Pipeline News June 2008

PIPELINE NEWS Saskatchewan’s Petroleum Monthly

June 2008

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PIPELINE NEWS June 2008

Enbridge’s Alida to Cromer Capacity Expansion Project begins to Àow

By Lizz Bottrell At the beginning of April, a new pipeline began pumping natural gas liquids from Alida, SK to Cromer, MB. The new six-inch pipeline is part of Enbridge Pipelines (Saskatchewan) Inc.’s Alida

to Cromer Capacity Expansion Project (ACCE), which also includes the conversion of the existing 12-inch natural gas liquids line to pump crude oil.

“The project will increase the crude oil capacity between Alida and

Cromer to the tune of about 40 per cent,” said Brad Burlock, Supervisor of Engineer Services of Enbridge Pipelines Saskatchewan.

While natural gas liquids flow through the new line, Enbridge is working hard to have the

refers to is the hydrostatic pressure-testing of the 6-inch and 12-inch pipelines, undertaken to ensure their safe and proper operation. Before completely restoring the pipeline right-of-way, technicians fill the pipeline with water and increase

converted crude oil pipeline in service sometime in June. “Right now we’re in the hydrotest phase,” said Peter Taylor, Manager for Enbridge Pipelines Saskatchewan. “We hydrotest in order to ensure it’s safe to operate.”

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Husky’s got a new project Company plans to invest $30 million in facilities near Gull Lake

Peter Peng, at left, facilities project leader for Husky Energy and Jeff Raugust, Husky’s district manager stand beside a billboard explaining the ASP Áood project, drilling is set to commence this summer north of Gull Lake.

By Stephan Burnett Gull Lake - Husky Energy’s new project in southwest Saskatchewan is what’s known as an enhanced oil recovery project.

The company plans on investing close to $30 million on the project in facilities alone, says Jeff Raugust, district manager for Husky.

Peter Peng, facilities project leader for Husky, says the project will employ between 35-40 people in the construction phase and another 20 on the electrical side of the initiative.

Curtis Cymbaluk, production engineer on the project says 27 injector wells will be involved along with another 60 production wells.

“Phase 1, the drilling, will start in the late summer of 2008 and Phase 2 will be completed in 2009-2010,” says Cymbaluk.

The project centers on the Gull Lake North field, north of Gull Lake, which is currently producing 600 barrels per day. That production is expected to increase to between 1,200 and 1,800 barrels per day once the project is operational.

What is an ASP flood?

Husky defines the technical term for project as an ASP flood. The “A” standing for alkali, the “S” standing for surfacant and the “P” standing for polymer.

In an ASP flood, chemicals are added to the produced water that has been filtered and softened and introduced into the oil reservoir using injection wells.

The chemicals interact with the oil reservoir rock to improve the amount of oil that can be recovered by the producing wells.

The alkali reacts with the acids in the oil to naturally create surfacant in the reservoir. The surfacant or “soap” changes the fluid and rock interactions and releases trapped oil that can be carried by the injected water. The polymer increases the water viscosity almost to a pudding-like mixture, which slows the flow down and reduces the ability of the water to flow past the oil in the reservoir.

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Phase 1, the drilling, will start in the late summer of 2008 and Phase 2 will be completed in 2009-2010

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- Curtis Cymbaluk

Project Facilities and Process The project facilities will include modifications to the Gull Lake North oil battery along with a new water treatment and chemical-blending facility, which will be built adjacent to the Gull Lake North oil battery.

Husky reports the process will see fluid from producing wells separated into oil, water and gas at the existing oil battery. Water from the existing battery will then be pumped into the ASP facility. Walnut shell filters will capture additional oil. The water is softened to improve chemical blending and the injection into the reservoir. The chemicals are added to the water. For the Gull Lake North Project, the chemicals comprise 0.75 per cent of the injected solution while the remaining 99.25 per cent is water. Finally, the mixture is injected into the oil reservoir.

Approximately 30 kilometres of pipe will be laid in the project, which will be installed to tie-in the injector wells and the producing wells. Well modifications and Phase 1 drilling will begin in the summer of 2008 and continue through to March 2009. Phase 2 drilling will occur in late 2009 early 2010. The pipeline construction is expected to take three months to complete and will occur between August 2008 and October 2008. Facility construction will occur between June 2008 and April of 2009.

Production and Environment Husky produces 16,800 barrels of oil equivalent per day in southern Saskatchewan. If production remains steady and oil prices average $130 a barrel, Husky’s revenue in southern Saskatchewan alone could be close to $800 million throughout 2008. The company has paid $91 million in crown royalties and $7.8 million in freehold royalties on southern Saskatchewan production in 2007. In addition, Husky provides $5.7 million in freehold surface rental fees and pays another $6 million in property taxes.

Husky anticipates paying an increased provincial royalty due to higher production volumes and seeing a hike in its property and pipeline taxes as a result of the project, along with extending the life of the reservoir.

Husky is committed to the protection of the environment throughout all stages of project development.

During operations ongoing environmental audits will verify compliance with regulations. Husky reports environmental practices will be reviewed regularly and emergency response plans are in place to effectively manage any incidents. During the reclamation phase, sites are decontaminated, recontoured and revegetated.

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EDITORIAL

PIPELINE NEWS June 2008

Pipeline News Publisher: Brant Kersey - Estevan Ph: 1.306.634.1015 Fax: 1.306.634.0141

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The new Saskatchewan gold rush is on!

We want to tell the story of who you are, what you’re doing and why it’s so important at this point in time.

Beyond mass media headlines of $130 per barrel, record profits by oil companies, accusations of greed and threats of government intervention to ease pain at the gas stations, there’s an industry made up of men and women, raising families, working for a pay cheque or taking risks running their own businesses.

They are the backbone of a vital oil industry, part of the story that will unfold as a threshold event in human history. This sounds very much an overstatement, but it is the truth. We are at a transition period where we need to move away from past energy policies which encouraged high rates consumption and low costs for petroleum, to a model where conservation and innovation rule the day.

High prices hurt everyone in the short term; but we argue it’s the only way to truly change behavior in the long term to bring about a sensible, effective global energy policy that can sustain the planet.

Technology has brought us to this point.

Saskatchewan has always had the oil. Since the first boom of the Fifties, we’ve had a viable industry. As we pumped the “low hanging fruit” of shallow wells, the talk turned to when the Saskatchewan field would end. What was hard to see was the march of technology in the last half century. The province continued to serve up its fossil fuel through booms and busts with increasingly better

techniques of finding and delivering oil.

We are at a time of convergence, where we can barely meet the demand for this global commodity, thanks to an ever increasing population moving into the modern world.

China and India are again rising world powers, along with a united Europe, a resurgent Russia and soon-to-be new kid on the block – Brazil -- empowering their growing middle class as consumers of every imaginable commodity.

Especially oil.

And suddenly, because of technology, we find ourselves rejuvenated. Not only are we getting more out of our old fields, but also the new, deeper fields are now in play. Names like Bakken and Torquay zones have a life of their own.

And the new Saskatchewan gold rush is on!

Agricultural villages and towns dying like the very railway tracks that once gave them life are now rebounding. Who’d have thought such a thing was possible a few years ago? That a house you couldn’t give away five years ago is now worth a small fortune. That Saskatchewan is a have province and Ontario is not.

All this and more is because of oil. We have and will continue to love agriculture, the backbone of our lifestyle for over a century. But make no mistake about it. The economic rise this time around is about oil. In fact, you can argue it has pulled most other commodities along in its updraft – inspiring the search for new forms of energy, driving the price of grains, metals and soft commodities to unbelievable levels.

So in this context, we want to tell your stories to the rest of Saskatchewan. To show the industry is made up of hard working people who, like all of us, share the hopes and dreams of a good life for our province.

PIPELINE NEWS INVITES OPPOSING VIEW POINTS. EDITORIALS AND LETTERS TO THE EDITOR WELCOMED.

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Opinion Land Reclamation

Responsible resource development Our environment is often categorized into land, air and water. And while many people think of air and water as issues related to human health, land typically has a more personal, sometimes even spiritual, connotation. Land is ‘home’ – where we live, where we work

Gushing over the oil industry in 2008 Bakken Forth Geoff Lee

Go Riders Go. That was my mantra the first time I moved to Saskatchewan in 2003 from the Big Smoke.

Now it`s “Gush oil gush” as I quickly re-assimilate from the cabbage patch of Ontario to the oilpatch of Estevan.

I’ve only been here a week, but I’ve discovered the oil boom does make a noise. It’s the rumble of pickups, oil tankers and semis hauling stuff back and forth. It also has a look in the form of dust kicked up by all those tires on dirt roads and the relentless wind that blows newcomers to town. Back in 2003, making a living meant moving to Alberta for many who call this Wheatabix province home.

What a difference a few years makes as prosperity has kicked into high gear on multiple fronts including farming. Even the Riders area defending Grey Cup champions. Who knew?

Apparently, a lot of oil companies knew as the Bakken oil formation has mimicked the gold rush of the 19th century with new companies and speculators of all sorts streaming into town – not by horseback but by horsepower. Who knows, maybe gunslingers and barkeeps will make a comeback!

It’s not likely though as the modern day fortune seeker needs to holster a ticket in First Aid, confined space, H2S, ground disturbance and the like to gain entry to the oilpatch frontier. Only the safety qualifed need apply.

Unless oil drops to $50 a barrel, the towns in this quadrant of the province are in no danger of becoming ghost towns. The demand for oil is strong and there is enough lot of it underfoot to sustain a lengthy boom, minus the Wild West baggage.

South of the border, the U.S. Geological Survey, completed in April, reports an estimated 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil in the Bakken formation on the U.S. side of border.

Just as in the gold rush days, mining for oil and gas is not the only way to make a living. The boom is bringing unlimited opportunities to construction companies, service companies, students and university graduates and retailers, not to mention countless number of people looking to get their foot in the oilpatch door.

The Pipeline News is also taking advantage of the economic situation by morphing from a publication covering the regional petroleum and gas sector in the Estevan area, to a provincial industry publication. This June issue is the first province-wide issue.

As one of the contributing writers for the southeast region, I look forward to writing stories about new oil and gas companies and the people who work for them along with the community angle.

While those green Riders may be still the main sports story in Saskatchewan – the breaking news is the oil and gas economy. Gush oil gush!

and where we play.

In Saskatchewan, rural landowners live side-byside with the upstream oil and gas industry. Across the province, our industry works where many residents live, farm, ranch hunt, fish and trap. We also share this land with a wide spectrum of plant and animal species that make up Canada’s unique forests, foothills and grasslands ecosystems.

The growth of our industry has brought new challenges, including increased concerns and questions regarding our impact on communities and the environment. These concerns are fair and understandable.

Being an important part of the economy is not an answer to the environmental concerns of Canadians. We know that we have to balance both if we are to be successful and sustainable.

Effective stewardship of the land is critical as we strive to balance environmental performance and economic growth. The challenge is how to honour the rights of one user without compromising the rights of another or the integrity of the natural environment.

The first way the oil and gas industry can tackle this challenge is to minimize the area of land we use in the first place. We do this by avoiding sensitive habitats, using narrower seismic lines, optimizing the area we need for our well sites, and working with other users to reduce our disturbance footprint and share roads and pipelines.

Another way we can address this challenge is through effective reclamation and remediation, a process where, once we cease to operate on a parcel of land, we return the land back to its natural state. Removing our facilities and reclaiming the land in a timely fashion is a key part of managing our footprint and meeting public and stakeholder expectations.

While we believe we are doing a good job in minimizing our impact on the land, we know our stakeholders expect us to do even better. That’s why we are focused on improving our performance; in finding new ways to develop Canada’s oil and gas resources that respond to the concerns of those that are impacted by our industry.

Indeed, addressing the environmental impact of our operations, whether on the land, air or water, is part of a broader industry initiative that we call Stewardship. For CAPP member companies, Stewardship is a commitment to responsible resource development and continuous improvement in our environmental, health and safety, and social performance. Each year, CAPP member companies measure their performance in these areas and we report the results in our Stewardship Report. I invite you to view our most recent report available at www.stewardship.capp.ca.

Submitted by: Brian Maynard, Vice President, Public Affairs and Stewardship, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), June 2008

That one time, just that one time There were only a few pieces of lumber left on this day. I From the was literally about to top of cut up the last piece of this god forsaken the pile pile when I stepped on a rusty nail. I had Brian Zinchuk my gloves and safety glasses on, but no boots. I had left them in the car. It was only going to be an hour, I What a dumb move. figured. It’s the last of the pile. It I feel like such an idiot.

I’m standing in my back yard. was probably the only time I had The sun is just about to go down. not worn my steel-toed boots on A much-talked about storm has this little project.

Two hours later, I’m walking just started to blow it and, here I am, standing on one foot, with a out of the emergency room, arm nail in my other foot. It went right smarting from the intramuscular through the sole of my shoe, and shot.

“When was the last time you just enough into my foot to justify had a tetanus shot?” the doctor a tetanus shot. asks.

Dumb, dumb, dumb.

“Twelve years ago,” I say.

Several years ago, a wooden A dozen years earlier, I was grain elevator was demolished in Battleford. I salvaged a whole three weeks into my first pipeline bunch of lumber, hoping to use it job, working as an oiler on a mato rebuild my deck. It never did chine the devil himself would have pan out. Scrap lumber makes for a thought too dastardly to create. It crappy deck. So over the next sev- was a Barber Green TA-77 wheel eral years I laboured over this mas- ditcher, and I was the lowly new sive, unsightly pile of lumber, cut- guy as its oiler. I had worked on ting it into 16-inch lengths for the my dad’s farm before, but this was wood stove. Many reciprocating my first oil patch job. The damned saw demolition blades gave their thing went through 10 tubes of lives in chewing through this pile. grease a day, by hand. In a month Each time I tackled the old I lost 15 pounds and had arms you 2x4s and 2x6s, I would dutifully could flint steel off of.

Ironically, that’s exactly what don my gloves and steel-toed boots. Safety glasses went over the happened.

We were changing teeth on spectacles. I might have even worn a hard hat in my own back yard. this beast when a chunk of carbide steel ended up lodged in my Yes, I’m that anal about safety.

arm. I was never good as swinging a sledgehammer, so another oiler swung while I helped. A piece flew off, and an hour later, the “bandaid” was taking me in so I could get a shot in the arm.

Over the years I was basically one of those guys that drove everyone nuts. I always wore my seatbelt, no matter what. I even wore it in my excavator. I always wore my hardhat. I never cut corners on Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) or any safety measure.

My blood pressure would boil when I worked with idiots who didn’t give a rat’s behind about safety. Foremen who wanted me to cheat on ditch slope drove me crazy. On one job, I came home each day for three weeks to tell my wife I had nearly killed one particular labourer. No matter what we did, he always put himself in the exact wrong spot. I had visions of him smeared across the backside of my bucket.

A rusty nail in the foot isn’t that big a deal, but the principle of the thing is what bugs me. It happened just as the safety guys always say – the end of the day, a last minute project, inclement weather, mind wandering off the job, light getting dark and, most importantly, the one time you skip the personal protective equipment.

That’s when you get bit in the rear, or in this case, the foot.

Lesson learned.

Brian Zinchuk is a reporter with Pipeline News. He can be reached at brian.zinchuk@sasktel. net

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by Brian Zinchuk

Marshall – You can fish with a hook, or you can fish with a net. You’ll catch more with one than the other.

When it comes to taking care of its crumbling roads, the RM of Wilton is fishing with a net.

Compared to other rural municipalities, Wilton is unique. It’s the home of the Husky Heavy Oil Upgrader, located just outside of Lloydminster, one of the crucial set pieces in the Saskatchewan oilpatch. Its map looks like a spiderweb, with all the pipeline right of ways marked. The geology beneath it is swimming in heavy oil. Black heavy oil tanks are within sight no matter where you go.

Such a blessing has its drawbacks, however. Pulling all that heavy oil out of the ground and hauling it takes a brutal toll on the RM’s roads. According to RM Administrator Darren Elder, Wilton spends approximately 80 per cent of its $13 million budget on trying to keep the infrastructure from falling apart. That’s a budget in line with a small Saskatchewan city, despite a population of 1,473.

Many of those roads are paved, or at least have some approximation of what was once a hard top. The RM employs 25 full time staff, mostly in maintenance.

Nine graders are on a constant go – three to four times what a typical RM might have.

“We’ve got roads here on a grading schedule two to three times a week,” says assistant RM administrator Jill Parton. She says the RM’s soil type is not conducive to road building. On top of that, some roads have over 100 heavy trucks running on them a day, “We’ve got roads that have 400 vehicles a day,” she adds.

“Farmers live in a haze,” she says of the dust.

With overweight trucks pounding the tar, literally, out of roads that are already on the ropes, something had to give.

Enter the Wilton Police Service.

In February, 2006, Police Chief Mark Chupik was hired. A former corrections officer, CP Police constable and Highways traffic officer, Chupik was given a police truck, a ticket book and a ‘have-at-er.’ The Wilton police focus primarily on weights and safety – speeding, stopping at stop signs, etc.

Wilton Police Chief Mark Chupik

“We’ve had audits with some companies where over 50 per cent of their loads were overweight. If no one’s enforcing it, you can get away with it,” Parton says.

The municipal police service has been so successful, a second constable was hired this last February. Constable Ian Reiman comes to Wilton as a recently-retired staff sergeant with the Prince Albert Police Service. His background includes detective work and patrol duty. But more importantly, he started and ran the P.A. traffic section.

All over the RM there are certified scales. Following up on a tip, the Wilton Police will go in and pull all the scale tickets for a month, and fire up the spreadsheet. They could review up to 1100 trips in a four week period, Chupik says. “It’s our equivalent of photo radar.”

