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President’s MessageThis month’s article on Canadians drilling overseas is near and dear to my heart right now. As drilling manager for Bankers Petroleum in Albania, I have grown accustomed to travelling between Fier, Albania, and Calgary. I now know that the Calgary–Frankfurt direct flight is great—9.5 hours and you are in Central Europe. But the Frankfurt–Munich connection is tight; if you make it, your luggage likely won’t. This trip, I missed the Munich flight and ended up in Ljubljana, Slovenia, to get in to Tirana, Albania. It took a little more time, but it was a civilized connection.

Initial setup of the project took a lot of time and forethought. After all, it’s half a world away, but nothing we haven’t done here in Canada. We spend all summer coordinat-ing equipment, products and services for an intense three- or four-month winter drilling program. Same length of lead time to get a project coordinated overseas once the go ahead is given, except in the case of Albania, the weather is decent year around, so the intensity never quits once the rigs are running.

To save costs, and to have faces in Calgary Bankers could trust, the majority of prod-ucts and services have come from Canada. Bits, wellheads and directional services are all Canadian. Shipping costs and planning are important to make sure there are no supply chain issues. Who knew the dockworkers in Italy took most of August off?

Most interesting about the project is not just the travel to the field, but the side trips for contract negotiation in other countries—I am writing this article from Zagreb, Croatia. Tomorrow I am reviewing our Albanian operations with our Croatian contractor, with two drilling rigs and our cementers under contract in Albania. I have also worked in Ukraine and even taught a two-week course on horizontal wells in Cuba, as well as the usual holi-days, but I have always found one thing—people are the same everywhere you go.

And what’s the best part for me about an overseas assignment? I am interested in other cultures and history, and what better way to learn about new cultures than through work-ing with people who live in the country. I have a very understanding boss at Bankers, I have taken my son, daughter and wife on business trips to Europe. My son Josh and I did five days in Albania, then five days in Croatia. In fact, Josh sat in the boardroom in Zagreb while we negotiated a drilling contract for our second rig. Not just a cultural exchange, but a business experience for him as well. In spite of the fact he played his Game Boy while two of us Bankers guys negotiated the contract with the board of directors and legal counsel for the contractor, he asked some very intelligent questions about what we signed.

Bankers drilled the first horizontal well in Albania, lucky well 5013, in December 2008, not an insignificant achievement considering where we started and something Bankers personnel in Albania are very proud of. While working international is not for everyone, Canadians are going to be asked more and more to work internationally, and when the day comes we are asked, a lot of thought should be given to the work and cultural experience. I would like to thank Bankers for the opportunity to work in Albania, as it has enriched my entire family’s life.

John Garden, P.Eng.President, Canadian Association of Drilling Engineers

FEATurE SToriES

Foreign affairs 8enform safety 11Conference News 13

DEPArTMENTS

Association News 4-5Upcoming Events 5Student Profile – SAIT: Sean Liggett 6Student Profile – UofC: Zsolt Vigh 6Member Profile: Serik Abdrazakov 7Stats At A Glance 14

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3 February 2011 Canadian Well Construction Journal

Association/Membership News

Editor’s Note

Welcome to the February issue of the Canadian Well Construction Journal. This month’s journal edition takes a look at the work our members and some of our member companies are doing in the international side of the industry. The idea came to me as I was on a plane overseas. It struck me that our members aren’t just working in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, but are helping lead projects all over the world. I am currently writing this from my hotel room in Almaty, Kazakhstan, while our president, John Garden, sends in his president’s mes-sage from the Ukraine.

Our feature story this issue is on work being done by two Canadian companies overseas, Bankers Petroleum in Albania and Condor Petroleum in Kazakhstan. Jacqueline Louie has put together a great article looking at how these companies are conducting their business on the other side of the pond. As well, Jacqueline interviewed Serik Abdrazakov, a CADE student member who was born and educated in Kazakhstan and is currently working part time for Condor while he completes his Master’s degree at the University of Calgary.

The journal is also pleased to introduce the chair of the 2011 CADE/CAODC Drilling Conference, Rene LaPrade, vice-president of operations for PetroBakken Energy Ltd. And we are featuring two student profiles this month: SAIT Polytechnic student Sean Liggett and University of Calgary student Szolt Vigh.

