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What now? In our Winter 07/08 drilling program, we are continuing delineation of the Axe Lake Discovery and exploration of our Saskatchewan lands. In January 2008, we began exploratory drilling on our contiguous lands in Alberta. And, later in 2008, we are planning to conduct field tests of the Axe Lake reservoir.

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Continued growth and expansion in the oilsands means industries (like yours) involved in Alberta’s Industrial Heartland are going to need a reliable transportation partner to help you keep pace. And that’s where we come in. Starting with one of the largest route and service expansions in our history. A brand new state-of-the-art logistics centre, new track and a bridge will take us right to where you need us to be (whether that’s to your doorstep—or your customers), right when you need us to be there. It’s all part of our commitment to keeping your growing oilsands related business, well…growing. Which is exactly why we’re investing so strongly in the future right now. Because keeping Alberta’s industries moving, means moving right to where industry is going. Find out more at cpr.ca or call 1-866-204-7825.

CoNTENTS President & CEO: Bill Whitelaw Publisher: Agnes Zalewski Editors: Deborah Jaremko, Chaz Osburn, Agnes Zalewski Art Director: Scott Dutton Photographer: Joey Podlubny Publications Manager: Audrey Sprinkle Production, Pre-Press & Print Manager: Michael Gaffney Creative Services Supervisor: Gerald Ford Proofreading Supervisor: Rianne Stewart Sales Manager—Magazines: Rob Pentney Marketing Coordinator: Alaina Dodge Foulger Ad Traffic Coordinator—Magazines: Alanna Staver Contributors: Gerry Belyk, Gerald Bruce, Melanie Collison, Tracy Grills, Leah Lawrence, Mark Lowey, Bill MacFarlane, Dina O’Meara, Tom Pavic, Tricia Radison, Tory Reade, Paul Stastny, Strategy West, Darrell Stonehouse

23 community A Pitch for Sustainable Development 23

Graphic Designers: Scott Dutton, Cristian Ureta

Striking the right balance between economic growth and community well being

Creative Services: Rachel Dash-Williams, Lorena Funk, Birdeen Jacobson, Tony Konkolus, Cathlene Ozubko, Aaron Parker, Nina Worby, Dale Zeniuk

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Alberta’s royalty regime leaves many questioning balance between public and industry needs

Proofreaders: Joseph Caouette, Marisa Kurlovich, Elizabeth McLean, Autumn Scouler, Stephanie Sparks, Kelley Stark Special thanks to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers for statistical data, and Schlumberger for technology diagrams

33 industry The International Flavour 33 of Canada’s Oilsands Industry

This book was produced with input and guidance from our advisory board to whom we give thanks: Gerald Bruce, MEG Energy David Carson, Canadian Centre for Energy Information Brian Doell, JuneWarren Publishing Tracy Grills, Pinnacle Technologies Tim Hazlett, Government of Alberta Deborah Jaremko, JuneWarren Publishing Trent Kaiser, Noetic Engineering Howard Keele, CV Alliance Bill MacFarlane, Nexen Chaz Osburn, JuneWarren Publishing Rob Pearce, NorthWest Upgrading Rob Pentney, JuneWarren Publishing John Taylor, Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP Bill Whitelaw, JuneWarren Publishing Agnes Zalewski, JuneWarren Publishing

Mergers and acquisitions draw increased global investment

Industry in Motion 34 Expansion and evolution drive Canadian oilsands players

Heavy Hitters 35 Profiles of the 11 dominant oilsands players

Up and Coming 56 24 emerging oilsands players

International Input 74

How the world contributes to its largest industrial project

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Tracking a Barrel 76

Following Alberta’s valuable resource from the ground to the refinery

DEPARTMENTS 9 11 13 14 16 20 65 157 165

Letter from the Canadian Heavy Oil Association Letter from the Government of Alberta Letter from the Government of Saskatchewan Editors’ Note: A Return to Our Roots Introduction: The World Needs the Oilsands Upcoming Events 2008 Project Statistics Statistics Glossary

CoNTENTS 80 people Trailblazers 80 10 leaders. 10 different stories.

101 environment Wrestling with Climate Change 101 Sustainability and growth of industry hinges on effective emissions reductions

Saving the Athabasca 105 What’s being done to protect the river at the heart of the oilsands industry

Return to the Forest 109 As oilsands reclamation processes evolve, industry comes closer to its first official certificate

113 research Prairie Pilots Take Off 113 From cold heavy oil optimization to mine reclamation, Saskatchewan’s research organizations make their mark

PTAC Feathers the Nest 115 Industry association builds foundation for technological advances

From Mapping to Methane 119 University of Calgary creates spinoffs to revolutionize heavy oil and oilsands production

From the Ground Up 125 A success of the Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority (AOSTRA)

128 technology Spreading the Word 128 The Canadian Heavy Oil Association takes homegrown technology and know-how abroad

The Next Wave 133 In situ technology developments lead to enhanced reservoir understanding

Production Play 140 Pinpointing oilsands and heavy oil recovery methods

Matters of the Heartland 144 Alberta’s industrial epicentre prepares for major change in new emissions framework

From Wells to Wheels 147 Upgrading technology: past. present, and future

A Future Built on Bitumen 153 Alberta seeks to add value with massive integrated industrial eco-clusters

169 directory Networking 170 Producers 175 Service & Supply 179 Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook & Directory III · 12

Dear Readers, On behalf of the Canadian Heavy Oil Association (CHOA), I wish to express how extremely pleased we are to be participating in the third edition of the Heavy Oil and Oilsands Guidebook and Directory. The earlier editions, Alberta’s Heavy Oil and Oilsands and Western Gold: Heavy Oil and Oilsands in Canada, provide an interesting sense of the diversity, dynamics and the growth that our heavy oil and oilsands sector has experienced over the past few years. Looking forward, this issue of the guidebook takes a deeper look at the many challenges ahead for our industry. Addressing these challenges will depend on maintaining the effective partnerships that already exist between the producing, service, research, and regulatory sectors, and developing new ones. We hope that this serves as a useful reference to achieve this goal. Our affiliation with this publication aligns extremely well with the CHOA’s mandate to provide opportunities for exchange of ideas that support our industry’s growth, and we look forward to our continued association with our publication partners. Finally, I would like to congratulate the Alberta Ministry of International, Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Relations on the 2007 Premier’s Award of Excellence recognizing the Heavy Oil Alberta Project, which developed the worldclass publication, Alberta’s Heavy Oil and Oilsands. The CHOA was honoured to be a part of your project team.

W.D. (Bill) MacFarlane, P.Eng. President · Canadian Heavy Oil Association

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Working in the frontier atmosphere of Fort Hills, Rachel Vincze is as much an architect as she is a Project Engineer. Helping design and build a Bitumen Production Plant, Rachel was involved in the decision of which technology to use to make the bitumen. She’s also helping decide where roads will lead and where buildings will be situated. Rachel says that being involved in the early stages of the Fort Hills project is like working with a blank canvas.

What did you do at work today? There’s always a story to tell when you work at Petro-Canada. And none are more interesting than the ones being told in the Athabasca Region. Petro-Canada’s oil sands projects offer tremendous opportunities to be at the forefront of a growing business. As a Petro-Canada employee you would play a key role in developing new technology like Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) and Vapour Extraction (VAPEX)-all with the assurance that Petro-Canada is firmly committed to executing its projects safely. Add to that our enviable landholdings in the Athabasca Region and you’ll see that at Petro-Canada, you’re only limited by your ambition. Please visit www.petro-canada.ca/jobs

Barbara, MacKay River Oil Sands, Petro-Canada

Greetings from the Alberta government. Alberta is about abundant energy—174 billion barrels of established recoverable oil reserves plus the expertise and capability to develop heavy oil and oilsands resources in a sustainable manner, both at home and around the world. One of the world’s leading oil and gas producers, Alberta produces more than 80 per cent of Canada’s natural gas, almost 42 per cent of the country’s conventional crude oil, and 100 per cent of the bitumen and synthetic crude oils. Being in Alberta is smart business. Having the world’s second largest established hydrocarbon resource in our backyard translates to long-term opportunities for maximizing value for the resource owners, Albertans, and the resource developers. Working to make bitumen a sustainable feedstock for downstream manufacturing, while ensuring industrial development and environmental protection are not mutually exclusive is a key priority for the Alberta government. Alberta is also about proven innovation. Our oil industry operates in some of the most challenging and remote locations on the planet and works with some of the toughest environmental conditions—extreme heat and cold, permafrost, and muskeg. To meet these challenges, Alberta’s oil and gas industry continues to develop new technologies and practices. As a result, Alberta companies are recognized as world leaders in the areas of oilsands, heavy and super-heavy oil technologies, horizontal drilling and casing-while-drilling technologies, reservoir engineering, three-dimensional geophysical survey, satellite thermal mapping, and sour gas technologies. Alberta also takes an innovative approach when laying pipelines, transporting resources over vast distances, and developing the resource while minimizing the environmental footprint. Alberta is working to grow a world-class hydrocarbon processing industry cluster by promoting in-province upgrading, refining, and petrochemical manufacturing and developing business cases to expand markets for Alberta’s bitumen-based resource and produce higher-value products for the world market. As a global leader in energy resource development, Alberta has the knowledge to assist companies around the world to grow their business, improve efficiency, and reduce costs. The Alberta government works with industry to promote the unique expertise of our companies to the world market. Alberta is proud to partner with the Canadian Heavy Oil Association to market Alberta’s heavy oil capabilities around the world. This, the third edition of JuneWarren Publishing’s Heavy Oil and Oilsands Guidebook and Directory, will give you a taste of what Alberta has to offer. Make the next move and take advantage of the wealth of opportunities.

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Dear readers, As Saskatchewan’s new Minister of Energy and Resources, I am pleased to provide some background about our province’s heavy oil industry for this third edition of the Heavy Oil and Oilsands Guidebook and Directory. Still renowned for a strong agriculture industry, Saskatchewan has now become one of the most diversified energy producers in the nation. In fact, the oil and gas industry now accounts for a larger percentage of Saskatchewan’s gross domestic product than agriculture. The province ranks second in Canada for oil production, and third when it comes to natural gas production. The industry is the largest contributor to our economy, and employs 27,000 people directly and indirectly. Saskatchewan has produced crude oil since 1944. The industry has grown dramatically over the last six decades, and it appears the boom in the Saskatchewan oil patch will continue for some time to come. Take 2007 as a case in point. Sales of Crown petroleum and natural gas rights hit a record $250.3 million, breaking the old mark of $199.7 million set back in 1994. Investment in exploration and development totalled $2.7 billion. There were 3,445 oil and gas wells drilled in 2007, which included a record-breaking 901 horizontal wells. A major factor in the oil and gas industry’s future success in our province will be the Petroleum Technology Research Centre (PTRC), based in Regina. The PTRC has become a world leader in developing technologies to improve the extraction of oil. The PTRC has recently implemented the $40-million Joint Implementation of Vapour Extraction (JIVE) project to develop and demonstrate solvent vapour extraction processes for enhanced oil recovery from heavy oil reservoirs. Saskatchewan’s heavy crude oil represents over one-half of our remaining recoverable reserves of conventional oil. Only about 10 per cent of that heavy oil in place is commercially recoverable at the present time. The development and implementation of new technologies will expand that reserve base and result in considerable growth in heavy oil production. Industry is still in the early stages of exploring our oilsands resources, but there is certainly optimism about future development and economic growth. While the extent of Saskatchewan’s oilsands resource is still unknown, our geoscientists estimate that 27,000 square kilometres of land in northwestern Saskatchewan have some level of oilsands potential. Our new government is committed to ensuring the Saskatchewan economy builds on the opportunities in our key industries. The oil industry is vital to achieving economic success, and we will work diligently to ensure there is a healthy climate for business to invest in our province. I encourage you to see what Saskatchewan has to offer. Visit our website at www.er.gov.sk.ca.

Bill Boyd Hon. Minister of Energy and Resources Government of Saskatchewan

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EDITORS’ NOTE

a return to our roots s global demand for oil increases and conventional oil declines, more and more attention is being paid to Canada’s heavy oil and oilsands industry. And for good reason—these resources make Canada home to the second largest oil deposit in the world. Welcome to Heavy Oil and Oilsands Guidebook and Directory III, an annual guide that showcases—through articles, imagery, and statistics—the current state of Canada’s heavy oil and oilsands industry, its triumphs, and the challenges it faces. First, a little history: Two years ago, JuneWarren Publishing worked with the Canadian Heavy Oil Association and the Alberta government to bring you the first guidebook and directory on Alberta’s heavy oil and oilsands industry. It was called Alberta’s Heavy Oil and Oil Sands. That was followed last year by Western Gold: Heavy Oil and Oilsands in Canada. This year we’re returning to our roots, calling the book a guidebook and directory because, well, that’s what these books have always been about. You’ll be hard pressed to find a more authoritative annual source of information on Canada’s heavy oil and oilsands industry. Our focus remains on the communities impacted by heavy oil and oilsands development, the technologies that sustain and progress the industry, the companies on the ground making it happen 24/7, and the research that will forever drive the industry’s progress. This year we take special note of the environmental issues the heavy oil and oilsands industry faces, and what government, companies, and stakeholders are doing to mitigate negative impacts. In this edition of the Heavy Oil and Oilsands Guidebook and Directory, you’ll also meet 10 people making important contributions to the industry, the community or the organizations they represent, and Canada in general. Whether they are producers or entrepreneurs, environmentalists or government leaders, we’ll tell you why they make a difference. But it’s not only the people of the oilsands that are worth knowing. We also profile 11 heavy hitting power players, as well as 24 other emerging companies, that have gained more than a toehold in Canada’s heavy oil and oilsands plays. Plus we provide coverage of the major mining, in situ, upgrader, and pipeline projects. Over the past year, a number of large multinational companies have entered the arena, either by acquisition or through joint ventures with existing oilsands players. And sourcing in the oilsands has an international flavour all its own. Read all about the international scope of the industry in  “The international flavour of Canada’s oilsands industry,” “International Input,” and “Spreading the Word.” Canada’s heavy oil and oilsands resources have made the country an emerging energy superpower on the global stage. The Heavy Oil and Oilsands Guidebook and Directory III is a key asset for anyone who wants to be part of it.

Deborah Jaremko, Chaz Osburn, Agnes Zalewski – Editors

Heavy Oil and Oilsands Guidebook and Directory III has a strong lineage. The first Heavy Oil and Oilsands Guidebook and Directory—an initiative of JuneWarren Publishing, the Government of Alberta, and the Canadian Heavy Oil Association—was awarded the 2007 Alberta Premier’s Award of Excellence. That was followed by Western Gold: Heavy Oil and Oilsands in Canada.

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THE TEMPERATURE IS RISING…

and that’s a good thing. Extracting heavy oil is problematic in Canada’s Athabasca

region. There is a solution, and it’s right at your fingertips. In fact, it might be the very thing your thermal operation needs. THE INCONVENIENT OIL The global unconventional oil market has an estimated 4,600 billion barrels of oil with probable reserves ranging from 500 to 1,000 billion barrels. The majority of these reserves are found in the Athabasca region in Northern Alberta. Due to extreme viscosity, extracting heavy oils at reservoir temperature is difficult to impossible. Thermal processes such as Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) and Cyclic Steam Stimulation (CSS) make it possible to produce highly viscous crudes by heating up the oil for extraction. The artificial lift used to pump the oil is critical to the overall functioning and efficiency of the well. The standard elastomer technology has an operating temperature limit around 160°C, far below thermal production requirements. A new technology called the PCM Vulcain™ is based on a completely metal pump and pushes the temperature limit to 350°C.

“Given the huge success of the elastomer Progressing Cavity Pumps in conventional heavy oil applications, it is obvious this positive displacement pump is a perfect fit for thermal recovery.” Sheldon Jahn, Artificial Lift Specialist, KUDU Industries

SAGD, Athabasca

CSS, Cold Lake

THE KUDU SOLUTION KUDU Industries and PCM have the perfect solution for your thermal application. The PCM Vulcain™ is a high temperature Progressing Cavity Pump (PCP) that offers great economics especially in directional wells, viscous oil and wide production / reservoir pressure ranges. This revolutionary PCP has a pump capactity between 100m3/day to 800m3/day. The complete thermal package includes the PCM Vulcain™ metal pump, KUDU Drivehead and high temperature Oryx Seal. The Oryx Seal is a critical element due to its wide temperature range, zero leakage rate and minimal environmental impact.

Precise well control Efficient pumping system Low operating and maintenance cost Easy installation and operation No shearing or emulsions

FIELD TESTING IN PROGRESS In 2006, the PCM Vulcain™ started field testing in a SAGD well at Josyln Creek, Alberta. The temperature ranged between 100°C to 180°C. The pump started effortlessly in high viscosity and zero shearing or emulsions occurred during the entire process. Pump efficiency ranged from 70% to 40% plus through its 7,300 hour run life it maintained excellent well control and production range. KUDU’s complete thermal package was tested in a CSS application in Cold Lake, Alberta and ran for approximately 5,000 hours. Pump efficiency ranged from 70% to 50% and the temperature was between 60°C and 330°C. Another field test in the same area provided pump efficiencies of 90% to 80%. This pump is ideal for fluctuating viscosities, which other pumping technologies find challenging.

THE PERFECT FIT KUDU continues to field test the high temperature PCP for SAGD and CSS. Results to date show it has moderate production efficiency at a wide range of temperatures. Volumetric pump efficiency at start up is typically between 79% and 90%. Manufacturing and quality controls are continually improving the pump efficiency. The thermal package also requires low Net Positive Suction Head, which reduces the amount of steaming required before a well is started, enabling the producer to move forward at a quicker pace. The high temperature package is able to pump fluid dependent on your operation’s needs. It also features a small footprint, easy installation, low capital and operating costs. KUDU’s thermal package is the prefect fit for all production and temperature ranges. KUDU Industries is a leading manufacturer of complete PCP solutions. Since 1989, it has been at the forefront of artificial lift technology and quality. Find out why a pump by any other name just isn’t the same. Contact a KUDU representative today. (403) 279-5838 or kudupump.com

Innovation by:

Applicable Published Articles: ‘’Development Status of a Metal PCP for Heavy Oil and Hot Production Wells.” SPE International PS2005-365. “Development Status of a Metal Progressing Cavity Pump for Heavy-Oil and Hot-Production Wells.” JPT May 2006. 59-61. ‘’All Metal PCP Field Trial Update.” World Heavy Oil Congress January 2008.

introduction

the world needs the oilsands

Obstacles aside, Canadian industry poised to quench future global energy thirst by Deborah Jaremko · Photos by Joey Podlubny n the age of declining conventional crude oil, the global energy industry in Canada and around the world has made big plans for Canada’s unconventional hydrocarbon resources. Now officially recognized as major plays included in listings such as CIBC World Markets’ 80 largest oil projects in the world in the next four years, the eyes of the international community have turned to watch, and the wallets of some of the largest existing companies have opened. “The world needs the oilsands,” says Brant Sangster, former senior vice-president of Petro-Canada, now working with Deloitte. However, Sangster adds what many in and around the industry already know—that with the massive opportunities unconventional hydrocarbons provide come significant challenges, especially in the face of substantial growth.

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The production outlook According to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), conventional light and medium crude production in Canada has already begun its decline. In 2006, CAPP says light and medium grades across the country accounted for about 572,000 barrels per day. During the same time period, conventional heavy oil yielded about 392,000 barrels per day. CAPP expects that by 2015, these commodities will even out to approximately the same level of production. In its 2007 moderate growth forecast case, it pegs production at 428,000 and 392,000 barrels per day, respectively. But bitumen, on the other hand, is a different story, with a projected future production profile far from flat or going south. In any forecast available, including a scenario from the National Energy Board (NEB) that assumes rigorous

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Syncrude, the second oilsands mining operation to open, is North America’s single largest source of crude oil.

environmental management policies, bitumen production is expected to increase. In CAPP’s moderate growth forecast, combined mining and in situ bitumen production is forecast to increase from just over one million barrels per day in 2006 to just under three million barrels per day in 2015, and closing in on four million barrels per day in 2020. This is a similar forecast to that of oilsands consultancy Strategy West. Co-founder Bob Dunbar explains these numbers are based on the assumption that not all planned projects will go ahead. If they were all to go ahead, he explains that while production would reach six million barrels per day by 2020, the increase would come with a “whopping bill”—$23 billion per year, not including sustaining capital. In the adjusted case, which drops production to the four million

barrel per day mark in 2020, Dunbar says approximately $13 billion will need to be spent each year on new projects alone. “That’s still a huge amount of spending,” he explains, adding the caveat that “forecasting the future is extremely difficult or impossible.” An environmental mountain Canada’s heavy hydrocarbons have not just grabbed the attention of global energy producers. The environmental challenges posed by increased and continued development have caught the eye of international environmental groups, with many condemning the resource as “dirty oil.” This does not come as a surprise to former Alberta Minister of Energy Greg Melchin. “The larger the opportunity, the larger the commensurate » Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook & Directory III · 22

introduction through development of technologies that minimize the environmental footprint while at the same time reducing costs and increasing recovery. “With those technologies, I don’t think anyone would call our bitumen dirty oil.”

Canada’s heavy oil needs substantial processing in order to become a more valuable commodity, such as generating transport fuels. New and expanded markets are needed for Canadian production.

opposition,” he says. “Big oil is an easy target, even here in Alberta. The oilsands is going to be flagged with that.” The issues—water use, land disturbance, and greenhouse gas emissions—are believed by many to be manageable through advances in technology. Petroleum Technology Alliance of Canada president Soheil Asgarpour says it is possible to have sustainable development of hydrocarbon resources

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The need for new markets All that production needs somewhere to go, and it can’t keep going to the markets where it has traditionally gone, primarily in the U.S. Midwest. Canada is saturating this market with its heavy crudes, says Neil Earnest, vice-president of Muse, Stancil and Co., and because of this, the differential (or discount taken off heavy oil versus conventional crude) is wider now than it has ever been. “Today it’s a market very much out of equilibrium,” Earnest says, but adds this is not a question of too much heavy oil in general. “There is no issue of inadequate market supply for Canadian heavy crudes. The issue is market access.” So what new markets are being pursued? The consensus seems to be that the most valuable target is the U.S. Gulf Coast. Earnest says the central Gulf Coast alone currently processes about four million barrels per day, and about half of what it imports is heavy, sour crude. “This is a very large market…it’s already processing heavy sour crude today.” He explains that about 90 per cent of crude processed in the region is currently imported from Venezuela and Mexico, both of which are not likely to provide substantial volumes as time goes on. “Supply is down due to political issues in Venezuela.

introduction Future prospects of increased crude from Venezuela are comparatively bleak [to Canada]. In Mexico, it is a different issue. It is geological, not political.” Earnest says that Mexico’s main producing field is currently in decline, at a rate of about 10 to 15 per cent per year. “Gulf Coast refiners are increasingly concerned about this. They are anxious,” he says. “They’re asking us questions now that we weren’t hearing a few years ago.” Another potential new market is west, to the Pacific Ocean and what Earnest calls “the allure of Northeast Asia.” This market, however, although large, has limitations, says Gary Heminger, executive vice-president of Marathon Oil Corporation.

In any forecast available, including one from the National Energy Board that assumes rigourous environmental management policies, bitumen production is expected to increase. Conventional heavy oil is expected to stay relatively flat. “There is a very healthy supply of heavy crude in that market today,” Heminger says. Pipelines are proposed to access both of these new markets, as well as extensions into new areas of existing markets, and Heminger explains that they can’t be built fast enough. “We have to get those pipelines in, and we have to get them in sooner rather than later.”

A changing business environment In 2007, Alberta’s government made waves when it changed the royalty regime that spawned what is known as the “second wave” of oilsands growth in the 1990s. Generally, under the new regime, oilsands producers will pay more for each barrel they produce, especially as the price of oil rises. Although this change is seen to erode some of the perceived stability of the operating environment, the final decision—at least for bitumen producers—is seen as not as “egregious” as what was originally recommended by a review panel. The issue is a difficult and sensitive one, says Michael Borrell, president of Total E&P Canada, subsidiary of the global super-major that has now made a foothold in the oilsands industry, but there is an ultimate truth that must be faced. “[We are not here] solely because of the regime,” Borrell said. “The resource we’re here to develop is located in Alberta. We like the look of the resource, and will add value to ourselves and the communities where it is located.” The future Heavy oil and oilsands resources are increasingly important to the future of energy production. Although there are many issues to work through, many are convinced it is possible to create a sustainable industry with lessons that can be taken to other jurisdictions as unconventional oil production spreads around the world. As Strategy West co-founder Dunbar puts it, “the challenges are being addressed, and the industry will continue to grow.”

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events

UPCOMING EVENTS 2008 March 10–12 World Heavy Oil Congress: Unconventional oil challenging unconventional wisdom Shaw Conference Centre Edmonton, Alberta www.worldheavyoilcongress.com March 25–27 National Buyer/Seller Forum 2008 Shaw Conference Centre Edmonton, Alberta www.nationalbuyersellerforum.ca

June 19–20 PSAC Investment Symposium Hyatt Regency Calgary Calgary, Alberta www.psac.ca June 10–12 Global Petroleum Show Stampede Park Calgary, Alberta www.petroleumshow.com

March 31–April 1 Plant Maintenance and Shutdowns Four Seasons Hotel Toronto, Ontario www.canadianinstitute.com

June 29–July 3 CIPC 2008: Because technology changes everything Telus Convention Centre Calgary, Alberta www.petsoc.org

April 13–15 CERI 2008 Oil Conference Fairmont Palliser Hotel Calgary, Alberta www.ceri.ca

July 15–17 Oilsands and Heavy Oil Technologies Telus Convention Centre Calgary, Alberta Oshot08.events.pennnet.com

May 12–15 Back To Exploration: 2008 C3GEO Convention Roundup Centre, Stampede Park Calgary, Alberta www.GEOconvention.org

September 23–24 Oil Sands Trade Show and Conference 2008 Northlands Agricom Edmonton, Alberta www.petroleumshow.com

June 8–10 CERI 2008 Petrochemical Conference Delta Lodge at Kananaskis Kananaskis Country, Alberta www.ceri.ca

September 30–October 2 International Pipeline Exposition Telus Convention Centre Calgary, Alberta www.petroleumshow.com

June 29–July 3 19th World Petroleum Congress Madrid, Spain www.19wpc.com

October 15–17 Remediation Technologies Symposium 2008 Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel Banff, Alberta www.esaa-events.com/remtech

June 16–18 CAPP Investment Symposium Hyatt Regency Calgary Calgary, Alberta www.capp.ca

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Article by Tricia Radison · Tidbits by Chaz Osburn · Photos by Joey Podlubny ike discovering gold or winning the lottery, striking oil sends hats flying in celebration. The development of the oilsands and heavy oil industry has brought many benefits to the communities that lie above this lucrative natural resource. But change is never 100 per cent positive. Throughout Alberta, communities affected by development balance the positive economic effects of industry with challenging infrastructure, social, and environmental issues. There are five major areas of development within Alberta: the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Cold Lake, Peace River, Lloydminster, and Alberta’s Industrial Heartland, a primarily rural region near Edmonton that doesn’t have an oilsands deposit but has become popular as a site for upgrading due to its location and infrastructure.

The benefits The hub of oilsands development, Wood Buffalo, and its largest city, Fort McMurray, have seen enormous benefits since industry has moved into the area. Jobs are plentiful–it’s estimated that the oilsands industry has created more than 33,000 positions in the region—and a searing hot economy has brought wealth to many. »

Tidbit: The cost estimate for twinning Highway 63, from the Highway 55 junction near Grassland, Alberta, to Fort McMurray, is $940 million. Work should be completed in 2013. Source: Alberta Infrastructure and Transportation Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook & Directory III · 28

Community Tidbit: The population of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo grew 24.3 per cent from 2001 to 2006, from 41,445 to 51,497. Source: Statistics Canada

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Wood Buffalo, which includes several small towns and five First Nation communities, has swelled from around 35,000 people in 1996 to more than 80,000 today with annual growth rates of more than eight per cent. Lured by the promise of employment, workers from across Canada and around the world have poured into Fort McMurray, resulting in a near doubling of that city’s population in just a decade. The city of Grande Prairie in the Peace River region of Alberta has also seen phenomenal growth with annual growth rates that have surpassed those of Fort McMurray in many of the past 12 years. Conventional oil and gas have been the primary drivers, but the Peace River region, in which the city lies, has recently become of interest to the unconventional industry for both production and upgrading. Dwight Logan, mayor of Grande Prairie, explains that the increased financial resources available to residents as a result of development has led to a higher standard of living—in material terms—for many. Businesses are thriving and paycheques are larger in all sectors, not just oil and gas. Growing populations in turn provide a larger assessment base for taxation. “That wealth enables us to provide more services to the

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Community community,” says Logan. Grande Prairie is currently in the process of constructing a $28.8-million library and cultural centre as well as a state-of-the-art Aquatics and Wellness Multiplex. Increased employment opportunities and financial resources have also provided significant benefits to many of the province’s aboriginal communities. The Northeastern Alberta Aboriginal Business Association (NAABA) reports that between $400 million and $500 million worth of aboriginal business is carried out in Wood Buffalo each year. Some aboriginal communities such as Fort McKay First Nation in Wood Buffalo and Cold Lake First Nations have formed multi-million-dollar corporations comprised of several businesses providing a myriad of services to the oilsands industry. These corporations provide local employment opportunities and financial resources that benefit the entire community. Ken Baker, mayor of Lloydminster, a city of approximately 25,000 on the Alberta/Saskatchewan border, is a staunch supporter of the heavy oil industry that has been a key driver of the region’s economy since the 1950s. “We’re very blessed to have the oil industry in our region,” he says. “There are so many benefits, it’s hard to name them.” Corporate donations are one example of the many benefits »

Tidbit: The population in and immediately surrounding Fort McMurray is expected to grow to between 90,000 and 100,000 by 2010.

Ongoing dialogue A part of doing business Industry knows that a positive relationship with the communities in which it operates makes good business sense. Regulatory agencies such as the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board (formerly the EUB) may demand a certain level of stakeholder consultation prior to granting approval, but in many cases, industry has made a point of doing more than required as environmental and social considerations join economics for a three-pronged bottom-line approach to doing business. In its published Guide for Public Involvement, which details best practices for its members, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) states that “regulatory requirements are to be viewed as the minimum that must be done, but each project should be examined for unique elements that may suggest efforts that go beyond the minimum.” Including the community in discussions and decisionmaking early in the development process offers locals some control over their environments and economies. Successful stakeholder relations programs are those tailored to the project and the community and in which communication is timely and ongoing. An introductory meeting telling the community what’s going to happen is no longer enough; industry must find ways to receive and evaluate community input throughout the entire development process and beyond.

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Connacher Oil and Gas Limited began steaming its first steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) Pod One project at Great Divide, Alberta in September 2007. Thanks to our employees, contractors and suppliers, bitumen production is ramping up with development of the next pod right around the corner. Connacher is an integrated oil sands company conducting in-situ oil sands development as well as natural gas production and heavy oil refining.

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Community Tidbit: The runway at the Peace River Airport is 5,000 feet—big enough to handle a Boeing 737. Source: Town of Peace River

to which Baker refers. “The oil sector has been very generous in donating back to the region, whether it be community events or community facilities,” he says, adding that the support of industry has helped to “build a community that will attract not only people that work in the oil industry, but the other professional and employment sectors within our community.”

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The flip side Higher tax bases, corporate donations, and increased wealth come at a price. The sheer number of people moving into the province isn’t easy to accommodate. Rapid growth has been an enormous strain on the infrastructure of many communities, especially Wood Buffalo. Everything from highways, to medical facilities, to the water and sewage system must be upgraded to service the needs of the growing population. Affordable housing—or the lack of it—is another problem shared by many provincial municipalities. Housing prices skyrocketed throughout Alberta and although the market levelled out somewhat in 2007 in most cities, they remain high. The most extreme example is found in Fort McMurray. The average price for a single-family residence in that city was more than $600,000 in November of 2007, a 31 per cent increase in just one year. Rents are also high; the average monthly rent for a two-bedroom suite in Fort McMurray in October 2007 was $2,085. The same size suite rents for $1,089 in Calgary and $958 in Edmonton. The lack of affordable housing compounds the labour. Logan says that the primary effect of heavy oil development on Grande Prairie, as in most of Alberta, has been competition for labour. Recruiting is difficult; people cannot afford to move into communities where shelter is at a premium. “We need more affordable housing, we need more social services, we need more schools and the staff to man them, and we desperately need more medical facilities and staff,” Logan states. Many people arrive in these communities with very little, thinking they will quickly find employment that pays well. Some are disappointed; much of the work requires specialized »

Tidbit: No doubt you’ve heard that the cost of rent is high in Fort McMurray. How high? A search of classified ads from the city’s daily newspaper, Fort McMurray Today, in January revealed that a new two-bedroom fully furnished basement suite was available for only $2,500 per month plus a $2,500 damage deposit. That included utilities. If you wanted something cheaper, a one-bedroom “spacious” basement suite rented for $1,800 per month. Source: Fort McMurray Today Tidbit: The life expectancy for a woman in the Northern Lights Health Region, which serves the Fort McMurray area, is 78.79 years versus 82.69 years for the province. Life expectancy for men in the Northern Lights Health Region is 74.89 years versus 77.75 years for the province. Source: Northern Lights Health Region 2006/07 Annual Report

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Community Tidbit: Workers living in camps in the Wood Buffalo region spent an estimated $84 million in the community in 2006. That was expected to swell to $150 million in 2007. Source: Athabasca Regional Issues Working Group

education or experience. Others find work but cannot find a place to live in cities where vacancy rates are lower than one per cent. The nature of work in the oilsands industry also leads to a relatively large transient population, bringing yet another set of problems. With a population of 12,000, the City of Cold Lake has many short-term residents involved in either the military or oil industries. The city lists a relatively large transient population as one its major weaknesses in its 2006 annual report. These temporary residents are less likely to become emotionally involved in the community. “Apathy and lack of community involvement reduces the quality of life; fewer volunteers mean that many needs go unfulfilled in the community,” states the report. Many communities are also seeing increased substance abuse and crime thanks to a young, affluent population with money to burn. In spite of the challenges, industry’s welcome within the province isn’t going to wear out. “We would sooner have these tough challenges with

Lac La Biche—located in close proximity to production projects near Cold Lake, and the southern portion of the Athabasca deposit—is hoping the oilfield service sector will help boost its economy.

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Community growth issues than going the other way,” says Baker emphatically, adding that infrastructure problems exist throughout the country, not just in heavy oil and oilsands regions. Learning from experience The community of La Loche, Saskatchewan, is carefully observing the experiences of Alberta communities. Two companies, Oilsands Quest and Petrobank Energy and Resources, show a high level of interest in the La Loche region in northern Saskatchewan. It’s possible that the next big boom may take place right at the tiny community’s front door. With a population of just 2,000 and an unemployment rate hovering around 85 per cent, La Loche is excited about the possibility of development in the region. “The employment opportunities are welcomed by the people in the region,” says Georgina Jolibois, mayor of La Loche. Residents are already seeing job creation; Oilsands Quest, a Calgary-based company that has conducted a major exploration in the region, reports that it employed over

Tidbit: It’s still just a proposal, but if approved, Fort McMurray’s airport will get a $100-million upgrade that will include a terminal, a second runway, and expanded parking. The project could be completed as early as September 2009. Source: Alberta Infrastructure and Transportation

Tidbit: Workers from other areas comprised 26 per cent of the more than 60,000 people living in the Wood Buffalo region in 2007. Source: Athabasca Regional Issues Working Group

190 people in its 2006–07 winter drilling program. Of those, 78 were residents of northern Saskatchewan. Additionally, La Loche and surrounding communities have benefited from Oilsands Quest’s commitment to buy locally. Should development proceed, many more jobs will be created in oilsands construction, production, and servicing. The community’s excitement is tempered, however, by the knowledge that the infrastructure doesn’t exist to support a large number of newcomers. “We need a lot of help from the government to upgrade our roads, to build facilities for office spaces, [to provide] employment training opportunities, and in other areas as well,” says Jolibois. The effects of development on water, air quality, and wildlife habitats are another area of concern. Aboriginal communities have lost large portions of their traditional lands to industry, impacting residents’ ability to hunt, trap, and gather natural medicines. La Loche is working on an Impact Benefits Agreement with Oilsands Quest, and the region will develop a similar relationship with Petrobank. Says Jolibois: “We have to benefit from the things that are happening around us.”

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Fair is fair?

Alberta’s royalty regime leaves many questioning balance between public and industry needs by Darrell Stonehouse

hen the Alberta government last updated its royalty structure for oilsands producers 11 years ago, the industry was languishing. No new mining operations had been built since Syncrude joined Suncor in extracting and upgrading the vast bitumen resource almost 20 years earlier in 1978. In situ development was limited to Imperial Oil’s Cold Lake development and a few pilot projects in other areas, such as Shell Canada’s work at Peace River. To spur growth in the industry, in 1997 the provincial government introduced its generic oilsands royalty formula. The formula, which collected a 1 per cent royalty until developers recouped their capital costs and then a 25 per cent royalty on net profits after payout, was designed to help ignite oilsands development. It worked. By 2007, synthetic crude oil and raw bitumen production had climbed from 330,000 barrels per day a decade earlier to 1.1 million barrels per day. And another $80 billion in planned projects are set to bring production to four million barrels per day over the next two decades. The 1997 royalty tweaking had its intended effect, but the oilsands boom resulted in Albertans asking if they were getting a fair share in return from oil companies exploiting the massive resource. In 2007, the provincial government created a committee called the Alberta Royalty Review Panel with the goal of determining what constitutes a “fair share,” and the best means to get it.

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The review panel came back saying the government needed to increase its take of 47 per cent of oilsands revenues to 64 per cent. And it suggested the way forward was to maintain the 1 per cent take before payout, but increase the take to 33 per cent after payout. The panel also recommended instituting an oilsands severance tax payable when production begins. The Alberta government, instead, chose to go with a pricesensitive royalty formula and scrapped the severance tax proposal. Under the new system, the base rate before payout will begin at 1 per cent and increase for every dollar oil is priced above $55 per barrel, up to a maximum of 9 per cent when oil is higher than $120 per barrel. The royalty rate after payout will start at 25 per cent and increase for every dollar oil is above $55 up to 40 per cent when oil reaches $120 per barrel. Like with the previous system, royalties will be based on the product sold—whether it is bitumen, synthetic crude oil, or a combination of both. Ron Brenneman, president and chief executive officer of oilsands developer Petro-Canada, says the price-sensitive nature of the new oilsands royalty regime makes economic sense from an industry perspective. “The oilsands changes are mainly on the upper end of the price curve,” he explained at the company’s investor day in Edmonton late last year. “So depending on what you’re using as a base case, you would say that there’s very little impact.” Petro-Canada has two major oilsands projects planned, as well as a number of potential projects on the books.

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Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers president Pierre Alvarez was the first industry voice to respond to the controversial recommendations of Alberta’s royalty review panel.

Brenneman says the new royalties won’t stop the company from going forward. “While the economics of those will be affected by the increased royalties, it’s not sufficient to really impair the over viability of them,” he said. Aside from ensuring Albertans receive a fair share of revenues from the oilsands resource, the new royalty regime was also designed to ensure as much raw bitumen is processed in the province as possible.

The Alberta government has chosen to go with a price-sensitive royalty regime. The royalty review panel suggested the way to do this was to introduce a tradable royalty credit of 5 per cent of capital expenditures on additional upgrading capacity in Alberta. The government, however, rejected the credit, saying it would be ineffective in encouraging increased upgrading and refining in the province. Instead, it is proposing taking bitumen-inkind rather than cash as a means of encouraging upgrading. Justin Reimer, executive director, Investment and Industry Development Branch for the Alberta government, says taking bitumen rather than cash in royalties will give the government tools to encourage downstream development in the province. “In this instance we could take, say, 200,000 barrels per day in royalties in-kind in barrels and then issue a request

for proposals (RFP) for a 200,000-barrel-per-day facility,” he explains. “Industry could come back with proposals. We would provide the feedstock, and a big ingredient in getting these downstream projects going is security of supply. We’re looking to that kind of thing.” Another feature of the new royalty framework is an attempt to determine a price for raw bitumen to base royalty payments on. Bitumen royalties are hard to determine because “an observable marketable price on which to base royalty calculations has yet to develop,” said the royalty review panel. It suggested creating a generic bitumen valuation methodology to be used to price all raw bitumen for royalty purposes. The provincial government has partially accepted this proposal, saying such a valuation methodology should be used for all non-arms-length bitumen transactions. Market prices will be used for open-market sales. A key issue when it comes to the new royalty framework is the situation with oilsands pioneers Suncor and Syncrude. Both of these operations have agreements in place that take them to the end of 2015. The Alberta government accepted the royalty review panel’s recommendation that there be no grandfathering for companies with existing contracts. The government says grandfathering would create an uneven playing field. As this publication goes to press, the government is continuing to work with Suncor and Syncrude to work out a plan to bring them into the new system, which should be announced early in 2008. Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook & Directory III · 36

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THE INTERNATIONAL flavour of canada’s oilsands industry Mergers and acquisitions draw increased global investment by Tom Pavic, chartered financial analyst Vice-president, Sayer Energy Advisors

ver the last year, we have seen a number of large multinational oil and natural gas companies enter Canada’s oilsands arena by acquisition or through joint ventures with existing oilsands players. The recent rise in the price of oil has certainly been one factor, which has drawn the attention of these large multinationals to Canada’s unconventional oil industry. Another factor in this trend is the processing and refining capability that these large international oil companies possess. This is becoming an increasingly critical factor to the industry because of the increased output of bitumen being generated.

Royal Dutch Shell The largest oilsands deal in 2007 was Royal Dutch Shell’s $9.7-billion acquisition of the remaining 22 per cent of Shell Canada that it did not already own. Even though Shell Canada held a considerable amount of conventional production (approximately 118,000 barrels of oil equivalent in the fourth quarter of 2006), Shell Canada’s oilsands production of approximately 137,000 barrels per day in the same time period, and its plans to increase its oilsands production to 770,000 barrels per day is what caught the eye of parent company Royal Dutch Shell, leading to the buyout of the remaining minority shareholders. StatoilHydro ASA Norwegian-based StatoilHydro ASA’s takeover of North American Oil Sands for $2.2 billion was another significant deal done by a large European-based oil and natural gas company in 2007. North American Oil Sands operates about 250,000 acres of oilsands leases in the Athabasca region of Alberta. First production from its Kai Kos Dehseh steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) project is expected to come on stream in late 2009 or early 2010.

Marathon Oil Western Oil Sands was acquired by Houston, Texas-based Marathon Oil for $6.7 billion in October 2007. Western was producing approximately 30,700 barrels of bitumen per day at the time of the transaction, thanks to its 20 per cent interest in the Athabasca Oil Sands Project, the third largest oilsands mine. Net production is expected to increase to over 130,000 barrels of bitumen per day by 2020. The acquisition of Western fit Marathon’s strategy of trying to boost processing of Canadian heavy crudes in its refineries in the U.S. Midwest and the Gulf Coast. Marathon believes that it can retool its refineries to handle Western’s production at less than half the cost faced by competitors building new upgraders in Alberta. BP Husky Energy’s joint venture with British-based BP, announced in December 2007, was driven both by Husky’s need to increase processing and refining capacity for its increasing bitumen supply, and BP’s desire to re-enter the Canadian oilsands industry. As part of the joint venture, Husky will provide an interest to BP in its Sunrise oilsands project, and in return BP will assign Husky an interest in its Toledo, Ohio, refinery. BP previously held oilsands leases in Canada, which were purchased by Canadian Natural Resources in 1999. The lands once held by BP are now home to Canadian Natural’s Horizon project, which is set to open later in 2008, and could ultimately produce 250,000 barrels of bitumen per day. What this means The high amount of activity of mergers and acquisitions in the oilsands sector in 2007 in some ways illustrates the shift of oilsands from a potential resource to a reality. The entrance of companies such as BP, Marathon, and Royal Dutch Shell, considered by many to be the super-majors, into the oilsands industry validates this fact. With production and capital requirements in the oilsands expected to increase dramatically over the next decade, the super-majors are the companies with both the financial capability and the mass infrastructure (refineries) in place to ensure that this increased oilsands production reaches the consumer. Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook & Directory III · 33

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industry in motion

Expansion and evolution drive Canadian oilsands players by Deborah Jaremko

hat was once a niche play by a handful of companies has become one of the most dominant forces of crude supply in the world, generating a lineup of ventures that want in. Sustaining and progressing these tricky commodities to their full potential now depends on two things: expansion and evolution.

Expansion Almost every company in the following profiles is either planning for, or in the middle of, programs targeting significant production capacity boosts. Whether these are operations that have been “manufacturing oil” for decades, or facilities that don’t even exist yet—and still may not come to fruition— the goal is more supply. These ventures pursue a diverse slate of opportunities: conventional heavy oil, the optimized oilsands mine, proven in situ bitumen recovery, new upgrading techniques and strategies, the frontiers of untapped deposits, the potential of yet-unlocked carbonates, and the promise of new technologies. The numbers of potential new barrels are as big as the resources push them to be. The question is whether all the plans will come through.

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Evolution The heavy oil and oilsands industry has historically not been needed as it is today, in a world that no longer has access to “easy” oil. But the production increases planned come with pressures, especially when it comes to environmental sustainability. Companies must reduce reliance on natural gas, reduce water use, and proactively manage land disturbance. Greenhouse gas emissions are increasingly viewed as a measure of commercial viability. Operators see the answer to these pressures resting in part in technology improvements, which are actively being pursued. However, evolution does not just mean enhancing environmental sustainability. The business of the heavy oil and oilsands industry is changing. From global super-majors and integrated powerhouses to mid-cap players and tiny juniors, thanks to commercialization of smaller-scale recovery techniques, more opportunities have opened—but as much as the field has changed, it still demands leadership by those who are not faint of heart. Here we profile 11 of the industry’s heavy hitters, and 24 emerging players. »

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Profiles of the 11 dominant oilsands players by Deborah Jaremko and Tory Reade

Canadian Natural’s Horizon mine—the fourth operation of its kind in the world—is set to start production in the third quarter of 2008.

Canadian Natural Resources robably the most significant event to occur in the oilsands industry in 2008 is the scheduled start-up of Canadian Natural’s integrated Horizon project. Horizon will be the fourth mining operation to open after Suncor, Syncrude, and the Athabasca Oil Sands Project. Horizon will be executed in phases, with the first phase producing 110,000 barrels per day. Phases 2 and 3—which are approved—will be conducted together, upping production to between 232,000 and 250,000 barrels per day in 2013. In addition to its mine and upgrader, Canadian Natural has in situ assets in the Athabasca, Cold Lake, and Wabasca regions. Its primary in situ asset is Primrose, where it uses a combination of cyclic steam stimulation (CSS) and steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) to produce about 88,000

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barrels per day. The next step is the Primrose East expansion, which will increase production by 32,000 barrels per day, but this drilling will not occur until 2009. Canadian Natural says it is taking advantage of low natural gas prices to steam mature wells where steam-to-oil ratios are higher, and productivity is lower. It has also announced a follow-up process to CSS that will provide an additional 30,000 barrels per day in 2018. At Wabasca, Canadian Natural has its Pelican in situ project, where it uses horizontal wells to produce about 34,000 barrels per day. In 2008, the company plans to convert many of these producing wells to polymer injection wells, which will provide production gains in the future. In the Athabasca region, Canadian Natural has applied for a 30,000-barrel-per-day SAGD project called Kirby. » Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook & Directory III · 35

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ConocoPhillips and Total E&P Canada recently started production at the Surmont steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) project.

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first phase production expected to ramp up to 25,000 barrels per day in 2008. The Surmont project has regulatory approval to reach up to 100,000 barrels per day. CPC also owns a nine per cent interest in Syncrude, and a 50/50 upstream/downstream joint venture with EnCana. This project links production from EnCana’s Foster Creek and Christina Lake SAGD projects with ConocoPhillips’ Wood River and Borger Refineries in the United States. »

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onocoPhillips Canada (CPC) is the Canadian arm of the third largest integrated energy company in the United States. It considers Alberta’s “burgeoning” oilsands a large part of its asset portfolio. Recently, CPC has increased its interest in this industry. It is the operator of the Surmont SAGD project, which it shares 50/50 with Total E&P Canada, the subsidiary of another global super-major. Surmont is now operational, with

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EnCana’s Foster Creek SAGD project was the first commercial application of the technology in the world.

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Borealis, EnCana’s third in situ play, has been announced and is awaiting approval to begin first phase production of 35,000 barrels per day in 2015. EnCana says it now owns the whole value chain of its oilsands production, thanks to its 50/50 upstream/downstream partnership with ConocoPhillips. The two companies now share EnCana’s upstream assets at Christina Lake and Foster Creek, and ConocoPhillips’ downstream refineries at Wood River and Borger in the United States. The partnership plans to expand the refineries to correspond to increased bitumen production. In additon to thermal operations and refining, EnCana also has production at Wabasca, where it currently yields about 30,000 barrels per day. The company is working to add polymer flooding to enhance production. »

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ecently, EnCana—Canada’s largest independent natural gas producer—has evolved itself into a significant integrated oilsands player. In addition to its SAGD projects at Christina Lake and Foster Creek—which, coincidentally was the first official commercial SAGD operation—EnCana has announced a new SAGD project called Borealis, and entered into a landmark partnership with a U.S. refiner. Current production at Christina Lake is about 6,000 barrels per day, and there is currently an expansion underway to take capacity to 18,000 barrels per day in 2008. EnCana reports it would like to grow production at Christina Lake to 190,000 barrels per day over the next decade. Foster Creek currently produces about 50,000 barrels per day, but over the next decade, the company plans to increase that in a phased manner to 210,000 barrels per day.

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Husky’s Tucker SAGD project is the first project in a series of planned operations and downstream upgrades designed to increase the company’s stake in the oilsands industry.

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The Toledo refinery, which currently has capacity to process about 60,000 barrels per day of heavy, sour crude, plans to expand upgrading capacity to about 170,000 barrels per day by 2015. In addition to these projects, Husky is also in the process of expanding capacity at its Lloydminster upgrader to 82,000 barrels per day. Husky also holds in situ interests at Caribou and Saleski, in the Cold Lake region. A 10,000-barrel-per-day SAGD demonstration project is scheduled for Caribou in 2010. The resource at Saleski, however, is in the yet-untapped Grosmont carbonate formation rather than conventional bitumen in sand, and will require a pilot project. This could provide access to up to 24 billion barrels of original oil in place. »

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lthough Husky has been producing conventional heavy oil for decades, its inaugural oilsands project, a SAGD installation called Tucker in the Cold Lake region, officially started production not so long ago—in late in 2006. Since then, Husky has made some major steps forward in the unconventional oil industry, including the purchase of a refinery in Lima, Ohio, which it intends to upgrade to process more oilsands crude. Husky has also entered into a 50/50 upstream/downstream partnership with BP. Husky is to contribute its Sunrise SAGD project, and BP is to contribute its Toledo refinery in Ohio. The Sunrise Oil Sands project will be executed in three phases, beginning in 2012 with 60,000 barrels per day. By 2020, production is estimated to be at 200,000 barrels per day.

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In addition to the planned Kearl mine and its interest in Syncrude, Imperial Oil continues to optimize its pioneering Cold Lake cyclic steam stimulation (CSS) project.

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LASER across all its 200 well pads, totalling more than 4,000 wells. In addition to in situ operations at Cold Lake, Imperial and ExxonMobil have a large-scale mining operation in the works, called Kearl. Kearl, which has conditional regulatory approval, is to be executed in three phases, the first of which will begin production in 2010 at 100,000 barrels per day. Through two subsequent phases, production is expected to reach between 300,000 and 345,000 barrels per day by 2018. The estimated cost for this project is $7 billion, and a commercial sanction decision is expected in 2008. Of course, Imperial Oil also holds a 25 per cent stake in Syncrude.

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mperial Oil is one of the oldest players in the oilsands industry, and the Canadian energy industry. In 1965, it initiated a pilot project into what is now known as CSS in the Cold Lake deposit, which took 20 years to commercialize. In 2007, Imperial reported record levels of production at Cold Lake, reaching as high as 158,000 barrels per day. It has approval to increase production by another 30,000 barrels per day. Imperial has taken an important step in the evolution of CSS, by initiating the commercial application of a follow-up process it calls LASER (liquid assisted steam enhanced recovery) on 10 of its well pads. It has also filed an application with the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) to sweep

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The Long Lake project, owned 50/50 by Opti and Nexen will be the first commercial application of gasification (gasifier shown here) when its upgrader starts up mid-2008.

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barrels per day of premium synthetic crude oil. Opti reports the project continues to advance further phases of growth, eventually reaching gross production of 360,000 barrels per day. A second phase of upgrading has already received approval, while the companies await regulatory approval for the second SAGD phase, which would produce another 72,000 barrels of bitumen per day. Opti expects sanction of Phase 2 in 2008, with subsequent phases following every two years. »

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he spring of 2008 will feature a landmark event for the in situ side of the oilsands industry, when early in the year, Opti Canada fires up the upgrader at the Long Lake project site and starts processing bitumen. In addition to incorporating new technologies such as Opti’s proprietary OrCrude upgrading process, and gasification, Long Lake is the first SAGD project to integrate an upgrader at site. The first phase of Long Lake is expected to produce 72,000 barrels of bitumen per day, yielding about 60,000

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Petro-Canada’s Edmonton refinery will process 100 per cent oilsands crude when its conversion is complete in 2008.

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Creek, and Chard, which Petro-Canada plans to develop after 2012. But the jewel in Petro-Canada’s oilsands crown is the integrated Fort Hills mining project, which has regulatory approval to produce up to 190,000 barrels per day. PetroCanada is the operator of this project, which is shared with UTS Energy (20 per cent) and Teck Cominco (20 per cent). A sanction decision on Fort Hills is expected in 2008, with production coming on stream in 2011, and the upgrader operational in 2012. The Fort Hills upgrader, which is awaiting regulatory approval, is planned for Alberta’s Industrial Heartland. Petro-Canada is also progressing a project to add a 25,000-barrel-per-day coker at its Montreal refinery, which would come on stream in»2009.

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etro-Canada identifies itself as one of the few oilsands players with established projects on both the mining and in situ side. The company holds a 12 per cent interest in Syncrude, which has been operational since 1978, as well as in situ assets, a new mining project in the works, and downstream processing facilities. In 2008, Petro-Canada will compete a conversion of its 135,000-barrel-per-day Edmonton refinery to process 100 per cent oilsands crude. This crude will come from its share of Syncrude production, as well as barrels from its MacKay River SAGD project. Alberta’s regulators have approved an expansion of MacKay River up to 40,000 barrels per day. Petro-Canada expects a sanction decision early in 2009, with the project coming on stream in 2010. There are also a number of other in situ assets, at Lewis, Meadow

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Shell’s Orion SAGD project is one piece of its prominent slate of oilsands assets.

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Peace River in situ project since the 1960s. Peace River uses a variation on CSS. Currently it produces about 12,000 barrels per day, but Shell has applied to expand that to 100,000 barrels per day using both CSS and primary recovery. First primary production is expected in 2008, with thermal operations coming online in 2010. In the Cold Lake oilsands area, Shell has acquired the Orion SAGD project, which recently delivered its first oil shipment down the Cold Lake pipeline to Edmonton. The first, 10,000-barrel-per-day phase of Orion is expected to ramp up to full capacity in 2008. Shell is also planning a pilot project in its substantial Grosmont carbonate landholdings, reportedly scheduled for construction in 2009. The pilot, run by subsidiary SURE Northern Energy, would use electric heaters to produce bitumen. »

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hell Canada is now officially wholly owned by its previous majority shareholder, Royal Dutch Shell. The company has a number of oilsands assets, from mining and in situ production to downstream upgrading and refining. The Athabasca Oil Sands Project (AOSP), an integrated mining venture Shell shares with Chevron (20 per cent) and Marathon Oil (20 per cent), is currently undergoing its first expansion since opening in 2003. The AOSP will be expanded in two phases. The first phase will increase production from 155,000 to 255,000 barrels per day in 2010. The second phase would produce an additional 100,000 barrels per between 2010 and 2015. Shell also has further expansion plans beyond 2015. In addition to mining, Shell has also been operating the

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Suncor’s base plant is the heart of its mining, in situ, and upgrading operations. First opened in 1967, this facilty is looking forward to substantial expansion.