The numbers are eye-popping, with some carriers running overweight a large portion of the time. Their highest catch so far was a $40,000 voluntary payment on what could have been fines reaching $150,000 to $175,000. Another carrier faced a potential $400,000 in fines. That was settled out of court.

These are an order of magnitude higher than what would be considered high in a criminal court.

“As a result of conducting these audits, we get more compliance,” says Chupik.

“We want compliance. We’re not here to generate revenue,” he explains, adding they want to be taken seriously.

That appears to be taking place, because Chupik says they are now seeing 95 to 97 per cent compliance.

“Since we brought the police in, compliance has gone way up.” says Parton Regional force Other municipalities have taken notice. Already the RM of Manitou Lake to the south has contracted the service for ten hours a month. They are considering bumping that up to 40, according to Chupik. Lashburn and Marshall each contract for ten hours a month. Kids riding on quads is a typical complaint there, and the response is quick. The hamlet of Lone Rock has seen one unsightly property ordered cleaned up, and a two more were on the agenda as of early May. RM of Mervin No. 499 Administrator L. Ryan Domotor told Pipeline News they have considered contracting Wilton’s police service, but so far council has not bought into it.

Before Wilton will provide services to another municipality, they want 100 per cent council support, according to Chupik. The force has the potential of being a regional police force within a year and a half.

If that happens, a substantial chunk of the Lloydminster region on the Saskatchewan side of the border could see Chief Chupik and a few more constables roving the roads, ticket book in hand.

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Expecting a busy summer near Turtleford

Gabe Craig

By Brain Zinchuk Turtleford – Coming into Turtleford from the southeast, the first business

you come across is Ken’s Oilfield, on the north side of Highway 26. If you’re there during the day, expect to see a building and empty compound. That’s because Ken’s is keeping quite busy, performing general oilfield maintenance, well completions and tank hauling in the Turtleford district.

“Right now we have 13 small trucks and two big 30-tonnes,” says Gabe

Craig, co-owner and general manager. The total fleet is around 20 trucks.

That includes pilot trucks working with their three tank movers, and a skidsteer loader service.

Started in the early 1990s, Ken’s employs 26 to 35 people, depending upon the season. Most are local to Turtleford and area, but there are a few out of the Battlefords, one from Glaslyn, another from

Livelong, and quite a few from Edam and Mervin.

Three are out of Lloydminster, and one of the large picker trucks is based in the border city.

Ken’s does work for Husky, CNRL, Nexen, Galleon, Advantage and Prosper, but Husky and CNRL are the main ones, according to Craig.

A number of the staff have been on for over ten years. They include Terry Chambers, Dale Gray, Mark Day, Aaron Chambers, Ritchie Rubletz, Scott Rubletz and Kris Bloom.

“I think in ways we have an advantage here.

You get farm kids. A lot of the lead kids are farmers.”

Craig anticipates a busy summer. When interviewed, oil was $125 a barrel. A week later, it was $135. “They’re probably going to have every hole in the ground [producing],” he says. “This year, anything with casings sticking out of the ground is going to be up and down and going around.”

Ken’s coverage area extends approximately 100 km around Turtleford.

“Our tank movers get out the furthest,” Craig says.

As for Turtleford, he says, “I don’t think there’s

hardly a vacancy, and new houses are going up.”

For finding people, Craig says, “It’s not as bad in the last year or so as [compared to] when I came here four years ago.”

Part of that has been working with Husky, one of their primary clients, to spread the work out throughout the year. Before, it was four and a half months of dead, followed by running flat out for the rest of the year. “It is a big thing. We were having a hell of a time to find people,” he says. “If they’re going to Lloyd, they’re gone.”

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Labour supply for the oil patch

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North Battleford - As Saskatchewan’s oilpatch grows, some of the much-needed labour supply will come from the Northwest.

That’s the way North West Regional College President Bryan Nylander sees it. North West Regional College is based in North Battleford, with significant operations in Meadow Lake, Unity, St. Walburg, and Spiritwood.

There’s already been a “tremendous uptake by the population of our region to take part in safety training” he notes. In the past four years, 6,100 people have taken health and safety training programs from the North Battleford campus.

Like many regional colleges, the basic safety courses are highly in demand, and a high priority. They include H2S Alive, confined space I & II, fall protection, fire awareness, WHMIS, TDG, ground disturbance, first aid, CPR, and CD-ROM based petroleum safety training. These course are offered as a week-long package or a la carte.

There’s enough demand to run the week-long sessions twice monthly most of the year at North Battleford. Meadow Lake has the program monthly, and Unity, St. Walburg and Spiritwood run the program three times a year.

A lot of these programs are generalist. But much of it is driven by the oilpatch, with Nylander expecting much growth. “In the next five years, we could quadruple our training and still not meet the demand.”

One program they are looking at is the oil rig technician course, currently offered at Cypress Hills and Southeast Regional Colleges. “There has to be sufficient volume of training to make it worthwhile,”Nylander says, adding it depends on how quickly the industry develops. For example, if there is a substantial oilsands play in Saskatchewan, that opens up a whole gamut of services and training needed.

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“Do we think one primary supplies of people would come from here? Absolutely,” he says.

The Battlefords region has a substantial young First Nations population. One of the local focuses of numerous initiatives in the Battlefords has been to bring that population into the mainstream workforce.

The college’s partnership with Meadow Lake Tribal Council’s oil and gas secretariat is working to that end. “Currently we’re working on preparing people to work in the oilsands in Alberta,” he says. The goal is for those people to come back as local opportunities arise.

Current programs offered by North West Regional College include several general trades that see a substantial portion of their grads migrate to the oilpatch.

Many of the graduates of the welding program end up in the energy sector, or work in manufacturing related to it. GLM Industries in Battleford and Western Weld in North Battleford have both been recipients of graduate welders, as has Robwel Constructors in Meadow Lake.

Similarly, graduates of heavy equipment truck and transport mechanics course often end up in the patch.

Plumbing and pipefitter is also applicable.

“We fill our program every year in Meadow Lake,”

Nylander says of their electrician course.

“We would do more if we had more money. We’re limited by money,” he notes.

One course that comes to minds is the heavy equipment operator program. It’s a four-week course, done on site, that provides familiarization training on rubber-tire backhoes, graders, dozers and scrapers.

This program is offered “Wherever we can find the contractors and appropriate students.”

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Teaching oil administration the basics Lloydminster - If you’re going to be driving a desk in the oilpatch, a few little tidbits might be useful – like understanding land descriptions, knowing how to do regulatory paper work and understanding what a pumpjack does.

Reeves College, a business college in Lloydminster, found there was a need to address those issues when training office administration staff.

Krista Dansereau, campus director, explains they talked to businesses in the Lloydminster area and established a program that met those needs. “We offer an oil and gas administrative assistant program,” she says.

“When these things are coming across their desk, they actually know what they are supposed to do with them,” Dansereau says.

The program, established in 2005, includes the basics – office software, accounting and other skills. It gives a student a grounding on what they are getting into. There’s a foundations course that talks about the different types of oil and what a pumpjack does. Two levels of production accounting were added after feedback from the first graduating class and the companies

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NDP: Leave well enough alone Not much happened on the oil and gas front during the spring session of the Saskatchewan legislature that wrapped up in mid-May, according to NDP Energy and Resources Critic Len Taylor.

Taylor, who represents the Battlefords, says, “There was very little related to oil and gas, other than did Bill Boyd and Brad Wall actually want a royalty rate review? They said they did, and then they said they didn’t.”

Taylor notes that Wall, now premier, had made noises about a rate review during the election. They backed off very quickly, he notes.

“The bottom line is we’ve got to the royalty structure in Saskatchewan through ongoing consultation with industry,” Taylor says of the previous NDP government.

One highlight of the session was the

extraordinarily high land sales this spring, something Taylor called “spectacular.”

He attributes the high sales to high oil prices, and to Saskatchewan being “a very taxfriendly province for the oil and gas sector.”

“I think the oil and gas sector has had their eye on expansion and development,” he adds, predicting continued investment. With an unchanged regulatory environment and high prices, he says, “We’re going to continue to see good lands sales in Saskatchewan.”

“I think we’ve got ideal circumstances in the province today. I would encourage the new government not to tinker too much with a system that’s working.”

Taylor says the province has dropped the ball on its fight with Ottawa over equalization revenue, allowing resource revenue to be sent out of the province.

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BLACK GOLD Girl Lloydminster – A recent graduate of the University of Saskatchewan’s college of Engineering, Ashley Ducherer was looking for a challenge.

Having completed the U of S geological engineering program in 2007, Ducherer now works as a production engineer for Husky Energy, at its Husky centre of operations.

Her responsibilities include 170 producing wells and another 55 that are currently shut in. Ducherer’s area of responsibility includes the Wainwright district and Wildmere.

“I wanted to be challenged,” she said of her choice of engineering.

Part of that challenge is putting as many wells as possible into production, especially given today’s prices.

“I enjoy it,” she says. “Husky has a great staff.”

“I’d like to get experience in gas and thermal,” she says of future plans.

Between university terms, Ducherer spent three summers operating with CNRL. That included work near Maidstone and Senlac.

When not at work, Ducherer plays soccer, is into step aerobics and fishing.

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Back to school for rig tech Story and photo by Brian Zinchuk He’s been working in the Grande Prairie area on the rigs for a few years now, but with increased training requirements for rig hands coming into place in Alberta, it was time for Ben Heilman to go back to school.

It’s not the first time for Heilman, however. The 33-year-old North Battlefordbased hand is already a journeyman mechanic, having worked at a muffler shop in Lloydminster for about six years. The apprenticeship system is nothing new to him.

However, to keep working on the drilling rigs in Alberta, he needed a level card by this summer.

For the first level, Heilman successfully challenged the exam. He came back from Estevan’s Southeast Regional College in May having completed his level II training.

For him, it was important to get the certification. “Some guys don’t want to drill.

They would prefer to work on the derrick,” he says. When he returns to work with Precision Drilling, it will be in the position of assistant driller.

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Heilman’s prior training and experience as a mechanic has been helpful, he says. “That helped a lot too, transitioning into it. It’s just a big machine,” he says of the rig.

His first apprenticeship was done through Alberta. This trade has been essentially the same process, he says – put the hours in at work, then go in for technical training.

The Saskatchewan rig technician program is still pretty new, according to Heilman. Saskatchewan Apprenticeship and Trades has been nothing but helpful, he notes. Getting a $1,000 grant for completing each level of training was a bonus.

Work on the rigs has been a lot of old school-style training, where you work in a position until you have the opportunity to move up. “It seemed to be a big garden secret. Nobody wanted to teach you the next level, and then you got stuck with it and had to figure it out.”

The newer system means that Heilman will be passing on his knowledge to those below him.

“Running the controls is the easy part. Any monkey can run the box up and down,” he says.

“It’s the organizing and management.”

The three weeks in Estevan had a substantial portion dedicated to leadership, communications and people skills – 31 per cent of the time and marks, according to Heilman. Yelling, for instance, is not encouraged unless you really have to, he says with a smile.

Safety was a constant thread throughout the course, Heilman adds.

“I think the training is good. It’s

definitely no substitute for on the job. You can read a book, but on site is more important,” he says. However Heilman adds, “It’s definitely a help to have those principles in your head.”

Ben Heilman awaits a call back to work in mid-May upon completing his level II rig technician training.

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Turtleford’s Oil ‘n’ Ag busier than ever before Turtleford – The coffee’s on, and the phone is ringing. Clint Conacher reaches over and answers. That’s what he does, he says. Answer the phone.

Conacher is the manager of Oil ‘n’ Ag, located on Highway 26 in Turtleford. He’s been there from the beginning. “I opened the doors,” he says.

Bill Spenst is the owner. He’s been in business for 20 years, running Oil ‘n’ Ag for 12.

“We sell to the oil and ag industry. Belts, bearings, bolts, Stihl power equipment,” Conacher says from behind the front counter. “We’ve got mechanic trucks that go out and fix, tune up engines in the oilpatch.”

Conacher ads they do maintenance and repair of lease equipment, put new spouts on tanks and repair shacks. A lube truck performs oil changes on skid units. As far as he knows, they also operate the only

hydrovac unit based in the area.

There are also two skid-steer loaders, gravel trucks and water pumping equipment. Another building across the highway houses an in-house shop.

Oil ‘n’ Ag has about a dozen on staff. Of those, Dan Gies, Barry Nordell, Ted Knowlton, Lane Therres and Ron Spencer have been around the longest.

Their workforce has been stable, according to Conacher, and they haven’t had to look too hard.

“Generally people come to us,” he says.

He says the higher oilpatch wages are good for the town, and for the standard around Turtleford, they offer some of the highest.

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production? Better make sand Bonnyville, Alta. – The talk was about sand, and not the sand in the golf bunkers.

Approximately 130 people gathered in Bonnyville, Alta., on May 14 for the Petroleum Society Lloydminster section for some lunch, to learn and to golf.

While many of the golfers produced their share of worm-burners on the course, it was over lunch where they heard about worm-related material of a different kind.

Alberta Research Council’s Ron Sawatzky spoke of the mysteries of cold production of heavy oil. While the processes have evolved over time, through in-field experimentation, trial and error, they’re not exactly would have come out of a lab, according to Sawatzky, a senior scientist with ARC. And while the processes work, it’s taken a while to figure out why.

“Even though SAGD is the process of the future, it isn’t the process of today,” Sawatzky says. That process is cold production.

It’s important, he points out, because production statistics of Western Canadian crude oil production as of December, 2006, show 500,000 bbl/day of conventional heavy production, of a total of 2,190,000 bbl/day production.

Of that half million barrels, he estimates approximately 230,000 bb/day is cold production.

Sawatzky has worked 20 years with the Alberta Research Council, 16 of those in heavy oil. He spoke about “things that confuse me,” in his words.

The presentation was the work of Sawatzky, Mike London, and Kirby Hayes. Hayes, of Kirby Hayes Inc., was present for the luncheon.

Speaking about the prevalence of cold production of heavy oil, especially in the Lloydminster region, Sawatzky made one point very clear. “Without a doubt, if you want to make oil, you better make sand.”

Two things drive cold production, he said – foamy oil (transient bubbles of evolved gas in the oil), and wormholes.

It’s common knowledge that sand comes out of the hole with heavy oil.

But what sort of structure it leaves under the ground after being extracted has been the focus of Sawatzky’s work.

Instead of forming caverns, you get wormholes, he says. The wormholes are conduits in the sand that allow oil to flow. “These wormholes concentrate flow,” he says. As they form, the sand fails, and the wormholes grow. In turn, more oil flows, and the network grows.

Those wormholes are akin to roots, or arteries or veins.

Sandbox experiments and lab models show intact channels. “You keep injecting oil, you keep eroding,” he says.

However, being able to actually

determine if that’s what really happening underground is more problematic, as Sawatzky says you’re not going to be able to actually image the actual process in such fine detail.

Showing graphs of oil and sand production, he showed a correlation between the two. Wells that produce sand show substantially higher oil production rates than those without. In essence, you need to make sand to extract oil.

“The harder you pull down from a reservoir point of view, the better you’re going to do.”

Ron Sawatzky illustrates how worm“We think we’ve got holes of sand form in cold production cold production figured out when it works. But when it of heavy oil. See golf photos on page doesn’t work, I don’t know,” 21. he acknowledges.

Naysayers have predicted cold proPrincipal symptoms are duction at Lloydminster for a long watering out and loss of fluid inflow.

Water is the boogeyman. There time, he concluded. It hasn’t hapcould be pocket water, bottom water, pened yet.

The session was the last technical formation water, or edge water. “We can’t predict water production at all,” session for the Petroleum Society for he says. “If it’s here, wave bye-bye to the season. Things will fire up again in September, with a symposium asthat well,” he says.

There is way more work to do on sociated with the Lloydminster Heavy the water side of things, Sawatzky says. Oil Show.

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Stability means heavy oil is the place to be for Dow trucks, with six owner/ operators.

About half their work is vac/pressure and the other half is fluid hauling. Their work includes produced water hauling, crude oil hauling, tank desands and cleanouts, single axle gas job hauling waste fluid handling and produced water.” pressure work. Their fleet They were encour- includes tandem tank aged to break out on their trucks, five- and six-axle own, and that’s exactly tankers, pressure trucks what happened. and tri-axle semi-vac “I was the grunt man, units. There are 14 on and he was the backer,” staff, plus the six owner/ Barry Dow says of his fa- operators for a total of 20. ther.

A majority of their They worked togeth- work initially started in er until the mid-1990s, the Tangleflags district, when Barry began to take northeast of Lloydminover ownership the firm. ster. Now they operate in Growth since then a radius of approximately has been one truck at a 160 km around Lloydtime. “We just kept in- minster, with work split creasing with demand.” about evenly on both sides It’s still a family oper- of the border. ation. While Barry Dow When Dow Truckcalls himself the owner/ ing opened, there was no manager, his wife, Cate, upgrader at Lloydminis a partner and office ad- ster. The construction of ministrator. the Husky facility meant Currently Dow stability where there was Trucking operates 15 once substantial fluctua-

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Lloydminster - Drawing comparisons to the natural gas business, Barry Dow is glad to be trucking for heavy oil.

“It’s actually the business to be in,” he says, compared to natural gas.

The money might not be as high, but the work is more stable.

Barry Dow is the principal behind Dow Trucking, Ltd., a hauling outfit that operates from the northwest corner of Lloydminster, on the Alberta side of the border.

They are celebrating 30 years of business this year.

Dow got into the business right out of school. Working with his late father, Fred, he says, “We had a water truck with another company, a

tions in work. The price of oil fluctuated, and so did the work, Barry Dow says. During spring break up, “You’d be down to just about doing nothing.”