Our January luncheon—not exactly technical in nature—kicked off the new year with comedian Lars Callieou entertaining our largest group of the year. Our February luncheon gets back to the technical side with a presentation on multistage fracturing technology present-ed by Eric G. Schmelzl, P.Eng., who is the completions and production technology manager for Halliburton Canada.

We are continuing to review ideas for the 2011 technical luncheon presentations as well as story ideas for the journal. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any ideas for upcoming topics or issues you’d like to see presented at the luncheons or in print. We hope you, the membership, will participate and continue to make these events interesting and successful. If you have any issues you’d like to see covered, please email me and we will do our best to get the story.

Don’t forget, each month we would like to publish any of your information and announcements on new products, new technologies and senior personnel changes. Please forward any announcements to us, as we would be excited to run them in our news feature section.

We appreciate your continued support and look forward to seeing you at the upcoming luncheons and the conference.

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CADE Technical Luncheon

DateWednesday, February 9, 2011

Place The Westin, Calgary

Time 11:30 a.m.—Reception

12:00 noon—Luncheon 12:30 p.m.—Presentation

speaker: Eric G. Schmelzl, P.Eng. Completions and Production Technology Manager, Halliburton Canada

Topic: Multi-Stage Fracturing Technology: A Case for Cemented Wellbores

The advent of multi-stage horizontal fracturing has become the spawning ground for numerous innova-tive and highly effective methods for distributing hydraulic fracture treatments over long horizontal sec-tions. Broadly speaking, these methods can be classified into two basic families:

1) Methods for Cemented Wellbores 2) Methods for Un-Cemented Wellbores

Amongst each of these groups, the methods themselves can vary in their speed of execution, system costs, fluid requirements and a myriad of other considerations that operators need to take into consideration. Ultimately, the reservoir properties determine the most effective method for each particular case. As operators seek to maximize the value of the assets under their control, results are often directly impacted by not only the completion method chosen, but by the overall reservoir exploitation plan.

The presentation will touch on various frac deployment methods being used today in the Hz multi-stage frac arena, their general advantages and disadvantages, and some of the implications that the industry’s latest frac methods bring with them related to reservoir drainage and asset optimization. A Case for Cemented Wellbores is a call to operators to ensure that they know what their frac treatments are doing to ensure and enhance their reservoir drainage.

Eric Schmelzl has over 25 years of experience in the Canadian oil and gas industry, involved in all aspects of both conventional and unconventional reservoir completions. He has worked extensively in the completion of unconventional reservoirs, and in addition to working as a drilling and completions engineer for several Canadian oil and gas producers, he has spent much of his career in the service sector in a broad range of technical and managerial roles. Eric is currently the completions and production technology manager for Halliburton Canada in Calgary.


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Canadian Association Of Drilling Engineers February 2011 5

sTudenT PrOfile – saiT

sTudenT PrOfile – uofc

My name is Sean Liggett and I am currently a student enrolled in the Petroleum Engineering Technology Program at SAIT [Southern Alberta Institute of Technology]. I grew up in Ontario and moved out West because of the oil and gas industry. I showed up on my first location at 2:30 a.m. to see my first drilling rig. I now have worked in the industry for over 10 years in the upstream drill-ing end progressing through the ranks to the position of derrick hand on a drilling rig. I have worked on wells throughout northern Alberta and British Columbia drilling for natural gas. After evalu-ating my career options, I chose to attend SAIT based on its reputa-tion and credibility with numerous people in the field. SAIT offers an opportunity to gain or in my case, expand a knowledge base and apply material directly to the industry in a practical manner. Experience combined with education opens many doors that were previously closed to a person in my situation. Working overseas or moving into a management role, both in-field or in an office, is now a much more viable option. Lateral movement in a company’s structure is now an option where it was not previously.

I look forward to the opportunities that the future holds with my goal being focused on directional drilling after graduation, with consulting for the oil company in the field, on location, long term. I look forward to continuing my education and obtaining an en-gineering degree as I progress through my career. The challenges and obstacles that the future holds are exciting and I look forward to overcoming them thanks to the knowledge I will have acquired from my experience and the education I am receiving now and in the future.

Zsolt VighChemical engineering, university of CalgaryVice-president, external relations, Petroleum & energy society (Pes)

Zsolt is currently in his fourth year of chemical engineering with

a minor in petroleum engineering at the University of Calgary

Schulich School of Engineering. He successfully completed his

16-month internship at ConocoPhillips working as a production

engineer intern.