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first bitumen from the expansion is expected in 2009, with the fourth phase in operation in 2011. Full production of 550,000 barrels per day is expected in 2012. Suncor also plans to expand beyond 550,000 barrels per day after 2012. However, these plans are not finalized. Suncor says they could include “new operations in new geographic areas to help reduce financial, environmental, and social risk, and increase value to shareholders.” This could well mean that Suncor is planning to build upgrading capacity in Alberta’s Industrial Heartland. The company does plan to extend its Voyageur South mine to 120,000 barrels per day, and may acquire bitumen supply from third parties if upgrading capacity exceeds production. »

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uncor is the quintessential oilsands producer— the original mining pioneer, and one of the first to employ SAGD. Today, Suncor is in a constant state of expansion. Right now, Suncor produces about 235,000 barrels per day from the combination of its mine and its SAGD project, called Firebag. An expansion of the company’s second upgrader is underway, which will bring capacity up to 350,000 barrels per day in 2008. In addition to applications to expand its mine, Suncor has received approval to proceed with a $20-billion expansion that will add a third upgrader and increase production from Firebag in four phases to approximately 200,000 barrels per day. The upgrader is scheduled to be complete in 2011. The

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Syncrude’s truck and shovel mining operations, combined with upgrading capacity, make it Canada’s largest single source of oil.

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During the year, Syncrude experienced some operational difficulties including unscheduled maintenance and fire. Canadian Oil Sands Trust reports that 2008 will be heavy on maintenance, led by Imperial Oil and ExxonMobil. The goal is to improve operational reliability and bring production up to design capacity. Syncrude’s owners are also planning substantial growth for the project. Canadian Oil Sands Trust says these plans include a Stage 3 debottleneck and a Stage 4 expansion, which would expand production to 500,000 barrels per day by the end of the decade. Planning for these will commence this year.

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fter nearly 30 years on the job, Syncrude is still Canada’s largest single source of oil production. It is currently a joint venture of Canadian Oil Sands Trust (36.74 per cent), Imperial Oil (25 per cent), Petro-Canada (12 per cent), ConocoPhillips (9.03 per cent), Nexen (7.23 per cent), Mocal Energy (5 per cent), and Murphy Oil (5 per cent). It currently has production and processing capacity of about 350,000 barrels per day thanks to a major expansion completed in spring 2006 called upgrader expansion 1, or Stage 3 of the Syncrude project. Imperial Oil reports it has seen record volumes of production from Syncrude in 2007.

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In the last three years, Total has taken a foothold in the oilsands industry, first with the Surmont SAGD project, then the acquisition of the Joslyn in situ/mining combination, and plans for an upgrader.

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could be taken out of the plans. Previously, commercial total volume to bitumen in place (TV:BIP) was pegged at 12:1, but, Enerplus sees that could change in the future. A number of companies are looking at an expanded TV:BIP. At a TV:BIP of 15:1, the entire Joslyn lease could be surface mined. In addition to Joslyn, Total shares 50/50 ownership with fellow super-major ConocoPhillips of the Surmont SAGD project. The first phase of 25,000 barrels per day is now operational, and the companies have approval to proceed with three more 25,000-barrel-per-day phases. Total has also filed an application for a two-phase upgrader in Alberta’s Industrial Heartland. The first phase would yield 130,000 barrels per day in 2013/2014. Phase 2, to be commissioned in 2016, would bring capacity up to 200,000 barrels per day. »

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otal S.A., one of the world’s largest publicly traded oil and gas companies, has made a substantial stake in the oilsands industry through its subsidiary, Total E&P Canada. In 2005, Total purchased Deer Creek Energy and with it the Joslyn project, which has the unique characteristic of mining and SAGD on the same leases. The SAGD first phase has capacity of 10,000 barrels per day, and is currently operational. Total shares Joslyn with Enerplus Resources (14 per cent) and Laricina Energy (1 per cent). Phase 1 of the mine is scheduled to begin in 2013, at 50,000 barrels per day. By the time Phase 4 is operational in 2022, production will have increased to 200,000 barrels per day. First-phase SAGD may be underway, but future phases

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24 emerging oilsands players by Deborah Jaremko and Tory Reade Alberta Oilsands Formerly known as Platform Resources, Alberta Oilsands (AOS) calls itself a newly emerged junior oilsands exploration company. It reports ownership of 3.5 townships in the Fort McMurray, Hangingstone, and Algar areas, on which it will release results from a coring program in the spring of 2008. AOS says it “intends to continue increasing oilsands holdings in the region.” Baytex Energy Trust Heavy oil is Baytex Energy Trust’s main focus. In additional to conventional heavy oil assets, Baytex is also a significant landholder in the Peace River oilsands region. In 2008, Baytex plans to spend $150 million—60 per cent of which will go towards heavy oil production, including 13 horizontal producers in the Seal area near Peace River. The company says Seal offers primary recovery, waterflood, and thermal recovery potential. In 2008, it plans a cyclic steam stimulation (CSS) pilot project at Seal.

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Bronco Energy Bronco Energy’s oilsands operations are part of a joint venture with the Bigstone Cree First Nation in the Wabasca region of Alberta. It is currently conducting a horizontal drilling program which will ultimately become oil producers and polymer waterflood injectors. Bronco is expanding capacity at its oil battery to handle increased production. It plans to exit 2008 with 8,000 to 10,000 barrels per day of production.

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Dick Gusella is president and CEO of Connacher Oil and Gas.

Chevron Canada Chevron Canada, the Canadian subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, holds a 20 per cent interest in the Athabasca Oil Sands Project (AOSP). The first mine to open in 25 years in 2003, the AOSP has recovered more than 175 million barrels of bitumen to date. Chevron’s share of the 100,000-barrel-per-day AOSP expansion currently underway will be 20,000 barrels per day. This expansion will increase production to over 255,000 barrels per day by 2010. Chevron will contribute US$2 billion out of the capital cost of $10 billion. In addition to its interest in the AOSP, which plans significant further expansions in the future, Chevron has announced plans for an in situ project called Ells River.

Connacher Oil and Gas Connacher considers itself a “mini-integrated” oilsands company. It owns the 10,000-barrel-per-day Great Divide SAGD project (which it completed construction on during summer 2007 and is now ramping up production), natural gas assets in Alberta, and a small refinery in Montana, which it is evaluating expanding. Connacher is currently advancing phase two, or Pod Two, of Great Divide, called Algar. This phase is also expected to recover 10,000 barrels per day, starting in 2009. The company is also identifying future pods to increase its bitumen production. Devon Canada Devon Canada, the Canadian branch of Devon Energy based out of Houston, holds 100 per cent interest in the Jackfish SAGD project. The first 35,000-barrel-per-day phase of the Jackfish project is ready to ramp up production in 2008. Early in the year, construction was in its final stages, and steam injection was underway. Devon is advancing the second phase of Jackfish, or Jackfish 2, which would produce an additional 35,000 barrels per day. Pending regulatory approvals, Devon plans to start Jackfish 2 construction in 2008, with first production slated for 2010. Devon also holds a 50 per cent interest in the Access Pipeline with MEG Energy, which transports production from the Athabasca region to the Edmonton area. »

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Enerplus Resources Fund Enerplus Resources Fund has two oilsands assets—it holds a 15 per cent interest in the Joslyn SAGD/mining project along with Total E&P Canada (84 per cent) and Laricina Energy (1 per cent), as well as 100 per cent ownership of the Kirby SAGD project. Kirby leases are anticipated to hold up to 244 million barrels of recoverable bitumen. Enerplus is looking for initial production of 10,000 barrels per day in 2011, expanding to between 30,000 to 40,000 barrels per day in the 2017 time frame. Regulatory applications are expected in 2009, after delineation drilling, and stakeholder consultation.

E-T Energy plans to use its soil remediation technology to recover bitumen in situ.

E-T Energy E-T Energy is testing the use of electricity to produce bitumen in situ. As opposed to using SAGD or surface mining, E-T Energy uses electrothermal dynamic stripping (ET-DSP) technology to recover the oil. Having begun testing in 2004, the process involves passing electrical currents from the surface hole to steel electrodes. E-T says that using this technology, which is being tested just north of Fort McMurray, will cut down on the environmental impact of bitumen recovery. Some positive side effects include but are not limited to: no use of natural gas, quick remediation of acreage, and significantly less water usage. Japan Canada Oil Sands In 1992, Japan Canada Oil Sands (JACOS) was one of the first companies to experiment with SAGD. JACOS began the first of a three-phase project to demonstrate the technology. This project, called Hangingstone, began production in 1999 and currently yields approximately 9,000 barrels per day. Having acquired the leases to over 98,000 acres in the oilsands region, including leases in the Chard, Corner, and Thornbury areas, JACOS has access to approximately two billion barrels of recoverable bitumen. Reports show JACOS has a modest approach to oilsands expansion. It plans to increase production to up to 35,000 barrels per day in the next 10 years.

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Laricina Energy After the sale of tiny Deer Creek Energy to super-major Total S.A. in 2005, chief executive officer Glenn Schmidt established Laricina Energy. Privately owned Laricina has four main areas of development: Germain, Saleski, Poplar Creek, and Conn Creek. The company says the four combined could produce up to 200,000 barrels per day. Germain, Poplar Creek, and Conn Creek are all expected to use SAGD technology, but Saleski is targeting carbonate bitumen in the Grosmont formation. Laricina says it is “continuing the study of the Grosmont reservoir to better define and understand the geological framework and mechanisms necessary for oil recovery.” In the meantime, the company has applied for a 1,800barrel-per-day SAGD pilot at Germain, investigating “innovative reservoir optimization and exploitation strategies.”

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Korea National Oil Corporation Created in 1979, Korea National Oil Corporation (KNOC) has set its sights on Canada’s oilsands. Between 1988 and 2000, it says it participated in joint oilsands evaluation with industry and the academic community. Starting in 2004, it searched for appropriate oilsands projects. In 2006, KNOC purchased Newmont Mining Corporation’s Black Gold bitumen leases near Cold Lake, Alberta, for $250 million. KNOC expects to start construction of a 35,000-barrel-per-day in situ project at Black Gold in 2008, with first production scheduled for 2010. Marathon’s Detroit refinery could soon process almost 100 per cent Canadian heavy oil.

Marathon Oil Corporation Marathon is one of the most recent international additions to Canada’s oilsands industry. In October 2007, Marathon acquired Western Oil Sands, and with it a 20 per cent stake in the Shell-led Athabasca Oil Sands Project (AOSP). Its net production could increase to up to 130,000 barrels of bitumen per day by 2020. The company is the largest refiner in the U.S. Midwest. In close tandem with its entry into the oilsands industry, Marathon has approved a $1.9-billion expansion and upgrade of its Detroit refinery—the only refinery in Michigan—to process an increased slate of heavy Canadian crude. »

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North Peace Energy North Peace Energy is in the early stages of advancing a cyclic steam stimulation pilot in the Peace River region of Alberta. The plan is a phased 30,000-barrel-per-day project over the next 10 years. North Peace plans for first steam in the ground in fall 2008. A resource review conducted by Sproule Associates has identified between 2 billion to 3 billion barrels of bitumen in place on North Peace leases, which in the past producers have drilled through to access deeper conventional oil.

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MEG Energy A private company solely dedicated to oilsands development, MEG Energy has assets in the Surmont and Christina Lake regions of Alberta. Construction is underway on a 23,880-barrel-per-day SAGD first phase at Christina Lake, which is estimated to hold over 6 billion barrels of bitumen in place, of which about 2.8 billion is considered recoverable. MEG believes Christina Lake could ultimately produce up to 210,000 barrels per day. In the Surmont region, MEG holds rights to an estimated 554 million barrels of bitumen resources. These lands could carry a 50,000-barrel-per-day project, MEG says, for which it plans to submit a regulatory application in 2008, and start steaming early in 2013. MEG also holds a 50 per cent interest in the Access Pipeline with Devon Canada, which transports production from the Athabasca region to the Edmonton area.

MEG Energy shares the Access Pipeline 50/50 with Devon Canada.

North West Upgrading North West Upgrading is a Calgary-based company created to convert bitumen into petroleum products, including but not limited to ultra low sulphur diesel, low sulphur diluent, and butane. It is constructing a merchant upgrader in Alberta’s Industrial Heartland. The upgrader will be executed in three phases, the first of which is planned for start-up in 2011 and is estimated to cost $4.2 billion. Each phase will process 50,000 barrels per day for a total planned production of 150,000 barrels per day capacity by 2015. Phase one is under construction. As a merchant upgrading facility, North West will be able to acquire bitumen feedstock from third parties rather than depending on its own production projects.

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Oilsands Quest Oilsands Quest is leading the charge to initiate a commercial oilsands industry in Saskatchewan, and the quest appears to be going well. Since the Axe Lake discovery in 2006, the company has been advancing what will become a field test in 2008, and it hopes a 10,000-barrel-per-day in situ project in 2009. To support the development, Oilsands Quest has formed a technology subsidiary to identify the optimum production method. It has also expanded its land position—which was already the largest contiguous oilsands landholding in Canada—outside of Saskatchewan and into Alberta. Paramount Resources Although 75 per cent natural gas weighted, Paramount Resources has some interesting oilsands and heavy oil assets. In addition to a $150-million equity stake in MEG Energy, Paramount holds rights in the Grosmont carbonate trend, as well as in heavy oil at Pelican. Patch International Junior Patch International has leases in the Ells River area north of Fort McMurray with reports of up to 1.4 billion barrels of original bitumen in place. Patch is planning a 10,000-barrel-per-day SAGD project at Ells River by 2010, ramping up to 40,000 barrels per day. In February 2008, Patch announced it had entered into a process toRPSreview strategic alternatives such2:08:07 as the Energy_HOAP_Mar08_Final_V2.pdf 06/02/2008 PM sale of the company, a merger, or reorganization.

Oilsands Quest has the largest contiguous oilsands landholding in Canada, and the majority of it is exploratory in Saskatchewan.

Peace River Oil Peace River Oil would like to build a bitumen upgrader in the Peace River region. Initially planned for capacity of 25,000 barrels per day by 2010, the company reports interest in the project has demanded an expansion of first phase design. Now, the Bluesky Upgrader is scheduled to be operational in 2011 with capacity of 50,000 barrels per day. It is estimated that through further execution the refinery could reach a production capacity of 200,000 barrels per day. »

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StatoilHydro canada In November 2007, private junior North American Oil Sands was acquired by Norway-based StatoilHydro ASA for $2.2 billion and renamed StatoilHydro Canada. Their sole asset is the Kai Kos Dehseh SAGD project. The first 10,000-barrel-per-day phase—the Leismer demonstration program—is under construction, and expected to begin in 2009. The goal is 8:58 a phased R&MESproduction Ad for HO&O.qxd 1/31/08 AM expansion Page 1 to 200,000 barrels per day.

Synenco Energy Although the downstream portion of the Northern Lights project is on hold, Synenco Energy continues to advance its upstream mining project. Northern Lights is a partnership between Synenco and SinoCanada Petroleum Corporation— the Canadian branch of China-based Sinopec. Synenco holds a 60 per cent interest in the project and is the operator. Northern Lights is planned to be developed in two phases of 57,250 barrels per day. Pending regulatory approval, the first phase is scheduled for start-up in 2010. Photo: Petrobank Energy and Resources

Petrobank Energy and Resources Toe-to-heel air injection (THAI) is certainly no longer a lab experiment. Since firing up the Whitesands field pilot in the summer of 2006, much has developed for THAI owner Petrobank Energy and Resources. All three pilot well pairs are in combustion, and the company reports that although it has had to modify its sand handling system, reservoir performance is as expected. Petrobank is planning a three-well pilot expansion where it will also include the CAPRI catalyst process. In 2008, Petrobank plans to file regulatory applications for a phased 100,000-barrel-per-day THAI project at the Whitesands site. The company has also signed a THAI licence agreement with Duvernay Oil, for deployment on Duvernay’s Dawson heavy oil property at Peace River. A THAI demonstration on the property is planned for 2008. Petrobank says that THAI’s original purpose was for a more conventional heavy oil.

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UTS Energy has secured Petro-Canada and conventional miner Teck Cominco (seen here at a zinc and lead mine in Alaska) as partners on the Fort Hills project.

UTS Energy For years, UTS Energy has been the steward of the Fort Hills mining project, which in 2002 was given approval for up to 190,000 barrels per day. In 2005, UTS secured PetroCanada and conventional miner Teck Cominco as partners. Petro-Canada will be the operator of Fort Hills, and a final investment decision is expected in 2008. First bitumen production would come in 2011, with synthetic crude production from the Industrial Heartland located Fort Hills upgrader in 2012. UTS and Teck Cominco are also 50/50 partners in Lease 14, which is expected for development around 2013, and Lease 311, which is currently under evaluation. UTS has a 50 per cent interest in an additional 256,000 acres of exploration land.

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Value Creation Value Creation may soon be owner of BA Energy’s Heartland Upgrader project, which is under construction in Alberta’s Industrial Heartland. It is a merchant facility designed to be built in three phases of about 55,000 barrels per day processing capacity. The first phase is expected to be operational in 2008. Early in 2008, Value Creation sought to reorganize its relationship with BA from its major shareholder to its owner. It will then add BA’s assets to its own, which include the announced Terre de Grace in situ project. This project will be executed in two phases, the first to begin in 2011 with 40,000 barrels per day production capacity. It has also announced plans for a separate upgrader in the Heartland region, which would be constructed in two phases of 40,000 barrels per day, starting operations in 2011.

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INDUSTRY

project statistics

Existing and proposed ventures targeting Canada’s bitumen resources by Strategy West · with files from Oilsands Review

Project Status Company

Current Project

Athabasca Region—In Situ Canadian Natural Resources Birch Mountain Phase 1 Phase 2 Gregoire Lake Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 Kirby Phase 1 Leismer Phase 1 Chevron Canada Ells River Connacher Oil And Gas Great Divide Pod 1 Pod 2 (Algar) ConocoPhillips Canada Surmont Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 Devon Canada Jackfish Phase 1 Phase 2 EnCana Borealis Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Christina Lake Phase 1A Phase 1B Phase 1C Phase 1D Unnamed Expansion 1 Unnamed Expansion 2 Unnamed Expansion 3 Unnamed Expansion 4 Unnamed Expansion 5 Enerplus Resources Kirby Phase 1 Phase 2 E-T Energy Poplar Creek

Capacity (bbl/d) 30,000 30,000 30,000 30,000 30,000 30,000 30,000 15,000 100,000 10,000 10,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 32,500 32,500 10,000 8,800 40,000 40,000 30,000 30,000 30,000 30,000 30,000 10,000 25,000 N/Q

Status Announced Announced Announced Announced Announced Announced Applied Announced Announced Operating Applied Operating Approved Approved Approved Construction Applied Applied Announced Announced Operating Construction Application Application Announced Announced Announced Announced Announced Announced Announced Approved

Target Commercial Production/Service 2013 2014 2016 2017 2020 2023 2011 2025 2015 2007 2009 2006 2008 2011 2014 2008 2010 2015 TBD TBD 2002 2008 2010 2011 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2011 2017 N/Q N/Q: No quote

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INDUSTRY Project Status Company Husky Energy

Japan Canada Oil Sands

Korea National Oil Company Laricina Energy Meg Energy North American Oil Sands (Statoil)

N-Solv Nexen

Patch International Petro-Canada

Petrobank Energy and Resources (Whitesands)

Current Project Sunrise Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 Hangingstone Pilot Phase 1 Phase 2 Black Gold Phase 2 Saleski Christina Lake Phase 2 Kai Kos Dehseh-Leismer Demonstration Leismer Commercial Leismer Expansion Corner Thornbury Corner Expansion Hangingstone Thornbury Expansion Northwest Leismer South Liesmer Pilot plant Long Lake Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 Long Lake South Phase 1 Phase 2 Ells River Chard Phase 1 Lewis Phase 1 Phase 2 MacKay River Phase 1 Phase 2 Meadow Creek Phase 1 Phase 2 May River Phase 1 Subsequent Phases

Capacity (bbl/d) 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 10,000 25,000 25,000 10,000 20,000 1,800 23,880 10,000 10,000 20,000 40,000 40,000 40,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 2,000 72,000 72,000 72,000 N/Q 70,000 70,000 10,000 40,000 40,000 40,000 33,000 40,000 40,000 40,000 10,000 90,000

Status Approved Approved Approved Approved Operating Disclosed Disclosed Announced Announced Announced Construction Construction Applied Applied Applied Applied Applied Applied Applied Applied Applied Announced Operating Announced Announced Announced Applied Applied Announced Announced Disclosed Disclosed Operating Applied Approved Approved Disclosed Disclosed

Target Commercial Production/Service 2012 2014 2016 2018 2002 2010 2012 2010 TBD N/Q 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2016 2017 2018 2034 2008 2007 2014 2016 2018 2010 2012 2010 TBD TBD TBD 2002 2009 TBD TBD 2009 TBD N/Q: No quote

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INDUSTRY Project Status Company Suncor Energy

Total E&P Canada

Value Creation Group

Current Project Firebag Phase 1 Phase 2 Cogeneration and Expansion Phase 3 Phase 4 Phase 5 Phase 6 Phase 7 Phase 8 Joslyn Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3A Phase 3B Terre de Grace Phase 1 Phase 2

Athabasca Region—Mining Athabasca Oil Sands Project Jackpine Phase 1A Phase 1B Phase 2 Muskeg River Existing Facilities Expansion and Debottlenecking Pierre River Phase 1 Phase 2 Canadian Natural Resources Horizon Phase 1 Phases 2 and 3 Phase 4 Phase 5 Imperial Oil Kearl Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Petro-Canada Fort Hills Phase 1 Debottleneck Suncor Energy Millennium Steepbank Debottleneck Phase 3 Millennium Debottlenecking North Steepbank Extension Voyageur South Phase 1 Stages 1 and 2 Syncrude (Mildred Lake and Aurora) Stage 3 Expansion Stage 3 Debottleneck Stage 4 Expansion

Capacity (bbl/d) 33,000 35,000 25,000 35,000 35,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 53,000 2,000 10,000 15,000 15,000 40,000 40,000

Status Operating Operating Construction Approved Approved Announced Announced Announced Announced Operating Operating Application Disclosure Applied Announced

Target Commercial Production/Service 2004 2006 2007 2008 2009 2012 2013 2014 2015 2004 2006 2009 2011 2011 TBD

100,000 100,000 100,000 155,000 115,000 100,000 100,000 135,000 135,000 145,000 162,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 165,000 25,000 294,000 4,000 23,000 N/Q 120,000 290,700 116,300 46,500 139,500

Construction Approved Application Operating Approved Applied Applied Construction Approved Announced Announced Approved Approved Approved Approved Approved Operating Construction Construction Approved Applied Operating Operating Announced Announced

2010 2012 2014 2002 2010 2018 2021 2008 2011 2015 2017 2010 2012 2018 2011 TBD 1967 2007 2008 2010 2011 1978 2006 2011 2015 N/Q: No quote

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INDUSTRY Project Status Company Synenco Energy Total E&P Canada

UTS Energy/Teck Cominco Cold Lake Region—In Situ BR Oil Sands (Shell) Canadian Natural Resources

EnCana

Husky Energy Imperial Oil

Current Project Northern Lights Phase 1 Phase 2 Joslyn Phase 1 (North) Phase 2 (North) Phase 3 (South) Phase 4 (South) Lease 14 Orion Phase 1 Phase 2 Wolf Lake Primrose South Primrose North Primrose East (Burnt Lake) CSS Follow-up Process Foster Creek Phase 1A Phase 1B - Debottlenecking Phase 1C - Stage 1 Phase 1C - Stage 2 Phase 1D Phase 1E Unnamed Expansion 1 Caribou Demonstration Project Tucker Phase 1 Phases 1-10: Leming, Maskwa, Mahikan Phases 11-13: Mahkeses Phases 14-16: Nabiye, Mahikan North LASER (CSS follow-up process)

Peace River Region—In Situ North Peace Energy Red Earth CSS Pilot Shell Canada Cadotte Lake Carmon Creek Phase 1 Carmon Creek Phase 2 Wabasca Region—In Situ Canadian Natural Resources Pelican EnCana Pelican Northwest Saskatchewan—In Situ Oilsands Quest Axe Lake Reservoir Test In situ Program

Capacity (bbl/d) 57,250 57,250 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000

Status Applied Applied Applied Applied Announced Announced Announced

Target Commercial Production/Service 2010 2012 2013 2016 2019 2022 2013

10,000 10,000 13,000 45,000 30,000 32,000 30,000 24,000 6,000 10,000 20,000 30,000 30,000 30,000 10,000 30,000

Construction Approved Operating Operating Operating Approved Announced Operating Operating Operating Construction Approved Approved Announced Applied Operating

2008 2009 1985 1985 2006 2009 2018 2001 2003 2005 2007 2008 2009 2010 2010 2006

110,000

Operating

1985

30,000

Operating

2003

30,000

Approved

2007

N/Q

Operating

2007

1,000 12,500 37,500 50,000

Applied Operating Applied Applied

2008 1986 2010 2015

35,000 40,000

Operating Operating

Ongoing expansion Ongoing expansion

600 10,000

Announced Announced

2008 2009 N/Q: No quote

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INDUSTRY upgraders Company

Current Project

Capacity: Bitumen (bbl/d)

Capacity: Products (bbl/d)

Status

Start-Up

Athabasca Region—upgradinG Canadian Natural Resources

Opti Canada

Suncor Energy

Horizon Phase 1

135,000

114,000

Construction

2008

Phases 2 and 3

135,000

118,000

Approved

2011

Phase 4

145,000

125,000

Announced

2015

Phase 5

162,000

140,000

Announced

2017

Long Lake Phase 1

72,000

58,500

Construction

2008

Phase 2

72,000

58,500

Approved

2011

Phase 3

72,000

58,500

Announced

2013

Phase 4

72,000

58,500

Announced

2015

Phase 5

72,000

58,500

Announced

2017

Phase 6

72,000

58,500

Announced

2019

281,000

225,000

Operating

1967

Millennium Vacuum Unit

43,000

35,000

Operating

2005

Millennium Coker Unit

116,000

97,000

Construction

2008

Voyageur Phase 1

156,000

127,000

Approved

2010

78,000

63,000

Approved

2012

290,700

250,000

Operating

1978

Stage 3 Expansion

116,300

100,000

Operating

2006

Stage 3 Debottleneck

46,500

40,000

Announced

2012

Stage 4 Expansion

139,500

120,000

Announced

2016

Scotford Upgrader 1

155,000

158,000

Operating

2003

Expansion

90,000

91,000

Construction

2010

Scotford Upgrader 2 Phase 1

100,000

97,750

Applied

2012

Phase 2

100,000

97,750

Applied

TBD

Phase 3

100,000

97,750

Applied

TBD

Phase 4

Base U1 and U2

Phase 2 Syncrude

Mildred Lake Stages 1 and 2

Industrial Heartland Region—Upgrading And Refining Athabasca Oil Sands Project

100,000

97,750

Applied

TBD

Heartland Upgrader Phase 1

54,400

46,300

Construction

2008

Phase 2

54,400

46,300

Approved

2010

Phase 3

54,400

46,300

Approved

2012

North American Oil Sands (Statoil)

Upgrader Phase 1

75,000

65,000

Applied

2012

Phase 2

175,000

152,000

Applied

2015

North West Upgrading

Upgrader Phase 1

50,000

45,300

Construction

2010

BA Energy

Phase 2

50,000

45,300

Approved

2013

Phase 3

50,000

45,300

Approved

2015

Fort Hills Upgrader Phase 1

165,000

145,000

Applied

2011

Phases 2 and 3

175,000

145,000

Applied

2014

Northern Lights Upgrader Phase 1

56,600

50,600

Applied

2010

Phase 2

56,600

50,600

Applied

2012

Total E&P Canada

Upgrader Phase 1

153,000

130,000

Applied

2013

Phase 2

82,000

70,000

Applied

2016

Value Creation

Terre de Grace Pilot

10,000

8,400

Applied

2010

Phase 1

40,000

34,000

Announced

TBD

Phase 2

40,000

34,000

Announced

TBD

Phase 1

50,000

42,500

Announced

2012

Phase 2

50,000

42,500

Announced

TBD

Phase 3

50,000

42,500

Announced

TBD

Phase 4

50,000

42,500

Announced

TBD

Petro-Canada

Synenco Energy

Peace River Region—Upgrading Bluesky Refining

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INDUSTRY PIPELINES Company

Project

Location

Altex

AB to U.S. Gulf Coast

TBD

250,000

Enbridge

Alberta Clipper

AB to Wisconsin

2009

450,000

Athabasca Pipeline Expansion

Fort McMurray to Edmonton Fort McMurray to Edmonton

Fort Hills Gateway

AB to Kitimat, BC

Southern Access Expansion (three stages) Southern Lights Diluent Pipeline

AB to U.S. border, U.S. border to Indiana U.S. Midwest to Western Canada Cheecham Terminal on Athabasca Pipeline to Edmonton

Waupisoo Enbridge/Exxon Mobil Inter Pipeline Fund

Texas Access

Illinois to Texas

Target Service

Complete 2011 2012 to 2014 2009

Capacity (bbl/d)

Status Announced

N/Q 250,000 plus 70,000 diluent line 400,000 plus diluent line Expansion 400,000, extension 400,000

Subject to regulatory approvals Announced Applied

2010

180,000

Canadian portion approved

2008

350,000

Approved

2011

N/Q

Announced

Cold Lake

Cold Lake to Edmonton

Operating

435,000

Operating

Expansion

Cold Lake to Edmonton

2008

125,000

Construction

2003

300,000

Operating

2010

165,000

Construction

Corridor Expansion

Athabasca Oil Sands Project to Edmonton Athabasca Oil Sands Project to Edmonton

Kinder Morgan Canada

TMX 1/2/3

Edmonton to Burnaby, BC

TransCanada

Keystone

Hardisty, AB to Illinois, expanding to Cushing, OK

TMX1–2008 TMX2–2009 TMX3–TBD 2009

TMX1-40,000 TM2-100,000 TMX3-TBD 450,000 expanding to 590,000

TMX1–Construction TMX2–Discussions with shippers TMX3–Undisclosed Canadian portion approved, U.S. portion applied

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FEATURE

international input

How the world contributes to its largest industrial project by Chaz Osburn

U.S.A.

Alberta, Canada Canada’s oilsands operations rely on labour, services and supplies from numerous countries around the globe.

Mexico Labour

Compressors Construction module components Construction services Consulting Electric-powered cable shovels Engineering services Gas compressors Heat exchangers Labour Mining dump trucks Pressure vessels Project management and services Pumping equipment Transport services Workforce accommodations Jamaica Labour

aken as a whole, what’s happening in the Alberta oilsands represents the world’s largest industrial project. No one can deny the huge scope of economic activity in developing countries such as China and India. But as the world’s insatiable thirst for oil deepens, the expectation is that investment in the oilsands—up from $2.4 billion in 1999 to a whopping $14.3 billion in 2006, according to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers—will only accelerate. That growth has put a severe strain on the availability of equipment and people to build the facilities to bring the oil from the ground and process and upgrade it, forcing companies to look beyond Alberta’s and Saskatchewan’s—and oftentimes Canada’s—borders. Little wonder that labourers come from as far away as China, Jamaica, and South America. That the huge construction machines such as the electric shovels and trucks come from as close as Wisconsin to as far away as Japan. That pressure vessels and reactors are sourced from Korea and Italy. And the list goes on and on. Here’s just a sampling of the scope of international sourcing.

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Venezuela Tubular products

South America Labour

Argentina Tubular products

FEATURE

Japan Electric-powered cable shovels Heat exchangers High-strength steel for large diameter pipe Hydrocrackers Mining dump trucks Pressure vessels China

United Kingdom Compressors Construction module components Pumping equipment

Germany Compressors Pumping equipment

Compressors Labour Pumping equipment

Italy Construction module components Heat exchangers Pressure vessels Korea Europe

Heat exchangers Pressure vessels

High-strength steel for large diameter pipe

Philippines Labour India Heat exchangers Labour Pressure vessels

Australia Engineering services South Africa Construction module components

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tracking a barrel

Following Alberta’s valuable resource from the ground to the refinery by Deborah Jaremko · Photos by Joey Podlubny

ave you ever wondered how gooey, viscous bitumen becomes a valuable fuel? From core hole drilling and lab testing to construction, production and processing, bitumen’s journey from the ground to the gas tank is long and detailed. Here we take a visual tour through the world of oilsands project delineation, construction, operations facilities, upgraders, and refineries.

1. Core samples give operators a better understanding of resources and help identify optimal recovery methods. Here, a worker with Oilsands Quest inspects a sample from northern Saskatchewan. 2. Lab testing gives project planners knowledge of the characteristics of bitumen resource, again helping determine recovery methods. These samples are in a research lab at the University of Calgary. 3. For the in situ method steam assisted gravity drainage, horizontal wells are often drilled at a slant from surface to access shallow deposits. Here, a drilling rig and service rig work at Long Lake. 76 · Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook & Directory III

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4. The early stages of construction for the Athabasca Oil Sands Project (AOSP) Jackpine mine expansion. 5. At a Maxfield shop in Crossfield, Alberta, giant pressure vessels for an oilsands project are manufactured. 6. Modules have a long way to travel to the oilsands. This one is slowly on its way up Highway 63. 7. When this 1.5 million tonne reactor reached Long Lake in 2006, it was the largest load ever by rail from Edmonton to Fort McMurray. 禄

Photo: Opti Canada

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8. Mining underway at the AOSP, which opened in 2003—the third project of its kind. 9. Production underway at EnCana’s Foster Creek installation, which in 2001, became the first commercial SAGD project in the world. 10. Bitumen production must be connected to the processing facilities, and ultimately the market by pipeline. Here, the Corridor pipeline is being expanded, taking product from Fort McMurray to Edmonton.

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11. The upgrader is key to the bitumen value chain. Here is an installation at Syncrude. 12. Product from the oilsands feeds refineries outside of Alberta. One of these is Suncor’s facility in Sarnia, Ontario. 13. Marathon Oil’s Detroit refinery is one of many in the United States retooling to accept more heavy Canadian crude. 14. After operations are complete, companies make the effort to reclaim the land. Suncor reclaimed this area in 1989.

Photo: Marathon Oil

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Photo: Suncor Energy

people

Photo: Joey Podlubny

trailblazers

10 leaders. 10 different stories.

GLEN SCHMIDT

President and CEO, Laricina Energy

you need to know him: In 2005, a small company Glen Schmidt started called Deer W hy Creek Energy was purchased by giant Total S.A. for $1.35 billion. Its main asset was the Joslyn

project, an oilsands mine and small steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) project that is set to ultimately produce about 200,000 barrels per day. Schmidt has now started another oilsands junior, Laricina Energy. In addition to SAGD development, Laricina is pursuing a new commercial production frontier—Alberta’s vast resource of bitumen locked in carbonates. 80 · Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook & Directory III

people Q What do you see as the potential for carbonate bitumen in Alberta, and what needs to be done to further development? A Carbonates are a substantial resource where in some cases reservoir quality exceeds that in the clastics or oilsands, be that in the McMurray or Clearwater formations. About one third of Alberta’s oilsands potential is in the carbonates, of which the Grosmont Carbonate Triangle is the largest resource. Confirmation of drilling and completion design is the critical foundation for project design. The Unocal pilots [conducted in the mid-to-late 1970s] have shown that this does work, and on a comparison to the McMurray, it works at least as well in the use of SAGD for recovery. Solvents—which have been tested in the McMurray—may have a greater application in the carbonates where more favourable reservoir characteristics may better support the use of solvents over steam to mobilize the bitumen. Q What key learnings are you taking to Laricina Energy from your time building and developing Deer Creek Energy? A Deer Creek and the numerous other projects the Laricina team has worked on tell us that we should: n First and foremost, get our well design right. Many projects have incurred greater costs with poor selection on production plans. n Manage the treatment and quality of water. n Stage the development; keep it small, cost-effective, and repeatable.

Smaller players have their role as innovators and pioneers, just as larger multinationals can contribute their skills to a healthy, competitive environment. n Push innovation over invention; common sense offers much

low-hanging fruit. manage the capitalization of the company; there is as much science in the management of the engineering as the finance.

n Carefully

Q The purchase of Deer Creek Energy by Total E&P was one of the first in the recent wave of oilsands acquisitions by international companies. What are your thoughts on foreign ownership of this resource? A The Total transaction was a natural consolidation of assets by a well-capitalized company who can expand and apply their skills in multi-billion-dollar development, including upgrading. It is a healthy aspect of the oil business where the “economic ecosystem” establishes a competitive exchange of assets to the benefit of shareholders, the acquiring company, and Albertans. Albertans, as owners of the assets, can foster a dynamic and vibrant economy by exploiting the roles of the many players in this “economic ecosystem” to the benefit of all. Smaller players have their role as innovators and pioneers, just as larger multinationals can contribute their skills to a healthy, competitive environment.

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Photo: Joey Podlubny

david tuccaro

President and CEO, Tuccaro Inc. Group of Companies

hy you need to know him: David Tuccaro is a leading aboriginal entrepreneur who

W has built an impressive range of companies that service Alberta’s oilsands industry. As

president and chief executive officer of the Tuccaro Inc. Group of Companies in Fort McMurray, Tuccaro oversees 10 divisions with about 350 employees. His companies provide a wide range of services, from supplying bottled water to the work camps to construction equipment to geographical core management. 82 · Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook & Directory III

people Q How has business changed since you started with the company in the early 1990s? A The industry itself picked up. When I first came here in 1990–91, there was just Syncrude and Suncor. There’s just so much activity going on—not only here in Alberta, but [in] western Canada. In British Columbia, the economy is booming. Saskatchewan is starting to pick up. Now people from those provinces are staying home because there’s enough work there. At one time, people from those provinces would come to Alberta to work in the oil and gas industry. It’s harder and harder to find not only the people to operate my equipment, my trucks, my facilities, but it’s harder to find equipment. In some cases, it’s taken six to eight months just to get a vacuum truck or a water truck. Q What lessons can other entrepreneurs learn from the example you set with your company? A Just stay the course. I think in many cases for entrepreneurs, the people that aren’t successful quit maybe a week, two weeks, [or] a month just before they’re going to have a breakthrough. If you just hang on a little while longer, something will come up because all the positive thoughts you put into a business, somewhere along the way, there has to be a positive return. The more positive you think about anything, the more positive returns you’re going to get in return.

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michael borrell

President, Total E&P Canada Ltd.

hy you need to know him: Total—one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies—

W is aggressively pursuing oilsands opportunities, vowing to invest as much as $15

billion into the Alberta economy over the next 10 years. Michael Borrell leads the international company’s Canadian operations.

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people Q What are the potential roadblocks to further oilsands development? A Oilsands projects are long-term, capital intensive, and technologically complex. For example, approximately 80 per cent of the oilsands will require in situ extraction technologies that are still immature and very sensitive to geological factors, such as the presence of gas and water. These factors make in situ projects not only expensive, but risky as an investment. Oilsands mining projects have many environmental challenges. Total Canada is planning to use new and innovative technologies to significantly reduce water consumption and tailings volumes to reduce our environmental footprint. We firmly believe this is the right choice, but reducing our environmental impact comes at a cost. And the high costs of developing projects in the oilsands mean that the current economics for new projects are marginal, even with oil prices well above $60 per barrel. Of course, attracting and retaining skilled labour is a challenge. Also, impacts of any possible future environmental legislation are still unknown, and recent changes to the province’s regulatory regime has created even more of an economic challenge for oilsands developers. Q What led Total to invest in the oilsands? A Around the world Total invests in long-term, technically challenging projects where we can add value as a large, integrated, international company. We believe Total has a lot to

offer Alberta, and over the next 10 years, we will make a $10- to $15-billion capital investment into Alberta’s economy, with the goal of becoming one of the leading producers in the oilsands. The plan is to structure a team here in Canada that draws on the local knowledge and expertise needed to operate in Alberta’s oilsands, and also utilizes Total’s international experience. We have the advantage of being a subsidiary of the fourth largest oil and gas company in the world. We have access to Total’s worldwide expertise, including its experience with heavy oil. Q Since Total’s acquisition of Deer Creek Energy, the company has said it plans to have a long-term interest in the oilsands. How does the recent sale of a 10 per cent stake in the Joslyn project to INPEX Holdings of Japan fit into that strategy? A The projects in the oilsands are long-term, involving significant risks such as increasing capital costs, shortage of labour, and uncertainties around taxes and future environmental policies. Sharing the risk in our Joslyn project will help to ensure that we can ride out some of the ups and downs more effectively, with a solid partnership and financial backing for our project. Total has a long-standing and trusted relationship with INPEX, as they have been our partners on a number of licences in Indonesia, Australia, Kazakhstan, and other countries for over 30 years. It makes sense for us to acquire a partner that we have worked with successfully in the past. The partnership is stronger following this operation to face the challenges ahead.

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President, Environmental Services Association of Alberta (ESAA)

hy you need to know her: The ESAA has a vision: environmental integrity through W innovative business solutions. It provides its over 200 member organizations with

educational publications, conferences, and networking opportunities. As the environment is at the forefront of many minds, including the heavy oil/oilsands industry and its stakeholders, ESAA is playing an increasingly important role. As president of this group, Rudnitski leads an important charge. 86 路 Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook & Directory III

people Q What is ESAA and what is its relationship to the heavy oil and oilsands industry? A ESAA is a not-for-profit business association dedicated to building a strong environment industry through leadership in technology, human resources, quality improvement, and market development. Our vision is that of an organization which will continue to be progressive and innovative in servicing its membership. ESAA’s membership is comprised of: waste management companies, laboratories, environmental consultants, environmental engineering companies, hazardous waste brokers, recyclers, and disposal companies, and waste transporters. ESAA member companies provide a broad range of environmental services to the heavy oil and oilsands companies that are active in Canada. Our mission is to have productive relationships with relevant industry associations, organizations, and government to ensure that we can shape change for the good of the environmental services industry and for the protection of the environment. Although the association’s mandate is global it is as important in oilsands projects as it is in other areas of the province. Q What are the biggest environmental issues facing the heavy oil and oilsands industry? A There are several issues that the oilsands industry faces. Some of the key issues include:

n waste management (disposal and volume reduction) n water (re-use and sound resource management) n air (emission control, reduction, and greenhouse gas) n land (balancing wildlife, plant life, and industry and

reclamation of closed areas of mine sites); and n public consultation processes resulting in the successful integration of large industrial operations with First Nations people, recreational interests, and municipalities, often in remote communities. The issues are ongoing and change in context and form as areas with heavy oil and oilsands evolve from the preliminary project planning phases to fully operating industrial facilities. Although the list of key issues is generic to any resource industry, its context is unique to oilsands development. Q What has the industry successfully done to address them? A The environmental service industry initially provided its oilsands clients with experience that was obtained from other industries. Over time, our members have gained knowledge and developed expertise specifically for addressing oilsands environmental issues. ESAA’s annual Remediation Technologies Symposium— held in Banff every October—has specific technical presentations and case studies of difficult soil and water remediation efforts in the oilsands. As a result of the success of RemTech, ESAA is hosting the first WaterTech conference in April to focus on technical issues regarding water remediation and use.

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Alberta’s minister of Employment, Immigration and Industry

hy you need to know her: This ministry is of key importance to Alberta’s heavy oil W and oilsands industry. It strives to help Albertans train for and retain their jobs, main-

tain safe and fair workplaces, provide business information to the public, and support economic development. As minister, Evans is responsible for these wide-ranging and essential topics, including working to assist the industry in accessing the vast amount of technical talent it needs to continue to grow. 88 · Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook & Directory III

people Q How does your ministry promote industry development in Alberta? A We work in partnership with a variety of stakeholders to support the continued growth and prosperity of this province—including local and international industry, other governments, other departments, and communities. Whether it is building business cases for industry expansion or new investment, undertaking studies to illustrate investment opportunities, or promoting and facilitating investment in targeted opportunities, our mission is to build Alberta’s economy to ensure a prosperous province for all Albertans. Q What is the government’s vision regarding heavy oil/oilsands development in the province? A At 174 billion barrels, Alberta’s oilsands represent the second largest proven reserves in the world after Saudi Arabia. Production decline in some traditional supply regions and political instability in others emphasize that Alberta is a reliable source of oil, accounting for 70 per cent of the reserves remaining accessible to the international oil majors. To take full advantage of the oilsands economic opportunity, Alberta is pursuing a value-added strategy to process significant volumes of bitumen into gasoline, diesel, and petrochemical products. Recent changes in Alberta’s

royalty system have provided the government with new options for encouraging bitumen upgrading in the province. Taking bitumen royalty in kind is one alternative currently being assessed to facilitate value-added investment. Q What activities is the government currently engaged in to assist the industry in accessing the skilled labour it requires to further heavy oil and oilsands development? A There is no doubt the energy sector is an important part of Alberta’s economy. It has helped bring this province into an impressive economic position and it employs thousands of people directly and indirectly. To help sustain this for the future, the Alberta government has developed a 10-year labour force development strategy called Building and Educating Tomorrow’s Workforce. The strategy’s goals are: more workers, better trained people, and innovative work environments. Building and Educating Tomorrow’s Workforce focuses on industry-led workforce strategies specific to each sector. The energy industry has released its strategy and some supporting actions that are underway by the government include: developing an Oil Sands Occupational Supply Demand Model; enhancing apprenticeship programs; expanding the Provincial Nominee Program to bring more skilled immigrants; implementing the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement with British Columbia; expanding training opportunities, and more.

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Chair, Athabasca Regional Issues Working Group (RIWG)

you need to know him: Activity in the Athabasca oilsands deposit is by far the W hy most intense in the industry, challenging the local community, the environment, and

the developers themselves. RIWG was established in 1997 to help manage these issues through industry, government and stakeholder collaboration. Last year, young and dynamic Jacob Irving became its executive director. 90 路 Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook & Directory III

people Q What are RIWG’s primary objectives, and how are they being addressed? A RIWG is an oilsands industry association that facilitates solutions to shared development issues related to the Athabasca oilsands deposit. We do this by consolidating and sharing developers’ information, perspective, and advice with governments, communities, and affected stakeholders; consulting with these groups in facilitating solutions to development issues; collaborating with governments, communities, and stakeholders while balancing individual and collective company responsibilities; regularly communicating accurate and credible information, analysis, and forecasts obtained through survey data; and managing an inclusive committee process that is focused on analyzing issues, facilitating solutions, and achieving results.

RIWG participated thoroughly in the development of the Alberta Government’s Investing in our Future, or Radke Report, which has brought nearly $400 million of public spending to Fort McMurray and the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo. spending to Fort McMurray and the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo. Working with the Alberta Government’s newly formed Oil Sands Secretariat and the RMWB, we look forward to additional, ongoing action to be taken on the report.

Q What is the biggest achievement of RIWG to date?

Q Since taking office last year, what is the most interesting thing you have learned about the oilsands industry and Wood Buffalo?

A Aggregating and consolidating industry, community, and stakeholder information on growth pressures and communicating it to municipal, provincial, and federal governments to assist them in their planning processes.  RIWG participated thoroughly in the development of the Alberta Government’s Investing in our Future, or Radke Report, which has brought nearly $400 million of public

A Given the concern of the Albertans for their water resources, it was interesting to learn that the annual water allocation on the Athabasca River—which is home to oilsands development—is only 3.6 per cent of its average annual flow. The allocation for Alberta’s other major rivers are: 37 per cent for the North Saskatchewan, 60 per cent for the Oldman, and 65 per cent for the Bow River.

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trent kaiser

Incoming president, Canadian Heavy Oil Association (CHOA)

hy you need to know him: In less than three years, the membership of the CHOA W has doubled, as the heavy oil and oilsands industry grows in international impor-

tance. Each year, a new leader takes the reigns of this evolving technical, educational, and social forum. For 2008/2009, this will be Trent Kaiser, principal engineer with Noetic Engineering. 92 路 Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook & Directory III

people Q What are the most important issues right now for the members of the CHOA, and what is the CHOA doing to address them? A All of our members have different important issues. International members are interested in understanding more about the industry and the Canadian experience. Suppliers want to find out where they can acquire the pieces they need to build these projects. Employees want to find out where to get a job. We provide an important toehold into the industry through networking opportunities, technical programs, and more recently, a course called Heavy Oil 101. For our members already within the industry, by far the most important issue they are facing is that of sustainability. It’s clear that heavy oil is recognized as the future of the international oil industry, but along with that comes the recognition of the environmental challenges that come with it. Our volunteers are also facing an important issue. As we grow and our mandate expands, so does our workload. We need to broaden our network of volunteers. Q Is conventional heavy oil still a substantial resource, and are companies still investing in it? A Conventional heavy oil is still an important feedstock for the upgrading and refining industry, but we don’t hear a lot about it.

For our members already within the industry, by far the most important issue they are facing is that of sustainability. It’s clear that heavy oil is recognized as the future of the international oil industry, but along with that comes the recognition of the environmental challenges that come with it. It has matured quite a lot, and the major challenges have largely been addressed, although there is always room for improvement and optimization. Today, many smaller companies are becoming involved. The majors are selling conventional heavy oil properties and pouring those funds into enhanced recovery projects. However, we cannot discount the importance of this resource. Q Is the CHOA a lobby group to government? A This issue is one of the challenges we face as the heavy oil and oilsands industry gains importance. We are sometimes perceived to be a lobby group—the media calls wanting a lobby group answer and we don’t have that. We are an organization of individual members, and our membership doesn’t just include executives in oil companies. We are a network to obtain and circulate objective information.

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President and CEO, Oilsands Quest

you need to know him: Oilsands Quest owns Canada’s largest contiguous oilW hy sands land holding—but unlike the vast majority of other oilsands development areas,

most of what Oilsands Quest owns is in Saskatchewan. The company is aggressively pursuing exploration and development of these lands, steadily moving forward with the goal of proving to the world that Canada’s vast bitumen resources do not stop at the border between Alberta and Saskatchewan. Christopher Hopkins leads this exploration team as it comes closer to achieving its goal. 94 · Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook & Directory III

people Q Why do you think the potential bitumen resource in Saskatchewan has been largely overlooked until now? A In the context of exploration, the oilsands industry is relatively young. In 2004, when we first acquired our lands, there was little eastward focus within the industry. Our exploration team had been working on our geological concept since 2000, and we acquired our lands in Saskatchewan to capture the region we felt was most prospective. Although the eastward extension of the Athabasca Basin into Saskatchewan was known and bitumen seeps had been observed in Saskatchewan along the Clearwater River, there had never been a concerted exploration push for oilsands made in the province prior to our arrival. We were ahead of the pack. In addition, the industry began in Alberta with mining operations and, until recently, it was essentially a mining industry. It was not thought that Saskatchewan’s oilsands resources would be suitable for mining development, so the focus on Alberta continued. With the development of in situ operations, industry interest began spreading west and north and now, finally, east. Q What is it like doing business in Saskatchewan compared to Alberta? A Doing business in Saskatchewan has been generally quite positive. The government has proven responsive and is intent on creating a healthy, new industry. A fiscal regime has been

Our exploration team has been working on our geological concept since 2000, when we acquired our lands in Saskatchewan. put in place for oilsands that is competitive with and superior to Alberta’s. Recent royalty changes in Alberta are not being considered by the new Saskatchewan government, which on numerous occasions, has publicly stated its support of the existing fiscal regime. Q What is the most important thing about engaging local stakeholders? A For the nearby communities of northwest Saskatchewan, the most important thing to my way of thinking is to enable the economic activity associated with our presence in the area to directly benefit the local communities. We have emphasized the availability of jobs and contracts, but we are also providing education and training opportunities. Within Saskatchewan as a whole, we are attempting to hire and purchase services to as great an extent as possible. We have hired preferentially from all the communities in northwest Saskatchewan and some of our largest suppliers (for example, fuel, storage tanks, seismic drillers, and mulchers) are Saskatchewan-based.

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CEO, StatoilHydro Canada

you need to know him: Formerly in charge of Norway-based StatoilHydro ASA’s W hy operations in the Middle East, Jossang now leads its team in developing the assets of

North American Oil Sands Corporation (NAOSC), which it acquired in June 2006. The transaction was a major step for Statoil, and now Jossang will lead the charge in joining international expertise with Canadian know-how to develop the company’s important in situ assets, which could produce up to 200,000 barrels per day. 96 · Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook & Directory III

people Q What led you to the Canadian oilsands versus pursuing other potential opportunities? A The available and accessible oil in the world is getting heavier. StatoilHydro decided to build on our experience in heavy oil from the Sincor project in Venezuela. The NAOSC acquisition provides very attractive acreage, and an enthusiastic and highly skilled group of people who have given us a very warm welcome. In addition, their values align perfectly with ours, especially in terms of the environment and involving local communities. Our ambition is to build our international production, which is where Canada’s oilsands come in. The North American Oil Sands acquisition is strategically important because it gives us access to significant recoverable resources, adding production growth post 2010. We are building a portfolio in one of the largest heavy oil provinces in the world, and within an area with political stability. Furthermore, the acquisition develops our global heavy oil portfolio and strengthens our marketing position in North America. Q What have been the biggest surprises in doing business in the Canadian oilsands? A No surprises about the project—we did careful due diligence and have found the business to be largely as we expected.

What has surprised me, however, is the scale of the oilsands, only brought home to me when I realized that the oilsands area is equal to more than 40 per cent of the total area of Norway. The vastness of the boreal forest and the uniformity of the landscape are incredible. Even though I have worked in the Middle East, the vastness here was a surprise. Q What knowledge have you garnered from your international experiences that will be applicable to your Canadian oilsands pursuits? A StatoilHydro brings more than 30 years of experience with developing extremely challenging and complex offshore projects and will apply this competence when we take on the task of developing the NAOSC portfolio. We have a world-leading environmental track record that we will further develop in Canada. We are a technology-based organization with a reputation for innovation, and it is in our culture to look for technological solutions. In fact, StatoilHydro has just recently announced that we will locate in Alberta our centre for heavy oil research and development, and technology to support our worldwide heavy oil business. The Heavy Oil Technology Centre is at a very early stage, but we believe that only through technology development can we as an industry address the major challenges in making oilsands development environmentally sustainable.

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ian potter

Vice-president of energy, Alberta Research Council (ARC)

hy you need to know him: The ARC has a long history in Alberta dating back to the W early 1920s. Over more than eight decades, this not-for-profit organization—which is rec-

ognized both nationally and internationally—has helped industry progress and realize important technologies that have changed the way it operates, and its impacts. As vice-president of energy, Potter provides leadership and direction in a number of areas including bitumen and heavy oil recovery, petrochemical processing, and carbon conversion, capture, and storage. 98 · Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook & Directory III

people Q What research is the ARC currently doing to further heavy oil and oilsands development? A As an applied research and development (R&D) corporation, ARC develops and commercializes technology to grow innovative enterprises. In the case of oilsands, our efforts are wide ranging in both in situ and surface mining recovery and supporting technology areas. A recent program addition is the Carbonates Consortium, where after reviewing data from Alberta’s bitumen carbonate pilots from the 1970s and 1980s, ARC, together with the Alberta Energy Research Institute, industry, and other research providers, have launched a three-year research program to address the challenges of extracting oil from Alberta’s Grosmont formation. This formation accounts for most of Alberta’s bitumen-bearing carbonates and will be vastly more challenging than any other heavy oil carbonate reservoirs on which information is publicly available. Q Who are some of the key industry partners at the forefront of research and development in this area? A Since ARC’s creation in 1921, we have been associated with oilsands development. Over this period, we have been proud to work with many of the pioneers in the industry who understood that technology innovation was key to oilsands development. The technology advances have powered the in-

dustry we know today, and will be equally important in the future. Today, through consortia programs and individual company research request, ARC supports the majority of oilsands operators, both surface mining and in situ. An example is the AERI/ARC Core Industry (AACI) program that provides the technical underpinning that enables industry to minimize its risk and development costs and maintain technology leadership. This in situ based R&D program—now in its 25th year and with over 20 members—focuses on the technology required for field applications, as well as ensuring that there is an effective technology transfer process for the industry. Q In terms of ARC’s focus, how important is environmental research vis-à-vis heavy oil and oilsands development? What are some of these initiatives? A All of ARC’s energy resource R&D is allied with the need for environmental stewardship. This includes understanding and mitigating the short- and long-term environmental consequence of resource recovery. Specific environmental issues that we seek to address are mechanisms to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase energy efficiency, and decrease water use. Add to that the associated efforts underway at ARC to develop effective ways to capture, transport, and sequester carbon dioxide inside geological formations, as well as promoting integrated landscape management, and you get real, long-term socioeconomic environmental improvements.

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Sustainability and growth of industry hinge on effective emissions reductions by Darrell Stonehouse · Photos by Joey Podlubny itigating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions thought by many to contribute to global warming is one of the key challenges facing oilsands producers as the industry continues its rapid expansion. Annual GHG emissions from oilsands developments are expected to add up to around 40 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent in 2007, around 8 per cent of total Canadian emissions. The oilsands industry is projected to emit almost 50 per cent of the business-as-usual growth in Canada’s total emissions between 2003 and 2010, making it the single largest contributor to emissions growth, according to the Pembina Institute, an Alberta-based environmental group. With the Canadian government targeting a 20 per cent cut in total GHG production by 2020, and a 60 per cent reduction by 2050, means need to be found to reduce emissions, if the Alberta government and industry hope to achieve the goal of increasing production threefold over the next two decades.

