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$36.2 million to Southeast infrastructure Redvers - Wayne Elhard, Highways and Infrastructure Minister of Saskatchewan, updated audiences in Redvers and Estevan on September 11th regarding the $36.2 million highway construction happening in their area.

“Southeast Saskatchewan is one of the most vigorous economic regions in our province, with one of the hottest oil plays in North America , the Bakken formation, drawing record shattering investment to the region,” Elhard said.

Sask. #1 in employment growth rate Regina - In one year the number of people working in Saskatchewan jumped by 15,100, statistics were measured from August 2007 to August 2008.

The increase of 3 per cent is the highest growth rate in Canada according to Statistics Canada.

“Our government is committed to improving the quality of life for Saskatchewan people,” said Minster of Enterprise and Innovation Lyle Stewart.

He also noted that 11,200 of the 15,100 (almost three quarters) of the new workers were women.

Brian Zinchuk Pipeline News Lloydminster – “We seem to be running out of light oil,” Pat Carlson of Seven Generations Energy said during his keynote address to the Lloydminster Heavy Oil Show on Sept. 9.

That poses a lot of questions for Carlson, who has started four energy companies.

There will still be electricity to plug in the shaver, but the big issue is going to be providing fuel for vehicles. Light oil supplies in the western industrialized countries has been in decline for 20 years, he said.

This means more and more reliance on areas of the world that are potentially unreliable, Carlson noted, a not-so-veiled reference to the Middle East.

India and China continue to grow, Carlson added, referring to increased demand.

As a result, Carlson said there is at least a risk of running short on refinery feedstock.

On climate change, Carlson said, “In 10,000 years, we haven’t seen an abrupt change in sea level or temperature.”

But there is a risk of climate change, he noted, and its consequences could be very severe. “Already in the last century we’ve had wars where oil was a key contributor.”

Carlson said it is important to be humble about oil wealth, because it can lead to resentment from those who do not have it. That resentment, for instance, led to the National Energy Program, and in turn, western alienation and political movements.

Who should Saskatchewan and Alberta look to to solve the problem?

“Why would we in this room look to anyone else for a solution?”

“The solutions must present an economic reward to the solver. There has to be an economic driver.”

Governments tend to tax productivity,

he said. Instead they should transition to user-pay, putting a penalty on things we don’t like. Examples he gave include using water, emitting carbon dioxide and wasting energy.

“The people in this room would scramble to reduce that problem.”

Carlson pointed to one company that has 400 years of reserves at current production levels. He questioned why that is allowed, saying it doesn’t make any sense. “Saskatchewan is good at ‘produce it or lose it,’” he said.

“Develop it or we’re going to sell it to Pat Carlson at Seven Generations,” he said to laughter.

Carlson spoke of the development of cold production of heavy oil, saying it was a whole team of companies working on one or two aspects of a bigger problem.

That approach could be taken on other problems, such as converting gas to liquids, or coal to liquids, he suggested. “We still have vast coal reserves.”

Getting back to transportation, he noted the problem with gaseous fuels is you can’t carry a lot of it in a vehicle.

Carlson spoke of making biological products into a biosynthetic fuel. But he decried U.S. efforts to use corn to produce ethanol. They are depleting aquifers to water the corn, he noted. “What about wheat straw, or newsprint?”

Could they be gasified with coke? Then one could sequester a fairly pure stream of carbon dioxide, becoming a net CO2 sequesteror.

Using process steam to generate electricity was another option.

Carlson said these challenges are “very much in line with our skill set.”

Saskatchewan rig activity over 100 ¿rst time since 1997 Calgary - For the first time since 1997, the week of September 15 saw Saskatchewan with more than 100 drilling rigs at work and 65 of the 107 active rigs are in the southeast corner of the province where companies are exploiting the Bakken formation.

The most active operators in the province this week are Husky Energy Inc. and Petrobank Energy And Resources Ltd., each with 10 rigs on the go. Crescent Point Energy Trust is employing five rigs while TriStar Oil & Gas Ltd. and Shelter Bay Energy Inc. each have four rigs at work.

