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CONTENTS Introduction 6 | The Canadian Society for Unconventional Resources Kevin Heffernan, President

7 | The Government of Alberta Thomas Lukaszuk, Minister of Enterprise and Advanced Education

Projections 8 | Liqueﬁed uncertainty As reserve estimates grow, the future of LNG is still fairly uncertain—or is it? By Jim Bentein

11 | Fuelling change Canada’s surplus of natural gas is prompting change in the transportation industry By Jim Bentein

14 | Energy transformation Regulation changes mean Alberta producers have a uniﬁed regulatory body and access to more and better data By Melanie Collison

17 | The Plays 18 | Ugly, deep and proliﬁc Alberta’s Duvernay is becoming one of North America’s top plays By R.P. Stastny

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The Technology 36 | Starting from the bottom Hydraulic fracturing today is a far cry from where the technology started out—thankfully! By Peter McKenzie-Brown

39 | Shaking it up Microseismic surveying is making it easier for producers to see the subsurface results of fracking operations By Gordon Cope

42 | The A-team China’s shale gas development could receive a boost from Canada’s unconventional resource experts By Peter McKenzie-Brown

46 | Fracking ﬂood Buffeted by controversy, producers are trying to calm the waters with new fracking technologies that reduce environmental impact By Gordon Cope

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Success Stories 50 | Shale force Production efﬁciencies make record fracs—along with improved production—in the Horn River Basin possible By Leisa Vescarelli

53 | More wells, more efﬁciency Multi-well pads bring efﬁciencies to unconventional resource development By Daniela Trnka

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54 | Too much of a good thing

Director of The Daily Oil Bulletin Stephen Marsters | smarsters@junewarren-nickles.com

Could the availability of freshwater sources be slowing water treatment technology development in Canada?

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By Daniela Trnka

55 | Vertically inclined Multilateral wells could become the way of the future for draining tight formations By Daniela Trnka

56 | Opening the ﬂoodgates Enhanced oil recovery means longer well life for producers in the Bakken By Daniela Trnka

57 | Directory

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INTRODUCTION

On behalf of the Canadian Society for Unconventional Resources (CSUR), thank you for choosing the Unconventional Resource Guidebook as your reference for the unconventional resources industry.

KEVIN HEFFERNAN

Last year’s first edition of the guidebook came to fruition as a result of a joint project undertaken by CSUR, JuneWarren-Nickle’s Energy Group and the Government of Alberta. All of the partners saw a growing need to provide a one-stop source for information and contacts related to the rapidly growing unconventional sector. That need has continued to grow into 2013—we at CSUR have been happy to receive numerous requests for copies, as well as positive feedback on the guidebook’s usability.

Resource Guidebook is a tangible extension of CSUR’s goals and activities. CSUR is active across Canada with our efforts to facilitate communications between the unconventional oil and gas industry, provincial, federal and municipal governments, the public, First Nations and the media. Entering our second decade of service, CSUR believes that participation in this guidebook is appropriate relative to our growth as an organization and the industry’s growing scope and relevance. As president of CSUR, I look forward to and welcome your feedback on this publication.

As JuneWarren-Nickle’s Energy Group is Canada’s oldest and most recognized energy publishing house, CSUR is proud to continue our partnership with them on this product! Providing a balance between the technical and the practical, the Unconventional

Kevin Heffernan President, CSUR kheffernan@csur.com

The Canadian Society for Unconventional Resources The Canadian Society for Unconventional Resources (CSUR) is a membership-based, non-profit society formed to support the responsible exploration and development of unconventional resources in Canada. The organization has been extremely active in encouraging the development of our country’s unconventional hydrocarbon resources, focusing on natural gas from coal, tight gas sands and carbonates, shale gas, gas hydrates, and, more recently, light tight oil. Since its inception in 2002, CSUR has had a significant impact on the evolution of the unconventional industry in Canada. With a strong focus on technology transfer between industry, government, stakeholders and First Nations, CSUR’s major role is to provide this information to enable resource development in an environmentally, socially and economically sensitive manner. Since the society’s creation, the concept of providing value for and responsibility to its members has been an integral part of CSUR’s operations. CSUR has been able to grow as an industry association while at the same time providing exceptional return-on-investment to their membership through: • Publications, videos and other resource materials; • Technical events; and • Its role as an industry proponent with governments and various stakeholder groups. In addition, to help increase awareness about unconventional resources, CSUR offers presentations at open houses, luncheons, forums, workshops, field trips and conferences, all of which are often technical in nature. The society also develops materials for a wider audience, with an emphasis on the importance of the unconventional resource industry, its history, operations and best practices. CSUR has worked very hard to become established as the go-to organization focused on unconventional resources.

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TH O M AS LU KASZ U K

For generations, Alberta has been a global leader in finding new and alternative sources of energy, from the development of the oilsands to exploring natural gas development through coalbed methane and shale gas. Our province has long been the engine of the Canadian economy due to our ability and dedication to building on our natural and unconventional resources. Today, we are working to leverage our expertise by seeking new products, services and technologies, and to expand our knowledge and use of unconventional resources with a keen eye on environmental sustainability.

INTRODUCTION

As deputy premier and minister of Alberta Enterprise and Advanced Education, I have the pleasure of leading the Alberta government’s focus on postsecondary learning, entrepreneurship and innovative thinking.

Alberta’s vision for the future includes an enhanced, more diverse economy and a spirit of collaboration in our education, innovation and economic development communities. Our unconventional resources play a key role in realizing that prosperous future. The individuals, vendors and initiatives in this second edition of the Unconventional Resource Guidebook are at the forefront of these opportunities, and I invite you to read about the many exciting initiatives happening in our province.

Thomas Lukaszuk Deputy Premier Minister of Enterprise and Advanced Education Ministerial Liaison to the Canadian Forces MLA, Edmonton-Castle Downs

Alberta Enterprise and Advanced Education Education and entrepreneurship are cornerstones of the dynamic economy that Albertans continue to build through their knowledge, adaptability and entrepreneurial spirit. Alberta Enterprise and Advanced Education aligns economic development activities in the province with postsecondary education, entrepreneurship, industry training, workforce development, immigration, and research and innovation. Alberta is a leader in Canada with the implementation of this unique, inclusive structure, which builds on existing links between government functions to create a stronger, more robust economy. Alberta Enterprise and Advanced Education is cultivating a knowledge-inspired, competitive and more diverse economy by aligning initiatives that strengthen the province’s skilled workforce, increase business start-ups, support the commercialization of technology, and focus on solving the world’s greatest challenges through a world-class research and innovation system. As a result, the ministry advances Albertans’ goals to engage with the world around them and, through investment and innovation at home, play a leading role in making our province, our country and our world a better place.

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LIQUEFIED uncertainty As reserve estimates grow, the future of LNG is still fairly uncertain—or is it? By Jim Bentein

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could generate up to $260 billion in tax revenues over 30 years. This was not discussed during the election campaign though, and now appears to be off the table.

Growi ng production, si n ki ng deman d? For Canada’s beleaguered natural gas producers, faced with a shrinking U.S. export market as that country’s shale gas development ramps up, LNG exports are seen as an economic lifeline. Canada has produced 17 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas in the last decade, but with exports to the United States plummeting from 10 billion cubic feet per day to about five, production is down to 13 billion cubic feet per day. Bill Gwozd, senior vice-president, gas services, with Calgary-based Ziff Energy Group, puts the decline of the sector into perspective: “Between 2001 and 2012, drilling for gas dropped by 60 per cent in Canada, which reflects the fact that a producer is better not drilling for it,” he says. There were 1,800 gas wells drilled last year in western Canada and 4,450 the year before—half of the number drilled seven or eight years ago. The decline in natural gas drilling and production in Alberta has led to a dramatic decline in government royalties. Once the king of the province’s nonrenewable resource revenue, with gas royalties at $8.39 billion in 2005-06, the government is expecting only $554 million in gas royalties this year. The decline in natural gas prices—forecasters expect prices to be in the $2–$4-per-million-cubic-feet range this year—is

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ritish Columbia’s oil and gas service sector sighed in collective relief after the re-election of the business-friendly Liberal government of Premier Christy Clark. Following the sigh, Art Jarvis, executive director of a Fort St. John–based organization representing the sector, Energy Services BC, said more gas development and future construction of liquified natural gas (LNG) export projects are now likely. “It’s very good news.... The whole area [northeastern British Columbia] has a different attitude,” he commented. Jarvis says his phone has been jammed with calls from service sector members, oil and gas producers and other business interests who see the re-election as a green light for more natural gas development and LNG projects. “The sweat is off the brow in Calgary,” he jokes, referring to oil and gas companies headquartered in that city. NDP leader Adrian Dix had mused about extending the province’s existing carbon tax to natural gas flaring and venting and also conducting a review of hydraulic fracturing, a technology that has led to the province becoming a centre of natural gas development and to related proposals for as many as 11 LNG export facilities. Jarvis says those plans would have stopped natural gas development and the LNG proposals in their tracks. Earlier this year, the Liberals spoke of imposing a future tax on LNG projects after a study commissioned by the government suggested a tax on five of the proposed LNG projects

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also hammering British Columbia’s royalty picture, with gas royalties having dropped from close to $2 billion in 2005-06 to a B.C. government forecast of $282 million this year. The bounty of new shale gas finds has prompted some observers to refer to North America as the “Saudi Arabia of natural gas.”The Canadian Society for Unconventional Resources (CSUR), in a 2010 study completed with consultants Petrel Robertson Consulting Ltd., concluded that those huge finds mean the United States and Canada have hundreds of years of reserves left. Petrel Robertson estimated Canada has as much as 1.3 trillion cubic feet of marketable gas in place, almost triple the amount estimated in 2006 by the Canadian Gas Potential Committee.To put that in perspective, Canada produces about six trillion cubic feet of gas every year right now, meaning the reserves in place could potentially last for well over 100 years. Even larger shale gas finds in the United States mean it now has an estimated 1.9 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas, with more being discovered weekly, it seems. Total gas demand in North America is about 75 billion cubic feet daily. Ziff and other forecasters do believe there is a light at the end of the production tunnel, though, as demand for gas within North America grows in the areas of power generation, industrial projects and transportation. The Energy Resources Conservation Board (now the Alberta Energy Regulator) produced a report in mid-May 2013 in which it forecast demand within Alberta will reach six billion cubic feet per day, about 35 per cent more than current demand. The report also predicted production will

be at 7.7 billion cubic feet per day (down about one billion cubic feet per day from current production). But that production forecast doesn’t include new shale gas finds in Alberta, which could be significant.

New markets will bring solution Help is on the way for British Columbia and Alberta gas producers, according to Gwozd, with much of that being in the form of LNG exports. “British Columbia produces three billion cubic feet daily now and we see that doubling—and possibly tripling—in the next eight years or so,” Gwozd recently said, adding that the province would then be the largest gas producer in Canada. Gwozd believes LNG export from plants on the B.C. coast could reach 10 billion cubic feet per day by the next decade, with the possibility it could reach 15 billion cubic feet daily. That’s more than total western Canadian production now. Ziff released that export forecast in February 2012 during a B.C. government–sponsored LNG conference in Vancouver. If anything, Ziff and Gwozd are even more bullish now. “LNG makes sense,” says Gwozd. “We should expedite [the projects] and move ahead with them for the benefit of British Columbians, Albertans and all Canadians.” He says the combination of huge new shale gas finds and prospects for gas prices to remain below $5 per million cubic feet well through this decade (less than half of prices five or six years ago) and growing demand and much higher prices in Asia, where all Canadian exports would go, make for a compelling economic argument.

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Natural gas reserves by country

Country

Estimated recoverable resources (trillion cubic feet)

Proven natural gas reserves (trillion cubic feet)

China

1,115

124

Argentina

802

Algeria

707

159

United States

665

318

Canada

573

Mexico

545

Australia

437

South Africa

390

Russia

285

Brazil

245

SOURCE: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Ziff predicts current Asian demand of 23 billion cubic feet per day will almost double by 2020, with the strongest growth coming from China, India and Pakistan. The question then becomes who is better positioned to satisfy that demand: North America or other suppliers? That’s where there is some debate. U.S.-based observers point to Australia, where at least seven projects are being planned (some are already under construction), and to other suppliers outside of North America with 30 proposed projects (several are planned for Papua New Guinea), which could collectively export 35 billion cubic feet per day. Those exports will limit LNG sales from Canada and the United States. “The advantage goes to the Australians,” says Paul Carpenter, a principal with Cambridge, Mass.–based The Brattle Group, a U.S.-based economic consulting group. “Between now and 2017, Australia will bring on projects exporting nine billion cubic feet per day, which gives them a huge advantage in a competitive market.” Carpenter says American and Canadian proponents will be running to catch up; however, he also points out that the Australian projects are experiencing huge cost overrun, with one larger LNG export project having ballooned to a cost estimate of over $40 billion—four times what is estimated for most Canadian and U.S. projects. And, as is the case with Ziff, he says the advantage lies with the Canadian proponents, which include some of the world’s best-financed energy firms, including Chevron Corporation, Royal Dutch Shell plc and large Asian players. Carpenter says the Canadian projects—the majority planned for the B.C. coast—have geography on their side because the West Coast is closer to large Asian markets than the U.S. Gulf Coast, where most projects in that country are planned for.

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In addition, Carpenter says Canadian developers have “supportive” governments in Ottawa and British Columbia.

Obstacles abound for United States In the United States, the Department of Energy (DOE) had placed a moratorium on approval of new plants, beyond a 2.1-thousand-cubic-feet-per-day plant being developed by Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P. for Cameron Parish, La. However, that moratorium was lifted in May 2013, with the approval by the DOE of a new LNG export terminal planned for Freeport, Texas, and the signal that others will be approved. Gordon Pickering, director in energy practice with Sacramento, Calif.–based Navigant Consulting, Inc., believes LNG exports from the United States will reach a little more than six billion cubic feet per day, with Canadian exports reaching at least that volume and five or six projects going ahead. Navigant believes Canadian projects have a price advantage and can be profitable at $8–$11 per thousand cubic feet, while most U.S. plants will need $11–$13 per thousand cubic feet. But Gwozd is much more bullish on Canadian LNG prospects, as Ziff sees Canadian LNG grabbing a growing share of the global LNG market, predicting it will increase from about 33 billion cubic feet per day now to 65 billion cubic feet per day by 2020. Gwozd argues that Canada’s huge gas production capacity gives it the ability to maintain high levels of LNG exports for decades, something that is not true of exporters like Indonesia and Qatar. “Some of those countries planning to export don’t have the capacity to maintain exports,” he says. Ziff doesn’t foresee U.S. exports reaching beyond five billion or six billion cubic feet per day, less than half of what it expects for Canadian LNG projects in the future. Gwozd says the U.S. Gulf Coast terminals face a host of disadvantages. For one, the vessels carrying the LNG will need to pass through an expanded Panama Canal and the Panamanians, who control the canal, have suggested that charges for using the canal will be high. For another, he points to the weather on the Gulf Coast. “The Gulf Coast gets an average of seven hurricanes a year,” says Gwozd. “That can lead to major supply disruptions.” U.S. President Barack Obama recently came out in favour of LNG exports, however, Pickering doesn’t see this helping out; the United States doesn’t have a history of being an energy exporter, with concerns about energy self-sufficiency often winning the day. Canada, on the other hand, has long been an energy exporter (mostly to the United States). Pickering agrees that Canada’s history of being an energy trader will help it win a majority of the North American LNG market: “Canada has the advantage of being an exporting nation.” Pickering points out that U.S. legislation limits energy exports to so-called free-trade countries, which only includes South Korea and Canada, and precludes China and Japan— two of the largest LNG markets.

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Fuelling

change Canada’s surplus of natural gas is prompting change in the transportation industry By Jim Bentein

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rad Douville is optimistic about the future of natural gas as a transportation fuel—but then, one would expect that from a senior executive with the Vancouver-based global leader in developing engines that run on compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG). “Ultimately, I believe 100 per cent of the world’s transportation system can run on natural gas,” says Douville, vice-president of corporate product management and planning for Westport Innovations Inc., which he co-founded with partners in 1996. The Edmonton native argues that there are numerous precedents for the shift from one fuel source to another in the world’s transportation fleet, ranging from the move away from coal-fired steam to diesel in railway locomotives

in the 1940s and ’50s, to the wholesale adoption of diesel instead of gasoline by heavy trucking fleets worldwide in the ’50s and ’60s. “If you were in the trucking business then and you were not running on diesel you were out of business,” he says. “And the same thing was true of the 100 per cent conversion to diesel by the railway industry in the 1940s. We see parallels with the way natural gas will be adopted.” Economics wins out over all impediments in the end, he argues, pointing to S-curve analysis—the graphical representation of growth over time in the form of an S—starting flat, becoming steep and then flattening at the peak of the S. He and his partners believed initially that natural gas, biofuels and landfill gas would grow in use as transportation

fuels over a longer period, chiefly because of the initial environmental advantage of burning fuels that produce about half the emissions of the diesel, gasoline and bunker fuel that is now used by road vehicles, ships, trains and other methods of transport that make modern life possible. And then hydraulic fracturing grew in sophistication and use, unleashing huge volumes of natural gas and leading to prices not seen for decades, and creating expectations that the trillions of cubic feet of reserves in North America would lead to plentiful, low-cost gas supplies for what could be hundreds of years. This has led to a paradigm shift in the way natural gas is viewed, according to Timothy Egan, president and chief executive officer of the Ottawa-based Canadian Gas Association (CGA),

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which represents gas distribution and transmission companies. “A few years ago, any conversation about nat ural gas would revolve around North America running out of it and about continued high prices,” he says. “But the world has changed.”

“But gas remains a very small part of the transportation market and we see a tremendous potential for that,” Egan points out. In addition to marine, heavy-duty transport and buses, natural gas use will also increase in the energy sector, where

That’s already starting to happen, with gas use rising across the continent, according to David Hill, vice-president, natural gas economy operations with Encana Corporation. Hill says the company sees demand rising, from the current 75 billion cubic feet per day to 83

Creati ng deman d Environmentalists have long talked about natural gas being a “bridge fuel,” as North America moved mostly away from a reliance on fossil fuels and more toward renewables like wind, solar and hydro, but Egan says the trillions of cubic feet now being unlocked make it necessary to change that thinking. “It’s not a bridge fuel, it’s a foundation fuel,” he says. “We will stop using natural gas long before we run out of it.” The CGA, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Canadian Energy Pipeline Association, Canadian Natural Gas Vehicle Alliance (CNGVA) and Canadian Society for Unconventional Resources (CSUR) have joined forces to promote the use of natural gas in Canada through a group called the Canadian Natural Gas Initiative. Earlier this year, they produced a report that predicted natural gas could displace coal as the world’s second most important primary energy source (after oil), as it becomes more widely used to generate power and is adopted as a transportation fuel, especially in marine transport and heavyduty road transport. The 52-page report was the outgrowth of eight “dialogues” in some of Canada’s major cities and highlighted return-to-base fleets, such as buses and heavy-duty trucks, as an area where natural gas is likely to find the most rapid adoption. Natural gas is currently most widely used in Canada for space and water heating, with about six million homes in the country utilizing it for that purpose. Egan says that use will grow in the Atlantic provinces and northern Canada in the future. In addition, about nine per cent of Canada’s electricity is generated by gas—a number that is also growing, in part due to natural gas’s reliability and 50 per cent fewer emissions than coal or petroleum.

“[Natural gas is] not a bridge

fuel, it’s a foundation fuel. We will stop using natural gas long before we run out of it.”

— Timothy Egan, president and chief executive officer, Canadian Gas Association

it will replace diesel engines. Some forecasts predict usage in the oilsands sector will more than double, from 31.8 million cubic feet per day now to 68.2 million daily by 2022. Kevin Heffernan, president of CSUR, says it’s crucial for Canadian gas producers to promote the use of natural gas in all domestic sectors, since exports of natural gas to the United States are dropping dramatically as that country taps its own extensive gas reserves. Heffernan says there are a few bright spots for producers, such as future LNG exports, which forecasters such as Ziff Energy Group have predicted could lead to 10 billion cubic feet per day being exported (double what is exported currently). But the loss of much of the U.S. market, where about 10 billion cubic feet per day of Canada’s past peak production of about 17 billion cubic feet per day went five years ago, means diverse markets need to be found within Canada. “It has been very, very challenging for the natural gas production industry,” Heffernan says. “It likely doesn’t get worse than this, but we need to find more uses within Canada.”

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billion cubic feet per day or more by 2020. And, although the company sees demand by the power sector, with LNG exports and other factors leading to that increase, Hill is also an optimist about use by the transport sector. Hill predicts many of the three million heavy-duty trucks in North America will have shifted to natural gas by 2020. “We think gas will capture 30–40 per cent of that market,” he says. Eventually the fuelling infrastructure for natural gas vehicles will spread throughout North America, creating more demand from passenger vehicles and other transportation sectors. “There are 15 million natural gas– fuelled vehicles worldwide and 125,000 in North America, so it’s a large potential market,” he says, adding that road transport would consume almost 50 billion cubic feet per day in North America alone. Encana itself has three CNG stations in Alberta—including one recently opened near Strathmore, Alta.—and five in the United States, along with two LNG stations. Encana also sees growing potential for gas-fuelled power drilling rigs,

A Clean Energy CNG/LNG refuelling station in Long Beach, Cali.

specifically for the high-horsepower market, including drilling rigs, pressure pumps and other energy industry equipment.

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Early adopters pave th e way Alicia Milner, president of the CNGVA, says her group is involved in a five-year initiative to speed up the implementation of infrastructure for natural gas vehicle use. “Canada lacks LNG [and CNG] stations,” she says, adding that the organization wants to see much more than the handful of stations that exist now across the country. It’s happening in the United States, where Royal Dutch Shell plc recently announced a deal with TravelCenters of America LLC to open 100 LNGfuelling stations across the country. Shell will also add LNG to existing service stations in Calgary, Red Deer and Edmonton, and Alberta-based Bison Transport is adding 15 LNGfuelled tractors to its fleet, which it will fuel at those stations. Milner says at this point her group is seeking a commitment from governments to not impose an excise tax on natural gas fuel, which would give it

Milner says the growth of the U.S. market for heavy-duty trucks will help Canada, since economies of scale will bring down the cost of tractor trailers fuelled by gas. Three years ago, natural gas–fuelled heavy-duty trucks were about $60,000 more per unit than diesel trucks, but that difference has now narrowed to about $30,000. Some niche industries in North America have joined the early adopters. Waste Management, Inc. and others in the trash collection business are leading the shift with 300 gas-fuelled garbage trucks in Canada. “Waste Management has said 80 per cent of its replacement trucks will be gas-fuelled,” adds Milner. And the urban bus market, which Winnipeg-based New Flyer Industries Inc. has a major share of, is also a growing natural gas–fuelled market. Buses tend to use CNG, since engines powered by it take up about half as much space of LNG-fuelled motors. The City of Calgary is currently testing out two CNG buses on one of its busiest routes. Canadian National Railway Company (CN) is currently testing LNGfuelled locomotives on the 500-kilometre

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an added advantage of nine cents to 16 cents per litre over diesel, on which there are taxes now (natural gas is already about 40 per cent cheaper). The organization is also seeking government support by appealing load restrictions for LNG-fuelled trucks.

stretch between Edmonton and Fort McMurray. North American railways spent US$12 billion last year on diesel, CN points out, and a shift to natural gas would reduce that by about 50 per cent, on top of cutting emissions. Shell is also pushing the marine market for gas, having recently announced it will build an LNG production plant near Sarnia, Ont., to fuel ships running on the Great Lakes. Westport has seen first-hand what kind of growth is occurring in the natural gas fuel market. The company’s revenues jumped from just a few hundred thousand dollars per year in the ’90s to US$353.6 million in 2012. It now has 1,000 employees—triple the staff it had four or five years ago. Westport manufactures several patented fuel injector systems, combustion chamber and control equipment, cryogenic tanks, and delivery systems. (The company and its affiliates have filed 700 patent applications.) It also markets, through partnerships or with its own resources, a variety of alternative-fuel engines. Its products cover virtually all areas of transport, including passenger vehicles and trucks, heavy-duty trucks, industrial equipment like forklifts, refuse trucks, delivery vans, buses, off-road transport, such as mining haul trucks and drill rigs, locomotives and marine applications. And the company is adding to its natural gas offering—last summer, Westport announced a deal with Caterpillar Inc. to jointly develop gaspowered engine technology for off-road equipment. The company’s sales are now growing by 30 per cent per year and Douville expects that to continue to grow in the years ahead. “We’re a great Canadian success story,” he says. If the pace of adoption is any indicator, the future looks bright for natural gas. A study released in April 2013 by the American Clean Skies Foundation predicts about 2.4 million natural gas vehicles on U.S. roads by 2025, of which 480,000 would be heavy-duty trucks, consuming approximately 2.3 per cent of total gas demand.