Prior to accepting the position of vice-president external rela-

tions with PES, Zsolt enjoyed the role of vice-president sponsorship

(2009-2010). Recently, Zsolt has collaborated with APEGGA and the

University of Calgary Energy Council to help organize the first-ever

multi-disciplinary student professional development conference

called the Alberta Student Energy Conference.

His ultimate interests lie in Alberta’s energy industry and how fu-

ture economic and environmental issues will be solved. Zsolt plans

to continue his role with PES and other organizations in the future

and hopes to inspire other students to begin taking similar steps in

realizing their passions.

Sean Liggett Petroleum engineering Technology, saIT Polytechnic


MeMber PrOfile

CADE student member Serik Abdrazakov has lived in Kazakhstan, the United States and the United Kingdom. But he chose Canada as the place he wanted to put down roots.

“I like the country and wanted my children to be raised here,” says Abdrazakov, 37, who is completing a Master’s of Science de-gree in petroleum engineering at the University of Calgary. “From all over the world, I heard about this country. It’s a good country to be in. I like the people and the spirit here. You feel there is some-thing which is the country of immigrants, where many people come with hopes.”

Originally from Aktau, a city on the shores of the Caspian Sea in western Kazakhstan, Abdrazakov came to Canada in 2008 via the United Kingdom, where he worked for 2.5 years as a petroleum en-gineer for British Gas. Previously, he had been with Kazakhstan’s na-tional oil company, KazMunaiGas, and with Texaco in Kazakhstan.

Arriving in Calgary at the start of the worldwide economic crisis, Abdrazakov decided to return to university for a Master’s degree instead of trying to find a job. (He has two undergraduate degrees: the first in mechanical engineering from the Kazakh Institute of Chemical Technology, and the second in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma.)

In addition to his full-time studies, Abdrazakov works part-time as a petroleum engineering consultant at Condor Petroleum, a Calgary-headquartered international oil and gas company with exploration and production activities in Canada and the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Currently a provisional licensee—Provisional Lic. (Eng.) with APEGGA, Abdrazakov is hoping to receive his P.Eng. designation soon. He constantly seeks to improve his knowledge, and notes

that one of the main benefits to being a CADE student member is “being exposed to cutting-edge technologies” that he reads about in the Canadian Well Construction Journal.

It’s clear he won’t let anything get in the way of achieving his goals. “Coming to a new country and leaving everything behind—this is a challenge. Starting a new life from scratch is a challenge.”

But he looks at challenges more as opportunities to make him-self stronger. “Because without the [global financial] crisis, I would never have pursued a Master’s degree,” he explains. “So, to a cer-tain extent, I am thankful that when I came to Canada, the crisis had just started, because I had always wanted to get a Master’s degree, but never had the chance because I was always working full-time. I prefer to look at the challenges from a positive point of view.”

Abdrazakov expects his Master’s degree will have a great im-pact on his future. “Education is the best investment someone can make in a lifetime. Education can never lose its value, it can only get better with time, when you get more and more experience,” he explains. “This kind of thing stays with you forever.”

After graduating in September, where he ends up will depend on the job market at the time. If he can find a good job in Canada, Abdrazakov will stay here. Primarily, he is interested in working at a company that will provide him with opportunities for career growth and development, where he can make a strong contribu-tion to that company’s success.

“I believe I can fully realize my potential in the country where I was born,” he says. “Probably the ideal would be to work for a Canadian company with operations in Kazakhstan. I could be very helpful to that company, being a native of that country, and I think that would bring the most out of me.”

Serik Abdrazakovmaster’s of science candidate, university of Calgary engineering consultant (part-time), Condor Petroleum Inc.


Foreign aFFairs

feaTure sTOry

Drilling overseas requires detailed attention to local customs and practicesby Jacqueline Louie

The first time that Calgarian Don Streu attended a Kazakh ceremony in his com-pany’s honour, he was a little surprised at what was on the menu.

“The mayor of the village invited us to his house for dinner. It’s a great honour. They cooked a traditional Kazakh meal, including an entire sheep, to celebrate the occasion,” says Streu, president and chief executive officer of Condor Petroleum, a Calgary-based oil and gas company with exploration and production activities in Canada and the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Streu and his colleagues quickly realized this was part of the Kazakh culture they needed to adapt to. “You don’t want to insult your hosts. You’re a guest there—that’s really important to focus on,” says Streu, who as his company’s leader was required to eat the sheep’s eyes, because it’s up to him to maintain his com-pany’s vision. The organization’s number 2 man, the chief financial officer, was expected

to eat the brains, because he needs intelligence to support the company’s vision.