The strong week saw a total of 474 rigs at work across Canada representing a 56% utilization for the 839 rigs available.

The founder of several startup energy companies, Pat Carlson of Seven Generations Energy tells the Lloydminster Heavy Oil Show about the need to innovate and address carbon dioxide emissions.

Photo by Brian Zinchuk

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New facility proposed for Belle Plaine Plant represents $4 billion project

By Stephan Burnett Pipeline News Belle Plain – TransCanada is planning a huge new project near Belle Plaine.

The $4 billion project will utilize a by-product from heavy oil projects in Alberta to produce hydrogen, steam, CO2 and electricity.

TransCanada has recently completed a feasibility review of the facility, which will use petroleum coke to generate the energy products.

“The facility would generate approximately 300 megawatts of clean electricity for Saskatchewan, enough to power approximately 300,000 homes. As the proposed facility is adjacent to two large, existing industrial fertilizer operations, they will use the hydrogen, steam and carbon dioxide for their operations. Additional carbon dioxide would be sent to nearby oil fields and injected deep underground for enhanced oil recovery. This process enables previously unrecoverable oil resources to be produced, while the carbon dioxide is permanently stored,” states the company website.

While the project is subject to both internal and external approvals, stakeholder consultation is ongoing along with environmental assessment. In April of this year a project description was submitted to Saskatchewan Environment and engineering for the project is expected to take place between 2008 and late 2009.

“It’s a complicated project with some new technologies,” said John Jenkins, project manager with the Belle Plaine Polygenerational Project.

Jenkins added the project will be a first of its kind in Canada and a unique opportunity to produce clean electricity to support local business and supply a significant economic boost to the region.

The plant will be located close to two fertilizer

operations, Saskferco and Mosaic, these companies will use the hydrogen, steam and carbon dioxide for their operations. Additional CO2 is expected to be piped into nearby oilfields to allow for enhanced oil recovery projects.

“Construction on the project itself is expected to commence in 2010 with the current estimates requiring a four-year construction period with 2,500 people on site during the construction phase. Once it’s up and running we’ll be employing 150 highly-skilled employees,” said Jenkins.

The project requires some dollar component for the CO2 capture aspect of the plan and both the federal and provincial governments are looking at their environmental regulations to ascertain how to best address such a facility.

At this point however, TransCanada has not made a final decision on whether the project will move forward.

“The information we have today will be evaluated and will form the basis for a key decision to be made over the next three to four months,” said Jenkins.

“Certainly our view is that this is a very important project for TransCanada and Saskatchewan. We are very keen on the project going forward but there are escalating capital costs which impact on many projects and we have to make sure it make sense from an economic perspective. At each key decision point we have to look at it very carefully,” he said.

How the process works TransCanada’s information stipulates: “Petroleum coke, an abundant byproduct of the heavy oil upgrading process, will arrive by rail from Alberta. The fuel is then fed by conveyor into the gasifiers where it is heated to a high temperature under pressure, allowing it to be converted into gas. The resulting gas is then combined with steam to become synthesis gas – or syngas – containing primarily CO2 and hydrogen. A clean-up process then isolates substances such as sulfur for reuse or disposal. The syngas then goes on to be split into its two component gasses: hydrogen and carbon dioxide. The majority of the hydrogen will be used to power a co-generational power plant. The remainder of the hydrogen will be sent to Saskferco for use in their fertilizer manufacturing process. Steam generated in the power plant will be sent to Mosaic for use in their fertilizer production operations. Some of the CO2 will be sent to Saskferco while a majority of it will be compressed and sent to nearby oilfields and injected deep underground to provide an enhanced oil recovery.”

The facility would generate approximately 300 megawatts of clean electricity for Saskatchewan, enough to power approximately 300,000 homes

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Sask. sets economic pace Regina - At the front of the Canadian economy, you will see Saskatchewan is moving full steam ahead. The continuous growth is leading to higher wages and more job opportunities.

“Higher pay and a wide range of job choices are signals of a robust economy Saskatchewan people are enjoying benefits of this sustained growth,” said Finance Minister Rod Gantefoer.

