packages for a variety of
oilfi eld applications, and
has its own in-house en-
gineering department. In
this series, Pipeline News follows the engineering
processes from the start
of an order to delivery.
David Heier is presi-
dent and owner. A typical
package typically takes
six weeks from issuance
of a purchase order, he
explains. “Th ey’ll issue a
P.O. (purchase order) or
verbal. We’ll issue a fi nal
order of acceptance,” he
says.
Th e company is an
ISO 9001-certifi ed shop,
meaning there are strin-
gent paperwork require-
ments for projects, with
verifi cation and trace-
ability being key compo-
nents. Job books with ev-
ery detail of a particular
job are important. Once
a job starts the whole
design and construction
process follows a strict
quality control program.
In this case, the proj-
ect is a recycle/boost
pump/fi lter skid pack-
age for EOG Resources.
“Probably one of the
simpler skids we’ve built,”
according to Heier.
His own training
comes from the “School
of Hard Knocks,” he
notes. Th e company has
a professional engineer
on staff , three engineers
working under him, and
two draftspeople.
Th e package itself
includes a water pump
for re-injection, two
emulsion pumps called a
recycle to transfer from
one tank to another at
the battery. Th ere’s two
chemical injection pumps
for a de-emulsifi er and
corrosion inhibitor.
Johan Landman is
one of the engineers. He
notes this skid package
will be “just a module you
plug into the process.”
On this day, the 12
ft. x 23 ft. skid frame has
been assembled, with
grates over sumps. Th e
sumps are meant to catch
any fl uids during mainte-
nance. Th e bottom of the
skid frame in insulated
by a subcontractor.
“We do every one
custom, but a lot is based
on experience, i.e, this
size of beam for that size
of skid,” says John Reid,
another engineer.
“First we’ll get a bid
request from a potential
customer saying, “Th is is
what we’re looking for,
would you like to bid on
it?’”
It’ll go to the sales
person, then to Brian
Morrissey, the “Quote
Guy,” who works with
the engineers.
At this point, the
quote is not super-de-
tailed. Th ere’s a rough
idea of the package, and
contains all the impor-
tant information. “We
need it to pump this
much at this pressure,
say, for a water package,
and sometimes that’s all
you get.”
In this case, Lanmark
Engineering of Calgary
did the initial write up.
“Th ey would have went
to Lanmark and said, ‘we
need a battery.’
“Lanmark comes to
us and says, ‘We need
this particular building,’”
Th is happens on
about half the jobs. Th e
other half come directly
from the oil companies,
often with their own en-
gineers.
Th ere might be a
request for particular
brands of hardware. Wa-
terfl ood is a local distrib-
utor of Gardner Denver
water injection pumps,
but they will source from
other places if there is a
specifi c request.
Most of the info is
on an Excel grid and a
diagram showing the de-
sired layout. It’s known
as the P&ID, or Pro-
cess and Instrumenta-
tion Diagram. If there is
no P&ID supplied, the
engineers at Waterfl ood
will do one up during the
quoting process.
How many quotes
materialize into work?
“When we’re busy, we
get the most percentage
of quotes that turn into
jobs,” Reid says. When
it’s slower, the quoting
process gets more bloat-
ed, with fewer quotes as
likely to turn into jobs.
He thinks it may be be-
cause there is more time
for the client to analyze
the “what-if ’s” instead of
“We need this.”
Th e quicker you get
action, the more likely
it’s going to happen. “Th e
more active, the more
questions, the more feed-
back, the better,” he says.
Page B2
John Reid, an engineer with Water ood Service and Sales, shows a three-dimensional model of a skid package. Near his left hand is the ‘space mouse,’ a multi-axis controller helpful in manipulating 3D objects on screen.
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“Th e quoting process
can take from a week to
years,” Reid explains. If
it’s not done in a month,
it will often go into hia-
tus. Th ey are currently
re-quoting projects fi rst
brought up last year.
Th ere can be mul-
tiple quotes. On this
particular job, there were
three. Th at’s normal, he
explains.
It’s a go
“Once they say ‘yes,
go ahead,’ we do our own
P&ID for Waterfl ood,”
Reid says. “We’ll order
in our major equipment,
usually in the fi rst two
days.”
Lead times vary, but
fi ve to six weeks seems to
be an average.
“It’s probably the
second most important
thing, behind price –
lead time. If it takes fi ve
weeks to get a pump, we
may have it done in six,”
he says. At that point it’s
out the door.
“At 100 per cent ca-
pacity, we can be doing a
job a week, normally four
to fi ve jobs of this size
at one time. In the fall
before the slowdown we
were doing six to seven
a month, now, at the tail
end of breakup, it’s two a
month.”
Th e next stage is an
overview drawing, simi-
lar in concept and design
to a wiring schematic,
except it uses pipes in-
stead of wires.
A three-dimension-
al model is done, using
Autodesk Inventor, a
derivative of the Auto-
Cad package of design
software. It allows you
to basically assemble the
package on the computer
screen the way a child
would build a Lego set.
“We have a library of
parts. We basically stick
all the parts together like
a jigsaw puzzle,” Reid
says.
Th e 3D visualization
is useful for looking at
things like serviceabil-
ity and access. “Th ere’s
a large consideration
for how they’re going to
use it in the fi eld: user-
friendliness, designing it
to last longer.”
On Reid’s desk sits
a ‘space mouse,’ a spe-
cial multi-axis pointing
device he uses with his
left hand while his right
hand uses the conven-
tional computer mouse.
It allows the computer
model to be manipulated
and viewed from numer-
ous angles.
Th e drawings and
3D model get sent to the
customer for their yea
or nay, or any changes.
With that approval,
smaller pieces like valves
and piping are built onto
the skid frame.
Th is package has
been designed with ex-
pansion in mind. Th ere’s
been room left for the
addition of more pumps
at a later date.
Changes will come
at times. “If the customer
needs it, they need it,”
he says. Th e later in the
game, the more diffi cult
they are to incorporate.
In all, about three-
quarters of his time is
spent in initial design
work, one quarter on re-
visions.
Building beginsAs the engineer for
this project, Reid will do
regular visits during the
build, probably every two
days. “It really depends
on how much progress
is being made, and how
busy I am.”
It’s part of cross
training, he notes. “When
I go down to the shop,
they tell me what could
be improved, and how to
make it easier/faster for
them to build and the
customer to use.”
Some companies
will come by for a tour
or have an inspector visit
while their package is
being built. A few will
include their operators
in the design process.
Dan Amundrud is
the INOVATOR co-or-
dinator for Waterfl ood,
and head of the con-
struction department.
With a lot of experience
in the fi eld, his impres-
sions count.
Th ere’s a kickoff
meeting before the start
of the build. Reid says,
“After we think we have
the design solidifi ed, and
we are ready to build,
we get input from Dan,
the welders. Th e kickoff
meetings help us prevent
problems that might
pop up during con-
struction and makes the
whole build process a lot
smoother.”
Next month: Engi-neering during the build process .
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White City – At the end of the last big burst of
mainline pipelining in Saskatchewan around the turn
of the century, the International Union of Operating
Engineers Local 870 (Saskatchewan) set up a train-
ing school with the purpose of teaching new people
how to operate heavy equipment.
Operating Engineers is the international union
that provides the heavy equipment operators for
unionized pipeline work in Saskatchewan, including
all the work on TransCanada, Enbridge and Alli-
ance’s mainlines. Its members have been active on the
recent Enbridge Alberta Clipper and TransCanada
Keystone pipeline projects.
With an aging workforce, it was recognized train-
ing of new blood was needed to keep in the game.
Th e Operating Engineers Training Institute of
Saskatchewan, or OETIS, was born. It’s modelled on
similar training institutes in Ontario (Operating En-
gineers Institute Training Institute of Ontario, OE-
TIO) and British Columbia (Operating Engineers
(Local 115) Joint Apprenticeship and Training Plan,
OEJATP).
Th e school operated for a few years, putting train-
ees through their level one and level two apprentice-
ship training in the newly recognized trade as pipe-
line equipment operator. Under the trade, there are
four designations – excavator, grader, dozer and side-
boom. Th ere are only two levels in this apprenticeship
program, unlike mechanics, which have four. Upon
the completion of the in-school training and with
suffi cient hours, apprentices can take the journeyman
written and practical examinations, qualifying them
as journeymen.
OETIS is the only school recognized through
Saskatchewan Apprenticeship to off er this program.
(Th e writer holds a level 2 apprentice card in
pipeline equipment operator – excavator, aquired
through this OETIS).
When the work died down, so did the training,
with OETIS going into hiatus. But this spring it
went active again, training a new batch of apprentices
by way of a partnership agreement with Treaty Four
and Treaty Six First Nations and Enbridge.
Th e real dealTh e school is set up right beside the marshalling
yard for Waschuk Pipeline on the west side of White
City. Waschuk is the contractor for the southeast
Saskatchewan portion of Alberta Clipper. Th e rest of
Waschuk’s equipment is lined up in neat rows, await-
ing the summer season.
Like before, OETIS is off ering its training dur-
ing the slack time in the spring, before main opera-
tions fi re up.
Th ey’re renting the iron from Waschuk, includ-
ing four excavators, two graders, and four dozers It’s
exactly the equipment the apprentices would see on
the right of way, except that they might run into a few
more D8 dozers than the D6s they are training on.
Th e training is realistic too. Th ey go through all
the major phases of a pipeline project – stripping, right
of way, ditch (including bellholes, simulated hotlines
and overhead power), backfi ll, and cleanup.
Page B4
Harvey Huzil, left, was the grader instructor for Clem Laliberte, Daryl Wuttunee, Eldon Wuttunee, Preston William and Waylon Wesequate at the Operating Engineers Training Institute of Saskatch-ewan school at White City in May.
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Th e school draws on one of the strengths of the
union - highly experienced operators as instruc-
tors. Excavator instructor Bob “Hook” Mathieu, for
instance, is something of a legend in the Local 870
hall, with decades of experience. Th e other excava-
tor instructor is David Greyeyes, who was a trainee
through this very program when it fi rst started.
On dozer are instructors Bill Byrd and Garth
Hammerstrom, who have probably forgot more than
most operators know. Harvey Huzil is the grader in-
structor. He’s also got a mountain of experience as an
operator and as a foreman.
Th is time out, there is no sideboom training.
Gladys Downing, retired business manager for
the local, is acting as co-ordinator. From the time she
got the call, she had things up and running in a few
weeks. It’s not surprising, because as a mainline pipe-
liner, you get a call from the union dispatcher, and are
expected to be on the job at 7 a.m. the next day.
Indeed, the school operates just like a pipeline
job – six ten-hour days a week, starting at 7 a.m.
Greyeyes hails from Muskeg Lake. Th e fi rst time
he ever got on a machine was when he did this very
course.
He had been an oiler (a pipeline term for
swamper) with OJ on the Alliance Pipeline, and fol-
lowing that, has worked for much of the past decade
off and on for Unicon Pipeline in North Battleford,
a sewer and water contractor. He had spent a lot of
time with them in the ditch, laying water and sewer
lines.
He’s also dug some tremendously deep ditch for
sewer mains in Saskatoon. Th at was his fi rst job on
the machine, and the hole was 21 metres deep. “Th at
was the deepest hole I ever dug.”
Greyeyes sees a bit of himself in each of the train-
ees. “It got me on the machine for the last ten years,
got me out of the ditch.”
“You can almost see the improvement day by day.
Some are actually getting pretty good,” he says. Th ree
of the ten excavator trainees have quite a bit of expe-
rience. Th e other seven, not so much.
“You can tell whose going to be a decent hoe
hand,” Greyeyes says.
A little greenMany of the trainees are using the heavy equip-
ment for the fi rst time. “Th is is the fi rst time oper-
ating,” says Mike Wuttunne, 31, of Red Pheasant
First Nation near the Battlefords. He was running a
skid-steer loader with Robert B. Sommerville on the
Alberta Clipper project this past year, spending night
shifts with the mechanics.
“I’m fi nding it really good. I’m very grateful to get
the opportunity to take the course,” he says. “I’m will-
ing to try it out. Four weeks might not enough.”
Milton Sunchild, 39, is from Th underchild First
Nation, where he’s spent the last three and a half
years working as a security guard. He’s training on
the grader. “I always wanted to drive grader, track-
hoe,” he says. “Now that I have the opportunity, I’m
learning the best as I can.”
Nina Stonechild, 32, is from Peepeekisis First
Nation, near Balcarres. She says she “never rode a
garden tractor before this.” Now she’s swinging a
30-tonne excavator.
“Just before this I fi nished an applied welding
certifi cation. Before that I was with SGI as a clerk
and product advisor.”
She prefers the hard hat and steel toes. “I don’t
like the offi ce environment.”
She had started university in a pre-med program,
but life, kids and bookwork got in the way. Besides,
she says she’s a hands-on learner.
Page B5
The OETIS group studying excavator operating included, back row, from left: instructor David Grey-eyes, instructor Bob “Hook” Mathieu, Trevor White, Clint Ledoux. Front row: Kerry Desjarlais, Jordon Dustyhorn, Vincent Baptiste, Michael Wuttunee, Nina Stonechild, Louie Starr, Jordon Dubois. Missing is Alvin John Friday.
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Page B4Jordon Dubois, 18,
is the young one of the
group. He’s going back
to school in Yorkton in
September to fi nish high
school. He says it helps
to have experienced in-
structors as well as taking
training alongside train-
ees with experience.
All say they are look-
ing a joining the union.
Garth Hammerstrom
of Canora is one of the
dozer instructors. He’s
teaching them how to
strip topsoil, build hotline
ramps, basic right of way
and cleanup.
How are they doing?
“A lot are doing good.
A lot have come a long
ways since day one. Most
have never sat on a dozer
before.”
Th e fi rst thing you
teach is safety, he says,
all the controls, how to
check oil, getting on and
off . “Th ese guys are very
safe individuals.
“I’ve been running
machines for 28 years –
dozer, hoe, and grader.”
He’s been pipelining since
the mid-1980s, when
there was a lot of work for
TransGas. He’s seen big-
inch pipeline work across
Canada.
ExpectationsManaging expecta-
tions is a challenge for
the instructors. Big-inch
pipeline is among the
most challenging types
of heavy equipment work.
Th e equipment is big, the
work challenging and
exacting, and the pace is
fast. A 45-tonne Cater-
pillar 345 excavator, the
workhorse of the big-inch
world, is about as big as a
piece of equipment you
can get and still haul it
in one piece on the high-
way. Yet its operators will
use it with inch-by-inch
precision around hotlines
big enough to heat a city.
One wrong move and,
“Foomp!” they send your
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on the job, with much of
that experience derived
from small-inch pipeline
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oilfi eld work.
For these trainees,
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Frobisher – You might not realize it, but there are bacteria deep in the ground.
Th ere can be benefi cial bacteria, or detrimental bacteria. Sometimes, you want the
good bacteria to take out the bad bacteria, or other problematic downhole issues.
Th at’s what DPS Microbial Solutions does.
“We do downhole applications,” explains Mathew Jones, who looks after sales
out of Calgary.
It’s a family business, based out of Frobisher, with additional operations in
Bowden, Alta., south of Red Deer. Th ey also have a Calgary offi ce.
Paraffi n, a byproduct of oil production, is the culprit here. Th e use of bacteria
is an environmentally friendly product to deal with the problem instead of chemi-
cals, Jones explains.
Mathew Jones of DPS Microbial Solutions.
Paraf n: yum, yum
Th e microbes are applied through the casing, into existing production wells.
“We shut the well in for 24 hours. Th at give the bacteria time to migrate into
the formation,” Jones says.
Over that time, the bacteria attack skin damage, breaking down existing paraf-
fi n chains.
It works in three modes, breaking down waxes, asphaltenes, and helps con-
trol scale such as iron sulphides and calcium carbonates. Th e reaction is biological
instead of chemical, (breaking down paraffi n, iron sulphide, and asphaltenes, and
helps control scale such as calcium carbonates.)
“It will think and react on its own,” Jones says. “It’s smart enough to go after
its food source.”
Th e freeze-dried bacteria is comes from the U.S. It’s grown, frozen, and packed
in soy as a carrying agent.
When getting ready for an application, they use hot water and an activator
to simulate a food source. Th at makes the bacteria hungry and aggressive, Jones
explains.
Th ey’re oxygen scavengers, stealing oxygen from wherever they can. Fresh wa-
ter is ideal. “When we put them down hole, they are in the best environment they
can be in. Giving them fresh water is like steak before the Rottweiler.”