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estimating the 2,000 rigs in North America could eventually consume 500 million cubic feet per day. The company is building a 190,000-litreper-day LNG production facility near Grande Prairie, Alta., that is designed to produce high-quality LNG fuel

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Energy transformation Regulation changes mean Alberta producers have a unified regulatory body and access to more and better data

s unconventional resource development increases, changes in the regulatory system are being made to update and clarify the governing rules. It’s a challenge parallel to the one facing producers in the industry working to distill best practices, since the use of horizontal drilling coupled with multistage hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is expanding so rapidly. Six years ago, horizontal drilling accounted for half of the 100 million cubic feet per day produced from British Columbia’s Montney play. Now it’s grown to 98.5 per cent of the 1.7 billion cubic feet of production per day, according to J. Michael Gatens, chief executive officer of Unconventional Gas Resources Canada, a B.C.-based exploration and production company.

Gatens says the key to updating and simplifying regulation in the industry is the sharing of knowledge and technology, like that which occurs among petroleum engineers, geologists and geophysicists via the Society of Petroleum Engineers. “The regulatory scene is dynamic because the understanding of risk changes. Regulatory resources go where the highest risks are,” says Brad Herald, Alberta and Saskatchewan operations manager for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. In British Columbia, the Oil and Gas Commission (OGC) is providing a good template for a single unified regulatory system. “The OGC were brilliant to get out ahead of the industry and have data sets available to manage the process before the industry comes out ready to rock and roll,” explains Gatens.

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He especially praises the NorthEast Water Tool, a comprehensive water database that simplifies allocation decisions.“As projected growth starts to materialize, they’ll just need to build capacity,” Gatens says. Having hosted much more oilpatch activity a lot sooner, Alberta is now stepping back to overhaul its regulatory system into a one-stop shop: the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER). “The Alberta Energy Regulator is looking at a systems level to see ‘Can we do this better? Can we be more efficient and effective and still achieve the same outcomes?’ Good systems ask themselves that,” Herald says. The AER is consolidating application and approval processes from the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) and various government ministries, a move industry welcomes despite the anticipated growing pains.

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The AER, meanwhile, is scaling up from well-by-well regulation to riskbased and play-based regulation as technological advances open the door to numerous potential production zones within stacked formations. Risk-based regulation refers to factoring in data such as knowledge of regional geological structures or a reservoir’s depth below the provincially defined base of groundwater protection. Play-based regulation requires the AER to categorize plays into reservoirs with distinct characteristics, so the board is revising its regional resource classification process using all manner of micro- and macroscopic reservoir characterization tools. The AER has dubbed the resulting database “a real-time energy play catalogue.”

A clear picture The AER expects analysis at the scale of an entire play to improve resource estimates and yield a clearer reading of industry’s environmental and social impacts. The goal is holistic—a riskweighted regulatory framework that accounts for economic, environmental and social data. While the board is digesting stakeholder comments on its riskbased and play-based proposals, it’s also asking industry members in the Duvernay play in western Alberta to do trial submissions that address those concepts. “When operators are beginning to develop non-conventional resources, they’re looking at a pretty substantialsized project,” says Dan Allan, executive vice-president of the Canadian Society for Unconventional Resources (CSUR).

“There could be many wells off one pad or multiple pads over acres. There will be more of a regional impact to those activities, more issues concerning the use and management of water, possible air and soil issues, traffic, a broader-based impact,” Allan says. “The [AER] wanted industry to think on a bigger scale.” The desired regulatory outcomes are geared to cumulative impact, so the AER wants operators not only to file comprehensive plans, but also to collaborate with adjacent operators. Companies prepare comprehensive plans anyway, “so it’s not onerous at all to expect compliance. It’s a common sense approach,” Allan says, but concerns about proprietary information need further discussion. He points out that, interestingly, six of the seven desired regulatory

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“The regulatory scene is dynamic because the understanding

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of risk changes. Regulatory resources go where the highest risks are.” — Brad Herald, Alberta and Saskatchewan operations

manager, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers

outcomes address environment, health and safety, and stakeholder engagement, in recognition of changing values and public concern. Only one—orderly development of the reservoir and accumulating the maximum production—is the same as it used to be. “If you’re working in [someone’s] community, there has to be give and take,” Allan says. “You’re using their roads; you’re in their backyard.” Herald points out,“You have sustained connectivity and your footprint in a community will be less transient.” Producers are now more like farmers than the hunters of old, Herald says, as they trade geological risk for engineering risk. “Companies start to get the [reservoir] understood quickly and the risk now lies

in perfecting the recipe for completion,” he explains. “They need to reproduce complicated engineering tasks in ways that drive efficiencies and control costs.” Herald sees companies needing deeper pockets and more land. The upside is that safety metrics should improve as crews settle in at one project. “It’s substantially more capitalintensive,” Gatens agrees, “but you’re making wells that are wildly more productive. You used to do one fracture treatment in a vertical well, now you might be pumping 20 fracturing jobs in the same horizon.” In May, the ERCB’s Directive 083 updated drilling and hydraulic fracturing rules, focusing on well integrity, groundwater protection and

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reducing the likelihood of inter-wellbore communication. “There’s a possibility because of the length of a horizontal well—a mile long—that it could interfere with adjacent old vertical wells,” Allan says. And as good as the AER’s well location database is, the board wants producers to seek out local knowledge besides doing risk assessment and modelling before fracking. “As unconventional resource development has moved outside of traditional operating areas, new areas are struggling with getting comfortable,” Allan says. “[Neighbours] haven’t seen 100 wells drilled with no issues. Clarity, better documents and collaboration produce a better product.”

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Improved technologies like hydraulic fracturing, seismic and enhanced oil recovery have opened up plays that were previously thought to be uneconomical. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a look at the shale gas and tight oil plays worth watching.

The Duvernay: Ugly, deep and prolific...... 18 Shale Gas........................... 21 Montney ............................................ 22 Horn River ........................................ 23 Colorado Group ................................ 24 Frederick Brook ............................... 25 Utica .................................................. 26

TIGHT OIL ............................. 27 Bakken .............................................. 28 Cardium ............................................ 29 Viking ............................................... 30 Lower Shaunavon ............................. 31 Beaverhill Lake ................................ 32 Lower Amaranth .............................. 33 Montney ............................................ 34 Duvernay ........................................... 35

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Ugly, deep and prolific Alberta’s Duvernay is becoming one of North America’s top plays By R.P. Stastny

t’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of a hot new play— big land sales; escalating values as producers jump the train before it leaves town; a swell of activity; and, if test well results are promising, market coverage and buzz. Lots of buzz—and today most of it is about westcentral Alberta’s Duvernay Formation. In the capital-intensive oil and gas business, buzz is good. It generates investor interest and a favourable financial environment for development. It helps launch joint-venture agreements like the one announced last December between PetroChina Company Limited and Encana Corporation, giving PetroChina a 49.9 per cent stake in Encana’s Duvernay acreage for $1.18 billion upfront and $1 billion in development costs during the next four years. The Duvernay is taking its place next to world-class plays like British Columbia’s Montney and the Marcellus in Pennsylvania—heralded as the “Saudi Arabia of natural gas,” a shale formation that has spawned so much activity in the last few years that it’s now the largest producing region in the United States, producing in excess of 10 billion cubic feet of gas per day. So what does the Duvernay offer? Could it and the Montney counter U.S. shale gas heft? According to the Alberta Energy Regulator, the Duvernay holds an estimated 443 trillion cubic feet of gas, 11.3 billion barrels of natural gas liquids and 61.7 billion barrels of oil. It’s a proven source rock for much of the Devonian conventional oil and gas that launched the modern oil and gas era in Alberta in 1948 with the spudding of Leduc No. 1. Promising early results in the liquids-rich Duvernay window that

runs 300-plus kilometres from Grande Prairie, northwest of Edmonton, to Olds, Alta.—where virtually all current exploration activity is taking place—have analysts at Wood Mackenzie expecting 1.5 billion cubic feet per day and 130,000 barrels per day of liquids by 2020.

Ban dwagon Alberta’s Duvernay land rush kicked off in 2009 and culminated in a record sale of 446 Montney and Duvernay area leases in 2011. A bundle of large and small operators has divvied up the land. Among the big boys are Encana, Canadian Natural Resources Limited, Talisman Energy Inc., Shell Canada Limited and Chevron Canada Limited. Each has stakes in the hundreds of thousands of acres. Smaller companies like Yoho Resources Inc. jumped in, too. Yoho has 36,000 acres in what its president and chief executive officer Brian McLachlan says is probably some of the best liquidsrich sweet spots in the play. “We were buying land at Crown sales very quietly in 2009 for about $20,000 per section,” he says. “From there, prices went up to as high as $3 million to $3.5 million per section.” Simon Mauger, director, gas supply and economics, for the consultancy Ziff Energy Group, says Duvernay land is the single biggest cost in the play for some operators. And it’s one of the most expensive plays in North America to drill and complete. A Wood Mackenzie report released at the end of 2012 lists completed well costs at between $12 million and $15 million. But Encana’s Kevin Smith, vice-president of its northwestern business unit, lifts an eyebrow at those figures.

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“Twelve [million dollars] to $15 million is certainly something in terms of much shorter laterals in shallower portions of the play, with fewer frac intervals and lower production compared to what we would expect for our type curve,” he says. “Our initial appraisal wells were in the range of $20 million to $25 million per well.” The largest holder of publicly disclosed Duvernay rights is Athabasca Oil Corporation. Its 640,000 acres have analysts speculating about joint ventures. Athabasca has so far remained mum on the topic other than to say the Duvernay “is an area where smaller companies will have to take partners in the future if they want to develop in a timely fashion.” (Talisman has said the same of the Duvernay. It’s among several areas where the company is considering partnering.)

Liqui ds-rich The economics of the Duvernay stand on prolific, condensate-rich production. Encana is spending $600 million (gross with Phoenix Energy Holdings Ltd.— PetroChina’s Canadian subsidiary) in the play this year. It has drilled 13 wells on a rig-release basis to date. One of those wells has produced a widely publicized 1,400 barrels per day of condensate and four million cubic feet per day of natural gas after 30 days. “Like any other play, there are going to be sweet spots,” Smith says. “Our exploration work is positioned around the key criteria of sweet spots within that highly economic liquids window— between 45 barrels per million [cubic feet] and 300 barrels per million.” For Yoho Resources, the Duvernay represents 55–65 per cent of the company’s total reserves and its $35 million and $38 million capital program is mostly focused on the Duvernay.

Some encouraging Yoho results include an 11-day test well producing six million cubic feet of gas per day and 109 barrels of field condensate per million cubic feet of gas. “We’re seeing 100–160 barrels per million [cubic feet of gas] and as high as 200 barrels per million of liquids, of which 65 per cent is condensate,” McLachlan says. High condensate yields and robust condensate prices (currently yielding a 10 per cent premium to West Texas Intermediate oil pricing in Alberta) have Yoho’s netbacks looking very much like oil netbacks in the Duvernay—over $43 per barrel equivalent, says McLachlan. Numbers like this are spawning comparisons to the Eagle Ford in the United States—the highly profitable south Texas shale gas and oil play. Mauger says the Duvernay has the potential to become one of the top five plays in North America. “We’re already pretty sure about the north Duvernay,” he says. “The south Duvernay is a little further behind in development—a year or two.” By “north” and “south” Duvernay, he’s referring to the liquids-rich Duvernay window that runs 300-plus kilometres from Grande Prairie to Olds and is divided into two main regions: the area around Kaybob, where most of the activity has taken place to date;

Provi ng it out What attracted McLachlan to the Kaybob area is the Duvernay’s thickness there, its favourable reservoir characteristics and the uniformity of the shale from top to bottom, as opposed to the limestone streaks that begin to mark the shale south around Ferrier. At the outset, Yoho was caught off guard by the formation’s high pressures, which forced it to forego completing its first horizontal well. “We had no idea that we’re looking at the second-highest reservoir pressure in North America,” McLachlan notes. “You’re probably looking at 60-plus [megapascals], which is pretty substantial. So you have to be prepared for the pressure, but then it helps in production.” Yoho then drilled eight horizontal wells, all of them good wells, according to McLachlan. It has taken the information about these wells and traded it with other companies operating in the area. “So we’re getting information on about 25 different wells out there,” he says. Trading information is an important strategy at this stage of development in this expensive play. Encana is also trading information with other producers, prompting a subtle shift in terminology: instead of referring to “competitors,” Smith talks of “industry counterparts.” “It seems, at least initially in talking to our industry counterparts, there’s a willingness and an openness to sharing,” Smith says. “When you’re investing this much money into a well and collecting that amount of rich data, sharing is really a best practice amongst companies and really helps the efficiency of the play overall.” Encana is working in both the north and south ends of the liquids-rich Duvernay window. Smith considers it still too early to say which region will provide better results, but its best results to date have been in the north around Kaybob. “We’re proceeding with a very deliberate, logical test,” he says. “We’re testing different completion approaches to arrive, as quickly as possible, at the most optimal completion design. And that varies from area to area.”

| The Duvernay

and the area around Willesden Green and Ferrier in the south.

One of the early learnings in this region is that longer laterals and more frac stages drive better economics. “We’ve always been proponents of longer laterals where you maintain the same stage spacing,” Smith says. “We feel this is more accretive than drilling more wells. What we’ve seen from official results is that the stimulated rock volume is a huge driver in the productivity of this play.” To arrive at optimal stimulated rock volumes, Encana is experimenting with tighter frac spacing, longer frac intervals but more entry points, cased wells and, in June, it landed its first open-hole packer ball-drop system. At low current production levels in the Duvernay, producers aren’t yet particularly concerned about optimizing their gas-processing options. Most of the gas goes to third-party shallow-cut plants. Since a shallow-cut captures the same amount of condensate as a deepcut (which also captures the ethane, propane and butane) producers will likely stay this lower-cost course. “It’s really about maximizing condensate,” Smith says. “Condensate has strong local demand and it will persist. The marginal barrel is a significant amount of condensate that’s coming up from the Gulf Coast.” As Duvernay production rises, deepcut processing might become an option but the prices of ethane, propane and butane will have to strengthen from current lows due to oversupply.

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According to the Alberta Energy Regulator, the Duvernay holds an estimated 443 trillion cubic feet of gas, 11.3 billion barrels of natural gas liquids and 61.7 billion barrels of oil.

Future The land in the Duvernay is mostly locked up now, but asset deals and partnering announcements will continue. Some producers, such as Bonavista Energy Corporation, will leave the play. (It sold most of its quarter-million net acres last year.) Others, such as Bellatrix Exploration Ltd., will hold on to their Duvernay assets (Bellatrix has 53 net sections) and “wait to see how it goes for the big guys in there,” says executive vice-president Brent Eshleman. And many, like Encana, Yoho or Chevron Canada (which has 250,000 acres in the Duvernay near Kaybob and is in the midst of a 13-well program), will continue their appraisal to better understand the huge potential of the Duvernay.

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Shale Gas By Christopher Huffaker and Rianne Stewart

Canada’s enormous shale gas resource is held in formations across the country— from the Horn River and Montney in British Columbia all the way to the Frederick Brook shales in New Brunswick. And shale gas isn’t a one-size-fits-all resource; the characteristics of the plays vary greatly, making them as diverse as the country’s people.

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Regina

PLAY PARAMETERS Related conventional production: Yes Original gas in place: 2,333 trillion cubic feet Original oil in place: 136.3 billion barrels Number of wells drilled in 2012: 674 Average well depth: 3,940 metres Most active companies in the area: 1. Encana Corporation (86 wells) 2. Shell Canada Limited (81 wells) 3. Progress Energy Canada Ltd. (44 wells) 4. ARC Resources Ltd. (33 wells) 5. Canadian Natural Resources Limited (32 wells) Talisman Energy Inc. (32 wells) Trilogy Energy Corp. (32 wells) Source: Alberta Geological Survey, National Energy Board

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he Montney Formation is a thick, regionally charged formation of unconventional tight oil and shale gas ranging from northcentral Alberta to just northwest of Fort St. John in northeastern British Columbia. It is characterized by fine-grained shoreface sandstones, shelf siltstones and shales, fine-grained turbidites and organic-rich phosphatic shale. Gas is produced from a 2.6-million-hectare shale play in Peace River Country in British Columbia and Alberta, while oil is mostly produced in the Albertan portion of the Montney. The gas play portion of the formation is often thicker than 300 metres. Horizontal drilling and extensive fracturing are used to force flow from the low-permeability siltstone. The play is one of British Columbiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest and most popular gas plays, alongside the Horn River. BMO Financial Group estimated gas in place in 2011 at 700 trillion cubic feet, more than double the estimates for the Horn River Shale play. In 2011, Montney accounted for 89 per cent of B.C. land sale bonus totals. Over 150 wells were completed between Janaury and June 2013. Active players in the Montney Shale include Shell Canada Limited, Murphy Oil Corporation, Encana Corporation and Progress Energy Canada Ltd. Shell is based in the Groundbirch region and had 250 wells producing 190 million cubic feet of gas per day in late 2011. Murphy holds 150,000 acres and has two producing plants in the area. Encana holds 724,000 net acres of Montney rights as part of its Cutbank Ridge resource play. Progress had reserves of approximately 1.1 trillion cubic feet of gas as of year-end 2011.

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horn river Yellowknife

Edmonton

Saskatoon Calgary

Regina

PLAY PARAMETERS Original gas in place: 526 trillion cubic feet Average well depth: 2,682 metres Thickness: 137 metres Average porosity: Three per cent Average permeability: 230 millidarcies Number of wells drilled in 2012: 0 Source: National Energy Board, Transform Software and Services, Inc.

Winnipeg he Horn River shale zone is a 1.31-million-hectare play in the Greater Sierra field in northeastern British Columbia. It’s part of the Horn River Formation, a Devonian-age unit ranging from northeastern British Columbia to Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. The formation is composed of argillaceous bituminous limestone and dark siliceous and calcareous shale. Prior to shale gas interest, some drilling had been done targeting carbonate plays. The play is estimated by the National Energy Board to contain 448 trillion cubic feet of gas in place and 78 trillion cubic feet of marketable shale gas, making it the larger of British Columbia’s two biggest gas plays, alongside the Montney Shale. Gas is extracted using horizontal drilling and multistage fracturing due to the low permeability of the shale. Drill depth in the Horn River Basin is around 2,500–3,000 metres. Land sale activity in the play peaked at 1.1 billion in 2008 and has declined since. The most active shale gas operator in the basin is Apache Canada Ltd., primarily in the Etsho and Ootla areas. Other big players in the region include Encana Corporation, Nexen Inc. and Imperial Oil Resources Limited. The region was producing 392 million cubic feet of gas per day at year-end 2010. ExxonMobil Canada and Imperial have applied to the National Energy Board for a licence to export liquefied natural gas from British Columbia partially due to the size of Imperial’s holdings in Horn River and the difficulty of getting them to market.

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PLAY PARAMETERS Original gas in place: Up to 300 trillion cubic feet Number of wells drilled in 2012: 20 Average depth drilled: 1,727 metres Most active companies in the area: 1. Endurance Energy Ltd. (17 wells) 2. ConocoPhillips Canada (2 wells) 3. Crescent Point Energy Corp. (1 well) Source: National Energy Board, Alberta Research Council

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he Colorado Group was first discovered in 1877 and has since seen over 100 years of development; however, despite being one of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oldest plays, the Colorado is still described as challenging, and new technologies have done little to unlock the formation. The play covers a huge area, stretching across Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, with the majority of activity taking place in the Alberta portion, near Milk River and Medicine Hat. The formation is of the Cretaceous age and consists of a unique combination of shale, sandstone, conglomerate and siltstone. Because the complicated rock structure presents a high risk of caving, production has been restricted to vertical wells so far. Fracking is also a bit more complicated, thanks to swelling clays, below-average reservoir pressures and softer, water-bearing rocks. Despite its challenges, the Colorado Group has received a lot of attention from companies, including Stealth Ventures Ltd., which holds a 90 per cent working interest in 143 sections of land in the Wildmere region west of Lloydminster, Alta., and Perpetual Energy Inc., with interest in 500,000 hectares in southeastern Alberta.

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PLAY PARAMETERS Original petroleum in place: 67 trillion cubic feet Original gas in place per section: 625 billion cubic feet Thickness: 1,000 metres Porosity: 1.5–7.5 per cent Source: Macquarie Tristone, Corridor Resources Inc.

ew Brunswick’s emerging Frederick Brook Shale play shows more and more potential with every test well. The play is estimated to hold 67 trillion cubic feet of original gas in place, which translates to approximately 625 billion cubic feet per section. The formation was deposited during the Lower Carboniferous period and is composed of grey-brown lacustrine shales. The play’s main characteristic is that it is extremely thick—around 900–1,000 metres in many areas— but its perks are aplenty: higher than normal pressure and a total organic carbon content of up to 10 per cent. The province’s Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline makes the play even more attractive, as transportation and distribution is one of the major roadblocks experienced by other shale gas plays in Canada. Hoping to bank on this are companies like Corridor Resources Inc., which holds approximately 116,000 gross acres in the area, and its partner Apache Canada Ltd. The play also shows significant potential for liquefied natural gas, with gas plants and other related infrastructure already in place in the province.

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s one of the plays suffering the most from the controversy surrounding hydraulic fracking, the Utica Shale Formation in Quebec has seen very little activity due • to an informal moratorium • on oil and gas production • in the region since 2011. • • While drilling is at a standstill, industry is still watchHalifax • Utica play closely, and •for good reason—the•Quebec ing the government estimates the play holds 18 trillion to 40 trillion • • • cubic feet of recoverable resource. Extending along • the St. Lawrence • River, the Utica shales • are up to 200 metres thick and can reach maximum depths • • • of 2,800 metres. Described as highly organic black shale, the formation produces mainly pipeline-quality natural gas • • • that requires minimal processing. • oil and gas development • Unfortunately, is still relatively immature in Quebec, making production costs much higher • • • than in western Canada, thanks to the lack of available services and • infrastructure. Demand for • Quebec natural gas is • high though—the province spends approximately C$2 billion • • annually on gas imports—and distribution is not a concern, as the pipeline system•in close • province has a fully developed • proximity to the play.

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Tight Oil By Christopher Huffaker, Rianne Stewart and Leisa Vescarelli

Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tight oil formations are causing a lot of buzz lately. Between the Duvernay and the Bakken, the resource potential is awe-inspiringâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially as technologies evolve, making the plays more economical to produce than ever before.

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Saskatoon

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U.S. PLAY PARAMETERS Related conventional production: Yes Original oil in place per section: 40 million barrels Average porosity: 1–15 per cent Permeability: 0.01–20 millidarcies Average API: 36–44 degrees Number of wells drilled in 2012: 379 Average depth drilled: 3,021 metres Most active companies in the area: 1. Crescent Point Energy Corp. (137 wells) 2. Lightstream Resources Ltd. (93 wells) 3. Legacy Oil + Gas Inc. (24 wells) 4. Husky Oil Operations Limited (20 wells) 5. DeeThree Exploration Ltd. (15 wells) Source: U.S. Geological Survey, National Energy Board, Macquarie Group Canada

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s part of the Williston Basin, the Bakken Formation is a 350-millionyear-old, 25-metre-thick behemoth stretching 520,000 kilometres across Montana and North Dakota, up to southeastern Saskatchewan and a tiny portion of Manitoba. Earlier this year, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated the remaining Bakken oil resource at 3.65 billion barrels. Though the Bakken is undeniably massive—and oil saturated—the oil is trapped in layers characterized by very low porosity and permeability. The play is divided into five zones, including an Upper Bakken Shale and a Lower Bakken Shale, with three zones of sandstone and siltstone in between. Since the early 2000s, a huge amount of effort has been put into unlocking this tricky formation, primarily through improved horizontal drilling combined with hydraulic fracturing, and more recently, multistage fracturing and flooding. And while the technology is proving mostly successful, one of the biggest issues still standing in the way of Bakken development is transportation. Pipeline development seems to be going nowhere quickly, but the area is seeing some rail development fill the void. Crescent Point Energy Corp., a major player in the Saskatchewan Bakken, completed a dedicated oil-loading rail facility in the Viewfield Bakken area in 2012 and is now transporting over 15,500 barrels per day. The company also has a smaller rail-loading facility in Dollard, Sask., with capacity of 4,000 barrels per day. Other major players in the region include DeeThree Exploration Ltd. and Torquay Oil Corp.