The average employee in Saskatchewan for June 2008 earned $752.72 per week. That is up 0.4 per cent from the previous month according to Statistics Canada. Over the year the increase has been 3.7 per cent which is higher than the national average of 2.5 per cent.

“New West” on the rise Lloydminster - Energy, environment, trade, health care and education were topics of discussion at the inaugural Saskatchewan-Alberta cabinet meeting held September 9 in Canada’s border city, Lloydminster.

A signing of protocol co-operation by Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall and Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach concluded the meeting. The protocol commits their governments to working more closely together.

“Saskatchewan and Alberta will continue to take our own unique paths,” said Wall. “Still, there are great opportunities to cooperate – to the benefit of our respective citizens, to the benefit of the New West.”

Minister Norris in Ottawa advocating collabration on immigration Regina – On September 4th and 5th Rob Norris, minister responsible for immigration was in Ottawa advocating Canada needs more collaboration with immigration.

“We need to increase the number of immigrants coming to Canada in order to meet labour market demands and support our regional and national economies,” said Norris. “When it comes to attracting skilled immigrants, we’re competing internationally. To be competitive, we need to work collaboratively on improving efficiency and effectiveness.”

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Reversal of fortune Not too long ago, the standing joke was young people were Saskatchewan’s biggest export. It was eerily similar to what we’ve watched in countless “B” movies.

Picture this: SCENE: A western farm on the windblown plains of Saskatchewan, tumbleweeds blowing in the fields, chickens pecking at grasshoppers in the front yard of a small house desperately needing a coat of paint. A young man stands before his family with twine-tied suitcase in hand, looking at this family in the doorway of the house.

FATHER: “Are you sure you want to do this?

Calgary is a long ways away.”

SON: “There are lots of jobs, dad. I can make more in two months than I can here on the farm in a whole year.”

MOTHER (dabbing her eyes with the corner of her apron): “Always wear clean underwear. You never want to embarrass yourself in an emergency.”

SISTER (grinning): “I get your room!”

FATHER: “You know Tommy Douglas wants you to stay. He wants everyone to stay.”

SON: “Dad, Mr. Douglas can’t promise me money, fun, excitement and a happy life. When I save enough money I can buy a car and cruise up and down Deerfoot all night. Find a girl, have a life. Oil can do that for me!”

FATHER (solemnly): “Do us proud, boy…”

While this is tongue-in-cheek, the exodus of Saskatchewan’s best resource has been going on for more than a generation. Workers from Saskatchewan have been prized by Alberta and British Columbia. The work ethic and grounded personalities of Saskatchewan-raised young people are legendary. You can’t go anywhere in the two provinces without finding some connection to Saskatchewan.

But there maybe a changing of the guard.

For the first time, statistics indicate a reversal of trend. The province’s population is beginning to grow again. The traits so sought after in our people can now be put to work for the home province.

Which puts the onus on business, government and community to provide jobs, services, infrastructure and recreation for a growing young population.

Welcome back.

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Opinion NDP targets oilsands before Sask gets its foot in the door It was early in the federal election campaign, but one of the biggest targets has already had a bullseye painted on it. Federal NDP Leader Jack Layton flew over the Alberta oilsands and said there should be no more new oilsands projects.

The following week, gasoline prices spiked due to Hurricane Ike hitting the refining complexes of Texas.

Layton then complains about the high price of gasoline.

That week, NDP run attack ads lambasting oilsands development, but complains of high gas prices.

Umm, where do you think the gasoline comes from?

All of this makes it pretty hard to square the NDP’s energy/environment circle. Which is it? Do we cut off development of the one sure thing in the Canadian oil patch? There’s bitumen there, and lots of it? If so, it means instead of exporting petroleum, Canada could end up some day importing it. I wonder what gasoline prices would do then?

This is particularly disconcerting from a Saskatchewan perspective. That’s because we still have not exploited our oilsands bounty. Oilsands Quest has been plugging away, exploring and running pilots. However, there is still a long way from La Loche becoming Fort McMurray part deux.