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Page B6Th e process is pri-
marily used in light to
medium crudes, at 15 to
45 degrees API.
Th e company fi red up
ten years ago. Dean Mac-
Cuish started it, running
it on his own for two years.
His wife Kyla is Jones’
sister. Dean MacCuish
runs the show, handling
fi eld sales for southeast
Saskatchewan, as well as
doing fi eld applications.
Kyla MacCuish is the of-
fi ce manager and safety
person. Jones spends most
of his time in downtown
Calgary.
“We are one of the
only microbial companies
in Canada,” Jones says.
“It’s a niche product. It
takes care and caution to
use our products and get
the proper results. Th at’s
why we do all the appli-
cations ourselves.”
An application is ac-
complished by way of
a one-tonne truck and
high pressure pumps. Th e
treatment takes about
half an hour. “Th e appli-
cation is simple. It’s the
technology that’s quite
advanced,” he says.
Th ey also have bacte-
ria to deal what’s known
as a Sulphur Reducing
Bacteria, or SRB. Its pur-
pose it to overcome hy-
drogen sulphide-produc-
ing microbes.
“We alter the envi-
ronment so out bacte-
ria have the upper hand,
and out-compete them
for their food source, and
thus eliminate them from
the formation.
Th e net result is a
reduction in the H2S
parts per million at the
source. It’s benefi cial on
the safety side, and allows
for the use of sweet facili-
ties. “We’ve taken wells
from 1,000 ppm [H2S] to
zero,” Jones explains, add-
ing they’ve also seen bet-
ter results than that.
“It’s not an applica-
tion you can use on every
well,” he says.
Hydrogen sulphide
in a fi eld can be natu-
rally occurring, or happen
when a sweet fi eld is con-
taminated and turns sour.
Th eir bacteria is meant
to deal with soured wells.
“All fi elds down here are
naturally sweet,” he says
while having coff ee in
Estevan.
“Th e bacteria we
use have a set lifespan.
Th ey’re going to die off ,
and be fl ushed out of the
well with the production.”
Jones says.
It’s an ongoing pro-
cedure, a monthly main-
tenance issue. Th e costs
are pretty reasonable,
Jones says, because the
treatments cut down on
rig time, hot oiling, and
in general just less down
time and increased equip-
ment lifespan.
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Regina – Sask is on
a growth trend in conven-
tional crude production,
and could soon overtake
Alberta in this key area,
according to Saskatche-
wan Energy and Resourc-
es Minister Bill Boyd.
Boyd delivered the
keynote address to the
Williston Basin Petro-
leum Conference in Re-
gina on April 27 at the
Casino Regina Show
Lounge.
“We set a new record
for oil production in Sas-
katchewan last year,” he
said. “Last year was the
second best in our history
for total wells drilled.
“As an industry, I
know one thing you cer-
tainly hate is uncertainty,”
Boyd said. “We think the
future remains bright.”
He pointed to 1993,
when Bakken produc-
tion totalled 636 bbl/day.
In December, 2008, that
number was 57,000 bbl/
day.
“Clearly the oil and
gas industry made up a
signifi cant portion of that
job growth, and invest-
ment in our province,”
he said, speaking of Sas-
katchewan’s economic
growth. “We should be
mindful to say this: Th ank
you.”
“We want to remain
a competitive jurisdiction.
If anything, we want to
see our jurisdiction be-
come more competitive,
instead of less.
He noted the Bak-
ken play has become the
hottest play in North
America since the 1950s,
and that’s only because
technology allows it.
Current reserves in place
are estimated at 41.2 bil-
lion barrels, but that does
not include oilsands and
oil shales, nor completely
factor in the Bakken for-
mation. “Replacements
are essentially matching
production. Not many
places can say that.”
Boyd spoke of the
importance of sharing
ideas at the Williston
basin conference, noting
that horizontal drilling
was an important issue
during the early days of
the conference.
“With continued im-
provements in technique
and technology, we could
conceivably double Sas-
katchewan’s oil reserve
from this basin alone,”
Boyd said of the Willi-
ston basin.
Talking about the
improvements in hori-
zontal drilling and frac
technology, he noted
Williston basin resources
are important, he said,
“but without the knowl-
edge, they simply stay in
the ground.”
Boyd spoke of re-
search projects such as
JIVE, a vapour extraction
initiative of the Petroleum
Technology Research
Centre. He also noted the
carbon dioxide fl oods at
Weyburn and Midale, us-
ing North Dakota CO2.
Outside, speaking to
reporters, Boyd was asked
about land sales having
dropped substantially
this year. He responded it
was a refl ection clearly of
the climate you see. “Th e
companies themselves tell
us they expect Saskatch-
ewan to come charging
back in land sales, drilling,
those kinds of things.”
He noted the indus-
try has invested signifi -
cantly in Saskatchewan in
terms of land sales, and,
“As a result of that, we
anticipate they will want
to realize on that.”
When asked about
Saskatchewan surpassing
Alberta in conventional
oil production, Boyd said,
“Yes, we do think it is
likely to happen, in terms
of conventional. I under-
stand we are very close.
We might not be able to
make that claim yet, but
we will be able to before
very long, able to make
that claim. Th e positive
trend line for Saskatch-
ewan is increasing, and
Alberta is going the other
direction.”
“It’s great news for
the province.”
He attributes it pri-
marily to the Bakken,
and the technology used
there. He notes it is also
being used in other areas
of the province.
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ics for race cars. He had started racing at the young age of 14.
It was a basement hobby that has since turned into a full-time gig, with three
and a half staff , including himself.
At the age of 16, Turnbull moved up to the IMCA Modifi ed racing class. His
car number is 21 – a number you see consistently around him, including his email.
You’ll fi nd him at the track on Saturdays during the summer.
“People started coming to me when I was doing it as a hobby,” he says. “I just
started doing my own, and ended up doing everyone else’s.
Th e work turned more and more into signage. It was getting to be too much
work for part time, and Turnbull saw an opportunity for a new sign shop in Es-
tevan.
“When I started, I taught myself, basically. I never planned on it.”
He didn’t have any particular ambitions coming out of school, and spent some
time working as a welder. “Th at got old real fast,” he says.
Th e company used to be known as “Wide Open Graphics.” Th e name
changed to “Future Signs” in September, 2008. Turnbull wanted more emphasis
on signage.
To that end, a new key piece of hardware arrived in April – a Solara ultravio-
let printer, with a 60 inch printing width. “We can print on just about anything
up to half an inch thick,” he says.
Th at includes coroplast and aluminum.
He’s looking to get into more oilfi eld signage, such as lease signs. “With this
machine, it will dramatically decrease waiting times and lower costs, and in a lot
of cases [provide] better quality and durability,” according to Turnbull.
Th e new printer is not the only new thing around, however. Indeed, they
moved into a new building on Estevan’s 5th Avenue on Jan. 1 of this year.
“We do a little bit of everything,” he says, noting they were striping a semi at
the time.
Vehicle applications are also possible, everything from lettering a picker boom
to a digital print wrap.
“Our main focus right now is our mini-billboards,” he says, a fi ve by 10 foot
double-sided sign.
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Wainwright – Th ere
are at least 101 reasons to
live, work, visit or invest in
Wainwright that marked
its 100 anniversary in
2008.
Th e latest reason is
retirement living but ag-
riculture, the Canadian
Forces Base Wainwright
and the oil and gas indus-
try are the three major pil-
lars of the local economy.
Tourism is also coming on
strong.
Th e next 100 years
are headed in the right
direction with the pend-
ing openings of a new
83-room Ramada Inn
and an 85-room Best
Western hotel in a
sprawling commercial
zone on Highway 14
near the intersection of
Highway 41.
Boston Pizza, Wal-
Mart, Canadian Tire,
Tim Hortons, A &W,
Th e Brick, Armstrong’s
Countrywide Furniture
and Eastalta Co-op are
among businesses to lo-
cate on the strip during
a boom from 2006 to
2008 that Mayor Norm
Coleman attributes to a
number of factors.
“I don’t think we
boomed because of the
oilpatch,” he said. “Th e oil
industry is a solid employ-
er in this area. In the last
few years, growth in the
area has been mostly due
to the military base.
“Oil and gas makes up
about a third of the econ-
omy. Farming of course, is
very important along with
the military base. In gen-
eral, the oilpatch has al-
ways been a strong player
right from when the fi rst
well was drilled in the
1920s.”
Husky Energy, Pen-
nwest Energy Trust,
Schlumberger, Davco
Welding Ltd. and Carson
Welding and Mainte-
nance Ltd. are some of the
largest oil and gas sector
employers in the area but
Coleman says there are
more service industries
now than well drillers.
“Because Wainwright
is an old oilfi eld, most of
the drilling has turned into
gas drilling. Th ey are still
drilling wells but I don’t
think they are as strong as
they were 20 years ago,” he
said.
Steady growth over
the last seven years has led
the town to acquire and
service new land for resi-
dential subdivisions with
a mix of single and multi-
family housing and new
retirement living condos
and assisted living options.
Th ere is also a good variety
of rental properties.
“Wainwright is a
great area to retire in,” said
Coleman. “We like to say
we are a fairly safe com-
munity and we have an
active hospital.
“When people make
a choice where they will
retire, they start looking at
what services are available
and whether or not they
can aff ord to live in the
community.”
Wainwright’s cost of
living is the lowest in Al-
berta according to the Al-
berta government’s 2007
Place to Place Compari-
son Survey.
“We run our own gas
utility which keeps the
price down,” said Laurie
Abthorpe, the town’s eco-
nomic development offi -
cer. “Our fuel prices tend
to lower at the pumps and
housing and groceries are
also lower than most plac-
es.” Page B11
The buffalo remains an important symbol in the history and development of Wainwright.
Wainwright heads into the 21st
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Page B10Wainwright is also the retail centre
for a regional trading population of over
14,000 serving oilpatch communities
like Provost, Consort and the booming
Hardisty Terminal complex.
“Over the years, a lot of that busi-
ness has been serviced by Camrose but
now with the development of new retail
stores, we are attracting more people to
shop in Wainwright,” said Abthorpe.
Downtown shopping has been re-
vitalized thanks to the ongoing Wain-
wright Main Street Project to assist
downtown business owners to renovate
storefronts and market the area as an
historical tourist attraction.
“Th ere is a lot of emphasis on the
historic part of Wainwright,” said Wes
Kroening, director of planning and
development. “It is important to the
growth of the community. People are
much more familiar with the historic el-
ements of Wainwright today. People are
behind the preservation of old buildings
we have in town.”
Aside from the historical Main
Street with its clock tower, other tourist
draws are the Wainwright Museum and
the Wainwright Rail Park. Wainwright
owes its existence to the Grand Trunk
Pacifi c Railway in 1908.
“We also bill ourselves as the buf-
falo capital of Canada,” said Kroening.
“Th ere are some live bison at the mili-
tary base.”
Th e base used to be the home of
National Buff alo Park founded in 1909
for the preservation of buff alo.
“Th e one thing that ties the com-
munity together is the importance of the
buff alo and the history,” said Coleman.
We try to work tourism around that.”
Wainwright’s rich oil and gas his-
tory is also being parlayed into a tourism
attraction. A campaign is under way to
raise $100,000 to restore and protect a
vintage wooden pump jack and oil his-
tory kiosk located at Petroleum Park on
Highway 14.
More than $60,000 has been raised
to date with many contributors being oil
and gas companies.
“Th at’s an initiative to make that
part of our history more prominent,”
said Coleman. “Oil isn’t something new
in our area. It’s been a major economic
player right from when the fi rst oil well
was drilled.”
With a population of just 5,775 plus
1,000 military personnel, it’s pleasantly
surprising for newcomers to discover
Wainwright’s amazing recreational
amenities at the Peace Memorial Multi-
plex and Communiplex. Th ose buildings
house two NHL-size hockey rinks, a
25-metre pool and other multi-purpose
fi tness functions.
Having two new hotels in town will
help to boost sports tourism and tourna-
ments played at the Multiplex.
“I’ve heard stories of local organiza-
tions trying to hold sports events and
teams having to pull out because there
was no place to stay,” said Kroening.
“Th e oilfi eld is a big user of motel
rooms as well. It’s been tough over the
last couple of years to fi nd a room and
the rates they were charging were pretty
signifi cant as well. Th is gives us an op-
portunity to hold more events.”
Sadldle up for the Wainwright
Stampede and Chuckwagon Races June
17-21 at the stampede grounds – the
biggest and wildest event of the summer
in Wainwright.
Th e stampede is also a good time to
check out the new houses and lots for
sale in the Baier phase two and phase
three subdivision as Wainwright contin-
ues to grow although building permits
have dropped sharply in recent months.
“Th ings slowed down last year with
the recession,” said Kroening. “We’re not
dead. It will be busy this year for hous-
ing.
“Our policy has been to acquire land
for future development and we build our
subdivisions as they are required.
“With the land base we have, we
could probably accommodate another
two or three thousand people. We have
a good mix of single housing and high
density lots available. We have about 85
lots in our inventory.”
A buffalo head appears to keep a watch over Mayor Norm Coleman.
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There seems to be no end to the bridge repair for the rail overpass on the east side of Estevan, causing traf c snarls for a substantial portion of oil eld traf c coming in and out of the city. Here, crews are preparing for the detour, which is now in place. Photo by Brian Zinchuk
It never seems to end
Estevan – Work is underway once again for the new industrial park on the east side of Estevan.
Th e Glen Peterson Industrial Park is taking shape just south of the Wal-Mart, where excavators have been in-stalling water and sewer.
“Th ey’re fi nishing off the work from last year,” says Jim Puff alt, city manager. “Th ey’ve got a good start, de-
spite the weather.”Puff alt expect the industrial park
to be open for business probably by late summer or early fall. “We’ll know bet-ter in a month,” he said on May 19.
Th e park with be the fi rst industrial park for the city with paved roads.
Puff alt says there is a lot of interest, but they haven’t been able to price the lots yet.
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By Brian ZinchukAlida – When his
neighbour in an Estevan
industrial park made an
off er he couldn’t refuse,
Shaun Mahoney had to
fi nd a new home for Seb-
co Coring Ltd.
He initially wanted
to set up on an acreage
north of Estevan. He
had the land lined up and
everything, but was told
by the RM they would
not be allowed to set up
a business there, despite
the high number of busi-
nesses on acreages already
in the area.
Th e search was on,
and eventually Shaun and
his wife Kristen, who does
the admin side, settled on
a location just outside of
Alida.
It’s something of a
pastoral setting, away
from the banging and
clanging of the industrial
park. “It’s so quiet out
here. What do you hear?
Birds.”
Yet despite the bird
chirping, he notes a very
high business concen-
tration per capita in the
small village, a little over
an hour east northeast of
Estevan, and not on any
major roads.
Why Alida?
“I looked long and
hard for a place to move
my business to. Th e R.M.
of Estevan wouldn’t let us
build out of town where
we wished. We had 10
acres sewed up north of
Estevan. Th ey were basi-
cally trying to force us
back into the commercial
sector in the city, which is
huge dollars.”
Th e new location had
a shop that fi t their needs
well, and the cost was very
reasonable. Operating
costs have also dropped
substantially. “Since we
made the big move, the
costs have been way down.
It’s a good place to be, in
Alida. It’s cost eff ective. It
saves us a lot of money, it
really does.”
ReinvestingTh e savings have
meant Mahoney is able
to reinvest into his equip-
ment. One lab trailer is a
year old, a second is being
prepared for its fi rst out-
ing. Two new climate-
controlled storage trailers
are also on the lot.
Mahoney is switch-
ing from using cube vans,
sometimes called core
vans, to trailers. Th e op-
erational and capital cost
of a trailer as opposed to a
motorized chassis is sub-
stantial, he says. For the
price of one cube van, he
paid for all his new trail-
ers.
“It’s neat, it’s big, it’s
clean,” Manhoney says
of the 28-ft lab, which
is long enough to place
20 m of core in its three
troughs along the side.
VideoconferenceAn important part
of coring is getting the
information to Calgary
as soon as possible. Th at
often means geologists
propping themselves up
on stools above the core,
taking pictures. It’s a rec-
ipe for someone to land
on their head at some
point, one that he wants
to eliminate.
So Mahoney will be
installing cameras in his
labs, mounted on a rail
above the core. He’s seek-
ing to make it possible
for geologists to show
Calgary in realtime what
they are looking at via
videoconference.
