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Condor Energy:Condor Energy Brings Local Touch to Australian Fracture SimulationMade in Australia for Australia

Written by: Ian Hanner Produced by: Wayne Masciotro

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Condor Energy:Condor Energy Brings Local Touch to Australian Fracture SimulationMade in Australia for Australia

Written by: Ian Hanner Produced by: Wayne Masciotro

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CONDOR ENERGY

A new player in the Australian oil and gas sector, Condor Energy is bringing a new

perspective and traditional values to a blossoming industry.

For years, many have known of Australia’s vast natural gas wealth,

but a new wave of interest, spurred on by advances in shale and coal seam gas extraction, has brought renewed focus to the country. With a demand in place, Condor Energy was optimistically incorporated at the end of 2011 as an ambitious fracture

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stimulation company—the first to be formed in Australia for Australia, according to Energy News.

After the company’s birth in 2011, founders Christian Lange and Geoff Edwards spent the next two years hammering down a solid business plan and securing capital. Finally, in February 2014, with a contract for the Beach Energy led NTNG JV inked, Condor ordered its fracture stimulation and coiled tubing equipment.

“There were just the two of us to begin with,” said Managing Director and CEO Christian Lange. “Geoff concentrated on the finance modeling and I concentrated on the strategic and business plan, as well as working with clients on upcoming schedules.”

Today, Condor offers services including well cementing, fracture stimulation, nitrogen pumping, coiled tubing and more. In July, Condor began to mobilise its equipment for the fracture stimulation and coiled tubing for Beach Energy’s unconventional operations.

“We’ve got a four well fracture stimulation campaign in the Cooper Basin for Beach Energy and its joint venture partners,” Lange said.

“And then following that, we’ll have a second campaign in southern Australia, again with Beach Energy and its joint venture partners.”

Lange says that apart from being the only Australian company in the sector, Condor’s competitive edge comes from a variety of factors. He told Energy News that Condor aims to offer a higher standard of service quality. This is an area that he believes Condor is able to make a fundamental difference. “Putting ‘service’ back into service quality is our primary objective”. To that end, Condor has customized U.S.-made equipment for Australian conditions. This equipment was specifically constructed to handle the “severe duty conditions” found in the Nappamerri Trough, the operations area within the Cooper Basin.

“We have bought in 40,000 horsepower so it will be the largest single frac spread in Australia,” Lange said to Energy News. “Halliburton has the largest amount of total horsepower in the country, but we will have the largest single spread. We have certain redundancies built into the spread so when the inevitable failure occurs

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we will be able to respond to that pretty quickly without experiencing any material down time.”

But more than that, Lange told Exploration World another factor comes into play.

“The first thing is our people. I think that’s where we really make a difference,” he said. “I don’t believe there’s a lot of differentiation in the equipment portfolios of various companies in this space. So at the end of the day, it really comes down to people and their performance and attitude to delivering real service

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quality. We’ve spent three years on planning and I think that’s paying off because to-date we’ve most certainly delivered on our promise of improved service quality in the sector.”

According to Lange, employees come first at Condor Energy with managers and executives trying to foster an “old school” approach to company culture that places emphasis on making the business feel like a family. He said that at Condor, employees are seen as, and treated as, people first. They are key to the business, and an integral part of the companies success.

This emphasis on the company’s people, while in line with the founders’ values, is also good for business. The school of thought says that if you take care of employees, they’ll take care of the client. Lange says this is paying off.

“I think our people have gained a reputation for being best in the business. And by extension, Condor has earned a reputation of delivering on its service quality promise,” he said.

He added, “We set out six months ago to build a corporate culture which was based on respect for each other above all else and having a group of individuals that were seen as more than just employees. We wanted to have high levels of collaboration [and] engagement between our employees and each other. I have an enormous sense of pride in seeing how they’ve come together and how they’ve operated.”

Company Information

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Exploration World

H E A D Q U A RT E R S

Mt Pleasant, Australia

F O U N D E D

2011

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S E R V I C E SCondor Energy Services is a major partner of the Australian oil & gas industry. We choose the term ‘partner’ over ‘supplier’, as we provide our suite of well construction, optimization and intervention services with a view to maximizing our clients’ outcomes.In short, our aim is to provide technical engineering as well as services around drilling and the reservoir. Each of our experienced staff members takes a vested interest in the performance and efficiency of our clients. Our management team alone has over 100 years combined industry experience working with the world’s largest oilfield service companies. This depth of experience ensures we are able to optimize results and provide the utmost value for money. Committed to quality, we carefully select equipment that is of a high specification and possesses the latest innovation and technology. In addition, all equipment must be proven to withstand the harsh environments in which we operate. We are proud of the reputation that we have developed, and look forward to continuing to partner with new and existing clients, facilitating the safe and efficient development of energy resources.

Condor Energy

Address 15 Ogilvie Rd

Mt Pleasant, Western Australia, Australia, 6153

Tel. +61 8 9315 5986

Fax. +61 8 9364 8569

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