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Cardium

Fort McMurray

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Edmonton

Saskatoon

Calgary

Medicine Hat

PLAY PARAMETERS Related conventional production: Yes Original oil in place: 10.6 billion barrels Thickness: 1,250–1,400 metres Porosity: 6–16 per cent Permeability: 0.5–10 millidarcies Net pay: 6–14 metres Average API: 36–41 degrees Number of wells drilled in 2012: 834 Average depth drilled: 3,330 metres Most active companies in the area: 1. Lightstream Resources Ltd. (93 wells) 2. Vermilion Resources Limited (64 wells) 3. Sinopec Daylight Energy Ltd. (55 wells) 4. Spartan Oil Corp. (54 wells)

Regina

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he Cardium tight oil play is a piece of the Cardium Formation, which consists of interbedded sandstone and shale across western Alberta. Gas is produced from the Athabasca River and the foothills areas of western Alberta, while oil is produced from the Pembina oilfield in central Alberta. Oil has been produced at the Pembina field for 50 years, but with advances in horizontal fracturing technology, it is now thought to have the largest amount of original oil in place of any tight oil play in western Canada, at 10 billion to 15 billion barrels. As much as 20–30 per cent of that is estimated to be recoverable. Oil is now produced in the Cardium via 20-stage horizontal fracturing processes, with individual treatments of as much as 20 tons of sand. Wells are drilled over 9,000 feet deep and a mile horizontally, using 10,000-horsepower pumps. There were 912 horizontal well licences granted in the Cardium in 2012, a slight increase over the previous two years. The biggest players in the region are Lightstream Resources Ltd. (formerly PetroBakken Energy Ltd.), Vermilion Energy Inc., Sinopec Daylight Energy Ltd., Whitecap Resources Inc. and Spartan Oil Corp. Lightstream had 72.2 million barrels of oil equivalent of proved and probable reserves in the Cardium at the end of 2011, with over 16,500 barrels of oil equivalent per day in production. Vermilion has 201 gross wells in the Cardium and over 8,000 barrels of oil equivalent production per day.

5. Whitecap Resources Inc. (47 wells) Source: National Energy Board, Anglo Canadian Oil Corp.

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Fort McMurray

Grande Prairie

Edmonton

Saskatoon

Calgary

Medicine Hat

Regina

Lethbridge

PLAY PARAMETERS Related conventional production: Yes Original oil in place: Four billion to six billion barrels Thickness: 40–50 metres Porosity: 21–24 per cent Permeability: One millidarcy to 150 millidarcies Net pay: 3–8 metres Average API: 32–38 degrees Number of wells drilled in 2012: 964 Average depth drilled: 1,613 metres Most active companies in the area: 1. Teine Energy Ltd. (125 wells) 2. WestFire Energy Ltd (107 wells) 3. Novus Energy Inc. (72 wells) 4. Penn West Petroleum Ltd. (57 wells) 5. NAL Resources Limited (40 wells) Renegade Petroleum Ltd. (40 wells) Source: National Energy Board, Anglo Canadian Oil Corp.

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he Viking play ranges from east-central Alberta to westcentral Saskatchewan, with activity concentrated in Dodsland and Kindersley in Saskatchewan and Halkirk-Provost in Alberta. The formation, which actually covers most of Saskatchewan, consists of interbedded fine sandstones, siltstones and mudstones, bracketed by two shales. The upper layer is two to three metres thick while the lower is three to nine metres thick. Oil was first discovered in the Viking in the 1950s and has been produced from the upper layer for decades. Horizontal drilling and multistage fracturing have caused a resurgence in development as the lower region has become more economic. In the Dodsland and Redwater areas, the Viking is a relatively shallow tight oil reserve—less than 800 metres thick—which reduces drilling costs, but its low pressure has limited production somewhat. Estimates of original oil in place range from four to six billion barrels, and companies had reported 58 million barrels of proved and probable reserves as of 2011. Just under 1,000 horizontal well licenses were granted in 2012, a slight decline from 1,100 in 2011. Three-quarters of those were in Saskatchewan. According to the Alberta government, the most active companies in the Viking are Teine Energy Ltd., Penn West Petroleum Ltd., Polar Star Canadian Oil and Gas, Inc., Novus Energy Inc. and Raging River Exploration Inc. Teine is the largest landholder in the Dodsland area with 312,000 acres and approximately 300 horizontal wells. Penn West has 290,000 acres in Viking land, on which it has optimized light oil production using small, lower-cost pumpjacks. Novus Energy has 157 horizontal in the greater Dodsland area, of which 72 were drilled in 2012.

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Fort McMurray

Edmonton

Saskatoon

Calgary

Medicine Hat

Regina

Lethbridge

U.S. PLAY PARAMETERS Related conventional production: Yes Original oil in place: Four billion barrels Thickness: 1,350 metres Porosity: 15–18 per cent Permeability: 0.1–0.9 millidarcies Net pay: 4–8 metres Average API: 22 degrees Number of wells drilled in 2012: 71 Average depth drilled: 2,571 metres Most active companies in the area: 1. Cenovus Energy Inc. (31 wells) 2. Crescent Point Energy Corp. (19 wells) 3. Husky Oil Operations Limited (4 wells) Jarrod Oils Ltd. (4 wells) 4. Federated Co-operatives Limited (3 wells) Titan West Resources Inc. (3 wells)

he Shaunavon Formation is a variable mix of limestone, shale and minor sandstone that was deposited in the Williston Basin of Saskatchewan in the Middle Jurassic period. Located in southwestern Saskatchewan, the Lower Shaunavon has emerged as a significant tight oil play in the last few years. The Shaunavon ranges from 20–35 metres thick at the southwestern corner of the province to zero at the formation’s northern edge. Companies have reported 93 million barrels of proven and probable reserves in the Lower Shaunavon region, and Crescent Point Energy Corp., one of the play’s major operators, estimates there to be four billion total barrels of oil in place. Production in the region has grown rapidly in the past few years. Production increased to 5,673 in August 2011 from just 257 barrels per day at the beginning of 2007, and increased again in the following 18 months to 17,350 barrels per day near the end of 2012. In addition to Crescent Point, which reports 26,000 barrels per day of production between Upper and Lower Shaunavon, the play boasts Husky Energy Inc. and Surge Energy Inc. as its other major producers. Husky has 14,000 acres in the Lower Shaunavon with 11 producing wells. Surge purchased its assets in the region from Cenovus Energy Inc. for $240 million in July 2013. The assets include 54 sections of land producing 3,600 barrels per day, and were sold by Cenovus as part of a larger sale of non-core assets in Saskatchewan.

Source: Crescent Point Energy Corp., National Energy Board, Anglo Canadian Oil Corp.

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Grande Prairie

Edmonton

Saskatoon

Calgary

PLAY PARAMETERS Related conventional production: Yes Original oil in place: 2.5 billion barrels Number of wells drilled in 2012: 38 Total depth drilled: 2,614 metres Most active companies in the area: 1. Canadian Natural Resources Limited (13 wells) 2. Chevron Canada Limited (5 wells) Devon NEC Corporation (5 wells) 3. Encana Corporation (4 wells) 4. Athabasca Oil Corporation (2 wells) Sinopec Daylight Energy Ltd. (2 wells) Source: BMO Capital Markets, National Energy Board

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he Beaverhill Lake Group is a range of limestones and doloMedicine Hat Regina stones deposited during the Middle Devonian 375 million years agoLethbridge in what is now northwestern Alberta. It has been producing conventionally since the 1950s from tall reef build-ups and had produced 0.9 billion barrels of oil as of year-end 2010, mostly in the Swan Hills region. BMO Financial Group estimated in 2011 that there have been an additional 2.5 billion barrels of oil in place in the region made accessible by unconventional techniques such as horizontal drilling and multistage fracturing. The Beaverhill Lake Group is also sometimes associated with the stratigraphically equivalent Slave Point Formation, which has also recently undergone new unconventional development. Producers are using a 14-stage fracture stimulation program in the Swan Hills region, with more acid being pumped at each fracture stage. Operators are now injecting 1,200 cubic metres of custom-designed acid per stage. Jet pumps are used for cleanup, and multi-well pads are being used to cut costs and environmental impacts. While in 2011, roughly 150 horizontal well licences were granted in both Slave Point and Beaverhill Lake, in 2012 the number declined to approximately 25 in Beaverhill Lake while remaining steady in Slave Point. Through 2012, interest in Beaverhill Lake tight oil declined greatly, with the stock prices of both of the public junior Beaverhill Lake pureplayers, Arcan Resources Ltd. and Second Wave Petroleum Inc., plummeting as profits declined, forcing restructuring in 2013. The other major player in the region is Crescent Point Energy Corp.

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Fort McMurray

Edmonton

Saskatoon

Calgary

Medicine Hat

Regina

Lethbridge

U.S.

PLAY PARAMETERS Related conventional production: Yes Original oil in place per section: Nine million to 15 million barrels Thickness: 23.7 metres Porosity: 12–15 per cent Permeability: 0.1–320 millidarcies Average API: 35 degrees Average depth: 895 metres Number of wells drilled in 2012: 0 Production in 2012: 105,850 barrels Sources: National Energy Board, Manitoba Innovation, Energy and Mines, Geo News

he Lower Amaranth is a stratigraphical unit formed during worldwide low sea levels between the Triassic and Jurassic ages. Referred to as the Spearfish Formation in North Dakota, the Watrous in Saskatchewan and the Lower Amaranth in Manitoba, the potential of this formation is as hard to peg as the name itself. The Lower Amaranth is informally divided into a lower, oil-bearing sandy member and an upper shale member. It is situated on the northeastern edge of the Williston Basin near the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border and stretches south down into North Dakota. According to the Petroleum Branch of Manitoba Innovation, Energy and Mines, the Lower Amaranth was the second-most produced oil horizon in Manitoba in 2010, having produced 5.4 million cubic metres of oil since 1980. In 2012, the play produced about 290 barrels per day, or 105,850 barrels total. The shallow, low-permeability sandstone tends to yield sweet, light oil and currently produces about 30 per cent of Manitoba’s oil production. At this time, the reservoir potential of the Lower Watrous in Saskatchewan is not well understood, and the production from this formation is still in its infancy. If, however, as the Alberta Geological Survey indicates, the formation is considered equivalent to the Lower Amaranth in Manitoba on the basis of lithological similarity, stratigraphic position and physical continuity, then this will be a play to keep an eye on in the coming years. Companies active in the region include Legacy Oil + Gas Inc., EOG Resources, Inc. and Penn West Petroleum Ltd.

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Fort McMurray

Grande Prairie

Edmonton

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ight oil is produced from the northern Alberta portion of the Montney Formation, which ranges from north-central Alberta to northeastern British Columbia. Tight oil production is concentrated in the Sturgeon Lake and Saddle Hills areas while shale gas is produced in the Peace River Country section of the formation. Calgary The formation is characterized throughout by fine-grained shoreface, shelf siltstone to shale, fine-grained sandstone turbidites and organicrich phosphatic shale. TheMedicine play tends Hat to be 1,800â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2,200 metres deep and 8â&#x20AC;&#x201C;20 metres thick. Lethbridge The Montney trend also includes the Doig Formation, which overlies the Montney Formation, which is composed of argillaceous siltstone and dark calcareous shale. In November 2012, the former Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board (now the Alberta Energy Regulator) and the Alberta Geological Survey estimated the Montney to contain 136.3 billion barrels of oil in place. Companies actively exploring Montney oil include ARC Resources Ltd., Athabasca Oil Corporation, Birchcliff Energy Ltd., ExxonMobil Canada, CIOC, Crew Energy Inc., Harvest Operations Corp., Imperial Oil Limited, Long Run Exploration, RMP Energy Inc., Seven Generations Ltd., Shoreline Energy Corp., Transerv Energy Limited, and Whitecap Resources Inc. Canadian Natural Resources Limited and Talisman Energy Inc. both have assets that they have expressed interest in selling. Over 160 horizontal well licences were granted between Montney and Doig in 2011. Trilogy Energy Corp. has drilled more than 40 horizontal wells at the Kaybob oil field, mostly since 2010. Trilogy has reported high production rates from early wells.

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Fort McMurray

Grande Prairie

Edmonton

Saskatoon

Calgary

PLAY PARAMETERS Related conventional production: No Original gas in place: 443 trillion cubic feet Original oil in place: 61.7 billion barrels Average porosity: 6.5 per cent Average permeability: 394 millidarcies Number of wells drilled in 2012: 76 Average depth of wells drilled: 2,624 metres Most active companies in the area: 1. Cenovus Energy Inc. (35 wells) 2. ExxonMobil Canada (6 wells) Shell Canada Limited (6 wells) 3. Alta Energy Partners Canada Ltd. (5 wells) 4. Trilogy Energy Corp. (3 wells) Source: National Energy Board, Energy Resources Conservation Board

Medicine Hat

Regina

Lethbridge he Duvernay is a sprawling formation in Alberta with three recognized parts. The liquids-rich strip, which has seen almost all of the activity to date, lies between a dry gas window further west into the foothills and a vast oil window to the east in the prairies. (A fourth shallow oil window, according to Marius Simon, vice-president of operations and business development at Chinook Consulting Services (2004) Ltd., could also be broken out in the southern reaches of the play.) The play varies in thickness from 10 to 60 metres and has a high amount of gas condensate where the formation is thickest. Macquarie Group Canada estimates the formation contains up to 40 million barrels per section of original oil in place. Legendary for being the source rock to the Leduc reefs—and the start of Alberta’s oil and gas industry in 1947—a lot is known about the formation, but development of it only began recently, with the first horizontal well being drilled in 2010. “Further south, there’s also a lot of information, but it’s from shallower formations because there are no Leduc reefs,” says Simon Mauger, director of gas supply and economics for Ziff Energy Group. “People aren’t quite sure where the gas condensate window is in the south, but it should be proved out in a year or two.” While there is little interest in the dry gas region because of soft gas prices, the oil aspect of the Duvernay is being developed by companies like Trilogy Energy Corp., Celtic Exploration Ltd. and Yoho Resources Inc.

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Starting from the bottom Hydraulic fracturing today is a far cry from where the technology started out—thankfully!

ver 80 years ago, Canada saw its first frac job take place in Turner Valley, just southwest of Calgary. To bring wells on production back then, companies operating in that early reservoir lowered “torpedoes,” or tubes of nitroglycerine, down into the well. When the torpedoes hit the bottom, explosives in the noses of the devices set off the nitroglycerine, which fractured the reservoir. Using this method to spur oil production, many oilmen proudly proclaimed Turner Valley “the largest oilfield in the British Empire.” The technique we use today and refer to as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, emerged about 20 years later, after the Second World War. Since then, more than a million wells have been fractured around the world. Simply put, fracking improves production from geological formations where natural flow is restricted. Hydraulic fracturing involves pumping a mix of water, sand and soluble chemicals into a well at high pressures. The pressure fractures the formation, and the sand holds the fractures open so hydrocarbons can flow more freely through them into the wellbore. Dave Russum of Deloitte LLP’s petroleum consultancy offers a graphic image of how fracking works, comparing

the shape of a horizontal well to a sock: “Between the heel and the toe of a horizontal well, you isolate an interval close to the toe and frac that region. Then you move back towards the heel, isolate another interval and do another frac. This breaks up a lot of rock, making more production available. These new technologies are enabling us to access a whole lot more low-permeability rock than you would ever be able to reach with a vertical well.” In the days of vertical drilling, producers generally fractured just one or two zones per well. Using today’s technology, horizontal legs stretching for kilometres can be fracked in many places. While hydrocarbons produced in this way are cheaper than those produced by traditional methods, the technology is challenging: a single hydraulic fracturing project may require a 40-member crew and 20 or more hydraulic compression systems mounted on huge fracking trucks. Numerous trucks with hydraulic pumping equipment are also needed. And, on top of that, hundreds of millions of litres of water are needed, and several thousand tonnes of sand.

Canadian roots Canada has been a leader in fracking use and development since the beginning. In the 1950s, fracking transformed the Pembina Cardium oil discovery near

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Drayton Valley, Alta., from what looked like an average play into something producible and exciting—and an elephant of global proportions. The Pembina field is now typically quoted as having had 8.4 billion barrels of original oil in place, according to Russum, and “by accessing oil from lower-quality rock [through fracking], the field could end up producing perhaps 10 billion barrels.” For decades, Pembina was the world’s biggest field in aerial extent. In his engaging memoir, Canadian Petroleum Hall of Fame honouree Arne Nielsen describes Drayton Valley (population a mere 75) when his team discovered the Pembina structure in 1953:“It was located in an isolated bush and pioneering community...in a world that still operated in a manner that had become extinct elsewhere in the province, in a world still reliant on kerosene lamps and horses.” That discovery led to one of Canada’s great post-war oil booms—a boom based almost entirely on fracking.“Within weeks, dozens of families living in vacation trailers were crowded into clearings around Drayton Valley,” Nielsen describes. By 1955, the community’s population had shot up to 5,000—only 2,000 people short of its population today. Oil doesn’t flow easily through the Pembina Cardium sands because it is a vast, tight sandstone formation. When

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the discovery well began producing, only 132 barrels per day came out of the hole. That company—of which Nielsen became president and which was later renamed Mobil Oil Canada Ltd.—used hydraulic pumps to force 3,000 pounds of sand suspended in fracking fluid into the zone. In that period, it was also common to acidize wells—pump acid into the formation under pressure to clean out and improve flow channels for oil production. Production increased threefold. The company had discovered the key to developing this field, and exploration by Mobil, Amoco Corporation and Imperial Oil Limited accelerated. By 1987, more than 5,000 wells had been drilled into the Pembina Cardium.

N ew applications Since those fairly primitive days, hydraulic fracturing has become a mainstay of both oil and natural gas drilling. According to University of Calgary historian Sandy Gow, “by the mid-1950s, hydraulic fracturing had become the best large-area penetrator ever developed in the industry.” He describes the technology as “a well-stimulation technique that subjected a formation to sufficient hydraulic pressure from a ‘breakdown fluid’ to cause parting of the formation.... These fractures were then extended from the well bore by continued pumping of the fracturing fluid.”

George Mitchell, an American oilman worried about meeting his gassupply obligations, was the first to apply fracking to shale formations. His pioneering efforts took place in 1998 in the Barnett Shales of Texas. Other companies soon noticed that he had found a way to increase production from this formation and began to investigate. As the secrets got out, others began to explore. The result is sometimes called the shale gale: low-cost shale gas competing successfully with higher-cost conventional production. It was only a matter of time before the same technologies would be used for oil production.The first great unconventional field being developed using this technology is the Bakken. This huge formation, stretching from Montana and South Dakota into Saskatchewan and Manitoba, was first identified in 1953, but was deemed uneconomic at the time. Fracking the Bakken changed all that. The story of fracking is a narrative of technological development. It took rapid innovation in downhole tools to turn hydrocarbon-bearing shales and other low-permeability rocks into producing reservoirs. Two such technologies stand out: coil tubing and horizontal drilling. Coil (or coiled) tubing is the workhorse of underground technologies. A tool that began to make big inroads into

industry operations around 1990, coil tubing has transformed many aspects of underground drilling and workover operations. It refers to metal piping spooled on a large reel and used for interventions in wells and sometimes as production tubing in depleted gas wells. Coiled tubing is also often used to carry out operations previously done by wirelining—the main benefit of coil tubing being that you can pump chemicals through the coil, as well as tools, whereas wirelining relies on gravity. Of particular importance in the context of shale production: coil tubing can be used to fracture the well. The tool string at the bottom of the coil can range from something as simple as a jetting nozzle for jobs involving pumping chemicals or cement through the coil, to a larger string of logging tools, depending on the operations. Coil tubing is also used for relatively inexpensive workover operations and to perform open-hole drilling operations.

Borrowed tech nology Another vital technology actually originated in the oilsands. Sometimes described as “low-quality oil in a highquality reservoir,” the oilsands themselves do not require fracking; however, Canada’s greatest-ever (though indirect) contribution to fracking came in 1987, after the Alberta Oil Sands Technology

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and Research Authority (AOSTRA) had constructed a bunker known as the Underground Test Facility (UTF). The immensity of the UTF is hard to imagine. It involved sinking two shafts into the oilsands with a drill bit almost four metres in diameter and weighing 230 tonnes. The shafts were 223 metres deep and neither one deviated from the vertical by more than an inch. As a safety measure, AOSTRA constructed two parallel tunnels through the limestone. More than a kilometre in length, the tunnels were five metres wide by four metres high. The purpose of the facility was to enable researchers to perform tests in producing bitumen from horizontal wells, and the outcome was the development of

Geosteering is another critical technology that has improved fracking. In recent years, it has been given a lift by high-impact measurement-whiledrilling tools and techniques. More importantly, the industry can now isolate many completion zones in horizontal wellbores. This enables producers to use their vast hydraulic pumping systems to pump many fractures into a single production zone, making reservoir fracturing (and therefore production) possible over long distances. It’s a far cry from the fractures of Arne Nielsen’s day, which could be done only once on a vertical well. As these technologies increased in sophistication and declined in relative

microseismic monitoring provides a way to evaluate important elements of each hydraulic fracture treatment, such as vertical extend, lateral extent and fracture complexity. We can then decide when to end one fracturing stage and begin the next.” One of microseismic’s most important applications is reducing the risk of fracking fluids flowing into nontargeted areas, like groundwater aquifers. Water contamination has been a matter of considerable concern for environmentalists and the public, and widespread concern about fracking has recently brought the practice to a halt in many jurisdictions—notably Quebec in the Canadian industry. Two years ago,

In the 1950s, fracking transformed the Pembina Cardium oil discovery near Drayton Valley, Alta., from what looked like an average play into something producible and exciting—and an elephant of global proportions.

steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD), which involves injecting steam through one horizontal well into the oilsands and producing it from a parallel well just below. To produce from SAGD projects, the industry had to find or develop a number of new technologies. In the beginning, for example, drillers couldn’t drill horizontal wells from the surface. They soon found ways to do so, and horizontal drilling is now a key feature of fracking practice.The advantage of fracking from a horizontal well is that it gives the operator access to much more of the oil or gas pay zone. Today, horizontal legs many kilometres in length are being drilled—possible because of improvements in bit design, better downhole motors and bigger rigs.Another contributor to the shale gas revolution is multilateral horizontal drilling—the ability to drill several horizontal laterals from a single wellbore.

cost, they led to a fundamental change in field economics. The petroleum sector today is investing a much bigger slice of the development pie underground instead of in gathering lines and other surface facilities, for the first time.

Uncertai n future Above-ground technologies are still being developed, however. One of the key technologies is microseismic surveying—an earthquake-locating technology that has found new applications in oil and gas, specifically in monitoring fracture efficiency from the surface. In a public document, Encana Corporation recently stressed the value of microseismic: “A recently developed technology known as microseismic monitoring allows us to monitor microseismic events associated with hydraulic fracturing in three dimensions and in real time. Where it is used,

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the Quebec government responded to public outcry by announcing that, pending a review by a panel of experts, it would no longer authorize fracking in the province’s reservoirs. Environmental groups like the Pembina Institute are encouraging other provinces, like British Columbia, to also consider embargo fracking. People in the oil industry generally discount this concern. For example, Bill Gwozd, Ziff Energy Group’s senior vicepresident of gas services, notes that there are typically several kilometres of rock between the reservoir being fracked and any potable ground water. “What are the chances fracking fluids could penetrate all that rock to reach someone’s water well?” he asks. For now, industry waits to see what will become of the controversy—and the technology that has opened the door to economic production from unconventional reservoirs.