Page B15
Alighting to Alida a good move
The Mahoney dogs at the Sebco Coring yard are named after heavy metal rockers, including Alice Cooper.
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Page B14By getting shots of the core right away, it reduces
the chances of a sample getting inadvertently fl ipped
or mixed up. “Th at’s something we hope never hap-
pens, but the more be back ourselves up, the better.”
“Any advantage helps. If we can fi nd a way to im-
prove, at a reasonable cost, we’re in. We want to be
the future, not the past.”
Th e rack-mounted camera is meant to eliminate
standing on a stool. Th at’s important, because the
company they’re working for in the potash fi elds,
BHP Bilton, is incredibly sensitive to safety. “Th e
company we’re working with, safety is an extreme
issue. No one is more extreme than they are. Th ey
Everything is taken apart, cleaned up, inspected and put back together at Sebco Coring. It’s a lot easier to catch potential problems now than call-ing up the sherman to x them later.
Shaun Mahoney of Sebco coring shows how a piece of core is captured.
Right time to movehave higher standards than anyone else I have worked
for.”
PotashTh ere’s been a lot of potash exploration in Sas-
katchewan recently, and it’s kept coring operators
busy. Is it the golden age of potash?
“I think it is. I think it’s the best diversifi cation
for a coring company. It looks steady and is going to
sustain itself.”
He notes there are three major players, and four
new players in the fi eld. Th ere’s a lot of exploration
going on.
“Th e oilfi eld’s always treated me good. I’ve got no
complaints, but it is good to have a second place to
go. If we don’t do it, someone else will.”
Catch up timeSebco’s staff is busy getting ready as things fi re
up. Spring’s been a time to get caught up on main-
tenance. Core barrels are being painted and parts re-
built and inspected. Hawkeye Inspection of Estevan
is doing magnetic particle inspection to make sure
there are no cracks, extremely worn threads or parts.
“All our tools come in. Th ey’re stripped down
piece by piece.”
“If it’s not done, you have a possibility of a tool
failure down hole. It’s the only way to ensure our tools
are in good shape. Top quality inspection keeps me in
business and the fi sherman out of business.”
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Alida – North Da-kota’s got a problem, see. Th ere’s all that Bak-ken oil, and not enough pipeline capacity to get it out of the state. It was a problem highlighted at the recent Williston Basin Conference in Regina at the end of April.
Th ree Star Trucking of Alida is rising to the challenge, expanding to fi ll the shipping need. Ten more units were added to the fl eet in late May, and they may need more in the not too-dis-tant future.
“Some are our, some are lease,” explains Ken Boettcher, who runs the family business with his brother Tim.
“Th at might not get us through June. We might have to add more,” says Tim.
“We haul oil from North Dakota back to Canada, from the Bak-ken fi eld at Stanley,” Ken says. “Th ey don’t have the pipeline space right now.”
Th at oil goes to Ca-nadian Enbridge ter-minals, such as Cromer or Alida, and works its way into the mainlines. It’s a round-about way, with oil going in a loop
north, then southeast past the originating fi eld, but they’re happy for the business.
Right now they are hauling 12,600 bbl. a day out of North Da-kota, and the number keeps rising. Road bans mean an average of 150 bbl. per load, or about 85 loads a day. Closer runs can be done twice a day, Cromer, Manito-ba, means one-and-half loads a day.
“With the amount of drilling they’ve got going there, there’s wells with 1,500, 3,000 bbls. a day,” Ken says, and there are plenty of wells being brought on each month. Th ings are looking up.
Most of the growth is in North Dakota, they explain, but there’s new wells coming on in Sas-katchewan. “In this area, if they drill a well, and you get to haul it for a month, that’s decent. Anything longer, is bo-nus,” says Ken. A lot of their hauling is from batteries to terminals.
Th e growth in haul-ing has changed the ratio of hauling to ser-vice work, It used to be about 50/50. Now it’s about 60/40, favouring the hauling end.
Most of their op-erations are within 200 miles of Alida, includ-ing southeast Saskatch-ewan, southwest Mani-toba, and northwest North Dakota.
Th e company now has 18 admin and man-agement staff , nine working in mainte-nance, and about 160 drivers, including lease operators. Th ose are pretty high numbers for a community whose 2006 census population is listed at 106. Th ere-fore Th ree Star has had to do what a lot of other companies have done in the area – fi nd housing for some of its workers.
Th ey’ve brought in house trailers and set them up just down the road from the shop, be-hind Maggie’s Diner. “We picked up another place in Carnduff yes-terday,” Tim says, not-ing they will be renting a fi ve bedroom house. “You have to fi nd them a place to live.”
“We’ve got another house in Alida,” Ken adds. Page B17
Ten trucks might not be enough for Three Star
Brothers Tim and Ken Boettcher run Three Star Trucking, based in Alida.
“Killer,” the shop cat at Three Star Trucking.
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Page B16Th e phrase “Go
west, young man,” has a lot of meaning for them. “Everyone from Saskatchewan went to Alberta, and from Man-itoba to Saskatchewan,” Tim says.
A high percentage of their workforce hails from Manitoba. “I think we’ve got half of Winni-peg out here now,” Ken says.
Th e company likes to use tandem trucks with a quad trailer, and will have a new Mack unit on display at the Weyburn Oil Show. It’s been run all over hill and dale to get it ready for the show.
Th ey also have a large number of tridem units.
Th e company was founded in 1962 by their
dad, Jim Boettcher, John Hall and George Con-nelly. Connelly left in 1964, and Hall in 1969.
Mary Boettcher did books, and in the days before cell phones, she was pretty much tied to the phone all day long, the sons, both in their forties, recall. “She
couldn’t even go for cof-fee,” they note.
Jim is still active, in their every day. Th e three of them will sit down and make decisions together. Jim Boettcher was hon-oured at the 2007 Wey-burn Oil Show with the Southeast Oilmen of the Year award.
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Calgary – Black Pearl Resources Inc., formerly Pearl Exploration and Production Ltd., heads into the future with a long-term plan to in-crease production at its Onion Lake, Mooney and Blackrod heavy oil plays in Saskatchewan and Alberta to 30,000 barrels of oil a day.
“Th is will happen over the next three to seven years as we contin-ue to work on these proj-ects,” said John Festival, President and CEO.
“We are not really focused on changes in month to month produc-tion. We are focused on that fi ve-year goal to in-crease production toward 30,000 barrels a day.”
Production is ex-pected to average be-tween 4,500 and 5,000
bbls of oil per day for the remainder of this year in keeping with an antici-pated modest capital ex-penditures budget of $15 million to $20 million for 2009. Some wells were shut in earlier in the year due to lower prices.
“We slowed down starting at the beginning of the year because oil prices were down,” said Festival. “We are starting to increase our activity as oil has picked up.
“As we are doing more work, we are doing more well maintenance, whereas, at the begin-ning of the year with the oil prices, we couldn’t af-ford to spend any work-over dollars.”
Black Pearl has no debts and has adopted that as fi nancial strategy going forward.
“We are not going to take on any debt because heavy oil is very volatile and there are times when you have very little cash fl ow,” said Festival.
Th e company is starting off the second quarter of 2009 with $46 million in equity fi nanc-ing to fund the long-tem development of its three core Canadian properties with secondary and ter-tiary recovery methods.
“We will be spend-ing money on all three projects over the next 24 months,” said Festival.
Black Pearl has oth-er plays at John Lake and Fishing Lake north of Lloydminster and south of Lloydminster at Salt Lake and Ear Lake and some smaller plays around Lloydminster.
At its Onion Lake
play, Black Pearl has completed a cyclic steam stimulation (CSS) pilot with promising results. Two test wells complet-ed in the fi rst quarter of 2009 achieved a peak production of 200 bbls of oil per day.
“It worked very well but we haven’t concluded the type of technology we are going to be us-ing,” said Festival. “Th at play is primarily heavy oil and leading to a ther-mal operation of some kind. We may use the modifi ed SAGD or we might use a cyclic steam application.”
Currently, Onion Lake is a conventional heavy oil play, located on the Onion Lake First Nations lands near Lloy-dminster. Black Pearl’s working interest partner is the Onion Lake First Nations Development Corporation.
At its annual general meeting in May, Black Pearl reported that any thermal development at Onion Lake would be deferred this year until oil prices rebound and capital costs are kept in check.
Th e AGM was also an opportunity for shareholders to agree to change the company name to Black Pearl Re-sources.
“Th e rebranding is to remind people we were the old BlackRock Ven-tures Inc. management team,” said Festival.
Th e company’s Blackrod play is a SAGD opportunity located in the Athabasca Oil Sands region in northern Al-berta where Black Pearl drilled 10 test wells in the fi rst quarter of 2009 in preparation for a pi-lot project. It could take six to 12 months for the project to receive regula-tory approval.
“We are going to put in one SAGD well pair to test how well SAGD works there and if we are successful we will go with a full scale commercial project,” said Festival.
Th e pilot will provide a better understanding of reservoir performance expectations, refi ne op-erating and capital cost estimates and provide valuable information to plan full fi eld develop-ment.
Page B19
Black Pearl takes prudent long-term
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Page B18“Following a successful pilot test, we would begin
commercial development at Blackrod,” said Festival. “We believe Blackrod has the potential to be a 20,000 to 40,000 bbls of oil per day commercial project.”
Black Pearl conducted water and polymer fl oods at its Mooney play south of Lesser Slave Lake earlier in the year to enhance oil recovery.
“In order to get additional heavy oil out of the ground you need to pressure up the reservoir,” said Festival. “You can do it with water but the problem with water is it doesn’t push the oil very well.
“So you can use a polymer which is a chemical and it thickens up the water so you are able to push the heavy oil. It’s like trying to push molasses with water versus using something like maple syrup.
“If you thicken the water with a polymer, you are
Black Pearl’s Onion Lake play near Lloydminster is currently a conventional heavy oil producer.
Photo submitted
approach to productivity
Black Pearl conducted cyclic steam stimulation at its Onion Lake heavy oil play earlier this year.
Photo submitted
able to push the heavy oil to the producer. Polymers have worked well in other heavy oil reservoirs. Our initial results are quite good.”
Festival says the company won’t be very active in the area this year but a commercial polymer fl ood is being planned and could take place in 2010.
All three core properties are close to major cen-tres and infrastructure but some of them will require pipelines to be built to get the oil to market.
“Once we start building a commercial project there won’t be a problem with building the necessary infrastructure,” said festival.
Looking ahead to the rest of this year, Festival says if the price of oil picks up, the company will be more active.
“Th at will lead to more cash fl ow and more cer-tainty. We will react to oil price. It’s not going to react that signifi cantly in the next few months, but over time we will see that production level increase.”
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Regina - Get him going, and Jon Gillies will himself admit he can sound like an evangelist for the profession of engineering in Saskatchewan.
It’s not to hard to imagine, as he was recognized this spring for his contributions to the profession.
Gillies was honoured on May 2 with the Associ-ation of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS). Brian Eckel Distinguished Service Award. He’s a professor emeritus of the Uni-versity of Saskatchewan, an adjunct professor with the University of Regina, a recent-past president of APEGS (2007), and the current examiner who gives the yea or nay on who can call themselves an profes-sional engineer or geoscientist in this province. Dur-
ing his 23 years with the U of S, he was at the fore-front of the creation of environmental engineering as a recognized discipline, like agricultural or electrical engineering.
Not surprisingly, he’s got a thing or two to say about the profession of engineering, as well as Sas-katchewan’s future.
He takes the term “professional” seriously. To Gillies, a professional is someone who has been certi-fi ed by a regulatory body like APEGS or the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Th ere’s a diff erence be-tween a trained, certifi ed professional and someone with a diploma, he asserts.
Page B21
Jon Gillies, right, receives APEGS distinguished service award this May.
Photo submitted by Jon Gillies
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Page B22
One thing he thinks is important is for engi-neering faculty to have ties to the outside world, practicing engineering outside of school with their own companies. It’s a way to ensure they stay grounded. He speaks of professors who were frowned upon in the past for having their own en-gineering fi rms, and says that was the wrong tact to take.
Saskatchewan has a bright future, he alludes. “With the expansion of the training with the
reservoir management at the U of R Faculty of En-gineering, we have an opportunity to be a world leader in the production of oil and the protection of the environment,” he says.
Gillies says we should keep bright young minds here instead of shipping them to Alberta.
“Saskatchewan has got everything going for it. Th e only thing we don’t have a seaport.”
He wryly notes that Manitoba’s Port of Churchill isn’t that far away, however.
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“To me, engineering is the one profession that allows people to invest in society,” He admits, “I sound like an evangelist.”
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Estevan – “When you’re forced to make a move, it’s kind of the best thing that happened,”
says Randy Edwards, owner of Southern Bolt Supply.
TS&M was knock-ing down their old build-ing which housed South-
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“It was time for a
move long time ago,” Edwards says.
Th e new location opened March 1 on Es-tevan’s 5th Avenue.
He doesn’t miss wait-ing for trains or bumpy roads.
Th e facility they are now in was at one time a farm equipment dealer-ship, then used for stor-age for many years. “We did two months of reno-vations on it, with lots of help from family mem-
bers,” Edwards says. It meant everything
from re-insulating, a new fl oor, lights, and windows. Th ey now have a higher ceiling and brighter lights.
Th e old location didn’t have any room for storage, and didn’t have a receiving door. Every-thing had to be brought in through the front door. It meant a lot of man-handling heavy boxes of fasteners. Now they have warehouse space and an overhead door, a relief, according to Edwards.“Th e more we can stock, when they need it, they don’t have to wait for it.”
Th ey’re still adding to their inventory. Recent additions include getting into chain and rigging,
with custom-order wire rope and slings. Th ey can now stock lifting hard-ware they did not have room for before.
Th eir clientele in-cludes the oilpatch and all its spinoff s, mining, farming, power plants ... “Th ey all contribute,” he says.
Southern Bolt start-ed in 1987 on the north side of Estevan in what is now Purrfect Dry Clean-ers.
“We’ve been busy straight through the oilfi eld slowdown with people fi xing. A lot of companies are getting ready for the next busy period.”
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Th e North Dakota Pipeline Authority is not a regulatory or safety regime. Rather, they are seeking to fi nd ways to ship North Dakota oil out. Justin Kringstad, of the authority,
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Currently there are three pipeline options for oil to leave North Dakota. Two are adding capacity. Since 2007, Enbridge will have more than doubled its capacity to move North Dakota oil.
Rail facilities popped up to ship oil to Okla-homa because there wasn’t
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are using the Portal link, sending North Dakota oil into Saskatchewan, linking up to mainlines in south-east Saskatchewan, where it would eventually join the mainline at Cromer.
Th ey are looking into tying into the Keystone Pipelines that TransCan-ada is working on. Th ose lines are meant to ship oil-sands crude, however.
In the end, they have three options – go east, west, or north, into Sas-katchewan.
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“We need additional capacity in North Dakota and Montana for crude oil,” he concluded.
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Regina – “Mathematicians care about equations, petroleum engineers care about phenomena.”
Th at little nugget was off ered by Assistant Pro-fessor Fanhua “Bill” Zeng to his third-year funda-mentals of reservoir engineering class at the Univer-sity of Regina.
Pipeline News went back to engineering school for part of a day in May, and got a hint of what the students are taking at the U of R’s Petroleum Systems Engineering program.
Th e subject that day included rock-fl uid reaction and the eff ect on permeability, particularly important in waterfl ood design.
“In oil production, where do we get the water?” he asks the class. Answering his own question, he ex-plains generally the water comes from underground aquifers.
“As a petroleum engineer, you should clearly un-derstand the concept and how to apply the concept to fi eld design,” he continues, talking about using chemicals to adjust salinity and pH.
Th e class then delves into a topic that comes up pretty much every time a reservoir is discussed – po-rosity and permeability. “Generally, porosity and per-meability have some relationship. Typically, increased permeability is accompanied by increased porosity.”
But, he adds, “Th e reality is not as simple as that.”
Based on well log information, we can get poros-ity, he says. Point to a graph, he explains, based on this relationship, we can calculate permeability.
Th e error factors can be quite substantial, he notes. “If you get 10 per cent error, you did a good job,” he says, speaking of the real world. Often it’s a lot higher than that.
Underground, there’s one thing for sure – it’s not empty. “It is impossible to have an empty pore. It is always occupied by some fl uids.”
Th at fl uid saturation is made up of fractions of water, oil and gas, all adding up to 1. Th eoreticaly, we can have a water saturation of zero, he says, “but in reality, that’s impossible. Th ere will always be con-nated water saturation.