Better roads and higher costs to shut down and restart a well have also

made work more consistent for the firm. While that means work now continues through spring breakup, Dow says “You kind of miss the way it was. When breakup came, you had a holiday.”

While Dow has

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Truckers civil-tongued when pulled over Turtleford - Pretty much everything in the patch comes and goes on wheels, so it’s no surprise that oilpatch truck traffic has an intimate relationship with Saskatchewan Highways. A few words are probably muttered under a driver’s breath as they see the flashing lights for a weigh station, or see a temporary inspection station set up on the side of the highway. Pipeline News reporter Brian Zinchuk spent half a day with Saskatchewan Highways traffic officers as they ran a temporary inspection site, seeing things from the other side of highways enforcement.

Our day begins west of Turtleford.

The inspection is being run just east of the Highway 21/Highway 303 intersection, at a pullout on the north side of the North Saskatchewan River. All around, black tanks of heavy oil rest on their leases, and tankers, flushby units and water trucks scurry in and out, doing their business. Road bans are still in effect, but set to come off in a few days.

At first there are two Highways officers, but soon a third arrives. After lunch, five in total are performing inspections, coming from all areas of northwest Saskatchewan.

An oil tanker is pulled over, and the first two officers get to work.

Workout “You have to be physically fit to do our job,” says Special Constable Charlene Dyck as she lugs out one of six scales, each weighing at least 12 kg, or about 25 lbs. Special Constable Glen

Rivett handles the paperwork after he yards out his share of the scales.

They lug these scales – basically oversized bathroom scales, around to each of the drive unit’s axle groups. The scale is placed just in front of the wheels, then the driver is instructed to move forward. An officer writes down the numbers and does the math. Then the scales are moved to the next axle group, and the process is repeated.

It’s apparent there’s some sort of contraption already built into the pullout. One would think that would be a functioning scale, but it’s not used.

Once the whole truck has been weighed, the scales go back in the gleaming white 2007 Chevy Tahoes.

Why not just leave them out to weigh the next one?

The scales are extremely expensive, says Rivett, and they don’t want them run over. More importantly, if they have to take off after someone, they don’t have time to mess around loading up the scales again.

Some trucks just stop on their own, but otherwise they are waved in. Depending on the level of inspection, it can take a little while to clear someone. They don’t want a lineup of 10 trucks waiting.

“Time for them is money. We don’t like wasting their time,” says Special Constable Glen Rivett, the senior traffic officer and supervisor.

“Our job is basically doing inspections,” says Dyck as she hauls out a larger

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... Highway Traf¿c Of¿cers keeping busy ɺ Page A16 creeper that looks a lot like a giant dog talized storage for scales, cones and a creeper. The driver bone. Suited up in coveralls, she plies her way under truck after truck, tugging here, shaking there, watching for anything that might be amiss.

Civil tongue Trucker’s tongues are not necessarily known for their polite use of the Queen’s English. But dealing with drivers is usually a lot more pleasant, calm affair than some people might expect. Ask two officers independently, and the answer is the same. “Ninety-nine per

Special Constable Charlene Dyck navigates the underside of a small picker truck, looking for any safety concerns. cent we deal with are professional,” Dyck says. “If I ever get a miserable driver, it might be once a year.”

Special Constable Clint Wiebe, who came in from Saskatoon in the afternoon, concurs. “There’s some guys that just don’t listen well, or they don’t want to be inspected. Ninety-nine per cent are awesome,” he says.

Dyck says it probably depends on your attitude, too.

The officers are very polite. “Hi sir, how are you today?

It’s not that you did anything wrong. We’re just doing an inspection.”

When asked if any of them had a scary moment, Dyck recalls, “I was standing up. My head was by the engine compartment, when he started the vehicle.”

There was a stern warning as a result.

No heat, but cameras The officers are sworn in as special constables. That gives them limited authority as peace officers. “We don’t deal with Criminal Code – only provincial acts and regulations,” says Rivett.

Even so, the officers keep an eye out, for themselves and each other. They wear armoured vests. They carry batons, pepper spray and handcuffs, as appropriate for a special constable. But, Rivett notes, “We don’t pack heat.”

The new trucks are fully equipped, and are more suited to the task than the Ford sedans they replace. The back is laid out with a headache rack and compartmen-

propriate class 3A licence. But since it wasn’t on his permight as well be sitting at the helm of the Starship En- son, they had to call it in to confirm. terprise.

Another truck had malfunctioning brake lights. A Surrounding the driver are the now-common as- third driver didn’t have proper Transportation of Dansortment of policing tools – radios, Panasonic Tough- gerous Goods (TDG) documentation. He was missing book laptop computer, radar. A dash cam makes convic- his TDG card. tions a slam dunk – “really good for evidence in court,” The fourth was a gravel hauler Special Constable Rivett notes.

Mike Wagner of Meadow Lake came across. He was Provincewide, there are about 35 traffic officers, substantially overweight. and seven investigators, according to Rivett. The Lloy“We’re batting about 40 per cent violations today,” dminster detachment works in a 160 km radius of the Rivett says. city, covering St. Walburg, the Battlefords and Macklin.

It’s a good mix, he explains, and representative of Two scales – a kiosk at Macklin, and a more solid strucan average day. The brake lights issue addresses an unture on Highway 16 near Marshall, also fall under the safe vehicle. In the case of the expired licence, that could Lloydminster detachment’s umbrella. have been a substantial liability issue. “We feel we are Batting .400 By noon, the three officers have pulled over ten making a difference.” trucks, either at the pullout or on the way to the site.

On an average day, each officer might have five stops.

Some days might be more, others less, depending on how much admin work is on their plate.

Of those ten trucks, four resulted in out-ofservice violations. That’s another way of saying, “park it until the problem’s fixed.”

One had an expired driver’s licence. The driver thought his wife had renewed it in February, but that was not the case. His Highways TrafÀc OfÀcers Charlene Dyck and Glen Rivett yard passenger had to take over. out and put back the scales each time they perform a weight Thankfully, he had an ap- inspection.

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Saskatchewan Joins International Oil and Gas Agency Kindersley - Saskatch- With industry players and ensure that this success ewan has become a mem- regulatory bodies taking continues, we need to be ber of the Interstate Oil part, he notes it is a great regularly meeting and and Gas Compact Com- opportunity to highlight sharing ideas on oil and mission (IOGCC), an Saskatchewan business gas concerns with similar organization of American opportunities. jurisdictions across the states focused on regulaThere is also the ben- continent. The IOGCC, tory and conservation best efit of having direct input along with the Energy practices in the oil and gas on setting energy policy, Council, provides us with industry, according to such forums.”

Saskatchewan Energy Boyd said SasSaskatchewan’s oil and and Resources. katchewan is wellgas industry is enjoying positioned to be part Energy and Resources Minister Bill of North American banner years as it Boyd officially accepted contributes to a new level energy discussions Saskatchewan’s interas the second largof economic prosperity. national affiliate memest oil producer in bership in the IOGCC - Bill Boyd Canada, and the fifth May 6 in Calgary, when largest oil producer he delivered a keynote ad- he said. among all American states dress to close the organi“Saskatchewan’s oil and Canadian provinces. zation’s mid-year issues and gas industry is enjoy- IOGCC members also summit. ing banner years as it con- study topics, such as carBeing part of the tributes to a new level of bon sequestration and encouncil will provide Sas- economic prosperity for vironmental stewardship, katchewan with a better the province and to overall which are of vital interest window on the industry, North American energy to Saskatchewan.

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RM sees inÀux of heavy oil over last decade Turtleford - When you walk into the RM of Mervin No. 499 office, two things strike you – this is probably the most spacious RM office you’ve ever set foot in, and it still has the new car, sorry, new office smell.

Turtleford sits in the southeast corner of the RM of Mervin, a rural municipality named for the neighbouring village down the road. But the new RM office, less than two years old, sits on Turtleford’s main street.

The RM has benefitted from the growth of heavy oil in the area. Whereas in 1995, you might have seen heavy oil tanks in the Edam area, the area around Turtleford was pretty barren. Now the map on the wall of the council chambers shows a different story.

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When Domotor moved to Turtleford, he says, “We didn’t have squat.” When you came over that hill, you didn’t see nothing. It’s changed significantly since.”

The first major impact was seen in 1997, he says, and the Husky battery went in around 1999. Every year for the last several years, Domotor says “It’s been going really hard.”

Most of the development in the RM has been heavy oil, although there is some gas. A 20-inch TransGas pipeline went past Turtleford in 1995, but that was connecting to Goodsoil, and had little impact locally for gas production, according to Domotor.

For the RM, the key thing is trying to keep your roads. “These are not light trucks on your roads.”

He says. The nature of the business means that, unlike farming, where an operator can wait for the weather and roads to clear up, the oilpatch can’t. They have to haul 24/7, 365 days a year.

Does that mean there’s a need for local enforcement on weights, similar to what the RM of Wilton, near Lloydminster/Marshall, is doing? “We’ve talked about it,” Domotor says, noting the RM considered contracting the RM of Wilton’s police force to do enforcement. Council decided against it, however.

The Highways department has recognized the importance of improving roads on its end. Domotor The map of the RM of Mervin, surdescribed Turtleford as being on a rounding Turtleford, is pockmarked natural east-west corridor for the with wellsites in its southern half. northern Saskatchewan, linking Prince Albert and Lloydminster via Turtleford is in the southwest corner, while Mervin is south central. highways 303 and 3.

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Enbridge and SIIT team up Saskatoon – Gearing up for its major Alberta Clipper mainline expansion this year, Enbridge Pipelines Inc. is looking to train new workers.

Enbridge has teamed up with the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies (SIIT) to form a skill training program designed to maximize the participation of aboriginal people in the construction of this, and other projects.

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this opportunity to allow our people to gain skills in the trades is critically important. Given retirements and the effect of demographics, we need to be encouraging companies to invest in First Nations development – both employment and business development.”

“Enbridge is confident this agreement will mean more opportunities for aboriginal people to become involved in our pipeline projects,” says Leon Zupan, vicepresident operations, with Enbridge Pipelines. “This model should assist SIIT students in their growth, development and training. The need for skilled workers in industries such as ours has perhaps never been greater.”

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Lloydminster - If you asked a roomful of oilmen about reducing trade barriers, it’s not hard to guess what the response would be.

“Have you ever heard anyone stand up and say it’s a bad idea?” asks Bob Mottram. “Nor have I.” Bob Mottram is chair of the Petroleum Society, Lloydminster Section.

They’re a group of engineers, technicians and other oilpatch business people who get together for training and sharing of knowledge. They are

not an advocacy group.

Mottram personally works as a general manager of the heating division for Grit Industries.

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When asked about interprovincial trade barriers, Mottram says, “I’ve always felt they were a little ridiculous.

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“In general the industry are in favour of free trade. It’s that simple,” he says.

Companies and workers need to be able to work on both sides of a border, according to Mottram.

With tradespeople, he notes there are issues with having certification recognized across borders.

“There’s a distinct shortage of everyone right now,” he notes, saying measures to reduce barriers to mobility are needed.

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Pumpjack specialists 24 and growing Nearly a quarter century in business, experience is a valuable asset

By Stephan Burnett

Swift Current – Myron Furseth, owner of Pumpjack Equipment Services takes time out of his busy schedule to sit down and do an interview.

Furseth is going through his annual safety audit with Enform, formerly known as PITS and it’s a busy day.

It’s all about safety and training, once a year representatives from Enform meet up with industry stakeholders to check out safety procedures and protocols, he says.

Pumpjack Equipment Services has been operating out of the Swift Current region for close to 24 years now, says Furseth.

Furseth’s partner Baden Gates has been involved with the company since 1997.

“We do service on

all the pumps jacks and move them in the southwest and we have picker trucks and we do pipefitting,” says Furseth.

“We’ve also got a really good crew work and just over 10 employees that have been around for 15 years and down, they’re a very good crew of guys,” he says.

Even though Furseth’s company is fairly specialized for the southwest region of the province he still faces competition coming out of Alberta.

“But we’re the only guys around here that specialize in it,” he adds.

Furseth classifies his company as oilfield maintenance.

“We build well heads and replace valves and we have one guy assigned to pipefitting,” he adds.

Furseth says he got his start in the oil and gas industry by working with Mobile Oil.

“When I was young I worked for Mobile Oil on a truck that serviced pumpjacks and then I went operating for Mobile.”

Through working in the industry Furseth got to meet Jack Mitchell who had a pumpjack servicing business.

“I worked for him for two years and then I bought the business,” he says.

Concerning the province as a whole, Furseth says he’s noticed quite a bit of activity in the Estevan and Kindersley region and he hopes the drilling activity is set to increase in the southwest region.

“Business is going ahead and we’ve had a good go of it and plan on staying around for quite a long time,” he says.

Many of Furseth’s trucks are equipped with man baskets for safe op-

erations in the oilfield.

“Anytime we reach any height in the oilfield we’re using man baskets and that really adds to the safety factor,” says Furseth.

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“We put them through their apprenticeship for three years

and until they’ve reached 3,000 hours in operating time on the picker truck.

Then they get to write the exam for the journeyman’s ticket and we send them off to Saskatoon for that.”

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Staying alive in deadly air

By Brian Zinchuk

ing, through the Western Academy of Broadcasting North Battleford – in Saskatoon, and worked H2SAlive is one of those in radio for a few years courses pretty much ev- at Swift Current. He can eryone working in the quote the book verbatim patch should have, be- because he has taught cause almost any place the course as many as you go has the potential 150 times a year at some of exposure to the deadly points. He’s taught as many as 4,000 students a gas.

Enform offers the in- year.

“It does not take dustry standard H2SAlive safety course, and it can be much gas at all to become taken through numerous a health risk,” he says.

A case study goes safety training companies over a real world exor regional colleges.

Kim Worrall, instruc- ample of a rescue after a tor, starts the day with a man went down inside a fenced compound. The quickfire pace.

Worrall says he’s class is responsive, ofworked in the patch for 20 fering courses of action. years, but in a way, that’s We’re going over the sevhard to believe. That’s be- en steps of response to an cause he sounds so much emergency H2S situation like a radio announcer, it’s – evacuate, alarm, assess, hard to not imagine him protect, rescue, revive and in front of a microphone medical aid.

Worrall goes over at the local AM station, running the local on-air the technical features of auction or morning show. self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) and He’s an adept speaker.

It’s apparent several supplied air breathing apof the nine other students paratus (SABA). He hits on this day are taking upon checklists, safety the week-long battery of features and safe pracsafety courses the college tices.

Detector tube appaoffers. Four have taken ratus are passed around, the course before.

“Drivers spend a lot showing how to test for of time by themselves,” H2S. A similar discussion Worrall notes as he starts covers electronic monigoing into the long, long tors.

After lunch, things list of potential ways and places where a worker can get more hands on.

Rescue breathing by be exposed to hydrogen itself is no longer considsulphide.

“Our best protection ered enough. Some basic is the use of the breathing CPR is shown, but not to the level of certification. gear.”

“If in doubt, wear Changes to CPR include air,” he says of unknown more compressions (30) to two breaths compared atmospheres.

Worrall actually does to previous standards.

First there’s the glass have formal radio train-

tube test, done with a piston tester. Then comes the air tank training.

The end of the afternoon is spent wargaming case studies – a trucking study and a field operations study. The seven step response never changed, but the scenarios did.

Each had a few different approaches that could have been taken, but the general methodology was the same.

Finally came a multiple choice and fill in the blanks test that only took a few minutes to complete.

A pass meant a temporary certificate, to be followed by a more substantial one in the mail, good for three years.

As Worrall has taught the same course time and time again, sometimes multiple times in the same week, Pipeline News had to ask how he keeps from going insane.

He responded that he keeps trying to improve it, and that people who have taken the course from him multiple times have told him they have learned new things each time.

“It’s a challenge,” he acknowledges.

“I just enjoy it. I enjoy meeting people, working with the people. If I didn’t enjoy it, I certainly wouldn’t be doing it.”

When asked if there are ever questions he hasn’t heard before, Worrall says, “The odd time, a question comes in a little different. It’s not common I get questions I haven’t been asked before, but it does happen.”

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WHMIS Online leads to saved time North Battleford - You're taking your WHMIS course, again. You work in the patch, so there's no escaping it. You probably could teach the class yourself, but that's a good thing, because that's the whole idea behind periodic recertiďŹ cation â&#x20AC;&#x201D; making sure everyone knows this information inside and out.

Instead of driving somewhere and sitting through a class, this time around youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing something diďŹ&#x20AC;erent. This time you take WHMIS online, at your own pace and time. Pipeline News reporter Brian Zinchuk did exactly that, taking an online WHMIS course oďŹ&#x20AC;ered through Danatec Educational Services Ltd. (www.danatec.com). They operate out of Edmonton, Calgary and Prince Albert, including operations in the Lloydminster area. Danatec recently received a 2008 gold WorldFest Houston Film Festival Remi award for interactive-adult/professional new media.

The military is moving towards online training for its oďŹ&#x192;cers. Air, army and sea cadet instructors for the prairies used to take most of their training in Edmonton, for example, meaning a ďŹ&#x201A;ight in, accommodations, and ďŹ&#x201A;ight out. Now, some courses are being oďŹ&#x20AC;ered in a distance learning model, taken online. This model is being applied to WHMIS course training.

Michael Gaudet of Danatec says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We try to make the course as interactive as possible.â&#x20AC;?

That was apparent in the latest version of the course. Pipeline News actually ended up taking the course twice, the previous incarnation and the new, current one. While the ďŹ rst one was pretty decent, it was also fairly conventional. The new version is substantially more interactive, requiring the participant to actively do tasks like looking up glossary deďŹ nitions and sorting out warning symbols.