Microseismic surveying is making it easier for producers to see the subsurface results of fracking operations By Gordon Cope

n the United States, hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has reversed production declines to the point where the International Energy Agency is predicting the country will surpass Saudi Arabia in oil production by 2020, and be self-sufficient in gas production shortly thereafter. In Canada, the Alberta Geological Survey and the Alberta Energy Regulator estimate that major shale formations in the province could contain over 3,300 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, 58.6 billion barrels of natural gas liquids and 423 billion barrels of crude. But hydraulic fracturing is expensive—frequently exceeding the amount spent drilling the well itself. It is, therefore, under continual refinement to increase efficiency, reduce costs and lessen the environmental impact. One of those areas of refinement is seismic surveying—and the development of microseismic surveys. Microseismic surveys differ from their more widely known cousin, reflection seismic, in several ways. “Reflection seismic is a geophysical survey technique that uses an active source, like vibroseis trucks, to generate a controlled sweep of low-frequency vibrations, typically in the range of 2–20 hertz,” explains Iain Weir-Jones, chairman of Vancouver-based Weir-Jones Group. “These vibrations travel down into the earth and are reflected by subsurface features. The reflections are captured by an array of surface geophones, then processed to create an image of the subsurface.” On the other hand, microseismic listens for small seismic events that are generated by activity deep in the ground. The source of these seismic events can be a hydraulic fracturing operation, a mine pillar failure or naturally occurring events within the Earth’s crust. “There is a lot of acoustic energy, both high and low frequency, associated with the crack growth caused by hydraulic fracturing,” says Weir-Jones. “The high

frequency is rapidly attenuated in rock, and by 200 metres, there is not much left. Microseismic systems typically capture data in the four- to 200-hertz range.” The main goals of a microseismic survey during hydraulic fracturing are to calculate the estimated stimulated volume (the geometric space affected by the frac) and to make sure that the fracture is in the proposed production zone.

Breaking it down There are two main types of microseismic arrays: downhole and surface. The downhole array uses a set of geophones inserted into a nearby observation well so that the recording devices are as close as possible to the event. This allows for a higher signal-to-noise ratio and elimination of the effects of a weathered surface layer and surface noise, but degrades when further than 500 metres from the fracking activity. “Clearly, the closer the sensors are to the source, the better the data,” says Weir-Jones. “One has a better signal-to-noise ratio, fewer multi-path signals from fault reflections and refractions, and better frequency content in the signal.” Downhole array surveys are commonly used during the appraisal process, when an operator wants to use science— cores, logs and microseismic to optimize the frac stimulation program and maximize production. Surface arrays use geophones laid out on the surface around the fractured well. Houston-based MicroSeismic, Inc. (MSI), which pioneered the technique, uses an array called FracStar, in which the recording devices are laid out in a star pattern, each of approximately one dozen arms radiating out from the fractured well for a radius equal to the depth of the target reservoir. Surface arrays are very cost-efficient and effective when an operator is using a drill pad to drill a series of horizontal wells in close proximity, and wants to ensure that frac stages

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Microseismic has tremendous value for operators at the initial stages of unconventional resource plays. “Several years ago, we worked with a client who was just beginning to develop production in the Bakken Formation,” says Weir-Jones. “They wanted to obtain an idea of how to design their fracking program to determine the optimum spacing of the laterals. You have to design it laterally so that you don’t drill wells too far apart and risk untreated zones, or too close and waste money on overlaps. You want to ensure you’ve treated the entire volume uniformly.” The company was looking at a reservoir of approximately 10,000-foot depth. “Before the frac, we drilled three 2,000-foot wells and 18 300-foot deep holes with a water well rig and cemented arrays of geophones into them,” says Weir-Jones. “We then monitored the frac and processed the information.” Using that information, the company was able to determine the optimal lateral spacing, the length of each lateral, the number of laterals per pad, and the design of frac stages.

The three types of microseismic array: surface (top), buried (middle) and downhole (bottom).

are not interfering with adjacent wells. They are also the preferred choice when no nearby monitoring well is available. Currently, of the 12,000–20,000 stages that are monitored with microseismic each year, approximately half are downhole arrays and half are surface arrays. A third system, which inventor MSI calls BuriedArray, relies on geophones placed in shallow wells at around a 100metre depth. The recording devices are down far enough to eliminate the effects of weathered surface layer and surface noise, and can be permanently installed. “BuriedArray, which relies on approximately three wells per square kilometre, can cost-effectively appraise and monitor a field 50 square kilometres or larger in size,” says Indy Chakrabarti, vice-president of strategic marketing for MSI. “We have deployed 40 such systems in three countries.” Regardless of the array, microseismic surveys all operate in the same manner. As the frac stage commences, the reservoir rock begins to fracture and emanate an acoustic signal. The geophones continuously record and transmit the signals. Processing software then interprets the information and imaging software displays the frac as it progresses in real time. “You see a series of bubbles that represents the location of the event; the size represents the magnitude, and colors are often used to indicate the stage it occurred,” says Chakrabarti. “If there is a fault, you can clearly see it as a cluster of dots. You want to avoid faults because they suck energy away from the frac, but sometimes they are sub-seismic in nature, and weren’t picked up on the original exploration seismic survey.”

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One of the concerns regarding hydraulic fracturing—and, in fact, any subsurface activity—is artificially induced seismic events. “In the early 1960s, the U.S. army ran a 12,000-foot deep disposal well at their Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Denver, Colo.,” says Weir-Jones. “A series of minor earthquakes began in a region where they had never happened before. It was determined that the injection was the trigger.” Recently, there was a minor earthquake in the Fort St. John region of northeastern British Columbia, where shales are being stimulated for gas. “Regulatory agencies and owners of nearby assets were concerned,” says Weir-Jones. “So various agencies, led by Geoscience BC and [Natural Resources Canada], have installed higher-density seismic sensing arrays on the surface.” “One of the regulatory benefits of microseismic is that you can demonstrate the lack of seismicity associated with your operations,” says Chakrabarti. “With a microseismic array in place, you can immediately shut down the pumping if a rare event occurs. In the United Kingdom, they have mandated the installation of microseismic arrays for just this purpose.” About 400,000 frac stages are conducted annually worldwide, but only about three to five per cent are microseismic surveyed. Why so few? “If the geological environment is relatively uniform around one pad, there is a tendency to assume that it will be similar three miles down the road,” explains Weir-Jones. “On this basis, spending several hundred thousand dollars over 15 days to monitor each frac may not be cost-effective.” Microseismic usage is expected to increase, however: “One trend I think we will see is more downhole and long-term monitoring because there will be increased regulatory pressure to use permanent systems,” says Weir-Jones. “Already, in 2012, Germany started to establish comprehensive regulations to assess the risk of hydraulic fracturing and steps to mitigate them.” “There will also likely be an increase in vociferous media campaigns with claims that hydraulic fracturing has adverse effects on everything from water quality to the Stanley Cup,” says Weir-Jones. “Having the quantitative

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information to refute claims will enhance a producer’s social licence to operate. Finally, companies will realize the value of long-term information on fracture growth as the reservoir is exploited, and use that to optimize recovery.” “I think we will see more BuriedArray systems installed,” says Chakrabarti. “The industry is in primary recovery now, but it will soon be entering into secondary and tertiary recovery. They are guaranteed for 10 years, and are ideal for re-completions.”

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Future innovation “Currently, microseismic systems have a sensitivity of 24-bit resolution,” says Weir-Jones. “There is a trend toward increased sensitivity in order to lower the limit of the size of recordable events so that investigators can detect ever smaller fractures, and the early onset of adverse conditions.” “In June, we are releasing a new product called Productive-SRV [stimulated rock volume],” says Chakrabarti. “Operators tell us, ‘You are showing us how far the frac went, but I only produce from what I propped.’ We can now model an estimation of how much of the fracture was propped using information from the microseismic survey.” Valuable basis research is also underway to understand the fundamental underlying processes of microseismic. David Eaton, a professor of geophysics at the University of Calgary, and his colleagues at the University of Alberta are using borehole-monitoring equipment to conduct field tests over extended periods of time. Recently, the three-year, $1.86-million Microseismic Monitoring Microseismic data now makes it possible to calculate proppant Program, in conjunction with industry participenetration in a formation. pants, ran a full-scale field experiment. A multiwell, multi-fracturing stimulation program was conducted in a low-permeability formation in September 2012. Real-time information was gathered and The proposed microseismic visual-analysis framework has transmitted to a downtown Calgary office for processing. two main components. The first is an interactive filtering view The monitoring system will be left in place for one year, using synchronized parallel coordinates with 3-D visualizaallowing the project to gather post-stimulation and pro- tion so that the user can easily focus their work on a desired duction information over a protracted period. “Where subset of the microseismic events. The second is interactive available, our investigations incorporate other associated selection of microseismic events for estimating the stimulated types of data, including 3-D seismic, petrophysical logs reservoir volume using sketch-based interaction and modeland cores,” says Eaton. ling techniques. The visualization tools will be deployed on The program also has a second, complementary component. both desktop and interactive multi-touch display technoloMario Costa Sousa, an associate professor of computer science gies. “Our proposed framework allows a more intuitive data at the University of Calgary, is overseeing the development of manipulation and exploration by assisting expert users in microseismic visualization platforms. “Our group researches filtering/selecting/changing event attributes to guide the SRV every aspect of visualization for modelling, simulation, stimula- estimation process,” says Costa Sousa. tion, seismic and production,” he notes. “We were asked by Dr. “Hydraulic fracturing is all about moving hydrocarbons Eaton to help take the time-data set generated by the microseis- more effectively and efficiently to the wellbore,” says mic study and create ways of visualizing it in 3-D.” Matthews. “But for all we understand about microseismic Costa Sousa and his team are working on a new set of monitoring technology, the list of questions about what the interactive tools that combine existing and novel visualiza- microseismic events are really telling us about the subsurface tion techniques. “The main goal is to provide expert users is almost endless. Although microseismic has been deployed with a more integrated visual analysis environment so they in the oil and gas industry for almost a decade, it still requires can interact, manipulate, explore and gain new insights con- fundamental research to help find answers to problems assocerning complex microseismic data.” ciated with our basic understanding of the technology.”

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f you want information about Telamonn Energy Services Inc., you’re mostly out of luck—the company is so new that the data available is sketchy. Which is too bad because the company could be a groundbreaking model for Canadians wanting to export expertise to a booming China. Telamonn’s chief scientist is Victoria-based Michael Dawson, who served as president of the Calgary-based Canadian Society for Unconventional Resources (CSUR) until last October. CSUR originated two decades ago as an association of corporations interested in coalbed methane development. Today, it’s one of the world’s ranking sources of technical information on unconventional resources like shale gas and shale oil. And right now, China needs these technologies so the country can become less dependent on coal. “The pollution in many large Chinese cities is staggering,” explains Dawson. “China knows that that’s not sustainable. They know they can’t continue to grow their economy at the expense of the environment and the people. So they are quite keen on energy substitution.”

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Also important is that northern China, which contains most of the country’s coal and coal-fired power plants, has barely one-fifth of the country’s water. Increasingly, that region is thirsty for water. By contrast, shale gas prospects occur in less arid parts of China. Although shale gas production does consume a great deal of water, many of the country’s shale gas prospects can secure abundant supplies from local lakes, rivers and groundwater. According to the International Energy Agency, China’s shale gas potential is greater than its potential for conventional gas. In 2010, China targeted 30 billion cubic metres of shale gas reserves. Several foreign firms, including Royal Dutch Shell plc, soon applied for shale gas production-sharing contracts. In March of this year, Shell received official approval for its first project. To heat up the temperature last year, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama announced a “U.S.-China shale gas initiative.” In effect, the Americans would provide knowledge in exchange for investment opportunities. Canada was now on the wrong foot. To be a success, Dawson’s plan now needs to steal a march on the Yankees.

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Pollution problems To put that plan in context, some background: traditionally, China’s central government has allocated petroleum rights to three major national oil companies—PetroChina Company Limited, China National Offshore Oil Corporation and SINOPEC, each of which trades on major global stock markets. While the central government regulates natural gas prices in China, municipalities also play a role. In a recent commentary, the People’s Daily worried about price increases for the product, for which residential consumers in some districts now pay the equivalent of 40 cents per cubic metre. Issued at year-end 2010, China’s 12th Five-Year Plan focused on energy conservation and environmental remediation—notably through large reductions in CO2 pollutants. A future planet suffering from greenhouse gas–induced global warming is not a top-of-mind concern for many Chinese. What does matter is the existence of cities and communities in which people are choking in pollution created by burning coal. Another worry is that most of the country’s coal-fired power plants exist in the coal-rich north, where water is scarce.

“To achieve their energy-substitution goals, they are going to have to swap out coal-fired electrical generation plants with facilities based on natural gas,” says Dawson. “They also need to be more compliant with international concerns on the environment. To do this, they are making efforts to find other sources of energy.” The big gas-import deals China has signed “are steps to help clean up the environmental pollution. They know that Beijing has some of the dirtiest air quality in the world,” he says. Dawson believes the recently signed Gazprom deal between Russia and China—a 30-year deal that will export 38 billion to 60 billion cubic metres of natural gas from Siberian fields via China National Petroleum Corporation—was “quite a big one, but it’s really just a drop in the bucket compared to what the Chinese need to meet their energy needs.” Shale gas development represents another step in the environmental cleanup. To make that happen, China needed a novel approach to issuing permits for shale resources. Accordingly, the central government made 20 shale gas blocks (roughly 400 square kilometres each), available to “smaller entities” within the country. To buy these blocks, companies

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China’s shale gas potential is greater than its potential for conventional gas. In 2010, China targeted 30 billion cubic metres of shale gas reserves.

To deal with those economic issues, Dawson formed a group that has been described as a “shale gas SWAT team.” In effect an alternative to the American shale gas initiative, the Telamonn scheme comprises a freelance group of earth scientists, engineers and other technical specialists that Dawson assembles into teams as needed as he develops Chinese contracts. “We are an amalgamation of smaller consultancies that probably wouldn’t be able to compete on a global scale by ourselves,” he says. “Ours is an alliance of consultancies with special skills in the shale gas industry. Together, we can provide a service package that is suitable for global competition,” says Dawson. “This alliance can provide fully integrated services for shale gas exploration—specifically for China, but potentially for global exploration as well. [Telamonn] is quite small; there are just a few major shareholders, like myself. The technical

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He gets animated when he talks about the possibilities. “I’ve been to China many times. I’m mainly going there to participate in business development meetings.” With a grimace, he says the meetings can be exhausting. “The Chinese want to absorb as much western knowledge as possible. Getting hammered with technical questions during a lengthy meeting is an experience unto itself—especially when there’s a translator in the middle of it.” Then he gets back on message. “With our business model, we can help them bring in the right equipment or make sure the equipment they are using is applicable for this kind of development. The reality is that in the early stages, there are key technologies they don’t yet have. We specify the tools they would need to acquire for the project.”

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had to be of a certain size and had SONGLIAO to have expertise in dealing with BASIN ERLIAN this kind of asset. BASIN This was easier said than done: the permit holders include BOHAI power generators, heavy industry BASIN JUNGGAR BASIN manufacturers and big industrial gas users, for example, and they ORDOS have little to no shale gas experTARIM BASIN BASIN tise. “They have to meet certain government edicts about power NORTH CHINA BASIN generation and air pollution, and SICHUAN this is how they have chosen to do BASIN that,” Dawson explains. BOYANG BASIN Indeed, many of these “entities” can’t even assess their new properties—much less develop SOURCE: PACWEST CONSULTING PARTNERS LLC them. “It’s still a question,” says China has extensive shale gas potential, but the resource is spread across massive Dawson, “whether they have areas in remote and generally arid regions of the country. acquired really good greenfields prospects or just moose pasture.” Ever the experts in moose pasture, this is where Canadians alliance team consists of 10 or 12 individuals, who are all individual consultants in their own right.” enter the picture. Because all of the technical teams in his alliance are funcA key factor in Dawson’s business model is to mobilize Canadian shale gas expertise. Because of fracking concerns tioning consulting firms, Telamonn’s business model is the in eastern Canada, for example, and the glut of gas across key to success in Dawson’s view. “We bring in the appropriate the continent, the market for Canada’s shale gas expertise is people when and where necessary to provide the technical expertise required on a specific project. We could provide unfairly in a funk, according to Dawson. “Canadian expertise in this area is undervalued,” he says. fully integrated exploration services, for example, from con“Yet, much of the innovation that is so critical for uncon- ception through completion and development.” Of course, ventional resource development had its origin right here. “you may not need that.” The entrepreneurial attitude of Canadians is very strong; there is a lot of expertise here, yet we have an economic disadvantage for producing shale natural gas for the North American market.”

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As Dawson explains it, shale gas production is supported by a three-legged stool, the legs of which are horizontal drilling, multistage fracking and microseismic. “The foundation of unconventional development is to increase your contact with hydrocarbon-bearing rocks,” he says. “The best way to do that is with horizontal drilling. The second component is hydraulic fracturing to stimulate the entire horizontal leg of the wellbore. The third part is microseismic, which lets you know what you’ve done. Microseismic gives you constant feedback on how you’ve done underground. Being able to observe what you’re doing underground in real time allows you to be very effective in stimulating the wellbore.” Three-legged stools generally require flat surfaces if they are to be comfortable. Shale gas requires pipeline infrastructure, and many of China’s shale gas prospects don’t yet have pipeline connections to industrial users. “[That’s] one of the challenges you face in some of these shale blocks,” Dawson says. “There isn’t any infrastructure you can actually tie into if you are successful with one of these plays. We know where the cities and the major shale gas prospects are. Clearly, in some cases there is going to have to be enhanced infrastructure in order to provide those pathways for the transmission of natural gas.” Dawson has no doubt the country can resolve its infrastructure issues. “China’s going to be an importer of petroleum for a long while. The economy is still really strong: we talk about a slowdown there, yet they are still growing by anywhere from five to eight per cent per year.” Much has been made of China’s new status as the world’s second-largest economy. But let’s put that in context: According to the World Bank, “China remains a developing country and its market reforms are incomplete.” In 2011, per capita income stood at $4,940—114th in the world. More than 170 million people still live below the international poverty line, officially defined as $1.25 per person per day; only India has a larger number of poor. Dawson seems unconcerned: “Capitalism is doing quite well in China, thank you very much. In the next 10 years, we are going to see 350 million people moving from rural areas into the cities. The amount of infrastructure development going on right now to support that urbanization process is huge.” Ready to wrap up the interview, Dawson stresses again that members of his team have all worked in the industry for long periods of time. “We all understand that shale gas development is capital intensive. You need a well-thought-out policy if you’re going to people and asking for hundreds of millions of dollars. Our approach of having an alliance of professionals ranging from geoscience to petrophysics to logistics can help us build a strategy for success. We can provide an integrated approach where geoscience and engineering all come together. We can add to our unconventional resources expertise a well-developed exploration strategy that will enable us to marry all this together.”

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Buffeted by controversy, producers are trying to calm the waters with new fracking technologies that reduce environmental impact

ydraulic fracturing has revolutionized the oil and gas sector. Now it must revolutionize itself. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has been a tremendous boon to the oil and gas industry. Over the last decade, the stimulation technology has combined with advances in horizontal drilling to turn formerly unproductive shales throughout North America into hydrocarbon juggernauts. But rapid growth in the use of fracking in regions where the practice is poorly understood or misrepresented could lead to its curtailment. The future of fracking will depend not only on greater transparency from the oil and gas sector, but also on an exponential shift in the very technology that makes fracking so successful—a shift to green.

N EW TRICKS Various forms of fracking have been performed successfully for over half a century, but the modern process incorporates several advances. Once a well is drilled and cement-cased, a service company lowers a perforation gun on a coiled tubing string to the reservoir interval and sets off explosive charges that create perforations in the casing. The perforation gun is then withdrawn in order to perform the frac. On the surface, a large fleet of trucks and pumps is assembled around the wellhead, and temporary holding ponds are dug. Water is then mixed with proppant (a material like sand that holds the fractures open) and proprietary chemicals (to reduce viscosity and allow further penetration). The mixture is then

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pumped down the hole at high pressure, fracturing the rigid shale reservoir sufficiently to allow large volumes of trapped hydrocarbons to escape. Using the technique, explorers first targeted the gas-rich Texas Barnett Shale in the early 2000s.Today, the Barnett produces approximately five billion cubic feet per day. Louisiana’s Haynesville Formation, the Fayetteville Shale of Arkansas, and Pennsylvania’s and New York’s Marcellus Shale also hold tremendous resources. The new unconventional plays have bolstered dry natural gas production in the United States, raising it from 48 billion cubic feet per day in 2005 to over 65 billion cubic feet per day in 2012. Explorers are now targeting liquids-rich shales. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that the Bakken Formation in the Williston Basin beneath North Dakota and neighbouring states contains 7.38 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil. Production of light, sweet crude has risen from 100,000 barrels per day in 2005 to over 770,000 barrels per day by the end of 2012. In Texas, production in the Eagle Ford Shale Formation has grown from virtually nothing at the beginning of 2010 to over 700,000 barrels per day by the end of 2012. And the shale revolution is expected to continue for decades. A report commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute (API), estimates that the oil and gas industry could spend US$5.1 trillion in cumulative capital expenditures on unconventional resources between now and 2035, create 3.5 million jobs, and add more than US$2.5 trillion in cumulative added federal, state and local tax receipts.

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GREEN CHANGES In early 2012, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers announced a new set of hydraulic fracturing guidelines. The industry will publicly post all frac additives on a well-by-well basis, conduct groundwater testing to establish baseline domestic quality and monitor for changes, and improve wellbore quality. Companies will also manage frac fluids, flow-back frac water and all frac wastes. In the United States, the White House has formed the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Subcommittee on Shale Gas Production to ensure that shale gas is produced in an environmentally safe manner. The Environmental Protection Agency will examine the full cycle of frac water, from acquisition to mixing and the post-frac stage (at which point produced water must be managed and properly disposed of). Michigan, Texas, Wyoming and Colorado now require operators to submit plans regarding freshwater sources, the chemicals being used in frac water and the volume of water recovered. Industry has been promoting understanding of the practice through education efforts and public announcements. The API has established five fracking standards, including well integrity, water management, mitigating surface impacts and environmental protection. Operators are also actively seeking alternatives to potable water usage. In northeastern British Columbia, Royal Dutch Shell plc will use treated waste water from the Dawson Creek Reclaimed Water treatment facility to provide source water for hydraulic fracturing of the Upper Montney Shale.A 48-kilometre pipe will move up to 4000 cubic metres per day of treated water

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to holding ponds at Shell’s Groundbirch gas field, where the company plans to drill 3,000 wells over the next two decades. Non-hazardous additives are also being developed. Most health concerns regarding frac chemicals centre on diesel fluid, which can degrade into benzene and has been associated with cancer. Chesapeake Energy Corporation, one of the largest natural gas producers, is experimenting with frac fluids composed solely of environmentally benign components. Halliburton recently developed a new frac fluid, called CleanStim, which contains safe, food-industry ingredients and is marketed as adding “an extra margin of safety to people, animals and the environment, in the unlikely occurrence of an incident at a drilling site.” Operators are also working to reduce the amount of water used in fracking. Halliburton launched the RapidFrac system, a production sleeve technology that uses a ball to open multiple sleeves per production interval. During a frac, a single ball opens multiple sleeves isolated within an interval by swellable packers. Up to 90 sleeves can be incorporated into any one horizontal completion, ensuring maximized stimulated

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For all of its benefits, hydraulic fracturing has also attracted significant criticism—especially concerning water usage. Hydraulic fracturing uses four million litres per stage; 10 stages equal a total of 40 million litres of water for a single well. In regions where fracking is common, water scarcity is a major concern. In Texas, there are few limitations to groundwater withdrawal, and several districts have experienced serious drawdown in potable water aquifers.The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently estimated that the amount of water consumed annually by oil and gas exploration is around 6.6 billion cubic metres, or the amount used by the entire U.S. population in 50 days. And the IEA expects that volume to double in the next 25 years, making water usage in fracs an even greater concern. A percentage of water from each frac is also flushed back to the surface, but it often contains contaminants, and must be cleaned before it can be discharged or reused. A small part of each injection—approximately one litre per 1,000—also contains chemicals that have been linked to causing cancer, and there are concerns that the contaminated water might escape wells and invade drinking aquifers. Understandably, this has raised concerns from environmentalists, the public and regulators around the world. Several states have enacted legislation restricting hydraulic fracturing. New York temporarily banned fracking of the prolific Marcellus Shale before announcing a new set of regulations in July. Several jurisdictions, including Quebec and France, have instigated blanket bans. Should public sentiment against fracking grow to the point where bans are widespread, fracking could potentially come to an end.