That doesn’t mean it can’t happen. Fort McMurray 40 years ago was not much to speak of. Now there’s talk of it hitting the 250,000 population mark in years to come. This means there’s a lot of potential for Northern Saskatchewan – thousands of jobs for people who currently have little to no opportunity. Instead of being Saskatchewan’s little thought of Third-World ghetto, Northern Saskatchewan could hit the jackpot over the next few years.

But none of that will happen if you end all future development of the oilsands.

Alberta will continue to cash in on what has been built, and what has been already

approved. (Layton told CBC radio there wasn’t much that could be done to stop projects already approved.)

As for Saskatchewan, oh well, I guess we would have missed the boat.

Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach pointed over his shoulder during his speech to the Lloydminster Heavy Oil Show opening banquet on Sept. 10. All those trucks in the parking lot, where do you think Brian Zinchuk they were made, he asked. Ontario, he says, answering his own question.

It’s funny how we keep hearing about people from Ontario wanting to shut down the oilsands. Where do they think the Canadian economy would be now without the oilsands? Would we be running surplus budgets nationally? Would Newfies be sending big fat paychecks home each month? Where does the steel for all these projects come from? As Stelmach pointed out, where do you think all the four-by-fours servicing the oilpatch were built?

The reality is, of course, there will not be a moratorium on oilsands development. It will never happen. There is too much at stake, too big of an impact on our economy. The money at play there is well over the entire budget of most provinces.

The oilsands are Canada’s golden goose, and will keep this country in the black for decades to come.

Jack Layton didn’t fly over the Saskatchewan oilsands to make a political point. If he had his way, there never would be any development to fly over.

One last question: Where did the fuel for Layton’s plane come from? Maybe he should have walked.

From the top of the pile

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

What a time for business What a time for politics Well, it's election time both here and south of the border. What a time for politics and what a time for business.

“Things are going great and they're only getting better,” as the old song goes.

Election times are great times for leverage. It's during these periods that business people can offer up some ideas along with their support and maybe even see some of these ideas come through to fruition.

Now would be a great time for oil and gas executives and small business owners to press the feds to see if Canadian operators can gain more access to markets in the United States.

I know that everyone over in Estevan is run off their feet with the Bakken Play, but wouldn't it be nice if operating across the border was as easy as say, the difference between doing a job in Swift Current or doing a job in Weyburn?

As far as the Canadian election goes I believe Stephen Harper's Conservatives are going to take it again. The real guessing game is whether Harper will get his majority. My guess is that he will fall short of majority but if he does get the majority he wants, it will be so thin he'll have to be a little more receptive to his friends and fellow MP's if he wants to keep it.

This is good news for Saskatchewan's oil and gas industry. There will be a business friendly premier in Regina and a business friendly prime minister in Ottawa.

The question is what can they do to improve

the oil and gas sector in Canada? Well, like I said, easier access to the American market would top my list. By saying this I'm not thinking of the Top Dogs in Calgary or Houston, I'm thinking of the small to medium sized businesses of Saskatchewan's oil and gas industry.

Afterall, as I've learned over the past few months, the industry in Swift Current isn't the same as the industry in Estevan. I've learned there are still some companies in the Swift Current region that could be a little busier. What could help them more than providing easier access for small business into nearby regions – simply on the other side of the border?

As for Prime Minister Harper? Well, we all know he's a free trader, but I would like to see him put his thinking cap on and devise a way in which small to medium sized businesses in the oil and gas industry (or any industry for that matter) could gain a greater benefit from free trade. As far as I know, the current free trade pact we have with the States is mostly beneficial to larger companies. In 10 years of reporting on the oil and gas industry I haven't yet written the story about a medium sized, Saskatchewan-owned oil and gas servicing company that is doing significant business across the border.

Fellahs, if I'm wrong, please let me know!

I want to see small and medium sized Saskatchewan-born and Saskatchewan-based oil and gas businesses doing work on both sides of the border.

Is that too much to ask? Can't the free trade pact be designed with the small to medium sized business

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owner in mind?

And what about politics south of the border you ask? Well, they're in an election too and as far as I'm concerned Canada is in a win-win situation.