Alberta, the federal government, and industry all have plans to make this happen. All are based on putting a price on carbon to encourage development of new technologies to reduce (CO2) production. Alberta was the first province in Canada to introduce climate change legislation in 2002. Early last year, it put some bite to that legislation by introducing new rules requiring large industrial emitters like the oilsands industry to reduce its emissions intensity by 12 per cent beginning in July 2007. If developers can’t meet those targets, they have two options. The first is to pay into an Alberta-based technology fund that will be used to develop infrastructure for reducing emissions or to support research into new technologies. Large emitters will be required to pay $15 per tonne to the technology fund for every tonne above the 12 per cent target. »

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Or, companies can buy carbon credits by investing in projects outside their operations to offset excess emissions. For example, they could buy offsets from farming operations that have changed their tillage practices to release fewer GHG emissions compared to normal tillage practices. Prior to purchase, the offset reductions must be verified by a third party to ensure the emission reductions are real, says the government. The federal government announced its climate change plan last April. It then enlisted the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) to study the issue. In early January, NRTEE came back with its report, entitled Getting to 2050: Canada’s Transition to a Low-emission Future, which calls for putting a price on carbon through either a carbon tax, a cap-and-trade system, or both, to encourage industry to develop emissions reduction technologies.

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A group of industrial companies including Alberta’s biggest oilsands developers is proposing a multibillion-dollar plan to capture and store emissions from oilsands developments underground. “Our analysis shows that putting a price on emissions is the most effective tool to achieve deep reductions over the long term,” says NRTEE chair Glen Murray. “An early and clear price signal is needed to influence the investment decisions by industry in the technology and innovation required to achieve deep reductions.” The federal government has repeatedly said it has no plans on introducing a carbon tax, leaving a cap-and-trade system as the most likely legislative stick to encourage innovation. With a cap-and-trade system, government sets a limit on GHG emissions from a specific industry and then allocates each player their portion of the allowance. It then starts ratcheting down the allocation over time and emitters either cut their emissions or buy credits on the open market. California introduced a cap-and-trade system in late 2006 in an effort to cut its emissions by 25 per cent by 2020. Mandatory caps will begin in 2012 and then the government will begin cutting emissions allocations towards meeting its goal. No cost of the program is yet available. NRTEE, however, says the sooner oilsands companies

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CO2 in depleted oil reservoirs—which would provide the economic benefit of enhanced oil recovery—will not be enough to mitigate coming levels of emissions growth. Rather, it says policy incentives need to be in place to encourage CO2 storage in places such as deep saline aquifers, which would not provide for the attractiveness of accessing passed-by oil or gas.

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Saving the Athabasca What’s being done to protect the river at the heart of the oilsands industry by Paul Stastny · Photos by Joey Podlubny ony Boschmann is among a growing contingent that includes environmentalists, aboriginals, and average citizens who are concerned about the effect of oilsands developments on groundwater, and river quality and flows in the Athabasca region. Boschmann is the current environmental director for the Athabasca Tribal Council, which represents the interests  of northeastern Alberta’s five First Nations. Many of these tribes live close to the land. And some, such as the Fort McKay First Nation, are now virtually surrounded by oilsands projects. “Is government committed to protecting and stewarding the environment? I would say they have a ways to go,” he says bluntly. What sets Boschmann’s criticism apart from the rest is that until recently he was a government employee. For four and a half years, he worked for Alberta Environment, Alberta’s freshwater regulator. He spent the last two years as a field investigator in Fort McMurray. “In working for Alberta Environment, I got to see where the regulatory backstop was and just how much [environmental] protection was going on. I played a role in that, and quite frankly, that’s why I left. There’s just no political commitment,” he says. That Alberta Environment has only two field staff stationed at Fort McMurray—in the midst of one of the world’s largest industrial development areas—is one example he cites.

Environmental sentiments are seldom expressed with a sugar coating. But Boschmann isn’t saying anything particularly new. The environmental group Pembina Institute, University of Alberta professor David Schnindler, and a host of others have voiced similar sentiments—that the pace of oilsands development is moving too quickly and that, in relation to water issues, there is a lack of information about the potential impacts. To this, however, Preston McEachern, section head for the oilsands environmental management division with Alberta Environment, says, “We actually do have a lot of information right now. Perhaps there’s a shortage on making that information available to the public because there is so much of it and so few people to communicate it.” He also makes the point that while Alberta Environment may only have two field staff in Fort McMurray, they join a number of other regulators from Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board and Alberta Sustainable Resources Development. Beyond that, various automated environmental monitoring systems have been put in place. And the funding for the Cumulative Environmental Management Association (CEMA), a multi-stakeholder non-governmental organization established in Fort McMurray to protect the environment in the Wood Buffalo region, has increased from $1 million in 2000 to over $7 million in 2007. One issue in particular that has been extensively studied by Alberta Environment is downstream contamination in the » Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook & Directory III · 105

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The Athabasca River (above) and the North Saskatchewan River (below) are both impacted by oilsands development.

Athabasca River delta at Fort Chipewyan. Scientists have shown that higher concentrations of mercury and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) accumulate in the delta. On this point, even Boschmann concedes that oilsands may not be the cause. “It’s hard to point a direct finger. It still has to be determined,” he says. McEachern is less uncertain. He says mercury accumulates in fish throughout northern Alberta. Studies from the early 1990s, which predate the industrial buildup in the region, link mercury to natural geological deposits and possibility to airborne industrial materials. “Throughout Canada, we’ve had deposition of mercury from coal-burning power generation,” McEachern says. “But it doesn’t have anything to do with the oilsands. In fact, if you look at some of the concentrations in tailing ponds, mercury levels are quite low.” Similarly, the occurrence of PAHs in the sediments of the Athabasca River delta aren’t surprising, given that the banks seep bitumen. “From the town of Fort McMurray down to probably the Firebag River, you can see oilsands formation on the banks,” he says. Higher concentrations of PAHs are actually found in some tributaries to the Athabasca River rather than in the Athabasca delta, which also points to erosion, not oilsands projects, as the source. In recent years, PAH levels have actually been declining, following almost two decades of dry conditions. Lower flows result in less erosion. Another major concern is water withdrawal from the

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ENVIRONMENT Athabasca River. Dan Woynillowicz, a senior policy analyst with the Pembina Institute who authored a report in 2006 titled Troubled Waters, Troubling Trends: Technology and Policy Options to Reduce Water Usage in Oil and Oil Sands Development in Alberta, says that once the full roster of proposed oilsands projects are built, they could consume as much as 15 to 20 per cent of the Athabasca River’s water during low flows. By way of context, the Athabasca is currently one of Alberta’s least allocated rivers. Only about 3.6 per cent of the river’s total annual water supply is allocated for industry, agriculture, municipalities, and other uses, according to Alberta Environment. This compares to an almost 60 per cent allocation for the South Saskatchewan River basin. Unlike most of Alberta’s other major rivers, however, the Athabasca isn’t dam controlled. “So the real issue, from an environmental standpoint, is the Athabasca River’s wide fluctuation in seasonal flow,” explains McEachern. Average annual flows of about 600 cubic metres per second dwindle to about 100 cubic metres per second in the winter. So while currently oilsands developments account for just 1 per cent of annual flows, this actually becomes about 6 per cent during the winter’s low flow rate. With full development, annual water usage is expected to climb to between 4 and 5 per cent. This would become a significant 24 to 30 per cent water consumption during low flows. “So with the assistance of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, we’ve put into place a water management »

Decreasing water use is seen as one of the most important issues the industry faces.

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ENVIRONMENT Water for Life H2O uncovered The government’s Water for Life strategy addresses both water quantity and quality issues. No oilsands operation is allowed to discharge its process water into rivers. Tailings ponds treat process water from oilsands mining operations. They currently cover an estimated 50 square kilometres in northern Alberta. Small amounts of process water from the tailings ponds leak into aquifers. Suncor’s Pond 1, for example, leaks into an aquifer at a rate of 65 litres per second. The aquifer then drains into the Athabasca River at the rate of about 5,000 litres per second. The quality of water leaking from tailings ponds into aquifers can be better than the water quality in the aquifer. The reason for this is that the aquifer may actively flow through oilsands deposits, whereas the seepage from ponds may take decades to filter through clean earth, thereby undergoing biological treatment of the organics.

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framework—basically an in-stream flow-needs assessment,” McEachern says. Four years of multi-stakeholder research, which included CEMA, went into determining how much water needs to stay in the river. The result of this work divides flows into green, yellow, and red categories. Green represents the withdrawal of 15 per cent of median weekly flows during high flows, yellow is 10 per cent at lower flows, and red is 5 per cent during low flows.

In the highly contentious arena of environmental protection, opinions will differ on what constitutes “adequate protection.” “So, you never get up to the 24 per cent withdrawal people are concerned about,” McEachern says. “That just won’t be allowed to happen. The most that anybody will be able to take is 15 per cent cumulatively. And during super-dry conditions, the most water that could be taken out is 8 cubic metres per second.” In the highly contentious arena of environmental protection, opinions will differ on what constitutes “adequate protection.” But on one issue most environmental critics seem to agree: that government has to play the leading role. “It’s easy to point the finger at industry—the bad boy— but industry has proven worldwide that they can step up and be environmentally sound,” Boschmann says. “They just need a proper regulatory backstop.”

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As oilsands reclamation processes evolve, industry comes closer to its first official certificate by Dina O’Meara “There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.” — Robert Lynd, Irish essayist and nationalist (1879–1949)

n the surface, the process of reclamation seems simple—make a spot look the same as it did before development occurred. But, both industry and the public know, to do so requires monumental efforts by numerous teams of dedicated personnel over decades of time. The art of reclamation is a living one, constantly evolving as knowledge is gained, and insight of the land and all that lives on it, and as resource extraction technologies change. Since companies started large-scale commercial development of the Athabasca oilsands region in northeastern Alberta 40-odd years ago, the understanding of what “returning the land to the land” entails has changed substantially, as have reclamation programs. The area of northern boreal forest is home to hundreds

of species of plants, grasses, and moss, providing habitat for deer, moose, muskrat, and beaver. Smaller animals like shrews, voles, squirrels, and bats abound, as well as marten, fisher, ermine, mink, wolverine, fox, wolf, and bear. In and around the waterways and muskeg, fish, toads, ducks, and geese settle, while owls, woodpeckers, sparrows, and songbirds flit about the forest. All must be accounted for, through technical and experiential data provided by scientists, field workers, and First Nations participants. Reclamation took a holistic turn in the late 1990s to encompass not only moving earth back, but also including painstaking detail on how to landscape, with what, and when. All of the planning boils down to how best return the disturbed land to as close to its original state as possible. Alberta Environment, Sustainable Resource Development, the Energy Resources Conservation Board, and Environment Canada all take part in the process, setting out complex regulatory requirements and monitoring progress. “What oilsands companies put back into the earth is just as important to us as what they take out,” says Josh Stewart, »

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ENVIRONMENT spokesman for Alberta Environment. “We want them to put as much effort to putting back the soil as what they do to take oil out of it. Our role in this is to make sure it’s being done properly and with the best interest of the environment in mind.” The first step of any resource-related project is the environmental impact assessment, which requires the inclusion of proposed conservation and reclamation plans when filed with the provincial regulators. Plans have to demonstrate sustainability, and include data as diverse as soil composition to wildlife counts. If the project is approved and goes ahead, the plan is updated and monitored on a regular basis, with each corporation following its own best practices and filing annual reports to the government agencies. Every 10 years, companies’ operating licences are renewed through Alberta Environment, and the cumulative progress of reclamation efforts is documented, with updated plans for the future included. It is up to each operation how much land is reclaimed each year. Plants, animals, air, water, and ultimately people are the stakeholders; the indigenous population whose traditional

mining giant will have planted five million trees and shrubs in reclaimed areas. Three teams, each with approximately 10 scientists, technicians, and engineers work full-time on the operations, research and development, and full environmental aspects of reclamation at Syncrude, including aquatics and geotechnical data. In addition to the 30 specialists, more than 100 contractors, mostly tree planters, work on reclamation. Reclamation starts immediately as earth is stripped. The overburden, or about 30 metres of clay and sand above the oilsands, is separated and put into three general piles: the forest floor layer—including seeds, twigs, and organic matter—is stripped first; then the muskeg; then the soft sediment before the bedrock. In 2007, Syncrude handled five million cubic metres of soil, or about one million tons per day. In discussion with its First Nations partners about five years ago, the joint venture decided to use the first layer of scraping, with all its native seeds and spores, as a top layer to increase the diversity of the sites. The efforts have proven so successful it is now a mandatory process

A look at Syncrude’s Gateway Hill in 1981, when it was an active mine, shows it as a very different site than the reclaimed photo on page 109. Gateway Hill stands to be the first oilsands area to be granted a certificate of reclamation from the Government of Alberta. It has not received this certificate yet, and Alberta Environment says that is because it will set a precedent, so everything must be perfect. Photo: Supplied by Syncrude

lands are being disturbed, as well as nearby urban communities and the corporations investing billions of dollars into the oilsands industry. The resources are huge and the impact of industry just as large, and controversial at best. Approximately 4,264 oilsands lease agreements are currently in place with the province, totalling 64,919 square kilometres. An area of almost 42,000 hectares is currently active for oilsands development, and almost 6,500 hectares of land area was undergoing active reclamation by the end of 2006. The largest oilsands developer in the world, Syncrude, had reclaimed approximately 22 per cent of its 19,973 hectares of mined lands by the end of 2006. This year, it hopes to be the first oilsands venture to receive a certificate of reclamation from the provincial government for its Gateway Hill reclamation. “We know that we want to progress reclamation continually every year,” says Steve Gaudet, Syncrude’s manager of environment. “We don’t want to wait to year 50, when we’re closing, to look around and say, ‘Hmm…what do we do now?’” Since before launching mining operations at Mildred Lake in 1978, Syncrude has been fine-tuning its reclamation plans, incorporating new technologies as they arise and new philosophies around the environment. By 2008, the 110 · Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook & Directory III

for all oilsands operators, and a good example of positive ongoing consultation with aboriginal communities. An ongoing challenge is in reclaiming the final landscape types that Syncrude hasn’t tackled yet, including creating what is known as a “pit lake” out of a tailings site once it’s fully reclaimed. “We’ve tackled a lot of the tailings sand landscapes; we’ve demonstrated that we know how to reclaim the overburden hill landscapes,” Gaudet says. “The next big one we want to demonstrate is how to reclaim a lake.” Syncrude expects to have the data in for its baseline lake reclamation project by 2012. “You don’t have a full landscape figured out until you’ve done both the lake and waterways, plus the land. That’s the challenge for us over the next few years—to have the baseline lake reclaimed.” Instrumented watershed research—the study of how water moves on, through, and under reclaimed landscapes—has been conducted in conjunction with several universities. The information has been incorporated into reclamation planning and applied to tailings sites as well as overburden hill sites. The granddaddy of all oilsands companies, Suncor, has been mining the oilsands since 1967, disrupting about 13,000 hectares of land in the process. »

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The road to officially recognized reclamation must start to be travelled from a project’s beginnings.

“The reclamation that we’re doing now looks very different from what we were doing 20 or 30 years ago,” says spokeswoman Darcie Park. At one point, she explains, crews used grass as a primary seed to fix soil and alleviate erosion on reclamation projects. As the sites were monitored over the years, teams soon discovered grass had the less-than-desirable property to also choke out other plants. Today they sow barley instead, the grain providing stability but lasting only a season, allowing other vegetation to take root. Landscaping has changed substantially as well, now following natural contours of the land to blend with surrounding environments, rather than planting straight lines of limited species of plants, shrubs, and trees. The focus of reclamation isn’t solely on land; wetlands, including muskeg, marshes, and shallow ponds, cover approximately half of the natural landscape in the oilsands region, composing a major component of the undisturbed boreal ecosystem. They play a vital role in improving the biological functioning of many oilsands reclamation landscapes, one the Cumulative Environmental Management Association (CEMA) of Fort McMurray, works hard at retaining. The association was established in the region in 2000, and is governed by 46 members representing all levels of government, industry, regulatory bodies, environmental groups, aboriginal groups, and the local health authority. It runs six main working groups, including a traditional knowledge group, which conducts technical and scientific studies in the region, collecting information and presenting recommendations to industry and government. CEMA says wetlands support birds, mammals, fish, amphibians, and reptiles, and also provide habitats for feeding, nesting, or cover. “The proper functioning of these 112 · Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook & Directory III

wetlands—and hence the degree of benefit derived from these wetlands—will depend on key factors that must be addressed during their design phase,” the Reclamation Working Group stated in its December 2007 Wetlands Reclamation Guidelines. “Factors such as area, depth, shape, surrounding landscape material, and contributing water quality and quantity will control the concentrations of dissolved substances in the wetlands. “These factors must be considered in conjunction with climatological factors such as seasonal cycles of precipitation and ice cover and, potentially, climate change. Wetlands design must account for all of these processes in order to maximize the treatment capacity of constructed wetlands.” For oilsands newbie Total E&P Canada, progressive reclamation, beginning as soon as physically possible, will be key to operations. Total is involved in a mining/in situ project at Joslyn, as well as an in situ project at Surmont. Both are in early stages of production. Hugh Campbell is the company’s manager of health, safety and environment. A Suncor veteran, he says one of the main technologies to be used in mining operations will be a belt filter system, which will draw about 60 per cent of the water out of tailings, reducing the amount in ponds by up to six million cubic metres a year, and producing more solids as bottom fill on reclamation sites. “The challenges are several,” Campbell says. “One is temporal—the amount of time it takes to hand the land back to a natural state is a lifetime.” “Ideally you want to reclaim land to the same it was before development, but we know that’s not possible. The other challenge is the very low growth season. Native plant species are very slow growing and it takes a long time to get them back.” Officially returning the land to the Crown Although there have been many advancements in reclamation over the years, the province has yet to issue a certificate recognizing an oilsands operator’s reclamation effort to be acceptable. The reasons why aren’t straightforward. As mentioned, Syncrude stands to be among the first oilsands companies to be granted a certificate of reclamation from the provincial government. The operator will receive one not because Syncrude is the most successful at reclamation, but because it has overcome one of the major barriers companies face when considering applying for certification: access. Once a certificate is issued, the land reclaimed reverts back to the Crown. If the land is surrounded by active operations, a certificate—although nice and shiny—means all activities on the land are now restricted; therefore if a company needs to run a power line through it or build a loading lot on its border, new applications will need to be made. Syncrude’s Gateway Hill is surrounded by highways now, and isolated from other mining. On the government side, Alberta Environment says it has taken its time in granting a certificate because it wants to start out on the right foot, Stewart says. “Before setting a precedent, and this first certificate certainly will, we want to make sure everything’s perfect.”

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From cold heavy oil optimization to mine reclamation, Saskatchewan’s research organizations make their mark by Melanie Collison askatchewan is second only to Alberta in oil production in Canada. A total of 35 billion barrels of light, medium, and heavy oil has been discovered to date in the province. Recoverable heavy oil is estimated at 19.5 billion barrels, with the rest roughly evenly split between medium and light. While there’s neither production nor proven reserves in Saskatchewan’s oilsands yet, two companies report clear evidence of substantial deposits in their land positions. The oil and gas industry invests $1.5 billion to $2 billion annually in exploration and development and generates more than $1 billion annually in revenues for the provincial government. The government in turn broadly supports industry research and development (R&D). The Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC), which has branches in both Saskatoon and Regina, is the main R&D and technology commercialization organization for the province. The Petroleum Technology Research Centre (PTRC) is a notfor-profit R&D organization with offices and laboratories in Regina. It is best known for its involvement with the Weyburn-Midale CO2 Project, the world’s largest carbon dioxide storage and enhanced oil recovery project. Both the University of Regina (U of R) and University of Saskatchewan (U of S) in Saskatoon have energyrelated faculties. The most prominent current research focuses on enhancing heavy oil recovery by using vapourized solvents to re-pressurize reservoirs partially depleted by primary production. Injected as a gas, the solvent migrates to the far reaches of the reservoir and mobilizes the remaining oil by making it less viscous. Encouraging results in a group of pilot projects have made researchers—and the provincial government—hopeful that vapourized solvents can boost the established 5 to 10 per cent recovery rate to between 30 and 50 per cent. The increase would also be positive in terms of reserves: from 653 million barrels to between 5 and 8 billion barrels. The pilot projects are the field research phase of JIVE— joint implementation of vapour extraction. It’s a three-year, $9.6-million collaboration exploring different ways of using solvent instead of steam for more efficient, economically viable, and environmentally responsible extraction. Researchers have concluded that Saskatchewan’s oil reservoirs are not well-suited to steaming techniques commonly used in Alberta. Most deposits are less than 10 metres thick, the minimum for steam to be viable, says

Doug Soveran, of the energy division of the Saskatchewan Research Council. There is not a ready supply of surface water near the deposits anyway, and groundwater would have to be treated to be usable. Solvent injection is considered to be environmentally preferable to steam on several counts. The solvent needs to be warmed only to the temperature of the reservoir, which uses far less energy than heating water to steam. There’s less energy lost during the heating process and during injection downhole. Less energy consumption also means less greenhouse gas emissions. It is an environmental bonus that the same reservoirs suitable for JIVE technology are expected to lend themselves to CO2 sequestration when production is complete. Project leaders are hopeful JIVE will prove feasible in 80 per cent of Saskatchewan’s heavy oil reservoirs, plus some medium oil reservoirs. The participants are examining various injection and production schemes, different solvent combinations, and several well configurations in the field. The fieldwork is coordinated with laboratory tests, scaled physical modelling, and numerical simulations. JIVE collaborators include the SRC—which is doing scale physical modelling—the PTRC, Husky Energy, Nexen, and Canadian Natural Resources. The U of R and Alberta Research Council (ARC) contribute intellectual property. ARC is doing numerical modelling, Soveran says. Husky, Nexen, and Canadian Natural together account for 60 per cent of heavy oil production and 40 per cent of total oil production in Saskatchewan. Husky’s and Nexen’s pilots are in west-central Saskatchewan, around Lloydminster, and Canadian Natural’s is across the border in Alberta. Western Economic Diversification and Saskatchewan Industry and Resources supplement the industry funding, along with Sustainable Development Technology Canada, the federal government’s arm’s-length body that helps commercialize cleaner technologies. Now past the halfway mark in the project, industry reports it has proved the cold vapour extraction (VAPEX) process feasible, but there remains considerable engineering to do to optimize the process, both to get more oil out and to recover the expensive solvent for reuse. It is also necessary, of course, to select suitable reservoirs. Beyond its involvement with the JIVE project, the U of R’s petroleum systems engineering department within the Faculty of Engineering has a portfolio of research largely focusing on underground heavy oil and oilsands exploitation, that is, enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and steam

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research Investigations include: assisted gravity drainage (SAGD). » n optimizing CO2 EOR in conjunction with CO2 storage; n improving flooding displacement efficiency; n mass transfer in a crude oil-reservoir brine-CO2 system under reservoir conditions; n theoretical and experimental application of chemicals in conventional and heavy oil reservoirs under bottom-water conditions; n theoretical study and field application of SAGD processes; n modifying vapour injection processes for fractured reservoirs and evaluating the diffusion in a mixture of gases during VAPEX process; n evaluating gel systems to modify them for permeability under CO2 injection; n developing a new gel-foam for improving the water conformance in wormhole reservoirs—wormholes are created by the cold heavy oil production with sand (CHOPS) process; n continued refinement of cold heavy oil production technologies. Meanwhile, the U of S, geographically much closer to the main heavy oil production zone around Lloydminster and to the northern oilsands, has an interdisciplinary team that has been collaborating with Environment Canada since 2003 on how to reconstruct boreal forest landscapes disturbed by Syncrude Canada. Syncrude has the largest oilsands surface mines in the world.

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To get at the massive deposits of oilsands—a stiff, sticky scramble of clay, heavy metals, salts, sulphur, hydrocarbons, and water droplets—Syncrude scrapes away the overburden of clay shale, which unfortunately releases salts that can contaminate groundwater. The shale is piled into large hills that will eventually be redistributed as part of industry’s requirement to reclaim the land to a level of productivity equal to its initial condition. The research team aims to minimize the release of salts during this process and to restore the overburden fill into productive boreal ecosystems. “We have fairly sound results on it. The science and the processes are well understood,” says Jim Hendry, a professor of geochemistry who has been one of up to 25 scientists working on the project. Syncrude’s $685,000 investment has been buttressed by $526,600 from the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Canada’s federal science research funding agency. Members of the research team have also been working on techniques to reclaim waste materials such as sulphur and coke from oilsands mining and refining. Composed almost entirely of carbon, coke is produced as a byproduct of extracting bitumen from the oilsands. The U of S also has chemical engineers working on numerous aspects of cleaner, more efficient energy production, processing, and transport under the leadership of Ajay K. Dalai, Canada Research Chair in Bioenergy and Environmentally Friendly Chemical Processing.

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Industry association builds foundation for technological advances by Melanie Collison · Photos by Joey Podlubny anada’s oil industry has long believed its biggest challenge is to develop new processes and tools to extract the vast amount of oil it has already discovered but is not yet able to produce commercially. Much of Alberta’s future energy wealth lies in unconventional hydrocarbons—sticky, sand-saturated bitumen, as stiff as molasses in January, fouled by heavy metals, sulphur, and other contaminants; and heavy oil too thick to flow; as well as methane trapped shale and coal seams. The energy cost of producing unconventional hydrocarbons is considerably higher than conventional production, and the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions such as carbon dioxide (CO2) are therefore much greater. With climate change at the forefront of international concern, there is an acceleration of the need to devise more efficient and environmentally responsible technologies to produce hydrocarbons trapped in complex reservoirs in a difficult climate. Despite the intensely competitive nature of the industry, companies and industry groups have been collaborating on research and development (R&D) in a formal way since the mid-1990s under the umbrella of the Petroleum Technology Alliance of Canada (PTAC).

How PTAC works PTAC’s mandate is to apply the leverage of collaborative R&D and financing while improving the environmental, economic, social, and safety performance of the hydrocarbon industry. PTAC establishes technical steering committees from among its more than 200 members, which are represented from industry, government, service companies, and research organizations. The committees identify shared problems and define joint research projects to solve them. PTAC staff guide the projects to the request-for-proposals stage and coordinate funding. A steering committee participant or third party takes over as architect of the research programs and projects, which PTAC shepherds through to completion. Having long worked to protect the environment through technology, PTAC is perfectly positioned to address the industrial emissions of GHGs into the atmosphere. Battling greenhouse gas emissions In a recent interview, PTAC president Soheil Asgarpour said one much-discussed solution to climate

change—simplistically explained—is to capture CO2 at industrial smokestacks, pipe it to reservoirs partially depleted by primary production, and inject it to re-pressurize the reservoirs and mobilize sluggish oil. A consortium PTAC has brought together in recent months has been exploring the complexities of carbon capture and re-use, using sources in Alberta’s most intensely industrial region, the so-called Industrial Heartland northeast of Edmonton. The 17 project collaborators include suppliers of industrial gases and pipeline companies, as well as energy producers and research organizations. Two levels of government, service companies, and research contributed $300,000 in funding. The engineering division of SNC-Lavalin managed the project, which evaluated different representative CO2 sources to learn what is required to aggregate different quality types of CO2. Considerations included CO2 purification, dehydration and compression requirements, and the merits of a single compression site to satisfy pipeline requirements to users. Alberta is considered an excellent candidate for locating a CO2 pipeline collection and distribution system because it has both large CO2 emitters and reservoirs that could benefit from recovery enhancement technologies. The first phase of the study covered CO2 collection and delivery to a collection depot. The next step is to choose a destination and cost out long-distance delivery. In another current project, Asgarpour said, PTAC is analyzing three alternatives to using high-value natural gas in oilsands production and refining as both a fuel and a source of hydrogen molecules. The first option is gasification of coke, a byproduct of refining bitumen, as well as coal, which is plentiful and cheap in Alberta. Sitting atop more than one-quarter of the total coal resources in the world, Alberta measures its supply of sub-bituminous coal in centuries. Gasification is a low emission thermal process, especially when it is combined with CO2 sequestration, in which lowquality organic materials containing carbon and hydrogen are converted into high-value clean energy products. Instead of combusting the coke and coal, the process breaks down their chemical composition, avoiding emissions and leaving behind inert slag. Clean coal technology is looked upon with favour in Alberta. Planning is already well underway for the Dodds-Roundhill Coal Gasification Project 80 kilometres »

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research The federal and provincial governments are working with industry members on evaluating these options. As is often the case with PTAC-managed projects, the results are considered proprietary by the companies for as long as competitive aspects are affected.

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PTAC is working on ways to improve the way steam is used in in situ operations.

southeast of Edmonton, due south of the Industrial Heartland. If approved, it will be the first commercial coal gasification project in Canada. The project’s purpose is to produce hydrogen to satisfy the enormous demand that will be created with the construction of numerous bitumen upgraders planned for the Heartland. Its proponents anticipate up to 12,500 tonnes per day of commercial-grade CO2 suitable for enhanced oil recovery could be produced.

Despite the intensely the competitive nature of the industry, companies and industry groups have been collaborating on research and development in a formal way since the mid1990s under the PTAC umbrella. Asgarpour says the second study option is looking for a technology to mix water into bitumen to convert it into a micro-emulsion suitable for burning as energy. The big stumbling block is that burning the emulsion would require first stripping out impurities that create toxic emissions when burned—the oxides of nitrogen and sulphur known as NOx and SOx. Nuclear energy is the third option being studied. Controversy has been swirling about the use of nuclear power in Alberta since Energy Alberta and Atomic Energy Canada, announced plans in 2007 to apply to build a 2,200-megawatt nuclear power plant in northern Alberta. Ontario-based Bruce Power has now taken over the proposed project. Proponents of nuclear power say that it’s a solution to climate change because it produces no GHG emissions— however, Asgarpour says nuclear would face challenges when it comes to supporting oilsands development. He explains that nuclear can provide heat or power (or hydrogen), but either way the overall process efficiency will be less than the 80 per cent of the efficiency achievable with cogeneration and distributed steam generation. “Energy losses to move heat from a large power plant to widespread injection sites would be huge. Already SAGD operations suffer up to 10 to 15 per cent of the steam energy lost in the shorter pipelines.” 116 · Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook & Directory III

Another area of particular interest to PTAC is improving the rate at which bitumen deposits can be recovered commercially beyond the current 7 to 10 per cent. “We have numerous areas that we have no technology that can be applied to recover the bitumen,” Asgarpour says, for example, if the pay zone is too thin, there is a shale barrier, there is the presence of gas or water, or the pressure is too low. “PTAC has been looking at innovative technologies to exploit those reserves. If we get our recovery higher we’ll have more reserves than the entire Middle East.” Ideas being discussed include: n Direct contact steam generation to reduce stack energy losses, and inject CO2 as well as steam to soften the bitumen. It would require injecting fuel, oxygen, or air, and water, but would save the heat currently lost up the stack and through pipelines when steam is centrally generated on the surface. Combustion gases would be contained within the casing, which would both reduce GHG emissions and salvage water produced by combustion, as well as energy trapped in exhaust. n Potentially in the long term to inject water and nutrients plus bacteria to convert hydrocarbon to methane and CO2. Carbonates PTAC recently announced the launch of a carbonate research program—an industry/government project designed to eventually result in field production pilots. There is currently no commercial production technology for Alberta’s carbonate bitumen, although some pilot testing was conducted during the 1970s and 1980s. Why is it so difficult to produce carbonate bitumen? PTAC calls it an extremely viscous resource trapped in a complex geological environment. Not only are temperatures and pressures low, but also carbonates are characterized by fractures, vugs, and karsts—essentially big holes that can cause circulation loss during drilling, and pathways for steam to escape the reservoir. “To develop these carbonate resources is a huge risk,” says Roy Coates, senio`r research engineer with the Alberta Research Council (ARC). “We need an R&D program and risk-sharing mechanism to help.” The program works like this: six participants, including government, will contribute a total of $2.1 million over the next three years. After that, the program will continue to move in three-year increments. The funds will be used to examine four components of carbonate recovery issues: geology, recovery processes, production engineering, and field design and support. Coates says the idea is to create a knowledge centre for carbonates.

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From mapping to methane

University of Calgary creates spinoffs to revolutionize heavy oil and oilsands production by Mark Lowey · Photos by Joey Podlubny

fledgling company spun off from University of Calgary (U of C) research is helping producers recover more and higher-quality heavy oil, while another new spinoff firm promises to revolutionize the industry. Both companies—Gushor and Profero Energy—are focused on commercializing discoveries about how microorganisms naturally break down, or biodegrade, crude oil originally in place to form heavy oil deposits. The ongoing research is led by petroleum geologist Steve Larter and his team at the U of C, and microbiologist Ian Head and his colleagues at the University of Newcastle in the United Kingdom. In a widely reported study published in December 2007 in the prestigious science journal Nature, they described how the biodegradation process formed the oilsands bitumen and heavy oil deposits found in Alberta and Saskatchewan. “This is the main process that’s occurring all over the Earth, in any oil reservoir where you’ve got biodegradation,” says Larter, the U of C’s Canada Research chair in petroleum geology.

Biodegradation has a profound impact on the industry’s ability to recover and produce heavy oil, says Jennifer Adams, Gushor’s chief executive, a PhD student of Larter’s, and an author on the Nature paper. “The fluid characteristics in every reservoir are unique,” Adams says. “Companies need to map the geochemical variations resulting from biodegradation, to determine how this will impact the flow properties of the reservoir.” Biodegradation is caused by anaerobic (not needing oxygen) micro-organisms that live in many oil reservoirs. Over millions of years, these microbes consume the lighterend hydrocarbons in the crude oil originally deposited, turning it into gooey heavy oil and ultimately into even more degraded oilsands. The process has created deposits where the heavy oil’s viscosity, or ability to flow, can vary by up to three orders of magnitude over short distances—both laterally and in vertical columns—within a single reservoir. It’s like going from “maple syrup to peanut butter,” Adams says. The thicker the oil, the less likely that recovery methods »

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research New research facility to boost U of C’s oilsands testing University of Calgary scientists will soon have a new $22-million test bed for developing more energy efficient and environmentally friendly ways of producing oilsands Construction of the Alberta Ingenuity Centre for In Situ Energy’s (AICISE’s) new testing facility at the U of C is scheduled to start in May 2008 and be completed within nine months, says Pedro Pereira-Almao, AICISE’s co-director and professor of chemical and petroleum engineering. Much of the budget, which includes a $9.3-million grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and $6 million from the Alberta Science and Research Investments Program, is to purchase new state-of-the-art analytical equipment. AICISE researchers will be able to test nanoparticle-sized chemical catalysts, in situ combustion, and other novel methods for recovering and upgrading in situ bitumen from reservoirs, on a larger scale than is possible in the laboratory, PereiraAlmao says. “We’re moving from lab bench experiments to scalable test units.”

In situ bitumen deposits are too deep to be surface mined. They comprise more than 90 per cent of Alberta’s 174 billion barrels of oilsands reserves. AICISE was created in 2004 by Alberta Ingenuity, the U of C’s Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy, the Schulich School of Engineering, and the Faculty of Science. The research centre is developing “next-generation” technologies to recover and produce Alberta’s huge in situ oilsands resource using much less energy and with minimal environmental impact compared with current processes—such as steam assisted gravity drainage. The facility’s test units or experimental models—including some up to three metres long and two metres high—will use actual bitumen samples and simulate continuously running oilsands operations. Such models will give researchers a clearer picture of how their new recovery and upgrading processes will work under real operating conditions in actual in situ reservoirs. The research centre has attracted four more industry partners in addition to founding industry partner Shell. They are ConocoPhillips, Nexen, Total, and the Spanish firm Repsol YPF. “Worldwide, they’ve all got substantial technology bases, which is important because they’re equal partners in the centre,” says Steve Larter, AICISE co-chair and U of C professor of geosciences.

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research such as cold production or steam assisted gravity drainage, will “coax” the oil to flow into production wells. Compounding the recovery challenge is that the reservoir’s permeability—its geological structure through which oil flows or doesn’t flow—can also vary by an order of magnitude (a factor of 10) within a single reservoir. With a good understanding of both the reservoir’s geological properties and the viscosity variations, or gradients of the oil, companies can design the optimal process to recover and produce the most or highest-quality heavy oil. Enter Gushor. This private company builds on years of Larter’s research on biodegradation, including new methods for analyzing and mapping the viscosity gradients of heavy oil reservoirs. Gushor couples this mapping technique with geochemical analysis of the oil’s quality and of the reservoir’s structure. The company’s team includes director and engineering advisor Ian Gates, a reservoir simulation expert in the U of C’s Schulich School of Engineering, and reservoir simulation expert for both Profero and Gushor. Larter is also a director and scientific advisor. “Gushor tries to integrate both the geology and the geochemistry—the permeability and the viscosity together—so that companies can make decisions about how best to maximize recovery,” Adams explains. The company’s team includes engineering advisor Ian Gates, a reservoir simulation expert in the U of C’s Schulich School of Engineering. Larter is a scientific advisor.

Gushor also has developed new methods and equipment to measure heavy oil viscosity, using core samples and also without having to extract oil from core. These measurements can be used to determine expected oil-recovery rates. Gushor has also developed new methods and equipment to measure heavy oil viscosity, using core samples and also without having to extract oil from core. These measurements can be used to determine expected oil recovery rates. Adams notes that Gushor “not only gives companies the analytical results, we give them a report explaining what the data mean and how it may impact the development plans for that specific reservoir.” Gushor is now doing work for most of the major heavy oil and oilsands companies in western Canada. Entirely selffunded, the company has grown to eight full-time employees. Its office is located in the Research Transition Facility in the U of C’s Research Park. The firm generated more than $1 million in revenues during its first year and reinvested 25 per cent of its gross revenues into research and development. A newer spinoff company called Profero Energy is spearheaded by David Rafter. He is executive in residence responsible for new company formation in the “IGNITE” division of University Technologies International, the U of C’s wholly owned technology commercialization firm. Profero’s goal is to commercialize research by Ian Head and Steve Larter that showed how, during the biodegradation that creates heavy oil deposits, bacteria known as methangens generate methane or natural gas. »

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research Called methanogenesis, this natural process typically happens over millions of years. But Profero aims to greatly accelerate the process by “waking up the bugs” to produce commercial amounts of methane from heavy oil reservoirs—largely using the existing wells and other infrastructure.

Producing methane from western Canada’s depleted heavy oil reservoirs represents a potential market of more than $50 billion, the researchers say.

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Above: the Alberta Ingenuity Centre for In Situ Energy (AICISE) group at the University of Calgary is awaiting construction of a new facility. Below, PhD student Jennifer Adams is chief executive of Gushor, a newly formed technology commercialization company.

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“We’re looking at oil that cannot be recovered by conventional means from heavy oil reservoirs, and converting that oil into methane,” Rafter says. Profero’s focus is on conventional heavy oil reservoirs in the Athabasca, Peace River, Cold Lake, Lloydminster, and Kindersley areas of Alberta and Saskatchewan. These reservoirs are more suitable for the company’s methane-production technologies than the much more biodegraded bitumen deposits in the Fort McMurray oilsands region. Producers are able to recover, on average, 10 per cent of the heavy oil in western Canada using conventional cold production methods, Rafter notes. “So they’ve got a massive amount of asset that still remains in the ground.” Profero (Latin for “to bring forth”) will feed nutrients to the methane-producing microbes in aging reservoirs that no longer produce economic amounts of oil. The company’s vision is to

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be producing commercial amounts of methane from oilfields within four years. What’s the potential in a sizable heavy oil reservoir containing, for example, a billion barrels of oil? “If we convert 20 per cent of the heavy oil that is left, we would produce 1.2 trillion cubic feet of gas” over the extended 10- to 20-year life of the reservoir, Rafter says. For comparison’s sake, the capacity of the planned Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline is 1.2 billion cubic feet per day. Producing methane from western Canada’s otherwisedepleted heavy oil reservoirs represents a potential market of more than $50 billion, at current natural gas prices of about $7 per thousand cubic feet, Rafter says. “We’d be converting conventional, unrecoverable heavy oils into a clean-burning fuel, with a positive impact on the carbon footprint.” Profero, a private firm now in discussions with heavy oil producers, plans to do its first field tests within a couple of months, by biologically stimulating and monitoring small portions of suitable reservoirs. The company’s proprietary nutrient formulations contain no harmful chemicals, so environmental impacts are anticipated to be negligible, Rafter says. Rafter, who will leave University Technologies International for his new position with Profero, has been the founding executive of a couple of technology-based companies, raising about $60 million from private, venture, and public markets. Some of the firms have been listed on the Toronto and NASDAQ stock markets.

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A schematic of the underground test facility that showed SAGD could work. Credit: Gerry Stephenson

From the ground up

A success of the Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority (AOSTRA) by Deborah Jaremko oday it is called Dover, but it was once more commonly known as the underground test facility (UTF), an experimental mine shaft where pairs of wells were drilled into bitumen deposits from an underlying limestone formation. Owned by the now-defunct Alberta Technology and Research Authority (AOSTRA), the UTF was the combined effort of government and a number of producing companies. It was at this site where the concept of steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) was proven viable in the 1980s and early 1990s. Although SAGD might seem to be the in situ method of choice today, outside of the Peace River and Cold Lake areas where cyclic steam stimulation is king, SAGD is still considered to be a technology in its infancy. The world’s first commercial SAGD project—called Foster Creek, run by EnCana in the Cold Lake air weapons range—only started pumping significant volumes in 2001. Until this time, the main challenge facing companies that wanted to use surface SAGD was drilling technology. SAGD inventor Dr. Roger Butler’s vision of the technique incorporated parallel horizontal wells. Steam would be injected into the upper well, creating a steam chamber that would melt the bitumen, and then via gravity, the mixture would flow to the lower production well to be pumped to surface.

“AOSTRA went underground because there just wasn’t the technology to drill very accurate horizontal wells that could be above and below each other [from the surface],” Richard Luhning, former AOSTRA chairman of the board told Oilsands Review. He says that at the time, in the late 1970s, only four horizontal wells had been drilled in Canada—none by Imperial Oil at Cold Lake and three by Texaco near the airport at Fort McMurray. “All of them were failures. Based on that track record, [AOSTRA] decided to proceed with doing it from the underground.” As the story goes, in the winter of 1976 AOSTRA sent independent mining advisor Gerry Stephenson to Russia with a team to visit and research an operational underground oil mine. The goal was to determine whether the technology could be used to access Alberta’s vast bitumen resources too deep for surface mining. Stephenson—who co-founded Norwest Corporation in 1979—says the team reported, on return, that “this method is very primitive, but it has potential in the Athabasca.” Convincing oil producers to go underground was not an easy task, but he explains that AOSTRA eventually took the chance itself. In 1981, Stephenson suggested AOSTRA stop the paper studies and conduct a pilot to test underground » Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook & Directory III · 125

research What was AOSTRA? The Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority [was] established by an act of the legislative assembly in June 1974. The act originally limited AOSTRA’s activities to oilsands, but was amended in 1975 to include heavy crude oil, and was amended again in 1979 to extend its activities to the enhanced recovery of conventional crude oil. [It existed until 1999, when it was replaced by a number of organizations including the Alberta Energy Research Institute (AERI)]. AERI says AOSTRA was formed to “develop oilsands technologies that would allow Alberta’s vast resources to be exploited at relatively low costs, [and] fill the gap that declining conventional oil production would leave.” Source: AOSTRA: A 15 year Portfolio of Achievement, Alberta Energy Research Institute

The underground test facility (seen above and below when it was actively operational) is now owned by Petro-Canada, and is considered part of its MacKay River SAGD project. Credit: Norwest Corporation

SAGD. The group contracted Norwest to design and manage construction of the UTF. In 1985, Norwest managed the drilling of two mine shafts through the oilsands to the limestone formation underneath the reservoir. The shafts were drilled using a 250-tonne drill bit four metres in diameter. The shafts were three metres in diameter and 223 metres deep. In 1986, the company added 1,000 metres of tunnel. A specially designed drilling rig—which still sits underground today—punched a series of well pairs upwards for 500 metres into the bitumen-bearing reservoir. The results were encouraging, with low steam-to-oil ratios—a key measure of the in situ technology’s economic viability. Luhning says the reason underground SAGD was so successful had to do with the difference in proximity to the ore body that can be achieved compared to surface installations. “You could control [SAGD] at the UTF very, very accurately,” he explains, adding that there may be several hundred metres for the wells to travel from the surface to the target zone. “You have to control what’s happening at the bottom of the reservoir from the surface.” Although the AOSTRA was successful at proving the concept of SAGD was viable at the UTF, advances in horizontal drilling technology made the technology possible from the surface, where operators could access the resource without the cost of building tunnels and shaft access. “One or two projects went ahead from the surface, and then more and more,” Stephenson says. But, he believes there are still a number of advantages of underground SAGD over surface operations: n The real benefits of gravity: “You have true gravity drainage within the reservoir itself, and also gravity from the base of the reservoir through the wellhead, into the pipeline in the tunnel.” n Lower steam-to-oil ratios: “Only two out of nine commercial SAGD operations in the oilsands have come anywhere near matching the results from the UTF.” He says a 2.3:1 steamto-oil ratio was achieved at the UTF, and ratios as low as 1.7:1 may be possible from underground, compared to over 4:1 at some operating projects. n Reduced cost of drilling and steel thanks to a lack of need to drill through overburden. The system can be applied at overburden depths from 50 to 500 metres. n Comfortable year-round operations at 14 degrees Celsius. n Substantially reduced surface disturbance. n Lower consumption of water and natural gas, which reduces air emissions. The reason SAGD is not conducted from underground tunnels today is not because industry lacks vision or awareness, Stephenson says. It is not apathy, but it may be because of a little bit of bias, and a lack of encouragement from government. “Little government is good government, but it was the provincial government that put up the money for the idea when the entire industry was against it,” he says. “That vision has paid itself off many times over with all the SAGD projects operating today.”

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Spreading the Word

The Canadian Heavy Oil Association takes homegrown technology and know-how abroad by Gerry Belyk

round the globe there are heavy oil deposits that have remained undeveloped due to a lack of local expertise and the absence of economic benefit to make it worthy of exploitation. Today there is new interest in these heavy oil reserves, driven by the new high price of oil, as these resources now have the potential to provide significant profits for many companies and countries. Often, the limiting factor is how these companies and countries can develop these reserves, considering they have no experience in producing heavy oil. They are now turning to Alberta, which has superb experience in the full range of petroleum production from very light 45-degree API oil down to the heaviest bitumen with the API as low as four. They need Alberta’s engineering consultancy services, operational experience, products, and they may even look to sign joint ventures supporting these requirements. The Canadian Heavy Oil Association (CHOA) finds itself at the heart of this new experience. The CHOA had its beginnings some 25 years ago when heavy oil was not the darling of the industry that it is today. A small number of industry friends sensed the need to provide mutual support—perhaps through a feeling of selfpreservation—and to share technical knowledge and social activities. Starting from these humble beginnings, the CHOA now has membership in the order of 1,300 people from all segments of the heavy oil industry, including producers, suppliers, engineering companies, and regulators. Over the years, it evolved into the form we see it today, providing numerous technical sessions and social events. It continues to be an association whose mandate is to share technical

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information and to provide an opportunity to make social contacts within our industry. Enter CHOA on the world stage About two years ago, the CHOA was approached by Government of Alberta to help support efforts to promote Alberta’s heavy oil industry around the world. This paralleled calls from foreign oil companies and conference providers to give technical presentations on all aspects of its heavy oil technology and experience. The government asked that we provide skilled and experienced professionals who are able to speak on our heavy oil technology. During this same time period, the CHOA chose to expand its role by offering insight into Alberta expertise to those outside the local industry. Recognizing the alignment between the government’s needs and the CHOA’s new expanded role, the association agreed to assist in promoting the heavy oil industry outside Alberta. These ongoing relationships have contributed to raising the awareness of the industry, and the leadership of CHOA members in its development. With funding and support from event organizers, oil companies, and the Alberta Government, the CHOA has sent representatives to various industry conferences, trade shows, and other events to make presentations and answer questions raised by event attendees regarding the heavy oil industry. The interest in heavy oil has been remarkable, even in places where we thought heavy oil would be low on the radar screen. In every case, people have sought out the heavy oil contingent because they recognize the future of the oil industry is in heavy oil, and they know the technology development is being led by western Canada.

FEATURE Sharing technology and experience around the world  Two recent events demonstrate the range of requests that the CHOA has been called upon to support. In Grand Junction, Colorado, CHOA vice-president Trent Kaiser made a presentation at the fall meeting of Club20, described as “an organization of counties, communities, tribes, businesses, individuals, and associations in western Colorado.” It reports that activities include marketing and advertising, public education, promotion, meetings and events, and political action. While the region is currently very active in developing natural gas, its interest in the heavy oil experience stems from the huge shale oil potential that exists in Colorado and the similar issues the region will face in successfully developing that resource. Challenges with environmental issues, extreme temperature conditions, large capital investment requirements, major infrastructure, and shortages of human resources will mirror the growing pains faced by Canada’s heavy oil industry. Across the globe, organizers of the World Energy & Chemical Exhibition and Conference (WECEC) in Kuwait recently invited a contingent of people from Alberta’s heavy oil industry to participate and speak in the symposium. Three members of the CHOA board were part of this contingent: past-president Gerry Belyk, technical committee co-chair Gerald Bruce, and member-at-large K.C. Yeung. The symposium organizers provided the funding for travel and also organized one of the CHOA’s Heavy Oil 101 courses. Depletion of conventional reserves in Kuwait has heightened the interest in developing heavy oil reserves there, and the Canadian contingent was in great demand by the participants at the symposium. In addition, the CHOA has participated in events in Venezuela, Colombia, India, China, Russia, Tatarstan, and the United States. The issues faced internationally: a selection The CHOA has travelled to many locations around the globe to speak on Canada’s heavy oil, and has found that there are common threads tying these countries together. These include: owning heavy oil reserves without knowing how to exploit them, not having the technical specialists required, not having the experience, and on occasion being in an inconvenient location relative to upgrading capacity. Kuwait Kuwait is a prime example of a region having heavy oil resources but only recently becoming ready to exploit them. The reason they invited 17 Canadian heavy oil specialists to speak at WECEC was to learn from what they have learned in their many years working in the heavy oil industry. Until recently, Kuwait only produced light, conventional oils, as these resources were easy to find and inexpensive to produce. Currently, the country is in the process of upgrading refining

The CHOA has travelled to many locations around the globe to speak on Canada’s heavy oil, and has found that there are common threads tying these countries together.

capacity to be able to handle heavier feedstocks. Kuwait does not have a financial constraint to limit its efforts—the country is actively moving ahead to develop its heavy oil. Russia Russia, on the other hand, has significant heavy oil resources and good experience, but limited money. When the CHOA travelled to Russia recently, it found industry was particularly interested in hearing about leading-edge Canadian technology. There will be further technical exchanges between Russia and the CHOA in the future. India Upon travelling to India, the CHOA found its heavy oil resources limited, along with skill and experience. India does, however, have one of the few fireflood programs in the world that has been running for many years. India is financially constrained, yet still has the desire to exploit its reserves. For these reasons, it will take longer for successful development to occur.  Africa The African continent has significant heavy oil resources. The difficulty it faces is that African heavy oil is often remotely located from upgrading capacity that can handle it, and local infrastructure to transport heavy oil is not in place. Africa has a great desire to produce its heavy oil, but due to location, local social disturbances, and financing, it will be some time before the country can come up with its own solutions. China China has sizable heavy oil resources and is actively seeking technology to improve recovery efficiencies. It also is very interested in the latest of technologies—China’s technical experts are well experienced in heavy oil production. Moving the CHOA into the future Travelling around the world supports the CHOA’s goal to promote Canada’s heavy oil industry: the technology, skills, and business opportunities of its members. This is a growing aspect of the association’s role, and to support that it is working on formalizing the mandate of the committee responsible. President Bill McFarlane’s strategic planning efforts for the association have been instrumental in developing a focus for this new area of pursuit. Gerry Belyk is a past-president of the Canadian Heavy Oil Association.

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In situ technology developments lead to enhanced reservoir understanding by Bill MacFarlane and Tracy Grills · Photos by Joey Podlubny n recent years, horizontal, vertical, and directional drilling technologies have allowed for production methods such as cyclic steam stimulation (CSS), steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD), vapour extraction (VAPEX), and several other production methods to become common. While this technological innovation has resulted in commercialization of new recovery processes and reserves, the next wave of innovative technology is now needed to understand how these reservoirs will perform.

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TECHNOLOGY Managing steam underground is one of the challenges of in situ production operations.

Is there a Problem? The challenge in operating thermal wells is to understand if there are any downhole problems, where they are occurring, what is causing them, and how to mitigate them. Operators working in thermal heavy oil reservoirs are asking themselves several questions such as: n Is my steam staying in the production zone, am I losing steam due to cement integrity, cap rock integrity, or thief zones? n If there are steam losses, are they significant, and will they cause further damage or problems other than thermal efficiency losses? n Where is the steam going, and how good of a job is the steam doing in heating the entire reservoir, and are there areas where there is unswept volume? n How do I measure conformance? n If I don’t have conformance, then what could I do to improve conformance? n Is there steam breakthrough to the production wells in SAGD, and what is the best way to control it? n What is the most effective operating pressure for each field, pad, or well pair? n How do I measure the effects of making changes to the injection and production profiles, rates, pressures, etc. to extract the most oil in the most economical way? “Direct measurement” technology is evolving at a rapid pace with significant product development being completed through both public and private sector research, and with close collaboration with operating companies. This technology is very expensive. In order to assess its commercial viability, “best practices” are being devised that will allow operators to become more knowledgeable about their reservoirs. Several direct measurement technologies have evolved and are in use today to help in that understanding. Other enhanced technologies are being developed. Here are some examples of them: n Surface heave movement using INSAR (interferometric synthetic aperture radar), global positioning systems, LIDAR (light detection and ranging), conventional heave monuments, or electronic tiltmeters. n Temperature measurement using thermocouples and fibre optic measurement. n Pressure measurement using bubble tubes and piezometers. n Flow metering measuring injection rates, temperatures, pressures, and steam quality. n Production monitoring including produced f luid volume, composition, temperature, pressure, and gas production. n Micro-seismic monitoring to qualify steam injectivity, areas of high activity, activity due to fracturing, or steam migration out of zone.

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TECHNOLOGY n Surface or downhole electronic tiltmeters to measure steam chamber height, shape aerial extent, and fracture growth. n 4-D seismic or time lapse seismic for monitoring steam conformance over time in a reservoir. n Cross-well seismic. There are many sub-surface technical challenges being addressed by SAGD operators. One of the challenges is to determine how to improve the efficiency of steam injection into the well. Experience from pilot operations has demonstrated the realized steam injection profile is not as uniform as was assumed in numerical models used to plan projects. Optimization of the steam distribution presents opportunities for not only increased recovery, but also reduced energy input requirements for these thermal projects. Today, more reliable and accurate multi-point distributed temperature sensors, using fibre optic technology, are being developed to address steam distribution and production inf low challenges. This type of technology may provide for the application of downhole mechanical systems that enable “smart” placement of steam into specific regions of the well, and to control “steam trap” conditions in production wells. Acquisition of distributed pressure data using fibre optic technology remains a major focus for product developers. »

Tiltmetres, like the one seen here installed at Shell’s Peace River in situ operation, can help producers determine where their steam is going in the reservoir.

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Subsurface modelling showing a different viewpoint of the LIDAR survey at top, SAGD well trajectories in red and blue, monitoring wells in green, and modelled data within the cube.

Solutions are now available that allow the operator to take engineering time-based 2-D/3-D data and project these results spatially.

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Geophysics Traditionally, geophysics has been a key component in the resource appraisal effort with application of conventional 2-D and 3-D seismic. Now, repeat 3-D or 4-D surveys, and application of seismic acquisition methods in vertical monitoring wells provide a method of monitoring steam front development in SAGD wells. Accurate mapping of steam chamber development is an important aspect in assessing scheme performance. 禄

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TECHNOLOGY Today, more reliable and accurate multi-point distributed temperature sensors, using fibre optic technology, are being developed to address steam distribution and production in flow challenges. This type of technology may provide for the application of downhole mechanical systems that enable “smart” placement of steam into specific regions of the well, and to control “steam trap” conditions in production wells. Accurate measurement and pro-rationing of multi-phase production is important for assessing overall variability of the reservoir, and for providing early indication of pending performance problems.

Surface deformation measurements taken using tiltmetres on a low-pressure SAGD project.