Regardless of technological innovations, most industry participants expect stricter water management regulations. reservoir volume. The system cuts down traditional perforateand-fracture procedure time by 50 per cent, and reduces water use to a small portion of what is normally used. During a hydraulic fracture, 10 per cent or more of the water can return to surface once the well is switched to production mode. Service companies are designing portable equipment that can be used on site to recycle produced frac water. Aqua-Pure Ventures Inc. has developed the NOMAD 2000, a mechanical vapour recompression evaporator mounted on truck-transportable skids. The units heat the fluid until the water turns to steam and separates from contaminants. GE has also developed a 50-gallon-per-minute mobile evaporator system for shale gas that can be relocated to multiple individual sites. Operators are also setting up their own water recycling plants. WPX Energy Limited, which operates more than 4,000 natural gas wells in western Colorado with an average of 712 million cubic feet per day production, uses up to 40,000 barrels per day of water in fracking operations.The region is quite arid, however, and competition for water is intense. In order to meet its needs in an environmentally responsible manner, the company has developed infrastructure to collect virtually all of its frac water for recycling. The water is first treated in the field at a four-phase separator. Some of the water can

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5 billion cubic feet: Daily production from the Barnett Shale

US$5.1 trillion: Expected spend on unconventional resources between now and 2035

3.5 million: Number of jobs created by

US$2.5 trillion:

Amount of taxes that U.S. state, federal and local governments could receive cumulatively from unconventional resource development between now and 2035

17 billion cubic feet: Increase in daily production of dry natural gas in the United States since 2005

670 barrels per day: Increase in daily production of light, sweet crude in the United States since 2005

7.38 billion barrels: Amount of technically recoverable oil in the Williston Basin

40 million litres: Amount of water consumed by a 10-stage hydraulic fracture SOURCE: AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

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be used directly on site, but most is piped to one of the treatment facilities. There, the water first goes into a covered tank to capture volatile compounds before it is sent to a second tank for gravity separation of oil. The water is then subjected to dissolved air flotation, where bubbles of air float solids, hydrocarbons, biomass and silts to the surface for skimming. Once cleaned, the water can be delivered by pipe to any one of several well pads. According to the company, the process has resulted in a 95 per cent reduction in truck traffic and a 60 per cent reduction in water costs, as well as numerous awards from the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. NEXT Legacy Technologies Inc., an Alberta-based service company, is another company who has come up with a system that uses a smaller amount of water for frackingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;only ten gallons of water versus the usual ten million. The company has also replaced the chemicals in its frac water with benign organic compounds. The mix is placed into the reservoir zone at low pressure. The compound reacts with the reservoir rock, increasing permeability through exothermic and kinetic action. Tests proved that the technology could increase production from under 20 barrels per day to over 180 barrels per day. A test partner was sufficiently impressed with the process to agree to a multi-year, multi-billion dollar contract. Companies are also improving fuel consumption in drilling and fracking equipment. One of the most significant steps is switching fuels from diesel to natural gas on drilling and service rigs. Industry studies have shown a significant reduction in CO2, volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxide emissions when compared to diesel. Natural gas rigs are also quieter and virtually odourless. Approximately five per cent of drilling rigs are now bi-fuel: Seneca Resources Corporation, based in Pennsylvania, has two bi-fuel rigs operating in the Marcellus Shale, and EQT Corporation has two bi-fuel drilling rigs operating in West Virginia that use on-site natural gas. EQT notes that the two rigs alone will create savings of US$400,000 per year in fuel costs. On the flip side, currently less than one per cent of hydraulic fracturing rigs are bi-fuel equipped. In 2012, the service sector

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used more than 700 million gallons of diesel to stimulate wells, spending approximately US$2.4 billion. Apache Corp. estimates that it could reduce fuel costs significantly, and is working with Halliburton and Schlumberger to implement bi-fuel frac systems. The team has conducted several successful tests in Oklahoma, and estimates that energy costs for each frac were reduced from US$123,000 to US$74,000. What will the future hold? Regardless of technological innovations, most industry participants expect stricter water management regulations. In Alberta’s oilsands, regulations effectively limit the use of fresh water and encourage increased reuse of produced water. The regulations and economics for hydraulic fracturing operations associated with shale gas and shale oil are still rapidly evolving, but are already emerging. In Pennsylvania, the state has imposed regulations that limit the discharge of waste water to surface waters if the salinity exceeded 500 parts per million. Operators have to truck saline water out of state for disposal via deep well injection, or recover, clean and reuse the produced water. Operators and service companies will also take a more holistic approach to fracking. The Environmentally Friendly Drilling (EFD) program was established in 2005 by the nonprofit Houston Advanced Research Center and the Global Petroleum Research Institute at Texas A&M University. The EFD program has devised a drilling guidebook that takes six major environmental attributes—Air, Water, Waste Management, Biodiversity, Site Handling and Societal Issues—and establishes specific metrics that can be credited to the entire well process. The EFD program hopes to officially launch the guidebook at the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference being held in Denver this August. In the longer term, the EFD team sees the sector taking a much more active approach to the environment. “Over the last several years, safety has become a core value in the oil and gas sector,” says Richard Haut, EFD program director and HARC senior research scientist. “Right now, environmental awareness is a priority, but our goal is to establish it as a core value as well, right from the field to the boardroom.”

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he Horn River Basin saw its first record frac in 2010, when Apache Corporation completed an impressive 274 frac stages in 111 days on a 16-well pad. Leaving this precedent in the dust, Nexen Inc. has since performed 330 fracs in 52 days, which they believe to be the most completions activity accomplished in that time frame in the world. Though industry has been using fracturing technology for 60 years, never before has it been applied so intensively in such a short period of time. But bragging rights are beside the point—of much more significance is the fact that a new bar has been set for capturing efficiencies through fewer drilling days and optimized completion practices, while ensuring the work is done in a safe and environmentally responsible manner. With terms like “boom,” “revolution” and “game changer” being bandied about, it’s easy to embrace the appearance of abundance while overlooking the many challenges of shale gas production. The shale gale—to use yet another superlative

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phrase—may be transforming our energy landscape, but it hasn’t exactly been a breeze for producers. Given that the permeability of shale is less than 0.1 per cent of conventional reservoir rock, shale plays like Horn River demand highly intensive hydraulic fracturing programs to crack the gas-bearing shale rock zones and substantially increase the contact area with the shale rock. As natural gas prices drop, the economic production of shale gas demands finding high-potential resources and then developing them in the most efficient way possible—while also meeting stakeholder and regulatory demand for safety and minimizing environmental impacts. On first count, Nexen recognized the potential of shale gas early, and in 2006 it began acquiring large blocks of high-quality acreage in the Horn River Basin. As for how they maximize efficiencies, it’s a matter of taking the standard formula—horizontal drilling plus hydraulic fracturing—and turbocharging it. “We’re always asking ourselves if there’s something we can be doing differently, better or smarter,” says Peter Chernik, program

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Production efficiencies make record fracs—along with improved production—in the Horn River Basin possible By Leisa Vescarelli

manager at Nexen. “On this project, the northeast B.C. team has been asking themselves those questions for over three years, and the results have been progressively demonstrated.”

Astoun di ng results Even in comparison to the once record-holding Apache job, Nexen’s numbers on pad B-77-H/94-B-8 are astounding. Between Jun. 30 and Aug. 21, 2012, Nexen completed 330 multiple large-volume slickwater fracture treatments on an 18-well pad using plug-and-perforate technology (with multiple perforation clusters per frac stage), while placing some 1,260 tonnes of sand and 16,300 cubic metres of water per day. “The goal is to maximize reservoir surface area contact [well productivity] at a minimum cost,” says Chernik. “We’re driving down costs and increasing efficiency—a critical element of delivering gas to markets given current low commodity pricing.” Chernik adds that efficiency also means keeping a keen eye on operational excellence, with improvements in site safety and environmental performance being key.

Though the marathon frac session took only 52 days, Nexen has been active in the region since 2008. Drilling the 18 wells on B-77-H alone was an 11-month undertaking. The Horn River Basin is relatively undeveloped and lies within the northern boreal ecosystem, dominated by bog and wetlands intermixed with small upland areas, resulting in significant additional resources needed to build all-weather roads and the drill pad site. A continuous frac operation of this magnitude and duration also requires massive amounts of water. In this case, Nexen obtained a water licence and was able to use a series of borrow pits to catch the bulk of the water required during spring freshet and store it for fracking purposes. The multi-pad approach presents a multitude of efficiency advantages. Nexen notes that this one surface location (with 18 wells) develops more than 3.5 square miles of reservoir in the subsurface. This pad development concept has reduced overall surface impact to three per cent in terms of initial disturbance and one per cent in terms of long-term impact items, such as pad area and road area used for the life of

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RECORD FRACS

Frac stages: 274 Average fracs per day: 2.5

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Held by: Nexen Inc. Frac stages: 330

Days: 111 (Jan. 7 to Apr. 27, 2010) Number of wells: 16

Days: 52 (Jun. 30 to Aug. 21, 2012) Average fracs per day: 6.3 Number of wells: 18

Location: 70-K/94-O-8 (British Columbia) Total water used: 890,300 cubic metres Average water per frac: 3,249 cubic metres Frac sand used: 45,3598 tonnes Average sand per frac: 165 tonnes

the producing well. If 18 individual well pads had been used, the disturbance would have been eight per cent and six per cent, respectively. Ultimately, Nexen averaged 6.3 fracs per day in their 2012 completion program, and production from these 18 wells added in excess of 140 million cubic feet per day of gas production. “What was unique was both the rate and efficiency of the operations,” says Chernik. “We were performing multiple operations concurrently on the pad, including pump downs associated with the fracking, the fracs themselves, drilling plugs at the same time as we were

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Location: B-77-H/94-B-8 (British Columbia) Total water used: 847,600 cubic metres Average water per frac: 2,569 cubic metres Frac sand used: 65,519 tonnes Average sand per frac: 199 tonnes

fracking, doing a coil-tubing well repair and conducting well flowbacks.” This required tremendous advanced planning to ensure that the work was executed safely. It was a masterfully synchronized and rapidly executed job—but by no means an easy one. Rotating teams both on site and in Calgary worked 24-7 for the full 52 days to pull off the job efficiently and safely. “An awful lot of monitoring was also involved to ensure integrity both in terms of wellbore and surface piping,” says Chernik, “but at the end of the day, we know that we are leading the way in achieving these efficiencies.”

| Pad Drilling

more wells, more

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Multi-well pads bring efficiencies to unconventional resource development By Daniela Trnka

hile many companies in the industry have already strongly embraced the practice of multiple-well pads, a report published in May 2012 suggests that the technique could be employed to a higher degree— particularly in unconventional resource development. Jointly authored by the Canadian Society for Unconventional Resources, the Canadian Energy Research Institute and the Petroleum Services Association of Canada, the study suggests that drilling and completing more than one well from a single pad is a cost-effective method for improving productivity, especially where formations tend to be laterally pervasive and require technologies such as horizontal drilling and multistage fracturing to yield economic volumes of hydrocarbons. Paramount Resources Ltd. is one of those companies that has embraced multiwell pad drilling and has begun expanding its drilling program in northwestern Alberta. For Paramount, the attraction of multi-well pads is to not only maximize resource recovery, but to also minimize their environmental footprint and costs, and gain better capital efficiencies. With assets mainly in the Muzreau/ Smokey/Resthaven area located between Grande Prairie, Alta., and Grande Cache, Alta., Paramount’s Kaybob business unit has drilled numerous two-well pads but, up until now, only a single five-well pad (drilled with a conventional drilling rig). The company’s expanded program will include a four-well pad and another fivewell pad, each with a new and dedicated fit-for-purpose walkable rig.

Growth by n um bers Paramount began their pad-drilling program with two wells drilled back to back

in 2008, explains Darrel Purdy, corporate operating officer of the Kaybob unit for Paramount. Soon after, the company began coming back to existing leases with vertical wellbores and expanding them slightly if needed, which resulted in using less incremental land than adding a new lease would, and drilling one or two additional wells on the expanded leases. These were often horizontal wells drilled below the next section over, to recover a portion of the resource under those neighbouring lands. Over the 2008-12 time frame, Purdy says the company drilled six to 10 pads, some of those being new pads with typically two wells on them, or a pad where they came back and drilled one or more additional wells off an existing, expanded lease. In late 2012 and into 2013, Paramount accelerated its pace of development and is now actively drilling multi-well pads. While Paramount has historically pursued shallower rights in the Cretaceous zone, in the past five years it has also been acquiring deeper Montney rights. Paramount is currently drilling a five-well pad with three horizontal wells targeting the deeper Montney formation and two horizontal wells targeting the shallower Falher formation. “In the Montney, we know we’re going to find it, we just don’t know what the true measured depth will be to the tops of the formation. We need to learn that and then go drill it,” says Purdy. “In the Cretaceous, a little bit of where we choose our pads is trying to minimize our surface footprint, so we’re trying to put a pad where we can capture the Cretaceous zones that we may be chasing, but also drill some Montney wells.” “Our drilling team’s objective is to drill a quality hole in the least number

of days because, to a large extent, the well cost is directly proportional to the drilling time,” says Purdy. “The use of the walking rigs is just another opportunity to reduce the number of days to drill a well. The walking rig allows for the drilling of all the surface holes with water-based fluids, and then switching the mud tanks to a hydrocarbon-based fluid [to drill intermediate holes and then the lateral horizontals], saving you time, particularly when you can move from one hole to the next in two hours or less,” explains Purdy.

Com pleti ng th e ci rcle On the completions side, Purdy says Paramount will see further savings in bringing in all of the pumping equipment, fluid and tanks for multiple fracs on the pad. “We would fracture stimulate two wells almost back to back—one in the morning, and one in the afternoon, for example—and then produce them both back in parallel testing units that evening,” says Purdy. “You can start to see efficiencies with just the reduction in the mobilization and demobilization of all that equipment and fluid.” Purdy also calculates that multi-well pads require less than one half the land per well, compared to a typical singlewell lease, and, he adds, there is a further reduction in land use by using a single road and pipeline right-of-way. Additional efficiencies are captured by having a consistent crew working on a fit-for-purpose rig that will only drill multiple-well pads. He expects the crew to get better as they work on additional pads. “We kind of joke about becoming a manufacturing business,” suggests Purdy. “It’s about as close as we’re going to get in this industry, and you can see that from the decrease in some of our drilling times.”

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| Water Treatment

Too much

Could the availability of freshwater sources be slowing water treatment technology development in Canada? By Daniela Trnka

evere water scarcity, protection of freshwater sources and cost savings may not always go hand in hand, but all three are current motivations for development of water treatment technologies across North America. The water produced by oil and gas production is typically not suitable for reuse—it contains a variety of formation sediment (salts, hydrocarbons, naturally occurring radioactive material) and drilling additives (drilling and frac fluids)—but polishing, or treating the water for reuse, is becoming more and more common. Unfortunately, polishing source water is a delicate art, as each well’s flowback stream is unique and each operator’s quality requirements are different. Each polishing method also has it’s drawbacks: using chemical additives to treat source water prepares the liquid for reuse, but the flowback stream itself may contain high levels of total dissolved solids, making additional water conditioning necessary before the water is usable. The treatment of flowback water from oil fracs has become much more prevalent due to the slowdown in natural gas production. “In an oil play you’ll want to have methodology for the removal of free-phase hydrocarbons, which, for the most part, is something you don’t have to worry about too much on the gas flowback side. On the flipside, though, we’re seeing less salinity on the oil fracs compared to the gas side flowbacks,” says Kevin Slough, president of Calgary-based Filterboxx Water and Environmental Corp. For both oil and gas flowback waters, “the primary contaminants of concern are similar in that you still have suspended solids, but also sparingly soluble

salts, essentially scale-forming materials like barium, strontium, sulphates, that type of thing,” says Slough. Filterboxx’s newest frac water treatment system will customize water treatment methods in combination with physical membrane systems, electrocoagulation and other processes to remove solids. The end result is fully polished water ready for reuse. Tom Whalen, vice-president of water management at Baker Hughes Incorporated, says his team is approaching water management from two angles. “From the water management portfolio perspective, I have the resources and capabilities to treat water and polish it, to accomplish whatever the customer’s needs are,” he says. “On the other hand, I also have chemists in my laboratory who work to customize compatible frac fluids, so there are different things we can do with the water from a frac fluid composition perspective that allow us to use poorer quality water or higher [total dissolved solids] water,” he says. The advantage of combining these services is that it allows Baker Hughes to treat the source water just enough, and not more than is necessary to conduct a successful frac, says Whalen. “The more [water] treatment you have, typically there’s some form of energy consumption needed to treat the water, or other input costs,” he says. “So, that’s where you find your optimum value for the customer, somewhere in the middle there’s a sweet spot between water treatment and frac fluid formulation. There [are] lots of companies out there that have different technologies to treat water with the perception that they have to take it to a quality that really isn’t necessary, and that quality adds cost,” he adds.

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Polishing source water is a delicate art, as each well’s flowback stream is unique and each operator’s quality requirements are different. Whalen says that his team is active in every unconventional play in North America, but that the prevalence for the reuse and recycling of water in Canada is not at the same level as it is in the United States. “We have equipment based in Canada and we’re doing pilot work, but we’re not scaled up like we are in the U.S.,” he says. Whalen compliments the regulatory environment in Canada, but suggests that there is less of a driving force for companies to recycle in Canada. “It’s driven more by certain geographies and certain locations where there are constraints,” he says, referring to sourcing water in Canada. “Sometimes it’s driven by how far our customers have to go to get water and dispose of the water. The logistics and the trucking cost components play a huge role.”

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inclined Multilateral wells could become the way of the future for draining tight formations By Daniela Trnka

ingle horizontal, multistaged fractured wells have become the status quo, so much so that the time it takes to drill and frac these wells has decreased by half in the last few years. As horizontal drilling and fracturing become mainstream, single horizontals are becoming less adequate to drain a tight formation, and multilateral technology can help. Multilateral wells are vertical wellbores where two or more lateral wellbores are directionally drilled off a single main vertical wellbore to maximize exposure to the formation and thus improve production and maximize formation drainage. Multilaterals provide the means to work within a limited surface access area, leaving a smaller footprint while tapping into a larger area in the formation from a single-surface location. The costs and impacts are smaller than if drilling off larger well pads or from multiple-well pads. One operator currently drilling tight oil bilateral wells in the Saskatchewan Bakken is Lightstream Resources Ltd. (formerly PetroBakken Energy Ltd.). Implementing its third-generation completion technique called Bakken 3.0, Lightstream is drilling bilateral horizontal wells with 15 fractures per leg, which the company says has down-spaced its Bakken acreage in a more capital-efficient manner and has become their standard drilling and completions method for the majority of its light oil Bakken wells. While not a new technique in enhancing conventional resource extraction, Doug Durst, global technical adviser for multilateral solutions at Halliburton, has been seeing increased interest in the

process, and how it can improve tight and shale oil and gas extraction. “There are a number of reasons for using multilaterals,” he says. “I think a lot of operators are going to be looking at them for reducing costs. They have developed a streamlined drilling and completions process for drilling horizontal wells in shale and tight oil and gas plays, but I still think they are looking for additional ways to reduce costs. So they’re thinking, if I can drill one vertical section and then drill two or more laterals, I can save costs,” Durst explains. Durst predicts that a lot of operators are so used to drilling and completing horizontal wells and getting their production on stream quickly, that they are a little apprehensive about how much more time and cost a multilateral well would require. “Most operators are in that early stage of trying to evaluate and determine if this is something they truly want to do,” says Durst. “I think economics will be a big driver,” he adds. Efficient and cost-effective multilateral programs will require the operators and service companies to work closely together in the upfront planning process and are most useful when used as part of a multi-well development program. “Operators should really consider doing multilaterals on a multi-well basis,” adds Durst. “Once their crews and their staff work through the process of executing a multilateral well with a service company, as they repeat the process, they will have it just as streamlined as they now have it with these [single] horizontal wells.” Another driver for multilaterals is that producers have more than one formation that they’d like to tap into. “In a

number of these plays, they have different formations that they could access, and right now they’re just drilling into one of those formations,” he says. Many producers have heard of multilaterals, are drawn to the potential efficiencies and are now asking the more technical questions, such as whether re-entering the wellbore and adding a lateral can be done. “Technically, it’s not a big issue; it’s as simple as side-tracking a well,” Durst says. “The key to these shale or tight oil or gas wells is that when you do more than one lateral off the main bore, because you are stimulating at such high pressures, you have to isolate the lateral that you are stimulating from the other laterals, which can be done with highpressure completion equipment. And there’s a few things you have to do in the well construction, but that’s all, again, technically doable,” he says. Additional benefits to employing a multi-well multilateral program include cutting costs by drilling fewer surface and intermediate holes, and by reducing casing installation; requiring less cementing work, fewer upper wellbore completion components, fewer wellheads and fewer pipelines at the surface, and less surface preparation; and more efficient use of drilling rigs, service rigs, and frac equipment. Both shorter project times and a smaller surface footprint disturbance compared to drilling individual wells can also lead to significant savings, particularly in seasonally restricted or environmentally sensitive areas. “Ultimately, efficiencies and economics are much better as a multi-well (multilateral) program, as assets, consumables and service costs are more efficiently spread over multiple wells,” says Durst.

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Opening

Enhanced oil recovery means longer well life for producers in the Bakken By Daniela Trnka

he sheer size of the Bakken tight oil play is impressive—the portion overlying southeastern Saskatchewan alone is estimated to hold 25 billion to 100 billion barrels of light sweet crude oil in place. Active since only about 2005, Bakken production continues to grow quickly, with current production of about 70,000 barrels of oil per day, which accounts for over half of current light oil production in Saskatchewan. The Bakken, however, comes with challenges, namely the steep decline rates of its wells. Multistage fracturing can help improve recovery rates, but it still only allows for a very small portion of the resource to be extracted. Producers in the Bakken are therefore turning to secondary enhanced oil recovery (EOR) to help prolong the life of wells. Secondary recovery refers to flooding a formation through a separate injection well in order to increase the reservoir pressure, which pushes oil out of the play through the producing well. The two main flooding alternatives are water or gas. Water can be enhanced with water-soluble chemicals such as polymers or surfactants, and gas such as CO2 can be used alone or blended with field gas, methane or propane.

Weigh i ng th e options The Petroleum Technology Research Centre (PTRC), based in Regina, is a consortium of government, researchers and private sector partners that funds leading-edge EOR research. The PTRC, under its Sustainable Technologies for Energy Production Systems program, is leading research projects aimed at better understanding unconventional EOR.

Some of the PTRC research suggests that, while CO2 injection may, in fact, be a more suitable option than water due to CO2’s ability to penetrate tight oil formations, a characteristic referred to as the formation’s injectivity, along with the flooding mechanisms and the performance of CO2 in the Bakken are not yet fully understood. Richard Baker, chief technical officer at Baker Hughes Reservoir Services, has worked with almost all the major producers in the Bakken, looking at options for improving tight oil recovery rates. Baker Hughes takes a different approach to optimization than most reservoir engineering firms, or even research labs. “What we really want to know is: how does the formation behave in the field, at a field scale?” says Baker. “Three main parameters control the gas flood or the waterflood performance—average effective permeability, permeability heterogeneity and the mobility [viscosity] ratio. When we have average effective permeability greater than 0.5 millidarcy, waterfloods are the recommended method,” Baker explains. “Below 0.5 millidarcy, gas flooding is more effective and practical.” “However, rock permeability heterogeneity drives the success of any flood. Waterfloods and gas floods in lowpermeability reservoirs with horizontal wells have had successes and failures largely dependent upon operating strategy and permeability heterogeneity,” Baker says. Although in its infancy, a CO2 pilot flood is currently underway, but the results have not yet been made public, he adds. Baker says that his approach is to look at which enhanced recovery option would work best based on the formation and how it’s being operated, and then

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determine what kind of recovery rates and reserves can be associated with that enhanced recovery option. “It depends on the formation and it depends on how it’s operated, such as what kind of injection pressures you’re going at,” Baker says.

Reach i ng full potential Baker believes that initial production rates are affected by both completion efficiency and near-wellbore permeability, so with decline rates in the 65–75 per cent range in the first year, reservoirs will need secondary support to maintain a higher plateau oil-production rate. He estimates that waterflooding can double recovery for most light oil, horizontal, multifractured wells at periods greater than two years—resulting in an increase of 50–100 per cent of primary recovery in additional reserves. Baker warns, however, that managing the water injection rates and pressures is vital, so one can’t get greedy. “The higher your injection pressure is, the higher the likelihood you’ll connect with another well and you’ll get significant short-circuiting,” he explains. When short-circuiting happens, the legs of separate horizontal wells grow long enough to link up, causing performance to decline. Waterflooding still yields incremental oil, but at the expense of higher water production. Baker also warns that the longer the waterflooding is delayed, the lower the incremental recovery will be. Waiting until payouts are achieved may hinder ultimate recovery levels. Baker recommends understanding the reservoir and its drive mechanism to pin down the primary depletion forecast. And, he says, don’t discount waterflooding or gas flooding due to optimistic initial primary recovery profiles.