Th e class is made up of 21 students, of which eight are female. Th ere’s a high proportion, about 70 per cent, of international students. Th eir places of origin include China, Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan, although two Pipeline News spoke to were Canadian residents. Many of those students have several years of university or degrees behind them. One, Tayebeh Jamshidi, asks a question. Otherwise, the professor does all the talking this time around.
After class, Prof. Zeng notes it’s important for student to have some concepts in the fi eld. A new development for the program is a tour of the Sas-katchewan Subsurface Geologic Laboratory, or core lab, in Regina.
“In this university, we have very good research on horizontal wells and multi-stage fracturing. Th e key is how much oil fl ow rate can be increased. We have lots of research in this area. Page B25
Back to class
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Zeng is new to the faculty. “I joined this faculty one year ago,” he says. “Before, I was a ses-sional lecturer.”
He was working with the Saskatchewan Research Council, Zeng explains.
Mirroring comments of Assistant Professor Daoyang “Tony” Yang, program chair, Zeng speaks of the need to re-tain graduates of the pro-gram in Saskatchewan. While most of the stu-dents are likely to stay in Canada, most grads end up working in Calgary. “Some students would really like to fi nd an op-portunity in Saskatch-ewan,” he says. In opera-tions, it’s easy to fi nd a job in Estevan or Wey-burn, but, “most engineer positions are in Calgary, because head offi ces are in Calgary.”
“We are trying to talk to the Saskatchewan government to establish a university and govern-ment to develop service companies in Regina. Th is will signifi cantly help Saskatchewan re-source development. We can make money from
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statistics, we have a 97 per cent employment rate and 98 per cent of em-ployers said they would hire a SIAST student,” said Bill Allen, associate dean of technology for SIAST.
Th e low price of oil
and the economic slow-down have had little or no eff ect on student en-rollment in these two-year oil and gas fi eld diploma programs and energy companies are still in the hiring mode.
“With those two programs we have a fair-ly large applicant pool –
many more that we can take in,” said Allen. “We also have more jobs than we have graduates.
“Th e interest from students is a combina-
tion of the great oppor-tunities for employment and good salaries. Both programs have a long standing reputation.”
Th e selling point of the instrumentation engineering technology program for students and employers is the ad-vantage of an additional full year of co-operative education that provides students with practical work experience.
Th e two years of academics focuses on the instrumentation used to measure, record and control process variables such as fl ow, temperature, levels and pressure.
“We have a coop-erative education de-
partment that generates employment opportuni-ties,” said Allen. “It var-ies right across the fi eld from work in a refi nery, to a pipeline company or companies that install instrumentation and wa-ter treatment plants.
“It’s broken into four work terms. Th e fi rst term is an entry level work placement and by the time they get to the third work term some-times they are at high levels.”
“A good portion of the students end up – af-ter they graduate – go-ing back to their former co-op employer. Th e em-ployers think it’s a great system and the students think it’s great.
“It gives them good opportunities with the academic side and the practical experience – a full year of it. Th ose peo-ple are very well qualifi ed when they go to work.”
Th e power engineer-ing technology diploma program includes some short-term work place-ments but the two year focus is on textbook learning. Page B27
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Th e course provides students with knowledge and skill development in the operation of a power (steam) plant or indus-trial processes.
Students receive training in high-and
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Th e motivation to study this course says Al-len is high employment salaries and a wealth of career opportunities.
“If you look at Fort McMurray, until the last while, the salaries there were unreal,” he said. “Th e salaries for power engineers in Saskatch-ewan have gone up con-siderably in the last few years. A power engineer-ing grad can make good
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Allen says some of the reasons that students are drawn to SIAST are its smaller class sizes and a good connection between instructors and the students.
“We have lots of hands-on practical ex-perience built into the program versus the theo-retical approach,” Allen added.
“We have a strong reputation with industry as far as students being ready to go to work and be productive. I think a lot of it is the hands-on learning with high em-ployment rates and high employer satisfaction.”
“We get good sup-port from all industry. Th e instrumentation pro-gram just received a large donation from Alliance Pipeline Ltd. because of
the strong connection between Alliance and the program and all of the grads that have gone with them.”
SIAST has more than 700 people from a variety of industries involved in advisory committees to keep the curriculum relevant to employer needs.
“We do curriculum reviews with industry validation,” said Allen. “We have a strong con-nection between curricu-lum and what industry needs.
“We also have many faculty members who are involved in all sorts of in-dustry organizations. We are involved in the Petro-leum Human Resources Council of Canada, and I was involved with the Petroleum Services As-sociation of Canada on career project that they ran a few years ago.”
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Edmonton – Go to NAIT and go to work in a well paying job in the oilpatch.
Despite the economic downturn, Petroleum En-gineering Technology graduates and summer stu-dents are upholding the program’s traditional 90 per cent job placement rate.
In addition, there are 180 applicants so far for
just 60 positions available for the next semester start-ing in August.
“It’s about the same as last year and that num-ber is going to go up,” said Bruce Reinders, program chair. “By the time the program starts, we will have over 200 applicants. It’s high demand.”
Reinders says grads from Petroleum Engineer-
ing typically make above average salaries compared to other NAIT students but the motivation for tak-ing the course is to start a career in the oil and gas.
“A year ago it was a feeding frenzy,” said Rein-ders. “Industry was snapping our guys up like crazy. “Students had two or three jobs off ers.
“Th is year it’s diff erent but there are a number of jobs out there and most students who are actively looking for work will fi nd it.
“A lot of guys have grad jobs already. Our pro-gram ended April 30 and there were numerous stu-dents who had job off ers.”
Th e Petroleum Engineering Technology course is a two-year diploma program that prepares graduates for employment in the upstream petroleum industry.
“Th e program focus is all about the technology associated with the fi nding and the drilling and com-pleting of wells to produce oil and gas,” said Rein-ders.
“We also try to focus on conventional resources like crude oil and natural gas. We are making changes to our program that allows us to accommodate tech-nology such as coal bed methane deposits as well as uses of SAGD production from bitumen.”
Th e expanding oil sands development sector pro-vides new and challenging work opportunities for graduates and summer students.
“CNRL hired a number of grads in various loca-tions of the province this year mainly in oil and gas production,” said Reinders. “We have companies in the chemical business that are big in the oilsands that also hire students. Page B29
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Some students get job off ers based on their performance during a two-week work experi-ence program.
Th is year, summer jobs are harder to fi nd that last summer but Reinders says a lot of the big name com-panies like Husky Energy and Imperial Oil need summer students to fi ll in for vacationing staff .
Th e summer break is a chance for staff to re-evaluate the curriculum based on the results of more than 100 surveys sent online to supporting companies in the oil and gas fi eld.
“We use this period to ‘evergreen’ our pro-gram,” said Reinders. “By mid-May, we have the results our survey back and we will start to ana-lyze that and think about implementing change for the following year.
“Our curriculum is basically in place for next fall. We will be enhanc-ing a segment on SAGD. With the results of the survey we are doing now, nothing major will be im-plemented until the fall of 2010.”
Reinders says what keeps NAIT’s Petroleum Engineering program relevant is responding to industry needs through curriculum adjustments and by hiring instructors with solid industry back-grounds.
“We don’t hire people with education degrees,” he said. “We hire people who have worked in the fi eld as engineers or tech-nologists or geologists. Th ose are the guys who do our instruction. Th ey are on top of their indus-try and they ensure their curriculum is current.”
Reinders started as a technologist for a large gas production company and he also worked for a couple of diff erent service companies before return-ing to university to earn masters degree in petro-leum engineering.
Th e Petroleum Engi-neering program is sup-ported by a committee of oil and gas leaders who provide course guidance and provide equipment.
NAIT held its annual oil industry show at the end of the last semester and once again that gener-ated a lot of media public-ity and participation from
oil and gas companies.“We call it Industry
Day and we get a bunch of oilfi eld service com-panies to bring in their equipment and have high level technical presenta-tions on the day,” said Reinders. “Th at’s a good
example of how industry supports us.”
Some of the courses off ered are petroleum ge-ology, drilling and well planning, formation eval-uation and reservoir engi-neering and environmen-tal protection and safety.
Th eory is also com-plemented by practical training activities during a one-week session at the Enform Oil and Gas Pro-duction facility in Nisku.
“One year, some of
our students went on a fi eld trip to Cuba and toured some oil and gas facilities there,” said Rein-ders. “Th at was a spinoff from some of my contacts down there. Th ey went for
a holiday but wanted to see some oil production facilities.”
Applications for the fall program will be ac-cepted right up to the fi rst day of class.
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Calgary – Crescent Point Energy Trust is con-tinuing its growth by acquisition strategy with an agreement to purchase two privately-owned oil and gas companies, Wild River Resources Ltd. and Gi-braltar Exploration Ltd.
Th e total price is $324.2 million including $20 million the trust had previously invested in Wild River with a closing date of July 3 for both acquisi-tions.
Based on the acquisitions, Crescent Point is in-creasing its average daily production estimate for 2009 from 40,500 barrels of oil equivalent per day to 42,000 boe/d while a capital expenditures budget of $225 million. Year end production is expected to top 44,500 boe/d.
Crescent Point’s low risk drilling inventory will increase to more than 1,700 net low risk locations representing an inventory of 17 years to maintain current production levels.
Th e combined assets of Wild River and Gibral-
tar include 3,900 boe/d day of high quality long-life crude oil and natural gas production.
Th e total includes approximately 2,500 boe/d production from the Shaunavon play in southwest Saskatchewan and 180 boe/d of production from the Bakken area in the southeast part of the province. Th e assets include nearly $504 million of tax pools.
Crescent Point intends to sell 25 percent of the combined assets of the two companies for $81.3 mil-lion to Shelter Bay Energy that it helped to estab-lished in 2008 to focus on Bakken opportunities.
Shelter Bay will acquire more than 2,900 boe/d of production, of which 64 per cent is in Shaunavan area and fi ve per cent is in the Bakken resource play.
Th e package for Shelter Bay includes 110 net sections of undeveloped land and 85 net low risk drilling locations with low operating costs of less than $10 a barrel of oil equivalent, royalties under 12 per cent and net tax pools valued at more than $423 million.
GLJ Petroleum Consultants Ltd., Sproule As-sociates Limited and Paddock Lindstrom &
Associates Ltd. estimated reserves of the pur-chase companies at the end of 2008 to be eight mil-lion barrels of oil equivalent of proved reserves and 12.3 million barrel of oil equivalent of proved and probable. Th ere is an estimated life of 7.6 years of proved reserves and11.6 years for proved and prob-able reserves.
Excluding the undeveloped land value of $18.5 million, Shelter Bay’s production costs will be $77,379 per barrel of oil based on 2,900 boe/d. Th e estimated cost of reserves production is $28.05 per proved barrel of oil equivalent and $18.24 for proved plus probable.
In other news, Crescent Point exceeded produc-tion expectations in the fi rst quarter of 2009 with an average of 39,695 boe/d, an 11 per cent increase over the fi rst quarter of 2008.
Th e company reported it spent $66.3 million on development capital activities in the fi rst quarter, in-cluding $22.1 million on facilities, land and seismic projects and $44.2 million on drilling and comple-tions activities.
Crescent Point drilled 21 (13.9 net) wells with a 100 per cent success rate, including 14 (9.7 net) for its Bakken horizontal wells. Th e company also fracture stimulated 34 (30.7 net) horizontal wells in the Bakken. Development drilling and completions activities in the quarter added 4,100 boe/d of pro-duction.
Crescent Point also successfully reduced its Bak-ken drilling costs by approximately 20 percent, to approximately $1.6 million per well.
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Brent Rheaume is the owner of the engi-neering fi rm, which spe-cializes in surface pro-duction facilities such as natural gas compression and waterfl ood. In his booth at the Williston Basin Petroleum Confer-
ence, he says he’s looking for underserviced niches in engineering in Sas-katchewan.
Th ose niches could be oil handling tank farms or solution gas clustering.
Grande Prairie has been hit pretty hard, he says. “I think there’s op-portunity here.”
“Th e royalty regime has been an issue. Ev-eryone knows activity is switching to northern BC and Saskatchewan.”
“I’m interested in CO2 capture and en-hanced oil recovery. People are watching Saskatchewan, because that’s going to apply to a whole lot of oilfi elds in Saskatchewan. I’m also interested in learning more on CO2.
Th e engineer notes he’s worked on a CO2 pi-lot plant in Alberta.
Th e University of Saskatchewan gradu-ate is originally from St. Brieux, near Melfort. He started his business fi ve years ago, and now has 15 staff , including six professional engineers, a couple technicians, draft-ing and admin staff .
“Th ere’s going to be more focus on solution gas fl aring and vapour emissions,” he predicts for Saskatchewan, some-thing that has been ad-dressed to a large extent in Alberta. “Th ey’ve had their growth, now they need to catch their breath on solution gas and fugi-tive emissions – the stuff you’re smelling on the highway,” he says.
Brent Rheaume, left, a Grande Prairie engineer originally from St. Brieux, was looking for Saskatchewan leads while at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in Regina.
Scouting out Saskatchewan
Alida – Most restaurants are open for supper most days. Not Maggie’s Diner in Alida. See, when the oilpatch goes home, so goes most of the clien-tele.
Maggie’s Diner in Alida is a place for good home-made grub, the type to fi ll a hungry stom-ach. Her hours are 7 to 7 from Th ursday to Satur-day, but only 7 to 2 from Monday to Wednesday.
Th at’s kind of odd. Why?“If it wasn’t for the oilfi eld, we wouldn’t be
here,” Margaret Peet, owner of 7 years, says. Early in the morning, it’s farmers. Th en there’s
the 10 o’clock coff ee crowed. At lunch time, look out, it’s the oilfi eld “boom.”
In the evening they get some business, mostly locals, but nothing like lunch. “Th e oilfi eld’s gone home,” she says.
The oil eld lunch boom
Magaret Peet’s Maggie’s Diner in Alida, right, ex-plains her business is primarily oil eld people, to the point where when they go home, there’s not much reason to keep the place open.
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C-SectionJune 2009
Call for Sale Pricing
By Geoff Lee Calgary – Low com-
modity prices, especially
for natural gas get most
of the blame for the
latest drilling forecast
downgrade issued by the
Petroleum Services As-
sociation of Canada on
April 30.
PSAC is now calling
for a total of 10,000 wells
to be drilled in Canada
this year, following its re-
duced estimate in January
of 13,500 wells from an
original forecast total of
16,750 in the 2009 Ca-
nadian Drilling Activity
Forecast made public in
November, 2008.
“Commodities have
fallen off the table, par-
ticularly natural gas,”
said Roger Soucy, PSAC
president. “We just don’t
expect natural gas prices
are going to come back
with enough of an in-
crease to change the cur-
rent situation.
“Sixty per cent or
more of the drilling we
do in western Canada is
gas-based. Th e price of
natural gas from an ac-
tivity standpoint is more
important than the price
of oil.
“We expect the price
will continue to drop
through to the end of
August and early Sep-
tember. Th e demand is
not there in the summer-
time.”
PSAC estimates
6,620 wells to be drilled
in Alberta this year, a 43
per cent drop from 2008
drilling levels.
British Columbia
will see an 18 per cent
decline to 700 wells, and
Saskatchewan will ex-
perience a 38 per cent
decrease to 2,475 wells.
Manitoba will drop to150
wells or 48 per cent lower
than the previous year.
Th e Canadian As-
sociation of Oilwell
Drilling Contractors
(CAODC) representing
drilling and service rig
contractors across Can-
ada is also anticipating a
similar drilling lookout
as long as commodity
prices remain low.
“We are currently
looking at 11,000 wells
and that was a forecast we
released on Feb 20,” said
Don Herring, CAODC
president.
“Th e numbers we
have for the fi rst quarter
are tracking a bit behind
our forecast. It’s not look-
ing that strong to tell you
the truth. We have fore-
cast in fi rst quarter an ac-
tive rig count of 333 and
the actual is 320, so we
are off of that already.
“Western Canada,
particularly Alberta and
B.C., are natural gas-
prone basins. Saskatch-
ewan is not. Since a great
deal of activity has been
focused on natural gas –
with very low gas prices
– of course, activity levels
are down.
“It’s clearly a com-
modity prices and credit
issue but then, of course,
in Alberta we have the
new royalty framework
which has caused all
kinds of uncertainty and
people just haven’t gone
to work.”