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What are we going to do with all this data? Of course, all the data must be interpreted in order to make decisions on how best to modify production strategies to improve SAGD performance. Solutions are now available that allow the operator to take engineering time-based 2-D/3-D data and project these results spatially. Spatial modelling is an effective way to help operators visualize and assess the sub-surface reservoir. Many operators have already developed 3-D conceptual

TECHNOLOGY models based on geological, geophysical, and petro-physical information obtained through appraisal of the resource. Workflows are being devised to integrate “dynamic” production data with the “static” geological models. Integrating this data into a common work process is extremely challenging, and requires close communication between the disciplines of geology, geophysics, engineering, data management, and IT within an organization. To support this, proprietary software developers are building programs that will allow the operator to integrate information into effective workflows for visualization and modelling purposes. Programs must be versatile enough to interface with the large data set and programs that typical SAGD operators use. Once these visual workflows have been developed, and production data is received for history matching, both changes to the geological model and calibrations to the thermal numerical models can be made in order to better predict future results. What next? With proper estimations of well pair, pad, and field performance, enhancements to the recovery process can be better evaluated, planned, and implemented. Plans to continue to use innovative drilling techniques, such as multilateral wells and vertical well combinations, can be evaluated in an effort to target specific regions of unswept or undrained bitumen within the reservoir. Bill MacFarlane is the current president of the Canadian Heavy Oil Association (CHOA). Tracy Grills is CHOA secretary.

Subsurface monitoring works in tandem with surface installations to optimize production.

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steamfitter-pipefitter program. This targeted training is in response to industry demand.” Palmer goes on to say that StatoilHydro recently established an office in Lac La Biche. Brian Harrison, leader of thermal heavy oil for Devon Canada Corporation, states, “Devon has a strong commitment to the communities in which we live and work.” He also says Devon has “had great success in securing goods and services from the area for our Jackfish Project.” There is no doubt that people go where the jobs are, something that is evident with all the new residential housing starts. People come from all over Canada to work in the area and some make Lac La Biche home. “It’s a great place to live,” stated Palmer. “There are great opportunities for new and existing businesses to service the oil sands sector. Truly exciting!”

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Matters of the Heartland Alberta’s industrial epicentre prepares for major change in new emissions framework by Leah Lawrence · Photos by Joey Podlubny cumulative effects management framework announced by Alberta Minister of the Environment Rob Renner in October 2007 could have far-reaching impacts on urban and industrial development and the environment in the province. Phase 1 of the new system will be rolled out in the Industrial Heartland region northeast of Edmonton, with regional limits proposed for air, water, and land use. The most contentious part of the proposal is a regional cap on nitrogen oxide (NOx) and sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions, scheduled to take effect January 2009. “Our biggest concern is the proposed airshed limits on NOx and SO2,” says Laurie Danielson, executive director of the Northeast Capital Industrial Association, a group that represents more than 20 of the largest facility owners in the Industrial Heartland. “We are quite concerned the proposed caps are not achievable and will not support economic growth.” Historically, the environmental impacts of new industrial facilities were reviewed on a project-by-project basis as part of the Alberta Resources Conservation Board’s (formerly the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board’s) facility approvals process. Under the new framework, environmental impacts will be managed on a regional basis.

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“This new framework moves us away from looking at impacts of development on a project-by-project basis, to a system which considers all the potential impacts within a region,” says Renner. “Every landscape is different, and this approach allows us to adapt our system to meet the immediate needs of a region, like the Industrial Heartland.” The Industrial Heartland—a 470-square-kilometre area that includes Strathcona County, the City of Fort Saskatchewan, Sturgeon County, and Lamont County—was chosen as the first place to apply the framework because of massive industrial development proposed for the region. In addition to existing refineries, upgraders, and petrochemical facilities, eight new upgraders or expansions to existing facilities are either under construction or have been proposed for the region. Under the new cap, cumulative emissions are not to exceed 25,000 tonnes per year of NOX and 28,000 tonnes per year of SO2. Any facility with emissions greater than 100 tonnes per year of either pollutant will be included under the cap. Currently, facilities emit about 20,000 tonnes per year for both NOx and SO2. If the status quo continues, Alberta Environment forecasts emissions will grow to 37,000 tonnes per year of NOx and 100,000 tonnes per year of SO2. Shannon Flint, director of strategic policy and innova-

TECHNOLOGY tion for the Oilsands Environmental Management Division of Alberta Environment, says the NOx and SO2 limits were chosen to ensure Alberta meets national air quality objectives, now and in the future. “Emissions levels in the Industrial Heartland are approaching the ‘exceedance trigger’ for Canada-wide standards for particulate matter and ozone.” (NOx and SO2 are precursors to fine particulate matter, and NOx is a precursor to groundlevel ozone.) “Every new upgrader adds about 10,000 tonnes of SO2 per year. So, if we went with the status quo, facilities could be in exceedance within a few years. But if companies put in management plans, we can stay below. The cumulative effects management framework gives industry time to plan over the next three to five years for what we really can do.” Flint’s optimism comes from an Alberta Environment study that looked at the performance of pollution control equipment available and installed in Alberta and across North America (known as Best Available Technology Economically Achievable, or BATEA, by environmental regulators). The analysis concluded NOx and SO2 could be reduced significantly if BATEA technologies were employed and that the proposed limits were achievable. “The technologies are available,” says Flint. “Look at the approval of the North West Upgrader, which requires sulphur control of 99.5 per cent. Implementing this type of emissions control reduces emissions from upgraders from 10,000 tonnes per year to 2,000 tonnes per year.” But Danielson says the targets are based on unrealistic assumptions about the cost of emissions reduction technology and questions whether the limits are grounded in human health-based science. “There is no magic about 28,000 and 25,000. If you add 10,000 to each of these numbers, does that mean that the air quality is terrible? I don’t think so. [These numbers] were derived by assuming that industry installs the best technology available, whether it is economic or not.” Regardless of Danielson’s concerns, the writing may be on the wall for even more stringent targets. In April 2007, Environment Canada proposed new Canada-wide standards for NOx and SO2, standards that would require targets that are below existing emissions levels and, therefore, below Alberta Environment’s proposed cap for the Industrial Heartland. “Environment Canada is proposing to set new Canada-wide standards for NOx and SO2 in the spring of 2008,” says Aldyen Donnelly, president of the Greenhouse Emissions Management Consortium (GEMCo). “These standards could mean a substantial reduction obligation—20 to 55 per cent from a 2006 baseline—in absolute emissions reductions.” Regardless of the final number agreed to by industry and the provincial and federal governments, the biggest challenge will be deciding who bears the cost of cleaning up the air in the Industrial Heartland region. That is, how rights to pollute are allocated between existing and future owners of industrial facilities. “It’s a Solomon-type dilemma,” says Donnelly. “If you allocate the majority of the right to pollute to existing sources, you

give unprecedented market power to incumbents. On the other hand, in order to make any rights available for new sources, those rights have to be expropriated from incumbents. Neither scenario is a good answer. To this end, it’s important to understand where the opportunities for reductions are and find a balance. I’m not saying don’t do cap-and-trade at the regional level, I’m just saying it is really hard to do.” Donnelly says that if governments get the balance wrong, a cap-and-trade program can actually dampen rates of innovation, slowing the rate at which companies adopt new technology and reduce emissions. “Typically, a policy that increases incumbents’ market power—like the 100 per cent offset rule for new sources under the U.S. acid rain program—directly results in a slowdown in the key sectors’ rates of innovation. I don’t think Albertans want to create any situation that has those impacts.” Flint says Alberta Environment is well aware of the challenges. “We are looking at principles to balance competing interests between existing and new facilities. We are working with industry to find this balance—how to manage new and existing emissions, exploring alternatives for allocation.” Flint points to recent success where industry, government, and other stakeholders worked together to set the in-stream flow requirements for the Athabasca River. “We have some parallels we can draw upon. For example, when we set the IFN [in-stream flow needs] for the Athabasca River, industry came back to us with a plan for sharing water during low- »

Alberta’s Industrial Heartland includes the population of Metropolitan Edmonton.

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flow periods. We are looking to industry to follow up on this previous experience. “If we put in the right management plan, we can grow upgrading capacity in the region. We can have the seven, eight, maybe ten upgraders that we want, but it will require a plan for managing investment for the future.” Neil Shelly, executive director of Alberta’s Industrial Heartland Association, agrees that there are challenges,

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but says that like with anything new, there will be give and take in implementing the cumulative effects management framework. “A lot of PhDs have been working on it. Now a lot of people are looking at what it will mean practically. In the end, if we can get a clear process that balances environment and economic needs while providing assurances to local residents and investors, it will remove the guess factor.”

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From Wells to Wheels Upgrading technology: past, present, and future by Gerald Bruce · Photos by Joey Podlubny he chemistry of bitumen requires significant transformation and processing to be useful as a refinery feedstock (synthetic crude oil or blended bitumen) capable of being upgraded and refined into motor fuels like gasoline and diesel. Bitumen in its raw form is a heavy, high viscosity crude oil that is corrosive, hydrogen deficient, and contains high levels of contaminates such as sulphur, nitrogen, and metals. Upgrading bitumen can range from a minimum level to meet pipeline specifications for transporting blended bitumen, to a fully refined “bottomless” synthetic crude oil (SCO). The term synthetic crude does not specifically refer to a unique crude, but it has come to mean a blend of naphtha, distillate, and gas oil range materials, with no residual (1050°F+, 565°C+) material. Synthetic crude oils range in quality depending on how they have been formulated. There are currently a variety of synthetic crudes on the market, which can be broadly categorized into sweet or sour SCO, with or without “bottoms.” There are newer SCO formulations in the market called premium synthetics. These premium blends have seen higher levels of hydroprocessing, resulting in improved quality and better processability in some refinery markets. All mined bitumen is upgraded into synthetic crude oil. This upgrading can be close to the producing mine near Fort McMurray, or at a distance, such as Edmonton, if suitable diluents are used to transport the diluent to the upgrader. With the advent of steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD), the option of transporting raw bitumen production to a remote upgrading/refining complex became an alternative to SCO production. Using suitable diluent, such as natural gas condensate or

sweet synthetic crude oil, the transportation quality of bitumen could be sufficiently upgraded to meet pipeline specifications of viscosity and gravity. Therefore, the first level of bitumen upgrading can be considered “dilute and ship.” However, true bitumen upgrading requires a refinery-like complex to change the chemistry of bitumen into something that is able to be processed into finished products, namely gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel fuel. The key objective of an upgrading complex is to convert (crack) the long, molecular chains of the heavy fraction of the bitumen barrel into lighter material (naphtha, distillate, and gas oil), hydrotreat to remove sulphur, nitrogen, and trace metal contaminants, and sufficiently manipulate the carbon-to-hydrogen ratio of the hydrocarbons into something of value. This could be a synthetic crude oil or finished products, depending on the market needs and the level of processing intensity planned. Upgrading adds value to bitumen. Upgrading: why? Bitumen in its raw form is of limited use. History has shown that bitumen is useful for waterproofing birch bark canoes or for road surfacing. However, as a refinery feedstock, it is challenging to process in facilities that were designed to process light, sweet, conventional crude oil. This is due to the amount of heavy, high-boiling material in a bitumen barrel, coupled with a high level of contaminants. By design, a refinery that can successfully process bitumen requires sufficient processing intensity to be able to the convert the heavy fractions of the bitumen barrel into lighter material, and add sufficient hydrogen to produce finished motor fuel products. » Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook & Directory III · 147

TECHNOLOGY The objective of upgrading bitumen is to improve the quality and boiling range distribution of the heavy hydrocarbon molecules by: n Converting (cracking) the heavy fraction of the bitumen barrel, which produces a range of lower boiling (lighter) hydrocarbons n Collecting cracked material by boiling range (naphtha, diesel, and gas oil) for subsequent hydrotreating to remove contaminants n Blending the converted, treated material into a feedstock than can be processed into finished motor fuels by an oil refinery.

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Refinery or upgrader? An evolving question The level of bitumen conversion and treating is a range that can extend from the minimum required for transportation, through a range of synthetic crude qualities, up to finished products and petrochemical feedstocks. As upgrader product quality increases through the addition of more process intensity, the gap between an upgrader and a refinery narrows. By contrast, a refinery that adds bottoms conversion and treating capability can begin to look much like an upgrader. The technology used in the upgrading process is evolving to meet the future needs of the industry as new and innovative approaches are now being commercialized.

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The technology At the lower end of processing intensity are the dilution, physical separation processes, distillation, and solvent deasphalting. These processes allow the separation of heavy material from lighter using distillation or solvents. There is no breaking for chemical bonds in these processes. The addition of heat in processes such as visbreaking have been used for years to reduce the viscosity of heavy crude fractions. There are stability limits that restrict the application of this type of process, especially with bitumen feedstocks. As temperatures increase, more thermal cracking takes place. An example of high-severity thermal conversion is coking. Coking is an intense thermal-cracking process in which the heaviest fraction of the bitumen (vacuum resid) is converted into gases, liquids, and rejects a high-carbon solid as coke. Coking can be semi-batch (delayed coking) or continuous (fluid coking). Historically, upgrading has been based on carbon rejection-type processes (coking), which have been commercially applied since the 1920s. The technical risk of these processes is well known; however, managing the byproduct coke produced can be challenging in some markets. The first upgrading complexes in Canada were located in Fort McMurray and were associated with bitumen mining operations. Both Syncrude and Suncor used thermal cracking with carbon rejection (delayed coking for Suncor, fluid coking for Syncrude), followed by secondary hydroprocessing to produce “bottomless” synthetic crude oil for the market. Suncor began operations in 1967 and Syncrude started up in 1978. »

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TECHNOLOGY

Syncrude’s upgrading capacity allows it to produce up to 350,000 barrels of oil per day.

The newer generation of thermal conversion processes use temperature, pressure, and a catalyst with hydrogen added to convert the resid fraction of bitumen into lighter materials. These types of resid hydrocracking processes are challenged by the high level of contaminants (metals) in the bitumen resid. The use of ebullated-bed hydrocracking technologies, such as LC-Fining or H-Oil, have overcome the contaminants limitations with continuous catalyst addition and withdrawal capabilities. Shell’s Scotford Upgrader, associated with the Athabasca Oil Sands Project (AOSP), and the Husky Bi-Provincial Upgrader in Lloydminster both use ebullated bed hydrocracking technology (LC-Fining for Shell, H-Oil for Husky). The Shell upgrader, which started up in 2003, produces two grades of synthetic crude oil: Premium Albian Synthetic and Albian Heavy, as well as finished products. The Husky complex, which started in 1990, uses the H-Oil process to hydrocrack the residue of heavy crudes into sweet synthetic crude, Husky Sweet Blend. It is quite common for an upgrading complex to contain both carbon rejection and hydrogen addition processes in some combination, providing operating and processing flexibility. Resid hydrocracking processes are intense and costly, but have the benefit of higher liquid product yields through the complex (compared to coking). The future of upgrading There is a long list of announcements of planned upgrading projects in the works to add processing capacity in Alberta. If we look at the ultimate capacity to these multi-phase projects, we could be in excess of 4.5 million barrels per day of upgrading capacity. However, it is unlikely that all these projects will proceed as 150 · Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook & Directory III

planned, so here we focus on those complexes that are under construction and near completion. These future projects will use a range of upgrading technology, from familiar coking processes to start-of-the-art hydrocracking with gasification of residues. We will see both upgrading at the production site (SAGD and mining) producing synthetic crude to market, and a number of upgrading complexes concentrated in the Edmonton (Fort Saskatchewan) region with bitumen delivery by pipeline, producing both synthetic crude oil and finished products. The next upgrading project scheduled to come online is the 72,000-barrel-per-day Opti-Nexen Long Lake project in spring 2008. This project has a unique configuration in its combination of SAGD production and upgrading at site. Opti-Nexen will be using the proprietary OrCrude primary upgrading process, which is a combination of solvent deasphalting and thermal cracking, with secondary upgrading using hydrocracking (a Chevron technology) to produce a premium synthetic crude oil. Also included in this complex is gasification technology (Shell licensed) feeding the residue from the solvent-deasphalting process to produce syngas that provides both hydrogen for hydroprocessing and the fuel for the SAGD steam generators. Two merchant upgraders owned by North West Upgrading and BA Energy are under construction in the Fort Saskatchewan area. The first phase of the BA Energy Heartland Upgrader (77,500 barrels per day blend capacity, 2009 start-up) will use Value Creation’s proprietary technologies for bitumen upgrading. Value Creation uses a solvent deasphalting type of separation process, known as the accelerated decontamination process, or ADP, followed by a pyrolysis step, known as ultra-selective pyrolysis process, or USP, for conversion of deasphalted oil into lighter products. BA energy will produce a sour synthetic crude oil product, with bottoms, for the market. North West Upgrading (77,000-barrel-per-day blend capacity, 2011 start-up) will use a combination of ebullated bed hydrocracking (LC-Fining), gasification (Lurgi MPG), and hydroprocessing (UOP) to produce finished diesel, diluent, and some gas oil as products. Other upgrading complexes under development include: n Suncor’s Millennium coker unit: Delayed coking nCNRL Horizon: Delayed coking n Petro-Canada Sturgeon upgrader: Delayed coking n Statoil(North American Oil Sands): Delayed coking n Total upgrader: Delayed coking n Synenco Sturgeon Upgrader*: Solvent deasphalting, hydrocracking, and gasification *Note: Project currently on hold Future delayed coking-based upgraders have shown potential coke gasification for hydrogen production in later stages. As bitumen upgrading plans develop, there is an opportunity to consider innovative, emerging technology to fit the evolving needs of the upgrading industry.

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A future built on bitumen

Alberta seeks to add value with massive integrated industrial eco-clusters

by Darrell Stonehouse · Photos by Joey Poblubny he great oilsands challenge of the 20th century was finding ways to economically produce and upgrade Alberta’s great two-trillion-barrel storehouse of bitumen. The challenge of the 21st century is in finding ways to further process the province’s bitumen into clean fuels and petrochemicals to drive the province’s economy in the future. The Alberta government believes it has part of the answer to that challenge in developing a giant, multi-billion-dollar, interconnected petrochemical complex producing millions of tonnes of everything from synthetic crude oil to clean fuels to the building blocks for plastics at the Industrial Heartland on the outskirts of Edmonton. “A lot has to be done to get us there,” says Justin Riemer, executive director of Investment and Industry Development for the Alberta government. “But what we’d like to achieve is a complex producing a slate of different products to hedge against any market risks so we’re not reliant on any one product. We want to produce some bitumen, some synthetic crude, some refining products, and some petrochemicals.” The province is calling the proposed complex an “ecocluster,” and it is being modelled on similar massive petrochemical developments found around the world. It sees a number of economic advantages to such a centrally located, highly integrated development when it comes to processing the oilsands into useable products. “One operation’s waste becomes another operation’s feedstock,” explains Riemer. Off gases from upgrading bitumen can be used for petrochemichal feedstocks, for example. Or petroleum coke left over from upgrading or refining can be gasified and used for feedstock as well.

Many of these advantages could have environmental benefits as well. “There are a lot of potential environmental benefits,” says Riemer. “You only have to heat the bitumen molecule once, so that lessens emissions. You only need one power plant and one water treatment plant as well.” Debbie Pietrusik of Investment and Industry Development says the Alberta government and its industry partners through the Hydrocarbon Upgrading Task Force have been working for the last few years to develop a business case to develop an eco-cluster in the province. “We’ve done a lot of studies that have built up convincing evidence we can do this,” she explains. “We think it will create operational efficiencies that will increase its competitiveness globally while addressing environmental concerns at home.” Unlike the 20th century challenge of finding a means to extract and process bitumen, the challenge in developing a massive petrochemical cluster isn’t technical. Riemer says the technology needed for upgrading, refining, and producing petrochemicals from oilsands “is available off the shelf.” The province plans on spending $100 million over the next five years building demonstration facilities to show these technologies at work. Riemer says the province has looked at how similar clusters around the world have become successful and has built a sort of checklist of what it takes to make it happen. “First on the list is strong leadership and vision. Something like this doesn’t happen on its own,” he explains. From there, the area needs adequate infrastructure to support the cluster. This includes utilities like water and power and transportation corridors for rail, roads, and pipelines. »

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FEATURE “For plants to go ahead, the infrastructure needs to be plug and play,” says Riemer. Strong site management is needed to bring the vision to reality. And a willingness to collaborate and integrate operations between competitive companies for the benefit of all is also important. Riemer says regulatory support is key as well. “These are all areas we are trying to work on in government,” he says. The Alberta government hired international consulting firm the Kline Group to study whether developing an ecoindustrial complex in the Edmonton region is feasible. The study examines major international chemical clusters and identifies issues that are relevant to building a similar complex near Edmonton. It looks at current processing technologies for bitumen and how they can create the building blocks for base chemicals, intermediates, and specialty chemicals and materials. And it looks at which product clusters make sense from an Alberta perspective. Fred du Plessis, senior vice-president of the Kline Group, is in charge of the study. He says one of the key findings in the first part of the study examining the eco-clusters around the world is that all have their advantages and disadvantages when compared to Alberta. “The challenges facing each cluster are completely different,” he explains. He points out that one challenge Edmonton has is that it is far from tidewater for shipping to global markets. But that challenge is mitigated by its access to local feedstocks.

“If you look at the Chemelot in the Netherlands, it is close to markets for its production but far from feedstocks,” he explains. “It’s tougher to transport feedstocks than it is finished products.” “If you look at Jurong Island in Singapore it is on the sea while Edmonton is far from the sea,” he adds. “But Singapore isn’t near the biggest chemical consumer in the world—the U.S. And it has some of the most expensive real estate in the world and Edmonton has some of the cheapest.” The bottom line, du Plessis says, is Edmonton has many of the key attributes needed like access to feedstocks and nearness to markets to make a cluster viable. Also, du Plessis envisions feedstocks for the petrochemical part of the cluster coming from three sources. The first is the coke from upgraders and the bottoms from a new refinery built as part of the cluster. “With upgrading, there is 20 per cent of the product they can’t really use,” he explains. “Temporarily, they can coke it and make hydrogen, but one of the obvious answers to make a connection with this unique feedstock is to do what the refineries do, use gasification. They can take crud and turn it into a valuable building block. This is the basic driving force behind the cluster.” Rethinking how oil is refined into transport fuels could provide a second feedstock, he adds. If a new refinery were configured to produce gas oil, a second stream of petrochemical feedstocks would be added. “The third source of feedstock is off gases from upgrading,”

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FEATURE says du Plessis. “It can be used as a substitute for conventional ethane or can be used for olefins.” The Kline Group has examined 140 potential products that could be produced at an Edmonton area eco-cluster. It has since reduced that list to 77 products and is now in the process of identifying the products on that list that are “strategically imperative products that will trigger development,” says du Plessis. At the same time the consulting group is working to identify a list of potential investors for the project. This work is expected to be completed in May. “We’re going to give the region the tools and knowledge to address key investors,” he explains. While new investment partners are sought, du Plessis says existing players in the industry already building facilities in the region need to be aware of the plans for the cluster. He says, “There is a serious risk companies are going to go ahead without an integration plan.” “Are they using constraining technologies or can they link with downstream development?” he asks. “Part of our study’s goal is to interact with industry, government, and Alberta Environment to ensure people are sensitized to the cluster.” It appears existing developers are already preparing for a future cluster. In 2006, upgrader developer BA Energy and Aux Sable Canada (ASC) announced a commercial arrangement to construct a plant to capture off gases from BA’s Heartland Upgrader. The plant will produce a mixture of ethane/ethylene, a

The goal of Alberta’s government is to create links between facilities like petrochemical plants such as Nova’s Joffre complex, shown here, with bitumen upgrading capacity.

mixture of propane/propylene and heavier hydrocarbons, along with a residue gas stream composed primarily of methane. The ethane/ethylene stream will be sold by ASC as feedstock to the Alberta petrochemical industry, while the heavier products will be sold to customers throughout North America. The residue gas stream will be returned to the Heartland Upgrader and consumed as fuel. “This demonstrates, in action, our support of the Alberta vision of value-added resource processing in Canada,” said Dr. Columba Yeung, chairman and chief executive officer of the Value Creation Group, parent company of BA Energy, in announcing the development.

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STATISTICS

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Canada’s unconventional oil industry by the numbers t is one thing to describe the current state of Canada’s heavy oil and oilsands industry through technology reports, company and personality profiles, and features that tell its stories. However, without clear graphical representation of key industry statistics, one lacks understanding of the complete picture. Here we take a close look at a number of important forecasts and figures. Look for information on: lease sales—an indicator

of planned development activities—between January 2007 and 2008 in all three oilsands deposits; crude oil prices and the widening differential between light/medium grades and heavies; future production and how bitumen fits into the Canadian product mix; capital cost increases that do not seem to be slowing down; fiscal changes in Alberta and their impacts; the construction workforce outlook; and the number of modules planned to be built to support oilsands projects.

land sales Athabasca

Cold Lake

Peace River

Hectares

$/Hectare

Hectares

$/Hectare

Hectares

$/Hectare

Jan 24/07

128

2,041.88

5,632

42.39

Feb 07/07

10,642

382.72

4,352

24.34

Mar 07/07

24,064

592.17

24,064

53.44

6,144

128.57

Mar 21/07

95,616

421.55

4,608

175.94

Apr 04/07

5,120

229.55

Apr 18/07

9,728

1,507.44

4,608

599.98

May 02/07

91,136

121.23

May 16/07

20,992

358.14

May 30/07

33,024

588.33

Jun 13/07

68,271

697.33

1,792

513.04

Jun 27/07

13,056

1,200.89

Jul 11/07

78,584

595.11

256

417.67

35,328

84.41

Jul 25/07

6,656

1,793.80

4,608

119.99

Aug 08/07

17,152

380.68

256

132.76

4,352

168.41

Aug 22/07

23,618

1,681.63

1,280

1,490.87

Sep 05/07

161,533

228.10

Sep 19/07

32,255

1,812.27

Oct 03/07

17,594

1,125.37

Oct 17/07

29,330

535.74

Oct 31/07

15,360

1,768.18

2,816

421.81

Nov 14/07

6,912

668.14

5,376

635.97

Nov 28/07

1,024

1,464.84

Dec 12/07

56,576

509.20

2,176

798.39

3,072

69.93

Jan 09/08

14,336

129.68

2304

1,563.44

7,424

136.68

Jan 23/08

44,445

178.36

Land sales are an important indicator of the level of upcoming oilsands development activity. Here are the numbers for January 2007 to 2008, in all three oilsands deposits. The mindset of the industry can be seen by the cost it pays for each hectare, which is trending down. Reports point to this being a result of the major “sweet spots” already being taken. Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook & Directory III · 157

Source: Oilsands Review

Sale Date

STATISTICS construction workforce outlook

30,000

24,000

Imperial Oil

Petro-Canada

Deer Creek

Suncor

18,000

Syncrude

12,000

Fort Hills

6,000

CNRL Albian

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2010

Northwest

Opti/Nexen

Canada’s construction workforce continues to be strained. However, this forecast from the Construction Owners Association of Alberta shows demand will start to cool around 2011.

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Source: Construction Owners Association of Alberta (COAA), November 2007

Construction Craft Personnel

36,000

STATISTICS impacts of government fiscal changes

Integrated mine and upgrader 10

IRR %

Base · Dec 2006

No ACCA*

Royalty Review

Federal Income Tax Rate to 15%

phased in situ project – no upgrader *Accelerated capital cost allowance

IRR %

Source: Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers

14 12 10

Base · Dec 2006

No ACCA*

Royalty Review

Federal Income Tax Rate to 15% Generic 100,000-barrel-per-day oilsands project

Both the governments of Alberta and of Canada have implemented fiscal changes that affect the internal return on investment (IRR) of oilsands projects. Here, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers shows the impact of these changes.

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Light crude oil and bitumen prices 100

US$ per Barrel

2004

2006

2007

Oct '04 Nov Dec Jan '05 Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan '06 Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan '07 Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Oilsands and wcsb conventional production 5,000

Actual

Forecast

Moderate Growth Case

Oilsands Potential 2006 路 1.1 million barrels per day 2015 路 3.0 million barrels per day 2020 路 3.8 million barrels per day

4,000

Oilsands Future Potential

3,000

2,000

Oilsands in Production and Under Construction

1,000 Conventional Oil

2020

2018

2016

2014

2012

2010

2008

2006

0 2004

2005

The discount or differential between the two is determined by the market for each type. Heavy crudes are currently saturating conventional markets, widening the spread.

2002

Estimated bitumen price netback

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Source: Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers

Thousands of Barrels per Day

Light crude oil price quoted in media (West Texas Intermediate)

Source: Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers

STATISTICS

120,000

$3.3B

$10–$11B

100,000-barrel-per-day projects

100,000 80,000 60,000 Source: Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers

Capital $ per Barrels per Day (Upgraded)

Oilsands capital cost increases

40,000 20,000 0

SuncorMillennium

Albian

SyncrudeAurora 2 & UE 1*

Opti/Nexen

CNRLHorizon

ShellMuskeg & Scotford

PCS/UTS Fort Hills

2001

2003

2006

2008

2010

2011

*Syncrude includes base plant quality improvements and power Massive cost overruns have become the norm, and it is yet unknown whether the issue is a bubble or not. These capital cost increases are a result of shortages of labour, materials, and increases in supply costs.

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STATISTICS Oilsands capital investment in Alberta 21

2008 F

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

1999

1998

1997

1996

1995

1994

1993

2007 E

1992

1991

1990

Capital investment in Alberta’s oilsands industry has grown substantially since royalty regime changes in 1997. These royalties have now been adjusted in an effort claimed to provide balance in a new economic environment.

19 90 19 91 19 92 19 93 19 94 19 95 19 96 19 97 19 98 19 99 20 00 20 01 20 02 20 03 20 04 20 05 2 20 00 0 6 20 7 e 08 st. fr cs t.

Source: Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers

Canadian $ (Billions)

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GLOSSARY

Heavy oil and oilsands lingo API An American Petroleum Institute measure of liquid gravity. Water is 10 degrees API, and a typical light crude is from 35 to 40. Heavy oil is, by convention, typically from 9 to 11 degrees API, while bitumen is 7.5 to 8.5. Aromatics Hydrocarbon species that occurs in unusually high concentrations in bitumen and some derived products. Asphaltenes The heaviest and most concentrated aromatic hydrocarbon fractions of bitumen. Banked cubic metres (BCM) A measurement of volume used to state the volume of in situ material moved during mining operations. Barrel The traditional measurement for crude oil volumes. One barrel equals 42 US gallons (159 litres). There are 6.29 barrels in one cubic metre of oil. Bitumen Naturally occurring, viscous mixture of hydrocarbons that contains high levels of sulphur and nitrogen compounds. In its natural state, it is not recoverable at a commercial rate through a well because it is too thick to flow. Bitumen typically makes up about 10 per cent by weight of oilsand, but saturation varies. Bucket-wheel excavator Mining machine that uses toothed buckets mounted on the rim of a revolving wheel to scoop up oilsand and deposit it on a conveyor system. Catalyst Used in upgrading processes to assist cracking and other upgrading reactions. Coke Solid, black hydrocarbon that is left as a residue after the more valuable hydrocarbons have been removed from bitumen by heating the bitumen to high temperatures.

Coking An upgrading/refining process used to convert the heaviest fraction of bitumen into lighter hydrocarbons by rejecting carbon as coke. Coking can be either delayed coking (semi-batch) or fluid coking (continuous). Cold heavy oil production with sand (CHOPS) CHOPS is a non-thermal primary heavy oil production method. Continuous production of sand improves the recovery of heavy oil from the reservoir. The simultaneous extraction of oil and sand during the cold production of heavy oil generates highporosity channels termed “wormholes.” Wormholes grow in a three-dimensional radial pattern within a certain layer of net pay zones, resulting in the development of a high permeability network in the reservoir, boosting oil recovery. In most cases, an artificial lift system is used to lift the oil with sand. Cogeneration The simultaneous production of electricity and steam. Condensate Mixture of extremely light hydrocarbons recoverable from gas reservoirs. Condensate is also referred to as a natural gas liquid, and is used as a diluent to reduce bitumen viscosity for pipeline transportation. Conventional crude oil Mixture mainly of pentane and heavier hydrocarbons recoverable at a well from an underground reservoir and liquid at atmospheric pressure and temperature. Unlike bitumen, it flows through a well without stimulation and through a pipeline without processing or dilution. In Canada, conventional crude oil includes light, medium, and heavy crude oils, like those produced from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Crude oils containing more than 0.5 per cent of sulphur are considered “sour,” while crudes with less than 0.5 per cent are “sweet.” Cracking An upgrading/refining process for converting large, heavy molecules into smaller ones. Cracking processes include fluid cracking and hydrocracking.

Cyclic steam stimulation For several weeks, high-pressure steam is injected into the formation to soften the oilsand before being pumped to the surface for separation. The pressure created in the underground environment causes formation cracks that help move the bitumen to producing wells. After a portion of the reservoir has been saturated, the steam is turned off and the reservoir is allowed to soak for several weeks. Then the production phase brings the bitumen to the surface. It either flows on its own, or is pumped up the well to the surface. When the rates of production start to decline, the reservoir is pumped with steam once again. Cyclofeeder Receives oilsand feed and prepares it in slurry form for transport to extraction. Deasphalting (or solvent deasphalting) A physical separation process using light solvents to separate heavy material from deasphalted oil. Density The heaviness of crude oil, indicating the proportion of large, carbon-rich molecules, generally measured in kilograms per cubic metre (kg/m 3) or degrees on the American Petroleum Institute (API) gravity scale; in western Canada, oil up to 900 kg/m3 is considered light to medium crude—oil above this density is deemed as heavy oil or bitumen. Desulphurization The process of removing sulphur and sulphur compounds from gases or liquid hydrocarbon mixes. Dilbit Bitumen that has been reduced in viscosity through addition of a diluent such as condensate or naphtha. DilSynBit A blend of bitumen, condensate, and synthetic crude oil similar to medium sour crude. Diluent See Condensate.

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GLOSSARY Dragline Mining machine that drops a heavy, toothed bucket on a cable from the end of a boom into the oilsand, then drags the bucket through the deposit, scooping up the sand. Ebullated bed process An upgrading/refining process that uses an expanded, ebullated bed of catalyst for hydrocracking. Engineered tails A term used to describe a mixture of mature fine tails and coarse tails. Also referred to as “consolidated tails.” Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) The third stage of hydrocarbon production during which sophisticated techniques that alter the original properties of the oil are used. Enhanced oil recovery can begin after a secondary recovery process or at any time during the productive life of an oil reservoir. Its purpose is not only to restore formation pressure, but also to improve oil displacement or fluid flow in the reservoir. The three major types of enhanced oil recovery operations are chemical flooding (alkaline flooding or micellar-polymer flooding), miscible displacement (carbon dioxide [CO2] injection or hydrocarbon injection), and thermal recovery (steam flood). The optimal application of each type depends on reservoir temperature, pressure, depth, net pay, permeability, residual oil and water saturations, porosity and fluid properties such as oil API gravity, and viscosity. Established recoverable reserves Reserves recoverable under current technology and present and anticipated economic conditions, plus that portion of recoverable reserves that is interpreted to exist, based on geological, geophysical, or similar information, with reasonable certainty. Established reserves Reserves recoverable with current technology and present and anticipated economic conditions specifically proved by drilling, testing, or production, plus the portion of contiguous recoverable reserves that are interpreted to exist from geological, geophysical, or similar information with reasonable certainty. Extraction A process, unique to the oilsands industry, which separates the bitumen from the oilsand using hot water, steam, and caustic soda.

Fine tailings Essentially muddy water—about 85 per cent water and 15 per cent fine clay particles by volume produced as a result of extraction.

Hydrotransport A slurry process that transports water and oilsand through a pipeline to primary separation vessels located in an extraction plant.

Fines Minute particles of solids such as clay or sand.

Hydrotreater An upgrading/refining process unit that reduces sulphur and nitrogen levels in crude oil fractions by catalytic addition of hydrogen.

Fiscal terms Royalty and tax terms under which the industry operates. Fluid coking A residual upgrading process that continuously cracks the heaviest fraction of bitumen into lighter hydrocarbons as fluid coke. Fraction A portion of crude oil defined by boiling range. Naptha, diesel, gas oil, and residual are fractions of crude oil. Froth treatment The means to recover bitumen from the mixture of water, bitumen, and solids “froth” produced in hot water extraction (in mining-based recovery). Gas oil The fraction of crude oil that can be processed into gasoline through fluid catalytic cracking or hydrocracking in a refinery. Gasification A process to partially oxidize any hydrocarbon, typically heavy residues, to a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Greenhouse gases Gases commonly believed to be connected to climate change and global warming. CO2 is the most common, but greenhouse gases also include other light hydrocarbons (such as methane) and nitrous oxide. Gypsum A byproduct of flue gas desulphurization units, and is also partly consumed in mining operations to help consolidate fine tailings. Heavy crude oil Oil with a gravity below 22 degrees API. Heavy crudes must be blended, or mixed, with condensate to be shipped by pipeline. Hydrocracking Refining process for reducing heavy hydrocarbons into lighter fractions, using hydrogen and a catalyst; can also be used in upgrading of bitumen. Hydroprocessing An upgrading/refining process that adds hydrogen to crude oil fractions using a catalyst system. Hydroprocessing includes both hydrotreating and hydrocracking.

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Initial established reserves Established reserves prior to the deduction of any production. Initial volume in place The volume calculated or interpreted to exist in a reservoir before any volume has been produced. In situ In its original place; in position; in situ recovery refers to various methods used to recover deeply buried bitumen deposits, including steam injection, solvent injection and fire floods. In situ combustion A displacement enhanced oil recovery method. It works by generating combustion gases (primarily CO and CO2) downhole, which then “pushes” the oil towards the recovery well. LC-Fining A licensed hydroprocessing upgrading technology that uses an ebullated catalyst bed to continuously crack the heaviest fraction of bitumen into lighter products. Lease A legal document from the province of Alberta giving an operator the right to extract bitumen from the oilsand existing within the specified lease area. The land must be reclaimed and returned to the Crown at the end of operations. Light crude oil Liquid petroleum with a gravity of 28 degrees API or higher. A high-quality light crude oil might have a gravity of about 40 degrees API. Upgraded crude oils from the oilsands run around 30 to 33 degrees API (compared to 32 to 34 for Light Arab and 37 to 40 for West Texas Intermediate). Mature fine tailings A gel-like material resulting from the processing of clay fines contained within the oilsands.

GLOSSARY Medium crude oil Liquid petroleum with a gravity between 23 and 28 degrees API. Middlings Mixture of water, clay, sand, and bitumen that remains between the bitumen froth at the surface and the sand at the bottom of a primary separation vessel at the end of the extraction stage. Further processing is required to maximize bitumen recovery. Muskeg A water-soaked layer of decaying plant material, one to three metres thick, found on top of the overburden. Naphtha Any of various volatile, often flammable, liquid hydrocarbon mixtures used chiefly as solvents and diluents. Naptha has a boiling range of 40 to 400 degrees Celsius. Oilsands Bitumen-soaked sand, located in four geographic regions of Alberta: Athabasca, Wabasca, Cold Lake, and Peace River. The Athabasca deposit is the largest, encompassing more than 42,340 square kilometres. Total deposits of bitumen in Alberta are estimated at 1.7 trillion to 2.5 trillion barrels. Overburden A layer of sand, gravel, and shale between the surface and the underlying oilsand. Must be removed before oilsands can be mined. Overburden underlies muskeg in many places. Pilot plant Small model plant for testing processes under actual production conditions. Primary production The first stage of hydrocarbon production, in which natural reservoir energy (such as gas drive, water drive, and gravity drainage) displaces hydrocarbons from the reservoir into the wellbore and up to surface. Primary production uses an artificial lift system in order to reduce the bottomhole pressure or increase the differential pressure to sustain hydrocarbon recovery since reservoir pressure decreases with production. Process gas Gas produced from the upgrading process that is not distilled as a liquid. Usually burned as a fuel. Proven recoverable reserves Reserves that have been proven through production or testing to be recoverable with existing technology and under present economic conditions.

Reclamation Returning disturbed land to a stable, biologically productive state. Reclaimed property is returned to the province of Alberta at the end of operations. Remaining established reserves Initial reserves less cumulative production. Residuum The heaviest boiling fraction (552 degrees Celsius plus) remaining after processing or distillation of hydrocarbons. Royalty The Crown’s share of production or revenue. About three-quarters of Canadian crude oil is produced from lands, including the oilsands, on which the Crown holds mineral rights. The lease or permit between the developer and the Crown sets out the arrangements for sharing the risks and rewards. Sour oil Crude oil containing free sulphur, hydrogen sulphide, or other sulphur compounds. Steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) An in situ production process using two closely spaced horizontal wells: one for steam injection and the other for production of the bitumen/water emulsion. Steam methane reforming A process commonly used to convert natural gas to hydrogen for upgrading. Surface mining Operations to recover oilsands by open-pit mining, where overburden depth permits. SynBit A blend of bitumen with sweet synthetic crude oil to meet pipeline transportation specifications. Synthetic crude oil A manufactured crude oil comprised of naptha, distillate, and gas oil-boiling range material. Can range from high-quality, light sweet bottomless crude to heavy, sour blends. Tailings A combination of water, sand, silt, and fine clay particles that is a byproduct of removing the bitumen from the oilsand. Tailings settling basin The primary purpose of the tailings settling basin is to serve as a process vessel allowing time for tailings water to clarify and silt and clay particles to settle, so the water can be reused in extraction. The settling basin also acts as a thickener, preparing mature fine tails for final reclamation.

Thermal recovery Any process by which heat energy is used to reduce the viscosity of bitumen in situ to facilitate recovery. Toe to heel air injection (THAI) An in situ combustion method for producing heavy oil and oilsand. In this technique, combustion starts from a vertical well, while the oil is produced from a horizontal well having its toe in close proximity to the vertical air-injection well. This production method is a modification of conventional fire flooding techniques in which the flame front from a vertical well pushes the oil to be produced from another vertical well. Truck-and-shovel mining Large electric or hydraulic shovels are used to remove the oilsand and load very large trucks. The trucks haul the oilsand to dump pockets where it is conveyed or pipelined to the extraction plant. Trucks and shovels are more economic to operate than the bucketwheel reclaimers and draglines they have replaced at oilsands mines. Upgrading The process of converting heavy oil or bitumen into synthetic crude either through the removal of carbon (coking) or the addition of hydrogen (hydroconversion). Vapour extraction (VAPEX) VAPEX is a non-thermal recovery method that involves injecting a gaseous hydrocarbon solvent into the reservoir where it dissolves into the sludge-like oil, which becomes less viscous (or more fluid) before draining into a lower horizontal well and being extracted. Visbreaking A process designed to reduce residue viscosity by thermal means, but without appreciable coke formation. Viscosity The ability of a liquid to flow. The lower the viscosity, the more easily the liquid will flow. Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) The major land-based sedimentary basin in Canada. The basin extends from British Columbia in the west, eastward through Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, and includes portions of the Northwest and Yukon territories. The WCSB covers approximately 1,502,193 square kilometres.

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AN INTERVIEW WITH OILSANDS REVIEW EDITOR DEBORAH JAREMKO Why did JuneWarren Publishing see the need for a magazine focused on the oilsands industry? In 2006, JuneWarren Publishing, the Canadian Heavy Oil Association and the Alberta Government collaborated on the first edition of the Heavy Oil and Oilsands Guidebook and Directory. This collaborative effort— and its continued success as it goes into its third edition—confirmed to us that people are thirsty for information about the oilsands. We knew that an annual publication focusing on unconventional oil was not enough. The stories and statistics of this dynamic industry demand a monthly magazine all its own to complement our sister publication, Oilweek. When we launched Oilsands Review, we wanted to corner the market before our competitors and that’s what we did. Today, Oilsands Review is the fastest growing subscription-based publication at JuneWarren Publishing.

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Associations/Organizations Alberta Association of Surface Land Agents 140, 21-10405 Jasper Ave NW Edmonton AB T5J 3S2 Phone: (780) 413-3185 Fax: (780) 421-0204 Contact: Ted Parent, President tedp@hurland.ca www.aasla.com Alberta Building Trades Council 11848 111 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5G 0E1 Phone: (780) 421-9400 Fax: (780) 421-9433 www.albertabuildingtrades.com

Alberta Chamber of Resources 1940-10180 101 St NW Edmonton AB T5J 3S4 Phone: (780) 420-1030 Fax: (780) 425-4623 Contact: Lloyd Dick, Communication and Research Specialist lloyd@acr-alberta.com www.acr-alberta.com Alberta Chambers of Commerce 1808-10025 102A Ave NW Edmonton AB T5J 2Z2 Phone: (780) 425-4180 Fax: (780) 486-7309 www.abchamber.ca

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Alberta Construction Safety Association 101-13025 St Albert Tr NW Edmonton AB T5L 5G2 Phone: (780) 453-3311 Fax: (780) 455-1120 Toll Free: (800) 661-2272 Toll Free Fax: (877) 441-0440 edmonton@acsa-safety.org www.acsa-safety.org Alberta Land Surveyors’ Association 1000-10020 101A Ave NW Edmonton AB T5J 3G2 Phone: (780) 429-8805 Fax: (780) 429-3374 info@alsa.ab.ca www.alsa.ab.ca

Alberta Research Council 3608 33 St NW Calgary AB T2L 2A6 Phone: (403) 210-5222 Fax: (403) 210-5380 Contact: John McDougall, President and CEO www.arc.ab.ca Alberta Sand & Gravel Association 201-9333 45 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 5Z7 Phone: (780) 435-2844 Fax: (780) 435-2044 techrock@connect.ab.ca www.asga.ab.ca

DIRECTORY Alberta Urban Municipalities Association 10507 Saskatchewan Dr NW Edmonton AB T6E 4S1 Phone: (780) 433-4431 Fax: (780) 433-4454 Contact: Bob Hawkesworth, President main@auma.ab.ca www.munilink.net Alberta’s Industrial Heartland Association 1240 Sunlife Place 10123 99 St NW Edmonton AB T5J 3H1 Phone: (780) 414-0066 Fax: (780) 497-7404 Toll Free North America: (888) 414-0032 inquiries@industrialheartland.com www.industrialheartland.com ASET Association of Science and Engineering Technology Professionals of Alberta 1630-10020 101A Ave NW Edmonton AB T5J 3G2 Phone: (780) 425-0626 Fax: (780) 424-5053 www.aset.ab.ca Assoc of Prof Eng Geolog & Geophysicists AB 1500-10060 Jasper Ave NW Edmonton AB T5J 4A2 Phone: (780) 426-3990 Fax: (780) 426-1877 email@apegga.org www.apegga.org Association of Professional Engineers & Geoscientists of Saskatchewan 104-2255 13 Ave Regina SK S4P 0V6 Phone: (306) 525-9547 Fax: (306) 525-0851 apegs@apegs.sk.ca www.apegs.sk.ca Athabasca Regional Issues Working Group 613A-8600 Franklin Ave Fort McMurray AB T9H 4G8 Phone: (780) 790-1999 Fax: (780) 790-1971 Contact: Jacob Irving, Executive Director www.oilsands.cc

Canadian Association of Geophysical Contractors 1045-1015 4 St SW Calgary AB T2R 1J4 Phone: (403) 265-0045 Fax: (403) 265-0025 Contact: Mike Doyle, President/V. President/Director mjd@cagc.ca www.cagc.ca Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors 800-540 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0M2 Phone: (403) 264-4311 Fax: (403) 263-3796 Contact: Don Herring, President info@caodc.ca www.caodc.ca

Canadian Oil Sands Network for Research & Development A1, 157-3608 33 St SW c/o Alberta Research Council Calgary AB T2L 2A6 Phone: (403) 210-5221 Fax: (403) 210-5380 Contact: Erdal Yildirim, General Manager yildrim@conrad.ab.ca www.conrad.ab.ca

Canadian Association of Petroleum Landmen 350-500 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3L5 Phone: (403) 237-6635 Fax: (403) 263-1620 Contact: Denise Grieve, Office Manager dgrieve@landman.ca www.capl.ca

Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering (CSChE) Engineering Bldg, 57 Campus Dr Saskatoon SK S7N 5A9 Phone: (306) 966-4771 Fax: (306) 966-4777 Contact: Ajay Dailai, MCIC, Dept of Chemical Engineering ajay.dalai@usask.ca www.chemeng.ca

Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) 2100-350 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3N9 Phone: (403) 267-1100 Fax: (403) 261-4622 communication@capp.ca www.capp.ca

Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (CSEG) 600-640 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 1G7 Phone: (403) 262-0015 Fax: (403) 262-7383 Contact: Jim Racette, Managing Director jimra@shaw.ca www.cseg.ca

Canadian Council of Professional Geologists 2200-700 2 St SW Calgary AB T2P 2W1 Phone: (403) 232-8511 Fax: (403) 269-2787 contact@ccpg.ca www.ccpg.ca Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA) 1860-205 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2V7 Phone: (403) 221-8777 Fax: (403) 221-8760 info@cepa.com www.cepa.com

Calgary Chamber of Commerce 100 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0P5 Phone: (403) 750-0400 Fax: (403) 266-3413 www.calgarychamber.com

Canadian Energy Research Institute 150-3512 33 St NW Calgary AB T2L 2A6 Phone: (403) 282-1231 Fax: (403) 284-4181 www.ceri.ca

Calgary Mineral Exploration Group Society PO Box 1027 Stn Main Calgary AB T2P 2K4 Phone: (403) 242-7745 Fax: (403) 246-1992 Contact: Paul Hawkins, President www.meg.calgary.ab.ca

Canadian Geoscience Council (CGC) 1607-110 Gymnasium Pl University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon SK S7N 4J8 Phone: (306) 966-8578 Fax: (306) 966-8597 Contact: Bryan Schreiner, International Director bt.schreiner@usask.ca www.geoscience.ca

Canadian Association of Drilling Engineers 800-540 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0M2 Phone: (403) 264-4311 Fax: (403) 263-3796 Contact: Doug Hollies, President doug.hollies@encana.com www.cade.ca

Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum 720-500 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3L5 Phone: (403) 237-5112 Fax: (403) 262-4792 info@petsoc.org www.cim.org

Canadian Heavy Oil Association 425-500 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3L5 Phone: (403) 269-1755 Fax: (403) 262-4792 Contact: Bill MacFarlane office@choa.ab.ca www.choa.ab.ca

Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists (CSPG) 600-640 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 1G7 Phone: (403) 264-5610 Fax: (403) 264-5898 Contact: Jim Reimer, President jim@resultenergy.com www.cspg.org Canadian Standards Association 1707 94 St NW Edmonton AB T6N 1E6 Phone: (780) 450-2111 Fax: (780) 461-5322 Contact: Patricia Pasemko patricia.pasemko@csa-international.org www.csa.ca Canadian Well Logging Society 2200-700 2 St SW Calgary AB T2P 2W1 Phone: (403) 269-9366 Fax: (403) 269-2787 Contact: Peter Kubica, President kubica@petro-canada.ca www.cwls.org Central Alberta Economic Partnership Ltd (CAEP) 201-4920 51 St Red Deer AB T4N 6K8 Phone: (403) 340-5300 Fax: (403) 340-5231 info@centralalberta.ab.ca www.centralalberta.ab.ca

Christian Labour Association of Canada 232-2333 18 Ave NE Calgary AB T2E 8T6 Phone: (403) 686-0288 Fax: (403) 686-0357 Contact: Paul de Jong, Alberta Representative calgary@clac.ca www.clac.ca Clean Air Strategic Alliance (CASA) 1000-10035 108 St NW Edmonton AB T5J 3E1 Phone: (780) 427-9793 Fax: (780) 422-3127 Contact: Donna Tingley, Executive Director casa@casahome.org www.casahome.org Coal Association of Canada 150-205 9 Ave SE Calgary AB T2G 0R3 Phone: (403) 262-1544 Fax: (403) 265-7604 info@coal.ca www.coal.ca Construction Labour Relations An Alberta Association 207-2725 12 St NE Calgary AB T2E 7J2 Phone: (403) 250-7390 Fax: (403) 250-5516 Toll Free: (800) 308-9466 Contact: Andrew Beaton www.clra.org Construction Owners Association of Alberta 1940-10180 101 St NW Edmonton AB T5J 3S4 Phone: (780) 420-1145 Fax: (780) 425-4623 Contact: Brad Anderson, Executive Director coaa-mail@coaa.ab.ca www.coaa.ab.ca Edmonton Chamber of Commerce 700-9990 Jasper Ave NW Edmonton AB T5J 1P7 Phone: (780) 426-4620 Fax: (780) 424-7946 info@edmontonchamber.com www.edmontonchamber.com EnergyINet Inc 2540-801 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3W2 Phone: (403) 297-8650 Fax: (403) 297-3638 Contact: Dr. Michael Raymont, CEO info@energyinet.com www.energyinet.com Environmental Services Association of Alberta 1710-10303 Jasper Ave NW Edmonton AB T5J 3N6 Phone: (780) 429-6363 Fax: (780) 429-4249 Contact: Joe Barraclough, Director, Industry and Government Relations info@esaa.org www.esaa.org Fort McMurray Chamber of Commerce 304-9612 Franklin Ave Fort McMurray AB T9H 2J9 Phone: (780) 743-3100 Fax: (780) 790-9757 www.fortmcmurraychamber.ca

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DIRECTORY Freehold Owners Association 1403 12 St SW Calgary AB T3C 1B3 Phone: (403) 245-4438 Fax: (403) 245-4420 Contact: Else Pedersen, President fhoa@shaw.ca www.fhoa.ca International Energy Foundation Site 8 RR 1 Box 64 Okotoks AB T1S 1A1 Phone: (403) 938-6210 Fax: (403) 938-6210 Contact: Dr. Peter J. Catania, Chairman chairman@ief-energy.org www.ief-energy.org

Oil Sands Safety Association (OSSA) Box 13- 8115 Franklin Ave Fort McMurray AB T9H 2H7 Phone: (780) 791-4944 Fax: (780) 715-3945 www.ossa-wb.ca Petroleum Joint Venture Association 400-1040 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3G9 Phone: (403) 244-4487 Fax: (403) 244-2340 Contact: Kimi Rutz, President pjva@pjva.ca www.pjva.ca

International Union of Painters & Allied Trades 17318 106 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5S 1H9 Phone: (780) 484-8645 Fax: (780) 486-7309 info@iupat.ab.ca

Petroleum Services Association of Canada 1150-800 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3G3 Phone: (403) 264-4195 Fax: (403) 263-7174 Contact: Roger Soucy, President & CEO info@psac.ca www.psac.ca

Lakeland Industry & Community Association 5006 50 Ave Bonnyville AB T9N 2J5 Phone: (780) 812-2182 Fax: (780) 812-2186 lica2@lica.ca www.lica.ca

Petroleum Society of Canada 425-500 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3L5 Phone: (403) 237-5112 Fax: (403) 262-4792 Contact: Anthony Au, Manager anthonya@petsoc.org www.petsoc.org

Lloydminster Chamber of Commerce 4419 52 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 0Y8 Phone: (780) 875-9013 Fax: (780) 875-0755 www.lloydminsterchamber.com

Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada (PTAC) 400-500 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3L5 Phone: (403) 218-7700 Fax: (403) 920-0054 Contact: Eric Lloyd, President elloyd@ptac.org www.ptac.org

Lloydminster Heavy Oil Show PO Box 2084 Lloydminster SK S9V 1R5 Phone: (780) 875-6664 Fax: (780) 875-8856 Manufacturers’ Health & Safety Association 115-2880 Glenmore Trail SE Calgary AB T2C 2E7 Phone: (403) 279-5555 Fax: (403) 279-1993 bob@mhsa.ab.ca www.mhsa.ab.ca Merit Contractors Association 103-13025 St Albert Tr NW Edmonton AB T5L 5G4 Phone: (780) 455-5999 Fax: (780) 455-2109 meritedm@meritalberta.com www.meritalberta.com Oil Sands Environmental Research Network (OSERN) Room 751, General Services Bldg University of Alberta Edmonton AB T6G 2H1 Phone: (780) 492-6538 Fax: (780) 492-4323 Contact: David Chanasyk, Coordinator david.chanasyk@ualberta.ca www.osern.rr.ualberta.ca Oil Sands Geological Associates 593 Silvergrove Dr NW Calgary AB T3B 4R9 Phone: (403) 288-2565 Fax: (403) 288-2565 Contact: Brian Rottenfuser b.rottenfuser@home.com

Progressive Contractors Association of Canada 314 11808 St Albert Tr NW Edmonton AB T5L 4G4 Phone: (780) 466-3819 Fax: (780) 466-5410 brent.rathgeber@pcac.ca www.pcac.ca Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) 15 Innovation Blvd Saskatoon SK S7N 2X8 Phone: (306) 933-5400 Fax: (306) 933-7446 Contact: Laurier Schramm, President & CEO info@src.sk.ca www.src.sk.ca Small Explorers and Producers Association of Canada 1060-717 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0Z3 Phone: (403) 269-3454 Fax: (403) 269-3636 Contact: Dave Peterson, Chairman info@sepac.ca www.sepac.ca Society of Petroleum Engineers 800-540 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0M2 Phone: (403) 264-4311 Fax: (403) 263-3796 Contact: Norman Gruber, Chairman speca@speca.ca www.speca.ca

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Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers 800-540 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0M2 Phone: (403) 264-4311 Fax: (403) 263-3796 Contact: Barry Ashton, Chairman info@spee.org www.spee.org

Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary 118-2500 University Dr NW Calgary AB T2N 1N4 Phone: (403) 220-2930 Fax: (403) 220-9057 Contact: Nima Dorjee, Director engineer@ucalgary.ca www.schulich.ucalgary.ca/eip