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Lloydminster AB (780) 808-0521

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Rocky Mountain House AB (800) 661-6986

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Northern Climate Soils Ltd Grande Prairie AB (780) 513-6203

Northern Factory Workwear Lloydminster AB (780) 875-4800

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NWT Safety Supplies Ltd Nisku AB (780) 955-8797

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Edmonton AB (780) 469-6300

Calgary AB (855) 225-8755

Saskatchewan Energy Training Institute

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Fort Nelson BC (250) 774-6691

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Calgary AB (403) 274-1000

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Timberwolf Environmental Services Ltd Bonnyville AB (780) 826-9806

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Edmonton AB (780) 466-6385

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Clark Construction Ltd

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Central Labs Red Deer AB (403) 348-8378

Chandler Consulting Inc Red Deer AB (403) 343-6869

CoreLab Calgary AB (403) 295-3284

Fluid Life Edmonton AB (780) 462-2400

JB Ark Drug & Alcohol Testing High Level AB (780) 841-9542

POLARIS Laboratories Edmonton AB (877) 808-3750

Red Deer AB (403) 343-0303

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Cat Bros Oilfield Construction Ltd Alix AB (403) 747-2723

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CC Blocking Systems Red Deer AB (403) 358-2195

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Civic Recycling & Equipment 1995 Ltd

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Clear Path Mulchers Big Bite Services Ltd Drayton Valley AB (780) 542-6520

Dipper Oilfield Developments

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Conway Electric Inc

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Echo-B-Canada Ltd

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D.A. Electric Ltd

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General Recycling Industries Ltd

HydroMaxx Hydro Vac Services

Lethbridge AB (403) 328-4849

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Edmonton AB (780) 461-5555

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D.A. McIntyre Construction Ltd

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Good To Go Oilfield Services Ltd

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Edmonton AB (780) 484-6333

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Dacapa Crane & Rigging Ltd

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Edmonton AB (780) 463-5057

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Day Construction Ltd

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Saskatoon SK (306) 931-2820

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DBY Contractors Inc Tangent AB (780) 359-2363

Deep Basin Contracting Ltd Beaverlodge AB (780) 354-2696

Delta Millwright Services Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 905-9908

Demco Electric Ltd Fort Nelson BC (250) 774-7884

Deniche Screw Piling Spruce Grove AB (780) 318-1821

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GPS (Geometric Pipeline Solutions) Drayton Valley AB (780) 621-3304

Exlco Hanna AB (403) 854-2077

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IPAC Services Corporation

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Grimshaw Gravel Sales Ltd

InSite Petroleum Consultants Ltd

Integral Energy Services Ltd

Drumheller AB (403) 823-2616

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Grant’s Oilfield Services Inc

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Iconic Power and Controls Inc

Valleyview AB (780) 524-3595

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Excel Hydrovac

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J D Haggart Contracting Ltd

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Carrot Creek AB (780) 712-1640

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JazCo Contracting Ltd

Edmonton AB (780) 447-4685

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Lamont AB (780) 895-7554

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K & R Services

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Kevin Crocker Contracting Ltd

Lydell Group

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King Cool Refrigeration, Heating & Air Conditioning Ltd

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KOERR Inc

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Nordic Industries (1979) Ltd

Drayton Valley AB (780) 542-7678

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Kowal Construction Alta Ltd

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Crossfield AB (403) 946-4450

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L & L Oilfield Construction (1990) Ltd

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Northstar

Fox Creek AB (780) 622-3994

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Maverick Construction Ltd

Northstar Hydrovac Inc

Saskatoon SK (306) 933-2950

Valleyview AB (855) 524-2666

McNeil Construction

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PrimeTech Shredding Equipment Ltd

Grande Cache AB (780) 827-4444

Hinton AB (780) 865-4469

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MDP Oilfield Services Ltd

OGS Consulting

Pro Pile Inc

LaPrairie Crane

Peace River AB (780) 624-1980

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Metro’s Contracting

Orion Environmental Services

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Larson Contracting Ltd

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Fox Creek AB (780) 622-5015

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Mid-East Oilfield Services Inc

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Latco Picker & Oilfield Services

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Mile “0” Electric Ltd

Painless Oilfield Services Ltd

Pyramid Corporation

Lazer Energy Services Inc

Dawson Creek BC (250) 782-4662

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MorQuest Electric Ltd

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Lightning Hydrovac Ltd

Morinville AB (780) 939-7585

Grande Prairie AB (780) 538-4041

Charlie Lake BC (250) 787-0254

Lloydminster SK (780) 205-4822

Myshak Crane & Rigging Ltd

P.C. Oilfield Construction Supplies Ltd

R Bee Crushing

Lloydminster SK (306) 825-6111

Lakeshore Contracting Ltd Fort McMurray AB (780) 714-3665

Lalonde Contracting Oilfield Logging Hinton AB (780) 865-0008

Littlehawk Enterprises Ltd

Acheson AB (780) 960-9790

Arcola SK (306) 455-2667

Navigator Resource Consulting Ltd

Calgary AB (403) 233-7380

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Nels Ostero Ltd Taylor BC (250) 789-3508

Newcart Contracting Rocky Mountain House AB (403) 845-4884

Newforce Energy Services Ltd Drayton Valley AB (780) 514-7882

Nipisi Electric Ltd

Dawson Creek BC (250) 782-5134

PERI Scaffolding Services Inc Edmonton AB (780) 432-7374

Petrowest Construction LP Fort McMurray AB (780) 743-0486

Petrowest Energy Services Corp Grande Prairie AB (780) 830-0881

Pile Base Contractors 1987 Ltd Drayton Valley AB (780) 542-5292

PileMaster Grande Prairie AB (780) 539-3538

Pipemaster Oilfield Services Inc Marsden SK (306) 826-5550

PMP Powerline Construction Assiniboia SK (306) 642-3547

Porta Crush Redwater AB (780) 942-3699

Post Report Calgary AB (403) 209-3500

Powell Cats Ltd Chauvin AB (780) 858-3978

Prentice Creek Contracting Ltd Rocky Mountain House AB (403) 845-6884

Wembley AB (780) 766-3343

R. Pollitt Oilfield Construction Ltd Leslieville AB (403) 729-3778

Smash & Sons Contracting Ltd

Thompson Bros (Constr) LP

Grande Prairie AB (780) 538-9111

Grande Prairie AB (780) 538-3665

Spruce Grove AB (780) 962-1030

Reda Enterprises Ltd

Smithbrook Mud Services Ltd

Trigon Construction Ltd

Bonnyville AB (780) 826-2737

Brooks AB (403) 362-4071

Blue Ridge AB (780) 648-3922

REW Electric (2003) Inc

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Tri-S Concrete (1996) Ltd

High Level AB (780) 926-2245

Eckville AB (403) 588-4640

Fairview AB (780) 835-2050

Richard Oilfield Services Ltd

South East Electric Ltd

Tristar Resource Management Ltd

Plamondon AB (780) 798-3288

Carlyle SK (306) 453-2021

Calgary AB (403) 262-8595

Rig Pro Painting

Southline Inspections Ltd

Calgary AB (403) 264-0740

Carnduff SK (306) 482-3917

Triwell Oilfield Construction (1989) Ltd

Rindal Oilfield Construction Ltd

Speight Construction Inc

Coronation AB (403) 578-2097

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Risley Equipment Inc

Standard General Inc

Grande Prairie AB (780) 532-3282

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Silver Valley AB (780) 351-2345

Falher AB (780) 837-0617

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Drayton Valley AB (780) 542-7712

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Pincher Creek AB (403) 627-4131

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Rogers Trucking Inc

Strictly Fences Ltd

Fort St John BC (250) 785-3647

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Rogo Holdings Ltd

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Spruce Grove AB (780) 962-9209

Barrhead AB (780) 785-2173

Roszko Construction Limited

Summit 1998 Oilfield Ltd

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Grimshaw AB (780) 332-4115

Roy Larson Construction

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Rycroft AB (780) 774-2256

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Ruskin Construction Ltd

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Grande Prairie AB (780) 538-1919

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Kindersley SK (306) 463-7544

Fort Nelson BC (250) 774-7900

Schroder Oilfield Service

Tarnes Electric Ltd

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Kindersley SK (306) 463-2511

SL Oilfield Construction Ltd

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Whitecourt AB (780) 778-3763

Airdrie AB (403) 243-0990

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Taber AB (403) 223-3292

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Calgary AB (403) 239-3797

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Fekete Associates Inc

Worsley AB (780) 685-3831

Calgary AB (403) 213-4200

Twister Piling Inc

GLJ Petroleum Consultants

Nisku AB (780) 955-8880

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Visser Consulting Ltd

Calgary AB (403) 266-9500

McDaniel & Associates Consultants Ltd

Urban Scaffolding Ltd

Calgary AB (403) 262-5506

Edmonton AB (780) 452-5950

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St John’s NL (709) 754-9880

Calgary AB (403) 218-7100

Roke Technologies

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Calgary AB (403) 273-5553

Edmonton AB (780) 483-6641

Sproule Associates Limited

Waydex Services LP

Calgary AB (403) 294-5500

Grande Prairie AB (780) 538-9101

Weir Construction Ltd Dunmore AB (403) 527-1829

West Can Seal Coating Inc Didsbury AB (403) 335-9137

West Coast Scaffolding Inc Riviere Qui Barre AB (780) 939-5595

Woodland Enterprises Spirit River AB (780) 765-2496

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CCD Energy Services

Calgary AB (403) 730-6660

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ComGen Power Solutions

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Calibre Drilling Ltd

Access Waterwells Inc

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Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors

Alberta Tall Pine Drilling Ltd

Calgary AB (403) 264-4311

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Anderson Water Wells

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Fort St John BC (250) 785-2285

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ARK Directional Services Inc

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Brace Tool

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Edmonton AB (780) 436-7730

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Fairview AB (780) 835-8772

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Edmonton AB (780) 466-3178

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Brunos Powerhouse

CE Franklin Ltd

Leduc AB (780) 718-4454

Bonnyville AB (780) 812-2972

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Calgary Aluminum Custom Fabrication Ltd

CE Franklin Ltd

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ATL Canadian Technologies Ltd Red Deer AB (403) 341-3367

Edmonton AB (780) 434-4900

Baron Oilfield Supply Grande Prairie AB (780) 532-5661

Base Well-Site Trailers Medicine Hat AB (403) 526-6467

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BelAir Power and Production Equipment Red Deer AB (403) 755-8069

Bell Industries Edmonton AB (780) 434-4401

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Berja Meter & Controls Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 440-1234

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Edmonton AB (780) 986-6900

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Boss Lubricants Calgary AB (403) 279-2223

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Calgary AB (403) 279-3392

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Columbia Oilfield Supply Edmonton AB (780) 437-5110

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Command Energy Rentals Ltd Nisku AB (780) 979-1440

Command Energy Services Nisku AB (780) 955-9331

Command Fishing Edmonton AB (780) 979-2220

Commercial Solutions Inc Nisku AB (780) 955-7494

Concrete Inc Edmonton AB (780) 930-4232

Dash Power Tongs Ltd

Dura Energy Inc

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Nisku AB (780) 955-3441

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Nisku AB (780) 955-3462

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Valleyview AB (780) 552-0023

Fort McMurray AB (780) 743-4379

D.V. Meter

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Drayton Valley AB (780) 542-2713

Calgary AB (403) 571-0202

D.V. Rentals Inc

Evergreen Energy Tank Rentals Ltd

Drayton Valley AB (780) 542-5845

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DYNAenergetics Canada Inc

Evraz Inc NA Canada

Edmonton AB (780) 490-0939

Regina SK (306) 924-7700

E & E Radiator Service (1992)

Expro Group Canada Inc

Westlock AB (780) 349-4234

Calgary AB (403) 532-0873

E & M Oilfield Services Ltd

F&M MAFCO, LLC

Sylvan Lake AB (403) 887-4515

Edmonton AB (888) 367-2151

Eclipse Rentals Inc

Fabmaster Ltd

Frobisher SK (306) 421-6374

Edmonton AB (780) 461-8111

Diamondback Oilfield Services Ltd

Edcon Power Tongs and Oilfield Services Ltd

Fibreglass Solutions Inc

Nisku AB (780) 955-2660

Lac La Biche AB (780) 623-4808

Direct Way Power Solutions Ltd

Edmonton Fabrication Centre

Lloydminster AB (780) 875-6955

Edmonton AB (780) 466-7171

DK-LOK Canada Ltd

Ed’s Fabrication Service

Red Deer AB (403) 348-5980

Red Deer County AB (403) 346-7800

D&M Madison Holdings Ltd

Ed’s Valve Servicing (Red Deer) Ltd

Baldonnel BC (250) 785-1503

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DNI Bolting Solutions

Edson Anchors

Calgary AB (403) 203-7004

Edson AB (780) 723-3113

Do All Industries Ltd

Electric Power Generating Equipment Inc

Grande Prairie AB (780) 539-7114

Copperhead Casing Services Ltd County of Grande Prairie No 1 AB (780) 933-6669

Corona Supplies Calgary AB (403) 253-9494

CPTDC Calgary AB (403) 228-6088

Crazy Horse Casing (2007) Inc Red Deer AB (403) 887-1726

Crossfire Controls Ltd Edson AB (780) 723-6766

CRYOCANADA INC. Red Deer AB (403) 352-4436

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Cummins Western Canada Calgary AB (403) 569-1122

Cuttings Edge Energy Leduc AB (780) 980-0028

C.W. Carry Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 465-0381

CW Manufacturing Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 435-5033

C.Y.A. Rentals Ltd Red Deer AB (403) 341-7696

D & D Oilfield Rentals Corp Redcliff AB (403) 548-2700

D & M Plastics Inc Lacombe AB (403) 782-4606

D & R Equipment Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 436-5585

Dakota Rental Services Inc Hay Lakes AB (780) 878-3350

Dalco Instrument & Measurement Services (2001) Ltd Fort St John BC (250) 785-4374

Crooked Creek AB (780) 957-3101

Decarson Rentals Nisku AB (780) 955-9420

Deran Oilfield Services Ltd Lac La Biche AB (780) 623-2193

Derek Casing Service Red Deer AB (403) 363-5552

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DG Valve Systems Inc Edmonton AB (780) 413-1760

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Drydan Transport & Barrier Sales Grande Prairie AB (780) 518-9997

DSI Thru-Tubing Inc Red Deer AB (855) 346-9788

Nisku AB (780) 979-9991

Energlo Diesel Heaters Inc Edmonton AB (780) 484-9948

Nisku AB (780) 955-3400 Lethbridge AB (403) 328-8146

Flexpipe Systems Calgary AB (403) 503-0548

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Enerbuilt Technologies Inc

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Spruce Grove AB (780) 960-1334

Edmonton AB (780) 468-5600

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Eliminator Downhole Tools Inc

Emkade Distribution Inc

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Fil-Trek Corp

Edmonton AB (780) 451-3401

Fort Saskatchewan AB (780) 992-1793

Estevan SK (306) 636-2002

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Fluid Clarification Inc (FCI) Calgary AB (403) 236-0666

Fluidseal AB Inc Edmonton AB (780) 414-1871

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Global Nitrogen Services

HiTEK Urethane Global Inc

IROC Hydraulics Ltd

Sylvan Lake AB (403) 887-8874

Houston TX (713) 937-5236

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Irontech Rig Repair & Manufacturing Inc

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Hobblestone Enterprises Inc

Edmonton AB (780) 464-4929

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Blackfoot AB (780) 875-7282

Fraction Energy Services Ltd

Grande Pipe Services Inc

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Grande Prairie AB (780) 830-3785

Grande Prairie AB (780) 539-3560

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Great Western Tong Services (1987) Ltd

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Virden MB (204) 748-2458

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Fort St John BC (250) 785-4334

Lucky Lake SK (306) 858-2222

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Grizzly Power Ltd

Hunting Creek Hot Oil & Pressure Service

Jerack Filtration Ltd

Slave Lake AB (780) 849-5164

Front 9 Energy Solutions Inc Calmar AB (403) 919-0042

Frontier Auto & Industrial Supply La Crete AB (780) 928-3885

Fusion Controls Inc Drayton Valley AB (780) 542-9554

Fusion Valve Inc Edmonton AB (780) 468-9696

G & B Rubber Products (1998) Ltd Wetaskiwin AB (780) 352-4015

G. P. Masonry Supply Grande Prairie AB (780) 538-9907

G S Equipment Ltd Red Deer AB (403) 357-9560

Gemco Industrial Trailers Mayerthorpe AB (780) 786-2727

General Metals Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 461-5555

General Oilfield Services Inc Red Deer County AB (403) 347-4301

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George’s Power Tong Services Ltd Tilley AB (403) 793-3024

Giant Power Tongs Fort St John BC (250) 785-8242

Global Heat Transfer Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 448-3600

Nisku AB (780) 955-3305

GRM Flow Products Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 416-4823

Guardian Chemicals Inc Fort Saskatchewan AB (780) 998-3771

GuyCo Hot Oiling

Girouxville AB (780) 323-3370

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Swan Hills AB (780) 333-5354

ICON International Coating Inspections Ltd

Harpoon Energy

Leduc AB (780) 913-3313

Red Deer County AB (403) 357-6660

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Hazloc Heaters Calgary AB (403) 730-2488

Hess Fishing Fort St John BC (250) 785-0078

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Industrial Exhaust Components Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 435-8616

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Interstress Structural Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 466-4849

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Jasper Tank

Fort St John BC (250) 787-1440

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Miller Supply Ltd

Olds AB (403) 556-6671

Camrose AB (877) 450-2835

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Lory Oilfield Rentals Inc

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Calgary AB (403) 532-0873

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Edmonton AB (780) 465-0752

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MRC Canada ULC

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Marquis Alliance Energy Group Inc

MT Rigmat LLC

Calgary AB (403) 264-1588

Ronan MT (855) 444-6287

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Mufflercentre

Sexsmith AB (780) 568-4484

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Munro Supply Ltd

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Mustang Controls Ltd

Calgary AB (403) 258-3680

Devon AB (780) 987-7300

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Mustang Rentals Ltd

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Lister Industries Ltd

MaXXiMaT

Edmonton AB (780) 468-2040

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LoCo Power Tongs Ltd

McCann Equipment Ltd

High Prairie AB (780) 523-2475

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Lo-Cost Propane Ltd

McClelland Oilfield Rentals Ltd

Lethbridge AB (403) 320-9585

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Meridian

Lloydminster AB (780) 808-8788

Edmonton AB (780) 468-7161

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Lloydminster AB (780) 875-0715

Edmonton AB (780) 440-1212

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Miko Casing Service Ltd

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Fort Nelson BC (250) 774-4777

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Lee Oilfield Service Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 440-6705

Lee Specialties Red Deer AB (403) 346-4487

Lee Specialty Seals Inc (LSSI) Red Deer AB (403) 356-1127

New Beginning Oilfield Services Ltd - N.B.O.S. Fairview AB (780) 835-4598

New-Line Hose & Fittings Rocky Mountain House AB (403) 845-7756

New Teck Well Service Ltd Red Deer AB (403) 347-3323

NexSource Power Inc Sylvan Lake AB (403) 887-4567

Norette Oilfield Services (2005) Inc Drayton Valley AB (780) 542-4610

Normandeau Rentals Fort Nelson BC (250) 774-7806

Nor-Tech Systems LP Grande Prairie AB (780) 539-6677

NORTECH Welding & Fabricating Inc Dawson Creek BC (250) 782-3833

Northern Metalic Sales Grande Prairie AB (780) 539-9555

Northern Source Inc St Paul AB (780) 646-0774

Northern Valve Services Ltd

Fort St John BC (250) 261-5555

Fort St John BC (250) 785-1900

National Oilwell Varco

Northland Radiator Ltd

Calgary AB (403) 294-5760

National Trailer Manufacturing Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 469-0820

Northside Industries Kelowna BC (250) 769-4001

National Trailer Parts

Northwell Rentals (Lloydminster) Inc

Swift Current SK (306) 773-4484

Navigator Energy Services Inc Red Deer County AB (403) 309-3444

Lloydminster AB (780) 875-6604

Northwell Rentals (R & M) Inc

NCS Oilfield Services Canada Inc Calgary AB (403) 862-0870

Swan Hills AB (780) 333-2116

North-West Oilfield Rentals Inc

Neufeld Petroleum & Propane Grande Prairie AB (780) 814-6111

Red Deer AB (403) 347-2380

Grande Prairie AB (780) 532-9631

Norwesco Canada Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 474-7440

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Peace Country Rentals

Calgary AB (403) 319-2333

Fort St John BC (250) 785-8951

NOV Downhole

Pelican Products ULC

Calgary AB (403) 234-9999

Edmonton AB (866) 273-5422

NPS - Alberta Oil Tool

Pembina Controls Inc

Edmonton AB (780) 434-8566

Edmonton AB (780) 432-6821

N.S. Oilfield Services Inc.