Soucy reported in a
Canadian Press story that
of the 70,000 members
of his association, head-
ing into the recession,
about 10,000 to 15,000
will lose their jobs.
“Layoff s have been a
big issue, with a signifi -
cant number of workers
in the sector having re-
ceived pink-slips this
year already – and we
haven’t seen the last of it
yet,” he said.
“Th e demand for
drilling and related ser-
vices has dropped off
dramatically from what
we expected last fall.
“Drilling activity
levels have not been this
low since 1999, particu-
larly in Alberta which is
seeing the lion’s share of
the decrease.
“Demand is down,
commodity prices are
low, and access to capital
is limited which, in addi-
tion to other factors, has
caused exploration and
production companies
to signifi cantly pull back
their spending.
“Th at means we sim-
ply aren’t drilling as many
wells, which is where the
bulk of the work comes
from in the oil and gas
industry.” Page C2
Natural gas glut drives down drilling forecasts for 2009
The Petroleum Services Association of Canada and the Canadian Association of Drilling Contractors have lowered their forecasted drilling estimates for 2009. Cody Doud of Eagle Drilling waves from the derrick.
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In the fi rst week of May, during
spring break-up, COADC reported
only 73 rigs working in western Canada
out a national fl eet of 880 rigs. Of the
73, 36 rigs were in Alberta and 31 were
in B.C. which typically has little activ-
ity in the second quarter of the year.
“If we look at the second quarter of
2006 before we saw weakness in com-
modity prices, we would have seen 327
rigs running.” said Herring.
“If we compared 2006 with right
now, we would have 6,300 more peo-
ple working on drilling rigs and about
18,000 workers all together if we in-
clude our services with the PSAC
services. Th eir members come on our
worksite throughout the whole drilling
operation.”
PSAC is a national trade asso-
ciation representing the service, supply
and manufacturing sectors within the
upstream petroleum industry.
In northern B.C. there is a lot of
shale gas drilling going on, a fact that
Soucy says is small consolation to the
membership of PSAC.
“It’s a relatively small piece of the
business,” he said. “It’s an exciting new
play. Th e volume potential is there and
very signifi cant technology has helped
to open that up, particularly multi-
stage fracing technology. For a lot
of companies that’s the only game in
town and that’s what they are chasing
right now.”
Herring also sees shale gas drilling
in B.C. as a bright spot on the horizon
but he thinks that has a lot to do with
the drilling-friendly regime in that
province compared with Alberta’s.
“Th eir fi scal and royalty tax regime
has tended to respond to investor con-
cerns more directly than Alberta’s and
as a result they’ve seen strong invest-
ment through their land sales process
in 2008 and a strong winter drilling
season in ’08 and ’09 focused on shale
gas in northeastern B.C.,” he said.
“Th eir gas play has been more active
than Alberta’s.”
Herring thinks drilling activity will
pick up in 2010 along with an improved
global economy but not strongly until
the U.S. reduces its high inventories of
natural gas.
“Th e U.S has been very successful
in establishing reserves that in some re-
spects people did not expect,” he said.
“Th e U.S. was successful in 2007
and ’08 in booking natural gas reserves
as a result of shale gas drilling. Th at, in
conjunction with a drop in industrial
demand has caused natural gas to be in
surplus.
“What we need is a recovery in
U.S. industrial activity or a demand for
gas for producing electricity to move
the price. Th ere is nothing that we’ve
heard or seen to suggest that’s going to
happen right away.”
Compounding the problem ac-
cording to Soucy is the anticipated
arrival of overseas shipments of liquid
natural gas (LNG) to the U.S.
“LNG is coming over in larger
quantities than the last two or three
years, so that’s going to have a nega-
tive impact on pricing. I don’t see much
currently to pin hopes on any sort of
turnaround signifi cant or otherwise,”
he said.
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IF IT IS BIG N’ UGLY WE CAN HAUL IT!
By Geoff LeePrince Albert – Th e City of Prince
Albert is launching a feasibility study
to look at developing a green energy
industrial park that could attract biod-
iesel, cellulose and ethanol producers
and give the forest economy a needed
boost.
“We have the interest, the resources
and the community motivation to cre-
ate a unique initiative of this type,” said
Mayor Jim Scarrow.
Canadian Bio Energy Manage-
ment Inc. from Regina has been chosen
by the city as the project consultant un-
der the direction of company president
Troy Metz .
Metz will look at all aspects of cre-
ating an industrial zone that would host
or provide facilities for a variety of green
energy projects.
“What we want to focus on are
shovel-ready projects – projects that are
not in development or piloted and have
proven technologies whether it is biod-
iesel or ethanol that can come in and
provide alternative energy solutions
for Prince Albert and the region,” said
Metz in Regina.
“We are looking for things that can
deploy quickly, have positive returns and
can benefi t mining, forestry or the vari-
ety of developments that are up there.”
Th e study is made possible with
$100,000 grant from a $1 billion federal
government Community Development
Trust Fund to boost green economic
opportunities in communities aff ected
by the economic downturn in the for-
est sector.
Saskatchewan’s share of the fund is
$36.4 million over three years. Last year,
the province conducted needs studies
in Prince Albert, Big River, Meadow
Lake, Hudson Bay, Carrot River and
La Ronge.
Mayor Scarrow says the study is a
step toward his city establishing itself
as Saskatchewan’s green energy capital
with help from ForestFirst.
ForestFirst is a non-profi t corpora-
tion based in Prince Albert to support
the growth of value-added forestry, for-
est business development and agro for-
estry in Saskatchewan.
“We have leveraged our strong re-
lationship with ForestFirst, who also
wants to help stimulate new economic
growth in their industry, to kickstart
this process,” said Scarrow.
“Th e city is once again prepared
to demonstrate its leadership in devel-
oping industry in this region and the
province has agreed that this green en-
ergy concept is an important and vital
part of our community’s and the prov-
ince’s future.”
“It’s about community building,
infrastructure and capital projects that
leave long legacies for generations to
come.”
Metz says one of the project goals
would be to identify and create “various
green energy clusters” such as a biofuels
industry and determine what the infra-
structure needs of that sector would be.
“We will also asking where is the
best location for an industrial park
based on the needs of the city and what
the community’s wants are for the loca-
tion,” he said.
Th e feasibility study will wrap up
in August and the city will present it to
the Saskatchewan government in Sep-
tember.
“We want to prepare a document
that says if we want to attract the fol-
lowing – a gasifi er that uses biomass
from the forestry industry to create co-
generation or a biofuels operations that
uses something else – then these are the
gaps between what we have and where
we need to be in order to attract these
industries,” said Metz.
Gasifi cation is a method for ex-
tracting energy from many diff erent
types of organic materials.
“Th e report will identify the gaps
and what the infrastructure needs are
and what funding elements are out
there and what potential cluster sector
partners are willing to come and par-
ticipate,” added Metz.
“Forestry is one of the key sectors.
Gasifi cation is a proven technology.
Th ere are several ways to go. You can
take the biomass and ‘pelletize it’ into
energy pellets and sell those commer-
cially.
“Th e other way is to take your bio-
mass and put it through a gasifi er that
produces a gas that you can co-generate
power with or condense it into synthet-
ic diesel biofuels.”
PA eyes itself as the green energy capital
Canadian Bio Energy Management consultant Troy Metz.
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- Mayor Jim Scarrow
PIPELINE NEWS June 2009C4
By Geoff LeeCalgary – It is fi tting
that KUDU Industries
Inc., a leading manufac-
turer of complete pro-
gressive cavity pump sys-
tems is marking its 20th
anniversary with a cus-
tomer appreciation event
during the GO-EXPO
energy show in Calgary,
June 9-11.
Th e company found-
er, Robert Mills, who
retired last year, and his
son, Ray, formed the
company in 1989 by
keeping their ears to the
ground for product ideas
that would solve oil and
gas customers’ problems.
Th e seeds of the
company based in Cal-
gary were sown from
hours of fruitful product
tinkering with his dad in
the family garage in Cal-
gary.
Today, KUDU has
20 patents for its artifi -
cial lift products that area
sold direct to custom-
ers from its 12 locations
in western Canada with
international sales to 29
countries. Robert retired
last year and is chairman
of the board.
In a phone inter-
view from his truck, Ray
told the Pipelines News his dad got the ball roll-
ing in the 1970s in the
Lloydminster area where
he and his partners in a
small oil company were
drilling for heavy oil.
“At that time, pro-
gressive cavity pumps
were not being used in
Canada,” he said. “People
were using pumpjacks in
an attempt to lift heavy
oil with limited success
and it was marginally
economic at best.
“Other novel meth-
ods were being tried and,
as they say, necessity is
the mother of inven-
tion. One day, one of my
dad’s partners remarked
that once they got the
heavy goop to the surface
they had an easier time
handling it using screw
pumps which can pump
it from tank to tank or to
a truck.
“He went on to ask
‘if only we could fi t one
of these pumps down
hole’? Th at really caught
my dad’s interest and he
went to work to try to fi t
a PCP down hole.”
“Because his back-
ground was in drilling,
he decided he would use
tubing string to turn the
pump as opposed to us-
ing rod strings. He pur-
sued his idea and was
eventually granted a pat-
ent on his tubing drive
concept.”
Th at drive system was
called the Sandpiper that
led the father and son
team to found KUDU
and build-in their com-
ponents to PCPs they
purchased from a French
maker, PCM.
Mills says what made
KUDU an immediate
success was sticking to
their formula to innovate
and sell direct to the cus-
tomer.
“My dad and I both
have engineering back-
grounds and we were es-
sentially ‘gear heads’ and
problem solvers. By be-
ing out in the fi eld and
working directly with
the customer, we started
seeing the problems they
were having with equip-
ment.
“We felt one of the
ways we could be com-
petitive was to come up
with innovative methods
of applying technology
and new ideas in devel-
oping new products.
“We really feel in-
novation is a cornerstone
to our success. We are
out front delivering new
products to the customer
to help the customer cut
their operating costs or
optimize their produc-
tion.”
Mills says products
such as the PC Well
Manager, a new thermal
PCP and a rotor coat-
ing called, Tough Coat,
are examples of KUDU
technology that meets
the demands of heavy,
medium and light oil,
coal bed methane and
dewatering applications.
Th e Tough Coat is
a spray metal coating
KUDU applies to PCP
rotors that improve re-
sistance to corrosive and
abrasion over the stan-
dard chrome rotors.
“Ever since my dad
and I started the com-
pany we’ve looking for a
better coating system for
rotors than chrome,” said
Mills. “Other coatings
are diffi cult to apply ei-
ther because rotors have
an irregular surface or it’s
hard to fi nish or polish.
“My dad and other
person in our company
were directly involved in
putting together a Tough
Coat process and pat-
ented it.
“It’s done very well.
It’s certainly a proven
product where we have
corrosive conditions or
a combination of abra-
sion and corrosion. Th at’s
where it works best and
we are now testing it in
purely abrasive condi-
tions that we fi nd in
heavy oil with a high
content of sand.”
KUDU to celebrate its 20th anniversary
Ray Mills, CEO, and his father Robert founded KUDU in his dad’s garage in Calgary.
Photo courtesy of KUDU
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Page C4KUDU is also having success with the launch of
its Well Manager designed to boost production and
prevent costly pump damage from pump off s.
“We challenge customers to give us their best
well, the best well being the one they’ve spent the
most time on optimizing,” said Mills.
“Typically, this requires an operator to make at
least a visit a day and shooting fl uid and adjusting the
pump speed.
“Th e Well Manager automatically adjusts the
speed of the pump. It does this by measuring the fl ow
and continues to measure the fl ow whether we have
pumped off or not. Th is has proven very eff ective in
order to optimize production.”
Th e phrasing, “Leaps and Bounds Ahead” is ap-
plied to new KUDU product labels including an
innovative thermal package for a high temperature
PCP for SAGD and CSS applications.
“Th is a pump where instead of the stator being
made of an elastomer, we now have a stator that’s
made from a metal which is quite unusual for a PCP,”
said Mills.
“Th is has allowed us to get a PCP into far higher
temperatures (up to 350 Celsius) than we achieved
with elastomers.
“What this allows operators of CSS or SADG to
have is the inherent advantages of a PCP without the
limitation of temperature with an elastomer.”
KUDU’s product line includes power units, drive-
heads, Oryx seals, downhole tools and coiled tubing
and more products are in the works. Check their web
site for new product arrivals.
“We have revamped our whole new product de-
velopment process and we now have a new product
development team in place,” added Mills.
“It’s not a challenge getting ideas out of our peo-
ple and customers. Th e challenge is addressing those
ideas in a timely fashion and deciding which ones
have commercial benefi t.
“More and more, innovation is being driven by
the customer. We like to have the customer on our
team to help us shape the product. It’s a combination
of working with customers and our own employees
dreaming up new ideas and trying them out.”
Looking back, Mills said he and his dad had a
fi ve-year plan at startup with the notion someone
would buy them out and that would be the end of
the story.
“Here we are 20 years later and still going at it
and looking fi ve to 10 years down the road at where
the company may be going,” he said.
Since 2003, KUDU has supported education
in its business communities by providing scholar-
ships, internships and donations and supporting local
sports teams.
Mills says the 20th anniversary is an ongoing cel-
ebration, “but we are going to take the odd moment
to pick up heads up and smell the roses. Th e pinnacle
will be our customer appreciation event.”
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Wainwright – Champion Technologies Ltd. earns
its keep in Wainwright’s oil and gas fi elds with cus-
tom chemical treatment programs that enhance pro-
duction and help to prevent costly well failures due
to corrosion.
“In this area, 95 to 99 per cent of the fl uid com-
ing out of the ground is water,” said Mike Frissell,
Champion’s area manager.
“We do a lot of work treating that water to protect
against problems like corrosion and scaling. Around
Wainwright, we do have wax, paraffi n and asphaltine
issues.”
Oil and gas companies in the area also rely on
Champion’s chemical expertise to resolve their recur-
ring corrosive issues with sulphate and acid produc-
ing bacteria that breed in the liquid of gas.
“We are dealing with treating the water from the
wellbore to the fl ow lines through to the facilities and
out through the water injection system,” said Frissell.
“In this area, companies have been on chemical
treatment programs for several years because of the
corrosion and the high water percentage in wells.
“If they weren’t on treatment programs, their
wells would either fail – either they would have a
rod or a tubing failure and they would go ahead and
spend the money to fi x all that equipment and then
start a program.”
Champion’s technical fi eld specialists will send a
Champion’s chemical technology prevents costly well failures
Champion’s chemical treatments are in strong demand judging by this stack of empty contain-ers waiting for recycling.
brine sample to the company’s technical services lab
in Calgary to identify the corrosiveness and scaling
tendencies that are present and recommend the best
chemical solution and application technology.
Software programs help to predict internal cor-
rosion rates and risk of failure based on the fl uid
chemistry and hyrdraulics.
“Our clients have been in the game for quite few
years,” said Frissell.
“If they put new rods and tubing string in the
well, they get into a treatment program right off the
bat if the emulsion is corrosive to make sure that well
lasts longer without equipment failures.”
Corrosion inhibitor formulations are developed
for continuous chemical injection and batch applica-
tions at the well site.
“When we work in fl ow lines, we can go with
either a continuous corrosion inhibitor injection or
apply a chemical pill with a dilutant (diesel or con-
densate) into a fl ow line which would travel down
that fl ow line,” said Frissell.
“Th e chemical works by adhering to the steel pip-
ing. It’s a calculated volume of product and dilutant.”
Champion uses a variety of testing techniques to
determine the eff ectiveness of their corrosion treat-
ments including an ion displacement test to check if
chemical fi lm is present in the well.
“Th ere are all sorts of tests we do to monitor the
corrosion rates to see what is happening in the fl ow
lines and wellbore,” said Frissell.
“We can do electronic corrosion measurements
and we will actually take a spool piece from a section
of the fl ow line and analyze it to see the corrosion
rate.”
Champion has learned that a continuous batch
application of biocide is the way to kill back po-
tentially damaging populations of bacteria that “eat
away” at pipe.
“Th ey ‘go to town’ chewing and eating that steel
away,” said Frissell. “You actually have to get in and
batch treat that bacterial to kill the population.
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PIPELINE NEWS June 2009 C7
Area manager Mike Frissell moves a barrel of liquid chemical
on the loading dock.
Page C6“Th ey can become immune to the bio-
cide if you are on a continual treatment.
Th at’s why you have to give them a
batch treatment to kill what’s in
place and monitor it and batch
treat again when applicable.”