Special Areas Board PO Box 820 Hanna AB T0J 1P0 Phone: (403) 854-5600 Fax: (403) 854-5627 Contact: Jay J. Slemp, Chairman www.specialareas.ab.ca

Grande Prairie Regional College 10726 106 Ave Grande Prairie AB T8V 4C4 Phone: (780) 539-2975 Fax: (780) 539-2791 Contact: Don Gnatiuk, President www.gprc.ab.ca

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Grant MacEwan College PO Box 1796 Stn Main Edmonton AB T5J4S2 Phone: (780) 497-5040 Fax: (780) 497-5001 www.macewan.ca

Alberta Ironworkers Apprenticeship Training Plan 10504 122 St NW Edmonton AB T5N 1M6 Phone: (780) 482-0908 Fax: (780) 482-0874 Contact: Jeff Norris jeff@ironworkers720.com www.ironworkers720.com Athabasca University 1 University Dr Athabasca AB T9S 3A3 Phone: (780) 675-6100 Fax: (780) 675-6437 www.athabascau.ca

Institute For Sustainable Energy, Environment & Economy 220 CCIT Bldg, University of Calgary 2500 University Dr NW Calgary AB T2N 1N4 Phone: (403) 220-6100 Fax: (403) 210-9770 Contact: Alison Doyle, Administrative Coordinator aedoyle@ucalgary.ca www.iseee.ca

Ayrton Exploration Consulting Ltd 1409 Shelbourne St SW Calgary AB T3C 2L1 Phone: (403) 262-5440 Fax: (403) 229-0083 Contact: Bill Ayrton, President info@ayrtonexploration.com www.ayrtonexploration.com

Keyano College 8115 Franklin Ave Fort McMurray AB T9H 2H7 Phone: (780) 791-4805 Fax: (780) 791-4914 Contact: Jim Foote, President jim.foote@keyano.ca www.keyano.ca

Canadian Industrial & Construction Training (CICT) 620B-8600 Franklin Ave Fort McMurray AB T9H 4G8 Phone: (780) 790-1230 Fax: (780) 791-9330 Contact: Carolyn Glavine, Manager cict@telus.net www.cict.mcmurraynet.com

Lakeland College 5707 47 Ave W Vermilion AB T9X 1K5 Phone: (780) 853-8544 Fax: (780) 853-2752 Contact: Karen Hawryluk admissions@lakelandc.ab.ca www.lakelandc.ab.ca

CAREERS: The Next Generation 200-10787 180 St NW Edmonton AB T5S 1G8 Phone: (780) 426-3414 Fax: (780) 428-8164 careers@nextgen.org www.nextgen.org

Mount Royal College 4825 Richard Rd SW Calgary AB T3E 6K6 Phone: (403) 240-6163 Fax: (403) 240-6095 Contact: Dr. David Marshall, President externalrelations@mtroyal.ca www.mtroyal.ab.ca

DeVry Institute of Technology 2700 3 Ave SE Calgary AB T2A 7W4 Phone: (403) 235-3450 Fax: (403) 207-6225 Toll Free: (800) 247-7800 International Office Phone: (602) 216-7700 www.devry.ca

Northern Alberta Institute of Technology 2000-11762 106 St NW Edmonton AB T5G 2R1 Phone: (780) 378-5026 Fax: (780) 471-4651 registrar@nait.ca www.nait.ca

Enform 1538 25 Ave NE Calgary AB T2E 8Y3 Phone: (403) 250-9606 Fax: (403) 291-9408 Contact: Jim Wong, Advisor, Business Development & Communication jwong@enform.ca www.enform.ca Engineering Internship Program

Northern Lights College 11401 8 St Dawson Creek BC V1G 4G2 Phone: (250) 782-5251 Fax: (250) 784-7563 appinfo@nlc.bc.ca www.nlc.bc.ca

DIRECTORY PDAC Mining Matters 900-34 King St E Toronto ON M5C 2X8 Phone: (416) 362-1969 Fax: (416) 362-0101 pdacmm@pdac.ca www.pdac.ca/miningmatters Petroleum Institute for Continuing Education (PEICE) 201-1228 Kensington Rd NW Calgary AB T2N 3P7 Phone: (403) 284-1250 Fax: (403) 770-8252 Contact: Celina Almeida, Registrar & Accounts Receivable Coordinator www.peice.com Petroleum Technology Research Centre (PTRC) 220-6 Research Dr Regina SK S4S 7J7 Phone: (306) 787-7497 Fax: (306) 787-8811 Contact: Shawn Griffiths, Communications Coordinator shawn.griffiths@ptrc.ca www.ptrc.ca Portage College PO Box 417 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-5551 Contact: Leona Geller, Public Relations & Information Administrator info@portagecollege.com www.portagec.ab.ca SAIT Polytechnic 1301 16 Ave NW Calgary AB T2M 0L4 Phone: (403) 210-4453 Fax: (403) 284-7163 Contact: Corporate Training training@sait.ca www.sait.ca/training University of Alberta 114 St 89 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6G 2E1 Phone: (780) 492-3111 www.ualberta.ca University of Calgary 118-2500 University Dr NW Calgary AB T2N 1N4 Phone: (403) 210-5110 Fax: (403) 289-6800 www.ucalgary.ca University Of Lethbridge 4401 University Dr W Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Phone: (403) 329-2111 Fax: (403) 329-5159 inquiries@uleth.ca www.uleth.ca University of Regina Faculty of Engineering 3737 Wascana Pky Faculty of Engineering Regina SK S4S 0A2 Phone: (306) 585-4160 Fax: (306) 585-4855 Contact: Dr. Paitoon Tontiwachwuthikul, Dean of Engineering paitoon@uregina.ca www.uregina.ca/engg

University of Saskatchewan Dept of Civil & Geological Engineering 57 Campus Dr Saskatoon SK S7N 5A9 Phone: (306) 966-5336 Fax: (306) 966-5427 Contact: Dr. S.L. Barbour lee.barbour@usask.ca www.engr.usask.ca Government Alberta Community Development-Preservation 320-10800 97 Ave Legislature Bldg Edmonton AB T5K 2B6 Phone: (780) 427-4928 Alberta Department of Energy 700-9945 108 St NW Edmonton AB T5K 2G6 Phone: (780) 427-7425 Fax: (780) 422-0698 www.energy.gov.ab.ca Alberta Department of Sustainable Resource Development 9920 108 St NW Edmonton AB T5K 2M4 Phone: (780) 944-0313 Fax: (780) 427-4407 Alberta Energy Research Institute 2540-801 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3W2 Phone: (403) 297-8650 Fax: (403) 297-3638 Contact: Eddy Isaacs, Managing Director aeri@gov.ab.ca www.aeri.ab.ca Alberta Environment 9820 106 St NW Edmonton AB T5K 2J6 Phone: (780) 427-2700 Fax: (780) 422-4086 env.infocent@gov.ab.ca www.environment.gov.ab.ca Alberta Geological Survey 4000-4999 98 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6B 2X3 Phone: (780) 422-1927 Fax: (780) 422-1918 Contact: Andrew Beaton, Section Leader, Geologist, Unconventional Gas and Oil Sands andrew.beaton@gov.ab.ca www.ags.gov.ab.ca Alberta Innovation & Science 500-10020 101A Ave NW Edmonton AB T5J 3G2 Phone: (780) 427-0285 Fax: (780) 415-9824 is.inq@gov.ab.ca www.innovation.gov.ab.ca Alberta International, Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Relations 400-10155 102 St NW Edmonton AB T5J 4L6 Phone: (780) 427-4323 Fax: (780) 422-9127 www.international.gov.ab.ca

International Offices - Asia Alberta China Office Canadian Embassy, 19 Dongzhimenwai Dajie, Chaoyang District Beijing 100600 Phone: 01186 106532-3536 Fax: 01186 106532-1304 albertachinaoffice@gov.ab.ca www.albertachina.com CNPC - Alberta Petroleum Centre 200, Science & Technology Bldg 20 Xue Yuan Rd, HaiDian District Beijing 100083 Phone: 01186 106209-8522 Fax: 01186 106209-8529 capc@gov.ab.ca www.albertachina.com Alberta Hong Kong Office 1004 Admiralty Centre, Tower Two 18 Harcourt Rd Central Hong Kong Phone: 011852 2528-4729 Fax: 011852 2529-8115 albertahongkongoffice@gov.ab.ca www.alberta.org.hk International Offices - Europe Alberta Germany Office Canadian Consulate, Tal 29 Munich 80331 Phone: 01149 892199-5740 Fax: 01149 892199-5745 albertagermanyoffice@gov.ab.ca www.alberta-canada.com/germany Alberta United Kingdom Office Canadian High Commission, MacDonald House 1 Grosvenor Sq London W1K 4AB Phone: 020 7258-6473 Fax: 020 7258-6309 albertaukoffice@gov.ab.ca www.alberta-canada.com/uk Internationals Offices - America Alberta Mexico Office Calle Schiller No. 529 Colonia Polanco, Del. Miguel Hidalgo Mexico D.F. 11560 Phone: 52555 387-9302 Fax: 52555 724-7913 albertamexicooffice@gov.ab.ca www.alberta-canada.com/mexico Alberta Land Compensation Board 1800-10020 101A Ave NW Edmonton AB T5J 3G2 Phone: (780) 422-2988 Fax: (780) 427-5798 www.surfacerights.gov.ab.ca./lcb Alberta Queen’s Printer 10611 98 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5K 2P7 Phone: (780) 427-4952 Fax: (780) 452-0668 Contact: Sheldon D. Staszko, Director, Alberta Depository Library Program sheldon.staszko@gov.ab.ca www.qp.gov.ab.ca Alberta Surface Rights Board 1800-10020 101A Ave NW Edmonton AB T5J 3G2 Phone: (780) 427-2444 Fax: (780) 427-5798 www.surfacerights.gov.ab.ca

Alberta Utilities Commission 4 Flr-425 1 St SW Calgary AB T2P 3L8 Phone: (403) 592-8845 Fax: (403) 592-4406 info@auc.ab.ca www.auc.ab.ca British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources 1810 Blanshard St Victoria BC V8T 4J1 Phone: (250) 952-0115 Fax: (250) 952-0922 www.em.gov.bc.ca Calgary Economic Development 731 1 St SE Calgary AB T2G 2G9 Phone: (403) 221-7831 Fax: (403) 221-7828 www.calgaryeconomicdevelopment.com CANMET Mining & Mineral Sciences Laboratories 580 Booth St Ottawa ON K1A 0G1 Phone: (613) 992-7392 Fax: (613) 947-0983 canmet-mmsl@nrcan.gc.ca www.nrcan.gc.ca Climate Change Central 100-999 8 St SW Calgary AB T2R 1J5 Phone: (403) 517-2700 Fax: (403) 517-2727 contact@climatechangecentral.com www.climatechangecentral.com Crown Investments Corporation of Saskatchewan 400-2400 College Ave Regina SK S4P 1C8 Phone: (306) 787-5759 Fax: (306) 787-5771 pwyant@cicorp.sk.ca www.cicorp.sk.ca Edmonton Economic Development Corporation (EEDC) 300-9990 Jasper Ave NW Edmonton AB T5J 1P7 Phone: (780) 424-9191 Fax: (780) 426-0535 Toll Free: (800) 661-6965 info@edmonton.com www.edmonton.com/eedc Energy Resources Conservation Board 640 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3G4 Phone: (403) 297-8311 Fax: (403) 297-7336 inquiries@ercb.ca www.ercb.ca Environment Canada 70 Cremazie St Gatineau QC K1A 0H3 Phone: (819) 997-2800 Fax: (819) 994-1412 enviroinfo@ec.gc.ca www.ec.gc.ca Foreign Affairs and International Trade 400-639 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0M9 Phone: (403) 292-6070 Fax: (403) 292-4578 www.infoexport.gc.ca Lac La Biche County

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DIRECTORY Economic Development PO Box 2188 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-2662 Fax: (780) 623-2671 Contact: Jane Palmer, Manager - Economic Development rcdc@telusplanet.net www.LacLaBicheRegion.com Leduc/Nisku Economic Development Authority 6422 50 St Leduc AB T9E 7K9 Phone: (780) 986-9538 Fax: (780) 986-1121 Contact: Trevor King eda@internationalregion.com www.internationalregion.com National Energy Board 444 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0X8 Phone: (403) 292-4800 Fax: (403) 292-5503 info@neb-one.gc.ca www.neb-one.gc.ca National Research Council Industrial Research Assistance Program 250 Karl Clark Rd NW Edmonton AB T6N 1E4 Phone: (780) 495-6509 Fax: (780) 495-6510 Contact: Don Towson, Industrial Technology Advisor www.irap-pari.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca Natural Resources Canada 580 Booth St Ottawa ON K1A 0E4 Phone: (613) 947-1948 Fax: (613) 947-0373 To Order Publications: (800) 287-2000 www.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca Northern Alberta Development Council Bag 900, 206-9621 96 Ave Peace River AB T8S 1T4 Phone: (780) 624-6274 Fax: (780) 624-6184 Contact: Dan Dibbelt, Executive Director dan.dibbelt@gov.ab.ca www.nadc.gov.ab.ca

Alberta Ingenuity Centre for In Situ Energy 2410-10180 101 St NW Edmonton AB T5J 3S4 Phone: (780) 423-5735 Fax: (780) 420-0018 Contact: Dr. Peter Hackett, President & CEO info@albertaingenuity.ca www.aicise.ca Alberta Oil-The Magazine 200-1013 17 Ave SW Calgary AB T2T 0A7 Phone: (403) 338-1731 Fax: (403) 663-0086 Contact: Sebastion Gault, Editor in Chief sgault@albertaoilmagazine.com www.albertaoilmagazine.com Alberta Sulphur Research Ltd 6-3535 Research Rd NW Calgary AB T2L 2K8 Phone: (403) 220-5346 Fax: (403) 284-2054 Contact: Paul Davis, General Manager asrinfo@ucalgary.ca www.chem.ucalgary.ca/asr B & S Publications Inc (Oil & Gas Index) 405 14 Ave NE Calgary AB T2E 1E6 Phone: (403) 237-0318 Fax: (403) 264-1313 www.oilandgasindex.com Canadian Centre for Energy Information 1600-800 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3G3 Phone: (403) 263-7722 Fax: (403) 237-6286 Contact: Colleen Killingsworth, President www.centreforenergy.com Canadian Oilfield Service & Supply Directory 300-5735 7 St NE Calgary AB T2E 8V3 Phone: (403) 265-3700 Fax: (403) 265-3706 sales@cossd.com www.cossd.com

Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo 9909 Franklin Ave Fort McMurray AB T9H 2K4 Phone: (780) 743-7000 Fax: (780) 743-7874 www.woodbuffalo.ab.ca

Canadian Wellsite PO Box 70045 RPO Bowness Calgary AB T3B 5K3 Phone: (403) 286-6150 Fax: (403) 206-7292 info@canadian-wellsite.com www.canadianwellsite.com

Saskatchewan Industry and Resources 300-2103 11 Ave Regina SK S4P 3V7 Phone: (306) 787-4765 Fax: (306) 787-8447 www.ir.gov.sk.ca

dmg world media 605-999 8 St SW Calgary AB T2R 1J5 Phone: (403) 209-3555 Fax: (403) 245-8649 www.petroleumshow.com

Information Resources Alberta Construction Magazine 300-5735 7 St NE Calgary AB T2E 8V3 Phone: (403) 265-3700 Fax: (403) 265-3706 www.junewarren.com

Edmonton Pipe Trades Education 200-16214 118 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5V 1M6 Phone: (780) 488-1266 Fax: (780) 482-9520 Contact: Bill Wilson, Training Coordinator billw@local488.ca www.local488.ca

IHS Energy 3900-150 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3Y7 Phone: (403) 770-4646 Fax: (403) 770-4647 www.ihsenergy.com

300-840 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3E5 Phone: (403) 531-9575 Fax: (403) 531-9579 Contact: Norm Watts www.oilandgasreserves.com

Implementation & Advisory Group Ltd 1400-10025 106 St NW Edmonton AB T5J 1G4 Phone: (780) 482-5577 Fax: (780) 482-5939 www.iag.ca

Oil Sands Discovery Centre 515 MacKenzie Blvd Fort McMurray AB T9H 4X3 Phone: (780) 743-7167 Fax: (780) 791-0710 osdc@gov.ab.ca www.oilsandsdiscovery.com

JuneWarren Publishing 300-5735 7 St NE Calgary AB T2E 8V3 Phone: (403) 265-3700 Fax: (403) 265-3706 Contact: Brian Doell bdoell@junewarren.com www.junewarren.com Kirby Hayes Incorporated 5601 35 St Lloydminster AB T9V 1S1 Phone: (780) 871-2555 Fax: (780) 875-9327 Contact: Kirby Hayes www.kirbyhayes.com Marengo Energy Research Ltd 62129 Twp Rd 252 Calgary AB T3Z 3P5 Phone: (403) 932-4162 Fax: (403) 932-4068 marengo@telusplanet.net Mikisew Energy Services Group 345 MacAlpine Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4Y4 Phone: (780) 791-1020 Fax: (780) 791-2510 National Centre for Upgrading Technology (NCUT) 1 Oil Patch Dr Devon AB T9G 1A8 Phone: (780) 987-8682 Fax: (780) 987-5349 Contact: Debbie Kobza ncut@nrcan.gc.ca www.ncut.com Nickle’s Energy Group 300-999 8 St SW Calgary AB T2R 1N7 Phone: (403) 209-3500 Fax: (403) 245-8666 Contact: Rick Charland, Publisher rcharland@nickles.com www.nickles.com Northern Star Communications 500-900 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3K2 Phone: (403) 263-6881 Fax: (403) 263-6886 www.northernstar.ab.ca Oil & Gas Inquirer 300-5735 7 St NE Calgary AB T2E 8V3 Phone: (403) 265-3700 Fax: (403) 265-3706 www.oilandgasinquirer.com Oil & Gas Network 300-840 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3E5 Phone: (403) 539-1165 Fax: (403) 206-7753 www.oilgas.net Oil and Gas Reserves.com

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Oilsands Expediting Ltd PO Box 5830 Stn Main Fort McMurray AB T9H 4V9 Phone: (780) 792-0190 Fax: (780) 715-0725 Oilsands Review 6111 91 St NW Edmonton AB T6E 6V6 Phone: (780) 944-9333 Fax: (780) 944-9500 Oilweek 300-5735 7 St NE Calgary AB T2E 8V3 Phone: (403) 265-3700 Fax: (403) 265-3706 www.oilweek.com PetroStudies Consultants Inc 204-4603 Varsity Dr NW Calgary AB T3A 2V7 Phone: (403) 265-9722 Fax: (403) 265-8842 info01@petrostudies.com www.petrostudies.com Portfire Associates Inc 823 120 Ave SE Calgary AB T2J 2K5 Phone: (403) 870-5402 Fax: (403) 206-7306 Contact: Marc Godin info@portfire.com www.portfire.com Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) 4928 190 St NW Edmonton AB T6M 2S6 Phone: (780) 428-8088 Fax: (780) 428-0405 Contact: Randy Williamson, President president@urisab.org www.urisab.org Venture Publishing Inc 10259 105 St NW Edmonton AB T5J 1E3 Phone: (780) 990-0839 Fax: (780) 425-4921 www.venturepublishing.ca Wellhub 5020 12 St SE Calgary AB T2G 5K9 Phone: (403) 243-2220 Fax: (403) 243-2872 admin@wellhub.com www.wellhub.coms

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Alberta Oilsands Inc 2800-350 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3N9 Phone: (403) 263-6700 Fax: (403) 263-6702 www.aboilsands.ca Albian Sands Energy Inc PO Box 5670 Stn Main Fort McMurray AB T9H 4W1 Phone: (780) 713-4400 Fax: (780) 713-4601 www.albiansands.ca

Arrowwood Oil & Gas Ltd 1000-736 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3T7 Phone: (403) 269-8913 Fax: (403) 261-9028 Atlas Energy Ltd 2500-111 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3Y6 Phone: (403) 215-8313 Fax: (403) 262-5123 info@atlasenergyltd.com www.atlasenergyltd.com

Aurado Resources Canada Ltd PO Box 20054 RPO Bow Valley Calgary AB T2P 4H3 Phone: (403) 234-9044 Fax: (403) 538-3705 aurado@telus.net Avenir Operating Corp 200-116 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 1B3 Phone: (403) 263-3495 Fax: (403) 263-0643 www.avenirtrust.com

BA Energy Inc 1100-635 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3C5 Phone: (403) 539-4500 Baytex Energy Ltd 2200-205 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2V7 Phone: (403) 269-4282 Fax: (403) 267-0777 investor@baytex.ab.ca www.baytex.ab.ca

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DIRECTORY Bonavista Petroleum Ltd 700-311 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3H2 Phone: (403) 213-4300 Fax: (403) 262-5184 www.bonavistaenergy.com Bounty Developments and Oilsands 1250-340 12 Ave SW Calgary AB T2R 1L5 Phone: (403) 264-4994 Fax: (403) 266-6031 info@bountydev.com www.bountydev.com

Daylight Energy Ltd 2100-144 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3N4 Phone: (403) 266-6900 Fax: (403) 266-6988 ir@daylightenergy.ca www.daylightenergy.ca

Habanero Resources Inc 1205-789 West Pender St Vancouver BC V6C 1H2 Phone: (604) 646-6900 Fax: (604) 689-1733 info@habaneroresources.com www.habaneroresources.com

Deep Well Oil & Gas Inc 510-10117 Jasper Avenue NW Edmonton AB T5J 1W8 Phone: (780) 409-8144 Fax: (780) 409-8146 www.deepwelloil.com

Halvar Resources Ltd 201-17707 105 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5S 1T1 Phone: (780) 451-0071 Fax: (780) 451-3716

BP Canada Energy Co PO Box 200 Stn M Calgary AB T2P 2H8 Phone: (403) 233-1313 Fax: (403) 233-5610 www.bp.com

Devon Canada Corp 4 Flr Mail Rm-400 3 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 4H2 Phone: (403) 232-7100 Fax: (403) 232-7211 www.devonenergy.com

Harvest Operations Corp 2100-330 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0L4 Phone: (403) 265-1178 Fax: (403) 265-3490 info@harvestenergy.ca www.harvestenergy.ca

Buffalo Resources Corp 180-1209 59 Ave SE Calgary AB T2H 2P6 Phone: (403) 252-2462 Fax: (403) 252-1399 www.buffaloresources.com

Durando Resources Corp 507 9 Ave NE Calgary AB T2E 0W2 Phone: (403) 819-8778

Hoolahan Oil & Gas Ltd 4108 47 St Bonnyville AB T9N 1P9 Phone: (780) 826-0436

EnCana Corp 1800-855 2 St SW Calgary AB T2P 4Z5 Phone: (403) 645-2000 Fax: (403) 645-3400 www.encana.com

Husky Energy Inc 707 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 1H5 Phone: (403) 298-6111 Fax: (403) 298-7464 www.huskyenergy.ca

Enerplus Group 3000-333 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2Z1 Phone: (403) 298-2255 dcook@enerplus.com www.enerplus.com

Imperial Oil Resources Ltd 4063-237 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0H6 Phone: (403) 237-3737 Fax: (403) 237-4017 www.imperialoil.ca

Enterra Energy Trust 2700-500 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2V6 Phone: (403) 263-0262 Fax: (403) 294-1197 bighorn@enterraenergy.com www.enterraenergy.com

Indian Oil & Gas Canada 100-9911 Chiila Blvd SW Tsuu T’ina AB T2W 6H6 Phone: (403) 292-5625 Fax: (403) 292-5618 www.iogc.gc.ca

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd 2500-855 2 St SW Calgary AB T2P 4J8 Phone: (403) 517-6700 Fax: (403) 517-7350 investor.relations@cnrl.com www.cnrl.com Canadian Oil Sands Trust 2500-350 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3N9 Phone: (403) 218-6200 Fax: (403) 218-6201 Chevron Canada Resources 500 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0L7 Phone: (403) 234-5000 Fax: (403) 234-5947 phcm@chevron.com www.chevron.com Cipher Exploration Inc 300-444 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2T8 Phone: (403) 265-9501 Fax: (403) 234-8104 CNPC International (Canada) Ltd 518-100 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3N2 Phone: (403) 261-3970 Fax: (403) 261-3974 admin.cnpc@cnpc-canada.com Coastal Resources Ltd 1400-520 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3R7 Phone: (403) 266-1930 Fax: (403) 266-2032 tjkoverf@ultralink.com Connacher Oil & Gas Ltd 900-332 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0B2 Phone: (403) 538-6201 Fax: (403) 538-6225 www.connacheroil.com ConocoPhillips Canada Ltd 1600-401 9 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3C5 Phone: (403) 233-4000 Fax: (403) 233-5143 www.conocophillips.com

E-T Energy Ltd 4895 35B St SW Calgary AB T2B 3M9 Phone: (403) 569-5100 Fax: (403) 272-2701 info@e-tenergy.com www.e-tenergy.com ExxonMobil Canada Ltd PO Box 800 Stn M Calgary AB T2P 2J7 Phone: (403) 232-5300 Fax: (403) 237-2197 pat_j_oscienny@email.mobil.com www.exxon.mobil.com 439 Oil Corp 200-1210 11 Ave SW Calgary AB T3C 0M4 Phone: (403) 571-4477 Fax: (403) 571-4444 Freehold Royalty Trust 400-144 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3N4 Phone: (403) 221-0802 Fax: (403) 221-0888 kctaylor@freeholdtrust.com www.freeholdtrust.com Frog Lake Energy Corp Frog Lake First Nations General Delivery Frog Lake AB T0A 1M0 Phone: (780) 943-3737 Fax: (780) 943-3966

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ISH Energy Ltd 900-700 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3J4 Phone: (403) 262-2244 Fax: (403) 265-1792 ish@cadvision.com Jaco Energy Ltd 240 Lake Mead Rd SE Calgary AB T2J 4A5 Phone: (403) 278-7129 Fax: (403) 278-7129 jaco.energy@shaw.ca Japan Canada Oil Sands Ltd PO Box 5120 Fort McMurray AB T9H 3G2 Phone: (780) 799-4000 Fax: (780) 799-4010 Kinderock Resources Ltd 21 Capillano Dr Saskatoon SK S7K 4A4 Phone: (306) 244-6721 Fax: (306) 653-5710 K-Town Energy Ltd 102A-9705 Horton Rd SW Calgary AB T2V 2X5 Phone: (403) 271-4277 Fax: (403) 271-6303 ktown.@shaw.ca

L B Noble Resource Management Ltd 1003 Edgemont Rd NW Calgary AB T3A 2J5 Phone: (403) 220-1400 Fax: (403) 282-0375 lbnoble@shaw.wane.ca Laricina Energy Ltd 800-138 4 Ave SE Calgary AB T2G 4Z6 Phone: (403) 750-0810 Fax: (403) 263-0767 laricina@laricinaenergy.com www.laricinaenergy.com Linray Energy Inc 200-10655 Southport Rd SW Calgary AB T2W 4Y1 Phone: (403) 271-7277 Fax: (403) 271-7279 ryancar@shaw.ca Marathon Oil Canada Corp 2400-440 2 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 5E9 Phone: (403) 233-1700 Fax: (403) 234-9156 www.marathon.com MC3 Resources Inc PO Box 1000 Indian Head SK S0G 2K0 Phone: (306) 332-3932 Fax: (306) 332-3982 MEG Energy Corp 1000-734 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3P8 Phone: (403) 770-0446 Fax: (403) 264-1711 www.megenergy.com Mistahiya Resources Ltd 1230-540 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0M2 Phone: (403) 263-4292 Fax: (403) 263-0477 New Century Petroleum Corp 950-550 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0S2 Phone: (403) 269-2880 Fax: (403) 269-2897 Nexen Inc 2900-801 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3P7 Phone: (403) 699-4000 Fax: (403) 699-5800 www.nexeninc.com NorthWest Upgrading Inc 2800-140 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3N3 Phone: (403) 313-5656 Fax: (403) 451-4197 info@northwestupgrading.com www.northwestupgrading.com Oilsands Quest Inc 205-707 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3H6 Phone: (403) 263-1623 Fax: (403) 263-9812 info@oilsandsquest.com www.oilsandsquest.com OPTI Canada Inc 2100-555 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3E7 Phone: (403) 249-9425 Fax: (403) 225-2606 info@opticanada.com www.opticanada.com

DIRECTORY OSUM Oil Sands Corp 300-1204 Kensington Rd NW Calgary AB T2N 3P5 Phone: (403) 283-3224 Fax: (403) 283-3970 info@osumcorp.com www.osumcorp.com

Provident Energy Ltd 800-112 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0H3 Phone: (403) 296-2233 Fax: (403) 294-0111 info@providentenergy.com www.providentenergy.com

Paramount Energy Operating Corp 3200-605 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3H5 Phone: (403) 269-4400 Fax: (403) 269-4444 www.paramountenergy.com

Ranger Canyon Energy Inc 520-734 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3P8 Phone: (403) 265-5115 Fax: (403) 265-2798

Paramount Energy Trust 4700-888 3 St SW Calgary AB T2P 5C5 Phone: (403) 290-3600 Fax: (403) 262-7994 paramount.res@cadvision.com www.paramountres.com Patch International Inc 300-441 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2V1 Phone: (403) 441-4390 Fax: (403) 441-4395 info@patchenergy.com www.patchenergy.com Pearl E & P Canada Ltd 2500-111 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3Y6 Phone: (403) 215-8313 Fax: (403) 262-5123 Pengrowth Corp 2100-222 3 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0B4 Phone: (403) 233-0224 Fax: (403) 265-6251 pengrowth@pengrowth.com www.pengrowth.com Penn West Energy Trust 2200-425 1 St SW Calgary AB T2P 3L8 Phone: (403) 777-2500 Fax: (403) 777-2699 www.pennwest.com Petrobank Energy and Resources Ltd 2600-240 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 4H4 Phone: (403) 750-4400 Fax: (403) 266-5794 ir@petrobank.com www.petrobank.com Petro-Canada PO Box 2844 Stn M Calgary AB T2P 3E3 Phone: (403) 296-8000 Fax: (403) 296-3030 RBrennem@petro-canada.ca www.petro-canada.ca Petromin Resources Ltd 1101-808 W Hastings St Vancouver BC V6C 2X4 Phone: (604) 682-8831 Fax: (604) 682-8683 petromin@direct.ca www.petromin-resources.com

Rangewest Resources Ltd 3843 Point McKay Rd NW Calgary AB T3B 4V7 Phone: (403) 247-6202 Fax: (403) 247-8342 kkisman@rangewest.ca Reece Energy Exploration Corp 200-1111 Kingsway Ave SE Medicine Hat AB T1A 2Y1 Phone: (403) 526-9700 Fax: (403) 527-9739 iswalm@telusplanet.net www.reeceenergy.com Rock Energy Ltd 800-607 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0A7 Phone: (403) 218-4380 Fax: (403) 234-0598 www.rockenergy.ca Sedna Oil & Gas Ltd 804-825 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2T3 Phone: (403) 538-0024 Fax: (403) 538-0025 eanderson@sogl.ca SET Resources Inc 1800-635 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3M3 Phone: (403) 218-3600 Fax: (403) 216-1572 www.soundenergytrust.com Shell Canada Ltd PO Box 100 Stn M Calgary AB T2P 2H5 Phone: (403) 691-3111 Fax: (403) 691-4894 vasu.ramaswai@shell.ca www.shell.ca Signalta Resources Ltd 1000-605 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3H5 Phone: (403) 265-5091 Fax: (403) 262-7533 info@signalta.com www.signalta.com Signet Energy Inc 2600-144 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3N4 Phone: (403) 440-1118 Fax: (403) 440-1114 info@surgeglobalenergy.com www.surgeglobalenergy.com

SinoCanada Petroleum Corp 1705-639 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0M9 Phone: (403) 261-8885 Fax: (403) 261-8899 Skylight Energy Resources Ltd 1210 8 Ave W Kindersley SK Phone: (306) 463-4800 Fax: (306) 463-4779 Sound Energy Trust 1800-635 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3M3 Phone: (403) 218-3600 Fax: (403) 216-1572 www.soundenergytrust.com Spry Energy Ltd 500-101 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3P4 Phone: (403) 265-7770 Fax: (403) 265-7010 StatoilHydro Canada Ltd 900-635 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3M3 Phone: (403) 234-0123 Fax: (403) 234-0103 www.statoilhydro.com Stone Petroleums Ltd 1050-717 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0Z3 Phone: (403) 262-4572 Fax: (403) 294-1325 dwolf@nucleus.com www.stonepetroleumsltd.com Strata Oil & Gas 408-918 16 Ave NW Calgary AB T2M 0K3 Phone: (403) 668-6539 Fax: (403) 770-8882 www.strataoil.com Suncor Energy Inc PO Box 38 Stn Main Calgary AB T2P 2V5 Phone: (403) 269-8100 Fax: (403) 269-6200 info@suncor.com www.suncor.com Sure Northern Energy Ltd 21-3030 Sunridge Way NE Calgary AB T1Y 7K4 Phone: (403) 450-0322 Fax: (403) 450-0337 Syncrude Canada Ltd PO Bag 4023 MD 2800 Fort McMurray AB T9H 3H5 Phone: (780) 790-5911 Fax: (780) 790-6215 www.syncrude.com

Synenco Energy Inc 1000-715 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2X6 Phone: (403) 261-1990 Fax: (403) 514-8128 www.synenco.com Talisman Energy Inc 3400-888 3 St SW Calgary AB T2P 5C5 Phone: (403) 237-1234 Fax: (403) 237-1902 tlm@talisman-energy.com www.talisman-energy.com Teck Cominco Ltd 600-200 Burrard St Vancouver BC V6C 3L9 Phone: (604) 687-1117 Fax: (604) 687-6100 www.teckcominco.com Timberwolf Resources Ltd 1100-717 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0Z3 Phone: (403) 261-3851 Fax: (403) 261-3834 Titan Exploration Ltd 300-555 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2R 1M7 Phone: (403) 313-8590 Fax: (403) 313-8591 titaninfo@titanexploration.ca www.titanexploration.ca Total E & P 2 place de la Coupole La Defense 6 Paris La Defense Cedex 92078 Phone: 330 147444546 Total E&P Canada Ltd 1900-333 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2Z1 Phone: (403) 571-7599 Fax: (403) 571-7595 www.total-ep-canada.com True Energy Inc 2300-530 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3S8 Phone: (403) 266-8670 Fax: (403) 264-8163 www.trueenergytrust.com UTS Energy Corp 1000-350 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3N9 Phone: (403) 538-7030 Fax: (403) 538-7033 www.uts.ca Watch Resources Ltd 305-707 10 Ave SW Calgary AB T2R 0B3 Phone: (403) 265-1951 Fax: (403) 265-1930 www.watchresources.com

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Accommodations Alta-Fab Structures Ltd 504 13 Ave Nisku AB T9E 7P6 Phone: (780) 955-7733 www.altafab.com Black Gold Camp Services & Inn PO Box 269 Red Earth Creek AB T0G 1X0 Phone: (780) 649-4653 Canada North Camps Inc PO Box 208 Wabasca AB T0G 2K0 Phone: (780) 891-3391 www.canadanorthcamp.com Chard Camp Catering Ltd 113 Wood Buffalo Way Fort McMurray AB T9K 1W5 Phone: (780) 791-0232 Christina Lake Lodge PO Box 20010 Conklin AB T0P 1H0 Phone: (780) 559-2224 CRC Open Camp & Catering Ltd Lac La Biche AB Phone: (780) 623-3788 Crown Camp Services 207-10020 Franklin Ave Fort McMurray AB T9H 2K6 Phone: (780) 790-5447

Denman Industrial Trailer Ltd 200-14727 87 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5R 4E5 Phone: (780) 450-6526 Enercor Camp & Catering Services 300-8170 50 St NW Edmonton AB T6B 1E6 Phone: (877) 677-9416 www.enercoroilfield.ca Hamburg Open Camp PO Box 818 Manning AB T0H 2M0 Phone: (780) 836-3220 MM Limited Partnership 345 MacAlpine Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4Y4 Phone: (780) 791-1020 www.mesg.ca Nakoda Lodge & Conference Centre PO Box 149 Morley AB T0L 1N0 Phone: (403) 881-3949 Noralta Lodge Ltd PO Box 419 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 649-2500 www.noraltalodge.com PTI Group Inc 3790 98 St NW Edmonton AB T6E 6B4 Phone: (780) 463-8872 www.ptigroup.com Red Earth Lodge 275 Hwy 88 Red Earth Creek AB Phone: (780) 649-2422

Sawridge Inns & Conference Centres 530 MacKenzie Blvd Fort McMurray AB T9H 4C8 Phone: (780) 791-7900 www.sawridge.com/fortmcmurray

McMurray Aviation Site 1 Box 5 RR 1 Fort McMurray AB T9H 5B4 Phone: (780) 791-2182 www.mcmurrayaviation.com

Air Charter Services

Northern Air Charter (PR) Inc PO Box 677 Grimshaw AB T0H 1W0 Phone: (780) 624-1911

Air Mikisew Ltd Box 2 CPT 2 RR 1 Fort McMurray AB T9H 5B5 Phone: (780) 743-8218 www.airmikisew.com Airco Aircraft Charters Ltd 6-11930 109 St NW Edmonton AB T5G 2T8 Phone: (780) 471-4771 www.aircocharters.com Born Flying Ltd 5613 37 St Lloydminster AB T9V 1Z2 Phone: (780) 875-9427 Can-West Corporate Air Charters Ltd PO Box 40 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-5353 www.canwestair.com Caravan Airlines Ltd 6210 50 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2C9 Phone: (780) 872-5802 www.caravanairlines.com Delta Helicopters Ltd Site 6 Box 1 RR 1 St Albert AB T8N 1M8 Phone: (780) 458-3564 www.deltahelicopters.com

Phoenix Heli-Flight RR 1 Site 1 Box 6 Fort McMurray AB T9H 5B4 Phone: (780) 799-0141 www.phoenixheliflight.com Remote Helicopters Ltd PO Box 1340 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-2222 www.remotehelicopters.com Rupert’s Land Operations Inc PO Box 6099 Bonnyville AB T9N 2G7 Phone: (780) 826-7777 Swanberg Air Inc 102-11010 Airport Dr Grande Prairie AB T8V 7Z5 Phone: (780) 513-8977 www.swanbergair.com ULTRA Helicopters Ltd PO Box 1188 Grimshaw AB T0H 1W0 Phone: (780) 332-2995 www.ultrahelicopters.com

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DIRECTORY Wood Buffalo Helicopters 273 Barber Dr Fort McMurray AB T9K 2J4 Phone: (780) 743-5588 www.woodbuffalo-helicopters.com Building Products & Services All Weather Shelters Inc 12304 184 St NW Edmonton AB T5V 0A5 Phone: (780) 930-1551 www.allweather-shelters.com Aluma Systems 6366 50 St NW Edmonton AB T6B 2N7 Phone: (780) 440-1320 www.aluma.com Aluma Systems Canada Inc 2102 102 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6P 1W3 Phone: (780) 467-1587 www.brandscaffold.com ATCO Structures Inc 5115 Crowchild Tr SW Calgary AB T3E 1T9 Phone: (403) 292-7600 www.atcostructures.com Badger Daylighting 6740 65 Ave Red Deer AB T4P 1A5 Phone: (403) 343-0303 www.badgerinc.com Bea Fisher Enterprises PO Box 296 Lloydminster SK S9V 0Y2 Phone: (306) 825-4513 Bexson Construction Ltd 3705 51 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2C3 Phone: (780) 875-0333 Big Eagle Services 3815A 47 Ave Camrose AB T4V 4S4 Phone: (780) 672-3863 www.bigeagle.ca Cam-Trac Inspection Services RR 1 Legal AB T0G 1L0 Phone: (780) 460-5440 www.cam-trac.ca Cover-All Alberta Ltd 4120 23 St NE Calgary AB T2E 6W9 Phone: (403) 735-1021 www.coverall.net Cow Harbour Construction Ltd 316 MacKay Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4E4 Phone: (780) 791-5477

Engineered Portable Shelters/EPS Marketing Inc 5415 11A Ave NW Edmonton AB T6L 5G2 Phone: (780) 450-0678 www.engineeredportableshelters.com GenMec ACL Ltd 7301 50 Ave Bonnyville AB T9N 2P3 Phone: (780) 826-4450 www.genmecacl.com H C L Site Ltd PO Box 538 Vegreville AB T9C 1R6 Phone: (780) 632-6853 Hart Construction PO Box 89 Tofield AB T0B 0J0 Phone: (780) 662-2541 Klinger Building Systems PO Box 977 Stn Main Lloydminster SK S9V 0Y9 Phone: (780) 875-9811 MakLoc Buildings Inc 706 17 Ave Nisku AB T9E 7T1 Phone: (780) 955-2951 www.makloc.com Rolled Alloys-Canada, Inc. 19-7251 67 St NW Edmonton AB T6B 3N3 Phone: (780) 469-9469 www.rolledalloys.com Shandro George Contracting Bonnyville AB Phone: (780) 826-2211 Slave Lake Specialties PO Box 87 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-3863 Sprung Instant Structures PO Box 62 Maple Leaf Rd Aldersyde AB T0L 0A0 Phone: (403) 245-3371 www.sprung.com Star Concrete & Construction Glendon AB Phone: (780) 635-3082 Stuart Olson Constructors Inc 12836 146 St NW Edmonton AB T5L 2H7 Phone: (780) 452-4260 www.stuartolson.com Thompson Cats Ltd PO Box 240 Kitscoty AB T0B 2P0 Phone: (780) 846-2908

Cross Contracting Inc 7211 Cliff Ave Fort McMurray AB T9H 3G7 Phone: (780) 743-3745

ThyssenKrupp Safway Inc 11237 87 Ave Fort Saskatchewan AB T8L 2S3 Phone: (780) 992-1929 www.safway.com

Doug’s Bobcat & Backhoe Services PO Box 166 Mannville AB T0B 2W0 Phone: (780) 763-3991

T-Rex Contracting & Consulting Inc 280B MacLennan Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4G1 Phone: (780) 743-1868

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Valard Construction Ltd 14310 97 St Grande Prairie AB T8V 7B6 Phone: (780) 539-4750 www.valard.com

Select Energy Systems Inc 4215 54 Ave SE Calgary AB T2C 2A2 Phone: (403) 243-7542 www.selectesi.com

Wood Buffalo Scaffolding Ltd 3A-242 MacAlpine Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4A6 Phone: (780) 743-1740

Source Energy Tool Services Inc 6402 56 St Lloydminster AB Phone: (780) 808-8788 www.sourceenergy.ca

Completion Products & Services Alberta Oil Tool 9530 60 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 0C1 Phone: (780) 434-8566 www.albertaoiltool.com Ashland Canada Corp 1720 106 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6P 1X9 Phone: (780) 417-9385 www.ashland.com Baker Petrolite 3-412 Thickwood Blvd Fort McMurray AB T9K 1P1 Phone: (780) 714-6672 Caradan Chemicals Inc 233 14 St Wainwright AB T9W 1G4 Phone: (780) 787-0449 www.caradanchemicals.com Champion Technologies Ltd 1400-815 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3P2 Phone: (403) 234-7881 www.champ-tech.com ICTC - Innovative Chemical Technologies Canada Ltd 400-635 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0T5 Phone: (403) 720-5020 www.eclgroup.com Lone Wolfe Distributors c/o Sci-Tech Engineered Chemicals 340-53016 Hwy 60 Acheson AB T7X 5A7 Phone: (780) 960-1200 Pro-Rod 918-304 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 1C2 Phone: (403) 269-5116 www.prorod.com Quadra Chemicals (Western) Ltd 470-700 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3J4 Phone: (403) 232-8130 www.quadrachemicals.com Regent Energy Group 300-840 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3T5 Phone: (403) 269-8088 www.regentenergygroup.com RG Industries Ltd 4454 Eleniak Rd NW Edmonton AB T6B 2S1 Phone: (780) 496-7473 www.rodguideindustries.com Rock Solid Nitrogen Services Ltd 4538 47 Ave Vermilion AB T9X 1H8 Phone: (780) 853-6604

Stellarton Technologies Inc 1000-635 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3M3 Phone: (403) 699-7675 www.stellartontech.com Synerchem International Inc 4333 46 Ave SE Calgary AB T2B 3N5 Phone: (403) 203-1481 W E Greer Ltd 14704 119 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5L 2P1 Phone: (780) 451-1516 www.wegreer.com West Penetone Inc 11411 160 St NW Edmonton AB T5M 3T7 Phone: (780) 455-9161 Windale Oilfield Services Ltd 5517 38 St Lloydminster AB Phone: (780) 871-1999 Winterhawk Enterprises (Provost) Ltd PO Box 2925 Wainwright AB T9W 1S8 Phone: (780) 842-2841 www.winterhawk.ca Construction A 1 Topsoil & Construction Services Ltd 15 May Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 1J6 Phone: (780) 791-1677 Aecon Industrial 6820 Gateway Blvd NW Edmonton AB T6H 2J2 Phone: (780) 433-9321 www.aecon.com Allan’s Backhoe Service PO Box 135 Minburn AB T0B 3B0 Phone: (780) 593-2256 Armtec 202-10464 Mayfield Rd NW Edmonton AB T5P 4P4 Phone: (780) 444-1560 www.armtec.com Baldwin Filters PO Box 66111 Heritage Postal Outlet Edmonton AB T6J 6T4 Phone: (780) 468-3499 www.baldwinfilter.com Bellamy Backhoe Service Westlock AB T0G 0S0 Phone: (780) 954-2029 Benoit Oilfield Construction (1997) Ltd PO Box 277 Chauvin AB T0B 0V0 Phone: (780) 858-3794

DIRECTORY Bird Construction Company 16815 117 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5M 3V6 Phone: (780) 452-8770 www.bird.ca Bob’s Backhoe Service PO Box 1916 Lloydminster SK S9V 1N4 Phone: (306) 825-2596 Border City Concrete Ltd PO Box 1618 Stn Main Lloydminster SK S9V 1K5 Phone: (780) 875-4380 Border Paving Ltd 4217 41 St Camrose AB T4V 3V8 Phone: (780) 672-3389

201 Caribou Tr Slave Lake AB Phone: (780) 849-5441 Demers Contracting Services Ltd 240 MacLennan Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4G1 Phone: (780) 799-3222 www.dcsl.ca Digrite Backhoe Service Ltd PO Box 305 Chauvin AB T0B 0V0 Phone: (780) 858-3976 Dipper Oilfield Developments PO Box 20002 Conklin AB T0P 1H0 Phone: (780) 559-2244

Bryce & Youngman Construction Ltd PO Box 1476 Lloydminster SK S9V 1T4 Phone: (780) 875-2660

Dynamic Energy Projects Inc 29 Stein Cl SE Medicine Hat AB T1B 4M8 Phone: (403) 580-9876 www.dynamicenergyprojects.ca

Cardinal’s Backhoe Service PO Box 522 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-7987

Elk Point Sand & Gravel PO Box 690 Elk Point AB T0A 1A0 Phone: (780) 724-4144

Carmacks Enterprises Ltd 701 25 Ave Nisku AB T9E 0C1 Phone: (780) 955-5545 www.carmacksent.com

Exergy Engineers & Constructors 280-906 12 Ave SW Calgary AB T2R 1K7 Phone: (403) 455-6588 www.exergy.ca

Casman Construction 330 MacKenzie Blvd Fort McMurray AB T9H 4C4 Phone: (780) 791-9283

Exergy Project Corp 1-1915 32 Ave NE Calgary AB T2E 7C8 Phone: (403) 540-1064 www.exergy.ca

CBS Construction Ltd 150 MacKay Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4W8 Phone: (780) 743-1810 CEMATRIX (Canada) Inc 1-2216 27 Ave NE Calgary AB T2E 7A7 Phone: (403) 219-0484 www.cematrix.com Chinchaga Pilings PO Box 489 Manning AB T0H 2M0 Phone: (780) 836-3800 Churchill Industrial Group 12836 146 St NW Edmonton AB T5L 2H7 Phone: (780) 454-3667 Clayton Construction Group Inc PO Box 136 Paradise Hill AB S0M 2G0 Phone: (306) 344-4649 Consolidated Gypsum Supply Ltd 11660 170 St NW Edmonton AB T5S 1J7 Phone: (780) 452-7786 www.consolidatedgypsum.ca D B Y Contractors Inc PO Box 114 Tangent AB T0H 3J0 Phone: (780) 359-2363 D R C Construction Ltd PO Box 8026 Bonnyville AB T9N 2J3 Phone: (780) 826-3994 Danny’s Picker Service Ltd

EXH Engineering Services Ltd 100-9335 47 St NW Edmonton AB T6B 2R7 Phone: (780) 440-4929 FAM Canada Inc 9655 45 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 5Z8 Phone: (780) 481-1177 www.fam-canada.com Ferbey Sand & Gravel Ltd 4509 47 Ave Vermilion AB T9X 1H9 Phone: (780) 853-4960 Finning (Canada) 16830 107 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5P 4C3 Phone: (780) 930-4800 www.finning.ca Fleming Cats Inc PO Box 1320 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-4701 Floyd’s Backhoe & Vacuum Truck Service PO Box 7491 Bonnyville AB T9N 2H8 Phone: (780) 826-5340 Hammer’s Gravel Supplies Ltd PO Box 385 Viking AB T0B 4N0 Phone: (780) 336-3232

IPSCO Inc 400-505 3 St SW Calgary AB T2P 3E6 Phone: (403) 543-8000 www.ipsco.com IRISNDT Corp 5311 86 St Edmonton AB T6E 5T8 Phone: (780) 437-4747 www.irisndt.com J W Contracting PO Box 1157 Redwater AB T0A 2W0 Phone: (780) 942-4000 Jacobs Catalytic PO Box 5244 Station A Calgary AB T2H 2N7 Phone: (403) 258-6533 www.jacobs.com Jim Wagner Enterprises Ltd PO Box 351 Mannville AB T0B 2W0 Phone: (780) 763-3860 JLG Ball Enterprises PO Box 211 Boyle AB T0A 0M0 Phone: (780) 689-2395 www.jlgball.com Kellogg, Brown & Root Canada Company 3300 76 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6P 1J4 Phone: (780) 468-1341 www.halliburton.com Ketron Construction Ltd PO Box 772 Stn Main Cold Lake AB T9M 1P2 Phone: (780) 594-2085 KMC Mining Bldg 30 - 60 Flight Line Road NW Edmonton AB T5G 3G2 Phone: (780) 454-0664 Layton Bros Construction Co Ltd 6015 50 Ave Bonnyville AB T9N 2L3 Phone: (780) 826-6969 Lehigh Inland Cement Limited 12640 Inland Way NW Edmonton AB T5V 1K2 Phone: (780) 420-2641 www.inlandcanada.com Lloyd’s & Frank’s Backhoe Services Ltd 3401 Canyon Rd Athabasca AB T9S 1J6 Phone: (780) 675-2762 Lockerbie & Hole Industrial Inc 14940 121A Ave NW Edmonton AB T5V 1A3 Phone: (780) 416-5700 M.C. Campbell Directional Boring Ltd 5404 27A St Lloydminster AB T9V 2B9 Phone: (780) 875-2401 NEC Contractors Ltd PO Box 2100 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-4643 www.neccontractors.com

4628 Eleniak Rd NW Edmonton AB T6B 2S1 Phone: (780) 414-6241 www.noetic.ca Olson’s Sand & Gravel Ltd PO Box 218 Chauvin AB T0B 0V0 Phone: (780) 858-2360 Process Plant Construction Ltd PO Box 5178 Fort McMurray AB T9H 3G3 Phone: (780) 334-4365 R P Oilfield Construction 502 5 St Wainwright AB T9W 1A7 Phone: (780) 842-3940 R T Grading & Roadbuilding Peace River AB Phone: (780) 624-8298 Reda Enterprises Ltd PO Box 7130 Bonnyville AB T9N 2H5 Phone: (780) 826-2737 Reon Oilfield Contractors Ltd B-4902 48 St Athabasca AB T9S 1B8 Phone: (780) 675-2614 Roberge Construction Ltd PO Box 82 Jarvie AB T0G 1H0 Phone: (780) 954-2534 Rogo Holdings Ltd PO Box 4031 Spruce Grove AB T7X 3B2 Phone: (780) 962-9209 Rondell Road Contracting PO Box 1145 St Paul AB T0A 3A0 Phone: (780) 645-5083 Seisland Surveys Ltd 7235 Flint Rd SE Calgary AB T2H 1G2 Phone: (403) 255-2770 www.seisland.com Seko Construction Ltd 425 Gregoire Dr Fort McMurray AB T9H 4K7 Phone: (780) 743-1636 Simplex/ UAH Universal Air Hydraulics 904 16 Ave Nisku AB T9E 0A4 Phone: (800) 840-1196 www.tksimplex.com Smith Logging Enterprises Ltd Wandering River AB Phone: (780) 771-2361 Snamprogetti Canada 1540-521 3 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3T3 Phone: (403) 261-6610 www.saipem.eni.it Snelgrove R & Sons Ltd 4605 47 St Vermilion AB T9X 1L6 Phone: (780) 853-4040

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DIRECTORY Superior Propane 4431 6 St SE Calgary AB T2G 4E1 Phone: (403) 287-1356

102-5720 44 St Lloydminster AB T9V 0R6 Phone: (780) 872-7704

162-63-4307 130 Ave SE Calgary AB T2Z 3V8 Phone: (403) 630-2757

SUPERMETAL Structures 9424 58 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 0B6 Phone: (780) 435-6633 www.supermetal.com

ASRC Energy Services Tri Ocean Engineering Ltd 1400-727 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0Z5 Phone: (403) 266-4400 www.tri-ocean.com

C-FER Technologies 200 Karl Clark Rd NW Edmonton AB T6N 1H2 Phone: (780) 450-3300 www.cfertech.com

Swamp Cats Ltd PO Box 1885 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-2891

Associated Engineering Alberta Ltd 1000-10909 Jasper Ave NW Edmonton AB T5J 0E4 Phone: (780) 451-7666 www.ae.ca

T B G Contracting Ltd PO Box 5207 Fort McMurray AB T9H 3G3 Phone: (780) 743-8474 www.tbgcontracting.com Thiel Scaffolding Canada 27324 Twp Rd 513 Spruce Grove AB T7Y 1H8 Phone: (780) 968-1420 Triton Projects Inc 8525 Davies Rd NW Edmonton AB T6E 4N3 Phone: (780) 485-6767 www.tritonprojects.com Tuccaro Inc 283 MacAlpine Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4Y4 Phone: (780) 791-9386 www.tuccaroinc.com Valley C Construction Ltd PO Box 2157 Stn Main Lloydminster SK S9V 1R6 Phone: (780) 875-1659 Van-Ross Contracting PO Box 1547 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-2378 Voice Construction Ltd 5015 76 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6B 2G2 Phone: (780) 469-1351 www.voiceconstruction.com Ward’s Hydraulics 8314 Fraser Ave Fort McMurray AB T9H 1X1 Phone: (780) 799-7340 Westlock Sand & Gravel Co Ltd 4819 52 St Clyde AB Phone: (780) 348-5252 Consultants & Engineering Firms Advanced Geotechnology 1100-333 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3B6 Phone: (403) 269-7788 www.advgeotech.com

ATECH Application Technology Limited 242-3359 27 St NE Calgary AB T1Y 5E4 Phone: (403) 261-0005 www.atech.ca Autopro Automation Consultants Ltd 103-11039 78 Ave Grande Prairie AB T8W 2J7 Phone: (780) 539-2450 www.autopro.ca AVG Consulting Services 276 Cochrane Cres Fort McMurray AB T9K 1J4 Phone: (780) 791-0920 Bantrel Co 700 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0T8 Phone: (403) 290-5000 www.bantrel.com Bar Engineering Co Ltd 6004 50 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2T9 Phone: (780) 875-1683

CG Hylton & Associates Inc 103-138 18 Ave SE Calgary AB T2G 5P9 Phone: (403) 264-5288 www.hylton.ca CG Industrial Specialties Ltd 2-10004 29A Ave NW Edmonton AB T6N 1A8 Phone: (780) 462-1014 www.cgis.ca Chapman Petroleum Engineering Ltd 445-708 11 Ave SW Calgary AB T2R 0E4 Phone: (403) 266-4141 www.chapeng.ab.ca CHASE Consulting & Advocacy PO Box 398 Duffield AB T0E 0N0 Phone: (780) 963-7570 www.chaseconsulting.ca CH2M HILL Energy Canada Ltd 1200-401 9 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3C5 Phone: (403) 232-9800 www.veco.com Cobra Energy Consultants 5014 50 Ave Elk Point AB T0A 1A0 Phone: (780) 724-4444

Barnett Consulting PO Box 379 Marwayne AB T0B 2X0 Phone: (780) 871-1259

Computer Modelling Group Ltd 150-3553 31 St NW Calgary AB T2L 2K7 Phone: (403) 531-1300 www.cmgl.ca