“So there are various parts of the sheep’s head the leader-ship team has to enjoy with the local Kazakhs,” Streu says, adding, with a smile, “sometimes it doesn’t pay to be the leader.”

These are the kinds of things that Canadians working overseas need to keep in mind—not just the technical aspects of their job, but also how they interact with people in the country where they’re working, who might have very different ways of thinking about things and different approaches to problem solving.

For anyone planning to work overseas, Streu recommends taking the time before-hand to read up on the country you’ll be going to, in order gain an understanding of its history, people and politics.

“You have to understand how the system itself operates—the political system,

the cultural norms and what makes the country tick. If possible, visit the region in advance,” says Streu, who over the course of a 22-year career with Chevron worked not only in Canada and the United States, but also lived and worked in Angola, Indonesia and Nigeria. The cultural sensitivity training he received from Chevron before being sent overseas was invaluable. This is something that Condor Petroleum also tries to impart to its employees before they head overseas—knowledge, cultural sensitivity and awareness.

Once you’re at your destination, Streu adds, it’s important to become involved in the local community and to get to know the people.

“Make an effort to learn the language—you tend to be more warmly regarded if you are at least trying to learn the lan-guage,” he explains. “Make sure you show


respect for the country and the people you meet. Everybody has a different way of life, and trying to understand and embrace theirs is important.”

Financial incentives are one of the rewards for working overseas, but there are many others. For his part, Streu has been delighted with the opportunities he’s had to travel and learn about a wide variety of cultures.

“Certainly, for any young CADE engineer thinking about going overseas, it’s an excel-lent opportunity for career growth, both from a personal and from a career standpoint,” he says. “You have to learn to adapt and use the tools that are available—it breeds ingenuity. It really takes your abilities to the next level.”

Bill Hatcher, Condor Petroleum’s senior vice-president, operations, has worked in a variety of places throughout the course of his career, including Kazakhstan, Trinidad, Turkmenistan and Nigeria. What Hatcher, who is originally from the United States,

really appreciates is the opportunity to work with, and become friends with, people from around the world—and in so doing, to broaden his global perspective.

Cultural awareness is critical to success when doing business overseas, Hatcher says. “You absolutely have to have local knowledge and local relationships—knowing how who to talk to and what doors need to be opened. And, what it takes to be successful in one environment is going to be vastly different in another environment.”

Cultural awareness training can make a significant difference in helping people understand those who see the world in a different way. In 2005, when Hatcher was working for an independent Canadian oil company operating in partnership with China National Petroleum Company International and working with western, Kazakh and Chinese employees, “we had several significant problems that were all

what you would call

‘soft’ problems—none were technical problems,” he recalls.

They ended up bringing in a cultural awareness trainer to help clarify the situation, and come up with possible solutions to the cultural misunderstandings.

“The purpose of the training was by no means to get an American or a Canadian to think like a Chinese or a Kazakh, or change their core values in any way,” Hatcher explains. “Rather, it was to expand one’s per-ceptions, and understand that there are others in this world [who] look at problems through a different set of paradigms than you might, in order to help you work with others and be able to come to a common resolution.”

CADE president John Garden also emphasizes the importance of sensitivity to other ways of thinking about the world and other approaches to getting things done.


“You’ve got to understand their way of think-ing, and what their motivations are for doing what they do,” says Garden, who is Albania’s drilling manager for Bankers Petroleum, a Calgary-based based oil and gas exploration and production company focused on large oil and gas reserves in Albania. “You’ve got to ask

the right questions. And what I’ve found in the past is that talking louder doesn’t help. Yelling and screaming doesn’t help—the locals aren’t deaf; they don’t understand English. I think the key is having an open mind.”

For Bankers, the largest onshore driller in Europe, the Albanian project has been very

straightforward. The company, which drilled 80 horizontal wells in Albania in the last 18 months, plans to drill another 80-90 wells in 2011, a large percentage of them horizontal.