Perhaps the greatest impact is the inclusion of real life examples of people who suďŹ&#x20AC;ered because of industrial accidents that could have been prevented by proper WHMIS training. Paul Kells speaks of his son,

Sean, who, as a young man, died on his third day on the job. He had no training, and a static charge set oďŹ&#x20AC; a barrel of toluene, killing Sean. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It took the death of my one son to understand how massive a problem this is. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This was a workplace soaked in ignorance. Sean, as a direct result, was killed by ignorance.â&#x20AC;?

Spencer Beach, a ďŹ&#x201A;oor layer, was horribly burned, with third and fourth degree burns over 90 per cent of his body. Sixty-three pounds of ďŹ&#x201A;esh were burned oďŹ&#x20AC; his body. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I lost my hair, my nose, my ears, my nipples, one third of my ďŹ ngers, all my ďŹ ngernails, most of my eyebrows, most of my eyelashes. I lost a lot. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There were things that went wrong that day that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to happen,â&#x20AC;? he says.

As disturbing as the video of the horribly burned Beach is, plumber Barry Weatherallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disďŹ gurement is not meant for viewing just before lunch. He had both his eyes burned out. He says if he had taken WHMIS more than just once in his seven years with the company, things might have been diďŹ&#x20AC;erent.

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Start time: 10:40 a.m. I log into the website with my supplied user name and password.

This takes me into a full screen window of â&#x20AC;&#x153;My Dashboard.â&#x20AC;? On the left hand side is a list of links â&#x20AC;&#x201D; my courses, proďŹ le, resources, transcripts, goals, help and logout. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have been enrolled in 2008 WHMIS,â&#x20AC;? the screen tells me.

10:42 a.m. the video starts. At the bottom right are the universal control symbols you see on VCRs and DVDs. I click on the next chapter button. That does it.

After this, each lesson ends with a button on the screen saying â&#x20AC;&#x153;next lesson.â&#x20AC;?

11 a.m. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m on the third chapter, WHMIS symbols.

As you progress through the program, each chapter is a few minutes to about 15 minutes. There are no lengthy, boring discourses.

There is a continual string of well done, well thought out Flash video animations â&#x20AC;&#x201D; enough to keep your attention and get the point across. So far, any text you see is narrated for you.

You have to listen to the whole lesson before the â&#x20AC;&#x153;next lessonâ&#x20AC;? button pops up. That means no skipping through, as far as I could determine.

Interactive features include moving a slider up and down the pH scale, and seeing where various items fall.

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Fastline grows with the times Hot shot activity keeps entrepreneur busy

Swift Current - If you need something in the oilpatch and you need it fast, Jayson Wentland of Fastline Services is the guy to call.

Fastline provides hot shot services for the oil and gas industry in the southwest portion of the province.

The former restaurateur says his hot shot company is about six years old.

Altogether, Wentland has been involved in the oil and gas industry for close to 11 years.

“I used to have Silver Line and then I sold the construction end of the business and kept the hot shot business,” says Wentland.

There’s no shortage of activity in the oilfield when it comes to the on-site deliveries.

“Every year there’s been an increase in growth. The activity is just getting busier and busier. I’ve increased my equipment to include another truck and a couple more trailers,” says Wentland.

The 29- and 35-foot trailers serve Wentland well in his hot shot business.

“The numbers are doing really well. Business has increased every year and we’re doing better and better all the time,” he says.

Wentland adds Shaunavon and Estevan seem to be the hotspots in the province right now.

“Business seems to have filtered off from Alberta and Swift Current is on the incline now and that’s been reflected in the housing market around here. There’s definitely a shortage of housing in Swift Current as people move from Alberta to Saskatchewan.”

While Fastline does the odd run into Alberta, the bulk of his business is in the Shaunavon and Gull Lake areas.

“I do a lot of work for Husky, Schlumberger, Weatherford and Variperm,” he says “I’m definitely always on call 24-7 for sure.”

Jayson Wentland of Fastline Services stands beside one of his trucks. Increased activity in the oilÀeld in and around Swift Current has his hot shot service running 24-7.

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The MSDS portion is the most challenging, if you can call WHMIS challenging. It requires alternating between the MSDS window and the program.

12:08 p.m. I’m at the end of the last lesson and up pops a five page pdf practice quiz. This is the first real reading I’ve had to do up to this point.

The quiz requires you to go through your workplace, finding some WHMIS labels and Material Safety Data Sheets, and answer some basic questions.

After lunch I sit down for the online test. It’s 25 questions, four marks each. I get four wrong, but it doesn’t tell me which ones. At the end, it congratulates me, saying my certification expires April 29, 2011.

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Cypress Hills tackles training

By Stephan Burnett Swift Current - When it comes to training for the energy sector the message is pretty clear, the place to be is the Swift Current campus of Cypress Hills College.

Karen Richmond, Lyla Copper and Kim Lambe are all the program coordinators with the college, helping to ensure that the training provided is appropriate to the industry’s needs.

“Cypress Hills College offers a variety of trades courses which are all less than one year with the exception of Power Engineer,” says Rich-

mond.

One of the courses Richmond is specifically responsible for is the Rig Technician Apprenticeship Program.

‘The Rig Technician Apprenticeship Program is new. It offers apprenticeship training over a three-year program.

There’s Level 1, which is motor hand; Level 2, which is derrick hand; and Level 3, which is the driller,” says Richmond.

The motor hand deals with the machines or engine on the derrick, the derrick hand looks after anything above the rig floor and the driller keeps a keen eye on everything

From left, Lyla Cooper, Kim Lambe and Karen Richmond, program coordinators with the Cypress Hills College, are working hard to ensure the training provided for the energy sector is appropriate to industry needs.

that is going down the hole, Richmond explains.

The Saskatchewan Apprenticeship Commission regulates intake for the program.

“It’s been one-andone-half years since the course has been recognized as an apprenticeship training program,” says Richmond.

Since the program is still quite new the energy industry is still in the recognition phase.

“We realize that there’s going to be a period of time, probably three to four years, before the industry buys-in to the program and there’s wide-spread acceptance,” she says.

In the meantime, the college is doing a lot of work helping people without accreditation in the energy sector.

One of the areas where they’re active is in academic upgrading and another area is pre-employment training and they are also helping individuals with their required apprenticeship paperwork.

While the apprenticeship commission already

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“There’s only one individual working with the commission south of the river so we do what we can to help them out,” Richmond explains. “It’s a huge job for them.”

The reaction to the new program has been from one spectrum to the other.

“Some people say, ‘It’s about time!’ and other people say, “Well, that’s not the way I learned!’”

Still, Richmond makes a very good argument for the switch in perspectives.

For one thing, the program, while still done voluntarily in Saskatchewan, is mandatory in Alberta.

Another key point is that in the old system those providing the training were not specifically trained as instructors.

“The new system will supply consistency across the board. For example, if I’m telling you, ‘I’m a der-

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The training is being offered during break-up from March through the end of April.

“This works out well because people are already on EI and it’s just a matter of giving up their time,” says Richmond.

But there’s a way around the course work as well. While each level of the Rig Technician Program requires 1,800 hours of on-the-job training, Richmond explains anyone having one-and onehalf times the required hours can challenge the final exams.

“Completing program requires 5,400 hours of on-the-job and 8,100 hours of work experience to challenge all three exams,” she says.

And there’s a benefit to the individual to get their journeyman ticket.

“I won’t say that it’s across the board but some companies are offering a $2/hour incentive to get the accreditation,” says Richmond. ɸPage A29

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Diamond Energy growing with the times Safety a big part of this homegrown success story

By Stephan Burnett

Swift Current - Mick MacBean, sits back in his chair and explains at one time when he and his partner and president Butch Gering started Diamond Energy Services they had their fair share of doubts.

But now, with oil prices pushing the $130 per barrel marker, those old doubt have been set aside and growth is the name of the game.

“Diamond Energy Services is an oil well servicing business operating out of four locations,” CEO MacBean explains.

While Swift Current is the head office housing the majority of the equipment, there’s also a coil tubing division in Medicine Hat, an oil well service division in Red Deer, along with another oil well services division based in Shaunavon.

“We currently employ 135 people,” he says.

The company is a mixture of private and public ownership. Eighty-five per cent is public and another 15 per cent is private, owned by management.

The public company with 85 per cent ownership is called TerraVest, says MacBean.

Both partners are originally from the Swift Current district but in 1996 MacBean was still in Calgary, having made the move back to Speedy Creek in 1998.

“Butch and I were talking about the possibility of picking up a service rig prior to 1996 and in ’96 Diamond Energy Service Rigs formed and we purchased a rig from Brooks,” says MacBean.

From that point forward it’s been onward and upward for the company.

“We added a rig a year until 2000 and in 2000 we started up with coil tubing in Medicine Hat,” he says. “In 2002 we acquired another service rig business called Sage.”

Sage had 10 rigs at the time and Diamond was running five rigs and four tubing units.

“Since that time we’ve built five more service rigs and added two more coil tubing units and expanded into the Red Deer market,” says MacBean.

Coil tubing is a system where operators can spool the tubing into the well, MacBean explains.

While the growth of the company over a 12-year period seems mind boggling, MacBean explains in the early years he had his doubts.

“I moved back in 1998 and in January of 1999 oil hit $12 a barrel and I was thinking I had made a major

mistake.”

Since then, as everyone knows, oil prices have steadily climbed upward.

“Things are as busy now as they’ve ever been in our history,” says MacBean.

“There will be hundreds of millions of dollars invested in the region’s oil and gas industry over the next few years,” he says.

Southwest is unique MacBean says the southwest portion of the province is unique.

“Historically, it’s been dominated by two or three large producers,” he says.

Recently, there’s been more and more small producers operating out of the area and there’s more drilling rigs with different approaches to older fields and different approaches to fracturing techniques and

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Diamond Energy Services CEO Mick MacBean points toward some of the oil and gas activity that dominates the map and the landscape in the southwest portion of the province.

technological changes. Fracturing is simply a reservoir stimulation technique to get more oil or gas to flow back to the well.

“The changes in technology are opening up a lot of eyes to the potential in southwest Saskatchewan,” says MacBean.

One of the significant factors surrounding the oilfield in the southwest region is the high number of shallow wells, with many wells running between 400 and 700 metres deep.

“Shaunavon holds significant potential for oil well production,” MacBean adds.

About safety and training Diamond Energy Service has three full-time safety personnel on staff running a vigorous safety program.

“Running a business wouldn’t be efficient or good if people were getting hurt all the time,” says MacBean.

The company has a significant focus on training and development, offering a 90-day training program for new employees.

“It’s run on a regimented basis and after the 90 days both the mentor and the trainee sign off on the training,” he says.

The company also offers most of their training in house, including courses on H2S, Confined Space Entry, WHMIS and TDG among others.

“It’s been a very successful program,” says MacBean. “We are a service business and safety is the focus. We are very strict about following the rules,” he says.

Still, MacBean admits that among the younger crowd in the oilpatch there’s a tendency to want to rush.

“Faster is not better. We feel that a safe employee is a more efficient employee and that’s how you deliver efficiency to your customer,” he says.

With Diamond Energy Service the safety end of the business isn’t simply lip service. For not only do they have personnel on staff training new employees and strict guidelines for operations, they’ve also provided rig managers with Blackberries to increase safety awareness.

“All the rig managers in the field have them and even if it’s something as simple as a loose cotter pin, that hazard is identified and checked out immediately on all rigs. It’s one of the proactive steps we take to deliver on ongoing safety.”

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... Cypress Hills College diversifying ¿eld training ɺ Page A27 “The energy sector is fairly secretive but some have said they expect 2,000 holes to be punched within the region over the next five years,” says Richmond.

Even with all the activity, Richmond says she expected some initial resistance to the program.

“But as the young people come into the trade they will be open to the apprenticeship program.”

Health and Safety Lyla Cooper is the Cypress Hills College’s ringer for health and safety.

“We offer H2S, WHMIS, Ground Disturbance, Fall Protection, Petroleum Safety Training, Confined Space Entry and Red Cross Standard First Aid among many others,” Cooper says.

All these courses follow the Enform, formerly known as PITS (Petroleum Industry Training Service) curriculum.

Many of the people taking these programs are already employed by the industry, says Cooper.

“There are also those who that are taking the

training in order to gain employment in the oilpatch,” she says.

While the college offers all of the required ‘pre-employment training courses’ such as H2S they also offer a multitude of courses in trades, which are also heavily involved in oilpatch work.

These courses include: Power Engineering, PreEmployment Electrician, Pre-Employment Welding, Class 1A Truck

Driver Training, Heavy Equipment Operator, and Forklift Operator, among others.

Cooper adds another aspect of the college’s services includes custom training.

“We can go to the job site or they can come here.

We just pick a day and go for it.”

Becoming certified Kim Lambe says another aspect of the evolution of the industry is the

Small Employer Certificate of Recognition (SECOR).

“A lot of larger companies are contracting out to smaller employers who are required to have their SECOR,” says Lambe.

“The two-day course is designed to enhance the skills of management, supervisors, safety professionals and those responsible for the development and/or implementation of safety programs,” states a

Cypress Hills circular.

Many companies are now recognizing that it is valuable to have two employees who are certified because if one leaves they will still have another on site, says Lambe.

“Upon completion of the program, the candidate will be able to understand, develop and implement company safety programs in preparation for a successful audit,” states the release.

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From the mouths of Man. pioneers

By Brent Fitzpatrick Virden - When the oil industry exploded around Western Manitoba in 1951, it brought about a mammoth change for the area. Economically, the region grew by leaps and bounds as new-found oil reserves were exploited by companies with colourful names like Copperhead Oil. The oil industry also brought with it the rig worker.

Their efforts through the years, paved the way for the industry to continue to thrive well past five decades.

“It was rough and tough,” said former oilfield driller Bob Dillabough. He said that in the early days there was always traffic on the roads, like it was the middle of the day.

“There were three shifts running 24 hours-a-day,” explained Dillabough. “At the time, there were up to two dozen rigs going at once. There was a time when you could count 23 rigs standing anywhere around the town.”

Dillabough started in the industry in 1954, hauling water to drilling rigs in the Hartney-Deloraine area. “I hauled water from Lake Max. We would be sitting on the ice in the winter and it would crack. You would think you were going down.” Dillabough adds with a smile. “That sound still scares me.”

Ed Lowdon worked his entire career in the industry, starting in 1955. In the beginning, the pay wasn’t that great––but not so bad either. “At the start in 1966, I was making $200 a month,” said Lowdon. “But, by the spring of that year it went to $350 a month. I thought that was pretty good.”

Lowdon worked on the service rigs, where a lot of the guys started out. “We did the servicing, acidizing, cementing surface casing in and the longstring casing.

The boys did the heavy work. We just ran the trucks. But, there was still some pretty long hours. We could get called out and be gone for two or three days.” He adds after a moment. “It was a good job, really.”

Lowdown retired in 1995, but picked up a few hours here and there.

Both men said, while the work was rewarding it brought with it a unique kind of person who would take it on.

“The guys were good to get along with,” said Lowdon. “But it was rough and tough work to start with. A lot of them would go to the beer parlour if you weren’t working. That could go for a couple of hours.”

“There were a lot of renegades,” added Dillabough

“There were a lot of renegades and there were good guys too.”

- Bob Dillabough

Photo submitted by Brent Fitzpatrick

Tough Days, but Good Days! Three veterans of the oil industry in Western Manitoba, share a laugh by a relic of their age. (l-r) Bob Dillabough, Ed Lowdon and Clare Cawston share a laugh near the old Town of Virden derrick. with a laugh. “And there were good guys too. It was fun, but it was hard work. A lot of guys came and went because they couldn’t hack it.”

Clare Cawston arrived in Virden in the late 1960’s.

His career path followed that of a young woman who stayed in his mother’s house. “There was a girl who used to board with my mother. She was taking geology and I thought that sounded pretty good.”

Again, the rawness of the work environment pervaded everything in the area. “In my day we were in house trailers at the rig,” said Cawston. “They weren’t in very good shape. Often, we had to stay in our car to keep warm. It is different today than in my day. Now they are pretty spiffy.”

A key component to the workplace of the oil industry today, that was often overlooked in the past––was safety.

All three oilfield veterans said there were regulations at the time, but enforcement was a little loose.

Clare Cawston said today’s employers are more focused on safety. “They weren’t as thorough as they are nowadays. There were some ugly injuries on the rigs. But, that was the days.”

Dillabough concurred. “They had to come down on safety. I know a guy who drilled and had two guys killed on the rig floor, simply by not following the rules. It was very dangerous. You are working with equipment that has a lot of power and everything is so heavy.”

“They weren’t safe to start with,” Lowdon said of the industry.

“Then they went too far the other way. There is a lot of paperwork now, than anything else.”

“In my day, you were safety conscious - in other words, ‘use your noggin’.”

Strong Western Manitoba activity

By Brent Fitzpatrick Virden - For 57 years the oil fields around Western Manitoba have remained a steady, driving economic force.

Since oil was discovered in the province in 1951 there have been 6,300 wells drilled. According to the Petroleum Branch of the Governments of Manitoba, large portions of the province have been only lightly explored with few deep tests.

“It’s good in Manitoba right now,” said director Keith Lowdon. He added that the discovery and ongoing development of the Sinclair field in 2003 was one of those reasons.

“That is a new productive area and has ended up being way bigger than anyone could have predicted.”

That field was primarily responsible for the record setting pace of exploration in 2006, which

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resulted in 476 wells being drilled in a single year.

“That was a huge number for us,” said Lowdon. “The previous high was 354 when Virden was being drilled in the 1950’s.

It blew right by it.

It was the discovery of the Sinclair Field that drove that.”

Lowdon explained that even without the strong market conditions that prevailed at the time, Sinclair would still have been a major economic find.

“You just don’t walk away from that.”