BFL Energy Services Ltd 5610 54 Ave Bonnyville AB T9N 2H7 Phone: (780) 826-4412 www.bflenergyser.com

Concise Design 300-736 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3T7 Phone: (403) 237-7160 www.concisedesign.ca

Bitcan Geosciences & Engineering Inc 268 Edgebank Circle NW Calgary AB T3A 4W1 Phone: (403) 208-0772

Cord Projects Ltd 1000-10201 Southport Rd SW Calgary AB T2W 4X9 Phone: (403) 258-8660 www.cordprojects.com

Blazer Wellsite D & C Ltd 1653 6 Ave Wainwright AB T9W 1J6 Phone: (780) 842-4026

Corrpro Canada, Inc. 10848 214 St NW Edmonton AB T5S 2A7 Phone: (780) 447-4565 www.corrpro.ca

Calibre Production Operators Ltd PO Box 9 Bruderheim AB T0B 0S0 Phone: (780) 895-2772

Advantage Insight Group Inc 210-3553 31 St NW Calgary AB T2L 2K7 Phone: (403) 571-1705

CB Engineering Ltd 515-9945 50 St NW Edmonton AB T6A 0L4 Phone: (780) 465-9370 www.cbeng.com

All West X-Ray 9025 Abbot Ave North Battleford SK S9A 3E8 Phone: (306) 446-0242

C.B. Inspection Services PO Box 736 Two Hills AB T0B 4K0 Phone: (780) 603-7301

Amundrud Enterprises Inc

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CS Automation Ltd 200-630 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 1G6 Phone: (403) 255-0244 www.csautomation.ca C’s Oilfield Consulting & Construction Service Ltd. PO Box 1155 Lloydminster AB T9V 1G1 Phone: (780) 808-2272

CSA International 1707 94 St NW Edmonton AB T6N 1E6 Phone: (780) 450-2111 www.csa-international.org D & S Reservoir Engineering Ltd 203-1040 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3G9 Phone: (403) 263-1313 www.dsre.com Daniel’s Drafting & Consulting Ltd PO Box 173 Mundare AB T0B 3H0 Phone: (780) 764-0984 www.danielsdrafting.com Deer Creek Oilfield Services PO Box 265 Bruderheim AB T0B 0S0 Phone: (780) 446-6972 DeGolyer and MacNaughton Canada Limited 1430-311 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3H2 Phone: (403) 266-8680 www.demac.com Diamondback Enterprises Ltd 20 Woodgate Bay SW Calgary AB T2W 4B8 Phone: (403) 238-3874 E.I. du Pont Canada Company PO Box 5000 Kingston ON K7L 5A5 Phone: (613) 548-5290 www2.dupont.com ENGlobal Canada 7805 Flint RD SE Calgary AB T2H 1G3 Phone: (403) 221-6320 www.englobal.com Epic Consulting Services Ltd 1900-540 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0M2 Phone: (403) 444-1400 www.epiccs.com Equinox Engineering Ltd 640 12 Ave SW Calgary AB T2R 0H5 Phone: (403) 205-3833 www.equinox-eng.com ES Denbina Petroleum Consulting Services 136 Parkland Hill SE Calgary AB T2J 4K6 Phone: (403) 278-9284 www.members.shaw.ca/denbina/ index.htm Executrade Consultants Limited 9917 112 St NW Edmonton AB T5K 1L6 Phone: (780) 944-1122 www.executrade.com Falcon EDF Ltd 76 Skyline Cres NE Calgary AB T2K 5X7 Phone: (403) 253-2741 www.falcon-edf.com Fekete Associates Inc 2000-540 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0M2 Phone: (403) 213-4200 www.fekete.com

DIRECTORY Fluor Canada Ltd 55 Sunpark Plaza SE Calgary AB T2X 3R4 Phone: (403) 537-4600 www.fluor.com Focus Corporation Ltd 201-10010 Franklin Ave Fort McMurray AB T9H 2K6 Phone: (780) 790-0704 www.focus.ca

PO Box 1054 Lloydminster SK S9V 1E9 Phone: (780) 875-5306 JDEL Associates Ltd. 208-4207 98 St NW Edmonton AB T6E 5R7 Phone: (780) 455-6710 www.jdel.ca

McLeay Geological Consultants (1986) Ltd 3905 29 St NE Calgary AB T1Y 6B5 Phone: (403) 250-1806 www.mcleay.ab.ca Meyers Norris Penny 300-622 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0M6 Phone: (403) 263-3385 www.mnp.ca

Fourth Meridian Enterprises Ltd PO Box 1908 Stn Main Lloydminster SK S9V 1N4 Phone: (306) 753-7424

JPI Geo-Industry Engineering Consultants 8403 187 St NW Edmonton AB T5T 1H9 Phone: (780) 443-2290 www.jpicanada.com

Fractical Solutions Inc 6010 Signal Ridge Heights SW Calgary AB T3H 2N7 Phone: (403) 242-1240

K W Anderson Consulting PO Box 7615 Peace River AB T8S 1T2 Phone: (780) 618-7985

Frontier Engineering & Consulting Ltd 300-1601 Westmount Rd NW Calgary AB T2N 3M2 Phone: (403) 265-3900 www.frontierengineering.net

Kade Technologies Inc 300-400 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0L6 Phone: (403) 269-5556 www.kadeinc.com

Genesis Executive Corporation 1800-520 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3R7 Phone: (403) 237-8622 www.genesiscorporatesearch.com

KBC Advanced Technologies 260-1015 4 St SW Calgary AB T2R 1J4 Phone: (403) 206-1533 www.kbcat.com

Norwest Corporation 2700-411 1 St SE Calgary AB T2G 0R3 Phone: (403) 237-7763 www.norwestcorp.com

GLJ Petroleum Consultants 4100-400 3 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 4H2 Phone: (403) 266-9500 www.gljpc.com

Kilowatts Design Company Inc 90-2150 29 St NE Calgary AB T1Y 7G4 Phone: (403) 272-9404 www.kilowatts.com

Page OCL PO Box 767 Lloydminster SK S9V 1C1 Phone: (780) 875-2402 www.pageocl.com

Golder Associates Ltd Bay 4-6125 12 St SE Calgary AB T2H 2K1 Phone: (403) 252-3705 www.golder.com

Kinetic Engineering Ltd 825-808 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3E8 Phone: (403) 221-8380 www.kineticeng.com

PCL Constructors Inc 5410 99 St NW Edmonton AB T6E 3P4 Phone: (780) 733-5000

Hatch Energy 700-840 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3G2 Phone: (403) 269-9555 www.hatch.ca

Lebob Holdings Ltd PO Box 782 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-4296

Quorum Business Solutions Inc. 210-101 6 St SW Calgary AB T2P 5K7 Phone: (403) 806-2550 www.qbsol.com

Moh-Lita Holdings Ltd PO Box 1633 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-6585

Rangeland Engineering 400-534 17 Ave SW Calgary AB T2S 0B1 Phone: (403) 265-5130 www.rangelandeng.com

Noralco Consulting Ltd 5707 39 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2P2 Phone: (780) 875-2337

M S Carleton Consulting Inc 1615 Cayuga Dr NW Calgary AB T2L 0N2 Phone: (403) 282-7004

Petrospec Engineering Ltd 5311 72A Ave NW Edmonton AB T6B 2J1 Phone: (780) 468-6901 www.petrospeceng.com

J R Services PO Box 97 Minburn AB T0B 3B0 Phone: (780) 593-2210

Sadoway Enterprise Ltd Redwater AB Phone: (780) 915-0518

Serpa Petroleum Consulting Ltd 403 Oakside Cir SW Calgary AB T2V 4P1 Phone: (403) 861-6753

Lorrnel Consultants 400 6 St SW Calgary AB T2P 1X2 Phone: (403) 233-0900 www.lorrnel.com

McDaniel & Associates Consultants Ltd 2200-255 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3G6 Phone: (403) 262-5506 www.mcdan.com

RPS Energy 1400-800 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3T6 Phone: (403) 265-7226 www.apa-inc.com

Petrel Robertson Consulting Ltd 500-736 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 1H4 Phone: (403) 218-1618 www.petrelrob.com

Horton CBI Ltd 9816 Hardin St Fort McMurray AB T9H 4K3 Phone: (780) 743-0114

J & G Oilfield Supervision 330, 3-6309 43 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2W9 Phone: (780) 871-1025

Roxar Canada Ltd 1200-815 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3P2 Phone: (403) 265-3727 www.roxar.com

SDH Oilfield Consulting Ltd 217 29 Ave NE Calgary AB T2E 2C2 Phone: (403) 875-1547

Petroleum Geomechanics Inc PO Box 31062, RPO Bridgeland 112 4 St NE Calgary AB T2E 9A3 Phone: (403) 874-7066 www.petroleumgeomechanics.com

Ma O’Kane Consultants Inc 171 Barber Dr Fort McMurray AB T9K 1X1 Phone: (780) 881-0592 www.okane-consultants.com

R.L.M. Consulting Ltd 5412 31 St Lloydminster AB T9V 1J2 Phone: (780) 871-8680

Peat’s Holdings Inc 11016 101 Ave Lac La Biche AB Phone: (780) 623-8199

Hemisphere Engineering Inc 10950 119 St NW Edmonton AB T5H 3P5 Phone: (780) 452-1800

IMV Projects 1400-500 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3L5 Phone: (403) 537-8811 www.imvprojects.com

Purvin & Gertz Inc 1720-144 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3N4 Phone: (403) 266-7086 www.purvingertz.com

Midwest Geological Services Ltd 5624 42 St Lloydminster AB T9V 0A3 Phone: (780) 875-7080

Levelton Consultants Ltd 515-808 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3E8 Phone: (403) 269-4141 www.levelton.com

IFP Technologies (Canada) Inc 810-744 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3T4 Phone: (403) 234-0342 www.ifp-canada.com

ProjEx Technologies Ltd 500-404 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0R9 Phone: (403) 705-4100 www.projex.ca

Pinnacle Technologies Inc 106-2730 39 Ave NE Calgary AB T1Y 7H6 Phone: (403) 516-2260 www.pinntech.com Post Process Consultants Corp 300-736 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3W1 Phone: (403) 237-7160 www.post-process.com

Sethi Research & Testing Ltd 10-431 MacKenzie Blvd Fort McMurray AB T9H 4C5 Phone: (780) 791-2000 Silvertip Consulting PO Box 6264 Bonnyville AB T9N 2G8 Phone: (780) 826-6359 SNC-Lavalin Inc 1700-605 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3H5 Phone: (403) 294-2431 www.snc-lavalin.com Sproule & Associates Limited 900-140 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3N3 Phone: (403) 294-5500 www.sproule.com SRW Technologies Inc 4521 101 St NW Edmonton AB T6E 5C6 Phone: (780) 413-4833

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DIRECTORY Stewart Weir & Co Ltd PO Box 6938 4816 50 Ave Bonnyville AB T9N 2H3 Phone: (780) 812-3183 www.swg.ca Strategy West Inc Box 76037 Calgary AB T2P 2Z9 Phone: (403) 256-9220 www.strategywest.com Teknica Petroleum Services Ltd 100-630 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0J9 Phone: (403) 269-4386 www.teknicaltd.com The Churchill Corporation 12836 146 St NW Edmonton AB T5L 2H7 Phone: (780) 454-3667 Thimm Engineering Inc 214-3916 64 Ave SE Calgary AB T2C 2B4 Phone: (403) 265-0792 www.hfthimm.com Thurber Engineering Ltd 200-9636 51 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 6A5 Phone: (780) 438-1460 www.thurber.ca Trimble Engineering Associates Ltd 2200-801 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3W2 Phone: (403) 261-4720 www.trimble-eng.com United Oil & Gas Consulting Ltd 500-777 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3R5 Phone: (403) 265-0111 www.uogc.com Upside Engineering Ltd 409 10 Ave SE Calgary AB T2G 0W3 Phone: (403) 290-4650 www.upsideeng.com West Rock Energy Consultants Ltd. 1110-910 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3N8 Phone: (403) 873-0960 WorleyParsons Colt 400-10201 Southport Rd SW Calgary AB T2W 4X9 Phone: (403) 258-8000 www.worleyparsons.com WorleyParsons MEG 540 12 Ave SW Calgary AB T2R 0H4 Phone: (403) 508-5300 www.worleyparsons.com Contractors General Oilfield A.G. Grant Construction Ltd 916 8 St NW SS 1 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-3865 Basarab Garry Construction & Grader PO Box 1467 High Prairie AB T0G 1E0 Phone: (780) 523-4793

Battle River Oilfield Construction Ltd PO Box 957 Manning AB T0H 2M0 Phone: (780) 836-3498

E G Gas Operators Ltd PO Box 26 Innisfree AB T0B 2G0 Phone: (780) 592-3733

Hugo Zbinden Contracting 50 Cougarstone Terrace SW Calgary AB T3H 4Z8 Phone: (780) 714-9690

Beder Holdings Limited PO Box 116 Marwayne AB T0B 2X0 Phone: (780) 847-3815

Elite Mechanical - A Division of Carson Welding & Maintenance Ltd PO Box 12188 Lloydminster AB T9V 3C4 Phone: (780) 808-8450 www.elitemechanical.ca

Jay’s Salvage & Cats Ltd Site 632 Comp 3 RR 1 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C1 Phone: (780) 623-4096

Big D Contracting Ltd PO Box 816 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-4443 Boisson Contracting Inc PO Box 1868 High Prairie AB T0G 1E0 Phone: (780) 523-2561 Boxer Petroleum Services Inc PO Box 6819 Bonnyville AB T9N 2H3 Phone: (780) 826-5002 www.boxervalve.com Brother’s Oilfield Services PO Box 3273 Wainwright AB T9W 1T2 Phone: (780) 842-4220 CD Rouleau Construction PO Box 327 Eaglesham AB T0H 1H0 Phone: (780) 837-1712

Enmax Corporation 141 50 Ave SE Calgary AB T2G 4S7 Phone: (403) 514-3290 www.enmax.com Estabrook Construction Ltd PO Box 258 Grimshaw AB T0H 1W0 Phone: (780) 332-4111 Flint Field Services Ltd PO Box 8029 Bonnyville AB T9N 2J3 Phone: (780) 826-5523 www.denmarenergy.com Fort McKay Group of Companies PO Box 5360 Stn Main Fort McMurray AB T9H 3G4 Phone: (780) 828-2400 www.fortmckay.com

Central Peace Contracting Ltd Peace River AB Phone: (780) 338-3898

Foster Bulldozing Services Ltd PO Box 540 Mannville AB T0B 2W0 Phone: (780) 763-3750

Christina River Enterprises (1987) Ltd PO Box 6040 Fort McMurray AB T9H 4W1 Phone: (780) 334-2446 www.clac.ca

Gallivan Construction Ltd PO Box 10 Tangent AB T0H 3JO Phone: (780) 359-2052

Cold Lake First Nations PO Box 1769 Stn Main Cold Lake AB T9M 1P4 Phone: (780) 594-7183 Consun Contracting Ltd PO Box 5056 Stn Main Fort McMurray AB T9H 3E2 Phone: (780) 743-3163 Crude Energy Services Inc PO Box 2635 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-4409 D Prpich Enterprises Ltd PO Box 597 High Prairie AB T0G 1E0 Phone: (780) 523-3661 Denision Contractors Ltd 7912 97 Ave Peace River AB T8S 1W5 Phone: (780) 624-5718 Deynaka Developments Ltd PO Box 935 High Prairie AB T0G 1E0 Phone: (780) 523-2420 E Construction Ltd 10130 21 St NW Edmonton AB T6P 1W7 Phone: (780) 467-7701 www.ecltd.ca

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GEM Grant Energy Maintenance PO Box 1683 High Prairie AB T0G 1E0 Phone: (780) 523-3470 Gift Lake Metis Settlement PO Box 60 Gift Lake AB T0G 1B0 Phone: (780) 767-3894 Glen Armstrong Construction Ltd 8122 102 Ave Peace River AB T8S 1M6 Phone: (780) 624-2101 Granite Oilfield Services Inc 6006 52 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2S8 Phone: (780) 875-1652 Grimm Mel Holdings Ltd PO Box 630 Manning AB T0H 2M0 Phone: (780) 836-3632 Guest Industrial Contractors Ltd 5503 52 St Lloydminster AB T9V 0R7 Phone: (780) 875-5877 H. Wilson Industries Ltd PO Box 5660 Fort McMurray AB T9H 3G6 Phone: (780) 743-1881 www.wilson-industries.com Homeland Well Servicing Ltd General Delivery Fishing Lake AB T0A 3G0 Phone: (780) 943-2466

JMB Crushing Systems Ltd 4725 Railway Ave Elk Point AB Phone: (780) 724-3960 K G Enterprises Ltd PO Box 787 Lamont AB T0B 2R0 Phone: (780) 895-7554 L Robert Enterprises Ltd 125 MacKay Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4C9 Phone: (780) 791-0118 www.lre.ca Lakeshore Contracting Ltd 14 Crescent Hts Fort McMurray AB T9H 1L6 Phone: (780) 714-3665 Liam Construction Inc 36 Riedel St Fort McMurray AB T9H 3E1 Phone: (780) 791-1500 Lorenzen’s Oilfield Service Ltd PO Box 353 Manning AB T0H 2M0 Phone: (780) 836-3786 M & J Cats Ltd PO Box 749 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-7653 Millennium Cats Inc PO Box 1914 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-4036 Monad Industrial Constructors Inc 9744 45 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 5C5 Phone: (780) 468-8026 www.monad.ca Monte’s Mechanical 144 Beaconwood Pl Fort McMurray AB T9H 2S7 Phone: (780) 791-9162 National Oilwell Varco 1100-540 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0M2 Phone: (780) 875-5504 www.natoil.com Neegan Development Corporation Ltd 283 MacAlpine Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4Y4 Phone: (780) 791-9386 NorDen Contracting Ltd PO Box 2307 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-7567 North East Sixteen Construction PO Box 173 Fawcett AB T0G 0Y0 Phone: (780) 681-3737

DIRECTORY Northern Backhoe Ltd PO Box 149 Manning AB T0H 2M0 Phone: (780) 836-2617

Schindle & Bazin Oilfield Construction Ltd Lloydminster AB Phone: (780) 875-7710

Wiebe Construction PO Box 818 Manning AB T0H 2M0 Phone: (780) 836-3220

Permalta Ltd PO Box 108 Donnelly AB T0H 1G0 Phone: (780) 324-2137

Shamrock Valley Enterprises Ltd PO Box 505 Elk Point AB T0A 1A0 Phone: (780) 724-3177

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Permasteel Projects Ltd 17430 103 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5S 2K8 Phone: (780) 452-7281 www.permasteel.com

Skully’s Oilfield Maintenance Ltd PO Box 272 Viking AB T0B 4N0 Phone: (780) 336-4064

Peter Kiewit Sons Co Ltd 11211 215 St NW Edmonton AB T5S 2B2 Phone: (780) 447-3509 www.kiewit.ca Phoenix Industrial Maintenance Ltd 3703 38 Ave Whitecourt AB T7S 1P7 Phone: (780) 778-5883 www.phoenixindustrial.ca Porkys Oilfield Construction Ltd 2101 17 Ave Wainwright AB T9W 1L2 Phone: (780) 842-3661 Powell Cats Ltd PO Box 248 Chauvin AB T0B 0V0 Phone: (780) 858-3978 Prairie Tech Oilfield Services PO Box 819 Elk Point AB T0A 1A0 Phone: (780) 614-1873 Precision Contractors Ltd PO Box 10578 Lloydminster AB T9V 3A7 Phone: (780) 875-1962 Predator Logistics PO Box 1816 Vegreville AB T9C 1S9 Phone: (780) 632-9394 R P Mad Enterprises Girouxville AB Phone: (780) 323-4356 Rene’s Vacuum Service Inc RR 1 Site 5 Box 5 Legal AB T0G 1L0 Phone: (780) 961-3064 Riverside Oilfield Services 5709 50 Ave Bonnyville AB Phone: (780) 826-9327 Rocky Pine Oilfield Services Ltd PO Box 10739 Lloydminster AB T9V 3A8 Phone: (780) 871-1238 S N R Contracting Ltd PO Box 357 Wabasca AB T0G 2K0 Phone: (780) 891-2169 Sabre Cats Ltd 10140 101 St Lac La Biche AB Phone: (780) 623-2113

Spirig Welding Ltd PO Box 68 Dixonville AB T0H 1E0 Phone: (780) 971-3730 Steed & McLeod Oilfield Ltd PO Box 6955 Peace River AB T8S 1S7 Phone: (780) 624-8108 Stony Valley Contracting 212 Beaconhill Dr Fort McMurray AB T9H 3G3 Phone: (780) 743-0527 Stuber’s Cat Service Ltd Site 7 Box 12 RR 2 Barrhead AB T7N 1N3 Phone: (780) 785-2173 Szmyrko Construction PO Box 300 Boyle AB T0A 0M0 Phone: (780) 689-9497 www.szmyrko.com Tarsands Steam Cleaning PO Box 39 Kehiwin AB T0A 1C0 Phone: (780) 826-6392 Tenaris 1800-140 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3N3 Phone: (403) 290-0602 www.tenaris.com Tercon Enterprises Inc 200-9401 Franklin Ave Fort McMurray AB T9H 3Z7 Phone: (780) 799-3217 www.dclconstruction.com Thompson Bros (Constr) Ltd 411 South Ave Spruce Grove AB Phone: (780) 962-1030 www.thompsonbros.com Trans Tech Contracting Inc 811-53016 Hwy 60 Acheson AB T7X 5A7 Phone: (780) 447-3700 www.transtecgroup.com Tuc’s Contracting 283 MacAlpine Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4Y4 Phone: (780) 791-9386 TWB Construction Ltd 210 Weston Ave W Maidstone SK S0M 1M0 Phone: (306) 893-4500 W.A.T. Holdings Ltd PO Box 1170 Wabasca AB T0G 2K0 Phone: (780) 891-3006

Brandt 1600-540 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0M2 Phone: (403) 264-9646 www.varco.com

A & C Water Well Drilling PO Box 6496 Bonnyville AB T9N 2H1 Phone: (780) 826-5625

Brian Steed Contracting & Horizontal Drilling Ltd PO Box 6934 Peace River AB T8S 1S7 Phone: (780) 624-8609

Aable Directional Drilling Box 14 Site 15 RR 3 Olds AB T4H 1P4 Phone: (403) 556-7400

Bullseye Directional Drilling Ltd PO Box 176 Mannville AB T0B 2W0 Phone: (780) 853-7840

Ace Power Tongs PO Box 1576 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 805-2999

Canadian Mat Systems Inc 241 76 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6P 1P2 Phone: (780) 485-0808 www.matsystems.ca

AKITA Drilling Ltd 900-311 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3H2 Phone: (403) 292-7979 www.akita-drilling.com

Carnwood Wireline Service Ltd PO Box 427 Slave Lake AB 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-3085

Akuna Drilling Limited Partnership 300-500 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2V6 Phone: (403) 214-5970 www.akunadrilling.com

Cheyenne Rig Repair & Supply Ltd PO Box 1319 Gibbons AB T0A 1N0 Phone: (780) 414-1477 www.chevron.ca

Alfs Drilling & Supplies Ltd PO Box 452 Viking AB T0B 4N0 Phone: (780) 336-2207

Con-Force Structures Limited 4300 50 Ave SE Calgary AB T2B 2T7 Phone: (403) 248-3171 www.con-force.com

Alliance Energy Services Ltd 1840-840 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0Z9 Phone: (403) 663-9766 www.alliancefluids.com Allstar Oilfield Services PO Box 11279 Lloydminster AB T9V 3B5 Phone: (780) 875-1918 Anchor Industries Ltd RR 1 Site 1 Box 8 Bon Accord AB T0A 0K0 Phone: (780) 921-2144 Anchors First Ltd PO Box 2388 Stn Main Lloydminster SK S9V 1W5 Phone: (306) 825-6535 Apex Oilfield Services (2000) Inc 2020-633 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0T5 Phone: (403) 257-5152 www.apexoil.ca

CTC Energy Services 7755 Edgar Industrial Way Red Deer AB T4P 3R2 Phone: (403) 347-6717 www.buildersenergy.com Directional Plus 1700-715 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2X6 Phone: (403) 265-2560 www.directionalplus.com Edcon Power Tongs and Oilfield Services Ltd PO Box 209 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-4808 Emco Corporation Waterworks & Geosynthetics 1-270 MacKay Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 5C6 Phone: (780) 713-2433 www.emcoltd.com

Baxter’s Mobile Rig Service Ltd. 5106 63 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2E6 Phone: (780) 872-5955

Encore Coring & Drilling Inc 1345 Highfield Cres SE Calgary AB T2G 5N2 Phone: (403) 287-0123 www.ensignenergy.com/encore

Black Gold Drilling PO Box 56 Nampa AB T0H 2R0 Phone: (780) 322-2123

Eveready Directional Boring 256-28042 Hwy 11 Red Deer County AB T4S 2L4 Phone: (403) 346-7332 www.evereadydirectional.com

B-Line Directional Drilling PO Box 1240 Elk Point AB T0A 1A0 Phone: (780) 724-2184 Bonnyville Drilling Services 5210 54 Ave Bonnyville AB T9N 2H9 Phone: (780) 826-3906

G & L Slotco Oil Field Services 1110-700 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3J4 Phone: (403) 261-1717 www.gl-slotco.com

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DIRECTORY Garritty And Baker Geotechnical Drilling Inc 5715 56 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6B 3G3 Phone: (780) 433-8786 www.garrittyandbakerdrilling.com Grenco Industries Ltd 3710 78 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6B 3E5 Phone: (780) 468-2000 www.grenco.com Hitech Power Tongs Inc PO Box 1088 Gibbons AB T0A 1N0 Phone: (780) 872-5322 www.mightymitetongs.ca Hunting Energy Services (Canada) Ltd. 5550 Skyline Way NE Calgary AB T2E 7Z7 Phone: (403) 543-4477 www.hunting-intl.com Hurricane Industries Ltd PO Box 2038 Lloydminster SK S9V 1R5 Phone: (780) 875-5597 www.hurricanefoam.com Impact Rock Bits PO Box 6448 Peace River AB T8S 1S3 Phone: (780) 624-2640 www.impactrockbits.com Import Tool Corp Ltd. 930-910 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3N8 Phone: (403) 261-3032 www.importtool.com Inspectrite Services Inc PO Box 6235 Bonnyville AB T9N 2G8 Phone: (780) 826-3480 International Mats of Canada 300-635 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0T5 Phone: (403) 290-5369 www.newpark.ca J & L Supply Co Ltd 4511 Manitoba Rd SE Calgary AB T2G 4B9 Phone: (403) 287-3300 Jay-Nart Directional Drilling Ltd PO Box 400 Redwater AB T0A 2W0 Phone: (780) 942-4105 www.jaynart.com J.E.D. Anchors & Environmental Ltd RR 3 Eckville AB T0M 0X0 Phone: (403) 746-3826 K & S Power Tongs Ltd 3614 63 Ave Cl Lloydminster AB T9V 2W1 Phone: (780) 875-0000 Kodiak Wireline Services Ltd 9702 90 Ave Morinville AB Phone: (780) 939-5554 www.kodiakservices.ca LoCo Power Tongs Ltd PO Box 1401 High Prairie AB T0G 1E0 Phone: (780) 523-2475

Marquis Fluids Inc 700-706 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0Z1 Phone: (403) 264-1588 www.marquisfluids.com

Pro-Rod Coiled Rod Solutions 3201 84 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6P 1K1 Phone: (780) 449-7101 www.prorod.com

Smith Services 1600-335 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 1C9 Phone: (403) 264-6077 www.siismithservices.com

McAllister Waterwells Ltd PO Box 1189 Blackfoot AB T0B 0L0 Phone: (780) 875-2409

Q’Max Solutions Inc 1700-407 2 St SW Calgary AB T2P 2Y3 Phone: (403) 269-2242 www.qmaxsolutions.com

Summit Wireline Inc PO Box 11439 Lloydminster AB T9V 3B7 Phone: (306) 825-4191

M-I Drilling Fluids 500-700 2 St SW Calgary AB T2P 2W2 Phone: (403) 290-5336 Mid-East Oilfield Services Inc PO Box 56 Minburn AB T0B 3B0 Phone: (780) 593-3946 Mitee Industries Inc PO Box 1088 Gibbons AB T0A 1N0 Phone: (780) 554-5453 www.mightymitetongs.ca Nabors Canada 2800-500 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2V6 Phone: (403) 263-6777 www.nabors.com Newpark Canada Inc 300-635 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0T5 Phone: (403) 266-7383 www.newpark.ca Newsco Directional & Horizontal Services Inc 7000 Railway St SE Calgary AB T2H 3A8 Phone: (403) 243-2331 www.newsco.ca

R & R Pipehandlers Ltd 11218B 89 Ave Grande Prairie AB T8V 5V8 Phone: (780) 538-9999 www.randrpipehandlers.com

Superheat FGH Canada, Inc 1303 77 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6P 1M8 Phone: (780) 469-8008 www.superheatfgh.com

RBI Canada 2000 Inc 5677 Burleigh Cres SE Calgary AB T2H 1Z7 Phone: (403) 255-3730

Tallrig International Inc 14-2310 53 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2S4 Phone: (780) 808-5311 www.tallrig.com

ReedHycalog Canada 2700-144 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3N4 Phone: (403) 234-9999 www.ReedHycalog.com

Tangedal Water Well Drilling PO Box 1 Athabasca AB T9S 2A2 Phone: (780) 675-4405

Remote Wireline Services 8804 98 St Morinville AB T8R 1K6 Phone: (780) 939-6655 www.remotewireline.com Ryan Energy Technologies 2800-500 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2V6 Phone: (403) 269-5981 www.ryanenergy.com

Tartan Controls Inc 320-1201 5 St SW Calgary AB T2R 0Y6 Phone: (403) 232-1490 www.tartancontrols.com Ted’s Power Tongs & Laydown Machine Ltd PO Box 267 Manning AB T0H 2M0 Phone: (780) 836-2460

Scormac Oilfield Bits Inc 4710 62 Ave Lloydminster AB Phone: (780) 808-6462

Titus Tools Inc 6014 52 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2S8 Phone: (780) 875-6282 www.titustools.com

Norseman Inc 14545 115 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5M 3B8 Phone: (780) 451-6828 www.norseman.ca

SDS Drilling 4025 96 Ave SE Calgary AB T2C 4T7 Phone: (403) 287-1460 www.boartlongyear.com

Tomtruck Oilfield Services Ltd Bay E-6209 50 Ave Lloydminster SK S9V 0G4 Phone: (780) 205-1535

Northstar Drillstem Testers Inc 28B-200 Barclay Parade SW Calgary AB T2P 4R5 Phone: (403) 265-8987 www.northstardst.com

Shield Wireline Ltd 6004 50 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2T9 Phone: (780) 875-2772

Peak Energy Services 900-222 3 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0B4 Phone: (403) 543-7325 www.peak-energy.com Petroline Rentals Ltd PO Box 118 High Prairie AB T0G 1E0 Phone: (780) 523-0063

Sicotte Drilling Tools 1101 77 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6P 1M8 Phone: (780) 440-6700 www.sicottedrillingtools.com Silverline Coil PO Box 923 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-8377

Prairie Dog Directional Drilling PO Box 7921 Stn Main Bonnyville AB T9N 2J2 Phone: (780) 812-9145

Silvertip Rentals And Fishing Tools PO Box 207 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-8372 www.silvertiprentals.com

Precision Drilling 4200-150 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3Y7 Phone: (403) 264-4882 www.precisiondrilling.com

Smith Bits 1600-335 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 1C9 Phone: (403) 264-6077 www.smithbits.com

ProDrill Fluid Technologies 1740-840 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3G2 Phone: (403) 269-8260

Smith International Canada Ltd 1600-335 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 1C9 Phone: (403) 264-6077 www.smith.com

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Top Gun Sand Pumps & Rentals Ltd PO Box 124 Marsden SK S0M 1P0 Phone: (306) 826-5750 Tornado Technologies Inc 3236 50 Ave SE Calgary AB T2B 3A3 Phone: (403) 244-3333 www.tornadotech.com Trendon Bit Service Ltd PO Box 548 Redcliff AB T0J 2P0 Phone: (403) 548-7242 Treo Drilling Services LP 285160 Kleysen Way RR 5 Calgary AB T2P 2G6 Phone: (403) 723-8600 www.treodrilling.com Trinidad Drilling Ltd 2500-700 9 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3V4 Phone: (403) 265-6525 www.trinidaddrilling.com Triple D Bending 4707 Glenmore Tr SE Calgary AB T2C 2R9 Phone: (403) 255-2944 www.pipebending.com

DIRECTORY Tryton Tool Services 5107 62 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2E3 Phone: (780) 875-0800 www.trytontoolservices.ca Tundra Environmental Drilling Stettler AB Phone: (403) 883-2671 www.tundraenvirodrilling.ca Unique Boring PO Box 1122 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-0232 VAM Canada Inc 1920-444 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2T 2T8 Phone: (403) 233-0119 www.vmtubes.com Varel Rock Bits Canada Inc 9926 29 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6N 1A2 Phone: (780) 435-5706 www.varelrockbits.com Variperm Canada Limited 10-3424 26 St NE Calgary AB T1Y 4T7 Phone: (403) 250-7263 www.variperm.com Vetco Gray Canada Inc 2000-520 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3R7 Phone: (403) 264-4146 www.vetcogray.com Volant Products Inc 4624 Eleniak Rd NW Edmonton AB T6B 2S1 Phone: (780) 490-5185 www.volantproducts.ca Vortex Energy Pumping Services Inc 5115 62 St Vegreville AB T9C 1N6 Phone: (780) 632-3558 Ward’s Power Tongs PO Box 208 Mannville AB T0B 2W0 Phone: (780) 763-6483 Wellsite Masters Ltd 301-9816 Hardin St Fort McMurray AB T9H 4K3 Phone: (780) 880-6559 www.wmasters.ca Welltec Canada Inc 4860 25 St SE Calgary AB T2B 3M2 Phone: (403) 263-2248 www.welltec.com Welltec Wireline Services 5617 50 Ave Bonnyville AB T9N 2L1 Phone: (780) 812-2585 www.heatseekersltd.com Western Lakota Energy Services Inc 300-500 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2V6 Phone: (403) 214-5970 www.westernlakota.com Wilson Tong Service Ltd 5922 52 Ave Vermilion AB T9X 1X3 Phone: (780) 853-6866

Wipers PO Box 456 Bashaw AB T0B 0H0 Phone: (780) 372-3883 Xtreme Wireline 1700-715 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2X6 Phone: (403) 206-3458 ElectricalInstrumentation/Controls ABB Inc 110-4411 6 St SE Calgary AB T2G 4E8 Phone: (403) 225-5511 www.abb.com Abstract Gasfield Solutions Limited 5141 50 Ave Vegreville AB T9C 1M5 Phone: (780) 603-7770 www.gasfieldsolutions.com Ainsworth Inc C4-6215 3 St SE Calgary AB T2H 2L2 Phone: (403) 265-6750 www.ainsworth.com Aircom Industries 9328 37 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 5K3 Phone: (780) 434-6916 www.teamaircom.com All-Tek Industrial & Auto Electric 6015 53 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2T1 Phone: (780) 808-5209

Benchmark Instrumentation & Analytical Services Ltd 146-51350 Rge Rd 224 Sherwood Park AB T8H 1H3 Phone: (780) 669-1300 www.benchmarkinc.ca Bentek Systems Ltd 315-3750 46 Ave SE Calgary AB T2B 0L1 Phone: (403) 243-5135 www.scadalink.com Ber-Mac Electrical & Instrumentation Ltd 250 42 Ave SE Calgary AB T2G 1Y4 Phone: (403) 287-6026 www.ber-mac.com Bi-Systems Electric & Controls Ltd PO Box 309 Stn Main Lloydminster SK S9V 0Y2 Phone: (780) 875-4047 Borealis Electrical & Controls Ltd 129 Silverdale Gdns Fort McMurray AB T9H 3S6 Phone: (780) 743-1118 Bredon Electrical Systems Ltd PO Box 6136 Fort McMurray AB T9H 4W1 Phone: (780) 799-9117 Canonbie Contracting Ltd 12307 17 St NW Edmonton AB T6S 1A7 Phone: (780) 377-2200 www.canonbie.ca

Coneco 16116 111 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5M 2S1 Phone: (780) 451-2630 www.coneco.ca Daryl’s Electric & Trenching Services PO Box 348 Glendon AB T0A 1P0 Phone: (780) 635-2634 D’Lanne Electro Controls (2000) 905 4 St NW Slave Lake AB T0G 2A1 Phone: (780) 849-4316 Eagletech Electric Ltd 1215 Main St NE Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-7818 EECOL Electric 63 Sunpark Dr SE Calgary AB T2X 3V4 Phone: (403) 253-1952 www.eecol.com Emes Electric Ltd PO Box 351 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A4 Phone: (780) 849-2771 Endress + Hauser 318-8925 51 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 5J3 Phone: (780) 486-3222 www.ca.endress.com Energy Electric Ltd 4111 48 St Bonnyville AB T9N 1P4 Phone: (780) 826-7795

Amercable 3812 64 St Stettler AB T0C 2L1 Phone: (403) 742-1833

Carbon Controls Ltd 124-11979 40 St SE Calgary AB T2Z 4M3 Phone: (403) 238-9944 www.carboncontrolsltd.com

Apex Valve Services 6217 50 Ave Bonnyville AB T9N 2L9 Phone: (780) 826-4355 www.apexdistribution.com

Casca Electric Ltd 206-9401 Franklin Ave Fort McMurray AB T9H 3Z7 Phone: (780) 743-2002 www.cascaelectric.com

B J Electric Supplies Ltd 4143 97 St NW Edmonton AB T6E 6E9 Phone: (780) 461-2334 www.bjelectric.ca

CD Nova Instruments Ltd 117-1144 29 Ave NE Calgary AB T2E 7P1 Phone: (403) 250-5600 www.cdnova.com

Babco Electric Group Inc 12465 153 St NW Edmonton AB T5V 1E4 Phone: (780) 447-1386 www.babco-electric.com

Centurion Energy Services Ltd 6-242 MacAlpine Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4A6 Phone: (780) 791-5661 www.centurionenergy.ca

Baldor-Reliance 4053 92 St NW Edmonton AB T6E 6R8 Phone: (780) 434-4900 www.ebaldor.ca

Chemco Electrical Contractors Ltd 6-210 MacAlpine Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4A6 Phone: (780) 790-9722

General Electric Canada Inc 9353 45 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 5Z7 Phone: (780) 438-3280

Classic Electric PO Box 6021 Peace River AB T8S 1S1 Phone: (780) 624-5749

Grizzly Electric & Instrumentation Ltd PO Box 332 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-9164

Concept Controls Inc 1-2315 30 Ave NE Calgary AB T2E 7C7 Phone: (403) 208-1065 www.conceptcontrols.com

Guillevin International Co 4220A Blackfoot Tr SE Calgary AB T2G 4E6 Phone: (403) 287-1680 www.guillevin.com

Battle River Electric Ltd 1330 10A St Wainwright AB T9W 1K5 Phone: (780) 842-4485 Bayzik Electrical Valve & Instrumentation Inc 8112 Fraser Ave Fort McMurray AB T9H 1W5 Phone: (780) 743-2995 www.bayzikelectric.com

Energy Navigator Inc 2150-255 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3G6 Phone: (403) 233-9400 www.energynavigator.com Fluid Lift Systems Inc PO Box 104 Vimy AB T0G 2J0 Phone: (780) 961-3545 www.fluidlift.com Fort McMurray Valve & Fitting Ltd 1-266 MacKay Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 5C6 Phone: (780) 790-0640 G G Electric 3807 46A Ave Close Lloydminster SK S9V 2C1 Phone: (306) 825-5484

Harris Electric Co Ltd 6205 48 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2G1 Phone: (780) 875-3336 Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook & Directory III · 187

DIRECTORY Honeywell Limited 5925 Centre St SW Calgary AB T2H 0C2 Phone: (403) 509-1200 www.honeywell.com/acs

Matrikon Inc 1800-10405 Jasper Ave NW Edmonton AB T5J 3N4 Phone: (780) 448-1010 www.matrikon.com

Pronghorn Controls Ltd 101-4919 72 Ave SE Calgary AB T2C 3H3 Phone: (403) 292-0870 www.pronghorn.ca

Studon Electric & Controls Inc 1550-540 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0M2 Phone: (403) 203-2218 www.studon.com

Hy-Lok Canada Inc 2407 96 St NW Edmonton AB T6N 0A7 Phone: (780) 409-4484 www.hylok.ca

Midlite Powerline Construction PO Box 25058 Fort McMurray AB T9H 5N8 Phone: (780) 714-6559

Pyramid Corporation 2308 8 St Nisku AB T9E 7Z2 Phone: (780) 955-2988 www.pyramidcorporation.com

Stuve Electrical Contractors Ltd 8128 Manning Ave Fort McMurray AB T9H 1V7 Phone: (780) 743-2424

Independent Electric & Controls Ltd 6211 51 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2E1 Phone: (780) 871-0830

Midwest Communications 5910 44 St Lloydminster AB T9V 1V7 Phone: (780) 808-2223 www.midwestcommunications.ca

Industrial Electrical Services (Fort McMurray) Ltd 8333 Fraser Ave Fort McMurray AB T9H 1W9 Phone: (780) 743-9393

Mosan Communications Ltd PO Box 3342 Wainwright AB T9W 1T3 Phone: (780) 842-2400

Intech Supplies Ltd 6211 Roper Rd NW Edmonton AB T6B 3G6 Phone: (780) 448-9575 www.intech-nde.com Invensys Systems Canada Inc 7665 10 St NE Calgary AB T2E 8X2 Phone: (403) 777-1150 www.invensys.com JAG Instrument Services Ltd PO Box 1138 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-2786 Kenry Electric Ltd 9717 90 Ave Peace River AB T8S 1G8 Phone: (780) 624-5435 Kingsway Instruments Ltd 4238 91A St NW Edmonton AB T6E 5V2 Phone: (780) 463-5264 www.kingswayinstruments.com Kinsella Electric Ltd PO Box 7 Kinsella AB T0B 2N0 Phone: (780) 336-2493 Kintek Ltd 10214 Centennial Dr Fort McMurray AB T9H 1Y5 Phone: (780) 790-0746 Kondro Electric (1980) Ltd 6202 50 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2C9 Phone: (780) 875-6226 Laird Electric Inc 225 MacDonald Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4B5 Phone: (780) 743-2595 www.lairdelectric.com Link Industrial Technologies Ltd 9544 27 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6N 1B2 Phone: (780) 437-4380 www.linkindustrial.com Marlyn Electric Ltd PO Box 805 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-4447

Moventas Ltd PO Box 20100 Cambridge ON N1R 8C8 Phone: (519) 621-6390 www.moventas.com Nedco 5-242 MacAlpine Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4A6 Phone: (780) 743-3461 Nipisi Electric Ltd PO Box 1216 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-3700 Nomad Electrical Contractors Ltd 8909 96 St Peace River AB T8S 1G8 Phone: (780) 624-2447 Noralta Controls Ltd B-6010 50 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2C9 Phone: (780) 875-6777 Nor-Tech Systems LP 4819 55 Ave Grimshaw AB T0H 1W0 Phone: (780) 332-3944

Quality Rewind & Electric Ltd 230 MacAlpine Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4A6 Phone: (780) 743-1123 www.qualityre.ca Regent Electric Ltd 6202 49 Ave Bonnyville AB T9N 2M5 Phone: (780) 826-5573

Systech Instrumentation Inc 1-1815 27 Ave NE Calgary AB T2E 7E1 Phone: (403) 291-3535 www.systechinst.com

Rentco Equipment Ltd 7913 100 Ave Peace River AB T8S 1M5 Phone: (780) 624-4646 www.rentcoequipment.com

Tarpon Energy Services Ltd 7020 81 St SE Calgary AB T2C 5B8 Phone: (403) 234-8647 www.tarponenergy.com

R.L. Brews Ltd 18003 111 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5S 2P2 Phone: (780) 452-3730 www.rlbrews.com

TECO-Westinghouse Motors (Canada) Inc 18060 109 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5S 2K2 Phone: (780) 444-8933 www.twmi.com

R.L. Electric Motor Rewinding (1995) Ltd 6506 50 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2W8 Phone: (780) 875-6880 Rockwell Automation 164 Chapala Dr Calgary AB T2X 3S9 Phone: (403) 663-8772 Rotork Controls (Canada) Ltd 6-820 28 St NE Calgary AB T2A 6K1 Phone: (403) 569-9455 www.rotork.com

North Star Electric PO Box 517 High Prairie AB T0G 1E0 Phone: (780) 523-5511

Rutter Hinz Inc 204-801 Manning Rd NE Calgary AB T2E 7M8 Phone: (403) 235-5305 www.rutterhinz.com

Osprey Scientific Inc 100-18130 105 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5S 2T4 Phone: (780) 487-4334 www.ospreyscientific.com

Simark Controls Ltd 7725 46 St SE Calgary AB T2C 2Y5 Phone: (403) 236-0580 www.simark.com

PMC Process Measurement & Controls Inc 6235B 86 Ave SE Calgary AB T2C 2S4 Phone: (403) 258-3670

Spartan Controls Ltd 8403 51 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 5L9 Phone: (780) 440-8351 www.spartancontrols.com

Primary Flow Signal Canada Inc 4003 97 St NW Edmonton AB T6E 5Y5 Phone: (780) 440-0109 www.primaryflowsignalcanada.com

Specialties Valve Inc PO Box 446 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-3432

Procon Systems Inc 9310 60 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 0C1 Phone: (780) 437-0244 www.proconsystems.com

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Syntech Enerflex 4700 47 St SE Calgary AB T2B 3R1 Phone: (403) 290-1880 www.enerflex.com

Stellar Tech Energy Services Inc 4-6160 40 St SE Calgary AB T2C 1Z3 Phone: (403) 279-8367 www.stes.ca Sterling Technical Services Ltd PO Box 261 Ardmore AB T0A 0B0 Phone: (780) 812-3567

Telvent Canada 200-10333 Southport Rd SW Calgary AB T2W 3X6 Phone: (403) 253-8848 www.telvent.com The Cat Rental Store - Wirtanen Electric Division 14849 124 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5L 3B2 Phone: (780) 434-8421 www.catrents.ca Thomas & Betts Ltd 700 Thomas Ave St-Jean-sur-Richelie QC J2X 2M9 Phone: (450) 347-5318 www.tnb.com/canada Toran Power & Equipment Ltd 1800-715 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2X6 Phone: (403) 218-1882 www.toranpower.com Tracer Industries Inc 11004 174 St NW Edmonton AB T5S 2P3 Phone: (780) 455-8111 Trakware Systems Inc 1120-13 Mission Ave St Albert AB T8N 1H6 Phone: (780) 460-1023 www.trakware.com TurboCare Canada Ltd 4920 43 St SE Calgary AB T2B 3N3 Phone: (403) 279-2211 www.turbocare.com TYCO Thermal Controls 11004 174 St NW Edmonton AB T5S 2P3 Phone: (780) 434-7417 www.tycothermal.com Vanko Analytics Ltd

DIRECTORY 4408 51 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6B 2W2 Phone: (780) 436-0281 www.vanko.net Voyageur Electric Ltd PO Box 159 Plamondon AB T0A 2T0 Phone: (780) 798-3939 Vulcan Electrical Ltd 18225 107 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5S 1K4 Phone: (780) 483-0036 www.vulcanelectrical.com Wesco Distribution Canada Inc 385 MacKenzie Blvd Fort McMurray AB T9H 5E2 Phone: (780) 799-4337 Western Gauge & Instruments Ltd 2-4045 74 Ave SE Calgary AB T2C 2H9 Phone: (403) 236-4888 www.wgiltd.com Westwood Electric Ltd 5-707 12 Ave Nisku AB T9E 7M2 Phone: (780) 955-7688 Wika Instruments Canada Ltd 3103 Parsons Rd NW Edmonton AB T6N 1C8 Phone: (780) 463-7035 www.wika.ca EngineeringProcurement/Construction Gas Liquids Engineering Ltd 300-2749 39 Ave NE Calgary AB T1Y 4T8 Phone: (403) 250-2950 www.gasliquids.com Environmental Products & Services A D Williams Engineering Inc 10010 100 St NW Edmonton AB T5J 0N3 Phone: (780) 424-2393 www.adwilliams.com Ace Vegetation Control Service Ltd 2001 8 St Nisku AB T9E 7Z1 Phone: (780) 955-8980 www.acevegetation.com AGI-Envirotank PO Box 879 Biggar SK S0K 0M0 Phone: (306) 948-5262 www.envirotank.com Akcess Drum Ltd PO Box 774 Two Hills AB T0B 4K0 Phone: (780) 657-3505 Alfa Laval Inc 1800-250 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3H7 Phone: (403) 269-5300 www.alfalaval.ca Alpine Environmental Ltd 119-1440 Aviation Park NE Calgary AB T2E 7E2 Phone: (403) 291-1081 www.alpine-env.com

AMEC Earth & Environmental 221 18 St SE Calgary AB T2E 6J5 Phone: (403) 248-4331 www.amec.com Amplex Environmental Ltd Box 26 Site 330 RR 3 Stony Plain AB T7Z 1X3 Phone: (780) 799-3849 Apex Geoscience Ltd 200-9797 45 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 5V8 Phone: (780) 439-5380 www.apexgeoscience.com Aquatech International Corp 205-259 Midpark Way SE Calgary AB T2X 1M2 Phone: (403) 256-8700 www.aquatech.com ATCO Noise Management Ltd 1243 McKnight Blvd NE Calgary AB T2E 5T1 Phone: (403) 292-7804 www.atconoise.com Axys Environmental Consulting Ltd 300-805 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 1H7 Phone: (403) 269-5150 www.axys.net Bear Slashing Ltd PO Box 6158 Bonnyville AB T9N 2G8 Phone: (780) 826-8048 www.bearslashing.com Beaver Regional Waste Management Authority PO Box 322 Ryley AB T0B 4A0 Phone: (780) 663-2038 www.agt.net/public/brwmsccc

CERA Contracting Ltd PO Box 338 Waskatenau AB T0A 3P0 Phone: (780) 358-2792 Chedkor Contracting Ltd PO Box 313 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-2407 Chipewyan Prairie Environmental 39A Janvier Dr Conklin AB T0P 1H0 Phone: (780) 559-2661 Clariant Oil Services 950-717 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0Z3 Phone: (403) 262-7846 www.clariantoil.com Clean Harbors Canada Inc PO Box 390 Ryley AB T0B 4A0 Phone: (780) 663-3828 Contain Enviro Services Ltd PO Box 269 Stn Main Cold Lake AB T9M 1P1 Phone: (780) 639-6654 www.contain.ca Coop’s Contracting Ltd 102 14 St Wainwright AB T9W 1L1 Phone: (780) 842-5317 Core Laboratories Canada Ltd 2810 12 St NE Calgary AB T2E 7P7 Phone: (403) 250-4000 www.corelab.com Cozy Cats Ltd PO Box 1282 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-1926

Bulldog Protective Coatings 605 Caribou Tr SW Slave Lake AB Phone: (780) 849-2581 www.bulldogcoating.com

D & G Polyethylene Products Ltd PO Box 276 Neilburg SK S0M 2C0 Phone: (306) 823-4789 www.dgpolyproducts.com

C. Herman Trucking Ltd PO Box 1132 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-5399

Darnic Environmental Services RR 1 Stn Main Lloydminster AB S9V 0X6 Phone: (780) 875-8673

Cantox Environmental Inc 720-736 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 1H4 Phone: (403) 237-0275 www.cantoxenvironmental.com

Dentor Enterprises PO Box 5665 Stn Main Fort McMurray AB T9H 3G6 Phone: (780) 743-9446

Cave Inspection Ltd PO Box 25 Kitscoty AB T0B 2P0 Phone: (780) 846-2437 CEB Technologies 3000-150 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3Y7 Phone: (403) 539-5099 www.bekaert.com/ncdflaring Century Environmental Services 1-3006 Cleveland Ave Saskatoon SK S7K 8B5 Phone: (306) 934-4549 www.wolseleyinc.ca

Deuce Disposal Ltd PO Box 362 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-3334 Dipper Holdings Ltd PO Box 10457 Lloydminster AB T9V 3A6 Phone: (780) 875-0657 www.littledipper.ab.ca Dow Chemical Canada Inc 2100-450 1 St SW Calgary AB T2P 5H1 Phone: (403) 267-3500 www.dowcanada.com

EBA Engineering Consultants Ltd 14940 123 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5V 1B4 Phone: (780) 451-2121 www.eba.ca Enviro Vault Ltd 110-634 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0S4 Phone: (403) 263-4433 www.envirovault.com EnviroSORT Inc. 700-540 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0M2 Phone: (403) 509-2150 www.envirosort.com Evergreen Solutions 110-3506 118 Ave SE Calgary AB T2Z 3X1 Phone: (403) 273-8000 www.evergreensolutions.com Excel Vegetation Services RR 4 Tofield AB T0B 4J0 Phone: (780) 446-8015 First Nation Reclamation Consulting Ltd PO Box 76 Red Earth Creek AB T0G 1X0 Phone: (780) 649-0060 Garnier Environmental Service PO Box 223 Lloydminster SK S9V 0V2 Phone: (780) 871-8840 GCHEM Ltd Bay 1-4810 62 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2E9 Phone: (780) 871-4668 www.gchem.ca G.L.M. Vessels & Process Equipment 900-706 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0Z1 Phone: (403) 231-2730 www.glmprocess.com Gourley Construction Ltd 4606 49 Ave Vermilion AB T9X 1R6 Phone: (780) 853-5087 Gower & Co Vegetation Management Inc PO Box 11812 Lloydminster AB T9V 3C1 Phone: (780) 808-3141 Hatfield Consultants 8542B Franklin Ave Fort McMurray AB T9H 2J4 Phone: (780) 743-4290 www.hatfieldgroup.com HAZCO Environmental Services 10501 Barlow Tr SE Calgary AB T2C 4M5 Phone: (403) 297-0444 www.hazco.com Highland Maintenance PO Box 1220 Stn Main Lloydminster SK S9V 1G1 Phone: (780) 875-6882

Dziengielewski Enterprises Ltd PO Box 6321 Peace River AB T8S 1S2 Phone: (780) 624-5532 Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook & Directory III · 189

DIRECTORY Hobblestone Enterprises Inc PO Box 28 Blackfoot AB T0B 0L0 Phone: (780) 875-7282 www.hobblestoneplastics.com Interra Environmental Inc Bay 12-2180 Pegasus Way NE Calgary AB T2E 8M5 Phone: (403) 236-4901 www.cadvision.com/interra IPAC Services Corporation RR 3 Site 1 Box 29 Grande Prairie AB T8V 5N3 Phone: (780) 539-1373 www.ipacservices.com Ivanhoe 9516 146 Ave Grande Prairie AB T8V 7V9 Phone: (780) 538-3904 www.ivanhoecontracting.com Kaizen Lab 333 50 Ave SE Calgary AB T2G 2B3 Phone: (403) 297-0868 www.kaizenenviro.com Katch Kan Limited 5606 103A St NW Edmonton AB T6H 2J5 Phone: (780) 414-6083 www.katchkan.com Kenton Environmental Inc PO Box 990 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-4545 Key Maintenance Technologies 204 Carmichael Cl NW Edmonton AB T6R 2K6 Phone: (780) 437-7659 www.spinnerii.ca Kinsella Plastics PO Box 5 Kinsella AB T0B 2N0 Phone: (780) 336-3308 www.kinsellaplastic.com Kleen-Bee Lloydminster 5402 51 St Lloydminster AB T9V 0P8 Phone: (780) 875-7627 Klohn Crippen Berger Ltd 114-6815 8 St NE Calgary AB T2E 7H7 Phone: (403) 274-3424 www.klohn.com Layfield Geosynthetics & Industrial Fabrics Ltd 11603 180 St NW Edmonton AB T5S 2H6 Phone: (780) 453-6731 www.geomembranes.com Lea-Der Coatings PO Box 4086 Stn Main Spruce Grove AB T7X 3B3 Phone: (780) 962-5060 www.lea-der.com Lo-Cost Waste Disposal 105-190 MacAlpine Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4A6 Phone: (780) 743-4020

Louvic Spraying Enterprises Ltd PO Box 351 Lloydminster SK S9V 0Y4 Phone: (780) 875-5770 M & M Environmental Services Ltd PO Box 31 Marwayne AB T0B 2X0 Phone: (780) 847-3839 Manning Disposals PO Box 637 Manning AB T0H 2M0 Phone: (780) 836-2637 Marksmen Vegetation Management Inc PO Box 10576 Lloydminster AB T9V 3A7 Phone: (780) 875-1210 www.marksmen.com

Nusco Northern Manufacturing PO Box 6727 Bonnyville AB T9N 2H3 Phone: (780) 826-2290 www.nusco.com