If McCain wins, we know he's a free trader and we can push our government to make trade deals that are more relevant to small and medium sized businesses.

If Obama wins, some Democrats are saying the free trade deal will be renegotiated. Bring it on!

Let's make it better and more applicable to small and medium sized businesses!

Small and medium sized businesses are the lifeblood for both this country and for our neighbours south of the border. Why is it then that our trade pacts only seem to benefit the Top Dogs in either Calgary or Houston?

As another old song goes: “Put me in coach, I'm ready to play ... today.”

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Oil Chat with Bruce Penton

Bruce Penton, associate-editor with the Medicine Hat Daily News and syndicated columnist will be contributing a Q&A with inÁuential Canadian Petroleum personnel each month for Pipeline News.

PennWest Energy CEO Bill Andrew will bring quite a bit of value in the future. It’s got more short-term impact. If the price of gas is down relative to oil, you tend to do your development in oil.

Pipeline News: According to the Internet, you were quoted as saying that "Our Peace River oilsands project has the potential, we feel, to redefine our business.” Do you have an update?

Bill Andrew: Peace River’s our main heavy oil project. New development, new exploration. It’s located fairly close, within an hour, of the town of Peace River.

It’s a series of oil sands leases we’ve acquired over the past four or five years, about 300,000 acres. And we’re still learning and finding out about the area. We’re producing a little over 3,000 barrels right now of heavy oil. It’s about 10 API oil. We believe the area’s got tremendous potential and ultimately with thermal technology and with cyclical steam injection. Shell has been in the area since the late ‘60s, early 70s and there are a couple of other companies in the area as well.

PN: So you’re very optimistic.?

BA: Yes. We’ve put a lot of focus on exploration.

We’ve got a very large block of land. The access to the play right now is primarily winter only . . . even though you’ve got a 15-year lease on the oil sands acreage, really you can divide that by about three, because you can only get in there four months of a year. So we’re going as hard as we can and we’ll let the development follow. We’ve got an application in, waiting for approval, but we’re planning to get a cyclical steam pilot started this winter and that’ll help us out as well.

PN: How does the fluctuation in the price of oil affect your business?

BA: As in any business, it affects the amount of cash we have available to do things. We are an energy trust so we have distrubtions for the shareholders, so it can crimp the amount of cash you can spend on exploration and basically doing your business. You try not to let it impact too much of your exploration because one day the price will go down and the next day it will go up. Anybody who’s been in the business for a while knows it’s very cyclical in nature. We watch it and make short-term decisions . . . but we always try to keep some long-term focus on areas that

PN: Your company has interests all over Western Canada and in a couple of spots in northern U.S. What area offers the most promise in the next few years?

BA: We’re very excited about a lot of areas. Our range extends from the Virden area in Manitoba and into the Northwest Territories. I’ll put it into play type.

The first play type is light oil. We’ve got a good inventory of light oil properties in southeast Saskatchewan, through the corridor of Central Alberta from Pembina all the way up through Mitsue, Virginia Hills, Swan Hills. We continue to look at pressure maintenance through water flux, in-fill drilling, the use of horizontal technology and ultimately C02 flooring enhance recovery.

The second area is is non-conventional gas. CBM, shale gas, tight gas. And we’re pursuing that primarily in Alberta and British Columbia. More into the shale gas in B.C. The third area is heavy oil and not only where we have oil sands leases, but the whole area straddling the Alberta/Saskatchewan border, from Lloydminster down to Leader in Saskatchewan and the Oyen area. We’ve got well over a million acres there. We’re doing a lot of work with in-fill drilling, horizontal drilling, pressure maintenance. Ultimately where we’ll go there is enhanced recovery using polymers or using steam. That’s something that will come.

The fourth thing we’re doing is what I call the wild and crazy stuff. We’re taking the new multi-frac technology and trying to expand in as many areas as we can.

PN: How many employees do you have?

BA: We have about 1,900. The company has been around for about 30 years but in our current incarnation — since 1992, when we started with about a half a dozen employees — we’ve been growing steadily.

PN: How happy have the people owning your income trusts been lately?