The Petroleum Branch director said there had been drilling in the region prior to discovery of Sinclair, but most holes just didn’t probe deep enough. “They were looking at upper Mississippian formations,” he explained, “and these were a little below. It took a while to determine that the

This year could challenge 1955 and become the second best year ever.

- Ed Anderson

Bakken-Three Forks was oil bearing. In 2007 the Sinclair field accounted for 47 per cent of Manitoba’s production amounting to 595,147 cubic metres (3.74 million barrels) worth an estimated $285 million.

The Sinclair Field’s 721 wells are currently making it the highest producing field in the province––even bigger than the Virden field.

However, new exploration continues and other areas of the province are being explored. Small communities like Deloraine, Goodlands,

of that.” Anderson added, that as the exploration pushes east his community will see an increase in assessments. With that increase, there will be a hike in their tax base.

For 2008 to date, there have been 102 wells drilled before the road bans came into effect and 41 of those were not in Sinclair. Those bans were lifted on May 28. Now Lowdon is predicting a good year again as the development of the Sinclair Field continues.

“When we tried to do some forecasting for this year, we put the number at 350, so,we are still doing really well. This year could challenge 1955 and become the second best year ever.”

Another indicator of the potential for new exploration this year is the result of the May 14 Crown Land sale. In that sale companies paid $1.5

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Hartney and Boissevain are now hoping for a boom.

“Everyone in in this area is looking forward to further exploration,” said Boissevain mayor Ed Anderson. The small community located near the U.S. border, south of Brandon is seeing the benefits of the exploration in the time of year Anderson says typically tends to be a little slack.

“This activity is particularly important for hotels, restaurants and gas bars during the winter. So, we are taking advantage

million for the right to lease crown minerals. The province conducts four sales each year. The total for all of the 2007 sales was $384,000. That is the biggest sale in three years and is an indicator that companies are interested in drilling Manitoba.

Lowdon said the higher the price of the land, the more likely they are going to drill a hole.

2008 is also going to see a spike in the number of horizontal wells being drilled. “Up to this point,” said Lowdon, “there wasn’t a lot of horizontal drilling in Sinclair. This year we are seeing a big rise at 32 so far this year.” In 2007 there were only 14 horizontal wells drilled. A good portion of the horizontal drilling will occur in the area north of Whitewater Lake.

Production will be worth and estimated $800 million in 2008.

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Ray Frehlick’s mountain of paperwork belies the fact that he is still an active part of his community, at an age when many people are long since retired.

Frehlick busier than ever

By Brad Brown Estevan - The third attempt to pin Ray Frehlick down for an interview is finally the charm.

Truth be told, Frehlick probably has better things to be doing right now. The owner and founder of Prairie Mud Service, headquartered in Estevan, confesses to working “from six in the morning until whatever it takes ... usually seven days a week.”

Add to that his outside ventures - as a director for the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show, and a member of the fundraising committee for the new Civic Auditorium in Estevan - and it’s no wonder this meeting had to be rescheduled twice.

But even now, despite agreeing to the interview a week prior, Frehlick appears uncomfortable with the idea. For all Frehlick has done for his community over the years, he is still no fan of being in the spotlight.

“No,” he says flatly. “I prefer to be in the action, you know? You guys must have plenty of stories on me in the archives don’t you?”

Frehlick founded Prairie Mud - a supplier of drilling fluids and supervision for the oil, gas, and mining

industries - in 1969. He has served as president of Estevan Minor Hockey, Estevan Minor Baseball, and the Estevan Bruins Hockey Club. He managed those same Bruins for a time along with the Ace Mud Mets, who will be inducted in the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame in August. Frehlick himself was inducted to that Hall in 2005.

He has sat on action committees for rural economic development groups, chaired the aforementioned oil and gas show, and participated in countless fundraisers over the years.

Suffice it to say that Frehlick needs no introduction around these parts. But, ever the gracious host, he consents to the interview anyway.

“I’m a workaholic is the problem,” he says. “Today that’s not as common because we have a different society than we did 30 or 40 years ago. You take more time to spend with your kids and your families than we used to, but success in anything is only attributed to hard work and good management.”

He’s not your typical 72-year-old, to say the least.

“I have a huge interest in employees and business

and ... the success of a business is determined by the people,” said Frehlick. “That’s a tough job nowadays because we have a tremendous shortage of labour in this province, and particularly skilled labour.

“The answer to your question, I guess, is as long as a guy is healthy and is capable of working, I don’t see any reason to deviate away from it.”

That’s not to say retirement hasn’t crossed Frehlick’s mind; he just hasn’t made it a priority. His to-do list isn’t getting any shorter. Part of that involves helping to promote Estevan in any way possible.

“I think that whether I’m remembered or not, I always say that to make a community successful you have to help the community grow,” he said. “And to make it a better community you have to be involved.

“One of the things we lack is that whatever you get involved in or whatever you try to do, there has to be some leadership and without leadership there’s no followers. I think this is a great community ... and I look forward to being here when (the new Civic) is going to be opened because I think it’s going to be a huge attraction here.”

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CWM recently chalked up an impressive four million man hours without an accident until a minor incident broke the string.

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sible for that safety record in southeast Saskatchewan is Ron Mahnke, assistant safety coordinator stationed at CWMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head oďŹ&#x192;ce in Lampman. A calendar of his locally taught safety courses in Lampman, Carlyle, Alida, and Halbrite is published in local newspapers including Pipeline News.

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for CWM for the past 14 years. Prior to that, he logged 10 years as an emergency ambulance attendant and three years teaching safety training at the Shand and Boundary power stations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Having experience helps. Students know I am not just getting it out of a book,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It makes it easier for me too as an instructor. I have worked in conďŹ ned spaces so I can answer questions because I have been there. It adds to the credibility. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had some people come back year after year to Lampman for upgrades.â&#x20AC;?

Mahnke and his boss, Barry Lischka also deliver training in First Aid, WHM, transportation of dangerous goods, ground disturbance level 2, conďŹ ned space entry and rescue, and an introduction to dry chemical ďŹ re extinguishers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These are all required courses,â&#x20AC;? said Mahnke. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of training is driven by regulations in Occupational Health and

Ron Mahnke, assistant safety coordinator delivers oil and gas Ă&#x20AC;eld safety courses locally with a lifetime of Ă&#x20AC;eld experience to back him up.

Safety, but the petroleum industry is also pushing for training. They have reduced accidents by training and with the boom, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that much more critical we stay on top. Things are moving at a faster pace.â&#x20AC;?

On a corporate level, CWM has created an entire safety services division with the focus on sales and servicing of safety equipment and safety training for Carson

employees and for the oil and construction sector.

CWMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s web site notes the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s internal safety program for employees tracks manhours, mileage, lost time accidents, near misses, and hazard IDs, to help predict and prevent future incidents. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Safety is thought of very highly in this company,â&#x20AC;? said Mahnke. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have daily safety meetings and we hold frequent on-the-spot observations and auditing. Our people are ďŹ eld-checked.

On site safety audits, I am looking to make sure employees are following our workplace safety procedures and rules.â&#x20AC;?

CWMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s corporate safety division includes a safety coordinator, safety supervisors, safety consultants, auditors, conďŹ ned space entry supervisor, security personnel, a trainer and an accident investigator.

Mahnke says he broke into the safety ďŹ eld when his employer, TransCanada Pipelines asked him

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to conduct safety checks on compressor stations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I got to enjoy it, and in this ďŹ eld you get to voice your opinion on the way things are operated.â&#x20AC;?

He came aboard CWM in 1994 motivated to prevent the type of injuries he saw in his early work years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to get to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;em before I have to patch them up,â&#x20AC;? he said partly in jest. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The oil and gas sector can be very dangerous if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have your wits about you. ConďŹ ned space entry is always dangerous. We also have a lot of heavy equipment and we are working with ďŹ&#x201A;ammable material all the time. With the boom, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s harder to ďŹ nd experience workers.â&#x20AC;?

At his recent H2S course, about half of the class were newcomers to the industry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting a lot of calls for training from western Manitoba and calls to our oďŹ&#x192;ces in Swift Current, Lloydminster and Wainwright. The training load has increased.â&#x20AC;?

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Petro producers educate Carlyle students Â&#x201E; Story and photo by Ben Husband

CES student Jordan Gudmundson and EnCana employee Justin Richter work together to plant trees on the school playground during the Energy in Action day at CES.

Carlyle - The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, or CAPP, came to the Carlyle Elementary School on May 12 and brought with them a dozen energy company employees and between 60 and 70 shrubs and trees with the goal of educating the grade four and ďŹ ve students on environmental stewardship, while making the playground a little bit greener.

The plants ranged from shrubs that would grow into hedges and ornamental fruit trees and the CAPP members came from the energy companies, Talisman, EnCana, CNRL, NAL, Provident, Husky and Newalta.

The event, which is called Energy in Action had schools in 14 communities across Canada, the majority of them being rural schools, selected to take part in an opportunity to educate their students and improve their playground environment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We help the kids understand stewardship and then we demonstrate it in the afternoon by bringing in some nursery stock and they plan and plant a garden and they look after it,â&#x20AC;? said Laura Perry of CAPP. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We go to the local schools and do a classroom session with grades four and ďŹ ve and we have teachers who present a curriculum based unit on petroleum, energy conservation, careful resource development and stewardship, looking after the environment.â&#x20AC;?

This year Carlyle Elementary School was selected for Energy in Action because of the recent and dramatic increase in oilďŹ eld activity in the area. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is a lot of activity in and around Carlyle right now. The school was chosen because of its size and its proximity to operations,â&#x20AC;? said Twila Walkeden, the community relations advisor for EnCana. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We like the communities to be under 5,000 and we chose these schools because being located in rural parts of Alberta, B.C. and Saskatchewan they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the resources the big city schools have,â&#x20AC;? added Perry.

This is the ďŹ fth year CAPP has held Energy in Ac-

tion and I that time more than 40 schools across Canada have had the opportunity to take part.

Perry sees the day as being a ďŹ eld trip that comes to the students rather than them having to go to it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is one less ďŹ eld trip the teachers have to organize because the kids can use their own school yard as a learning environment,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With the trees it becomes a natural classroom and attracts more birds and insects.â&#x20AC;?

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Petro producers educate Carlyle students ɺ Page B3 Energy in Action targets the grade four and five students with the hope that they will pass

on the knowledge to their families.

“The environmental movement begins with the individual so we are

Darrell Dunnigan of Talisman and his assistant CES student Mark Shaw, present the safety equipment used in the oil industry to Mark’s classmates.

targeting kids. I myself have learned most of my environmental information has come from my kids,” said Perry. “We make sure the material we present to the kids enhances the curriculum they are already doing.”

Although the students receive an educational service and the school receives trees, Energy in Action also provides an opportunity for the energy companies that take part.

“For the energy companies this is an opportunity for them to get into Carlyle and meet the teachers and meet the kids.

We invited town councilors and municipal people along and we are hoping they will exchange business cards so that when

there is an issue with an operation they know who to contact,” said Perry.

“There is more than just one objective of greening up the playground, there are quite a few objectives in this program.”

More than a dozen volunteers from area energy companies attended the event to help the children plant trees and according to Walkeden, who was in charge of organizing the volunteers, the energy companies were eager to send employees to help.

“There is a lot of pre planning that goes into an event like this and we have had some great response from the local companies that have volunteered today,” explained Walkeden.

“The companies want to

send so many volunteers and I actually couldn’t take them all because we have to have a good mix of volunteers to students.

We did some site prep on Thursday so they had to come out Thursday as well. It has been a great opportunity for them to network with some of the other local companies. It is not just an opportunity to interact with the school but it is a great opportunity for each of these local companies to interact and network with each other.”

Talisman Energy employee, Darell Dunigan from Oxbow was one of the employees that volunteered to take part and even made a short presentation to the students on oilfield safety.

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with communities events.

We do a lot of donations and this is just another way for us to help out and show that we care about the community. I was excited to come out,” said Dunnigan while helping a group of five students plant trees. “The kids are our future. They are the ones that are going to be replacing us and I think it is a good thing for them to see how we protect the environment and how we protect ourselves.”

Grade five teacher Even Bloomfield watched as the Energy in Action teachers performed a lesson for his class in the morning.

“It is a great opportunity and a great idea.

It gets the kids involved and gives them a little bit of responsibility for taking care of the environment,” Bloomfield said.

“The in-class was great and they covered things such as renewable and non-renewable resources, the life-cycle of fossil fuel, so the kids really enjoyed it and it fit with the curriculum.”

Although Energy in Action will move onto 14 other schools next May, CAPP dedicates itself to a long-term relationship with each school it visits, encouraging the principal and teachers to stay in contact with CAPP and making long-term resources available.

“We leave the teacher with follow-up curriculum material so the teacher can continue to reinforce the message,” said Perry.

Walkeden also presented principal Shelly Sargent with a large stack of educational books covering environmental stewardship, which will be made available through the school library. With a little attention the 60 to 70 trees and shrubs planted on the school grounds will serve as a reminder of the important content and information provided by CAPP on May 12 when Energy in Action was hosted in Carlyle.

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Lucky Highway 13 prospers from oil

By Brad Brown Stoughton - Stoughton mayor Don Knibbs is concise when asked to sum up the effect of Southeast Saskatchewan’s oil boom on his town.

“This is the biggest our town has ever been,” he said.

Sure it has its down side - Knibbs admits crime in the area has gone up with the sudden influx of people.

But he prefers to focus on the good over the bad, and there has been plenty to speak of.

A 17-lot development sitting vacant for the better part of 10 years recently attracted the interest of a developer and was subsequently sold to said developer by the town.

Knibbs suggests property values have more than doubled in the last two years, and says business is doing well. A new restaurant opened in town earlier this month with plans for

another one already in the works.

Perhaps the most telling figure is the recent population surge in Stoughton - located 130 kilometres southeast of Regina. Just 18 months ago, Knibbs says Stoughton was a much different place.

“I’m guessing we’re at about 800-850 people,” said Knibbs. “The last census put us at 620 but that was in 2006 already. It was a lot more laid back then.”

Location, location, location.

Stoughton is not the only community along Highway 13 that couldn’t ask for a better one right now.

In Arcola, roughly 20 minutes east, the local Coop’s annual sales have doubled in the past five years.

The community of Griffin, population 40, has seen its share of change in the last couple years as well.

While the population

hasn’t skyrocketed, the oil boom has allowed Griffin to make the most of a bad situation.

“Griffin School closed two years ago and the municipal government (RM of Griffin) acquired the school property,” explained RM administrator Audrey Trombley.

“We subdivided it and sold the school to a fellow who has developed a dorm-style apartment for oil workers.”

Trombley added two commercial and three residential lots were recently sold within town limits and, while vacant farm houses in the area are non-existent, there is plenty of property available in Griffin itself.

One of those commercial properties will become an oilfield service business while the other is expected to become a gas bar and convenience store at the corner of Highway 13 and Highway 606.

“We have extra water and a treatment plant that could serve up to 80 residents so we certainly have lots of room for expansion and we can accommodate several more people,” said Trombley.

It’s been a lot of change in a short time for Stough-

ton, but Knibbs says it’s a good problem to have. Certainly better than following the path to ghost towndom at any rate.

“We want sustainability and to manage it,” Knibbs said, suggesting his town is turning an eye toward hanging onto its new-

found citizens whenever the oil patch slows down. “It’s a bit of a guessing game but we’re doing it to the best of our abilities. You’ve got to think of our infrastructure and the cost to expand our sewer and lagoon facilities. You can’t overstep your bounds.”

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“There is not a lot of oil activity in this area, but over the past six years we have identified 3,000 to 3,500 people to the north who work in the oil patch in B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan,” said Darrell Landels, Parkland’s manager of industry trades.

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Estevan - You might not expect to see an oilfield demonstration on the tailgate of a truck.

But, for staff with Universal Environmental Safety Services (UESS), it’s just one of the many ways to get the message across about their products.

On May 21, UESS president Hubert Morrison and sales representative Gary Holmes showed up at The Mercury parking lot in Estevan for a demonstration.

With crude oil, gasoline and samples of their products, they showed the almost instant results from their Gelco 100 and Gelco 200 products.

Among the many containers in their truck bed and toolkits, they had various flat cylinders that were firm and pliable, like erasers.

Every once in awhile, Holmes would pull out a cylinder and say what it was, how long they’d had it and where it came from. The cylinders were various liquids that had been treated with Gelco.

Robert White is the chief communications officer with UESS. Although he didn’t accompany Morrison on the tour to Saskatchewan, he was eager to talk about the products in a phone

call on a few days prior.

“Everybody that sees the product at work sits back in total amazement,” he said.

“It’s an environmental product,” said Morrison. “The conception was to do things in a more environmentally friendly, green way.”

“Our main purpose is to pick up spilled hydrocarbons,” said White.

“We do that with a unique process which involves our Gelco 200 products and for the water-based products, we have a Gelco 100.”

Gelco 200 is designed to pick up hydrocarbons and repel water. It has a one to 10 and one to 20 ratio.

“With our products, you’re looking at ratios of one to 10 on the lighter to crudes and one to 20 on the light ends, like your gasoline sheens and your diesel sheens,” said Morrison. “That’s all the waste you have; so if you were picking up 10 pounds of contaminant you’re only adding one pound of material.

“So, you’re disposing of 10 pounds. You’re not disposing of 30 pounds or five drums of contaminated material.”

With a ratio that ranges between one to 100 and one to 400 “quite easily”, Morrison explained how Gelco 100 picks up anything water-based and repels anything else.

In the demonstration on May 21, Holmes

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With Morrison standing nearby, and a fish tank full of water, Holmes first pulled out a bottle of black gold, crude oil, and poured it into the tank.