“Bankers has taken mainly Canadian companies over to Albania to work for us, with Canadian directional experience on horizontal wells,” Garden says. “Take that ex-perience internationally, and there are fewer pitfalls. Canadian companies have the experi-ence, so the learning curve isn’t as steep.”

Condor Petroleum’s Hatcher also praises the experience that Canadian companies bring to the job.

“The harsh environments that Canadians have to operate in create quite an entrepre-neurial and creative spirit that I think is mar-ketable globally.”

“When you work internationally,

it’s very important to be trusted in

the country where you work and

to be recognized for what you do,”

says CADE student member Serik

Abdrazakov, who is originally from

Kazakhstan and has worked in

Kazakhstan, the United Kingdom

and Canada.

“It’s very important to have an

excellent work ethic. I also think

that you need good soft skills. You

have to be able to talk with and

understand people of different

backgrounds and cultures, be a

quick learner, be very respectful

and understanding of their culture

and traditions, and know their his-

tory as well—the way the coun-

try evolved and how the culture

developed. If you know all this,

plus you are a good professional,

this is the key to being known

and trusted in that country and to

being successful internationally.”

advice from a veteran

Condor Petroleum president Don Streu (right) with Abdu Abishev, general director, at a Zharkamys oil property in Kazakhstan, near a well drilled by the Soviets in 1940.

Bill Hatcher, Condor Petroleum’s senior vice-president, operations, during recent well test operations on the company’s Marsel block in Kazakhstan.

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safeT y

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DISCLAIMER: This Safety Alert is designed to prevent similar incidents by communicating the information at the earliest possible opportunity. Accordingly, the information may change over time. It may be necessary to obtain updates from the source before relying upon the accuracy of the information contained herein. This material is presented for information purposes only. Managers and supervisors should evaluate this information to determine if it can be applied to their own situations and practices.

Safety Alert (#01—2011)

Worker Caught Between Unmanned Seismic Track Drill and Truck

Incident Type: Fatality

release Date: Jan. 12, 2011

location: Northern Alberta

Description of incident:

➤ On Dec. 16, 2010, a driller was conducting maintenance on a seismic track drill and had an engine side cover removed to access the motor. The engine side cover was placed outside the machine while repairs were completed. The driller finished repairs and had started the seismic track drill’s engine. The driller climbed outside and placed the engine side cover back inside the cab. The engine side cover came to rest against the two hydrostatic drive levers used to engage the left and right movement of the tracks. The unmanned seismic track drill moved forward rapidly, pinning the driller between a parked pickup truck and the seismic track drill. The driller was fatally injured.

What caused it:

➤ Through the investigation, it was discovered that the seismic track drill was in the drive mode and not properly locked out in the park mode. The engine side cover had the two hydrostatic drive levers forced in the forward position.

Corrective actions:

➤ All equipment must be locked out from unintentional movement when not in care and control of the operator.➤ Equipment or vehicles must be in park and shut off when completing any fuelling and/or maintenance operations.➤ During maintenance procedures for pre-start-up, equipment and vehicles should be parked with extra clearance.➤ Consider installation of secondary safety features to lock out hydrostatic drive levers when the operator is not in the driver’s seat. This safety

feature would provide an extra control to the park mode.


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Conference News

Do you have any new ideas to share? Is your organization trying to get more out of your old fields? The technical committee for the CADE/CAODC Drilling Conference has extended the deadline to submit presentations for the 2011 event. You now have until Feb. 15 to submit an abstract for consideration.

“Industry is ramping up to over 50 per cent utilization right now,” technical committee co-chair Mark Scholz explains. “It is a busy time. We want to provide more time to authors and extend the opportunity in order to include more submissions.”

The committee will accept abstracts in various categories including logistics and site construction, steam assisted gravity drain-age, drilling fluids advancements, well control case studies/issues and many others. If you are interested in presenting at the 2011 conference, all you have to do is prepare a 200- to 300-word abstract that summarizes the main points of your topic. Successful authors will garner the opportunity to deliver a 15- to 20-minute pre-sentation to industry colleagues.

Abstracts may be uploaded through the drilling conference website at www.drillingconference.ca by clicking on the “Submissions” button.

He added that the industry should keep an eye on the conference website for more details on the technical program, which will be released in March.