Swamp Mats Inc 1600-505 3 St SW Calgary AB T2P 3E6 Phone: (403) 265-8757 www.swampmats.ca

Onysty Environmental Services PO Box 1212 Athabasca AB T9S 2B1 Phone: (780) 689-6498

Tarbender Family of Degreasers 142 Tusselwood Heights NW Calgary AB T3L 2M7 Phone: (403) 375-0062 www.detsaw.ca

Panther Environmental Inc PO Box 7793 Bonnyville AB T9N 2J1 Phone: (780) 812-2702 Pembina Institute 200-608 7 St SW Calgary AB T2P 1Z2 Phone: (403) 269-3344 www.pembina.org

Maxxam Analytics Inc 2021 41 Ave NE Calgary AB T2E 6P2 Phone: (403) 291-3077 www.maxxamanalytics.com

PHH-ARC Environmental 111-11505 35 St SE Calgary AB T2Z 4B1 Phone: (403) 543-1940 www.arcinc.ca

Mighty Mulching PO Box 7479 Bonnyville AB T9N 2H8 Phone: (780) 826-9660

Prodahl Environmental Services Ltd 4201 37 Ave Lloydminster AB Phone: (780) 875-7744

Millennium EMS Solutions Ltd 208-4207 98 St NW Edmonton AB T6E 5R7 Phone: (780) 496-9048 www.mems.ca

Proeco Corporation 7722 9 St NW Edmonton AB T6P 1L6 Phone: (780) 440-1825 www.proeco.com

Morgan Construction & Environmental Ltd 702 Acheson Rd 702 53016 Hwy 60 Acheson AB T7X 5A7 Phone: (780) 960-6966 www.mcel.ca

Quik Pick Waste Disposal PO Box 710 Lloydminster SK S9V 0Y7 Phone: (780) 875-4100

Nalco Canada Co 180-3553 31 St NW Calgary AB T2L 2K7 Phone: (403) 284-6278 Neegan Technical Services Ltd 283 MacAlpine Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4Y4 Phone: (780) 791-9386 Newalta Corporation 211 11 Ave SW Calgary AB T2R 0C6 Phone: (403) 806-7000 www.newalta.com Nilex Inc 1521 Hastings Cres SE Calgary AB T2G 4C8 Phone: (403) 543-5454 www.nilex.com Noise Solutions Inc 301-206 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0W7 Phone: (403) 232-0916 www.noisesolutions.com Northern EnviroSearch Ltd 620-703 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0T9 Phone: (403) 543-5353 www.envirosearch.ca Norwesco Canada Ltd 7520 Yellowhead Tr NW Edmonton AB T5B 1G3 Phone: (780) 474-7440 www.norwescocanada.com

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Radium Reclamation Ltd PO Box 26 Mallaig AB T0A 2K0 Phone: (780) 635-2225 Recyc-Haul Waste Management Inc PO Box 51011 RPO Beddington Calgary AB T3K 3V9 Phone: (403) 272-3138

Target Vegetation Control Ltd PO Box 396 Athabasca AB T9S 2A4 Phone: (780) 675-4995 Terracon Geotechnique Ltd 140-2723 37 Ave NE Calgary AB T1Y 5R8 Phone: (403) 266-1150 www.terracon.ca TORR Canada Inc 240-100 1039 17 Ave SW Calgary AB T2T 0B2 Phone: (403) 921-6891 www.torrcanada.com Total Combustion Inc 1510-734 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3P8 Phone: (403) 309-7731 www.tciburners.com Tri-Gen Construction Ltd PO Box 399 Boyle AB T0A 0M0 Phone: (780) 689-3831 www.tri-genconstruction.com Trigil Energy Inc PO Box 366 High Prairie AB T0G 1E0 Phone: (780) 523-3798 Waste Management of Canada Corporation 7940 25 St NW Edmonton AB T6P 1M9 Phone: (780) 440-1700 www.wm.com

Red Oak Industries Inc PO Box 582 Bruderheim AB T0B 0S0 Phone: (780) 796-3851

Welclean Land Reclamation Services Ltd 2306 52A Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2R5 Phone: (780) 875-6354

RemedX Remediation Services Inc 305-1550 5 St SW Calgary AB T2R 1K3 Phone: (403) 209-0004 www.remedx.net

Westwater Consulting Hydrogeologists 900-808 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3E8 Phone: (403) 233-0202 www.westwaterenv.com

Robwel Constructors Limited Partnership PO Box 20007 Conklin AB T0P 1H0 Phone: (780) 559-2966 SDS Environmental Services Ltd 1811 17 Ave Wainwright AB T9W 1L2 Phone: (780) 842-6365 Strata Environmental Ltd 5807 51 Ave Vermilion AB T9X 1V8 Phone: (780) 853-3396 www.strataenv.net

Wood Buffalo Environmental Association 214-9914 Morrison St Fort McMurray AB T9H 4A4 Phone: (780) 799-4420 www.wbea.org WorleyParsons Komex 100-4500 16 Ave NW Calgary AB T3B 0M6 Phone: (403) 247-0200 www.komex.com X-Terra Environmental Consulting Ltd 200-6002 50 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2T9 Phone: (780) 875-1442 Zazula Process Equipment Ltd

DIRECTORY 1526 10 Ave SW Calgary AB T3C 0J5 Phone: (403) 244-0751 www.zazula.com Zirco (1989) Ltd 5614A Burbank Rd SE Calgary AB T2H 1Z4 Phone: (403) 259-3303 www.zirco.com Financial Institutions & Legal Firms

Business Development Bank of Canada 110-444 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0X8 Phone: (403) 292-5600 www.bdc.ca Canaccord Capital Corp 2200-450 1 St SW Calgary AB T2P 5H1 Phone: (403) 508-3800 www.canaccord.com

FirstEnergy Capital Corp 1100-311 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3H2 Phone: (403) 262-0600 www.firstenergy.com

Lawson Lundell LLP 3700-205 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2V7 Phone: (403) 269-6900 www.lawsonlundell.com

Foster Park Baskett Insurance Ltd 200-17704 103 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5S 1J9 Phone: (780) 489-4961 www.fpb.ca

Leede Financial Markets Inc 2300-777 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3R5 Phone: (403) 531-6800 www.leedefinancial.com

Fraser Milner Casgrain 30-237 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 4K7 Phone: (403) 268-6813 www.fmc-law.com

Lionhart Capital Ltd 876 Parkridge Rd SE Calgary AB T2J 5C6 Phone: (403) 287-2807 www.lionhartcapital.com Lochend Associates Ltd PO Box 2096 Stn M Calgary AB T2P 2M4 Phone: (403) 270-7899

Acumen Capital Partners 700-404 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0R9 Phone: (403) 571-0314

Canaccord Enermarket Ltd 2310-450 1 St SW Calgary AB T2P 5H1 Phone: (403) 262-1442 www.canaccordenermarket.com

Allegro Energy Capital Corporation 960-630 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0S8 Phone: (403) 294-0002

Canadian Energy Capital Inc 3228 Conrad Dr NW Calgary AB T2L 1B4 Phone: (403) 874-0830

FRPL Finance Ltd C-5799 3 St SE Calgary AB T2H 1K1 Phone: (403) 451-1161 www.frplfinance.com

AON Reed Stenhouse 900-10025 102A Ave NW Edmonton AB T5J 0Y2 Phone: (780) 423-9801 www.aon.ca

Canadian Western Bank Main Flr-606 4 St SW Calgary AB T2P 1T1 Phone: (403) 262-8700 www.cwbank.com

GE Canada Equipment Financing 2120-530 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3S8 Phone: (403) 571-2150 www.gecapitalcanada.com

Apectec 3911 Trasimene Cres SW Calgary AB T3E 7J6 Phone: (403) 685-1888 www.apectec.com

Canalta Business Brokers Inc 1420-5555 Calgary Tr NW Edmonton AB T6H 5P9 Phone: (780) 468-1602 www.canaltabb.com

GMP Securities Ltd 1600-500 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2V6 Phone: (403) 543-3030 www.gmpsecurities.com

ARC Financial Corporation 4300-400 3 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 4H2 Phone: (403) 292-0680 www.arcfinancial.com

CCS Income Trust 2400-530 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3S8 Phone: (403) 231-1149 www.ccsincometrust.com

Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP 1400-700 2 St SW Calgary AB T2P 4V5 Phone: (403) 298-1000 www.ballem.com

Aston Hill Financial 500-321 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3H3 Phone: (403) 770-4800

Chrysalis Capital Advisors Inc 15 Bel Aire Pl SW Calgary AB T2V 2C3 Phone: (403) 252-2911

ATB Financial 300-239 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 1B9 Phone: (403) 974-5721

CIBC World Markets 9-855 2 St SW Calgary AB T2P 4J7 Phone: (403) 260-0500 www.cibc.ca

Grant Thornton LLP Sun Life Plaza, East Tower 1000-112 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0H3 Phone: (403) 260-2500 www.grantthornton.ca

Bennett Jones PO Box 130 Stn 1st Can Place Toronto ON M5X 1A4 Phone: (416) 863-1200 www.bennettjones.ca Bennett Jones LLP 4500-855 2 St SW Calgary AB T2P 4K7 Phone: (403) 298-3100 www.bennettjones.com BMO Capital Markets 2200-333 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2Z1 Phone: (403) 515-3656 www.bmo.com Borden Ladner Gervais LLP 1000-400 3 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 4H2 Phone: (403) 232-9512 Border Credit Union 5012 49 St Lloydminster AB T9V 0K2 Phone: (780) 875-4434

Community Futures Wood Buffalo 102-9816 Hardin St Fort McMurray AB T9H 4K3 Phone: (780) 791-0330 www.cfwb.ca Davis LLP (Calgary) 1000-250 2 St SW Calgary AB T2P 0C1 Phone: (403) 296-4470 www.davis.ca

Haywood Securities Inc 301-808 1 St SW Calgary AB T2P 1M9 Phone: (403) 509-1900 www.haywood.com Hutchinson & Company 5019 50 St Lloydminster AB T9V 0L9 Phone: (780) 875-3887

Lomax Group Inc 1610-700 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0T8 Phone: (403) 237-5334 www.lomaxgroup.com Longbow Capital Inc 701-421 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 4K9 Phone: (403) 264-1888 Macleod Dixon 3700-400 3 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 4H2 Phone: (403) 267-9411 www.macleoddixon.com Marsh Canada Limited 1100-222 3 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0B4 Phone: (403) 290-7900 www.marsh.com McCarthy Tetrault 3300-421 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 4K9 Phone: (403) 260-3500 www.mccarthy.ca McLean & Partners Wealth Management Ltd 801 10 Ave SW Calgary AB T2R 0B4 Phone: (403) 234-0005 www.mcleanpartners.com

J D McCormick Financial Services Inc 810-441 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2V1 Phone: (403) 209-0900

McLennan Ross LLP, Legal Counsel 600-12220 Stony Plain Rd NW Edmonton AB T5N 3Y4 Phone: (780) 482-9200 www.mross.com

Deloitte & Touche 3000-700 2 St SW Calgary AB T2P 0S7 Phone: (403) 267-1700 www.deloitte.ca

JB Oil & Gas Ltd 800-639 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0M9 Phone: (403) 298-4430 www.jbog.ca

Enstar Financial Corporation 2300-444 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2T8 Phone: (403) 974-3266 www.enstarfinancial.com

Jennings Capital Inc 2600-520 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2V1 Phone: (403) 292-0970 www.jenningscapital.com

Merrill Lynch Canada Ltd 2620-255 5 Ave SW Bow Valley Square III Calgary AB T2P 3G6 Phone: (403) 231-7314 www.ml.com

Ernst & Young 1100-440 2 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 5E9 Phone: (403) 290-4100 www.eycan.com

KPMG 2700-205 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 4B9 Phone: (403) 691-8188 www.kpmg.com

Miles Davison LLP 1600-205 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2V7 Phone: (403) 298-0333 www.milesdavison.com Miller Thomson LLP 3000-700 9 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3V4 Phone: (403) 298-2400 www.millerthomson.com Mustang Capital Partners Inc

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DIRECTORY 3601-150 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3Y7 Phone: (403) 537-6300 www.mustangcapital.ca National Bank Financial 2800-450 1 St SW Calgary AB T2P 5H1 Phone: (403) 531-8400 www.nbfinancial.com

RoyNat Inc 3900-700 2 St SW Calgary AB T2P 2W2 Phone: (403) 269-7755 www.roynat.com RSM Richter 430-736 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 1H4 Phone: (403) 233-8462

National Bank of Canada 2700-530 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3S8 Phone: (403) 294-4938 www.nbc.ca

Rundle Energy Partners 1950-140 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3N3 Phone: (403) 269-4206 www.rundleenergy.com

Native Venture Capital Co Ltd 27 Artist View Pointe Calgary AB T3Z 3N3 Phone: (403) 208-5380

Sayer Energy Advisors 1620-540 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0M2 Phone: (403) 266-6133 www.sayersecurities.com

Norfolk Group The 1100-940 6 Ave Calgary AB T2P 3T1 Phone: (403) 232-8545 www.norfolkgrp.com

SCF Partners 3430-400 3 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 4H2 Phone: (403) 244-7888

Orion Securities Inc 1210-335 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 1C9 Phone: (403) 218-6650 www.orionsecurities.ca

Sphere Energy Corp 750-815 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3P2 Phone: (403) 233-2822 www.sphereenergy.ca

Parlee McLaws LLP 1500-10180 101 St NW Edmonton AB T5J 4K1 Phone: (780) 423-8500 www.parlee.com

Stikeman Elliott LLP 4300-855 2 St SW Calgary AB T2P 5C5 Phone: (403) 266-9000 www.stikeman.com

Peters & Co Limited Bankers Hall W 3900-888 3 St SW Calgary AB T2P 5C5 Phone: (403) 261-4850 www.petersco.com

Tax Back Ltd 710-7015 Macleod Tr SW Calgary AB T2H 2K6 Phone: (403) 252-3128 www.taxback.ab.ca

PricewaterhouseCoopers 3100-111 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 5L3 Phone: (403) 509-7500

TD Securities 800 Home Oil Tower 324-8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2Z2 Phone: (403) 299-7964 www.tdsecurities.com

Priority Leasing Inc 200-7909 Flint Rd SE Calgary AB T2H 1G3 Phone: (403) 216-1930 www.priorityleasing.net Provident Energy Trust 800-112 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0H3 Phone: (403) 296-2233 www.providentenergy.com Raymond James Ltd 2500-707 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 1H5 Phone: (403) 509-0500 RBC Capital Markets 1100-888 3 St SW Calgary AB T2P 5C5 Phone: (403) 292-3774 www.royalbank.com Rogers Insurance Ltd 600-1000 Centre St NE Calgary AB T2E 7W6 Phone: (403) 296-2400 Ross Smith Energy Group Ltd 400-407 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 1E5 Phone: (403) 294-9111 www.rseg.com

Trans Action Oil & Gas Ventures Inc 445-708 11 Ave SW Calgary AB T2R 0E4 Phone: (403) 263-9270 www.taog.ca Tristone Capital Inc 2200-335 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 1C9 Phone: (403) 294-9541 www.tristonecapital.com Union Bank of California 730-440 2 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 5E9 Phone: (403) 233-4800 www.uboc.com Valiant Trust Company 310-606 4 St SW Calgary AB T2P 1T1 Phone: (403) 233-2801 Van Helden Agencies Ltd 1215 14 Ave SW Calgary AB T3C 0W1 Phone: (403) 244-8957 Veracity Financial Services 4909 49 St Lloydminster SK S9V 0M2 Phone: (306) 825-6200

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Willis Canada Inc 1120-605 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3H5 Phone: (403) 263-6117

Battle River Ironworks Inc 4907 49 Ave Forestburg AB Phone: (780) 582-3596

Working Capital Corporation 2806-505 6 St SW Calgary AB T2P 1X5 Phone: (403) 262-2803 www.workingcapitalcorp.com

Bend-Tech Fabricating PO Box 11793 County Energy Park Lloydminster AB T9V 3C1 Phone: (780) 872-5234

Oilfield Equipment ManufacturingWelding Products/Services A Amyotte & Sons Welding Ltd PO Box 96 Mallaig AB T0A 2K0 Phone: (780) 635-3880 Accurate Machining Ltd PO Box 10402 Lloydminster AB T9V 3A5 Phone: (780) 875-8756 Advance Engineered Products Ltd 2335 Schuyler St Saskatoon SK S7M 5V1 Phone: (306) 933-2445 www.advanceengineeredproducts.com Advantage Products Inc 273-1919B 4 St SW Calgary AB T2S 1W4 Phone: (403) 264-1647 www.advantageproductsinc.com Aker Kvaerner Process Systems 300-6835 Railway St SE Calgary AB T2H 2V6 Phone: (403) 640-4230 www.akerkvaerner.com

Beta Machinery Analysis Ltd 300-1615 10 Ave SW Calgary AB T3C 0J7 Phone: (403) 245-5666 www.betamachinery.com Big B’s Portable Welding 224 Cheechem Dr Anzac AB T0P 1J0 Phone: (403) 660-3977 B-Line Welding Inc PO Box 205 Athabasca AB T9S 2A3 Phone: (780) 689-2562 Blue Chip Machining & Manufacturing Ltd 1812 17 Ave Wainwright AB T9W 1L2 Phone: (780) 842-7490 Bluestar Welding RR 2 Site 7 Box 20 Grande Prairie AB T8V 2Z9 Phone: (780) 532-1160 www.bluestarwelding.com Bonnyville Sandblasting Ltd PO Box 6296 Bonnyville AB T9N 2G8 Phone: (780) 826-4532

Almac Machine Works Ltd 9624 35 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 5S3 Phone: (780) 434-3402 www.almacmachine.com

Bonnyville Welding Ltd PO Box 8075 Bonnyville AB T9N 2J3 Phone: (780) 826-3847 www.bonnyvillewelding.com

Almita Manufacturing Ltd 6606 42 Ave Ponoka AB T4J 1J8 Phone: (403) 783-5800 www.almita.com

Border Steel PO Box 710 Lloydminster SK S9V 0Y7 Phone: (780) 875-3235

Anchor Manufacturing Inc 2315 5A St Nisku AB T9E 8G6 Phone: (780) 955-9393 www.anchormanufacturing.ca A-Plus Machining 4706 62 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2G2 Phone: (780) 875-6969 www.aplusmachining.com Aqua Industrial Limited 205-9912 Franklin Ave Fort McMurray AB T9H 2K5 Phone: (780) 799-7300 Argus Machine Co Ltd 5820 97 St NW Edmonton AB T6E 3J1 Phone: (780) 434-9451 www.argusmachine.com Bartan Machine & Welding Co Ltd 285 MacDonald Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4B7 Phone: (780) 743-1817

Boyd Lay’s Welding PO Box 6551 Bonnyville AB T9N 2H1 Phone: (780) 826-7717 Bushrat Welding & Picker Service Site 4 Box 7 RR 1 Westlock AB T7P 2N9 Phone: (780) 954-2239 C M & T Pressure Welding & Fabrication Ltd 101 Robin Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 2W4 Phone: (780) 743-8562 Century Machining Services Ltd 8-235 Mackay Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4T5 Phone: (780) 743-5109 Cessco Fabrication & Engineering Ltd 7310 99 St NW Edmonton AB T6E 3R8 Phone: (780) 433-9531 www.cessco.ca Cherokee Welding Ltd PO Box 11475 RPO 10 Lloydminster AB T9V 3B7 Phone: (780) 875-8900

DIRECTORY Clearwater Welding & Fabricating Ltd 8124 Fraser Ave Fort McMurray AB T9H 1W6 Phone: (780) 743-2171 www.clearwaterweldfab.com

Endura Manufacturing Company Ltd 12425 149 St NW Edmonton AB T5L 2J6 Phone: (780) 451-4242 www.endura.ca

Innovative Hydraulics Ltd 5510 63 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 3C5 Phone: (780) 875-4385 www.innovativehyd.com

Collins Industries Ltd 3740 73 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6B 2T8 Phone: (780) 440-1414

ENG Machining Ltd 3-5202 63 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2E6 Phone: (780) 875-1500

John’s Welding Service E-2404 57A Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2W4 Phone: (780) 871-2078

Corlac Industries Box 10050 Lot 9 County Energy Park Lloydminster AB T9V 3A2 Phone: (780) 875-8459 www.corlac.com

Feldspar Excavating & Redi-Mix 5002 65 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2K2 Phone: (780) 875-2208

JV Driver Projects Inc 2029 87 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6P 1L5 Phone: (780) 449-0002 www.jvdriver.com

Dacro Industries Inc 9325 51 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 4W8 Phone: (780) 434-8900 www.dacro.com

Foremost Industries LP 1225 64 Ave NE Calgary AB T2E 8P9 Phone: (403) 295-5800 www.foremost.ca

Dale’s Welding Inc 6003 52 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2S8 Phone: (780) 875-0032

Garneau Manufacturing Inc PO Box 3154 Morinville AB T8R 1S1 Phone: (780) 939-2129 www.garweld.com

Damik Machine Ltd RR 1 Westlock AB T7P 2N9 Phone: (780) 349-3431 Davco Welding & Crane Service Ltd 106 16 Ave Wainwright AB T9W 1L5 Phone: (780) 842-5559 www.davco.cc

Koenders Manufacturing (1997) Ltd PO Box 171 Englefeld SK S0K 1N0 Phone: (877) 581-8877 www.koendersmfg.com

Noremac Industrial Coatings PO Box 6231 Fort McMurray AB T9H 4W1 Phone: (780) 743-5968

Golden View Fabricating Ltd PO Box 71 Smoky Lake AB T0A 3C0 Phone: (780) 656-3575

Kramer Ltd PO Box 707 Stn Main Regina SK S4P 3A8 Phone: (306) 545-3311 www.kramer.ca

Grit Industries Inc PO Box 10448 Lloydminster AB T9V 3A5 Phone: (780) 875-5577 www.gritindustries.com

DWH Welding Ltd PO Box 493 Marwayne AB T0B 2X0 Phone: (780) 847-2186 Edmonton Exchanger & Manufacturing Ltd 5545 89 St NW Edmonton AB T6E 5W9 Phone: (780) 468-6722 www.edmontonexchanger.com Electra Welding (1988) Ltd 2152 1 Ave Wainwright AB T9W 1L7 Phone: (780) 842-4066

Natco Canada PO Box 850 Stn T Calgary AB T2C 4R6 Phone: (403) 236-1850 www.natcogroup.com

Get It Done Machining & Manufacturing 6-5914 51 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 3K5 Phone: (780) 872-5797

Don Hiebert’s Welding Ltd PO Box 3492 Wainwright AB T9W 1T5 Phone: (780) 842-3238

DTS Welding Ltd 3501 51 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 1C9 Phone: (780) 871-5979

Nardei Fabricators Ltd 8915 44 St SE Calgary AB T2C 2P5 Phone: (403) 279-3301 www.nardei.com

Norcan Fluid Power 3053 Faithfull Ave Saskatoon SK S7K 8B3 Phone: (306) 384-9100 www.norcanfluidpower.com

Greg Chapman Welding 3104 55A Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 1S6 Phone: (780) 875-7539

Double B Machining & Fabricating Ltd PO Box 786 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-6688

Murray’s Portable Welding 10313 89 St Peace River AB T8S 1N9 Phone: (780) 624-5068

Kinsella Steelworks PO Box 116 Kinsella AB T0B 2N0 Phone: (780) 336-2151

Dewan’s Welding PO Box 7586 Bonnyville AB T9N 2H9 Phone: (780) 826-2531

Donnelly Machining & Fabricating Ltd PO Box 289 Donnelly AB T0H 1G0 Phone: (780) 925-2021

Kinetic Process Systems 400-839 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3C8 Phone: (403) 258-1971 www.kineticprocess.ab.ca

Murland Projects Inc PO Box 256 Lloydminster SK S9V 0Y2 Phone: (780) 871-4671

Guthrie Mechanical Services Ltd 9916 Manning Ave Fort McMurray AB T9H 2B9 Phone: (780) 715-0946 Guy’s Welding PO Box 1121 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-7428 Hitachi Canadian Industries Ltd 826 58 St E Saskatoon SK S7K 5Z4 Phone: (306) 242-9222 www.hitachi.sk.ca Hritzuk Peter Welding Ltd PO Box 106 Tofield AB T0B 4J0 Phone: (780) 662-4664 ICI Artificial Lift Inc PO Box 21027 Lloydminster AB T9V 2S1 Phone: (780) 872-7470 www.icisolutions.ca Innicor Subsurface Technologies 7071 112 Ave SE Calgary AB T2C 5A5 Phone: (403) 236-2815 www.innicor.com

Lemax Machine & Welding Ltd 175 MacDonald Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4B3 Phone: (780) 791-1445 Liebherr-Canada Ltd 208-53016 Hwy 60 Acheson AB T7X 5A7 Phone: (780) 962-6088 www.liebherr.com Lor-Lin Tank & Fabrication PO Box 218 Lloydminster AB S9V 0Y2 Phone: (780) 871-5951

North Wind Welding Ltd PO Box 2331 Stn Main Lloydminster SK S9V 1S6 Phone: (780) 875-1481 O & K Orenstein & Koppel Inc 395 MacKenzie Blvd Fort McMurray AB T9H 5E2 Phone: (780) 791-0887 www.essltd.com Orion Machining & Manufacturing Inc 8-6202 48 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2G2 Phone: (780) 875-1535 Peerless Engineering Sales Ltd 7316 18 St NW Edmonton AB T6P 1N8 Phone: (780) 439-3322 www.peerlessengineering.com

M H Welding Ltd PO Box 6027 Bonnyville AB T9N 2G7 Phone: (780) 826-3906

Penfabco Ltd 5715 56 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6B 3G3 Phone: (780) 434-0222 www.penfabco.com

MaXXiMaT Inc 4911 82 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6B 0E5 Phone: (780) 440-6222 www.maxximat.com

Peter Hritzuk Welding Ltd PO Box 106 Tofield AB T0B4J0 Phone: (780) 662-4664

McKinley Welding PO Box 6141 Fort McMurray AB T9H 4W1 Phone: (780) 791-5460

Plainsman Mfg Inc 8305 McIntyre Rd NW Edmonton AB T6E 5J7 Phone: (780) 496-9800 www.plainsmanmfg.com

Metal Fabricators & Welding Ltd 12509 124 St NW Edmonton AB T5L 0N6 Phone: (780) 455-2186 www.metalfab.ca

Plamondon Welding Ltd PO Box 1192 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-2149

Metaltek Machining Ltd PO Box 10433 Lloydminster AB T9V 3A5 Phone: (780) 875-6535

Porterco Welding 5B Parkdale Way Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 805-4000

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DIRECTORY Propak Systems Ltd PO Box 2 Airdrie AB T4B 2C3 Phone: (403) 912-7000 www.propaksystems.com PWM Steel Services Ltd PO Box 97 Lloydminster SK S9V 0X9 Phone: (780) 875-3167

868 60 St E Saskatoon SK S7K 8G8 Phone: (306) 931-3343 www.hamiltongear.com Streamline Services 301 Boreal Drive Red Earth Creek AB Phone: (780) 649-2225

R H S Welding & Fabrication Ltd PO Box 6155 Fort McMurray AB T9H 4W1 Phone: (780) 791-7956

Supreme Steel Ltd 10457 184 St NW Edmonton AB T5S 1G1 Phone: (780) 483-3278 www.supremesteel.com

R J S Welding PO Box 218 Lamont AB T0B 2R0 Phone: (780) 895-7548

Terry’s Welding 5204 54 Ave Bonnyville AB T9N 2E1 Phone: (780) 826-2158

R & R Stress Relieving Service Ltd 2103 6 St Nisku AB T9E 7X8 Phone: (780) 955-7559 www.rrstress.com

3M Porta Weld PO Box 157 Edgerton AB T0B 1K0 Phone: (780) 755-2053

Ramco Restoration Painting & Sandblasting PO Box 1174 Cold Lake AB T9M 1C3 Phone: (780) 594-2648 Redwater Machining & Manufacturing Co Ltd PO Box 428 Redwater AB T0A 2W0 Phone: (780) 942-3437 www.rwmmc.com Roda Deaco Valve Inc 3230 97 St NW Edmonton AB T6N 1K4 Phone: (780) 465-4429 www.rodadeaco.com Sabre Machining Ltd PO Box 10717 Lloydminster AB T9V 3A7 Phone: (780) 875-4780 www.sabremachining.com S.C.K. Welding Ltd Box 67 Site 1 RR 2 Tofield AB T0B 4J0 Phone: (780) 662-3733 Shaw Cat & Equipment Ltd PO Box 3354 Wainwright AB T9W 1T3 Phone: (780) 842-2195 SIF Superior Industrial Frictions Ltd 11570 154 St NW Edmonton AB T5M 3N8 Phone: (780) 451-6894 www.sifbrake.com Sinclair Welding PO Box 454 St Paul AB T0A 3A0 Phone: (780) 645-5242 Sorge’s Pro Welding Ltd PO Box 5768 Stn Main Fort McMurray AB T9H 4V9 Phone: (780) 743-9739 Sprung Instant Structures Ltd Maple Leaf Rd Aldersyde AB Phone: (403) 245-3371 www.sprung.com

TIC Canada 131-26230 Twp Rd 531A Acheson AB T7X 5A4 Phone: (780) 960-7450 TIW WESTERN Inc 7770 44 St SE Calgary AB T2C 2L5 Phone: (403) 279-8310 www.tiwwestern.com Tomco Production Services Ltd 6219 52 Ave Bonnyville AB T9N 2H4 Phone: (780) 826-2522 Triangle Machine Shop PO Box 2061 High Prairie AB T0G 1E0 Phone: (780) 523-2479 Ultimate Sandblasting & Painting Ltd PO Box 138 Lloydminster AB T9V 0N9 Phone: (780) 875-5574 VaporTech Energy Services Inc 308-1235 17 Ave SW Calgary AB T2T 0C2 Phone: (403) 228-3012 www.vaportechinc.com Wabash Manufacturing Inc 9312 110A St Westlock AB T7P 2M4 Phone: (780) 460-9142 Waiward Steel Fabricators Ltd 10030 34 St NW Edmonton AB T6B 2Y5 Phone: (780) 469-1258 Westech Industrial Ltd 5636 Burbank Cres SE Calgary AB T2H 1Z6 Phone: (403) 252-8803 www.westech-ind.com Westech Vac Systems Ltd 1002 15 Ave Nisku AB T9E 7S5 Phone: (780) 955-3030 www.westechvac.com

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Western Truck Body Mfg 6115 30 St NW Edmonton AB T6P 1J8 Phone: (780) 466-8065 www.western-truck-body-mfg.com

Brenntag Canada Inc 1900-777 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3R5 Phone: (403) 263-8660 www.brenntag.ca

(WWL) Weaver Welding Ltd 7501 107 Ave Peace River AB T8S 1M6 Phone: (780) 618-7522 www.wwl.com

Buryn Construction PO Box 651 Redwater AB T0A 2W0 Phone: (780) 942-3635

ZCL Composites Inc. 6907 36 St NW Edmonton AB T6B 2Z6 Phone: (780) 466-6648 www.zcl.com Pipeline Products & Services A H McElroy Sales & Service (Canada) Ltd 13212 146 St NW Edmonton AB T5L 4W8 Phone: (780) 454-0638 www.ahmcelroy.com AABB-X-Air Ltd PO Box 7454 Bonnyville AB T9N 2H8 Phone: (780) 812-3246 www.aabbxair.com Aerotec Locator Services Ltd PO Box 12117 Lloydminster AB T9V 3C4 Phone: (780) 875-0041 Alberta Line Find Inc 440 Aquaduct Dr Brooks AB T1R 1C4 Phone: (403) 793-2800 Alfred Clark Oilfield Servicing Ltd PO Box 3186 Vermilion AB T9X 2B2 Phone: (780) 853-4316 Athabasca Pipelines Ltd PO Box 1950 Stn Main Athabasca AB T9S 2B5 Phone: (780) 675-4070 Atlantic Pipeline (2004) Inc 311-253 Gregoire Dr Fort McMurray AB T9H 4G7 Phone: (780) 715-1526 www.atlanticpipeline.com Baker Atlas 5816 50 Ave Bonnyville AB T9N 2K7 Phone: (780) 826-3409 www.bakerhughes.com Bandit Pipeline PO Box 12248 Lloydminster AB T9V 3C5 Phone: (780) 875-8764 www.banditpipeline.com Beretta Pipeline Construction Ltd PO Box 21042 RPO Lloydmall Lloydminster AB T9V 1V8 Phone: (780) 875-6522 www.berettapipeline.com BJ Process & Pipeline Services 9010 34 St NW Edmonton AB T6B 2V1 Phone: (780) 465-6495 www.bjservices.com

Comco Pipe & Supply Ltd 300 MacDonald Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4B6 Phone: (780) 743-3404 Crane Supply Inc 324 58 Ave SE Calgary AB T2H 0P2 Phone: (403) 252-7811 www.cranesupply.com Doran Stewart Oilfield Services (1990) Ltd PO Box 1750 Rocky Mountain House AB T4T 1B3 Phone: (403) 845-4044 www.doranstewart.com Edgen Murray Canada 8524 Roper Rd NW Edmonton AB T6E 6V4 Phone: (780) 440-1475 Enbridge Pipelines Inc 3000-425 1 St SW Calgary AB T2P 3L8 Phone: (403) 231-5768 www.enbridge.com/gateway Exact Oilfield Developing Ltd 900 4 St NW SS 1 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A1 Phone: (780) 849-2211 Flexpipe Systems Inc 3501 54 Ave SE Calgary AB T2C 0A9 Phone: (403) 503-0548 www.flexpipesystems.com Fullkote Pipeline Services (1996) Ltd 4873 46 St Lacombe AB T4L 2B2 Phone: (403) 782-3176 Global Fusion Coating Inc 1710 18 St Wainwright AB T9W 1L2 Phone: (780) 842-6860 Henuset Group of Companies 13024 Canso Pl SW Calgary AB T2W 3A8 Phone: (403) 236-0014 Houlder Construction PO Box 560 Grimshaw AB T0H 1W0 Phone: (780) 332-4691 www.houlders.ca IR Corrosion Control Ltd 37 Camelot Ave Leduc AB T9E 4L7 Phone: (780) 986-5553 K. Kenn Industries Ltd 5004 49 St Mannville AB Phone: (780) 763-3924

DIRECTORY Kinder Morgan Canada Inc 2700-300 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 5J2 Phone: (403) 514-6400 www.kindermorgan.com

RD Scan Inc. PO Box 7159 Bonnyville AB T9N 2H5 Phone: (780) 812-6699 www.rdscan.biz

Willbros Canada 2415 101 St SW Edmonton AB T6X 1A1 Phone: (780) 469-3300 www.willbroscanada.com

Kool Welding Ltd PO Box 64 St Brides AB T0A 2Y0 Phone: (780) 645-2388

Red Flame Hot Tap Services Ltd 6736 71 St Red Deer AB T4P 3Y7 Phone: (403) 343-2012 www.redflame.ca

Wolseley Engineered Pipe Alberta 17306 116 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5S 2X2 Phone: (780) 461-9400 www.perma-eng.com

Red-Alta Utility Location Ltd Box 10 Site 3 RR 1 Red Deer AB T4N 5E1 Phone: (403) 346-1212 www.red-alta.ca

Woody’s Oilfield Service Inc PO Box 231 Red Earth Creek AB T0G 1X0 Phone: (780) 649-2040

Krantz Contracting Ltd PO Box 728 Manning AB T0H 2M0 Phone: (780) 836-2830 Lincoln County Oilfield Services Ltd 1-3603 53 St Athabasca AB T9S 1A9 Phone: (780) 675-9613 Line Finders Ltd PO Box 147 Marshall SK S0M 1R0 Phone: (306) 387-6264 LTD Oilfield Services Inc PO Box 859 Redwater AB T0A 2W0 Phone: (780) 942-4484 Maverick Oilfield Services Ltd PO Box 597 Provost AB T0B 3S0 Phone: (780) 753-2992 www.mavoil.com Midwest General Contractors Ltd PO Box 5296 Stn E Edmonton AB T5P 4C5 Phone: (403) 962-1993 North American Construction Group 2-53016 Hwy 60 Acheson AB T7X 5A7 Phone: (780) 960-7171 www.nacg.ca O.J. Pipelines Canada 1409 4 St Nisku AB T9E 7M9 Phone: (780) 955-3900 www.ojpipelines.com Pinpoint Locating & Hydrovac Service PO Box 1642 Athabasca AB T9S 2B4 Phone: (780) 675-5228 Pipe-tech Corporation Ltd 3311 114 Ave SE Calgary AB T2Z 3X2 Phone: (403) 287-3558 www.pipetechcorp.com Plains Marketing Canada, LP 1400-888 3 St SW Calgary AB T2P 5C5 Phone: (403) 298-2100 Pro Line Locators Ltd 5108 27 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2K9 Phone: (780) 808-8393 Proline Pipe Equipment Inc 7141 67 St NW Edmonton AB T6B 3L7 Phone: (780) 465-6161 www.proline-global.com

River Valley Energy Services Corp PO Box 1038 Grimshaw AB T0H 1W0 Phone: (780) 332-1330 Round Pipeline Inspection & Consulting Ltd PO Box 101 Clyde AB T0G 0P0 Phone: (780) 348-5862 Saddle Tech. Inc. 4015 53 St Athabasca AB T9S 1A7 Phone: (780) 675-5661 www.saddletech.ca Santec Tool Services Ltd 5209 63 St Lloydminster SK S9V 1R5 Phone: (780) 875-1216 Sharp Underground B-1902 15 Ave Wainwright AB T9W 1L2 Phone: (780) 842-3336 Summit Tubulars Corp 2400-350 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3N9 Phone: (403) 232-6066 www.summit-tubulars.com Tartan Construction Ltd PO Box 9 Redwater AB T0A 2W0 Phone: (780) 942-3802 T.D. Williamson Canada ULC 9503 28 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6N 0A3 Phone: (780) 440-6637 www.tdwilliamson.com TransCanada Pipelines Limited 15th Flr-450 1 St SW Calgary AB T2P 5H1 Phone: (403) 920-2000 www.transcanada.com

Production Products & Services A-Fire Burner Systems 5508 59 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 3A8 Phone: (780) 875-0672 www.a-fire.ca Albrico Services (1982) Ltd 4-6923 Farrell Rd SE Calgary AB T2H 0T3 Phone: (403) 251-2556 www.albrico.com A-1 Oilfield Services PO Box 6469 Bonnyville AB T9N 2H1 Phone: (780) 826-7763 Apex Equipment Ltd 116-5726 Burleigh Cres SE Calgary AB T2H 1Z8 Phone: (403) 214-2049 www.apexequipmentltd.com Areva T & D Canada Inc 3532-114 Ave SE Calgary AB T2Z 3V6 Phone: (403) 236-3389 www.areva-td.com Argo Sales Ltd 1300-717 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0Z3 Phone: (403) 265-6633 www.argosales.com Armour Valve Ltd 6-2221 41 Ave NE Calgary AB T2E 6P2 Phone: (403) 229-3171 www.armourvalve.com Babcock & Wilcox Canada 17611 105 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5S 1T1 Phone: (780) 489-0404 www.babcock.com

Viking Power Dozer Ltd PO Box 204 Viking AB T0B 4N0 Phone: (780) 336-3032

Baker Hughes Inteq 1000-401 9 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3C5 Phone: (403) 537-3400 www.bakerhughes.com

Waschuk Equipment Rentals Ltd PO Box 5003 Red Deer AB T4N 6A1 Phone: (403) 342-2447

Baytex Energy 2200-205 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2V7 Phone: (403) 269-4282 www.baytex.ab.ca

Weatherford PC Pump 4604 62 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2G2 Phone: (780) 875-0103

Drumheller AB Phone: (403) 632-4266 www.blackwatchenergy.ca Bornemann Inc. 320-441 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2V1 Phone: (403) 294-0777 www.bornemann.com Braiker Oilfield Services Ltd 5214 62 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2E4 Phone: (780) 808-2999 Bucyrus Canada Limited 18131 118 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5J 2L9 Phone: (780) 454-9000 www.bucyrus.com BW Technologies By Honeywell 2840 2 Ave SE Calgary AB T2A 7X9 Phone: (403) 248-9226 www.gasmonitors.com Canadian Dewatering Ltd 11819 24 St NE Edmonton AB T6B 1B5 Phone: (780) 406-5111 www.canadiandewatering.com Canitron Systems Inc 220 Pump Hill Rise SW Calgary AB T2V 4C8 Phone: (403) 259-8732 Canusa - CPS 1200-630 3 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 4L4 Phone: (403) 218-8207 www.shrinksleeves.com CHEP Catalyst & Chemical Containers 5520 59 Ave Lloydminster AB Phone: (780) 875-3271 www.chep.com Christie Corrosion Control (1983) Ltd PO Box 1458 Lloydminster AB T9V 3B7 Phone: (780) 875-6559 www.christiecorrosioncontrol.com Conquest Energy Services 400-608 7 St SW Calgary AB T2P 1Z2 Phone: (403) 266-8880 www.conquestenergyservices.com COPATA - Crude Oil Production & Transportation Association 5201 65 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2E8 Phone: (780) 719-8839 Cougar Pump Supply & Service Ltd 1802 1 Ave Wainwright AB T9W 1L7 Phone: (780) 842-6710 D & K Enterprises Ltd 6222 49 Ave Bonnyville AB T9N 2M5 Phone: (780) 826-4323

Beartrax Pumpjack Services Inc PO Box 2465 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-3388

Danco Equipment Inc 308 53 Ave SE Calgary AB T2H 0N3 Phone: (403) 253-6421 www.dancoequipment.com

BlackWatch Energy Services Trust

Deerborn Oilfield Services Ltd

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DIRECTORY 5301 55 St Bonnyville AB T9N 2K6 Phone: (780) 573-1273 Eadie Oil Inc 14019 104 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5N 0W7 Phone: (780) 906-0577 www.eadie.com Electric Motor Service Limited 201 MacKay Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4T5 Phone: (780) 790-9550 Enerflex 4700 47 St SE Calgary AB T2B 3R1 Phone: (403) 236-6800 www.enerflex.com Gateway Compression Inc 10-11 Rowland Cres St Albert AB T8N 5B3 Phone: (780) 458-1770 www.gatewaycompress.com GEOCAN Energy Inc 1900-639 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0M9 Phone: (403) 261-3851 www.geocan.com Guest Controls (2001) Ltd 5503 52 St Lloydminster AB T9V 0R7 Phone: (780) 875-5822 www.guestcontrols.com Hanover Canada Corporation PO Box 5069 Stn A Calgary AB T2H 1X1 Phone: (403) 279-5000 www.hanover-canada.com Hiltap Fittings Ltd 1-3140 14 Ave NE Calgary AB T2A 6J4 Phone: (403) 250-2986 www.hiltap.com Holyoke Contracting Ltd PO Box 7284 Bonnyville AB T9N 2H6 Phone: (780) 826-7626 Hot Tools Bay 3D-6211 51 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2E1 Phone: (780) 875-2468 www.2hottools.ca ICS Group/Aircon Technologies Ltd 8214 Fraser Ave Fort McMurray AB T9H 1W8 Phone: (780) 791-4484 www.icsgroup.ca ITT Flygt 300 Labrosse Ave Pointe-Claire QC H9R 4V5 Phone: (514) 695-0100 www.ittflygt.ca Kema Enterprizes PO Box 769 Redwater AB T0A 2W0 Phone: (780) 736-2232 Kenilworth Combustion Ltd PO Box 12118 Lloydminster AB T9V 3C4 Phone: (780) 744-3974 www.kenilworth.ca

Klaus Enterprises Ltd 123 Cree Rd Sherwood Park AB T8A 3X9 Phone: (780) 467-7823 www.klaus.ca

Quadrise Canada Fuel Systems Inc 1200-202 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2R9 Phone: (403) 290-1100 www.quadrisecanada.com

Krupp Canada Inc 405-1177 11 Ave SW Calgary AB T2R 0G5 Phone: (403) 245-2866 www.krupp.ca

Quinn Pumps PO Box 846 Stn Postal Box Ctr Red Deer AB T4N 5H2 Phone: (403) 347-1128 www.quinnpumps.com

Kudu Industries Inc 9112 40 St SE Calgary AB T2C 2P3 Phone: (403) 279-5838 www.kudupump.com

R & M Energy Systems 10586 US Highway 75 N Willis TX 77378 Phone: (936) 890-1064 www.rmenergy.com

Lufkin Industries Canada Ltd 1050-808 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3E8 Phone: (403) 234-7692 www.lufkin.ca

RamEx Exchanger Inc 157-54150 RR 224 Fort Saskatchewan AB T8L 3Y5 Phone: (780) 992-8333 www.ramex.ca

Marking Services Inc Bay 6-702 12 Ave Nisku AB T9E 7P7 Phone: (780) 955-9303 www.markserv.com

Regent Control Systems Limited 3735 8 St Nisku Nisku AB T9E 8J8 Phone: (780) 955-4288

MJB Slickline Services 400-608 7 St SW Calgary AB T2P 1Z2 Phone: (403) 262-7432 www.mjbslickline.com Mosquito Enterprises 3828 63A Ave Cl Lloydminster AB T9V 3G5 Phone: (780) 871-4221 National Process Equipment 5-3401 19 St NE Calgary AB T2E 6S8 Phone: (403) 219-0270 www.natpro.com Northern Industrial Insulation Contractors Inc 17408 106A Ave NW Edmonton AB T5S 1E6 Phone: (780) 483-1850 www.northern-insulation.ca Oil Lift Technology Inc 3-1820 30 Ave NE Calgary AB T2E 7M5 Phone: (403) 291-5300 www.oillifttechnology.com P & H MinePro Services of Canada 300-7326 10 St NE Calgary AB T2E 8W1 Phone: (403) 730-9851 www.minepro.com PC Compression Inc 6023 52 Ave Bonnyville AB T9N 2M3 Phone: (780) 826-6680 www.pccompression.com Prime Pump Industries 510-407 2 St SW Calgary AB T2P 2Y3 Phone: (403) 234-7033 Pure Energy Services Partnership 300-1010 1 St SW Calgary AB T2R 1K4 Phone: (403) 262-4000 www.pure-energy.ca

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Techna-West Engineering Ltd 600-10010 106 St NW Edmonton AB T5J 3L8 Phone: (780) 451-4800 Texacana Turbines Inc 6132 46 St SE Calgary AB T2C 4X4 Phone: (403) 720-8080 The Pickford Group Ltd 5759 67 St NW Edmonton AB T6B 0B4 Phone: (780) 469-6002 www.pickford.com Thermon Heat Tracing Services Inc 5215 87 St NW Edmonton AB T6E 5L5 Phone: (780) 437-6326 www.thermon.com Toromont Energy Systems 102-85 Freeport Blvd NE Calgary AB T3J 4X9 Phone: (403) 736-2700 www.toromontprocess.com

Rivard Enterprises Ltd 3-320 MacKay Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4E4 Phone: (780) 743-3003

Tracerco Process Diagnostics 8908 60 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 6A6 Phone: (780) 469-0055 www.tracerco.com

RJV Gas Field Services 4901 Bruce Rd Vegreville AB T9C 1C3 Phone: (780) 632-7774 www.laniuk.com

Tri-Alta Oilfield Industries Ltd PO Box 813 Redwater AB T0A 2W0 Phone: (780) 942-6000

Rocanda Enterprises Ltd 329 10A St NW Calgary AB T2N 1W7 Phone: (877) 726-9943 www.rocanda.com Sand Control Systems Ltd PO Box 11698 Lloydminster AB T9V 3B9 Phone: (780) 875-2741 www.grithog.com

Ultraline 1600-645 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 4G8 Phone: (403) 231-9300 www.halliburton.com Universal Industries 5014 65 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2K2 Phone: (780) 875-6161 www.uic.ca

Sandale Utility Products 4435 90 Ave SE Calgary AB T2C 2S6 Phone: (403) 663-2101

Waterflood Service & Sales Ltd PO Box 1490 Estevan SK S4A 2L7 Phone: (306) 634-7212 www.waterflood.com

Seven Lakes Oilfield Services Corp PO Box 39 Bonnyville AB T0A 1C0 Phone: (780) 826-6392

Wellstream International Ltd 300-840 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3E5 Phone: (403) 261-8873 www.wellstream.com

Sign Language Bay 2-6206 50 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2C9 Phone: (780) 875-7446 Smith Cameron Industrial Inc 4422 97 St NW Edmonton AB T6E 5R9 Phone: (780) 432-6202 www.smithcameron.com SS Holdings 5504 52 Ave Bonnyville AB T9N 2A2 Phone: (780) 826-4394 Talmek Compression Services Ltd PO Box 1152 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-6844

Wellvision Field Services Inc 389 Archibald Cl Fort McMurray AB T9K 2P6 Phone: (780) 790-0206 Westcomm Pump & Equipment Ltd 2-3424 26 St NE Calgary AB T1Y 4T7 Phone: (403) 215-7867 www.westcommpump.com Western Energy Services Corp 5109 63 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2E7 Phone: (780) 808-8770 Wild Rows Pump Service Ltd 5901 63 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 3C1 Phone: (780) 875-0650 Wood Group ESP (Canada) Ltd

DIRECTORY 300-1015 4 St SW Calgary AB T2R 1J4 Phone: (403) 263-7166 www.woodgroup-esp.com

D C Safety and Welding Supplies 108 12 Ave SW SS 4 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A4 Phone: (780) 849-9898

Safety Products & Services

Dino Holdings Inc PO Box 149 Smoky Lake AB T0A 3C0 Phone: (780) 656-0101

Advanced Paramedic Limited PO Box 7320 Peace River AB T8S 1S9 Phone: (780) 624-4911 www.advancedparamedic.com Aeromedical Industrial Services 10713 95 St High Level AB T0H 1Z0 Phone: (780) 926-2166 www.aeromedical.ca Apprenticeship & Industry Training 7-9915 Franklin Ave Fort McMurray AB T9H 2K4 Phone: (780) 743-7150 ASTEC Safety Services Ltd 2602 50 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2S3 Phone: (780) 875-0331 www.astecsafety.com Audits & Safety Services 9420 85 Ave Peace River AB T8S 1G2 Phone: (780) 624-0615 www.peaceriversafetytraining.com Bern’s Wellsite Medic Service PO Box 76 Red Earth Creek AB T0G 1X0 Phone: (780) 649-0482 Bonnyville Municipal Ambulance 4902 47 Ave Bonnyville AB T9N 1M4 Phone: (780) 826-6224 Bulwark Protective Apparel Ltd 9146 Yellowhead Tr NW Edmonton AB T5B 1G2 Phone: (780) 479-4444 www.bulwark.com Bumper To Bumper PO Box 510 High Prairie AB T0G1E0 Phone: (780) 523-4521 CALA Environment, Safety and Wellness Inc PO Box 836 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-9444

DuPont Personal Protection PO Box 27069 TUSC RPO Calgary AB T3L 2Y1 Phone: (403) 217-9696 www.personalprotection.dupont.ca ElectroGas Monitors Ltd 1-7961 49 Ave Red Deer AB T4P 2V5 Phone: (403) 341-6167 www.electrogasmonitors.com ESS Support Services 14610 115 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5M 3B9 Phone: (780) 429-4949 www.ess-global.com Fire Power Oilfield Firefighting Ltd 400-635 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0T5 Phone: (403) 233-7904 www.firepower.ca Firemaster Oilfield Services Inc 4728 78A St Cl Red Deer AB T4P 2J2 Phone: (403) 342-7500 www.firemaster.ca Goodfish Lake Development Corporation Box 273 Goodfish Lake AB T0A 1R0 Phone: (780) 636-2863 www.gfldc.ca Horizon Enterprises Inc 170 Valley Point South 52559 Hwy 21 Sherwood Park AB T8A 4S6 Phone: (780) 467-5149 HSE Integrated Ltd 1-350 MacAlpine Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4A8 Phone: (780) 715-2088 www.hseintegrated.com Industrial Life Support PO Box 1815 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-6787

Canadian Linen & Uniform Service 8631 Stadium Rd NW Edmonton AB T5H 3W9 Phone: (780) 424-3181 www.canadianuniform.com

Industrial Paramedic Services Ltd 500-441 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2V1 Phone: (403) 264-6435 www.ipsems.com

Cansafe Inc 3-4720 50 St Lloydminster SK S9V 0M7 Phone: (306) 825-8845 www.cansafesafety.com

J & R Safety PO Box 1986 Lloydminster SK S9V 1R5 Phone: (780) 875-9772

CMS Canadian Industrial Medical Services Ltd 4918 46 Ave St Paul AB T0A 3A4 Phone: (780) 645-7750

Just-In Case Fire Ltd 321-11979 40 St SE Calgary AB T2Z 4M3 Phone: (403) 243-9728 www.justincasefire.com KB Jodan Inc Site 639 Comp 4 RR 2 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C2 Phone: (780) 623-3152

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Lash Enterprises Ltd 5510 63 Ave Lloydminster AB Phone: (780) 875-2596 www.flushby.com

PO Box 368 Chauvin AB T0B 0V0 Phone: (780) 205-2804 www.olsonsafety.com

Leeway Heavy Oil (1996) Ltd 4609 51 Ave Elk Point AB T0A 1A0 Phone: (780) 724-3026

Patent Construction Systems 7030 51 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6B 2P4 Phone: (780) 468-3292 www.pcshd.com

Lesser Slave Lake Community Development Corp 105 6 Ave NW Slave Lake AB Phone: (780) 849-3232 www.lslcdcorp.ab.ca

Peace Regional Emergency Medical Services PO Box 735 Grimshaw AB T0H 1W0 Phone: (780) 624-3375

Levitt-Safety Limited 9241 48 St NW Edmonton AB T6B 2R9 Phone: (780) 461-8088 www.levitt-safety.com Lloydminster Emergency Care Services 4734 42 St Lloydminster SK S9V 0E1 Phone: (306) 825-7077 Medi-Care Ambulance Services Inc 4925 47 St Redwater AB T0A 2W0 Phone: (780) 942-4703 Mikisew Slings & Safety Ltd 7027 Girard Rd Edmonton AB T6B 2C4 Phone: (780) 490-0255 www.mikisewslings.com Mine Safety Appliances Company 222-5538 Eglinton Ave W Toronto ON M9C 5K5 Phone: (416) 620-4225 www.msanet.com Mobile Industrial Health Services 230E MacKay Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 5C6 Phone: (780) 791-9898 Fax: (780) 791-9807 dquinn@evereadyindustrial.com www.mobilehealth.ca Mountain Industrial Safety PO Box 1231 Nisku AB T9E 8A8 Phone: (780) 987-3465 www.misafety.ca North Safety Products Ltd 6303 Roper Rd NW Edmonton AB T6B 3G6 Phone: (780) 437-2641 www.northsafety.com Northern Factory Workwear 4006 50 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 1B2 Phone: (780) 875-4800 www.factoryworkwear.ca

Peace Safety & Environmental Training PO Box 6215 Stn Main Peace River AB T8S 1S2 Phone: (780) 624-4886 Primco Dene (EMS) LP PO Box 2070 Cold Lake AB T9M 1P5 Phone: (780) 594-4034 Protective Clothing Supplies Ltd 7-8802 Franklin Ave Fort McMurray AB T9H 2J7 Phone: (780) 743-4055 Red Earth & District Ambulance Services Ltd GD Red Earth Creek AB T0G 1X0 Phone: (780) 649-2222 Safe-Net Safety Service 9 Miller Cres Cold Lake AB T9M 1N2 Phone: (780) 639-4156 SafeTech Consulting Group Ltd 12126 90 St NW Edmonton AB T5B 3Z3 Phone: (780) 455-4480 www.safetech.ca Safety Builders Consulting Corp 2 Briarwood Way Stony Plain AB T7Z 2R4 Phone: (866) 963-5933 www.safetybuilders.com Safety Buzz Ltd PO Box 7968 Bonnyville AB T9N 2J3 Phone: (780) 573-0311 www.safety-buzz.com Safety Direct Ltd 188-2257 Premier Way Sherwood Park AB T8H 2M8 Phone: (780) 464-7139 www.safetydirect.ca Safety First 218-307 Athabasca Ave Fort McMurray AB T9J 1G9 Phone: (780) 799-1416

Northern Lakes College 1201 Main St SE Slave Lake AB T0G 2A3 Phone: (780) 849-8714

Safety Link PO Box 1016 Grimshaw AB T0H 1W0 Phone: (780) 332-2339

Northern Safety Supply & Training Ltd PO Box 1462 St Paul AB T0A 3A0 Phone: (780) 645-4000

SafetyBoss Environmental Services Inc 921 9 Ave SE Calgary AB T2G 0S5 Phone: (403) 261-5075 www.safetyboss.com