He then sprinkled some of the Gelco 200 product on it. Within seconds, it solidified.

With a gloved hand, Holmes pressed the surface of the tank contents to show that it was indeed a solid.

Using his fingertips, he peeled back the thin layer of now solid oil that had originally floated on top of the water. Holding it in his right hand, he gave it a squeeze. No oil came out.

With a simple skimming of the water with a net and another quick dusting of Gelco 200 to clear the tank, the water was instantly hydrocarbon free.

Using some gasoline, Holmes did the demonstration again. This time, the solidification was even quicker than the few seconds the oil had taken to congele.

It was as White had said earlier. Solidifying the hydrocarbons made it non-toxic; and the pollutant couldn’t sink.

“It remains hydrophobic,” explained Morrison. “Currently, what happens when you get hydrocarbons on water, it drops to the bottom and you’ve got a continual source of pollution.” ɸ Page B9

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Looks like detergent and cleans up environment

Gary Holmes sprinkles some Gelco 200 on crude oil.

ɺ Page B8 “Once it solidifies,” said White, “it’s no longer a pollutant.”

To demonstrate the magic of Gelco 100, Holmes brought out a jar of drinking water and set it on the tailgate.

After sprinkling in some Gelco 100, Holmes began stirring it lightly with his index finger.

“Just watch,” said Morrison.

A few seconds later, Holmes held the jar above his head and flipped it upside down. The water had been converted into a solid gel.

As it is now, Gelco remains a Colonel Sanders-like recipe.

“We have some proprietary information that we won’t release,” said Morrison, saying it’s the fruit of several trials in the lab.

“We’ve probably been through seven or eight generations of products and now we figure that we have the formulation right and we have the best product out there for this application.”

All the kinks have been worked out.

“You betcha,” said Morisson. “We have approval from Environment Canada.”

Gelco products, he said, are even on the emergencies technologies list and can be used on federal bodies of water.

Its primary purpose in Canada, is to protect the environment.

“We’re not trying to change anything that they currently do in the way they clean up spills,” said Morrison, “but just (to) use our product to enhance the recovery of their spill.”

When combined with traditional methods, Gelco, said White, can provide far superior spill response.

With a head office in Amsterdam, UESS has a Canadian satellite office in Drayton Valley, Alta.

Morrison has travelled to various parts of the world with his products.

It’s not a huge company, he said. “But, we have contacts in all parts of the globe.”

“We’re trying to set up central distribution areas that we can be accessed by spill responders readily through your province,” said Morrison when asked if a Saskatchewan office might be in the cards.

For Morrison and White, looking ahead is an encourging task.

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Finding employees remains big issue for local companies

By Chad Saxon Estevan - If there is a hotter area in Canada for oilfield activity than southeast Saskatchewan, you would be hard pressed to find it.

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Lionel Pouliot, who is the manager of Carson’s Halbrite location, says they are among the many companies in need of employees.

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“What I find is the guys that have some experience might move on, they might find themselves a different job because maybe it’s more money or less work, so the experienced guys are hard to come by,” said Pouliot who noted they were recently operating six employees short before making a few hires.

“We are getting a few from Alberta but there are some that are reluctant to move hoping that Alberta picks up and gets going again.”

Pouliot said younger employees seem to be more readily available but added that presents other challenges for companies.

“You can get some university students but the problem with that is none of them have their oilfield courses.

If you bring one of them on, you have to put in the energy and money to train them which is fine, but if they are only here for three or four months that is tough to do, there is a big cost to it.

“Don’t get me wrong, it’s worth our time to train people so that they can do their job safely, but to what extreme do you take that?”

Compounding the issue for companies is the fact that with so many job’s available and so few workers to fill them, loyalty is becoming hard to find.

“It’s an employees’ world out there right now,” admitted Pouliot.

“They can do what they want and they can dictate what they want.”

While it may be an employees’ world, workers in Saskatchewan would be wise to learn a lesson from their neighbours to the west.

With Alberta facing a boom much like Saskatchewan is now, workers in that province used the dearth of employees to drive up wages. That in turn forced service and maintenance companies to increase their prices to the point where the oil companies finally said enough is enough, and began looking elsewhere, namely Saskatchewan. ɸ Page B13

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Canadian OnSite Medical taps into oil and gas safety training

By Geoff Lee Nipawin - Have training, will travel. That, in a nutshell, is the operating mode of Canadian OnSite Medical Inc. that will hit the road anywhere in the world to deliver medical and safety courses. Their instructors have taught in places likes Venezuela, New York and Pennsylvania.

While the Nipawin based company has established a solid safety training niche with the mining industry, it is beginning to focus on the Saskatchewan oilpatch as the boom and the demand for safety courses ratchets up.

“We’ve just put an ad in the DirectWest phone book. We haven’t been to the Estevan area before, but that’s an area we want to focus on,” said company president Lyle Moffatt.

“Our company is global and in Saskatchewan, we have major clients in Fond-du-Lac and

Prince Albert. The oil patch is new to us. Oil activity has been ‘coming up’ to the Yorkton area.”

“I think a lot of companies are starting to recognize their due diligence in regards to providing a safe working environment for their employees. Everybody’s main objective – ours and the employers we work for, is to ensure employees go home to their families at the end of the day.

“If that’s going to cost money to train people to operate equipment safer or be in the right frame of mind in regards to safety, then it’s a small price to pay to get the training in place.

“Our forte is going to the client. We find it beneficial for the client and for us to come to them rather than have them send a group of employees and charging gas and paying for the whole week.

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site training.”

Canadian OnSite has expanded its initial eight courses to 28 today.

Courses for the oil sector include H2S, confined space, First Aid and CPR, safe trenching and ground disturbance – getting the permits and having the know-how to hydro-vac an area.

“As we expand in our courses, we also expand into different training environments,” said Moffatt. Regarding oil and gas Moffatt said, “The whole province is going nuts with oil. There are new regulations our there and that’s changed the thinking. It’s forcing safety on the forefront. Things change and safety is one of them.”

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Moffatt’s background is with Emergency Medical Services. “We are all paramedics,” he said. “We do the First Aid, CPR and the Automated External Defibrillator (AED) program.

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Alpine: Saskatchewan serving Saskatchewan Estevan - In Western Canada it’s known for providing unique integrated services. More specifically, in Estevan, Alpine Environmental Ltd. (Alpine) is a business that keeps Saskatchewanians working at home.

“I was born and raised here,” said Alpine Estevan area supervisor Scott Paton. “I like it here.”

Raised in Arcola and educated at the University of Regina, Paton got his foot in the door of the environmental sector 10 years ago.

“I think what initially drew me to environmental work was seeing a need for service to be provided in an industry that wishes to be proactive about managing environmental liability and limiting impacts on the environment,” he said.

It hasn’t all been glamorous work. His first industry job was picking rocks on oil lease roads.

A few years later, Paton was hired by Alpine.

He started as a summer student, and returned as a full-time employee in 2003.

“I’ve been here with my shoulder to the stone ever since,” he said.

Alpine, a professional consulting firm, offers a vast array of services, like spill response, reclamation, remediation, hydrogeologic services, aquatic services, drilling services and environmental managing services.

They perform pre-site assessments and environmental protection plans.

“That would be the

beginning of our cradleto-grave environmental services,” explained Paton. “We can do remedial work, spill response work, during a specific site’s lifespan and then finally, do reclamation work to clean up the site and put it back to its land use prior to exploration.”

Alpine hasn’t always been in Saskatchewan.

With its head office in Calgary and other offices in British Columbia and Alberta, it branched out into Saskatchewan six years ago, with the help of a University of Manitoba graduate.

Ryan Cameron was born in Virden, Manitoba, educated in Winnipeg and like Paton, got his start with Alpine as a summer student.

Now vice president of the company, working out of Alpine’s central office in Calgary, Cameron originally came to Estevan in 2002 to open an office. He said he saw it as a great venture.

“We didn’t have any operation in Saskatchewan at the time and the word got around that they were looking at opening an office in southeast Saskatchewan,” he said.

“My wife and I thought it was an excellent opportunity to get back to close to where we were from. We had a baby at the time, so we thought it was important.”

“Honestly,” he said, “people were so excited to have an Alberta company moving in.”

Looking back on the move and lifestyle change,

Cameron said he wouldn’t change it for anything. At the time, however, not everyone thought it was the best idea.

“I don’t think there was a single person that didn’t say we were crazy for leaving Alberta to move to Saskatchewan five years ago,” he said.

“It was a different time.

Saskatchewan wasn’t booming like it is now and there were not a lot of people leaving Alberta, especially Grande Prairie, for Saskatchewan.

“It was stressful,” he said. “We didn’t know what we were getting ourselves into. Estevan was a long way off the map for us.” ɸ Page B20

Left to right: Scott Paton, Clayton Stenhouse and Courtney Gress of Alpine Environmental Ltd. All three consultants were born and raised in Saskatchewan.

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“For the first five years there was not too much happening, but for the last two to three years there’s been a lot of opportunity out there,” Bailey explains.

Based out of Hazlet, Sask., 40 miles northwest of Swift Current, the company seems to be growing with the size of the gas fields in the southwest region of the province.

Bailey adds his experience in the oil industry is not limited to the last eight years.

“I’ve been involved in the oilpatch since 1984,” he says.

“We’re an oilfield maintenance and construction company. We do day to day maintenance in the field and a little construction work and we’re into the safety,” says Bailey.

“Basically, we work the turn around,” Bailey explains.

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site and do the safety turn around as well,” he says.

“When working in the oilfield there are five basic tickets that you need: first aid and CPR, WHMIS (Workplace Hazardous Materials), TDG (Transportation of Dangerous Goods), the H2S (Hydrogen Sulphide) ticket and the confined space training,” says Bailey.

Ground disturbance is another critical factor in the patch.

“It’s a big issue. If you dig or disturb the ground any deeper than six inches you have to follow certain procedures so you don’t dig into a pipeline or gas line,” says Bailey.

Business is starting to pick up in this portion of the province and Bailey says he expects this summer to be as busy, if not busier than previous

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The royalty structure change in Alberta has had some impact on the activity in Saskatchewan.

“To a certain extent some of the oil companies are looking at Saskatchewan because it’s a little more competitive. There’s a little more opportunity in Saskatchewan because of that,” he says.

Baily adds the southeast portion of the province is probably the busiest with some new discoveries in the Bakken field propelling growth.

Bailey’s partner, Dale Alliban, focuses on crane operations and safety orientations on bridge training procedures and rigging.

Speaking on cell phone while seeding his crops, Alliban says there has been a lot of activity in the Shaunvon area as well.

“Our company been up and running for close to ten years. Prior to that both of us have experience in the field,” he says.

The company has been slowly growing ever since.

“We want to supply a service and we have some good people and have a good rapport with them.”

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Veteran welder takes success to the oil¿eld Swift Current - Doug Zecharias adds if you and it doesn’t matter if Zecharias has been weld- got “no guts then there’s you’re wet behind the ing for close to 17 years. no glory. Welding in the ears so long as you have a He’s been active in oilfield is hands on work strong work ethic.” the oilfield for the past 10 years, being in business for himself over the last eight.

“I was just in the right place at the right time with the gas boom coming to the city,” says Zecharias.

“It’s smoking out here and looking like it might be another record year,” the veteran welder adds.

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Alpine: Saskatchewan serving Saskatchewan Éş Page B17 The Saskatchewan oďŹ&#x192;ce was an instant success. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been able to add some excellent young professionals to the team and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very successful business unit for Alpine Environmental,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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in Estevan and been educated at the University of Regina, Gress returned to the Energy City after completing a bachelor of science degree.

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Clayton Stenhouse is the third Saskatchewan consultant for Alpine.

Born in Yorkton, raised in Regina and educated in Lethbridge, he too enjoys the nature aspect of the job. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I always had an interest in wildlife and ďŹ sheries,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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Colleen MacDonald is the administration assistant for the Estevan oďŹ&#x192;ce. Born in Estevan and raised in Bienfait, she knew she wanted to stay in Saskatchewan to work early on in her life.

Although not a consultant, she too, is passionate about the environment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always cared about plants and animals,â&#x20AC;? she said.

While Saskatchewan is a happening place for Alpine, the company history starts in Alberta. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Alpine Environmental started in a skid shack North of Drayton Valley,â&#x20AC;? said Paton. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was the

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Lambert saw a niche service that could be provided in spill response and drilling activities,â&#x20AC;? said Paton. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since then,â&#x20AC;? he added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve expanded into eight regional oďŹ&#x192;ce locations (with) 125 consultants with associated support staďŹ&#x20AC;.â&#x20AC;?

Cameron has worked in a few of Alpineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regional oďŹ&#x192;ces. DiďŹ&#x20AC;erences exist.

Working in Saskatchewan, he said, was good. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a small industry in Saskatchewan, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really nice to be able to work closely with the clients and the regulators,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very community-type atmosphere. You know your competition well. You know your clients really well. You know the regulators very well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very diďŹ&#x20AC;erent than here (Alberta), where itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s much more fractured,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The scale is so much bigger here. You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have those personal relationships. It was a lot easier to get things done.â&#x20AC;?

Albertaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oil and gas sector may be bigger, but for now, the staďŹ&#x20AC; at Alpine Estevan are happy working in Saskatchewan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can see a very long ways; you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have bushes or stuďŹ&#x20AC; obstructing your view,â&#x20AC;? joked Stenhouse. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Generally the climate here is pretty good. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an enjoyable place to work.â&#x20AC;?

Paton appreciates the things heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seen during his career here. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The most interesting thing Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever seen was a drilling rig at the bottom of the Big Muddy. Drilling with Castle Butte in the background, it was really unique,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Alpine Estevan is a venue for environmentalists to do what they love.

Paton calls it â&#x20AC;&#x153;making a living while making a diďŹ&#x20AC;erence.â&#x20AC;?

For Cameron, it was a stepping stone to sky-rocket his career while spurring corporate growth.

For Gress, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a place to be in the southeast corner of the province during the boom. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of activity,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pretty exciting time to be working down here.â&#x20AC;?

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June 2008

Saskatchewan’s Petroleum Monthly

Derrick Big Eagle’s No. 71 car is a familiar sight within the conÀnes of Estevan Motor Speedway.

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By Brad Brown Carlyle - The oilfield is a fast-paced industry, but it’s a safe bet that none of his colleagues are moving quite as fast as Derrick Big Eagle.

The president and general manager of Eagle Drilling Services has a unique hobby among his peers: When Big Eagle is not working at his Carlyle office, he can often be found preparing his IMCA modified car for an upcoming race at Estevan Motor Speedway.

“I’m actually the only one that I know of from around here,” he said after a moment’s pause.

Eagle Drilling is a contractor operating throughout Southeast Saskatchewan and Southwest Manitoba, leasing drilling rigs to other companies in the area.

While Big Eagle says his job keeps him on call at all hours of the day, he is generally an eight-tofive, Monday-to-Friday kind of guy. That leaves him plenty of time to work on his second “career.”

“No, no, I take it serious ... but it’s just a hobby for me,” he said, laughing off the idea of one day competing in the Indy 500. “Some guys watch TV, some guys play PlayStation, some guys drink beers, I work on my car. I like tinkering around in my shop.

“I raced an old ‘75 Trans Am when I was 19, at the old Lampman and Frobisher tracks way back in the day. And I told my wife when I finally got a job where I was eight-to-five that I’m going to take up racing again.”

Big Eagle returned to the racing scene in 2006,

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he is able to advertise on his own car in front of up to 2000 fans for four months each year.

“I would say I work on it at least five nights before each race. Of course you can’t tell on the track, but that’s my own fault,” he said laughing. “It’s been a good opportunity to do some networking.”

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Enbridge’s Project begins to Àow ɺ Page A2 “We at Enbridge are committed to environmental protection,” said Taylor. “Prior to a pipeline being built, we perform necessary environmental studies to better understand the environment.”

One way Enbridge minimizes its impact on the environment involves constructing the smallest sized pipeline needed for the task at hand. “We minimize the required footprint of the pipeline by minimizing the size

Welding is one of the most important steps in pipeline construction. Enbridge connects more than 40 segments of pipe to build each kilometre of pipeline.

of the pipe,” said Taylor.

“By minimizing the size of pipe, you are minimizing the space needed for construction.”

Enbridge engages in what they call postconstruction monitoring, which helps ensure the

pipeline does not have any negative environmental effects after its flowing with oil or gas liquids.

“We’re a neighbor to our landowners, so if there’s issues on the rights-ofway, we take control and take on any re-contouring needed,” said Burlock.

“This is an on-going process.”

Enbridge operates a number of liquid petroleum pipelines in different parts of Canada and the United States. Continuous and rigorous maintenance, including replacement of pipe as required, can ensure a pipeline is in excellent condition for as long as it is needed.

Enbridge’s hard work and commitment to the environment is evident in many projects, including the Alida to Cromer line.

When constructing a line under a road or creek, Enbridge often directionally drills underneath in order to avoid disturbing the environment surrounding the road or the creek.

This is exactly what the company did in the area where the pipeline leaves the pipeline terminal near Alida. A couple people, who traveled down Highway 601 during this construction phase, commented on how quickly Enbridge drilled the line beneath the road - proving the company’s commitment to mitigating community concerns regarding construction.

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we acquire a right-of-way, we compensate landowners based on market value of bare land.”

Currently, Saskatchewan is the second largest producer of oil in Canada.

With record sales of land so far this year surpassing total sales in 2007, it’s predicted oil production

in Saskatchewan will increase significantly over the coming years. To help meet this new demand, Enbridge is working with its customers on future construction in this area.

“We’re expanding our pipeline systems to meet the growing demand,” said Taylor.

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Petroleum companies stepping up to support new Estevan arena

By Chad Saxon Estevan - By any form of measurement this is a terrific time to be in the oil business.