Champion has developed
close working relationship
with their customers in the
Wainwright area and meets
with them regularly to review
the chemicals programs that
are in place.
“We make sure the rates and
the consumption of chemicals are
on target every month,” said Fris-
sell. “We also sit down and discuss
how we can optimize costs not only with
chemicals but on the total system cost.
“We are not only there to sell them
chemicals, we are there to make sure their
programs are the proper programs. We
make sure we are taking care of their needs
without the overuse of chemicals to save
them money.”
Frissell began working for Champion
in Provost 12 years ago and was named area
manager when the Wainwright offi ce opened
in February, 2000.
“We continue to slowly grow,” he said. “We
now have three area reps and one service rep in
this area.
“It’s a large oil and gas play around here but
we do have strong competitors. We are always chal-
lenging their customers if there are any opportunities for
Champion to get in the door and help them out.
“If they are feeling attention for change, we want to be there to help support
them and solve any problems they have.”
Frissell notes that despite the economic slowdown his customers are still
producing and oil and gas and need Champion’s chemicals to treat that oil and
gas and emulsions to boost production.
“We do a lot of downhole enhancement programs with oil
and gas,” he said. “On the gas side, we use foamers and surfac-
tants. We use products that help to lift the oil in some of
those gas wells.
“We use enhancement products in oil wells to
clear the paraffi n or asphaltines up from the bot-
tom of wells that could be plugging the perfo-
rations.
“We also do scale squeezes if you
have scale problems in a wellbore that
has plugged off the perforations.
We would squeeze some acid
or some scaling products
into that formation to
clean the perforations
out to create better
infl ow to make better
production.
“If the oil and gas
companies didn’t have
a lot of these chemical
programs in place they
would be spending a lot
of money on failures and
downtime.”
Chemicals are Champion’s business
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Th ose skills come in handy design-ing oilfi eld structures and completing
an analysis of oilfi eld tools and equip-ment or conducting an HVAC analysis of industrial buildings.
“Th e whole world runs on num-bers,” said Gebhardt who keeps a desk-top calculator handy to prove his point to a broad range of clients seeking his mechanical engineering expertise in the repair, certifi cation and design of mobile equipment like fl ushbys, service rigs and overhead cranes.
“In the case of a fl ushby, a client might come to us and present their proposed geometry to pull so many pounds of force out of the hole and be able to withstand so many miles per hour of wind while it’s working,” ex-plained Gebhardt.
“Using those loads and the geom-etry that’s proposed, we apply the API specs for the design and follow material codes such as the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction.”
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Gebhardt also must factor safety, the environment, functionality, eco-nomic and maintenance parameters into the design equation in order to certify the end product.
PFM is a division of BAR Engi-neering with the technical skills to pro-vide cost eff ective design and engineer-ing services ranging from the structural design of new buildings to Gebhardt’s
specialty in mechanical design and analysis of mobile oilfi eld equipment.
“Th ere are two main thrusts to our business, the structural and the me-chanical,” said Gebhardt. “Structural mainly relates to things that don’t move and mechanical relates to things that do.
“Our niche is really being able to provide service to a broad variety of in-dustry and that’s what we show on our web site.”
PFM has designed everything from hotels and condominiums to the structural design and certifi cation of fl ushbys and service rigs.
“We are all about providing value to our clients,” said Gebhardt. “Our ad-vantage being here in Lloydminster is that we can be specialists in a lot of dif-ferent fi elds. We have a diverse variety of clients which brings a broad variety of challenges.
“Consulting engineers are unique in that we serve a wide variety of indus-try that doesn’t have enough need for a full-time engineer on staff . We have the background to be able to solve techni-cal problems and bring creativity to the problem.”
PFM was founded by Peter Miller and his wife Bernie who sold the busi-ness to BAR in September, 2007 the year PFM Engineering was selected as one of the fastest growing companies in Canada by Profi t Magazine. Page C9
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Page C8PFM is relocating to the new Bar Engineering of-
fi ce on Highway 17 north by June 15 when Gebhardt
and his staff of eight join’s BAR’s force of technical
engineering experts.
“Being a division of BAR gives us quite a few ad-
vantages – the main one being the multidiscipline as-
pect,” said Gebhardt.
“Th ey have engineers that do oil and gas facili-
ties and engineers with an electrical background and a
municipal division. We can provide a client with more
value because we can off er a whole range of services
under one roof.”
For an engineer like Gebhardt there is no better
place to work than Lloydminster where new ideas crop
up that require engineering services even during the
recession.
“People still need to get things done,” said Geb-
hardt. “Th e oil still has to come out of the ground.
Th ere are opportunities to be had. Th ose people who
are entrepreneurial or creative will still need engineer-
ing to be applied to those ideas.
“Th ere are a lot of exciting things. People come in
with a great idea and tell me before they get it into a
certain application they want me to have it engineered
or have a product analyzed.”
Typically, Gebhardt would fi rst determine if the
idea or product meets his company’s fi eld of expertise.
Th en he would research which codes apply and calcu-
late the forces the product would face while in service
and certify it after inspection.
“We do our physics and our math and determine
if it’s a yes or a no to comply. If it’s yes, we give them a
certifi cate of compliance and if it’s no, we suggest the
best ways to improve or modify it so it can meet its
intended purpose.
“Inspection is a big part of it,” he said. “Th e front
end is the design and after it’s created the inspection
confi rms it conforms to the technical specifi cations.
Generally we do that ourselves.”
On the oilfi eld side he said that could mean mak-
ing sure the web thickness on a steel member is what’s
called for on the drawings and is certifi ed for use.
PFM Engineering has engineers registered in
Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Brit-
ish Columbia which is a big plus for local clients who
have a product to sell across western Canada.
“We can provide certifi cation that is designed to
codes and they can install it in any of those provinces,”
said Gebhardt.
“Th e codes whether they are Canadian Ameri-
can or international are similar in format. Th ey have
standardized requirements for the designs so you don’t
have to reinvent the wheel each time.
“In some cases, the engineer has some fl exibility in
how the codes are applied. For example, anchor points
for lugs. It says you shall resist 5,000 lbs. How you do
that is up to you.”
Gebhardt says engineering is often called the hid-
den profession because it’s not something you see every
day but as he likes to tell aspiring high school students,
it’s a job he wouldn’t trade for the world.
“I like the unique challenges each day. I work with
a lot of great people. It’s exciting to come to work and
solve problems,” he said.
PFM Engineering developed the structural de-sign and certi cation of this service rig mast, supports and carrier mast. Photos courtesy of PFM Engineering. Photo submitted
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Story and photos by Geoff LeeWainwright – Morley Muldoon, owner of Muldoon Transport Ltd., a rig
mover in Wainwright, is riding out the economic downturn and road ban season
by motoring around in his time machines.
Muldoon has a yard full of old cars and trucks, some which are operable, al-
lowing him to cruise to another era if in mind only.
One of his favorite vehicles is a 1950 Mercury he sometime uses to drive visi-
tors to and from his house and shop where his normally busy fl eet of rig hauling
trucks and trailers is parked.
“It’s spring break-up now until early June. Th is is when we do repairs and
inspect all of our vehicles,” said Muldoon. “A lot of our trucks are new and we
utilize the warranty.”
Muldoon Transport is visible rig hauler on the road with 40 working trucks
including winch tractors, 40-ton pickers and bed trucks and a variety of oilfi eld
trailers stationed in Wainwright and Kindersley.
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Muldoon Transport owner riding out the slowdown in style
Morley Muldoon strikes a casual pose on the porch of his log house in Wainwright. Muldoon is also a councilor for Wainwright Municipal District Division 5.
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Riding out the slowdown in style Page C11
“When it’s busy we move drilling
rigs and service rigs and haul oilfi eld
equipment all over Saskatchewan, Al-
berta and British Columbia,” said Mul-
doon. “We do a lot of work in northern
B.C. We were up there this winter be-
fore the economy slowed down.
“At the beginning of December all
of our trucks were busy but by the 15th
we were parking them. In the latter part
of ’08, drilling cratered but before that
we were fl at out busy.”
Muldoon is no stranger to the boom
and bust cycle in the oil patch. He in-
corporated in 1988 and started moving
rigs on his own in 1996.
“We were backed up that year and
the following July, we had only seven rig
moves,” he said. “You just have to ride it
out. What else can you do?
“Th ere is a still a demand for oil.
Once supplies dwindle, it will be a ro-
deo again. Th ey anticipate by the fourth
quarter of 2009 the economy will pick
up again. Th is summer won’t be any
screaming hell.”
One thing Muldoon won’t be doing
this summer is taking lengthy touring
trips on his Harley. In the past when
things were busy, he’s motorcycled on
vacation with buddies to places like
New York, California and Alaska.
“I usually like to get a month of rid-
ing in but we’re holding back this year,”
he said. “When things tighten up you
have to pay attention.”
Like a lot of oil and gas haulers,
Muldoon Transport has laid off some
employees and parked vehicles but his
clients will be there when oilfi eld activ-
ity picks up this month when road bans
are lifted.
“Being a small business, we can re-
act a little quicker and have more per-
sonal relationships with our clientele”
said Muldoon.
“We are versatile. We can move any
rig anywhere. Th e key thing in business
is your relationships with your clientele.
“We have good relationships with
our clients. Th ey’ve supported us and
we’ve support them. We also have a
great core of employees. We’ve obvious-
ly done a good job as our clients keep
calling us back.”
Muldoon anticipates some rig haul-
ing work in Saskatchewan this summer
out of his Kindersley shop and he ex-
pects to be hauling in northern B.C. in
the late fall when the ground freezes up.
He also expects to be hauling oilfi eld
equipment in Alberta.
In meantime, Muldoon has plenty
of time to cruise up and down the gravel
road to his home in Mercury or two, in-
cluding his modifi ed show-stopping ’49
Merc hot rod.
“I’m into old cars, especially the
Mercs,” he said. “My fi rst car was a Merc
that I bought when I was 14 and work-
ing at a gas station. I would ‘borrow’ my
sister’s plate to drive it.”
Muldoon also loves his Massey 44
tractor with a square baler behind it –
just like the one he “cut his teeth on” as a
kid. “I do a little farming. I have a couple
of horses and they have to eat,” he ex-
plained.
Muldoon can ride to his heart’s
content on his half-section property
where he build a log home with parts
inspired from rig haulers and his skeet
shooting hobby.
He incorporated a few winch line
posts into his set of banister railings and
his fl oor boards are 3-inch thick by 12-
inch wide Douglas fi r, the same wood he
uses for decking on his low-boys. Bolt
holes in the fl oor are cleverly covered by
shotgun shell casings.
“I designed the house after my bud-
dy’s cabin. “I am camping every day.”
Muldoon has equipped the cabin
with a vintage Wurlitzer juke box – an-
other time machine – loaded with tunes
that can take him to back to the 1970s
when he played hockey for the Wain-
wright Bisons Junior B team.
“I’ve been here ever since and I’ve
been self-employed since 1974,” said
Muldoon. “I drove trucks and moved
rigs in Lac La Biche and worked mostly
in Saskatchewan, Alberta and British
Columbia.”
In his early years, Muldoon drove
Hayes trucks and he keeps the memo-
ries from those days fresh too with his
own Hayes truck that sits waiting for a
restoration.
Morley Muldoon says he “cut his teeth” as a kid driving a Massey 44 tractor like this one he has restored. It pulls a square baler.
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vices approaches safety in the oilpatch
with the same mindset he does racing
on the professional motocross circuit.
“It’s like anything else,” he said. “It’s
risky. You take the hazards into mind
and you do the best to mitigate those
risks with the proper gear and equip-
ment and you ride as safely as you can.”
Safety is top of mind at work for
McKinlay and staff of 75 safety pros
who are into their peak season supply-
ing safety supervision and equipment
for potentially hazardous tasks like tank
cleanings, plant shutdowns and battery
turnarounds.
Target has locations in Lloydmin-
ster, Bonnyville and Red Deer and
has an informal agreement with Astec
Safety Services Inc. in those areas and in
Fort McMurray and Provost to provide
their classroom training needs.
“We do their safety supervision and
they do our training. It’s worked out
well for both of us,” said McKinlay who
co-owns the business with Craig Dore
in Red Deer.
“We are very busy right now,” said
McKinlay. “It seems like it’s picking up
every week. Typically, our busy season
is from the end of March to the end of
November. Most of our clients like to
do turnarounds in the warm season.
“Primarily, we provide safety su-
pervision in the fi eld. Th at could be
everything from conducting hazard as-
sessments in conjunction with our cus-
tomers and their contractors to leading
confi ned space entry rescue plans, high
angle rescue plans, emergency response
team training and safety manage-
ment.”
Target also rents safety equipment
including a fl eet of breathing air trailers
and gear such as gas and fall protection
equipment and fi re extinguishers.
Th e demand for Target’s safety
equipment and supervision comes from
companies that don’t have their own
safety programs and want help with
their training or permitting processes
and from companies that require direct
safety supervision for critical task like
confi ned space entry.
“Th ey choose professionals such as
ourselves because that’s all we do,” said
McKinlay.”We should be able to do it
better than someone who does 10 dif-
ferent things.”
Target started in October, 2006
with three employees and one offi ce
in Lloydminster and has experienced
rapid growth in pace with the oil boom
and new safety legislature and regula-
tions in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
“Th e saying goes that most policies
and procedures and rules are written in
blood,” said McKinlay.
“A lot of people have been hurt in
the last number of years in the oil and
gas industry. Our company is in exis-
tence to try to prevent that to make
sure that everybody who is going to
work gets home at the end of the day.
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Target Safety aims for accident freeTarget Safety aims for accident free
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Clint McKinlay is also a safe professional moto-cross racer but he admits accidents can happen
on the track too.
Page C13“Our success is due to our management team that has a vast array of
diff erent experiences in the safety industry.
“We’ve taken what’s worked at diff erent companies and we
built our system based on the strengths of all of our competi-
tors. Th e other thing would be there’s no expenses held
back as far as equipment goes. Th e third reason for our
success would be our people.”
McKinlay has a safety resume a mile long
but his personal interest in safety goes back to
his fi rst year of work in the oil and gas indus-
try as a green17-year-old.
“I didn’t know what was going on,”
said McKinlay. “I was in a couple of
situations that, when I refl ect back,
I wasn’t really comfortable with. I
probably shouldn’t have been put
in those positions.
“I saw that as my calling that I
would like to prevent that from hap-
pening to other people so people that
are out in the industry are aware of their
surroundings and know what to do when
something does happen. What better way to do that
than have a company that provides that service?”
McKinlay’s other calling to race motocross also came at early age riding
a spare bike with his aunt and uncle and some cousins in Sylvan Lake where
he attend summer hockey camps.
“Pretty soon I thought I should get a ‘ride’ and convinced my dad I
should have one” said McKinlay. “He bought me one and a friend of mine’s
family raced and they took me along. I’ve been hooked ever since.”
He turned pro in 1995 and gave it up for a few years as he got more
involved with safety training. He found out last month that
accidents happen with motocross too. Th is spill cost
him a bruised back and some hurt pride.
“Most of my customers are aware that’s
what I choose to do on weekends. I have
raced motocross for a number of years,”
he said.
“It’s like crossing the street. You
do everything you can but accidents
can still happen.”
McKinlay says his injuries from
that spill could have been worse
without his safety mindedness
learned on the job.
“I am a safety guy at heart,” he
said. “Safety aff ects me more with
the racing than the racing aff ects me
at work. I will do something as simple
as strapping down my water barrel in my
truck when I am going to races and using my
pressure washer.
“I will make sure it’s belly-wrapped and I have proper tie-down proce-
dures in place, whereas, the next racer will just toss his barrel into his truck.
Little things like that I notice transcend to the racing side of things. Even
on the track, I may be a little more gun shy now, but I am also older and
wiser.”
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AUTOMATED TANK MANUFACTURING INC4601 49th Ave. Kitscoty, T0B 2P0Phone: 780.846.2231 • Fax: 780.846.2241 www.autotanks.ca
By Geoff LeeKitscoty – A crazed bull called Wild Economy tried its best but failed to buck
Automated Tank Manufacturing into the dust in its fi rst year of business marked June 1.
Despite the rough ride, the Kitscoty company is on course to provide cus-tomers with just in time manufacturing of single or double wall tanks from 400 to 2,000 barrel capacity and remarkably, general manager Joe Bowser still has his hat on.