Penta Completions Supply & Services Ltd

Sherwood Park AB (780) 438-2666

Predator Oilfield Rentals & Fluid Hauling Grande Prairie AB (780) 538-0043

Premium Artificial Lift Systems Ltd Calgary AB (403) 723-3008

Premium Tubular And Supply Strathmore AB (403) 934-5998

Priority Projects Ltd

Calgary AB (403) 262-1688

Nisku AB (780) 955-3320

Grande Prairie AB (780) 532-2886

Pepco Pipe Services Limited Partnership

Prism Flow Products

NWS Inspection Inc

Nisku AB (780) 979-0211

Nu-Northern Tractor Rentals

Calgary AB (403) 236-5982

Ocean Fluids & Filtration Clairmont AB (780) 567-3400

Oil Boss Rentals Inc Rocky Mountain House AB (403) 844-3031

Oil Country Solutions Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 801-2603

OilPro Oilfield Production Equipment Ltd Calgary AB (403) 215-3373

Old Fort Services Ltd Fort Nelson BC (250) 774-7403

Orion Rentals Ltd

Perfection Powder Coatings Edmonton AB (780) 413-7578

Performance Hot Oil Services Ltd Spruce Grove AB (780) 446-0120

Performance Steam Ltd Drumheller AB (403) 820-0582

Petroline Rentals Ltd High Prairie AB (780) 523-0063

Petrotec Controls Inc Fort St John BC (250) 785-2849

Pierce Co Manufacturers Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 448-9659

Edmonton AB (780) 450-9444

Pro Inspection Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 469-0853

Pro Oil Tools Red Deer AB (403) 341-6666

Process & Steam Specialties Edmonton AB (780) 484-0577

Proficient Oil Tools Ltd Calgary AB (403) 255-4070

Pro-Rod Calgary AB (403) 269-5116

Provincial Rentals Grande Prairie AB (780) 814-5633

Pinnacle Oil Tools Inc

Pyramid Process Fabricators Corporation

Red Deer AB (403) 348-8323

Nisku AB (780) 955-2708

Crossfield AB (403) 968-4468

Pipe And Piling Supplies (Western) Ltd

QA Structures Inc

Packers Plus Energy Services Inc

Nisku AB (780) 955-0501

Innisfail AB (403) 318-5393

Pacesetter Equipment Ltd

Calgary AB (403) 263-7587

Paddle Plastics Ltd Mayerthorpe AB (780) 786-4408

Pathmaker Service Co Ltd Grande Prairie AB (780) 539-4872

Pavlis Rentals Ltd Dawson Creek BC (250) 782-9819

PCM Canada Calgary AB (403) 252-8902

Peace Country Compression Ltd Fort St John BC (250) 262-4340

Platinum Grover Int. Inc Calgary AB (403) 264-6688

Pop PDC Bits Inc Calgary AB (403) 301-0828

Blackfalds AB (403) 885-5411

Quest Gasket & Supply Inc. Edmonton AB (780) 463-4049

Ram Industries Inc Calgary AB (403) 945-0140

PPG Canada Inc

Ram Oilfield Services & Supply (1981) Ltd

Ardrossan AB (888) 310-4762

Fox Creek AB (780) 622-3489

Prax Enterprises

Ramrod Oilfield Services (2000) Ltd

Slave Lake AB (780) 849-2938

Precision Rentals Calgary AB (403) 264-4882

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Edmonton AB (780) 450-0777

Raptor Oilfield Services Grande Prairie AB (780) 532-2123

RARE Oilfield Services Corp. Calgary AB (403) 269-1175

RBI Canada 2000 Inc Calgary AB (403) 255-3730

RDWC Red Deer Well Control Red Deer County AB (403) 347-3456

Rebco Oil Tools, Inc. Calgary AB (403) 243-1380

Red Coat Industries Ltd Red Deer AB (403) 347-7760

Red Rose Trailer Sales & Rentals Red Deer County AB (403) 347-4489

REDCO Equipment Sales Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 462-8148

Redmont International ULC Calgary AB (403) 297-0910

Redneck Oilfield Services Ltd Fort St John BC (250) 787-7148

Redz Retipping Red Deer AB (403) 348-0540

Regent Energy Group Ltd Nisku AB (780) 955-4288

Reliable-Tube (Calgary) Ltd Calgary AB (403) 236-7800

Reliable-Tube (Edmonton) Ltd Acheson AB (780) 962-0130

Rentco Equipment Ltd Grande Prairie AB (780) 539-7860

Resistant Lining Ltd Calgary AB (403) 252-6424

RG Industries Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 496-7473

Rig Service Tools Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 435-3451

Rig Shop Oilfield Supply Ltd The Edmonton AB (780) 437-0019

Rite On Que Power Tongs Beaverlodge AB (780) 830-6833

Strathmore AB (403) 324-4224

Rocky Mountain Valve Services Ltd Rocky Mountain House AB (403) 845-2243

RODA DEACO Edmonton AB (780) 465-4429

Ross Agri Camrose AB (780) 672-2529

Rotation Power & Equipment Inc Neilburg SK (306) 823-4818

Rotork Controls (Canada) Ltd Calgary AB (403) 569-9455

Rough and Ready Power Tongs Ltd Grimshaw AB (780) 983-0572

R/T Rentals Grande Prairie AB (780) 518-2400

Sabre Oilfield Equipment Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 446-6054

Saskarc Equipment Division Oxbow SK (800) 667-5155

SBI Modular Ltd Carstairs AB (403) 337-3796

Sci-Tech Engineered Chemicals Ltd Acheson AB (780) 960-1200

Sea Can Containers Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 440-4037

Sebco Coring Ltd Alida SK (306) 443-2333

Secure-Rite Mobile Storage Inc Calgary AB (888) 440-9232

Select Equipment Rentals Athabasca AB (780) 675-5414

Sentag Trailer Manufacturing Edmonton AB (780) 454-6517

Servco Oilfield Supply Canada Ltd Nisku AB (780) 955-7444

Setco Industries Inc Leduc AB (780) 986-0000

Shack Vac Ltd

Stewart Sales & Rentals

Tanner Bit Service

Redcliff AB (403) 502-0054

Lac La Biche AB (780) 623-3243

Bienfait SK (306) 421-3726

Sicotte Drilling Tools

Stoney Mountain Rentals

Target Products Ltd

Edmonton AB (780) 440-6700

Wawota SK (306) 577-9818

Morinville AB (780) 939-3033

Sil Industrial Minerals

Strad Energy Services-Drill Pipe

Target Rentals

Edmonton AB (780) 467-2627

Nisku AB (866) 779-2552

Grande Prairie AB (780) 567-2002

Silverback Equipment Rentals

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TARM Inc

Eckville AB (403) 598-6060

Calgary AB (403) 232-6900

Red Deer AB (403) 348-0765

Silverline Tools

Strad Energy Services-Surface Equipment Rentals

TCR Trans Carrier Rentals

Slave Lake AB (780) 849-8373

Silvertip Rentals and Fishing Tools Slave Lake AB (780) 849-8372

Simark Controls Ltd Calgary AB (403) 236-0580

Skinner Bros Propane Fort Nelson BC (250) 774-6691

SL Rentals & Sales Ltd

Nisku AB (888) 955-2544

Straight Line BOP & Valve Inc Brooks AB (403) 362-5514

Acheson AB (780) 960-4949

Calgary AB (403) 319-0677

Nisku AB (780) 906-0051

South Fork Energy Services Inc Calgary AB (403) 512-0254

Spartan Controls Ltd Calgary AB (403) 207-0700

Specialty Precast Western Ltd Nisku AB (780) 955-7107

Spotton Cylinders Arnprior ON (613) 623-3434

Spur Oilfield Services Ltd Leduc AB (780) 986-8896

Steelmax Processing Ltd Grande Prairie AB (780) 830-4155

Stellar Tech Energy Services Inc Calgary AB (403) 279-8367

Sterling Valve Automation Calgary AB (403) 207-0797

The Pickford Group Ltd

Suretech Completions Canada Ltd Calgary AB (403) 720-3197 Calgary AB (403) 207-9715 Edmonton AB (780) 423-6979

Fort St John BC (250) 262-8246

Calgary AB (403) 291-3535

Tinky Trucking

T.A.K. Oilfield Sales & Service Ltd

Tanks Direct Edmonton AB (780) 455-5207

TankSafe Inc

Red Deer County AB (403) 346-5550

Thunder Oilfield Services Ltd

Systech Instrumentation Inc

Edmonton AB (780) 474-2365

Edmonton AB (780) 440-1922

Thru Tubing Solutions

Swift Oilfield Supply Incorporated

Tank Gauging Systems

Edmonton AB (780) 469-6002

3D Drilling Tools Inc

Sur-Flo Meters & Controls Ltd

Red Deer AB (403) 872-7444

Red Deer AB (403) 346-1171 Calgary AB (403) 230-3055

Drayton Valley AB (780) 621-0414

Tak Rentals Inc

Terroco Oilfield Services

The Motor Company

Surefire Oilfield Rentals

Stettler AB (403) 742-4407

Calgary AB (403) 640-2124

TerraCore Rentals Ltd

Sun Drilling Products Corp

Source Energy Sales & Rentals Inc

Nisku AB (780) 955-5514

TechWest Inc

Calgary AB (403) 253-7939

Stony Plain AB (780) 968-4733

Superior Oilfield Equipment & Rentals Ltd

Source Hose & Industrial Ltd

Fort St John BC (250) 262-8244

Telematic Controls Inc

Stratis Oilfield Services Ltd

Sylvan Lake AB (403) 887-5011 Blackfalds AB (403) 885-4136

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Edson AB (780) 723-3439

Topco Oilsite Products Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 436-3400

Total Depth Power Tongs Ltd High Level AB (780) 926-2600

Trac Energy Services Ltd Nisku AB (780) 955-7270

Transtank Canada Inc Calgary AB (403) 242-6622

Calgary AB (403) 291-3937

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Wajax Power Systems

Wizard Valve Services Ltd

ACR Oilfield Services Ltd

Calgary AB (403) 536-2770

Edmonton AB (780) 437-8200

Edson AB (780) 712-4055

Eckville AB (403) 304-7179

Tri-Bit Services Ltd

Wallace Construction Specialties Ltd

Wrangler Rentals Ltd

Acura Machine and Manufacturing Inc

Leduc AB (780) 955-8873

Trig Industrial Winnipeg MB (800) 830-8744

Trilogy Oilfield Ltd Provost AB (780) 753-6097

Trottier Pipehandlers Ltd Charlie Lake BC (250) 785-0470

True Torq Power Tongs & Downhole Rentals

Regina SK (306) 569-2334

Ward Chemical Edmonton AB (780) 436-4832

Waschuk Equipment Rentals Red Deer AB (403) 342-2447

Leduc AB (780) 980-1331

Wylie Oilfield Rentals Ltd Calgary AB (403) 297-9298

XL Fluid Systems Calgary AB (403) 264-1588

Edmonton AB (780) 413-8974

Advance Coolant Technologies Edmonton AB (780) 488-0777

Advanced Coil Tubing Inc Red Deer AB (403) 352-8552

Waste Treatment Solutions Ltd

Xtreme Hot Oil & Pressure Services Inc

Nanton AB (403) 336-0028

Hinton AB (780) 865-5250

Spruce Grove AB (780) 470-3530

Advantage Oilfield Services Ltd

WeDrill Services Inc

ZCL Composites Inc

Aggressive Energy Services Inc

Carlyle SK (306) 453-6111

Grande Prairie AB (780) 402-6680

Edmonton AB (780) 466-6648

Fort St John BC (250) 785-5948

Tryton

Weir Concepts Inc

Zedcor Oilfield Rentals

Aker Well Service

Calgary AB (403) 263-6778

Edmonton AB (780) 462-1910

Acheson AB (780) 438-9332

Calgary AB (403) 640-4230

TTS Drilling Solutions

Wellmax Oilfield Rentals Ltd

Zenon Controls Inc.

Al Bumstead Water Services Ltd

Red Deer County AB (403) 346-5550

Rocky Mountain House AB (403) 844-1158

Fairview AB (780) 835-3334

Fort Nelson BC (250) 774-6733

Tundra Oilfield Rentals Ltd

West Coast BOP Products Red Deer AB (403) 352-4400

Zhejiang Stellar Pipe Industry Co, Ltd

Alberta Tank Truck & Supply Ltd

Stony Plain AB (780) 963-6120

Twister Instrumentation & Process Solutions Inc

Westar Oilfield Rentals Inc

Calgary AB (403) 201-8904

TWM Industrial Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 401-1822

Tylace Oilfield Services Whitecourt AB (780) 778-8417

Ultimate Bit Service Inc St Walburg SK (780) 871-8406

United Diamond Clairmont AB (780) 567-3530

Fort St John BC (250) 263-9444

Zinger Light Tower & Office Trailer Rentals Ltd

Westeel

Drayton Valley AB (780) 898-2210

Winnipeg MB (204) 233-7133

Western Fiberglass Pipe Sales Ltd Red Deer County AB (403) 347-4682

Western Manufacturing Ltd Hythe AB (780) 356-2599

Western Polymers Ltd Calgary AB (403) 295-7194

United Fabrication & Welding Ltd

Western Pressure Controls (2005) Ltd

Two Hills AB (780) 657-2509

Edmonton AB (780) 437-3615

Univar Canada Ltd

Western Refractory Services Ltd

Calgary AB (403) 236-1713

Edmonton AB (780) 466-4540

Valhalla Filtration 2006

Westlund Wellhouse Supply Ltd

Stettler AB (403) 742-9402

Drayton Valley AB (780) 542-3772

Vicon Ent Oilfield Services

Westquip Diesel Sales Ltd

Lloydminster AB (780) 872-0925

Acheson AB (780) 960-5560

Viper Rentals & Service Ltd

Williams Bit & Supply Ltd

High Level AB (780) 926-3366

Calgary AB (403) 271-8682

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Ab Cobra Pipe Jacking Whitecourt AB (780) 778-1957

Acctive Oilfield Inspection Inc Nisku AB (780) 955-3020

Accu Swab Ltd Red Deer AB (403) 505-6444

Accuracy Online Production Testing Red Deer AB (403) 391-8335

Accurate Hydraulics Peace River AB (780) 624-2524

Drayton Valley AB (780) 621-0539

Alberta Treating Chemicals Ltd & Subsidiaries Calgary AB (403) 297-0160

Albright Flush Systems & Tank Cleaning Fort St John BC (250) 787-1725

All Peace Towing & Hotshot Peace River AB (780) 624-5599

Allnite Trucking Ltd Boyle AB (780) 689-2121

Alpine Tech Contracting Ltd Grande Prairie AB (780) 933-2111

Alpine Vac & Water Services Rocky Mountain House AB (403) 846-6034

Al’s Car Clean and Repair Fort Nelson BC (250) 774-4931

Al’s Hotshot & Trucking Services Ltd Wainwright AB (780) 842-2947

Alta-West Cathodic Protection Edmonton AB (780) 461-8257

Edson AB (780) 723-2773

AM Inspection Ltd Cabri SK (800) 667-6747

Ambush Enterprises Taber AB (403) 394-6177

Amigo Trucking Inc Grovedale AB (780) 518-4055

Anaconda Services Peace River AB (780) 618-4742

Anvil Machine Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 434-9796

Anytime N2 Oilfield Services Ltd Grande Prairie AB (780) 933-0990

Ashtale Contracting Ltd

Bartek Wireline Services Ltd

Blastaway Enterprises Ltd

Rocky Mountain House AB (403) 348-7004

Fort St John BC (250) 785-1997

Grande Prairie AB (780) 532-5278

Astro Oilfield Rentals Ltd

Basnett Oilfield Services Ltd

Blueridge Water Hauling

Grande Prairie AB (780) 539-9645

Fairview AB (780) 835-5962

Eckville AB (403) 340-9328

Attack Oilfield Services Inc

Battle River Ironworks Inc

Bluesky Energy Solutions

Manning AB (780) 836-3609

Forestburg AB (780) 582-3596

McClennan AB (780) 536-7290

Auburn Rentals - Denille Ind. Ltd

Bayou Perma-Pipe Canada

Bob Miller Trucking (2001) Ltd

Edmonton AB (780) 413-0900

Calgary AB (403) 264-4880

Airdrie AB (403) 948-5516

Aurora Corrosion Control

Bear Vac & Steam

Bonnetts Wireline

Calgary AB (403) 291-4495

Fort Nelson BC (250) 774-3588

County of Grande Prairie No 1 AB (780) 513-3400

Aurora Transport Ltd

Bearstone Environmental Solutions Inc

Boreal Eline

Grande Prairie AB (780) 567-2040

Avalanche Trucking Ltd Tumbler Ridge BC (250) 242-4774

Grande Prairie AB (780) 513-3400

Calgary AB (403) 984-9798

Becker’s Pilot & Hotshot Services Fort St John BC (250) 827-3575

API Oilfield Hauling Inc

Aveda Transportation And Energy Services

Red Deer AB (403) 309-7400

Calgary AB (780) 955-8840

Evansburg AB (780) 727-2761

Applus RTD Canada

Avenge Energy Services Inc

Bert Baxter Transport Ltd

Edmonton AB (780) 440-6600

Peace River AB (780) 624-5001

Estevan SK (306) 634-3616

Aqua Haul

B & D Simons Trucking

Beta Machinery Analysis Ltd

Edson AB (780) 723-7203

Camrose AB (780) 672-3248

Calgary AB (403) 245-5666

Aqua Laser Alberta Ltd

B. Frid Trucking Ltd

BHD Calibration Laboratories Ltd

Edmonton AB (780) 440-4762

Bentley AB (403) 748-2615

Edmonton AB (780) 434-0509

Arcs Oilfield Services Ltd

B & J Knodel Autobody & Sandblasting Ltd

Big Boom Picker & Oilfield Service Inc

Forestburg AB (780) 582-2269

Taber AB (403) 223-1277

Bad Boyz Oilfield Services Inc

Big Chief Ventures Inc

Fort Saskatchewan AB (780) 998-7747

Fort St John BC (250) 787-6780

Badass Matting Ltd

Big Guns Energy Services Inc

Camrose AB (780) 608-9563

Calgary AB (403) 294-1444

Bailey Helicopters

Big Smoky Enterprise Ltd

Fort St John BC (250) 785-2518

Grande Prairie AB (780) 831-2063

Bakos (N.D.T.) Inspection (1989) Ltd

Big Steam Oilfield Services Ltd

Nanton AB (403) 485-8161

Arctic Boilers & Fabricating Ltd Nisku AB (780) 955-2723

Arctic Storm Oilfield Fort McMurray AB (250) 808-9253

Ardy Rigging Ltd Valleyview AB (780) 524-3459

ARKK Tubing Inspection Services Ltd Camrose AB (780) 608-8090

Armack Light Oilfield Hauling & Hot Shot

Whitecourt AB (780) 778-5575

Bar 7 H Holdings

Edmonton AB (780) 468-2110

Edson AB (780) 723-0601

Ar-Tech Coating Ltd

Barracuda Oilfield Service

Taber AB (403) 223-4016

High Prairie AB (780) 523-7119

Boreal Pumping Whitecourt AB (780) 778-8470

BOS Oilfield Service Ltd

BendKing Inc

Glendon AB (780) 635-4459

Boydland Water Hauling County of Grande Prairie No 1 AB (780) 532-6639

Bramco Contracting Drayton Valley AB (780) 621-3527

Brander Technical Services Inc Calgary AB (403) 281-8242

Brenntag Canada Inc Calgary AB (403) 263-8660

Brother’s Specialized Coating Systems Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 440-2855

Brovac Mobile Vacuum Services Medicine Hat AB (403) 528-1665

Bruin Instruments Corp Edmonton AB (780) 430-1777

Brooks AB (403) 793-7046

Bigelow Vac Oilfield Services Ltd Ardrossan AB (780) 922-8395

Bruno’s Trucking Ltd Sherwood Park AB (780) 922-6418

Bryks Vac & Steam Trucks Red Earth Creek AB (780) 649-6445

Bry-Tan Trucking Ltd

Billey Insulation Ltd

Lloydminster SK (780) 875-9250

Smoky Lake AB (780) 656-2126

Black Gold Hotshot Service Inc Edmonton AB (780) 465-6315

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Bry-Tec Oilfield Services Ltd Valleyview AB (780) 524-8044

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Cardium Vac Services Ltd

Clear Image Inspection Ltd

C-Tech Design & Manufacturing

Edmonton AB (780) 486-7344

Edson AB (780) 723-7777

Bentley AB (403) 748-4703

Edmonton AB (780) 464-3800

Buffalo Inspection Services

CEL Quality Services Ltd

Clearwater Hauling Inc

Custom Fiberglass Contractors Ltd

Sexsmith AB (780) 876-9729

Rocky Mountain House AB (403) 729-2060

Grande Prairie AB (780) 532-7770

Red Deer AB (403) 357-8360

Bulldog Hot Shot Service

Cen-Alta Oilfield Trucking Ltd

Clearwater Oilfield Services

Custom Landtran Carriers Inc

Calgary AB (403) 280-4344

Legal AB (780) 818-5380

Rocky Mountain House AB (403) 844-9323

Acheson AB (800) 403-2216

Bullet Wireline Services

Centerfire Fort McMurray AB (780) 334-2277

Clearwater Trucking Enterprises Ltd

Cutbank Trucking

Whitecourt AB (780) 778-6690

Bush Baby Trucking Ltd

CFR Chemicals Inc

Slave Lake AB (780) 849-5565

Red Deer AB (403) 346-2214

C & D Tank Truck Service Inc

Challenger Technical Services

Cherhill AB (780) 785-3383

Elk Point AB (780) 724-4117

C I S I Insulation

Champion Technologies Ltd

Calgary AB (403) 453-2237

Calgary AB (403) 234-7881

C P Systems Ltd

Channico Machine & Millwright Services Ltd

Calgary AB (403) 240-1246

Rocky Mountain House AB (403) 844-1153

Cliff Nankivell Trucking Ltd Kisbey SK (306) 462-2130

Cliff’s Trucking (489377 Alta Ltd) Sherwood Park AB (780) 914-7895

CMMinspect Inc Edmonton AB (780) 982-1201

CMT Ventures Inc

Grande Prairie AB (780) 532-2421

CX Energy Services High Prairie AB (780) 523-7445

D & D Well Services Grande Prairie AB (780) 402-0383

D W Jensen Drilling Ltd Clairmont AB (780) 567-2349

Dale Bentley Trucking Fox Creek AB (780) 622-7236

Peace River AB (780) 624-1822

Red Deer AB (403) 348-5848

Chariot Express Ltd

Collar Tech Inspection Ltd

Calgary AB (403) 279-7451

Calgary AB (403) 252-4047

Edmonton AB (780) 463-8340

Cam & Sue’s Fresh Water Hauling

Charlie’s Truck Repair Ltd

Collin Vacuum Trucks Ltd

Darren’s Mechanical & Machine Ltd

Taber AB (403) 223-3101

Fort Nelson BC (250) 774-6333

Whitecourt AB (780) 778-3800

Rainbow Lake AB (780) 956-2990

Canadian Nitrogen Services Ltd

Charter Coating Service (2000) Ltd

Compass Bending Ltd

Das Disposals Ltd

Airdrie AB (403) 948-6190

Calgary AB (403) 250-3027

Calgary AB (403) 279-6615

Vegreville AB (780) 632-2966

Canadian Wellsite Rentals Inc

Chisholm Pressure Testing Ltd

Conabar Chemical Consulting

DB Engineered Hydraulics Ltd

Red Deer AB (403) 346-8400

Onoway AB (780) 886-9944

Sylvan Lake AB (403) 748-4386

Red Deer AB (403) 343-3211

Canalta Flow Measurement

Christie Corrosion Control (1983) Ltd

Conklin General Store Ltd

DC Water Hauling (2010) Ltd

Lac La Biche AB (780) 559-2200

Dawson Creek BC (250) 219-8559

Continental Cartage Inc

Degree Bending Ltd

Edmonton AB (877) 452-9414

Calgary AB (403) 236-3661

CJ Inspection

Continental Stress Relieving Systems Ltd

Deken Oilfield Transport

Red Deer County AB (403) 347-1773

Edmonton AB (780) 468-4973

Classic Hot Shot

Core Snubbing Systems Inc

Taber AB (403) 382-9654

Drayton Valley AB (780) 293-2676

Classic Vacuum Truck Ltd

Corrpro

Alida SK (306) 483-8697

Edmonton AB (780) 447-4565

Claude deMontarnal’s Welding Ltd

CP Water Hauling

High Level AB (780) 926-4888

Red Deer AB (403) 304-9129

Clean Solutions Inc

Crude Services Inc

Red Deer AB (403) 340-0131

Stettler AB (403) 742-4189

C & V Portable Accommodations Ltd

Red Deer AB (403) 342-4494

Cangas Solutions Inc Calgary AB (403) 452-7789

Canvac Oilfield Services Ltd Dawson Creek BC (250) 782-2826

Canwell Enviro-Industries Ltd Calgary AB (403) 290-1331

Canyon Technical Services Ltd Calgary AB (403) 355-2300

Capstan Hauling Ltd Grande Prairie AB (780) 402-3110

Caradan Chemicals Inc Nisku AB (780) 955-3050

Lloydminster AB (780) 875-6559

Cierra Trucking Ltd Spruce Grove AB (780) 960-9761

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Dalmac Oilfield Services Inc Edmonton AB (780) 988-8510

Rycroft AB (780) 765-3070

Delorme Enterprises Ltd High Prairie AB (780) 523-3278

Desran Holdings Ltd Perryvale AB (780) 698-2137

Destiny Carriers Inc Westlock AB (780) 349-8254

Dewitz Enterprises Whitecourt AB (780) 778-6232

Eckville AB (403) 746-3524

DMT Tank Truck Service Rimbey AB (403) 704-0171

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ENTREC Corporation

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Epsilon Chemicals Ltd

Fort St John Water Inc

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Edmonton AB (780) 438-3040

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Downton’s Oilfield Services Ltd

Equal Transport

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DP Digital Precision Metrology Inc

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Fracturing Horizontal Well Completions Inc.

Dragon Products, Ltd

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Echo NDE Inc Red Deer AB (403) 347-7042

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Taber AB (403) 308-9250

Edson AB (780) 712-1222

Geotrakker Resource Group Calgary AB (403) 650-6777

Formula Powell LP

Gerry’s Trailer Sales Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 447-2237

GKD Industries Ltd Calgary AB (403) 279-8087

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Calgary AB (403) 464-1741

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Frank Henry Equipment (1987) Ltd

Strathmore AB (403) 901-5664

Edmonton AB (780) 434-8778

Far West Trucking Ltd

Fred’s Trucking & Oilfield Service Ltd

Carstairs AB (403) 337-2067

Fast Trucking Service Ltd Carnduff SK (306) 482-3244

FERUS Inc.