Olson Safety Services

DIRECTORY Schram Crane & Rigging Ltd 165 Garnet Cres Wetaskiwin AB T9A 2S3 Phone: (780) 352-3199 SimplexGrinnell Bay 116-190 McAlpine Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4B5 Phone: (780) 790-1525 www.simplexgrinnell.com Skyway Canada Ltd 3408 76 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6B 2N8 Phone: (780) 413-8007 www.skywayequipment.com Slave Lake Ambulance Service 309 6 St NE SS 2 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A2 Phone: (780) 849-4977 Slave Safety Supply Ltd 207 Caribou Tr Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-4214 STARS (Alberta Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service Foundation) 1441 Aviation Park NE Calgary AB T2E 8M7 Phone: (403) 516-3574 www.stars.ca Superior Safety Ltd 6025 50 Ave Bonnyville AB T9N 2L3 Phone: (780) 826-6031 United Safety Ltd 104 East Lake Rd Airdrie AB T4A 2J8 Phone: (403) 912-3690 www.unitedsafetyworld.com Viewpoint Medical Assessment Services 310-1011 Glenmore Tr SW Calgary AB T2V 4R6 Phone: (403) 253-4272 www.viewpointonline.com Wapose Medical Services Inc 2 Flr Bay 3 360 MacKenzie Blvd Fort McMurray AB T9H 4C4 Phone: (780) 714-6654 www.waposemedical.ca Service CompaniesIntegrated Services ATCO LTD 1400-909 11 Ave SW Calgary AB T2R 1N6 Phone: (403) 292-7438 Fax: (403) 292-7643 www.atco.com Baker Hughes 1000-401 9 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3C5 Phone: (403) 537-3400 www.bakerhughes.com BJ Services Company Canada 1300-801 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 4E1 Phone: (403) 531-5151 www.bjservices.com CCS Energy Services 24 Flr-530 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3S8 Phone: (403) 233-7565 www.ccsenergyservices.com

ECL Group of Companies 7100 44 St SE Calgary AB T2C 2V7 Phone: (403) 720-5000 www.eclgroup.com

Precision Energy Services 4500-150 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3Y7 Phone: (403) 265-6060 www.precision-es.com

Ensign Energy Services Inc 1000-400 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0L6 Phone: (403) 262-1361 www.ensignenergy.com

Proper Cat Construction Ltd PO Box 1521 Stn Main Lloydminster SK S9V 1K5 Phone: (780) 875-1865

Ferus Inc 916-401 9 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3C5 Phone: (403) 517-8777 www.ferus.ca Flint Energy Services Ltd 100-2899 Broadmoor Blvd Sherwood Park AB T8H 1B5 Phone: (780) 416-3400 www.flintenergy.com Flint Tubular Service 2020-355 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0J1 Phone: (403) 265-7772 www.flintenergy.com Gibson Energy Ltd 1700-440 2 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 5E9 Phone: (403) 206-4000 www.gibsons.com Gill’s Vacuum Service Ltd PO Box 5 Kinsella AB T0B 2N0 Phone: (780) 336-3520 Halliburton 1600-645 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 4G8 Phone: (403) 231-9300 www.halliburton.com Hydrodig Inc PO Box 215 Bentley AB T0C 0J0 Phone: (403) 748-2110 www.hydrodig.com Integrated Production Services 1900-840 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3G2 Phone: (403) 266-0908 www.ipsadvantage.ca Jacobs Canada Inc 400-8500 MacLeod Trail S Calgary AB T2H 2N7 Phone: (403) 258-6691 www.deltahudson.com Northern Arc Lubrication & Abrasion Specialists Ltd Bay 7 & 8-284 MacDonald Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4B6 Phone: (780) 743-4339 Platinum Energy Services Corp 750-333 11 Ave SW Calgary AB T2R 1L9 Phone: (403) 264-6688 www.platinumenergy.net PowerComm Inc 9333 37 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 5N4 Phone: (780) 465-7038 www.powercomm.ab.ca

Pryatel’s Ditching PO Box 122 Lamont AB T0B 2R0 Phone: (780) 895-2072 Rickard Excavation Ltd PO Box 5057 Stn Main Fort McMurray AB T9H 3G2 Phone: (780) 791-2867 Rockwell Servicing 1000-400 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0L6 Phone: (403) 260-6603 www.ensignenergy.com Roevin Technical People Ltd 1160-10303 Jasper Ave NW Edmonton AB T5J 3N6 Phone: (780) 420-6232 Schlumberger 525 3 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0G4 Phone: (403) 509-4000 www.slb.com Superior Concrete Construction (1984) Ltd PO Box 8427 Stn Main Cold Lake AB T9M 1N2 Phone: (780) 639-2849 Telus 411 1 St SE Calgary AB T2G 4Y5 Phone: (403) 530-4185 www.telus.com/energysector Trican Well Service 2900-645 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 4G8 Phone: (403) 266-0202 www.trican.ca Tridon Communications 10017 Queen St Fort McMurray AB T9H 4Y9 Phone: (780) 791-1002 www.tridon.com Tristar Resource Management Ltd 1601-840 7 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3G2 Phone: (403) 262-8595 www.tstar.ca Weatherford Canada Partnership 1200-333 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3B6 Phone: (403) 693-7500 www.weatherford.com Wellco Energy Services 2300-500 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2V6 Phone: (403) 232-6334 www.wellcoenergy.com

Speciality Services A & J Oilfield Services Ltd PO Box 190 Elk Point AB T0A 1A0 Phone: (780) 724-2647 ACS Engineering Technologies Inc 200-1144 29 Ave NE Calgary AB T2E 7P1 Phone: (403) 255-2551 www.acsengineering.com Acuren Group Inc 230 MacDonald Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4B4 Phone: (780) 790-1776 www.acuren.com Aggressive Steaming Ltd PO Box 375 Falher AB T0H 1M0 Phone: (780) 837-3737 Aitec (Western) Inc 701 9 St SW SS 4 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A4 Phone: (780) 849-5321 AKO Oilfield Services PO Box 23 Kitscoty AB T0B 2P0 Phone: (780) 846-2354 Alberta North Steamers PO Box 1127 Manning AB T0H 2M0 Phone: (780) 836-5542 All West Surveys Ltd 17327 106A Ave NW Edmonton AB T5S 1M7 Phone: (780) 481-3399 www.allwest.ca ALS Laboratory Group 2-1313 44 Ave NE Calgary AB T2E6L5 Phone: (403) 291-9897 www.alsenviro.com AltaLink PO Box 20 Station M Calgary AB T2P 2G9 Phone: (403) 267-3400 www.altalink.ca Attack Energy Services Ltd PO Box 2674 High Prairie AB T0G 1E0 Phone: (780) 523-3302 Attack Hydrovac PO Box 1166 Manning AB T0H 2M0 Phone: (780) 836-3609 Bakos (N.D.T.) Inspection (1989) Ltd PO Box 1832 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-1119 Bosch Holdings Inc PO Box 73 Red Earth Creek AB T0G 1X0 Phone: (780) 649-1135 Boss Pressure Services PO Box 923 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-8868

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DIRECTORY Briarwood Daylighting Ltd 6C-380 MacKenzie Blvd Fort McMurray AB T9H 4C4 Phone: (780) 743-9031 Brother’s Specialized Coating Systems Ltd 6150 76 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6B 0A6 Phone: (780) 440-2855 www.brotherscoating.com

Emerald Associates Inc B8 140-2526 Battleford Ave Calgary AB T3E 7J4 Phone: (403) 686-7100 www.emerald-associates.com Empire Iron Works Ltd 21104 107 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5S 1X2 Phone: (780) 447-4650 www.empireiron.com

Bruin Instruments Corp 9001 20 St NW Edmonton AB T6P 1K8 Phone: (780) 430-1777 www.bruinpumps.com

Eveready Industrial Services Corp 15715 121A Ave NW Edmonton AB T5V 1B1 Phone: (780) 451-6969 www.evereadyindustrial.com

Cancen Oil Processors Inc PO Box 234 New Sarepta AB T0B 3M0 Phone: (780) 941-2272

Fugro Airborne Surveys 610-600 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0S5 Phone: (403) 777-9281 www.fugroairborne.com

CCS Landfill Services Bonnyville & Janvier Facilities Phone: (780) 724-3002 CGG Veritas 500-404 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0R9 Phone: (403) 266-1011 www.cgg.com Challenger Geomatics Ltd 1400-10117 Jasper Ave NW Edmonton AB T5J 1W8 Phone: (780) 424-5511 www.chalsurv.com CMG Computer Modelling Group Ltd 200-3512 33 St NW Calgary AB T2L 2A6 Phone: (403) 531-1338 www.cmgl.ca CP Rail 500-401 9 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 4Z4 Phone: (403) 319-6639 D & L Mobile Steaming PO Box 26 Eaglesham AB T0H 1H0 Phone: (780) 359-2000 Das Disposals Ltd 4302 47 St Vegreville AB T9C 1C3 Phone: (780) 632-9727 Diggen Bury Trenching Ltd PO Box 1292 Athabasca AB T9S 2B2 Phone: (780) 675-2794 Dynacare Kasper Medical Laboratories 200-10150 102 St NW Edmonton AB T5J 5E2 Phone: (780) 451-3702 www.dkml.com Dynasoft Communications Inc 4-4502 50 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 0W3 Phone: (780) 808-8731 E & L Mobile Steaming Ltd General Delivery Marie-Reine AB T8S 1V8 Phone: (780) 322-2118

Gas Technology Products 846 E Algonquin Rd Suite A100 Schaumburg IL 60173 Phone: (847) 285-3850 www.gtp-merichem.com Genoil Inc 2020-633 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2Y5 Phone: (403) 750-3450 www.genoil.net Geologic Systems Ltd 900-703 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0T9 Phone: (403) 262-1992 www.geologic.com Global Thermoelectric 9-3700 78 Ave SE Calgary AB T2C 2L8 Phone: (403) 236-5556 www.globalte.com Guardian 950 78 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6P 1L7 Phone: (780) 440-1444 www.guardianoil.com

PO Box 569 Viking AB T0B 4N0 Phone: (780) 336-2330 Lac La Biche Regional Community Development Corp 10106 102 Ave Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-2662 www.rcdc-rerc.com Lloyd’s Steam Cleaning Ltd PO Box 6961 Stn Main Bonnyville AB T9N 2H4 Phone: (780) 826-5503 LRI Perforating Systems Inc 1-5202 63 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2E6 Phone: (780) 872-5072 Mannville Enterprises 5120 51 St Mannville AB Phone: (780) 763-3991 McElhanney Land Surveys Ltd 450-999 8 St SW Calgary AB T2R 1J5 Phone: (403) 245-4711 www.mcelhanney.com/mlsl MCL Industrial Insulating PO Box 2117 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-2994 MMD Mineral Sizing (Canada) Inc 355 MacKenzie Blvd Fort McMurray AB T9H 5E2 Phone: (780) 799-4600 www.mmdsizers.com Mobile Augers & Research Ltd 5603 54 St NW Edmonton AB T6B 3G8 Phone: (780) 436-3960 www.mobileaugers.com Mobile Industrial Health Services 205-10126 97 Ave Grande Prairie AB T8V 7X6 Phone: (780) 830-0533

8002 Edgar Industrial Ave Red Deer AB T4N 5E7 Phone: (403) 346-7474 www.penedrill.com Penlynn Contracting PO Box 1645 Grimshaw AB T0H 1W0 Phone: (780) 332-2048 Photon Control Inc. 210-600 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0S5 Phone: (403) 249-6228 Precision Giant Systems Inc 7217 Girard Rd NW Edmonton AB T6B 2C5 Phone: (780) 463-0026 www.precisionscale.com Ranger Inspection Ltd 13-3716 56 Ave SE Calgary AB T2C 2B5 Phone: (403) 252-4487 www.rangerinspection.com Richard Oilfield Services Ltd PO Box 507 Plamondon AB T0A 2T0 Phone: (780) 798-3325 Roch-On Steaming Falher AB Phone: (780) 837-0045 Sanjel Corporation 200-505 2 St SW Calgary AB T2P 1N8 Phone: (403) 269-1420 www.sanjel.com Sensornet Ltd 700-1816 Crowchild Tr NW Calgary AB T2M 3Y7 Phone: (403) 313-8304 www.sensornet.co.uk Specialty Products Research & Supply (SPRS) 9763 60 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 4S8 Phone: (780) 436-1010 www.sprs.ca

Heavy Equipment Repair Ltd PO Box 2343 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-3768 www.heavyequipmentrepair.ca

Norspec Filtration Ltd 4704 91 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6B 2L1 Phone: (780) 468-9296 www.norspec.com

Hycal Energy Research Laboratories Ltd 1338A 36 Ave NE Calgary AB T2E 6T6 Phone: (403) 250-5800 www.hycal.com

Northern Lights Steam & Clean PO Box 316 Red Earth Creek AB T0G 1X0 Phone: (780) 649-2272

Sulzer Chemtech USA Inc 8505 East North Belt Dr Humble TX 77396 Phone: (281) 604-4100

Northern Transportation Company Limited 42003 Mackenzie Hwy Hay River NT X0E 0R9 Phone: (867) 874-5100 www.ntcl.com

TANDBERG Canada Inc 204-855 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 1C5 Phone: (403) 777-3705 www.tandberg.net

Hydra-Tech International Corp 6060 86 Ave SE Calgary AB T2C 4L7 Phone: (403) 720-7740 www.hydra-tech.net Immerse Communications Inc. 8-105 Village Heights SW Calgary AB T3H 2L2 Phone: (403) 319-0331 www.immersecom.com

N-Tech Technologies Ltd Bay 434-11979 40 St SE Calgary AB T2Z 4M3 Phone: (403) 272-9332 www.n-tech.ab.ca

K. Ridge Mobile Hot Wash Ltd PO Box 609 Athabasca AB T9S 2A5 Phone: (780) 675-2919

Owen Oil Tools 5409-39139 Hwy 2A Red Deer County AB T4S 2B3 Phone: (403) 340-1017 www.corelab.com/owen

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Spyder Mechanical PO Box 7884 Bonnyville AB T9N 2J2 Phone: (780) 826-1122

Team Snubbing Services Inc 6, 4127-39139 Hwy 2A Red Deer County AB T4S 2A8 Phone: (403) 314-4220 www.teamsnubbing.com Thunder Bay Port Authority 100 Main St Thunder Bay ON P7B 6R9 Phone: (807) 345-6400 www.portofthunderbay.ca TISI Canada Inc 8525 18 St NW

DIRECTORY Edmonton AB T6P 1K4 Phone: (780) 467-8070 www.teamindustrialservices.com Titanium Corporation 1001-360 Bay St Toronto ON M5H 2V6 Phone: (416) 955-0715 www.titaniumcorporation.com Veritas GeoServices 2200-715 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 5A2 Phone: (403) 205-6000 www.veritasdgc.com Wellside Services PO Box 1346 Grimshaw AB T0H 1W0 Phone: (780) 332-2512 X-Act Technologies Ltd Bay 56-4216 54 Ave SE Calgary AB T2C 2E3 Phone: (403) 291-9175 www.xact.ca Xergy Processing Inc 850-555 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3E7 Phone: (403) 264-4835 www.xergy.ca Young EnergyServe Inc 234125 Wrangler Rd SE Calgary AB T2P 2G6 Phone: (403) 517-2100 www.youngenergy.ca Supplies Rentals & Sales A R Williams Truck Equipment Ltd 8019 54 St SE Calgary AB T2C 4R7 Phone: (403) 243-6111 www.arwilliamstruck.com Acklands-Grainger Inc 5208 63 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2E6 Phone: (780) 875-5878 www.acklandsgrainger.com Addley NDT Supplies Ltd 1101 78 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6P 1L8 Phone: (780) 462-7110 www.addleyndt.com AFD (Alberta Fuel Distributors Inc) 1444 78 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6P 1L7 Phone: (780) 438-5930 www.albertafuel.com Air Liquide Canada Inc 10020 56 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 5Z2 Phone: (780) 438-5600 www.airliquide.com A-1 Fencing PO Box 3157 Wainwright AB T9W 1T1 Phone: (780) 842-3082 Apex Distribution Inc 905 3 St NW Slave Lake AB Phone: (780) 849-6111

B W Rig Supply 9305 27 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6N 1C9 Phone: (780) 463-8686 www.hyduke.com

CE Franklin Ltd 1900-300 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3C4 Phone: (403) 531-5600 www.cefranklin.com

Balon Corporation 6210 48 St SE Calgary AB T2C 4P7 Phone: (403) 203-0777 www.balon.com

Classic Oilfield Service Ltd 5211 65 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2E8 Phone: (780) 875-3276

Duraguard Fence Ltd (Fort McMurray) PO Box 5978 Fort McMurray AB T9H 4V9 Phone: (780) 743-2468 www.duraguardfence.com E & E Radiator Service (1992) 10003 94A Ave Westlock AB T7P 2M7 Phone: (780) 349-4234

Baron Oilfield Supply PO Box 66 High Prairie AB T0G 1E0 Phone: (780) 523-4000

Cold Weather Technologies 5508 59 Ave Lloydminster AB Phone: (780) 875-2530 www.coldweathertech.com

Benoit Rentals PO Box 51 Chauvin AB T0B 0V0 Phone: (780) 858-2212 www.benoitrentals.com

Commercial Solutions Inc 4203 95 St NW Edmonton AB T6E 5R6 Phone: (780) 432-1611 www.csinet.ca

B.G.E. Service & Supply Ltd 5711 103A St NW Edmonton AB T6H 2J6 Phone: (780) 436-6960 www.thefiltershop.com

Communications Group 7434 50 Ave Red Deer AB T4P 1X7 Phone: (403) 347-0777 www.commgroup.net

Flowserve (FCD) 9044 18 St NW Edmonton AB T6P 1K6 Phone: (780) 449-4850 www.flowserve.com

BIW Connector Systems E, 70-161 Liberton Dr St Albert AB T8N 6A7 Phone: (780) 460-3993 www.ittcannon.com

Continental Chain & Rigging Ltd 7011 Girard Rd NW Edmonton AB T6B 2C4 Phone: (780) 437-2701 www.continentalchain.com

Fluid Clarification Inc (FCI) 9-7408 40 St SE Calgary AB T2C 2L6 Phone: (403) 236-0666 www.fluidclarification.com

Bobcat of Fort McMurray 270 MacKay Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 5C6 Phone: (780) 714-9200 www.bobcat.com

Corlac Equipment Ltd 1100-540 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 0M2 Phone: (403) 294-4500 www.nov.com

FMC Technologies Company 6510 30 St NW Edmonton AB T6P 1J6 Phone: (780) 468-9231 www.fmcwellhead.com

B.W. Rentals PO Box 1228 High Prairie AB T0G 1E0 Phone: (780) 523-3051

Crane & Rig Inc 413 24 Ave Nisku AB T9E 8J1 Phone: (780) 955-8862 www.cranerig.com

GEM Supplies Ltd 5113 63 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2E7 Phone: (780) 875-4155

Cameron Valves & Measurement 1300-311 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3H2 Phone: (403) 398-9930 www.c-a-m.com Canada Wide Oilfield Services Ltd 1102 6 St Nisku AB T9E 7N7 Phone: (780) 955-9595 www.cdawide.com Car-Ber Testing Alberta inc Bay 31-380 MacKenzie Blvd Fort McMurray AB T9H 4C4 Phone: (780) 743-2496 Carreau Oilfield Specialties 9509 41 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 5X7 Phone: (780) 436-7730 www.carreauoilfield.com Cat Rental Store 9520 51 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 5A6 Phone: (780) 989-1300 www.catrents.ca CCI Thermal Technologies Inc 5918 Roper Rd NW Edmonton AB T6B 3E1 Phone: (780) 466-3178 www.ccithermal.com

Edmonton Valve & Fitting Inc 4503 93 St NW Edmonton AB T6E 5S9 Phone: (780) 437-0640 www.swagelok.com/edmonton Emco Limited PO Box 1200 Manning AB TOH 2MO Phone: (780) 836-2002

Crest-Way Fencing 8-2933 67 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 3H6 Phone: (780) 875-5448

Gerk-Hoe Contracting & Equipment Rentals 7410 107 Ave Peace River AB T8S 1M6 Phone: (780) 624-1700

D & D Oilfield Rentals 4-5113 62 St Lloydminster AB T1A 7Y5 Phone: (780) 875-5171

Goodall Rubber Co of Canada Ltd 9725 62 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 0E4 Phone: (780) 437-1260 www.goodallonline.com

Deltavalve 7712 56 St SE Calgary AB T2C 4S9 Phone: (403) 543-2244 www.deltavalve.com Deran Oilfield Services Ltd PO Box 307 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-2193 Dicks Boiler Ltd PO Box 474 Blairmore AB T0K 0E0 Phone: (403) 562-7600 Douglas Coatings Ltd 150 MacKay Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4W8 Phone: (780) 743-1810 Drillex Oilfield Services Ltd PO Box 2458 Lloydminster SK S9V 1W5 Phone: (780) 808-9500

Gosselin Pipe & Steel Ltd PO Box 3083 Wainwright AB T9W 1S9 Phone: (780) 842-5705 www.gosselinpipe.com Hallmark Tubulars Ltd 910-255 5 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3G6 Phone: (403) 266-3807 www.hallmarksolutions.ca Hertz Equipment Rental 6110 86 St Edmonton AB T6E 5K2 Phone: (780) 435-3711 www.hertzequip.com Hex-Hut Shelter Systems Ltd 206-1053 10 St SE Calgary AB T2R 1S6 Phone: (403) 293-7333 www.hex-hut.com

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DIRECTORY HYTORC Sales & Service 45 Corriveau Ave St Albert AB T8N 5A3 Phone: (780) 459-5004 www.hytorc.com Inland Industrial Supply Ltd Bay 4D-380 Mackenzie Blvd Fort McMurray AB T9H 4C4 Phone: (780) 742-2430 Inproheat Industries Ltd 207-4999 43 St SE Calgary AB T2B 3N4 Phone: (403) 253-2228 www.inproheat.com In-Situ Machining Solutions Ltd 4-51309 Hwy 60 Spruce Grove AB T7Y 1C4 Phone: (780) 913-5075 www.insitumachining.com International Cooling Tower Inc 3310 93 St NW Edmonton AB T6N 1C7 Phone: (780) 469-4900 www.ictower.com J C Inspections & Associates Ltd PO Box 1986 Stn Mn Lloydminster SK S9V 1R5 Phone: (780) 875-5711 JEN Supply Inc 4907 47 Ave Vermilion AB T9X 1J4 Phone: (780) 581-9990 Jet-Lube Of Canada Ltd 3820 97 St NW Edmonton AB T6E 5S8 Phone: (780) 463-7441 www.jetlubecanada.com Karborah Contracting Services Ltd 124 Aspenhill Dr Fort McMurray AB T9J 1E1 Phone: (780) 791-3056 Keddco Mfg Ltd 4120 78 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6B 3M8 Phone: (780) 438-4944 www.keddco.com Kelro Pump & Mechanical Ltd PO Box 10989 Lloydminster AB T9V 3B3 Phone: (780) 875-7252 www.kelro.com Ketek Industries Ltd 8124 Manning Ave Fort McMurray AB T9H 1V7 Phone: (780) 714-5059 Kinecor Inc 1403 5 St Nisku AB T9E 8C7 Phone: (780) 955-2155 www.kinecor.com Lampson Canada Ltd PO Box 510 Beiseker AB T0M 0G0 Phone: (403) 947-2222 LaPrairie Crane PO Box 23038 Fort McMurray AB T9H 4N6 Phone: (780) 714-5438

Larox Corporation PO Box 29, Tukkikatu 1 Lappeenranta 53101 Phone: 3585 6688351 Lloydminster Production Services 5210 63 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2E6 Phone: (780) 872-7300 Lonetech 5306 58 Ave Grimshaw AB Phone: (780) 332-4767 Max Fuel Distributors Ltd PO Box 236 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-3820 McCann Equipment Ltd 4120 97 St Edmonton AB T6E 5Y6 Phone: (780) 414-1808 www.torquetools.com Meridian 3780 98 St NW Edmonton AB T6E 6B4 Phone: (780) 468-7161 www.meridianvalve.ca Micron Filtration Bay 12-6320 11 St SE Calgary AB T2H 2L7 Phone: (403) 717-2891 www.micronfilter.com Midfield Supply ULC 1600-101 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3P4 Phone: (403) 233-7166 www.midfieldsupply.com Midway Distributors Ltd 5402 44 St Lloydminster AB T9V 0B4 Phone: (780) 875-5551 Murdock Energy Inc PO Box 574 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-4863 Mutual Propane Ltd PO Box 2006 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-2363

Phoenix Fence Inc 12816 156 St NW Edmonton AB T5V 1E9 Phone: (780) 447-1919 www.phoenixfence.ca

SPX Valves & Controls 3424 78 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6B 2X9 Phone: (780) 465-3110 www.dezurik.com

Precision Bolting Ltd 3880 74 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6B 2P7 Phone: (780) 466-9869 www.precisionbolting.com

Stewart Sales & Rentals 24 Nipewon Rd Lac La Biche AB Phone: (780) 623-3243 www.stewartsalesandrentals.ca

Process Combustion Systems (2000) Inc 13-1515 Highfield Cres SE Calgary AB T2G 5M4 Phone: (403) 250-1075 www.processcombustion.com

Stream-Flo Industries Ltd 400-202 6 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 2R9 Phone: (403) 269-5531 www.streamflo.com

PROMORE 2100-125 9 Ave SE Calgary AB T2G 0P6 Phone: (403) 571-1669 www.promore.com R C Moffatt Supply Ltd 9565 60 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 0C2 Phone: (780) 435-1921

Tanks On Site 1444 78 Ave Edmonton AB T6P 1L7 Phone: (780) 918-1008 www.tanksonsite.com

Realistic Rod Guides Box 81017, 755 Lake Bonavista Dr SE Calgary AB T2J 0N0 Phone: (403) 225-1382 www.realistic.ca

TenarisPrudential 1800-140 4 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 3N3 Phone: (403) 267-0300 www.tenaris.com

REDCO Equipment Sales Ltd 8105 Davies Rd NW Edmonton AB T6E 4N1 Phone: (780) 466-1820 www.redcovalves.com

Tierra Alta 4926 89 St NW Edmonton AB T6E 5K1 Phone: (780) 462-8271 www.tierraalta.com

Relay Distributing 6005 50 Ave Lloydminster SK S9V 2A4 Phone: (306) 825-4322

Topco Oilsite Products Ltd 5-3401 19 St NE Calgary AB T2E 6S8 Phone: (403) 219-0255 www.topcooilsite.com

RSC Equipment Rental 5114 62 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2E4 Phone: (780) 875-5844 www.rentalservice.com Sabre Communications Inc PO Box 541 Lloydminster SK S9V 0N7 Phone: (306) 825-8500

New Concept Manufacturing Ltd PO Box 32 Vimy AB T0G 2J0 Phone: (780) 961-3835

Score Energy Products Inc 9821 41 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 0A2 Phone: (780) 466-6782 www.scorevalves.com

Northeastern Energy Services PO Box 2310 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-3334

Shaw Pipe 1824 Crowchild Tr NW Calgary AB T2M 3Y7 Phone: (403) 263-2255 www.shawpipe.ca

Northwell Rentals (Lloydminster) Inc 5205 60 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2S9 Phone: (780) 875-6604 Panther Technologies Inc PO Box 7793 Bonnyville AB T9N 2J1 Phone: (780) 871-2784 Pason Systems Corp 6130 3 St SE Calgary AB T2H 1K4 Phone: (403) 233-0106 www.pason.com

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Summit Valve & Controls Ltd 5304 68 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6B 3M4 Phone: (780) 468-6900 www.summitvalve.com

Total Oilfield Rentals PO Box 129 Red Earth Creek AB T0G 1X0 Phone: (780) 649-2202 Unified Alloys 8835 50 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 5H4 Phone: (780) 468-5656 www.etalloys.com United Rentals of Canada 320 MacKenzie Blvd Fort McMurray AB T9H 4C4 Phone: (780) 790-2700 www.unitedrentals.com Van Leeuwen Pipe & Tube (Canada) 2875 64 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6P 1R1 Phone: (780) 469-7410

Sil Industrial Minerals 8635 Stadium Rd NW Edmonton AB T6S 1G3 Phone: (780) 467-2627 www.sil.ab.ca

Vegreville Equipment Rentals & Sales Inc 5125 52 Ave Vegreville AB T9C 1M2 Phone: (780) 632-2976

661254 Alberta Ltd PO Box 6231 Stn Main Fort McMurray AB T9H 4W1 Phone: (780) 743-5968

Wajax Industries 16745 111 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5M 2S4 Phone: (780) 487-6700 www.wilwest.wajax.com

Specialty Oilfield Rentals Ltd 206-50090 48 St Lloydminster AB T9V 0M7 Phone: (780) 875-4214

DIRECTORY Waskatenau Motors Waskatenau AB Phone: (780) 358-2772

Andre’s Water Delivery Ltd 9113 93 St Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-4027

Bry-Tan Trucking Ltd PO Box 655 Stn Main Lloydminster SK S9V 0Y7 Phone: (780) 875-9250

Dennis’s Oilfield Hauling Ltd PO Box 125 Redwater AB T0A 2W0 Phone: (780) 942-3880

AV Transportation Inc 5-380 MacKenzie Blvd Fort McMurray AB T9H 4C4 Phone: (780) 790-0630

Bush Baby Trucking Ltd PO Box 2454 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-5565

Desran Holdings Ltd PO Box 102 Perryvale AB T0G 1T0 Phone: (780) 698-2137

Axani Bros Trucking 1205 5 Ave Cold Lake AB T9M 1A8 Phone: (780) 812-5362

Calnash Trucking (South) Ltd 1 Parker Rd Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-4817

B & B Expediting & Hot Shot Service 144 McMillan Rd Fort McMurray AB T9H 5L4 Phone: (780) 743-6100

Cen-Alta Oilfield Trucking Ltd PO Box 359 Legal AB T0G 1L0 Phone: (780) 961-4148

Dessert Storm Vacuum Truck & Water Hauling 198 Weiss Dr Fort McMurray AB T9H 4K7 Phone: (780) 715-1885

XL Resources Ltd 5211 65 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2E8 Phone: (780) 875-6100

B & R Eckel’s Transport Ltd 5520 50 Ave Bonnyville AB T9N 2K8 Phone: (780) 826-3889 www.breckels.com

CF Energy Services 503 12 Ave Nisku AB T9E 8A8 Phone: (780) 451-4586 www.canadianfreightways.com

Zero Tolerance Valve Inc PO Box 2484 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-3454

Baron Transport 910 8 St NW SS 1 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A1 Phone: (780) 849-4360

Supply Stores

Barracuda Pilot Service PO Box 26 High Prairie AB T0G 1E0 Phone: (780) 523-7119

Chem-Tech Transportation Service (1994) 4807 37 St Lloydminster SK S9V 0A7 Phone: (780) 871-4040

Westlund 4103 84 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6B 2Z3 Phone: (780) 463-7473 www.westlund.ca Westlund Tren-Dy Oil & Industrial Supplies 5-6206 50 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2C9 Phone: (780) 875-5455 Wilter Auto & Industrial Supply 5609 55 St Cold Lake AB T9M 1R6 Phone: (780) 594-4666

All Terrain Road 11724 180 St NW Edmonton AB T5S 1N7 Phone: (780) 437-8107 www.allterrainroad.com Lafarge Canada Inc 1200-10655 Southport Rd SW Calgary AB T2W 4Y1 Phone: (403) 271-9110 www.lafargecorp.com Olympus NDT 48 Woerd Ave Waltham MA 02453 Phone: (781) 419-3518 Vermilion Ready-Mix Concrete 4807 47 Ave Vermilion AB T9X 1J4 Phone: (780) 853-4818

Barry’s Tank Truck Service PO Box 303 Glendon AB T0A 1P0 Phone: (780) 635-2674 Barry’s Transport Ltd PO Box 493 Boyle AB T0A 0M0 Phone: (780) 689-3994 Beniuk’s Water Hauling Ltd PO Box 1394 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-2236

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BlackWatch Energy Services Trust 5115 62 St Vegreville AB T9C 1N6 Phone: (780) 632-4266 www.blackwatchenergy.ca

Aero PO Box 5027 Stn Main Fort McMurray AB T9H 3G2 Phone: (780) 791-7278

Blair’s Oilfield Hauling 3409 47 Ave Lloydminster SK Phone: (306) 387-6865

Aim Transport PO Box 1440 Stn Main Lloydminster SK S9V 1K4 Phone: (306) 825-3616

BOS Oilfield Service Ltd PO Box 176 Glendon AB T0A 1P0 Phone: (780) 635-4459

Allan Trucking PO Box 1655 St Paul AB T0A 3A0 Phone: (780) 635-2191

Bourassa Truck Service & Backhoe Ltd PO Box 9 Breynat AB T0A 0P0 Phone: (780) 771-3923

Allnite Trucking Ltd PO Box 99 Boyle AB T0A 0M0 Phone: (780) 689-2121 www.allnitetrucking.com Allvac Oilfield Services Ltd PO Box 7993 Bonnyville AB T9N 2J3 Phone: (780) 826-5151

Chief Hauling Contractors Inc 140 MacLennan Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4E8 Phone: (780) 791-7808 www.chiefhauling.com Cold Lake Ford PO Box 1888 Stn Main Cold Lake AB T9M 1P4 Phone: (780) 594-3000 Continental Cartage Inc 200 Airport Rd Fort McMurray AB T9H 4P1 Phone: (780) 743-2255 Cooke’s Mechanical Services Ltd PO Box 1591 Lloydminster SK S9V 1K5 Phone: (306) 825-6502 D & E Water-Vac Ltd 4005 63A Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2X8 Phone: (780) 872-7733 D G R Tank Service PO Box 73 Calmar AB T0C 0V0 Phone: (780) 649-2230 D Janzen Picker & Tractors PO Box 916 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-4315 D W Hot Shot Service PO Box 885 Lloydminster SK S9V 1C3 Phone: (306) 821-2383

Brooks Trucking PO Box 6086 Stn Main Fort McMurray AB T9H 4W1 Phone: (780) 743-4855

D W Picker Services Ltd PO Box 266 Kitscoty AB T0B 2P0 Phone: (780) 871-8421

Brydon Trucking & Picker Service Ltd PO Box 658 Viking AB T0B 4N0 Phone: (780) 336-2034

Delorme Enterprises Ltd PO Box 1089 High Prairie AB T0G 1E0 Phone: (780) 523-3278

DFI 3403 74 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6B 3B8 Phone: (780) 466-5237 www.dfi.ca Diamond B Transport 502-5116 50 St Lloydminster AB T9V 0M3 Phone: (780) 875-3039 Diamond D Oilfield Hauling Ltd RR 1 Boyle AB T0A 0M0 Phone: (780) 525-3380 Dot-Lyn Sales & Service Ltd 5701 Mackenzie Rd Grimshaw AB T0H 1W0 Phone: (780) 332-4230 DRIVING FORCE 16310 100 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5P 4X5 Phone: (780) 930-7013 Duniece Bros Trucking Ltd PO Box 2280 Athabasca AB T9S 2B8 Phone: (780) 525-2262 Dymen Holdings Ltd PO Box 305 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-3541 E & N Trucking Ltd RR 1 Boyle AB T0A 0M0 Phone: (780) 525-2646 Eben Construction Ltd 22 Parkdale Way SS 3 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A3 Phone: (780) 849-5685 Edmonton Trailer Sales & Leasing Ltd 16830 111 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5M 2S6 Phone: (780) 413-6030 www.edmontontrailer.com EJR Trucking Inc PO Box 1920 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-3082 www.oildirectory.com/ejrtrucking/ ejrtrucking.htm Elkow Enterprises PO Box 244 Two Hills AB T0B 4K0 Phone: (780) 208-1792 Enzie Trucking Ltd 3706 53 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 1T5 Phone: (780) 875-5420

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DIRECTORY EPS Trucking 1910 15 Ave Wainwright AB T9W 1L2 Phone: (780) 842-4941

Gordy’s Oilfield Servicing Ltd PO Box 95 Marwayne AB T0B 2X0 Phone: (780) 875-9802

Eric Auger & Sons Contracting PO Box 360 Wabasca AB T0G 2K0 Phone: (780) 891-3751

Gray’s Water Hauling Ltd PO Box 127 Marsden SK S0M 1P0 Phone: (306) 826-5751

Fat Cat Trucking Ltd PO Box 406 Nampa AB T0H 2R0 Phone: (780) 322-2729

Green Valley Mechanical PO Box 6305 Peace River AB T8S 1S2 Phone: (780) 624-2448

Feather River Transport Ltd 1045 15 Ave Wainwright AB T9W 1J8 Phone: (780) 842-2645

Grimshaw Trucking LP 11510 151 St NW Edmonton AB T5M 3N6 Phone: (780) 414-2850 www.grimshaw-trucking.com

Formula Powell LP PO Box 1707 Lloydminster SK S9V 1M6 Phone: (780) 875-7960 Four Star Pressure Services Ltd PO Box 92 Kinsella AB T0B 2N0 Phone: (780) 336-1048 Frontier Peterbilt Sales Ltd 5201 40 Ave Lloydminster SK S9V 2B7 Phone: (306) 825-3553 Full Motion Expediting Ltd PO Box 6077 Fort McMurray AB T9H 4W1 Phone: (780) 713-5588 G Force Diesel Service Ltd PO Box 1040 Lloydminster SK S9V 1E9 Phone: (306) 825-2875 G Force Oilfield Services Inc 3902 41 Ave Bonnyville AB T9N 1V4 Phone: (780) 812-0930 Garry’s Trucking PO Box 63 Eaglesham AB T0H 1H0 Phone: (780) 837-5220 Gator Ventures Inc PO Box 131 Plamondon AB T0A 2T0 Phone: (780) 798-2332

H & E Oilfield Services Ltd 2201 1 Ave Wainwright AB T9W 1L7 Phone: (780) 842-6444 Hammer Equipment Sales Ltd 145 MacDonald Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4B3 Phone: (780) 743-1968 www.hammereq.com Heavy Crude Hauling LP 5202 65 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2T3 Phone: (780) 870-4002 www.heavycrudehauling.com Hidden Lake Oilfield Services Ltd PO Box 360 Ardmore AB T0A 0B0 Phone: (780) 826-4481 Hi-Mark Hotshot, Picker & Rental Services PO Box 846 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-0888 Hoffman’s Tank Truck Service Ltd PO Box 67 Elk Point AB T0A 1A0 Phone: (780) 724-4117 Horizon Water Hauling Inc PO Box 89 Minburn AB T0B 3B0 Phone: (780) 593-3925

Gear Centre The 215 MacDonald Cres Fort McMurray AB T4H 4B5 Phone: (780) 714-3570

Inter-Rail Transport Ltd 8621 18 St NW Edmonton AB T6P 1K4 Phone: (780) 464-7046 www.inter-railtransport.com

Gino’s Trucking Inc 9550 Yellowhead Tr Edmonton AB T5C 0W4 Phone: (780) 479-8115 www.ginotrucking.com

Intra Plains Transport Ltd 5905 47 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2G4 Phone: (780) 875-9205

Go With the Flow PO Box 81 Colinton AB T0G 0R0 Phone: (780) 675-3148 Golosky Trucking & Contracting Ltd 10217 King St Fort McMurray AB T9H 3J1 Phone: (780) 791-2258 www.abraxusgroup.net

Jules Bastien Trucking Ltd PO Box 259 Guy AB T0H 1Y0 Phone: (780) 925-2168 J-Vac Disposal Site 643 Comp 10 RR 2 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C2 Phone: (780) 623-7524 Kamieniecki Gary Contracting Ltd PO Box 338 Manning AB T0H 2M0 Phone: (780) 836-3630

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Kannorth Transportation & Construction (1988) Ltd PO Box 6625 Peace River AB T8S 1S4 Phone: (780) 624-1280

Matco Transportation Systems 18151 107 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5S 1K4 Phone: (780) 484-8800 www.matco.ca

Lac La Biche Transport Ltd PO Box 36 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-4711 www.laclabichetransport.com

MBT Enterprises PO Box 6214 Peace River AB T8S 1S2 Phone: (780) 618-9730

Leading Edge Hot Shot & Picker Service PO Box 809 Manning AB T0H 2M0 Phone: (780) 836-2445 Lebid Ron Trucking PO Box 756 Athabasca AB T9S 2A6 Phone: (780) 675-4754 Ledcor Industries Inc 9910 39 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 5H8 Phone: (780) 462-4211 www.ledcor.com Lloydminster Heavy Crude Services Ltd 5201 65 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2E8 Phone: (780) 875-7092 Lorette Truck Service Ltd PO Box 766 Grimshaw AB T0H 1W0 Phone: (780) 332-4039 Mach 1 Diesel Repair Ltd 5107 65 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2E8 Phone: (780) 875-3306 Mad Dog Oilfield Services Inc 401 16 St Wainwright AB T9W 1J3 Phone: (780) 842-3517 Manitoulin Transport 400 MacAlpine Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4B1 Phone: (780) 791-1478 www.manitoulin.ca Manitoulin Transport 3505 53 St Athabasca AB T9S 1A9 Phone: (780) 675-2349 www.manitoulintransport.com Manning Mobile Mechanics PO Box 56 Canyon Creek AB T0G 0M0 Phone: (780) 369-2174 Marcels Oilfield Hauling Ltd PO Box 454 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-3848 Martix’s Pilot Truck Services Ltd PO Box 30 Anzac AB T0P 1J0 Phone: (780) 598-3411 Marvin Sheehan Services PO Box 214 Grimshaw AB T0H 1W0 Phone: (780) 332-4777

McBride Trucking PO Box 239 Edgerton AB T0B 1K0 Phone: (780) 755-3790 McCoy’s Trucking Ltd PO Box 5821 Westlock AB T7P 2P6 Phone: (780) 348-5451 McMurray Serv-U Expediting Ltd 2-350 MacAlpine Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4A8 Phone: (780) 791-3530 Metro Gordey Trucking Ltd 7110 Bulyea Ave Fort McMurray AB T9H 1B1 Phone: (780) 743-4487 Michael S Witryk Oilfield Transport Ltd PO Box 575 Clandonald AB T0B 0X0 Phone: (780) 724-3195 Millartime Transport PO Box 2332 Stn Main Lloydminster SK S9V 1S6 Phone: (306) 825-3899 Monahan Light Oilfield Hauling & Hotshot Service PO Box 1869 High Prairie AB T0G 1E0 Phone: (780) 523-2422 Morley Muldoon Transport Ltd 2009B 1 St Wainwright AB T9W 1L5 Phone: (780) 842-2222 www.nbf-biz.com/muldoontransport Mud ’n Dust Trucking PO Box 654 Wabasca AB T0G 2K0 Phone: (780) 891-0303 Night Hawk Trucking 5905 47 ST Lloydminster AB T9V 2G4 Phone: (780) 875-4955 Nitro Heavy Hauling Ltd PO Box 11632 Stn Main Lloydminster AB T9V 3B8 Phone: (780) 875-6832 Northern Plains Moving & Transport Ltd 140 Mackay Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4W8 Phone: (780) 790-1336 Northwest Transport Ltd 400 MacAlpine Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 4B1 Phone: (780) 791-1478 Nor-Trail Oilfield Ltd PO Box 147 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-5230

DIRECTORY Orion’s Way Hot Shot Service PO Box 536 Manning AB T0H 2M0 Phone: (780) 836-5545

PO Box 727 Manning AB T0H 2M0 Phone: (780) 836-3150

Shumansky Vacuum Tank Services PO Box 218 Lamont AB T0B 2R0 Phone: (780) 895-7548

Triple K Oilfield Services Red Earth Creek AB Phone: (780) 921-2221

Over-D Trucking PO Box 1024 Falher AB T0H 1M0 Phone: (780) 925-8254

Red Planet Trucking Ltd PO Box 258 Red Earth Creek AB T0G 1X0 Phone: (780) 649-3401 www.redplanettrucking.com

Peace River Towing & Glass 4-9710 94 St Peace River AB T8S 1J2 Phone: (780) 624-7777

Reimer Express Lines Ltd 10120 52 St SE Calgary AB T2C 4M2 Phone: (403) 279-6866

Smithson’s Oilfield Vacuum Service PO Box 346 Irma AB T0B 2H0 Phone: (780) 842-8860

Peace Truck & Trailer Ltd 9003 75 St Peace River AB T8S 1T2 Phone: (780) 624-8655

Renigade Trucking PO Box 7220 Bonnyville AB T9N 2H6 Phone: (780) 826-2811

Smoky Lake Tank Service PO Box 372 Smoky Lake AB T0A 3C0 Phone: (780) 656-4055

Ulmer Chev Olds 2101 50 Ave Lloydminster SK S9V 1Z7 Phone: (306) 825-8866 www.ulmerchev.com

Pebbles Trucking Ltd RR 5 Stn Main Lloydminster AB T9V 3A1 Phone: (780) 875-8460

Rick’s Oilfield Hauling 4808 44 St Redwater AB T0A 2W0 Phone: (780) 942-2025

Southview Trucking Ltd 4801 40 St Vermilion AB T9X 1H6 Phone: (780) 853-2734

Unrau’s Trucking Ltd 5905 47th St Lloydminster AB T9V 2G4 Phone: (780) 875-5622

Performance Truck Service 5201 62 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2E3 Phone: (780) 875-9218

Ridgid Oilfield Services Ltd PO Box 135 Lloydminster SK S9V 0Y1 Phone: (780) 875-7939

Stan’s Trucking PO Box 1550 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Phone: (780) 849-5307

Wakaluk Trucking & Gravel Sales PO Box 795 Falher AB T0H 1M0 Phone: (780) 359-2330

Pesklevis Ted Water Hauling PO Box 244 Waskatenau AB T0A 3P0 Phone: (780) 358-2590

Ridley & Son’s Hauling Ltd 4816 7 Ave N Chauvin AB T0B 0V0 Phone: (780) 858-2584

Stanchuck Trucking (1997) Ltd 6007 52 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2S7 Phone: (780) 875-7665

Wally’s Pilot Service 33-5201 42 St Lloydminster AB T9V 1M8 Phone: (780) 808-6295

Pioneer Truck Lines Ltd PO Box 72032 RPO Ottewell Edmonton AB T6B 3A7 Phone: (780) 467-8880 www.pioneertrucklines.com

RJ Hoffman Holdings Ltd PO Box 12069 Lloydminster AB T9V 3C3 Phone: (780) 871-0723 www.rjhoffman.com

Stanley Smith Trucking Ltd 4105 40 St Bonnyville AB T9N 1T5 Phone: (780) 826-9036

Wellsite Industrial (1985) Ltd PO Box 855 Viking AB T0B 4N0 Phone: (780) 336-3459

Potts Trucking Ltd PO Box 33 Canyon Creek AB T0G 0M0 Phone: (780) 369-3775

Roadrunner Water Hauling Ltd PO Box 356 Innisfree AB T0B 2G0 Phone: (780) 592-2271

Steel View Oil Pressure Services Ltd PO Box 265 Chauvin AB T0B 0V0 Phone: (780) 858-2213

Whillans Mechanical Manning AB Phone: (780) 836-2753

QIS Trucking Ltd PO Box 6479 Peace River AB T8S 1S3 Phone: (780) 624-3778

Ro-Bar Trucking Ltd PO Box 39 Widewater AB T0G 2M0 Phone: (780) 369-2191

Stephane’s Mobile Repair Ltd PO Box 1889 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-7100 www.stephanesmobilerepair.com

Q-Line Trucking Ltd. PO Box 110B RR 4 Corman Industrial Park Saskatoon SK S7K 3J7 Phone: (306) 651-3540 www.qlinetrucking.com

Rosenau Transport Ltd 5805 98 St NW Edmonton AB T6E 3L4 Phone: (780) 431-2877 www.rosenau.org

Sundown Oil & Water Hauling Ltd PO Box 3229 Wainwright AB T9W 1T2 Phone: (780) 842-5209

Q-Tek Tankers Ltd PO Box 306 Viking AB T0B 4N0 Phone: (780) 336-2696 Quantum Winch PO Box 6977 Bonnyville AB T9N 2H4 Phone: (780) 826-3272 R & D Enterprises PO Box 6091 Stn Main Fort McMurray AB T9H 4W1 Phone: (780) 743-2042 R M J B Trucking Ltd 2909 55 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 1N6 Phone: (780) 875-6875 Rainbow Transport (1974) Ltd 17508 116 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5S 2T9 Phone: (780) 452-5275 www.rainbowtransport.com Rand’s Oilfield Services

Roth Dennis Trucking Ltd 413 Main St S SS 3 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A3 Phone: (780) 849-4468 Sam’s General Trucking Ltd 2009 1 St Wainwright AB T9W 1L5 Phone: (780) 842-3216 Sandpiper Truck Services Ltd PO Box 453 Lloydminster SK S9V 0Y6 Phone: (780) 875-2850 Schafer Mechanical Services 600 Caribou Tr SW Slave Lake AB Phone: (780) 849-2449 Shamrock Heavy Hauling PO Box 687 Wabasca AB T0G2K0 Phone: (780) 891-0456

SLH Picker Service & Pile Driving 921 8 St NW SS 1 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A1 Phone: (780) 849-5275

SVS Inc PO Box 2342 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-3102

Triple Random Inc 4-360 MacKenzie Blvd Fort McMurray AB T9H 4C4 Phone: (780) 715-4011 Twin M Trucking Ltd PO Box 868 Redwater AB T0A 2W0 Phone: (780) 942-2960

White Thunder Trucking Ltd PO Box 86 Perryvale AB T0G 1T0 Phone: (780) 698-2461 www.dscrossings.com Wildcat Vacuum Services Ltd PO Box 1827 Stn Main Lloydminster SK S9V 1N4 Phone: (780) 875-0464 WJT Wes Johnson Trucking Ltd PO Box 1019 Manning AB T0H 2M0 Phone: (780) 836-2405

Sydia Bros Ent Ltd 5202 59 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2V4 Phone: (780) 875-5377

W-K Trucking Inc PO Box 117 Mundare AB T0B 3H0 Phone: (780) 632-5555 www.wktrucking.com

T A K Transfer Ltd PO Box 105 Eaglesham AB T0H 1H0 Phone: (780) 814-1356

Wounded’s Picker Service Inc PO Box 2113 Lloydminster SK S9V 1R6 Phone: (780) 871-4697

Tee-Jay Water Hauling Ltd PO Box 7398 Bonnyville AB T9N 2H7 Phone: (780) 826-7571

Zacharko Trucking PO Box 294 Bruderheim AB T0B 0S0 Phone: (780) 796-2341

Transco PO Box 2370 Lloydminster SK S9V 1W5 Phone: (780) 875-7722

TruckingSpecialized Transportation

Transpex Trucking Ltd 4609 32 St Lloydminster SK S9V 1N6 Phone: (306) 825-4740

ATCO Group 500-909 11 Ave SW Calgary AB T2R 1N6 Phone: (403) 292-7550 www.atco.com

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DIRECTORY Cascade Services Partnership 308-14925 111 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5M 2P6 Phone: (780) 482-2946 www.essentialenergy.ca Ceda-Reactor Ltd 500-11012 Macleod Tr SE Calgary AB T2J 6A5 Phone: (403) 253-3233 www.cedagroup.com Central Industries 1910 15 Ave Wainwright AB T9W 1L2 Phone: (780) 842-6188 Chinchaga Oilfield Services Ltd PO Box 546 Manning AB T0H 2M0 Phone: (780) 836-2646 Environmental Refuelling Systems Inc. 206-17704 103 Ave Edmonton AB T5S 1J9 Phone: (780) 444-4104 www.envirofuel.ca

Ron’s Vacuum Service Ltd PO Box 2930 Wainwright AB T9W 1S8 Phone: (780) 842-2390

D & D Insulating 217 Greenbrier Bay Fort McMurray AB T9H 3Y5 Phone: (780) 791-2613

Shale Industrial Ltd 260B MacKay Cres Fort McMurray AB T9H 5C6 Phone: (780) 791-4619

Datalog Technology Inc 5020 12A St SE Calgary AB T2G 5K9 Phone: (403) 243-2220 www.wellwizard.com

Silverman Oilfield Services Ltd PO Box 145 Neilburg SK S0M 2C0 Phone: (306) 823-4722 Singer Specialized Box 26 Site 12 RR 5 Calgary AB T2P 2G6 Phone: (403) 569-8605 www.singerspecialized.com Transco Energy Services Ltd 10612 24 St SE Calgary AB T2C 4Z7 Phone: (403) 777-1644 www.flintenergy.com

Enerpro Insulation Ltd 4917 51 St Athabasca AB T9S 1E7 Phone: (780) 675-2166 www.enerproinsulation.com EPS Flushby Systems PO Box 3283 Wainwright AB T9W 1T2 Phone: (780) 806-0000 Fuller Austin Insulation Inc 11540 184 St NW Edmonton AB T5S 2W7 Phone: (780) 452-1701 www.fulleraustininsulation.ca

R R C Insulation Services Ltd Gibbons AB T0A 1N0 Phone: (780) 921-4060 Raider Well Servicing Ltd 6306 53 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2E2 Phone: (780) 875-7373 REPPSCO Services Ltd 2130 121 Ave NE Edmonton AB T6S 1B1 Phone: (780) 472-6772 www.reppscoservices.com Royal Well Servicing Ltd 5214 62 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2E4 Phone: (780) 808-2333 Silverline Insulation 2005 Ltd PO Box 6789 Bonnyville AB T9N 2H2 Phone: (780) 826-1899 Spears Well Servicing Ltd 5211 65 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2E8 Phone: (780) 875-6100

J & D Delorme Contracting PO Box 2371 High Prairie AB T0G 1E0 Phone: (780) 523-5207

Trevor King Oilfield Services PO Box 3353 Wainwright AB T9W 1T3 Phone: (780) 842-5120 www.tkoil.com

Kem Enterprises Ltd 200 Airport Rd Fort McMurray AB T9H 4P1 Phone: (780) 790-0279

Ultra-Vac Ltd RR 1 Edgerton AB T0B 1K0 Phone: (780) 755-2372

Metal Masters Insulation Ltd PO Box 1137 Manning AB T0H 2M0 Phone: (780) 836-2979

Mammoet Canada Western Ltd 1104 70 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6P 1P5 Phone: (780) 449-0552 www.mammoet.com

Wilben Services Inc PO Box 7763 Drayton Valley AB T7A 1S8 Phone: (780) 349-9718

O K Industries PO Box 1977 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-2675

Xtreme Oilfield Technology PO Box 8171 Bonnyville AB T9N 2J5 Phone: (780) 826-3594

Park Derochie Coatings Ltd 11850 28 St NE Edmonton AB T6S 1G6 Phone: (780) 478-4688 www.ParkDerochie.com

Thermal Insulation Association of Alberta 10215 176 St NW Edmonton AB T5S 1M1 Phone: (780) 457-9890 www.tiaa.cc

Pimee Well Servicing Ltd PO Box 39 Kehewin AB T0A 1C0 Phone: (780) 826-6392

Twilight Urethanes Ltd PO Box 1862 Stn Main Lloydminster SK S9V 1N4 Phone: (306) 825-4132

Polycore Tubular Linings Corp 510-906 8 Ave SW Calgary AB T2P 1H9 Phone: (403) 444-5554 www.polycore.ca

Viking Flowback & Rental Tanks PO Box 852 Viking AB T0B 4N0 Phone: (780) 336-6655

Mike’s Bulk Services PO Box 930 Falher AB T0H 1M0 Phone: (780) 837-8884 Mullen Trucking Inc PO Box 87 Aldersyde AB T0L 0A0 Phone: (403) 652-8888 www.mullentrucking.com Premay Equipment Ltd 11310 215 St NW Edmonton AB T5S 2B5 Phone: (780) 447-5555 www.premay.com Rang Hydraulics Ltd 5104 62 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2E4 Phone: (780) 875-7657 www.ranghydraulics.ca

Well Service Alberta Insulation Supply & Services Ltd PO Box 900 Peace River AB T8S 1T4 Phone: (780) 624-2996 Billey Insulation Ltd PO Box 173 Smoky Lake AB T0A 3C0 Phone: (780) 656-2126

Garrison Oilwell Servicing Ltd PO Box 1368 Lloydminster SK S9V 1K4 Phone: (306) 825-7914

Cadieux Oilfield Services PO Box 599 Lac La Biche AB T0A 2C0 Phone: (780) 623-3443

Precision Well Servicing 6002 53 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 2T2 Phone: (780) 875-5333 www.precisiondrilling.com

Career Well Servicing Ltd 3117 51 Ave Lloydminster AB T9V 1H9 Phone: (780) 875-3088

Pro Insul Limited 14212 128 Ave NW Edmonton AB T5L 3H5 Phone: (780) 452-4724 www.proinsul.com

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Steeplejack Industrial Insulation Services Ltd 8925 62 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6E 5L2 Phone: (780) 465-9016 www.steeplejack.ca Tarsands 5109 47 St Elk Point AB T0A 1A0 Phone: (780) 724-3131

Wizard Well Servicing Ltd 5211 65 St Lloydminster AB T9V 2E8 Phone: (780) 875-6035 Wrapex Industrial Services Ltd PO Box 327 Irma AB T0B 2H0 Phone: (780) 754-2410

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