In the meantime, the conference organiz-ing committee has announced that Rene LaPrade, senior vice-president of operations for PetroBakken Energy Ltd., will be the opening keynote speaker at the conference. LaPrade has

been with the organization since the company’s inception, after serving in the same role at Petrobank Energy and Resources. Previously, he held senior executive positions with Mirage Energy Ltd., Barrington Petroleum Ltd. and Petrorep Resources Ltd.

He is a professional engineer with over 30 years of experience in the oil and gas business.

PetroBakken Energy is a light oil explor-ation and production company comprised of high-growth, long-life Bakken reserves and production and legacy conventional light oil

assets in southeastern Saskatchewan, significant Cardium potential in Alberta, and development opportunities in the Horn River and Montney natural gas resource plays in northeastern British Columbia.

LaPrade‘s presentation, The Evolution in Horizontal Completion Technologies, will reflect the conference theme, Old Fields New Ideas. He says there will be “a focus specifically on the Bakken and how we have leveraged this experience in the develop-ment of the Cardium play.”

The 2011 edition of the CADE/CAODC Drilling Conference will focus on the application of new technology to increase production from existing oil and gas reservoirs.

Drilling conference team extends abstracts deadline

Rene LaPrade of PetroBakken has been confirmed as a keynote speaker for the 2011 CADE/CAODC Drilling Conference


Stats At A Glance

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Information in this publication may be sourced through a variety of contributors. Members are encouraged to email their suggestions regarding articles, general content and statistical graphs and charts to: Dale Lunan at [email protected]

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Saskatchewan 94 16 110 85%

British Columbia 70 26 96 73%

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Providing you with quality resource management for all your lease

construction, drilling, completion,and abandonment needs.

• Extensive Management Team Experience

• Project Management & Engineering Services

• Horizontal Drilling & Multi-Stage Fracturing (Montney, Bakken, Wabamun, Viking, Cardium)

Our Experience. Your Advantage.(403) 262-8595 Calgary, AB www.tstar.ca

Well Control Group is not just another well control engineering and operational support team.

We provide International Well Control Forum (IWCF) training andwell control certi�cation for land and offshore rigs, live wellintervention training and certi�cation. The team also provides preventative well control training. Courses run every week.IWCF classes in Calgary are run on request.

Our team of professionals provide remote or onsite supervision for well control engineering and operations. We pride ourselves in killing wells at a balance point, so that the well is still capable of production after being killed.

Please feel free to contact us 24/7 at 780-965- KICK (5425) or 1-877-WEL-KICK (1-877-935-5425)The team is led by Mr. Javed Shah, P.Eng (Director of Operations).Email: [email protected] Web site: www.wellcontrolgroup.comOffice telephone: 780-485-2773Fax: 780-485-8773Located at: #203, 2327 Ellwood Drive, Edmonton, AB T6X 0J6

A proud stocking distributor of Canadian Manufactured Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG)

Global Steel Ltd. is a private corporation founded in 1990. From modest beginnings Global Steel

has grown to become one of North America’s most trusted distributors of premium Canadian

manufactured Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG). Today, this Calgary-based company enjoys an un-

matched reputation for product quality, innovation and customer service.

Global Steel maintains key relationships with several major domestic steel mills. Strategic alli-

ances with each mill guarantee reliable and secure access to a full range of high-quality ERW OCTG, Seamless

OCTG and Line Pipe products. We are committed to providing oil and gas producers with

exceptional service, high quality oilfield tubular good and personalized logistical support.

One call to Global Steel provides customers with com-petitively priced products and efficient, safe dispatch to the job site. Global Steel currently maintains 18 inventory stock points strategically located across Canada. Each stock point is supported by veteran trucking companies specializing in oilfield transportation and providing 24 hour service.

An unwavering focus on operating and service excellence is what separates GlobalSteel from everyone else. It is a commitment that shows in our products and services. At GlobalSteel we are focused on your business.

1600 Sunlife Plaza (West Tower), 144 – 4 Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta T2P 3N4P: 403.237.8108 • F: 403.237.8392

E: [email protected] • www.globalsteel.ca

One call to Global Steel provides customers with com-petitively priced products and efficient, safe dispatch to the job site. Global Steel currently maintains 18 inventory stock points strategically located across Canada. Each stock point is supported by veteran trucking companies specializing in oilfield transportation and providing 24 hour service.

An unwavering focus on operating and service excellence is what separates GlobalSteel from everyone else. It is a commitment that shows in our products and services. At GlobalSteel we are focused on your business.

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