Global Fusion Coating Inc

Eckville AB (403) 746-2452

Fresh Mountain Water Ltd

First Pick Cranes Ltd

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Grande Prairie AB (780) 876-7333

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Fluidpro Oilfield Services Ltd

Legal AB (780) 961-3229

Clairmont AB (780) 876-8730

Eldorado Pressure Services Ltd

FMC Technologies

Rocky Mountain House AB (403) 845-5309

Calgary AB (403) 262-4000

Grande Prairie AB (866) 976-7682

Good To Go Trucking Ltd Kindersley SK (306) 463-1454

Goulet Trucking (1989) Ltd

FST Oilfield Tank Trucks

Shaunavon SK (306) 297-2861

Fox Creek AB (780) 622-3363

Granite Construction Inc

Furix Energy Inc

County of Grande Prairie No 1 AB (780) 876-5064

Red Deer AB (403) 348-8110

Grassland Trailer & Skidoo

G Force Oilfield Services Inc

Grassland AB (780) 525-5820

Bonnyville AB (780) 812-0930

Grizzly Vacuum Services Ltd

G & L Trucking

Taber AB (403) 223-9545

Fox Creek AB (780) 622-3008

G. Lawrence Water Hauling Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 463-8055

Global Water Group Inc

Goliath Snubbing Ltd

Hinton AB (780) 865-0402

Froggy’s Environmental Services Ltd

Flatout Hotshot Services

Wainwright AB (780) 842-6860 Edmonton AB (780) 485-0911

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Maidstone SK (306) 893-4286

H & E Oilfield Services Ltd

H2O Hot Water Drayton Valley AB (780) 542-1060

IPC - Integrated Protective Coatings Inc

K & L Oilfield Holdings Ltd

Wainwright AB (780) 842-6444

Hall Industrial Contracting Ltd

Hub’s Light Oilfield Hauling

Blackfalds AB (403) 885-8885

Sherwood Park AB (780) 467-2775

Hart Oilfield Rentals Ltd

Hughson Trucking Inc

Rocky Mountain House AB (403) 310-4278

Milk River AB (403) 647-2244

Hayduk Picker Service

Hunt Inspection Ltd

Drayton Valley AB (780) 542-3217

Stettler AB (403) 742-4868

Heli-Lift International Helicopters

Hunting Energy Services (Canada) Ltd

Yorkton SK (306) 783-5438

Edmonton AB (780) 465-3467

Ironhorse Oilfield Services Ltd Stony Plain AB (780) 963-1338

J & A Trucking Ltd Drayton Valley AB (780) 542-5722

J M A Mechanical Services Ltd Falher AB (780) 837-3511

J Quartly Trucking Ltd

Calgary AB (403) 543-4477

High Prairie AB (780) 523-7423

Eckville AB (403) 746-2783

Hurricane Management Tank Truck Service

JaCat Pressure Truck Services

High Arctic Energy Services Inc

Arrowwood AB (403) 534-1267

Hellbound Services Corp

Red Deer AB (403) 340-9825

High Country Vac Services Okotoks AB (403) 938-1500

High Gear Trucking Ltd Sexsmith AB (780) 814-0579

High Gear Water Hauling & Rentals Grande Prairie AB (780) 518-0250

High Level Truck & Trailer (2001) Ltd High Level AB (780) 926-3321

Highliner Holdings Inc

Hydraco Industries Ltd Medicine Hat AB (403) 526-2244

Hydro Vacuum Oilfield Services Ltd Drayton Valley AB (780) 514-3773

Hydro-Jet Aqua Pressure Systems Beaumont AB (780) 980-9400

Hymark Energy Service Rimbey AB (403) 396-9148

Ideal Mechanical Lac La Biche AB (780) 520-7042

Carievale SK (306) 928-2237

Impact Oilfield Management Team Inc

Hillbilly Haulin’ Ltd

Carlyle SK (306) 453-6248

Grande Prairie AB (780) 539-3361

Hitch’em Oilfield Hauling Grande Prairie AB (780) 832-0281

Hoffman’s Tank Truck Service Ltd Elk Point AB (780) 724-4117

Horizontal Well Testing Ltd Calgary AB (403) 287-0170

HOT Services Inc Girouxville AB (780) 837-4745

Hot Shot Tom Ltd Leduc County AB (780) 991-4003

Independent Energy Solutions Corp Rocky Mountain House AB (403) 845-9640

Infinity Belting Ltd Stony Plain AB (780) 963-3084

Infinity Oilfield Services Inc Sundre AB (403) 860-4470

Inland Tech Systems Pilot Truck & Hot Shot Services Red Deer AB (403) 357-6668

Inspectrum Testing Inc Grande Prairie AB (780) 539-0000

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J.D.A. Oilfield Hauling County of Grande Prairie No 1 AB (780) 532-5101

JD&C Services Hinton AB (780) 865-6807

Jen-Ty Contracting Ltd Fort Nelson BC (250) 774-2411

Jerry’s Water Service Cecil Lake BC (250) 781-3359

Jim Pattison Lease Calgary AB (403) 831-7639

J.M.B. Precision Inc Calgary AB (403) 250-7704

Pink Mountain BC (250) 772-5133

Kalmar Construction Ltd Fort St John BC (250) 787-7118

Kamber Fort St John BC (250) 787-8812

Kaymor Machining & Welding Ltd Clairmont AB (780) 538-2623

KDM Oilfield Manufacturing Ltd Nisku AB (780) 979-0052

KDM Transport Ltd Crossfield AB (403) 235-4796

Kelly’s Trucking Ltd Drayton Valley AB (780) 542-2777

Kema Enterprizes Redwater AB (780) 736-2232

Kinetic Transport Ltd Grande Prairie AB (780) 539-5757

Kingpin Trailers Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 447-1970

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Kirk’s Vacuum Truck Services Ltd Taber AB (403) 223-9377

KJ’s Trucking & Hot Shot Red Deer AB (403) 347-7445

Klick Tank Trucks Ltd Whitecourt AB (780) 779-4999

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John Brooks Company Limited

Kodiak Wireline Services Partnership

Mississauga ON (905) 624-4200

St Albert AB (780) 418-3405

Jonnys Light Oilfield Hauling Ltd

Kopala Environmental Service

Nisku AB (780) 913-9959

Bonnyville AB (780) 826-2945

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Kory’s Vacuum Truck Service Ltd

Edmonton AB (780) 220-5938

Brooks AB (403) 793-4778

Lone Wolf Wireline 2002 Ltd

Maxjet Dry Ice Blasting

Mustang Helicopters Inc

Chetwynd BC (250) 788-6933

Sylvan Lake AB (403) 887-4758

Williams Lake BC (250) 305-5099

Blackfalds AB (403) 885-5220

KSJ Rig & Potable Water Hauling

LR Helicopters Inc

Mayers Machine & Welding

Pickardville AB (780) 349-3853

Calgary AB (403) 286-4601

Estevan SK (306) 634-6466

Nelson Bros Oilfield Services (1997) Ltd

Kyncl Trucking Ltd

LSC Industrial

McAdie Ventures Ltd

Sundre AB (403) 556-2239

Bonnyville AB (780) 812-8252

Grande Prairie AB (780) 512-8297

Lacombe Trailer Sales & Rentals Inc

Lyd-Von Inspection Services Ltd

McGregor, O.H. Oilfield Services Inc

Red Deer County AB (403) 782-4774

Lakeshore Helicopters Fort McMurray AB (780) 714-3665

Lakeside Oilfield Services Inc Grande Prairie AB (780) 513-2386

Lamb’s Trucking Ltd Drayton Valley AB (780) 542-7818

Last Chance Trucking (1995) Ltd Drayton Valley AB (780) 542-7556

LAW Inspection Services Inc Lethbridge AB (403) 380-3555

Leak Technologies Solutions Ltd Calgary AB (403) 637-0280

Legend Oilfield Services Ltd Devon AB (780) 987-3154

Len’s Pilot Car Service Leduc AB (780) 986-4938

Letan’s Leveling Ltd Drayton Valley AB (780) 542-5812

Lindholm Vacuum Service Ltd Red Deer AB (403) 886-2211

Lion Hot Shot Inc Red Deer AB (403) 588-5210

Little Guy Oilfield Rentals Inc Leduc AB (780) 980-1166

Little Valley Holdings Ltd Rolla BC (250) 759-4081

Lockhart Oilfield Services Ltd Red Deer AB (403) 347-7017

Logic NDT Solutions Ltd Calgary AB (403) 720-3233

Sylvan Lake AB (403) 318-8369

Drayton Valley AB (780) 542-5777

New Age Oilfield Services Inc Nisku AB (780) 986-0155

Neway Oilfield Services

Olds AB (403) 556-3880

Rocky Mountain House AB (403) 844-2700

MCL Industrial Insulating

NEXEO Solutions

Slave Lake AB (780) 849-2994

Edmonton AB (780) 417-9385

Hinton AB (780) 865-8891

Medicine Hat Pilot Car & Hot Shot Inc

Nighthawk Pilot Car 2012

M & R Machines (2000) Ltd

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M D H Transport & Craning Ltd

Weyburn SK (866) 842-4803

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Magnum Inspection Ltd Brooks AB (403) 793-7970

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Manac Western Edmonton AB (780) 447-1559

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MarrCo Trucking Ltd Medicine Hat AB (403) 504-1656

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Maverick Inspection Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 467-1606

Maxim Rentals Ltd Fairview AB (780) 835-5966

Maximum Tank Truck Services Ltd Grande Prairie AB (855) 814-6884

Taylor BC (250) 789-3349

Nisku Industrial Coatings Ltd

Mi Casa Rentals Inc

Nisku AB (780) 955-9696

Calgary AB (403) 262-2288

Nitro Heavy Hauling Ltd

Midnight North Transport Ltd

Lloydminster AB (780) 875-6832

Slave Lake AB (780) 805-1384

Nitrogen Technologies of Canada

Midwest Energy Services

Grande Prairie AB (780) 310-6487

Wetaskiwin AB (780) 352-1990

Milron Metal Fabricators Inc

Nitschke Vacuum Truck Service Ltd

Edmonton AB (780) 451-3258

Stettler AB (403) 742-2125

Mirage Trucking Ltd

Noranco Transport Ltd

Dawson Creek BC (250) 782-2826

Spruce Grove AB (780) 962-5800

M.L. Vacuum & Acid Hauling Ltd

Nor-Kam Vacuum Pumping Service Inc

Drayton Valley AB (780) 542-2111

Dawson Creek BC (250) 782-5759

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Bonnyville AB (780) 826-7031

Moore’s Industrial Service Ltd

Olds AB (403) 556-8036

Calgary AB (403) 219-7160

North Max Light Oilfield Hauling & Rentals

MOVAC Mobile Vacuum Services Ltd

Manning AB (780) 836-5225

Calgary AB (403) 201-3710

MTS Mix Bros Tank Services

Northern Hot Shot Service Ltd Dawson Creek BC (250) 784-3927

Edmonton AB (780) 471-1386

Northern Industrial Insulation Contractors Inc

Mud Doctor Vacuum Truck Services Ltd

Edmonton AB (780) 483-1850

Calgary AB (403) 697-7199

Murtron Hauling Clairmont AB (780) 567-3612

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Northern Truck Services Ltd Grande Prairie AB (780) 539-3659

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Paragon Fusion Clad (PPC) Ltd

Precise Drilling Components Ltd

Quin-Ko Custom Machining Ltd

Calgary AB (403) 265-8987

Edmonton AB (780) 461-7719

Calgary AB (403) 236-2622

Red Deer County AB (403) 340-3425

Northwell Oilfield Hauling (09) Inc

Pardy’s Waste Management & Industrial Services

Precision Well Servicing

Quinn’s Big Country Oilfield Services Ltd

Acheson AB (780) 960-4900

Northwest Machine & Welding (1994) Ltd

Leduc AB (780) 986-6201

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High Prairie AB (780) 523-3073

Edmonton AB (780) 395-6143

Nor-Trail Oilfield Ltd

Pathway Mats

Slave Lake AB (780) 849-5230

Leduc AB (780) 986-0766

Norweld Stress (1994) Ltd

Pavlis Trucking Ltd

Fort St John BC (250) 787-0609

Dawson Creek BC (250) 782-9819

NOV Enerflow Inc

Pembina Tubing Inspection

Calgary AB (403) 279-9696

Drayton Valley AB (780) 621-2011

O.C.E.A.N. Hauling & Hotshot Ltd

Pentacon Energy Services Inc

Calgary AB (403) 235-1942

Vermilion AB (780) 853-7836

OilKat Energy Services Inc

Perfection Pumping Corp

Edson AB (780) 712-5798

Red Deer AB (403) 318-9178

Okala Energy Services Ltd

Performance North Ltd

Calgary AB (403) 453-4990

Grimshaw AB (780) 332-2229

Omega Transport Services Inc

Performance Vac & Tank Services Ltd

Brooks AB (403) 362-7303

109 Wireline Services Ltd Fort St John BC (250) 261-6490

Opsco Energy Industries Ltd Rocky View AB (403) 272-2206

Opsco Energy Wireline Calgary AB (403) 272-2206

Osco Gunite & Mudjacking Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 469-1234

Outlaw Oilfield Hauling Ltd Estevan SK (306) 634-3009

Overdrive Transport Ltd Rocky Mountain House AB (403) 348-7004

Overland Transport Ltd Grande Prairie AB (780) 830-1490

P.B.I. Peer Brothers Industry Red Earth Creek AB (780) 649-3560

Paradox Access Solutions Inc St Albert AB (780) 418-1955

Grande Prairie AB (780) 830-0045

Performance Wireline Ltd Cochrane AB (403) 304-6225

Petro Carbon NDT Solutions Inc Calgary AB (403) 720-2077

Phosphate Plus Coating Inc Edmonton AB (780) 465-7467

Piston Well Services Inc Red Deer AB (403) 309-4429

Polaris Petroleum Ltd Drayton Valley AB (780) 542-5958

Ponto Water Hauling Inc Fairview AB (780) 835-4554

Powerstroke Well Control Ltd Grande Prairie AB (780) 539-0102

Prairie Blasting & Coating Ltd Virden MB (204) 748-2864

Prairie West Ventures Ltd Nisku AB (780) 916-3211

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Pressure Services Inc Alder Flats AB (780) 388-2282

PressureWorx Inc Hinton AB (780) 817-1694

Prospector Oilfield Services Provost AB (780) 753-8440

ProTechnics (Canada) Calgary AB (403) 269-2055

Providence Trucking Inc Red Deer AB (403) 314-0909

PSI Fluid Power Ltd Calgary AB (403) 253-2236

Pulse Wireline Services Ltd

Hanna AB (403) 854-2361

R & R Stress Relieving Service Ltd Nisku AB (780) 955-7559

Radar Hotshots Of Zama Zama City AB (780) 683-2069

Rae’s Industrial Repair Slave Lake AB (780) 849-0906

Rai-Lynn Trucking Ltd Lacombe AB (403) 782-3548

Rapid Wireline Services Ltd Fort St John BC (250) 785-4364

Raven Oilfield Rentals Fort St John BC (250) 787-8474

Sherwood Park AB (780) 464-2981

RBT - Randy Brodersen Trucking Limited

Pure Spirit Water Services Ltd

Grande Prairie AB (780) 532-2613

Spirit River AB (780) 864-4424

PureChem Services Red Deer AB (403) 314-1820

PureChem Services Carlyle SK (306) 453-4414

P.W. Rentals Ltd Fairview AB (780) 835-4401

Q Test Inspection Ltd Sylvan Lake AB (403) 887-5630

Q-Tek Tankers Ltd Viking AB (780) 336-2696

Quality Wireline Services Ltd Estevan SK (306) 634-7975

Quick Silver Wireline Ltd Red Deer AB (403) 346-6167

Quicksilver Hot Shot Fort Nelson BC (250) 774-2209

Quik Hotshot Grande Prairie AB (780) 814-3499

Rebel Energy Services Ltd Red Deer AB (877) 732-3549

Rebel Hotshot Calgary AB (403) 214-1333

Rebel Transport Edmonton AB (780) 464-5171

Recovery Automotive Ltd High Level AB (780) 926-2343

Red Arrow Express Edmonton AB (800) 232-1958

Red Planet Trucking Ltd Red Earth Creek AB (780) 649-3401

Redline Well Control Inc Red Deer County AB (403) 347-2007

Redneckz Wireline Grande Prairie AB (780) 830-0002

RedSky Resources Ltd Kindersley SK (306) 463-8383

Regulator’s Oilfield Hauling Ltd Grande Prairie AB (780) 832-0372

Rock Tubulars Ltd

Sierra Vacuum Truck Services Ltd

SPS Well Services Inc

Grande Prairie AB (780) 539-1312

Nisku AB (780) 915-7880

Rocky Mountain House AB (403) 845-3039

Airdrie AB (403) 948-9599

Remote Wireline Services

Rock Weld Oilfield Services Ltd Nisku AB (780) 979-0203

Signal Hill Hotshot and Core Van Services Ltd

Stealth Oilfield Inspections Ltd

Morinville AB (780) 939-6655

Renegade Oilfield Services

Rocksteady Oilfield Services

Red Deer County AB (403) 350-7777

Peace River AB (780) 219-1112

Rice Bros Trucking Ltd

Rockwater Energy Solutions

Brooks AB (403) 501-8556

Calgary AB (403) 206-1234

Silver Shadow Inspection Services Ltd

Rick’s Oilfield Hauling

Roger’s Steam Rite Ltd & Vac Services

Fort St John BC (250) 785-0202

Redwater AB (780) 942-2025

Rig Locator Calgary AB (403) 209-3500

Rig Vac Inc Vegreville AB (780) 632-9781

Right Now Hotshot Inc Grande Prairie AB (780) 831-1352

Risley Hydraulic Services Ltd Grande Prairie AB (780) 539-5335

Grande Prairie AB (780) 539-0980

Ron’s Vacuum Service Ltd Wainwright AB (780) 842-2390

Rosenau Transport Ltd Edmonton AB (780) 431-2877

Rostel Industries Ltd Calgary AB (403) 720-3999

Roughrider Hotshot Service Ltd

Sherwood Park AB (780) 289-3600

Edmonton AB (780) 460-8417

R.L. Electric Motor Rewinding (1995) Ltd Lloydminster AB (780) 875-6880

Road Runner Well Service Forestburg AB (780) 336-5880

Road Train Oilfield Transport Ltd Red Deer County AB (403) 346-5311

Roadrunner Leasing and Sales Ltd Peace River AB (780) 618-3588

Roadway Trailers Ltd

Drayton Valley AB (780) 542-6096

Sabre Well Servicing Inc Calgary AB (403) 237-0309

Sage Wireline Services Brooks AB (403) 362-7503

Samax Industries Westlock AB (780) 349-1777

Sandpiper Truck Services Ltd Lloydminster SK (780) 875-2850

Sanjel Corporation Calgary AB (403) 269-1420

Stone Tucker Instruments Inc

Silverman Oilfield Services Ltd Neilburg SK (306) 823-4722

Nisku AB (780) 955-9393

Manning AB (780) 836-3792

Strad Energy Services-Matting Whitecourt AB (780) 778-2552

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SLH Picker Service & Pile Driving Slave Lake AB (780) 849-5275

Grande Cache AB (780) 827-4444

SnoBear Canada Regina SK (306) 781-2401

Summit Wireline Inc Lloydminster AB (306) 825-4191

Snub Force Well Control Ltd Brooks AB (403) 793-5559

Sunrize Pilot Services Red Deer AB (403) 357-6610

Snubco Pressure Control Ltd Calgary AB (403) 265-9384

Supreme Vac Oilfield Services Edmonton AB (780) 691-3436

South West Pipe Ltd Gull Lake SK (306) 672-4242

Surface Solutions Inc

Southern Industrial & Truck Ltd Weyburn SK (306) 842-2422

Bonnyville AB (780) 826-5778

Specialized Tech Inc Calgary AB (403) 233-2040

Swamp Mats Inc.

Robby Davis Trucking Inc

Calgary AB (403) 869-1518

Airdrie AB (403) 948-5031

Shaw Lease & Truck Rentals

Springburn Oilfield Services Ltd

Calgary AB (403) 243-6200

High Prairie AB (780) 837-9225

Red Deer AB (403) 340-3311

Grande Prairie AB (780) 538-1074

SVI Stats Ventures Inc

Schiltron Non Destructive Testing Inc

Rock Data Services Ltd

Stettler AB (403) 742-8838

Summit Transport

Edmonton AB (780) 434-2644 Lamont AB (780) 895-2656

Fonthill ON (905) 892-6142

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Silvertip Oilfield Services Inc

Rival Trucking

Rivers Water & Vac Truck Service

Enchant AB (403) 633-0590

Slave Lake AB (780) 849-2880

Whitecourt AB (780) 648-3950

Sabre Swabbing

Stimtech Tubing Inspection Ltd

Silverline Wireline

Clairmont AB (780) 512-6133

Stettler AB (403) 742-2636 Whitecourt AB (780) 706-4596

Beaverlodge AB (780) 354-3052

R.P.T.L. Ron Prokipchuk Trucking Ltd

Steve Os Oilfield Services

Steve’s Hot Shot

Silverline Swabbing

Grande Prairie AB (780) 538-8256 Fox Creek AB (780) 622-3304

Calmar AB (780) 955-7228

Rocky Mountain House AB (403) 845-6044

S Kape Transport and Picker Services

Risley Machining

Stene Bros Oilfield Hauling Inc

Silver Hills Wireline Ltd

Swift Current SK (306) 774-9652

Red Deer AB (403) 309-7221

Spectrum Wireline Services Ltd

Calgary AB (403) 265-8757

Swede’s Towing Ltd Dawson Creek BC (250) 782-7787

SWL Wireline Brooks AB (403) 362-3873

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TL Wood Transport Ltd

Meadow Lake SK (306) 236-6076

St Albert AB (780) 458-0248

T D Styles Trucking Ltd

Tolway’s Rig Jacking

Nisku AB (780) 955-8020

Clairmont AB (780) 567-2422

T T’s Transport Ltd

Tomtruck Enterprises Ltd

Rainbow Lake AB (780) 956-3030

Lloydminster SK (780) 205-1535

Taiga Helicopters 1993 Ltd

Too SPEC Inc

Whitecourt AB (780) 778-3674

Beaverlodge AB (780) 832-3540

Talmek Energy Services Ltd

Top Coat Industrial Coating Applicators Inc

Slave Lake AB (780) 849-6844

TruScan Tubing Inspection Services Inc Taber AB (403) 223-5030

Tuboscope Canada Calgary AB (403) 216-5000

Tucker Oilfield Hauling Ltd Drayton Valley AB (780) 542-4882

Tundra Petroleum Services Ltd Red Deer AB (403) 314-4474

Tusk Inspection Services Inc

Leduc County AB (780) 387-4801

Fox Creek AB (780) 622-4252

Edmonton AB (780) 438-3770

Total Depth Steam & Vacuum Services Ltd (1999)

20/20 NDT Inc

TCL Trans Carrier Ltd

Grande Prairie AB (780) 518-0545

Tazmech Ltd

Fort St John BC (250) 785-5553

Team Industrial Services Edmonton AB (780) 417-7777

Team Snubbing Services Inc Rocky Mountain House AB (403) 844-2728

Tenaris Hydril Nisku AB (780) 955-2045

Terrapro Group of Companies Sherwood Park AB (780) 449-2091

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Just how consistent can we expect production to be across these shale wells?

Heterogeneous rock will never give homogeneous results. In shale, production logs indicate that up to 40% of perforation clusters do not contribute to production. Experience in more than 20,000 wells in every active shale play worldwide has taught us that identifying and stimulating the right zones requires accurate measurements, a collaborative, analytical software environment, and innovative stimulation technologies. Let us help you turn greater understanding into better production.

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Fracceleration!

Resettable frac isolation on coiled tubing + Grip/ShiftTM sleeves

The unique resettable frac plug grips and shifts the sliding sleeve and isolates the frac zone.

Frac ports

Plug-and-perf and ball-actuated sleeves are brute force frac methods that bullhead fluids and sand down the casing with no feedback about formation response, no recourse in the event of a screen-out, and no way to manage water and chemicals usage. Both methods limit the number of stages and usually require post-completion drill-out of composite plugs or ball seats.

the coiled tubing/casing annulus; smaller, low-rate fracs can be pumped through the coiled tubing.

The Multistage Unlimited system overcomes those limitations and drawbacks using coiled tubing as a work string and circulation path to the frac zone.

• reduce water and chemicals requirements up to 50%

Fast frac isolation, mechanical sleeve shift The work string operates the Multistage Unlimited resettable frac plug, a dual-function tool that 1) isolates frac zones and 2) grips and shifts the sleeves. With no pump-down plugs and sleeve-shifting balls, time between fracs is only about 5 minutes. Large-volume, high-rate fracs are pumped down

Circulation path adds capabilities The circulation capability allows operators to: • monitor actual frac-zone pressure for better control of sand placement • recover quickly from screenouts by circulating excess sand out of the well • use sand-jet perforating to add stages in blank casing, without tripping out of the hole It all adds up to unlimited stages and spacing, streamlined frac operations, better frac control, lower-cost completions, less environmental impact, and no drillouts. Call, email, or visit our website for more information.

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