The price of oil has gone over the $130 per barrel mark and analysts expect the climb to continue for the foreseeable future. Adding to the fun are the recent positive developments in the industry such as the Bakken play in the southeast and the Shaunavon play in southwest Saskatchewan. Truth be told, if a company isn't making money know, they never will.

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Perhaps there is no greater example of that than the story of the new Estevan arena and events centre.

Construction on the new facility, which will seat over 2,000 people for hockey and other sporting events and over 3,000 for concerts, is expected to begin later this summer.

However work on the state of the art facility began inearnest in early 2007 when a steering committee of user groups and citizens.

The committee was given the task of raising at least $6 million before Estevan city council would give the green light for construction to begin.

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A big reason for their success was the support of oil companies in Estevan and area.

Kim Anderson, who is the chairman of the committee's fund raising arm, estimates the oil patch is responsible for over $4 million of the total. Anderson said oil companies in the area have gone above and beyond in their support of the arena, largely because they aware of the positive spin-offs not only for the community but their businesses. "They want to have things in this community that will entice their employees to stay here and work here," said Anderson.

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Companies have shown an amazing level of support for the new Estevan arena and events centre. Among the contributors was Crescent Point Energy Trust who donated $300,000 to the project. From left: Crescent Point Employees Curtis Von Sprecken, Patti Mowchenko, Ashley Olson, Amy Lund, Mayor Gary St. Onge and Brad Wyatt of Crescent Point.

Supporting Estevan arena ɺ Page C4 Not long after the committee began its work did the money start rolling in. With an eye towards giving the companies a bang for their buck, the committee broke down the various components of the new facility and began selling the naming rights to them. Canadian Natural Resources Limited was one of the first to jump aboard, committing $200,000 for the naming rights to the facility's weight room and squash courts.

Crescent Point Energy was another major contributor earmarking $300,000 for the project, the bulk of that to purchase the naming rights to the lounge which will be one of the highlights of the events centre.

The arena will also feature 24 private boxes which were sold for $50,000 each. Once again the local companies were

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Anderson could literally go on for hours and was cautious not to forget any of the valued contributors but said the overall support is a testament to the quality of people in the oil patch.

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“I’m the only real safety supply store in town,” he says, adding that as the industry grows so to does his business.

“It’s busy all around (Swift Current) but most of the gas activity lies north of the city,” he says.

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ɺ Page B14 Moffatt says another factor that sets Canadian OnSite apart from competitors is the fact 95 per cent of their courses are connected to authorized colleges including Southeast Regional College in Estevan that teaches Canadian Onsite’s ground disturbance course.

“When we train you, you will get a certificate stating Canadian OnSite has trained you and we are backed by a named authorized college,” said Moffatt.

“We are a recognized company and we are proud to say we are professionals and backed by colleges.

“A lot of our contracts are with SaskPower and SaskTel but we are getting into the oil sector more. Most of our oil clients are in the Lloydminster area. We have been focused on the mining sector, but we have diversified into oil and gas and industrial equipment.”

Canadian OnSite has also cut a niche for itself developing safety

manuals for companies following onsite consultation. They have also published four different books in regards to the safe operation of equipment.

“There’s a lot of equipment out there, with no safety manuals,” said Moffatt. “Our manuals typically run 100 pages. We go out to a site and we find how the equipment is operated. As I noted, most of our instructors are also heavy equipment operators.”

Asked how Canadian OnSite can make the worksite safer Moffatt said, “In my 22 years in EMS, we are typically called when something has gone bad. Now we are in the forefront. We are trying to prevent injuries. We have a bit of added benefit when we teach the programs to employees. We can mark then up against what we have seen and prevent the same kind of injury.”

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“I’m excited about it.

You’re never too old to try something new,”said Amyotte who was among a two day class of 23 people from all walks of life upgrading their CPR ticket at ETI the week of May 20.

Amyotte’s group was the 25th CPR course taught

by Daren Cochrane this year – including courses for students and workers seeking employment in the oil industry or employees needing to upgrade safety qualifications.

“Basically everyone who works in the oilpatch needs this course,” said Cochrane. “Over the past two years, enrolment has picked up dramatically. A lot more companies have become safety oriented.

It’s not just oilfield workers either. It’s people from the grocery store, the general public and health care professionals. Almost every business around is asking for the CPR course.”

ETI offers a range of safety courses targeted for the oil sector including ground disturbance, construction safety training systems, petroleum safety training and courses for forklift operators.

Cochrane says industry accidents have been attributed to people not having tickets in CPR, H2S or confined spaces and by not paying attention and goofing off. He says some of the common injuries in the oil sector are head injuries, spinal injuries, cuts and broken bones. New safety regulations are intended to prevent injuries.

“Nowadays they won’t even let you on the property if you don’t have the safety tickets,” said Cochrane.

That’s okay for Amyotte who had a safe driving record for 28 years. He started driving in Ontario when he was 15 and became the owner-operator of his own truck before deciding to switch career gears. “I’ve driven tankers before so it won’t be an overwhelming change for me,” he said.

“The oil boom is good for everyone. The change in career is more important than the money. I get more chance to be home with the kids. My kids are teenagers now, but it’s a win-win situation as we’ll be seeing more of each other.”

Karen Melle, lead consultant for ETI said the busiest time for training is normally March, April and May but demand spiked as early as last September in advance of new regulations that came into play in October.

“Basically, the regulations focused on the amount of training and documentation needed for testing and operating power mobile equipment,” she said. “We are also constantly looking at upgrading our training and respond to any demand that comes our way.”

The oil boom kept Cochrane busy during spring breakup teaching First Aid and CPR to students aged 16-21 hoping to work for oil companies this summer.

The Early Safety Training courses preps students for tickets in the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) while a Ready for Work course prepares them for their first day of work. Students also take at least one of seven optional safety courses, all for just $99, upon receiving a rebate bursary of $176 for course completion.

“It’s a good course,” said Cochrane. “I wish the program was there when I was in school because you can get the safety tickets for under $100. It’s a five day training program. They can finish school and get a job because they have all of their tickets and they don’t have to come back here.

Students get jobs ranging from being “gophers” to digging trenches or anything oilfield related.”

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ETI and Southeast Regional College ɺ Page C10 Cochrane and other instructors are preparing to deliver safety courses in Whitewood, Weyburn, Carnduff, Oxbow and Carlyle in June.

Cochrane has more than 14 years of experience in the military and is a police constable and a bylaw officer for the city of Estevan when he’s not teaching

safety.

“I’ve held a First Aid ticket since I was 12 years old,” he said. He says he keeps teaching interesting by giving students his first hand accounts of assisting people with rescue breathing and administering First Aid to choke victims. “I’ve dealt with broken bones and CPR compressions on real people. Pushing on

a real person’s chest is not easy.

“It’s satisfying when I teach people who come back and say, ‘if I didn’t have your First Aid course, I wouldn’t be able to help this person.’ One guy said he helped his dad when he collapsed and went into cardiac arrest and brought him back. That was the kind of pat on the back Dalton Martindale, foreground, from Packers Plus Energy Services Inc. and Mark Amyotte with Big Eagle Services practise rescue breathing during a St. John Ambulance First Aid and CPR ticket course at the Energy Training Institute at Southeast Regional College in Estevan.

thing which was cool. If he hadn’t taken the course; he wouldn’t have known what to do. The First Aid course

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Leaving Calgary for a southeast Sask. home: Estevan - In an office space beside a sandwich restaurant, sitting in an ergonomic chair, is a young businessman. His name is Lance Fugate; and he couldn’t be happier to be working in the province’s oil and gas industry. The map of southeastern Saskatchewan that almost fills one wall of his spacious corner office is a testament to his eagerness to be here.

Fugate is not a Saskatchewan native. Originally from Sioux Narrows, Ont., he cut his teeth in the Alberta oil and gas industry.

He began working in Wild Rose Country after finishing high school.

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company, Northridge Energy Development Group (Northridge).

“We got together with a couple of other field inspectors and a fairly prominent businessman and we decided we were going to put together this company,” he said.

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looking for opportunities in the oil and gas industry wherever we could find them.”

“Every different step has seemed like a risk but proved otherwise,” said Fugate. “Over the course of the past two-and-ahalf years, we’ve grown to a company of about 30 people.”

The growth, he said, occurred at a pace that was manageable. This way, the company could maintain the original goals it had in mind.

Northridge was to be a company that could bridge the gap between field workers and engineers.

Experience is key, explained Fugate. “It’s not about what you’ve got hanging on the wall. It’s about what you know.”

Late in the summer of 2006, Northridge began working in Saskatchewan. Working in the area, Fugate explained, they noticed a prevalent thought.

“Nobody really wanted somebody else coming from out of town and telling them how they should be doing things. It’s been working here very well for many years,” he said.

“We took from that that we were going to have to come down here and be part of the community and learn the way people do things down here.”

That’s exactly what they did.

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Lance Fugate is the regional vice president of Saskatchewan for Northridge Energy Development Group. He’s thrilled to be working in Saskatchewan, where they’ve just opened up an Estevan ofÀce. Having only been here for a month, boxes have yet to be unpacked.

katchewan has made a large difference for Fugate.

“Once you tell somebody that you’ve bought a house here, and you’ve moved here, it’s amazing,” he said.

“They’ve seen it a thousand times, people from out of town coming in and taking while the getting’s good and really having no interest in staying the long haul. I can’t wait to get my Alberta licence plate changed over. That’s going to be like the sign, sealed and delivered.”

The transition from Calgary to Estevan, he explained, was crazy. “It’s a totally different lifestyle dynamic to be here.”

“From a business sense, it was kind of a sacrifice to pick up my family and move here,” he said. “But from a personal sense, it was far from it.

“We’ve been here for a month, and we’re happier than we’ve ever been.”

Fugate is the regional vice president for Saskatchewan for Northridge.

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From Alberta to Saskatchewan - The new trend ɺ Page C12 It’s a brand new workspace, with only him for the time being, but that’s about to change.

As it is now, empty offices await new staff members; and boxes of furniture are at the end of the hallway, anticipating the required assembly. Unhung artwork proudly displays Saskatchewan grain elevators, the closest thing resembling mountains he jokes, and pipelines.

“We could bring people in and bring them over right now but it’s counterproductive,” said Fugate. “One of our goals is to make sure we try our best to offer jobs to people here.

“I know it seems like a big open space. We intend to fill it and we will, he said. “There’s tons of work to do here.

“Everybody that we hire to work here, we want them to be from here ... We’re hoping that kids will go to some kind of technical institute, or whatever, and be able to stay in Estevan and stay in Saskatchewan and have

an educated technical job in the oil and gas industry here,” he said.

“If we can help out by having six, eight or 10 jobs available, whatever it may be, the sky’s the limit,” said Fugate. “Who knows, we could get real busy here too, or we could be five or six, which is perfectly cool too; that’s still five or six jobs that stay here.”

For now, with only Fugate in the office, there’s just one chair. He chivalrously turned it over at the onset of the interview when he began describing the company.

It’s an engineering company committed to standard EPCM (Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management) operations.

“Our clients give us the reigns to help them put their pipelines together,” he said.

“We look after it at the design phase, regulatory phase, right through tendering and construction,” he said.

They also provide inspection services.

“We provide pretty

much right from the beginning of the job to (when) you turn it on,” he said. “We try to be as involved as we can.”

Aside from pipeline work, Fugate said Northridge works with the construction of oil batteries as well as oil and gas plants.

With experience rooted in the field, Fugate said that Northridge offers something that companies value.

“We know what it’s like in the dirt and the mud instead of just what it looks like on paper,” he said.

Estevan is the first satellite office for Northridge.

“Even though it’s more to the southern extremity where most of the activity is, it’s the hub where everything is. It’s just a busy town,” he said.

“It feels busier than the busiest of oil towns in Alberta.”

Southeast Saskatchewan, he explained, is where decisions are being made.

“These guys make

some calls,” he said.

“People think that centrally around Calgary and Alberta (is) the hub of everything; and when they come to southeast Saskatchewan, and see that you can’t drive a quarter section without seeing 10 pumpjacks they realize that ‘holy smokes’, there’s quite a bit going on than maybe we realised.”

Northridge is a young company. The majority of the staff are in their 20s, said Fugate.

Staff retention is extremely high.

“Everybody’s that come and started working with our company has stayed with our company,”

he said. “It feels good.”

For Fugate, the best part of his work is getting the job done.

Driving along pipelines, he said, “It’s pretty awesome to see what you’ve built from point A to point B and see it put in

the ground. I love my job.

“I’m so proud to be here. I can’t wait to get a green licence plate on my truck so that people won’t think I’m from Alberta anymore. Because I’m not,” he said with a chuckle.

MIDWEST SURVEYS INC. – Professional Land Surveyors – • OilÀeld surveys • Subdivision surveys • Lot and parcel surveys • Real property reports • Topographic surveys • Control surveys • Construction layouts

322 4th St., Estevan

PH: 634-2635

FAX: 634-3164

Home page: www.midwestsurveys.com

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Saskatchewan OfÀce: #6, 461 King Street Estevan, Saskatchewan S4A 1K6 (306) 637-3462 www.tristaroilandgas.com

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Phone: (306) 634-4797 or 634-7334

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Specialization emphasized at Sawyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Estevan - The day of the general safety practitioner may be numbered as new health and safety regulations and technology demand specialized instruction and continuous learning.

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tive of training specialist Dean Sawyer, president of Sawyer Safety Training & Consulting Ltd., located on Highway 39 East of Estevan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Training is becoming more complicated. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very specialized. You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just walk in and say you want to be trainer.

You have to have prerequisites and years of experience,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I started in 1985, you only had to have two courses in the oilpatch â&#x20AC;&#x201C; H2S and First aid. Soon after that, you had to have tickets in Transportation of Dangerous Goods, WHMIS, conďŹ ned spaces â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the list keeps growing.â&#x20AC;?

Sawyer runs a one-man operation with more than 30 courses on his web

site covering everything from ďŹ re extinguishers, forklifts, fall rescue and respiratory ďŹ t testing to defensive driving and workplace First aid and CPR for emergencies. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I train a lot of people in the surrounding area, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m getting calls from as far away as Ontario, Quebec and Newfoundland & Labrador from people looking for the basic requirements to be hired by the oil and gas

sector,â&#x20AC;? he said. Sawyer services the Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba marketplace. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The driving force for training is the new Occupational Health and Safety regulations from the province and the change in the environment and direction of the oil and gas community.â&#x20AC;? Sawyer Safety has just added a new OH& S Level 2 course to his company`s oďŹ&#x20AC;erings.

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ROY'S TRANSMISSION Ltd.

TERRY DODDS (24 hrs.) (306) 634-7599 Cell. (306) 421-0316

A Business Built on Service - Locally owned & Operated by Licensed Mechanics

See Us For All of Your General 200 Years Automotive Repairs!

Combined Experience!

ALL WORK FULLY GUARANTEED 12 Bays to Serve You Better!

634-7903 237 3rd Street, Estevan • Fax: 634-9838 www.roystransmission.com

M.E.T. OILFIELD CONST. LTD. “All Your Construction and Maintenance Needs” SPECIALIZING IN: ENGINES, PUMP UNITS, UNIT INSPECTIONS, PIPE FITTING, TREATERS AND PRESSURE TICKET WELDING Box 1605, Estevan, Sk. S4A 2L7 Cell. (306) 421-3174, (306) 421-6410, (306) 421-2059 Fax: (306) 634-1273

Phone: 306-483-2384

Trucking Estevan

LTD.

82 Devonion St. Estevan, SK Phone:634-4041 - 24 Hr. Fax: 306-634-4040

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• Pressure Vessels • Well Testers • Frac Recovery • Wellbore Bleedoff • Ball Catchers • 400 bbl Tanks • Bed Truck

Dale (306) 861-3635 • Lee (306) 577-7042 Lampman, Sask.

CLIFF NANKIVELL TRUCKING LTD.

*Call us for a quote*

WATER & CRUDE VACUUM TRUCK SERVICE • 24 Hour Service • Oil Hauling

• Commercial & Industrial Electrical • Underground Trenching • On site & in shop Motor, Heater & Rig Lighting Repair

*We Supply & Stock* • 1/4” - 1 1/2” Gr. 5 & Gr. 8 Bolts • Rig Lighting • Heavy Duty Cords • Pin & Sleeve Cord Ends • Motor Starters

2 Locations: Kisbey & Lampman Phone: 462-2130 • Fax: 462-2188

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-Excavating & Backhoe Service -Spill Cleanup & Reclamation -Skid Steer Equipment -Carpentry -Snow Removal -Pipeline Construction, Underground Boring Equipment -Shop Equipped for all Types of Fabrication

"Experience the Service" 306-487-2277 or 1-877-347-1628 Your One-Call Source For OilÀeld Rentals

ESTEVAN OFFICE 24 HOURS

634-3255 FAX: 634-0128

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(A Division of Total Energy Services Ltd.)

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• 400 BBL Tanks, Lined, • Pickers Sloped, Steam Coiled, • Bed Trucks • Winch Tractors Sumped & Sour Serviced, ACID Enviro-Vac Units, • Texas Beds Flare Tanks • Rig Mats • Invert Systems

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• Surface Sump Tanks • Caterpillar Loaders • Vapor Tight Equipment • Portable Flaring Equipment • Flow Back Separators • Pre-Mix Systems

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midale@totaloilÀeld.ca

Cell: (306) 421-9295 Shop: 433-2059; Fax: 433-2069 TOLL FREE 1-888-532-5526

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Dwight G. Blomander, CFP

BIG DOG SEEDS INC.