“Our business is growing,” said Bowser. “We are getting calls from companies every single day now. It’s starting to pick up. Oil being at $59 today (May 14) is a real plus especially with the spread between the Canadian and the American dollar.
“Just in time manufacturing has been achieved with our clients. If they tell us they are drilling a well on a specifi c date, we can have three or four tanks ready for them. We can have them ready within three or four days prior to them needing them on site.
“What just in time manufacturing does is provide signifi cant savings to those companies. If they are going to drop in eight wells this month and their drilling is prolonged over the next fi ve months when they will need 50 tanks, it allows them to work with us on pricing and delivery dates.
“Th ey are not buying 50 tanks at a time and storing them in a location and ending up with 20 that they didn’t use because of their change in plans.
“It creates just in time manufacturing, just in time payment methods and it puts a lot of capital cash in their reserve for them to use on other projects if they don’t fulfi ll their drilling plans.”
Automated Tank was formed a year ago with the goal of manufacturing tanks with an assembly process that combines automation and robotics to cut manufac-turing time from 200 hours per tank to just 62 hours.
Th e anniversary party has been delayed as the promised robotics are weeks away from installation and the lifting, rotating tables (LRTs) installed into two 32-foot deep holes in the shop fl oor have run into technical glitches.
“We are just about in semi-automation mode,” said Bowser. “Our lifting and rotating table has one more piece or component that we need to build into it and that’s a breaking system.
“As the elevator works to bring the tank up, it stops in a specifi c position. We need it to stay there so we need to put an electronic braking system into that.
“Th at has been designed and we are just waiting for all of the components to be built and then we will install that. Th e systems will be fully workable at that point.
“When you work with something that’s never been done before you get 95 per cent there and you have to work through the dynamics of the things that weren’t engineered and go back and engineer those into it.”
Looking back, Bowser refers to the fi rst year of operation as “a learning year,” and says everybody is smarting from their time riding on the backside of a beast called Wild Economy.
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Automated Tank survives rst year Automated Tank survives rst year of business with ups and downsof business with ups and downs
General manager, Joe Bowser is still smiling after marking his company’s rst year of operation in trying economic times. Photo by Geoff Lee
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Welder Jamie Flicek, a member of a welding team.
File photo
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“I think all new businesses put plans into place
and those plans are well thought out,” said Bowser.
“As you can see with what’s developed in the past year
with the high price of oil and the economic hump
when the market went right down and dropped to
$30 a barrel for oil, it changed the dynamics of what’s
going to be manufactured and put on hold for manu-
facturing. Th at created a little bit of stress for us.
“However, we didn’t go through the layoff s that
other companies went through. Our staff worked
consistently without any layoff s and without any
down time. We didn’t lose any people in the transi-
tion because of what happened.”
As for lessons learned, Bowser says it’s important
during a volatile economy to make sure you are hon-
est with your employees all the times about where
you are at on the sales end.
“Because of that employees shared some of our
stress, some of our pain but they worked through it
with us. It’s made us a stronger company over all,” he
said.
“It’s a fi nancial nightmare. It’s balancing your
check marks from one side to the other side of the
ledger. You’re going from storing enough products to
build 20 or 30 tanks to going from storing enough
products to build the next 10 tanks.
“You have to manage your dollars a whole lot
better. You have to manage your time in manufactur-
ing without a doubt a whole lot better.”
Th e idea behind the LRT manufacturing system
is to feed coiled steel into place to form the circu-
lar sections of a tank that can be lowered, raised and
rotated, enabling the welder or a robotic welder to
remain in one position while the vertical and hori-
zontal assembly is done.
“Th is is a lot safer and a faster way to manufac-
ture a tank,” said Bowser. “With each course of steel
to be added to the tank, we lower the tank into the
hole. As it rotates, we weld it and then we complete
the roof structure.”
Even without achieving full semi-automation or
robotic manufacturing, Automated Tank can use the
LRT ports to build a complete tank in a day and a
quarter.
“We save a considerable amount of time in pit
manufacturing as close to a semi-automation mode
as possible,” said Bowser.
“Presently we still build tanks below ground but
we do them section by section and coarse by coarse.
As we lower them, we fi nished them off and do the
cuts into the roof.”
Th e welded tanks are hoisted by an overhead
gantry lift to a fi nishing room. Th e tanks come with
a standard coating of two inches of foam on the body
and three inches on roof.
“Th e next step is fi nishing the braking system and
moving into full robotics and we are excited about
the move,” said Bowser.
Bowser hasn’t pegged down a date to celebrate
Automated Tank’s fi rst year of business and says he
has two or three things to make right before allowing
the public in for tour.
No doubt, he also needs time to write down the
full story of his company’s fi rst 365 days of survivor
saddled loosely to the now infamous Wild Economy
monster.
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TRUCKWASH
Story and photos by Geoff LeeLloydminster – Hancock Petroleum
Inc., a Petro-Canada bulk fuels mar-
keter in Lloydminster, topped up their
string of safety achievements winning a
top corporate safety award.
Th e award is in recognition for
Hancock’s demonstrated leadership
and achievement for Petro-Canada’s
top Prudent Operations Program per-
formance in 2008.
A plaque was presented to business
owner Jason Hancock in April at the
corporation’s 2009 national wholesale
conference in Edmonton.
“It represents how well you have
run your business,” said Hancock, who
received the same award for his com-
pany in 2006.
“In Petro-Canada’s world, it means
you are running a complicated and
dangerous business in a safe manner.”
More awards may be forthcoming
as Hancock Petroleum has hired safety
coordinator Kathy Paul to make further
improvements to all safety operations.
Hancock Petroleum is a bulk fuel
seller and distributor of Petro-Canada’s
petroleum products including metha-
nols and solvents to commercial and
industrial customers.
“We have picked up a new brand
of methanol and we are picking up new
trade areas and larger trade areas. Our
circle is getting bigger and bigger,” said
Hancock.
“We have a cardlock facility and
handle bulk delivery of products serv-
ing the farming industry, the drilling
industry and service rigs,” said Han-
cock. “Anything to do with petroleum
and bulk delivery, we will do it.
“We have everything from 300
gallon customers to 10,000 gallon cus-
tomers.”
Th e Petro-Canada Petro-Pass card-
lock service is a self-serve dispenser of
diesel and gasoline for commercial and
industrial businesses, using magnetic
cards and secure access.
Hancock Petroleum sells millions
of litres of fuels a year including regu-
lar to premium grades of gasoline and a
variety of low-sulphur diesel fuels and
specialty lubricants. Diesel is the best
selling fuel.
“We do 15 loads of diesel to one
load of gas,” said Hancock. “We’re in
the cardlock wholesale business. Trans-
port companies use diesel to move their
products.
Hancock Petroleum also trucks
fuel from Petro-Canada’s Edmonton
refi nery to its other cardlock facilities
in Provost, Maid stone and Vermillion.
His Lloydminster storage tanks can
hold 1.8 million litres of fuel.
Some companies like Mike’s Oil-
fi eld from Lloydminster will use their
trucks to pick up methanol but Han-
cock mainly uses his own fl eet of tri-
drive tandem trucks, quad pups and
Super Bs including a new Super B
that’s making news everywhere it goes.
“Everything we buy is for a reason
and for safety,” said Hancock. “We just
purchased a Peterbilt Super B that will
be featured in American Trucker and
Fleet Owner magazines in the U.S.
“Th is is one of the fi rst Super-Bs
with full disc brakes throughout the
whole unit and front air ride suspen-
sion. We have two drivers on it with 90
years experience and they say it’s the
best truck they have ever ridden. It cuts
the braking distance by two-thirds.
“We need quick braking for emer-
gency stops,” he stressed. “We pick up a
lot of fuel from the Edmonton refi nery
so with our big tankers that haul a lot
of product, we want to make sure we
are doing everything we can for safety
on the road.
“Th ere are a lot of drivers with bad
habits on the road. We are hauling dan-
gerous goods and a lot of people don’t
understand that if you cut one of these
larger semis off , they can’t just stop like
a normal truck or car.”
New drivers recruits at Hancock
Petroleum are checked closely for their
safety and criminal backgrounds. Han-
cock’s staff of about 35 employees par-
ticipate in safety exercises. Th e compa-
ny has an emergency response program
trailer on site to respond to highway
rollover situations. Page C20
Safety paramount at Hancock Petroleum’s bulk fuel outlets
Jason Hancock operates his own eet of Petro-Canada bulk fuel car-
riers.
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Driver Paul Harrison steps on the service ladder of this Petro-Canada tri-drive tandem fuel truck owned by Hancock Petroleum.
Recipient of Petro-Canada Safety Award Page C19
If there’s a spill, Hancock Petroleum notifi es CA-
NUTEC, the Canadian Transport Emergency Cen-
tre for dangerous goods emergencies and respective
provincial government authorities. “We drive through
Elk Island National Park six times day so we have to
make sure we are doing in a safe manner,” said Han-
cock. “We have a lot of employees with long-term
training. Th ey don’t just jump in these trucks. Th ey
have years of experience before they come through
this door.”
Hancock Petroleum earned a Petro-Canada
President’s Safety Award in 2006 to recognize safety
achievements through innovation, technology and
workforce engagement.
Hancock’s commitment to running a safe and
profi table operation may be genetic. His grandfather
started in the oil business in 1942 in Marwayne and
Jason bought the Lloydminster operation from his
dad in 2001 when he retired as one of Petro-Canada’s
fi rst marketers.
Prior to the purchase, Hancock worked for Pet-
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ness from his dad. Page C21
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Safety is everything Page C20
“Every day is diff erent in the sense that some-
times there are supply issues with refi ning. Some-
times we over consume. Th ere is always sort of new
venture coming on. It’s exciting,” he said.
“We do a vast amount of lubricant business so
we (Petro-Canada) are always working with large oil
companies to help them design special oil and natural
gas engine oils for specifi c customers. We work hand
in hand with customers.
“With our chemicals, we haul from Conklin,
south of Fort McMurray to Swift Current, a new area
where we are hauling methanol to. We go down to
Oyen and Kindersley as well.”
Hancock’s next move could be a few blocks north
of their current location on 44 Avenue. Petro-Cana-
da has bought land at the north of the Lloydminster
where Hancock will relocate and expand but who
knows when.
“With the economy, everyone is in a holding pat-
tern but I imagine we will move in 2010 or 2011,” he
said.
In the meantime, Hancock and his employees
will be looking forward to their next charity cause.
Th e company held a garage sale of donated goods in
aid of the Relay for Life cancer fundraiser May 22
weekend. Last year, the company raised $32,000 for
the cause.
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Lloydminster – BAR Engineering and its PFM
Engineering division acquired in 2007, will be physi-
cally united for the fi rst time by June 15 when PFM’s
eight employees move across town to BAR’s head of-
fi ce in Lloydminster.
Th e move will bring BAR one step closer to a
full merger and its goal to diversify its heavy oil ser-
vices with the electrical, automation and municipal
engineering expertise it has today along with PFM’s
structural and mechanical engineering specialties.
“One of the reasons we decided to bring everyone
under one roof is it allows for the best part of both
cultures to come together,” said Kent Smith, a senior
staff engineer and one of several owners of BAR.
“We can work on a commercial project and our
municipal group can look after the site grading plan
and the services to that facility and PFM can look af-
ter the design of the foundation and structural design
of the building.
“BAR can also look after the electrical and the
mechanical design and the HVAC and plumbing sys-
tem design. It’s critical that we are all working under
one roof to make sure that works as effi ciently as pos-
sible.”
Smith, says now is the time to get the word
out that BAR has repositioned itself for substantial
growth in western Canada and has a business de-
velopment plan to market what the new BAR is all
about.
“We did our branding where we are now going
out and instead of saying we just do oil and gas work,
we are now saying we can do oil, gas, instrumentation,
municipal and structural engineering,” said Smith.
“We are no longer a company that just does oil
and gas for one or two local clients. We are a diversi-
fi ed company that can provide multidisciplinary ser-
vices to a large number of clients. Th at’s what we are
most proud of and excited about.”
PFM is working on a revamp of their web site and
a new corporate logo has been launched representing
both entities. New ads are running under the slogan,
“A new perspective” with the catch phrase “serving oil
BAR Engineering rebranding itself with PFM merger
Kent Smith, senior staff engineer is excited about the new engineering services BAR can offer with its PFM Engineering division.
and gas, industrial and commercial clients”.
Smith says the new corporate vision was born in
2000 to diversify and the fi rst step in the process was
to develop BAR’s electrical and instrumentation en-
gineering group.
“Today, we have a very strong group that includes
engineers and technologists. A lot of their work is in
the support role of the oil and gas side of things but
they are also branching out into some other areas.”
Th ose areas include engineering public and pri-
vate utilities and designing electrical systems and
mechanical systems including HVAC and plumbing
design for commercial applications.
“Th e next step was developing a municipal engi-
neering group as well,” said Smith. “We did a market
survey and determined there was a need for that ser-
vice locally. We brought in a senior person who has
30 years experience on the municipal side of things.”
Th e move was well timed as infrastructure fund-
ing is keeping BAR busy with repaving projects in
Lloydminster as well as designing sewage lagoons
and water reservoir storage work in outlying coun-
ties.
Smith says the idea to merge with BAR was
based on the company’s working relationship with
Peter Miller who founded PFM.
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Page C22“Both parties saw an opportunity of bringing the companies together to en-
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“It also brings in diversifi cation. What we do is only a small part of what PFM does. Th ey also have residential design services, commercial design services and they do oilfi eld work that’s not related to what we do.
“Th ere’s not a great deal of overlap with our clients. We will have a whole new set of clients. Th e scope of our projects has been within a two hour radius of Lloydminster but with PFM that’s expanded substantially.”
PFM Engineering has engineers registered in Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatch-ewan, Alberta and British Columbia and provides their clients with mechanical engineering expertise in the repair, certifi cation and design of mobile equipment like fl ushbys, service rigs and overhead cranes.
“Th e diversifi cation is paying dividends today,” said Smith. “With the price of oil going where it has, two of our major clients cut back their capital expenditures in January and deferred some projects. As a result, today the oil and gas of our business has become extremely slow.”
Th at forced BAR to lay off employees, reduce the work week and freeze sala-ries but a slowdown in the oilfi eld division has been off set lately by the infl ux of municipal engineering work and PFM’s busy workload.
“Th ere hasn’t been a slowdown there,” said Smith. “Th ey appear to be ex-
tremely strong due to some of the infrastructure spending in Albert and Sas-katchewan.
“In the case of our municipal group, we could easily double the size of the group and still be busy. We are actually hiring within those groups to take advan-tage of some business opportunities.
“We’ve also done some inter-departmental transfers and avoided further lay-off s by utilizing some of our people in other divisions.”
PFM will remain as a divisional company for the foreseeable future to allow BAR time to gain the confi dence of PFM’s established client base.
“We still have the PFM image,” said Smith. “It’s a company that has built a strong relationship with a large number of clients in the area. We want to make sure we keep that. Th at’s why it’s still operating as a division of bar.
“It’s through Peter Miller’s reputation that PFM got to where it is today. We want to make sure that reputation transfers over to our company.”
BAR is planning to celebrate the move and the integration with PFM with a grand opening sometime in mid-July.
Opportunities for both sides with merger
PIPELINE NEWS June 2009C24
Lloydminster – ICI
Artifi cial Lift in Lloyd-
minster is launching its
new low-profi le, heated
stuffi ng box with an on-
board secondary con-
tainment system into the
oilfi eld market.
Th e stuffi ng box is a
product whose time has
come given the need for
environmental protec-
tion, worker safety and
operational savings. Th e
stuffi ng box is also avail-
able in a non-heated ver-
sion.
“Most oil produc-
ers today are faced with
trying to reduce the foot-
print on the environment
ICI Arti cial Lift launches new self-contained heated stuf ng box
Sales manager Rob Saunders says ICI’s heated stuf ng box with an onboard secondary contain-ment is well timed to solve a myriad of produc-ers’ issues.
on the lease site and re-
duce the impact on the
environment around
the well site,” said gen-
eral sales manager Rob
Saunders.
“We put secondary
onboard containment
around the stuffi ng box
to address those issues.
Usually secondary con-
tainment is a wall or a
dike. All that does is
preventing spills from
going any further, but if
the wind comes up it will
blow it around the lease.
“With our box you
are not going to have
that. We’ve taken con-
tainment to the next step
and reduced the exposure
to the environment.
“It reduces the over-
all cost including all the
maintenance and clean-
ups of spills over time.
