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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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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.”

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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

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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.

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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


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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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

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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

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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-

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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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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,

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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

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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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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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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

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On lineament mapping and analy-

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sin of North Dakota, Fred Anderson

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themselves on the surface, and what

can be drawn from

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Steve Whita-

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Bob McKish-

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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-

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dioxide enhanced coal-bed methane

from lignite coal. Part of the Plains CO2

Reduction Partnership’s work is moni-

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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

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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-

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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.


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

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offi ce space,” says David

Quirk, who runs the local

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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,

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Th ere’s also a lot more

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Th at’s handy when

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fi eld staff as well.

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having recently joined for

the summer. About half

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fi eld, covering southeast

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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

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division and construction

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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

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environmental services company in North America, whose value has been sig-

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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

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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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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

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“Although, our revenue remained relatively strong in the months of January and

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the prior year,” reported Marlin.

“Th e majority of this change resulted from a sharp reduction in revenue from

core hole drilling support services provided in the Alberta oilsands region in the

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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.”

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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

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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

remains in a matchbox to

your wife.

Fittingly, foreman

want to see a lot of experi-

ence behind someone be-

fore they will keep them

on the job, with much of

that experience derived

from small-inch pipeline

experience and general

oilfi eld work.

For these trainees,

they are getting their fi rst

initial taste of trades that

take years to master. If a

pipeline outfi t were the

army, the OETIS pro-

gram is basic training.

“It’s cramming years of

knowledge into 30 days,”

explains Hammerstrom.

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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-

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Th e company fi red up

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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

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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

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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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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

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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Alighting to Alida a good move

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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.


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.

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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.

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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

Keep engineers engineering, and do it here


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.

Gillies lists off Saskatchewan resources – ura-nium, agriculture, gas, petroleum, rare earth ele-ments, all topped off with a good quality of life.

“To me, engineering is the one profession that allows people to invest in society,” He admits, “I sound like an evangelist.”

“Th ere’s no question, as the province expands, we’re going to need more energy. We need to make it as environmentally friendly as possible.”

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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-

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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,

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Th eir clientele in-cludes the oilpatch and all its spinoff s, mining, farming, power plants ... “Th ey all contribute,” he says.

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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.

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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

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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.”

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Th e low price of oil

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“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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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.”

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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

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“One year, some of

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Regina – With things having slowed down in Alberta, Rheaume En-gineering is scouting out Saskatchewan for work.

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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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

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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.

Photo submitted

We have the interest, the resources and the community motivation to create a unique initiative of this type

- Mayor Jim Scarrow


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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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

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“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.

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team to help us shape the product. It’s a combination

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Looking back, Mills said he and his dad had a

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the story.

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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

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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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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.”

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Th ose skills come in handy design-ing oilfi eld structures and completing

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“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.

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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.

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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-

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“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

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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

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“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-

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own Hayes truck that sits waiting for a

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with the same mindset he does racing

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“It’s like anything else,” he said. “It’s

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“We are very busy right now,” said

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“Primarily, we provide safety su-

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Target also rents safety equipment

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and gear such as gas and fall protection

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Th e demand for Target’s safety

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their training or permitting processes

and from companies that require direct

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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

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Target started in October, 2006

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rapid growth in pace with the oil boom

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“Th e saying goes that most policies

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“A lot of people have been hurt in

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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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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


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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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-

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Recipient of Petro-Canada Safety Award Page C19

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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

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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

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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-

able us to become a one-stop service engineering company,” said Smith. “It was done because it made sense as a business model.

“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


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-

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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.

Page C25


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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A few people braved the elements and played a

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A crowd of about 40 people made the drive from

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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.

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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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