• • • •

Reclamation Grass Seed

Life Insurance Disability Insurance Critical Illness Insurance Employee BeneÀt Plans Tel: (306) 761-7506 • Fax: (306) 352-9474 E-mail: dwight.blomander@gwl.ca Toll Free: 1-888-495-7275 Cellular: (306) 421-1935 THE

Great-West Life

• Native Species • Tame Forages

Phone/Fax: 634-6005 Email: estevantrophy@sasktel.net

RON'S The Work Wear Store Ltd. Check out our large selection of OilÀeld Products: DuPont™

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FR Coveralls, Bib Overalls, Shirts & Pants

CSA Work Boots from KODIAK, JB Goodhue, CAT Hard Hats, Replacement Suspensions and Accessories

"Blended to your speciÀcations"

Safety glasses, Rubber gloves, Work gloves

and so much more!

Wayne Amos - 306.483.2963 - Oxbow

ASSURANCE COMPANY

600, 2010-11th Avenue, Regina, SK S4P 0J3

CELL: 306-421-3728 RES: 306-634-7538

Quality

TRUCKING

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TIM FEDYK - CELLULAR 421-1258 RON BYE - CELLULAR 421-0368 RES. 634-7076

OILFIELD CONSTRUCTION LTD.

24 HOUR SERVICE • Oilfield Graveling • All Types of Gravel Products • Sealed Trailers for Hauling Contaminated Waste • Payloaders • Excavator • Heavy Equipment Hauling

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Are you looking for a new form of Ànancing?

4” Hevi Wate Drill Pipe Brad Lamontagne (306) 577-9818 or (306) 739-2263 smrltd@sasktel.net

Does your business have: - expansion plans - limited cash Áow - credit worthy accounts - restricted bank credit - a successful product or service Factors Western can help!

Website: www.factorswestern.com email: cbezaire@factorswestern.com

Phone: 634-9939 Cell: 421-8642 Fax: 634-9976

TRUCK FOR SALE 2006 Dodge 3500 Laramie, megacab, cummins diesel, 4x4, 6 speed, leather, sun roof, loaded, chrome trim package, 20,000 mi. Perfect condition. $39,500.

Phone Rudy 306-726-4403

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Sawyer safety training ɺ Page C14 Years ago, they used a canary to check for gases. If the canary died, you wouldn’t enter a vessel.

Today, they use single, four and five-headed monitors.

“The need for advance training is good but it’s a lot more complicated. It’s one thing to take training but are you using the training? That’s the biggest concern. You have to have continuous training.”

Sawyer is no exception to that rule. He spends about a quarter of his time keeping his credentials up to date. “I spend a lot of time in school and a lot of time reading and getting to know regulations in Alberta and Saskatchewan and federal regulations. It’s a very specialized field.”

Sawyer has carved a niche in the training sector with his professional designations. “From a health and safety aspect, what sets us apart would be the professional designations.”

Sawyer is one of only 52 people in Saskatchewan to

hold a Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP) designation. He is also a Certified Health and Safety Consultant (CHSC) and a Canadian Human Resource Professional (CHRP).

Despite the increased demand for training , Sawyer says you have to be diversified to make a good living.

As he put it, “You need a well balanced diet. Delivering training is not enough to feed you. It’s changing too much. Courses are getting longer too. They’re asking more of the instructor.”

Sawyer’s designations open new business doors for him to consult. He also conducts safety audits, makes presentations and completes hazard assessments. As well, he conducts health and safety audits for companies with health and safety programs and he assists other consultants in the oil and gas sector.

Sawyer Safety has an onsite computer training room to deliver the mandatory Petroleum Safety Training IRP -16 or industry recommended practice course.

The company also has a training ground for hands-on training such as Fall Protection training and Fall Protection Rescue using modern oilfield equipment, Confined Space Training and Fire Training.

ELECTRICAL APPRENTICES REQUIRED Require safety certiÀcates & valid drivers licence.

Competitive wages and beneÀts package.

Fax resume to 637-2181 or deliver to: 62 Devonian Street, Estevan, Sk.

FABRICATOR REQUIRED

Career Opportunities

in BIGGAR, SK requires qualified people for the following positions:

EXPERIENCED WELDERS

• Great place to work • Excellent benefits • Experience in auto CAD required

Tickets an asset. $18-$25/hour DOE.

SANDBLASTER AND/OR INDUSTRIAL PAINTER Experience in foaming and internal lining an asset.

Send resumé (REFERENCES REQUIRED) to: info@envirotank.com or fax 306-948-5263

www.suretuf.com PLASMA TABLE OPERATORS EXPERIENCED LABOURER Will train qualified candidates.

Applicants must have welding background.

Driver’s license required. Reliable, team player.

Wages depend on experience. Benefits available.

Performance bonuses.

Only those to be interviewed will be contacted.

Apply in confidence to: Fax (780) 808-2689

LABOURER -

Required Immediately!

FULL TIME POSITION

Must have valid Class 5 Driver’s License. Safety Tickets would be an asset. Must be self motivated and have good work ethics and attitude.

Duties include assisting with steamer/wash unit for oilfield cleaning.

Fax or email resume ATTN: Norm or Lynn to: Email: outlawoil@sasktel.net Fax: 636-1537 67 Devonian Street Estevan, SK

FULL TIME DRIVERS & SWAMPERS REQUIRED BeneÀts available.

Wage negotiable, oilÀeld certiÀcates required.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Truck Driver / Shipper Receiver - Immediate Permanent, Full-Time and PartTime employment - Must have minimum Class 3A Driver’s license - BeneÀts available - Wages negotiable, depending on experience

Counter Salesperson - Full-Time and Part-Time Inside person - Previous sales experience, as well as lumber and hardward experience would be an asset - Duties will include shipping and receiving and counter sales - BeneÀts available - Wages negotiable, depending on experience

Apply by fax or email to: Attention: Brian

WOOD COUNTRY

SKY LIFT SERVICES INC.

P.O. Box 1456 STN Main Estevan, SK Canada S4A 2L7 Fax: 306-634-8441 brianwoodcountry.estevan@sasktel.net

HWY 39 E., Estevan

No Phone Calls

Interested applicants can fax resumes to:

(306) 634-3399

Truck Drivers Apply in person with resume or fax: 634-8699 email: lctrucking@sasktel.net

L & C Trucking Ltd. 24 Hwy. 39 E. Estevan

Box 11793 Lloydminster, AB T9V 3C1 Phone 780-872-5234 Fax 780-872-5235 e-mail: bendtec@telus.net

WE’RE TARGETING YOU!!

Target Safety Services Ltd. is seeking Safety Personnel for the following positions: • Spark Watch • Bottle Watch • Safety Watch • Safety Supervisors/Lead Hands • Coordinators • Emergency Medical Responders • Service Technicians • Technical Rope Rescue Technicians • Drilling & Service Rig Safety Supervisors If you are interested in joining a new and exciting safety company with potential to grow, please forward resumés with copies of tickets to:

cmckinlay@targetsafety.ca or fax to 780-870-5359 Only successful applicants will be contacted.

CONTROLLER / ACCOUNTANT L & C Trucking requires a Controller/Accountant Preference will be given to candidates with a C.A. or C.M.A. designation. We will also consider candidates with a combination of training and experience suitable for this position.

L & C Trucking offers above average wages and health plan.

Please forward your resume by fax to: (306) 634-8699 or email to: lctrucking@sasktel.net Attention: Blair Hunter Thanks to all applicants for their interest; only those considered for an interview will be contacted.

SpeciÀc Targeting Contact your local pipeline sale rep. to get you

40,000

Circulation on your career ad!

PIPELINE NEWS June 2008

Vacuum Truck Driver required.

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Career Opportunities

• Must have a Class 3A License • Safety tickets an asset

Call 634-3334 or 421-0626 for an appointment.

HARRIS

OILFIELD CONSTRUCTION LTD. 83 Escana Street, Estevan

Phone: 634-3334 WELDING SHOP FOREMAN - Supervise and assign duties to welders/fabricators in a custom fabricating & welding environment. This position reports to the Operations Manager; - Must be analytical, organized and pay strong attention to detail; - Capable of working in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a positive, enthusiastic & determined attitude; - Strong ability to communicate both written & verbally; and - Experience required.

INDUSTRIAL PAINTER - Operate & maintain an airless painter; - Spray enamel & epoxy products; and - Preparation & clean-up.

WELDERS - Seeking 1st, 2nd & 3rd year Apprentices, Journeymen Welders or equivalent to perform all weld procedures; and - Knowledge / experience with fabricating tools & equipment & fitting skills would be an asset.

SHOPKEEPER

FORKLIFT OPERATOR Apply to:

Do All Metal Fabricating Ltd Estevan, SK Email: lvanloosen@doallmetal.com or fax: 306-634-8623 We offer overtime, competitive wages, benefits & RRSP’s

Recently increased wages, for steady year round work.

NORTHWEST TANK LINES requires Company Drivers and/or Lease Operators with a Class 1 license and 3 years experience to join our progressive, expanding team. The typical work week would be 6 days on and 3 days off. We offer excellent compensatiton, that has just been increased, and a great benefit package. We ensure steady year round work, with up to date, state of the art equipment.

Call Laurie Elliott at 1-800-661-5528 ext. 233 or fax information to 403-250-7801, or email: laurie@nwtl.ca.

Visit us at www.northwesttanklines.com

CLASS 4 DRIVERS REQUIRED P/T, casual and relief. Clean drivers abstract. Unionized, on-call position.

Will provide funding for license upgrade to suitable applicant.

For more information call:

Hauling crude oil and salt water.

1A or 3A Licence, safety tickets & driver’s abstract required.

Wayne Schell Trucking Ltd. Call 634-7508 or fax resume to 634-7491

Carson Welding requires experienced:

Crew Foreman, Labourers Equipment Operators & Construction Workers for full time employment in the Halbrite shop.

OilÀeld tickets an asset.

Wages to commensurate with experience.

Contact Halbrite Supervisor: Lionel Pouliot at (306) 458-2583 or fax resume to (306) 458-2586 Carson Welding & Maintenance Ltd. Halbrite, Saskatchewan

HELP WANTED

Cecil at (306) 421-7878; Rick at (204) 724-7719

or send resume to: rperreau@mts.net Retired or semi-retired individuals are welcome

Join our team!!

TRUCK DRIVER WANTED

Welding & Maintenance Ltd.

Due to expanding business we are currently seeking

Technicians

to fill two full time positions.

Benefits available.

Wage to commensurate with experience.

Interested individuals can drop off resumes at:

Truck Drivers • 1A licence • Resume & driver's abstract required • Competitive wages • Loader experience an asset Mail, fax or drop off resume to:

PETERSON

CONSTRUCTION LTD. 314 - 6th Street, Estevan, SK S4A 1A3 Phone:634-2741; Fax: 634-4643 Cell: (Sam Peterson) 421-1168

89 Escana Street, Estevan

Fax: 637-2124 or Email: curt.mcwilliams@customtruck.ca

VIKING

SURPLUS OILFIELD EQUIPMENT LTD.

Is looking to Àll the following positions:

Mechanics • Must have mechanical experience and be motivated to learn.

• Responsible for rebuilding pump jacks and engines.

Welders • Pressure ticket is an asset.

• Experience in oilÀeld and ability to operate forklift an asset.

Machinists: • Must be familiar with general machining duties.

• Must have API Threading experience.

H2S, First Aid and ConÀned Space an asset but not necessary. Wages for all positions are negotiable and beneÀts are available. Sleeping accommodations are $200.00 per month. Signing bonus offered.

Please Submit Resume to: Box 1460, Estevan, SK S4A 2L7 Or fax to:(306) 634-8742 or e-mail to vikingsurplus@sasktel.net

CSC is an Estevan based Oilfield Construction Company looking for the following positions.

TRICAN WELL SERVICE LTD. is one of Canada's fastest growing well service companies, providing a comprehensive array of specialized products, equipment and services utilized in drilling, completion, stimulation and reworking of oil and gas wells in theCanadian and International marketplace. At Trican, we base our recruitment practices on the belief that a company's greatest asset is its people.

Trican provides services in Fracturing, Cementing, Acidizing, Coiled Tubing, Nitrogen and relalted services in our field bases ranging from Fort Nelson, BC to Estevan, Saskatchewan.

WE ARE CURRENTLY HIRING FOR ALL LOCATIONS: • HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC (Journeyman) • CEMENT SUPERVISORS • CEMENT OPERATORS • FRACTURING SUPERVISORS • FRACTURING EQUIPMENT OPERATORS (for pumpers, data van, blender, crew cab, bulk sand) A valid Class 1 or Class 3A license is required as well as prior experience in the above pressure pumping operations. Will also consider Class 5.

Trican offers a dynamic work environment and a competitive salary and benefit package. Please apply in person to any of Trican's field bases or forward your resume and references, in confidence to:

Trican Well Service Ltd. Box 849 Estevan, SK S4A 2A7 Fax: (306) 637-2065 • Email: vscott@trican.ca

Experienced Crew Foremen Required Immediately Full time permanent Foreman Responsibilities include: • Production Vessel Servicing • Battery Constructions • General Oilfield Construction & Maintenance • Ability to trouble shoot different situations $26 - $30+ /hour d.o.e.

Guaranteed Overtime

Crew Labourer Required Immediately Safety tickets an assett $16-$20 /hour d.o.e.

Guaranteed Overtime

Forward resumes to: Cheyenne Sernick Construction Ltd. 300 Abbott Bay, Estevan, SK S4A 2X2 Fax: 306-634-8322 E-mail: csc616@gmail.com Phone: 306-421-5150

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PIPELINE NEWS June 2008

Career Opportunities DRIVERS WANTED

RJ HOFFMAN HOLDINGS is accepting applications for

CLASS 1A & 3A DRIVERS

Vac & Pressure Truck Drivers needed for Lloydminster and Elk Point area.

Class 1A & 3A. Please send driver’s abstract and resumé to:

Fax: (780) 724-2211 E-mail: rockypine@telus.net or Phone (780) 724-2625

Based out of St. Walburg, SK or Lloydminster Vacuum, pressure, flush by and steamer positions available.

Will train drivers with clean abstracts.

We pay overtime and provide benefits.

7 on 7 off, or 7-3-7-4 schedules available. Maximum 14 hr. days.

Fax resumés with references and driver’s abstract to Gerald at (780) 871-0782 or e-mail: employment@rjhoffman.com

Experienced MIG Welders

MUST: • Have Valid Drivers License & Be A Team Player • Safety Tickets • Picker & Bobcat Experience An Asset C’s OFFERS: • Top Wages • Benefits Package • Performance Bonuses • Scheduled Days Off • Opportunity For Advancement • C.O.R. Safety Program • AB & SK B31.3 Q.C. • Premium Equipment

G.L.M.

FULL-TIME PRODUCTION WORK

SANDBLASTERS & PAINTERS

in their North Battleford Facility.

INDUSTRIES L.P.

Crew Foreman

G.L.M. Industries is now accepting applications for SANDBLASTERS & PAINTERS G.L.M. offers full time employment, competetive wages and full benefits.

Experience preferred, but not required.

DUTIES: • Daily Operation Of A Light Picker Truck • Pipe-fitting & Construction

CONSULTING & CONSTRUCTION

is looking for

for

Experienced FOR LLOYDMINSTER AREA

OILFIELD SERVICE LTD.

MIFAB Manufacturing Inc.

Apply in confidence to: Fax (780) 808-2273

Please send resumé or apply to G.L.M. Industries in confidence to: Mr. Dean Hartman P.O. Box 1229, 14th Street and 5th Ave. Battleford, Saskatchewan, S0M 0E0 Fax No. (306) 937-7788

Progressive Oilfield Company looking for

Semi Vac Operators Scheduled days off.

Health Benefits.

Please fax resumé & abstract

to (780) 808-6393

Help Wanted For a Rapidly Growing Oilfield company in Provost, AB

• Winch Truck Operators • Picker Operators • Swampers • Dispatcher Top wages and bonuses with a comprehensive Benefits Package

Apprenticeship program, competitive wages and benefits package available.

Drop resumé off at 101 Canola Avenue North Battleford Attention Edan or Richard.

Only suitable applicants will be contacted.

No phone calls please.

EXCELLENT GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES If you would like to become a member of a fast-growing oil and gas service company, we would like to hear from you. Based in Alberta, RECON Petrotechnologies Ltd. provides open-hole logging services by using the most advanced technologies. We understand that our people make the difference and are dedicated to providing growth opportunities to our employees. Driven by our natural entrepreneurial culture and ‘can do’ attitude, we welcome like-minded individuals to our progressive team in Lloydminster.

FIELD OPERATORS – LLOYDMINSTER & GRANDE PRAIRIE Responsibilities: Functional operation of the open hole logging unit Driving to and from the job site Assembly maintenance and disassembly of the electronic down hole tools in the field.

Requirements: Clean Class 3 driver’s permit Air Endorsement Oilfield related safety tickets would be considered an asset RECON’s commitment to the health, safety and wellness of our employees requires the following oilfield safety tickets: H2S Alive Standard First Aid / CPR C WHMIS TDG Radiation Safety Training We are willing to train individuals who do not hold these credentials.

ENGINEER IN CHARGE (EIC) - LLOYDMINSTER This career advancing opportunity is available to an Open-Hole field Engineer with 3 or more years experience in the open hole well logging industry. If you possess; Strong abilities to manage people and logistics Personal initiative Self-determination The ability to lead and motivate others A clean Class 5 driver’s license WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!!

Send resumé to: Box 1080, Provost, AB T0B 3S0 Fax to Ron at 780-753-4860 or E-mail: rchopek@leachmanenterprises.com www.buildersenergy.com

Please forward resume with current driver’s abstract and any related oilfield safety tickets to: Attn: Carolynn Halladay Fax: 780-440-6207 Email: challaday@reconpetro.com

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