Th ese are the things we
off er to the producer and
they are starting to see
the benefi ts of the ‘enviro’
heated stuffi ng box.”
Th e ICI stuffi ng box
is designed for safe op-
eration and it eliminates
any “pinch points” or ex-
posed moving parts that
would normally be found
on conventional pump-
ing systems.
Th e heated version
utilizes gas engine cool-
ant or electric skid hy-
draulic oil that keeps
the stuffi ng box warm
and improves the per-
formance and longevity
of the packing in cold
weather.
“Th e maintenance
periods on the unit is
actually lengthened be-
cause of the heating
ability of it,” said Peter
Fowler, ICI’s service co-
ordinator.
“In the winter, the
heat ensures the grease
stays soft and the pack-
ing maintains its elastic-
ity. Th e fl uid that ends
up in the containment
doesn’t freeze so the op-
erator can drain it off on
a routine basis and ex-
tend the need to have to
service the wellhead. Th e
packing lasts longer in
the fi eld.
“Th e installation of
the whole stuffi ng box is
a lot more user friend-
ly. It lowers the profi le
of the wellhead and it
brings things closer to
the ground so the opera-
tors aren’t involved with
climbing so high to ser-
vice their equipment.”
Unlike a convention-
al stuffi ng box, the ICI
product is pre-tensioned
by an internal spring
and the fl uid tension so
it maintains the pressure
on the packing when the
well is pumping.
Th e brainchild of
the heated stuffi ng box
is ICI president Perry St.
Denis who founded the
company in 2000 with
his innovative hydrau-
lic pumps. Th e stuffi ng
box idea came to him to
solve a client’s problem
with wellhead and stuff -
ing box fl uid leaks in the
environment and main-
tenance issues in the
winter.
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Page C24“My idea was to
make it neater for the
environment and add a
pump jack bolted to the
wellhead and add heat,”
said St. Denis.
“Heat was the key
thing. Th e advantage of
heating is that your pack-
ing glands are always at
the same temperature
and they are not getting
hard or brittle from the
cold weather.
“What it’s going to
show producers is that
this technology is there
to help them. Th is is go-
ing to help us all with the
environment. When the
packing starts to leak, it
gives you a chance to do
your repair work when
you need to, whether
it’s a polish rod or the
packing. Nothing spills
on the ground.
“It will also lower
the lifting cost and it
makes a much cleaner
looking wellhead. Th is is
the way of the future.”
Th e stuffi ng box is
designed to be appli-
cable to rod pumping,
pump to surface and
progressive cavity sys-
tems and creates the low
wellhead profi le.
It can also be fi tted
to ICI’s compact and
lightweight Copper-
head and Golden Rod
hydraulic pump jack se-
ries of artifi cial lifts and
sold as a complete cost-
eff ective, environmen-
tally friendly package. “It was designed for
an ICI pump jack but
it is adaptable to other
units,” said Saunders.
“We are trying to off er
it to our customers as an
inclusive unit with our
own pump jacks.
“Th e advantage is
you are getting an all-
inclusive package that
addresses the main is-
sues that most oil and
gas companies are faced
with today, namely, the
footprint on the well
site, the environment
impact to the well site
and the long-term via-
bility of the equipment.
“With it all be-
ing contained, you re-
duce the exposure to
the moisture, the dirt
and the sand and wind
and all those things
that attempt to wear
down equipment that’s
exposed to those ele-
ments.
ICI developed the
prototype stuffi ng box a
year ago. Husky Energy
was one of the early
adapters and helped ICI
Reducing environmental exposure
ICI sales manager Rob Saunders expects sales of the new heating stuf ng box to be strong with its proven environmental and all-weather operating bene ts.
Service coordinator Peter Fowler climbs the short service ladder on this ICI arti cial lift bolted to a new heated stuf ng box.
to fi ne tune the product
for its sales and produc-
tion launch for heavy
oil, light oil and coalbed
methane shale gas ap-
plications.
“Th e timing is good
for us to off er this up to
all producers faced with
having to address their
cleanup issues around
the well sites and trying
to contain the fl uids,”
said Saunders.
“Overall, it will help
to improve the image of
the industry by showing
there are initiative by
the service companies
the producers to address
some of their concerns.
“Usually it’s a longer
road to commercialize a
product when it’s brand
new and people haven’t
been used to using it. It’s
a change from what’s
being done today and I
think in the past year
people are becoming
more accepting and are
willing to try something
diff erent in order to be-
come more responsible
with the environment.”
Th e stuffi ng box is
being assembled at ICI’s
remodeled shop.
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Calgary –TransCan-
ada Corporation is one
step closer to getting the
green light to proceed
with its proposed $7 bil-
lion (U.S.) Keystone XL
crude oil pipeline from
Hardisty to the U.S. Gulf
Coast in Texas.
Th e National En-
ergy Board (NEB) will
convene an oral hearing
of the application 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 pipe-
line and related facilities
including pump stations,
tanks and other related
works and activities.
One approval is ob-
tained, construction is ex-
pected to begin by mid-
2010 and will result in a
total capital investment of
approximately $12 billion
(U.S.) when completed
by 2012.
Th e project is already
being applauded in Pro-
vost which enjoyed the
economic spinoff s from
the last Keystone pipeline
project in the Hardisty
area.
“We watch these ap-
provals closely and we try
to work with companies
as closely as we can to
foster the development,”
said Bert Roach, Provost’s
economic development
offi cer.
“Usually what hap-
pens with pipelines con-
struction is we see an
increase in activity when
the workers are coming
through and hopefully we
see an increase in one or
two jobs in the long term
as well.
“Th is project would
work to increase the im-
portance of the Hardisty
Terminal area. It contin-
ues to establish the area as
an important one for oil
and gas.
“It’s really excit-
ing to see the develop-
ments 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 fur-
ther increases the impor-
tance of that terminal.”
Th e new XL pipe-
line 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 service in early
2010.
Th e entire 3,200
km 36-inch XL pipe-
line would incorporate a
portion of the Keystone
Pipeline to be construct-
ed through Kansas to
Cushing, Oklahoma, be-
fore continuing through
Oklahoma to a delivery
point near existing termi-
nals in Nederland, Texas
to serve the Port Arthur,
Texas marketplace.
Also proposed is
an approximate 80-km
pipeline to the Houston,
Texas marketplace.
Th e expansion proj-
ect in Canada follows
TransCanada’s success
securing long-term con-
tracts of additional oil
that will expand the sup-
ply to 900,000 barrels of
oil day with an initial vol-
ume of 700,000 barrels.
Th e Keystone XL
was announced last July
by Hal Kvisle, TransCan-
ada president and chief
executive offi cer.
“Th e Keystone ex-
pansion will be the fi rst
direct pipeline to con-
nect a growing and reli-
able supply of Canadian
crude oil with the largest
refi ning market in North
America,” he said at that
time.
“Th e Keystone Pipe-
line will be constructed
and operated as an inte-
grated system with de-
livery points in the U.S.
Midwest and U.S. Gulf
Coast.”
Keystone pipeline expansion plan to be heard in September
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By Geoff LeeBonnyville –Snow in the morning and cold tem-
peratures made for a smaller crowd at the May Petro-
leum Society Lunch and Learn event held at the St.
Louis Parish in Bonnyville May 20.
A few people braved the elements and played a
round of golf at the Bonnyville Golf and Country
Club following lunch.
A crowd of about 40 people made the drive from
Lloydminster to catch the presentation by Kevin
McGowan, a fi eld service rep from Schlumberger’s
Shallow Heavy Oil division.
McGowan once gave presentations to three
classes of Petroleum Technology students when he
worked in High Level Alberta on cased hole cement
evaluation theory and techniques.
On the bright side, a modest size crowd left more
food for those who survived the elements and the two
and a half hour drive from Lloydminster where most
of the Lunch and Learns are held.
Mike McIntosh from Weatherford Canada Part-
nership in Lloydminster acted as the host and intro-
duced McGowan and a second last minute speaker,
David Bexte who in charge of Schlumberger’s heavy
oil sales manager for Canada.
Th e topic was Primary Casing Cement Leak Detec-tion. Both speakers focused on the use of new sound
wireline log techniques combined with optimized
fl uid selection based on the noise logs and injection
rates.
In a nutshell, the fl uids used would be short poly-
mer gels; micro-cement optimized with particulate
sizing; and conventional squeeze cements.
For more details on the process, contact McGow-
an at Schlumberger in Lloydminster.
McGowan stepped in for Les Johnson the opera-
tions manager for Schlumberger Well Services. Th e
next Lunch and Learn will in Lloydminster June 17
with speaker Howie Staniforth from Husky Energy
who will talk about new technology for service rigs.
Snow puts a damper on Bonnyville lunch and golf outing
A small crowd of about 40 people turned up for the Lloydminster Petroleum Society lunch and golf tournament in Bonnyville on a cold snowy morn-ing.
Photo by Christin Taylor
Schlumberger’s Kev-in McGowan was the main guest speaker at the Petroleum Society lunch meeting held in Bonnyville.Photo by Christin Taylor
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PIPELINE NEWSSaskatchewan’s Petroleum Monthly
Aluminum Tankers, Backhoes, Boilers, Braking Systems, Casing Elevators, Casing Scrapers, Casing Slips, Cement & Acid Equipment, Cement Bulk Trailers, Cement Mixers, Cement Pumps, Cement Storage, Centrifugal Pump, Centrifugal Pumps, Chemical Pumps, Choke Manifolds, Closing Units, Coiled Tubing Unit Parts, Coiled Tubing Units, Control Systems, Crane Trucks, Cranes, Crown Blocks, Traveling Blocks, Dehydrators, Ditch Witch, Double Drum Workover Rigs, Double Phase, Double Studded Adaptors, Dozers, Drawworks & Substructures, Drift Indicators, Drill Collar Elevators, Drill Collar Slips, Drill Collars, Drill Pipe, Drill Pipe Elevators, Drill Pipe Elevators Slips Combinations, Drill Pipe Spinners, Drilling Choke Control Systems, Drilling Components, Drilling Rigs, Dual Drilling Control Consoles, Duplex Pumps, Electric Motor Drive, Farm Tractors , Fiberglass Tanks, Flat Bottom Junk Mill, Flatbed and Lowboys, Fluid / Mud Cleaners, Front End Loaders, Gas Processing Plants, Gate Valves for Blowout Preventers, Gauges, Gloves, Glycol Pumps, Glycol Pumps, H2S Safety Valves, Handling Tools, Hard Hats, Heater Treaters, High Pressure Hoses, High Pressure Pump Skids, High Pressure Pump Trailer, High Pressure Valves & Fittings, Highway Tractors, Hydraulic Ampli ers, Hydraulic Casing Tongs, Hydraulic Drilling Chokes, Independent Rotary Drive Skids, Laydown Equipment, Laydown truck mounted, Liquid Tanks, Mandrels & Sleeves, Manifold Skids, Manual Tongs and Casing, Metal Tanks, Motors, Mousehole / Rathole, Mud Motors, Mud Pumps, Nitrogen / Cryogenic Equipment, Off-Road Tractors, Pipe Bins / Racks / Material Storage, Pipe Wrenches, Power Swivels, Production Casing, Production Pipe, Production Rods, Production Tubing, Propane Tanks, Pulling Units, Pump Trucks / Trailers, Pumpjacks, Pumps & Pump Skids, Pup Joints, Quintiplex Pumps, Rags, Re nery Equipment, Releasing and Circulating Overshot, Reverse Circulation Junk Baskets, Rig elevators, Road Graders, Roller Reamers, Rotary Slips for Drill Pipe, Rotary Tables & Kellys, Safety Clamps, SCR Houses, SCR Power, Single Axle Roustabout, Single Joint Elevators, Single Phase, Skid Mounted, Skid Mounted Pumping Units, Skid-Mounted Equipment, Slick line Units, Slip Type Elevators , Soap, Spinning Wrenches, Spiral Grapples & Controls, Spools for Blowout Preventors, Stabilizers, Steel Tankers, Steel Toe Boots, Structural Casing, Structural Pipe, Structural Rods, Structural Tubing, Subassembly, H2S Subassembly, Swabbing Units, Top Drives, Trailer-Mounted Equipment, Treaters, Triple Phase, Triplex Pumps, Truck/Trailer Mounted, Truck-Mounted Equipment (Single and Twin Cementers), Tubing Spider, Tubing Tongs, Vacuum Trucks, Wireline Parts, Wireline Skids, Wireline Trailers, Wireline Trucks, Workover Equipment, Workover Service Rigs, Aluminum Tankers, Backhoes, Boilers, Braking Systems, Casing Elevators, Casing Scrapers, Casing Slips, Cement & Acid Equipment, Cement Bulk Trailers, Cement Mixers, Cement Pumps, Cement Storage, Centrifugal Pump, Centrifugal Pumps, Chemical Pumps, Choke Manifolds, Closing Units, Coiled Tubing Unit Parts, Coiled Tubing Units, Control Systems, Crane Trucks, Cranes, Crown Blocks, Traveling Blocks, Dehydrators, Ditch Witch, Double Drum Workover Rigs, Double Phase, Double Studded Adaptors, Dozers, Drawworks & Substructures, Drift Indicators, Drill Collar Elevators, Drill Collar Slips, Drill Collars, Drill Pipe, Drill Pipe Elevators, Drill Pipe Elevators Slips Combinations, Drill Pipe Spinners, Drilling Choke Control Systems, Drilling Components, Drilling Rigs, Dual Drilling Control Consoles, Duplex Pumps, Electric Motor Drive, Farm Tractors , Fiberglass Tanks, Flat Bottom Junk Mill, Flatbed and Lowboys, Fluid / Mud Cleaners, Front End Loaders, Gas Processing Plants, Gate Valves for Blowout Preventers, Gauges, Gloves, Glycol Pumps, Glycol Pumps, H2S Safety Valves, Handling Tools, Hard Hats, Heater Treaters, High Pressure Hoses, High Pressure Pump Skids, High Pressure Pump Trailer, High Pressure Valves & Fittings, Highway Tractors, Hydraulic Ampli ers, Hydraulic Casing Tongs, Hydraulic Drilling Chokes, Independent Rotary Drive Skids, Laydown Equipment, Laydown truck mounted, Liquid Tanks, Mandrels & Sleeves, Manifold Skids, Manual Tongs and Casing, Metal Tanks, Motors, Mousehole / Rathole, Mud Motors, Mud Pumps, Nitrogen / Cryogenic Equipment, Off-Road Tractors, Pipe Bins / Racks / Material Storage, Pipe Wrenches, Power Swivels, Production Casing, Production Pipe, Production Rods, Production Tubing, Propane Tanks, Pulling Units, Pump Trucks / Trailers, Pumpjacks, Pumps & Pump Skids, Pup Joints, Quintiplex Pumps, Rags, Re nery Equipment, Releasing and Circulating Overshot, Reverse Circulation Junk Baskets, Rig elevators, Road Graders, Roller Reamers, Rotary Slips for Drill Pipe, Rotary Tables & Kellys, Safety Clamps, SCR Houses, SCR Power, Single Axle Roustabout, Single Joint Elevators, Single Phase, Skid Mounted, Skid Mounted Pumping Units, Skid-Mounted
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FOR SALE
STORAGE YARD STORAGE YARD FOR RENTFOR RENT
One Acre Oilfield Storage Yard in Estevan for rent.
Call B. Noble at306-634-9143 or
306-421-9866
For Sale:New 30’ Gooseneck fl atbed trailer,
triple 7,000 lb axles, electric brakes, slide in
ramps, ST235/85r16” tires, Toolbox, Dual jacks.
Reduced to clear.$8,995.00
Call Wendell at:
1-888-235-2626ForFor SaleSale
ReconditionedReconditioned 750 BBL Tanks 750 BBL TanksHeated & Insulated c/w Heated & Insulated c/w
Hawkeye guageboard assHawkeye guageboard assemblyembly
Phone PaulPhone Paul (403)664-0604(403)664-0604Oyen, AB.Oyen, AB.
Lynn ChipleyC21 Border Real Estate Service1339 Fourth StreetEstevan, SK S4A 0X1Phone: 306-634-1020
SPACIOUS HOME FOR SALE IN ESTEVAN GREAT CITY, GREAT NEIGHBOURHOOD!Nearly 3,000 sq. ft. of living space in this well kept bi-level. Five bedrooms, three baths, fridge, stove,
dishwasher, washer, dryer, water softener, central air, underground sprinklers, and attached double garage.
$374,900. For more details see MLS® 338750.
FOR SALE
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