BA: They weren’t very happy on Halloween of 2006.

The date that people have to convert (income trusts) is at the end of 2010 and a lot of people see that as sort of a wall, so we haven’t seen the movement in trust stocks with the high price of oil that we’ve seen with other energy stocks. And now with the markets going to hell in a handbasket in the last week, everything’s coming off. There is some concern. All we can do . . . we’ve been running the company for a long time and we have to just keep doing what we do best — exploring and developing.

PN: To what degree have you forgiven and forgotten the Harper government?

BA: You can’t. There’s too much money involved. Our stock was trading in the mid-$40s before Halloween of 2006 and that’s where we would be trading now, based on what’s happening with the other companies. They all had their rise and have come down sharply but they’re still at the level where they were in mid-2006. We find

ourselves $20 below that level and that’s been the impact.

PN: Can you estimate how much money has been lost?

BA: Sure. On our particular stock, it’s probably $10 billion.

PN: But you have to vote Conservative in the next election, don’t you? What do you do? Vote NDP? BA: It’s very difficult. I’m certainly not voting NDP. The Conservatives have stuck their nose where they shouldn't have stuck their nose. I’m certainly conservative by nature. It’s difficult when they rub it in your eye like that.

PN: I’m assuming you didn't start in the oil and gas industry as a CEO. How did you get your start in the business?

BA: I started in 1974 as a summer student with Shell and then started as a young engineer in ‘75 with Gulf, then worked for some of the international companies, Shell and Occidental.

PN: In Calgary or all around the world?

BA: In Calgary, but we had operations around the world. Then I was with a company . . . that had operations mostly around Medicine Hat. We developed the Hatton Block in southeast Saskatchewan. Then a little bit of time with a private company and then Penn West, for 16 years.

PN: Where did you grow up and how would you describe your childhood?

BA: I grew up as an Air Force brat. My father’s originally from Prince Edward Island. I grew up all over Canada and in Europe and in the States. My brother and my Mom, we followed him for quite a while and then my dad retired in Prince Edward Island. I took high school and some university in P.E.I. and finished university in Halifax.

PN: So if you had to describe it, you’d be an Easterner?

BA: I consider myself a Westerner. I’ve spent more time here than anywhere else.

PN: Most CEOs love working and some border on the edge of workaholism. Does that describe your situation?

BA: No. I try to have a balance. And I try to bring that to the employees, too. You have to have good people around you and let them do their thing and give them freedom to do their thing.

PN: If you weren’t in the oil and gas industry, what might you be doing?

BA: I probably would have followed my mother and been a teacher. My grandmother wanted me to be a minister, but I didn't quite end up with that.

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One on one with Bill Andrew Éş Page A6 PN: Do you go through university in the world of ďŹ nance?

BA: No, engineering. I’m a mining engineer by training.

PN: Going back to the election, what kind of an impact would the Liberals Green Shift have on Canada?

BA: It’s hard, because it’s so radical. You’ve got to pick your spots, pick your time. I’m all for reduction of pollutants and a better environment and better working conditions, but you’ve gotta take it slow and steady and when you’ve got the economy ďŹ ring on all cyclinders, you can devote extra time, extra energy to it. But I don’t know if it’s the greatest time now for a bunch of new technology and new ideas.

PN: Describe to me one of the most thrilling moments as CEO of Penn West.

BA: I guess seeing the company evolve, but probably the listing of our company on the New York Stock Exchange. That was a pretty big day.

PN: What kind of things do you do in your free time?

BA: I have a bad habit and that’s horses. I breed and raise horses.

PN: What’s your specialty?

BA: Anything. I cook the Christmas dinner and Thanksgiving and things like that. I get that from my grandmother. She ran an inn in Prince Edward Island with a big kitchen.

PN: In your lifetime, who is the best prime minister Canada has had?

BA: In my lifetime? Worst prime minister for the oil patch, but the best prime minister for Canada, probably Trudeau. One thing about Trudeau, he’d stand up for the country. But we didn’t like him too much out here.

PN: Have you been to Estevan?

BA: I certainly have.

PN: Where’s your favourite spot to eat?

BA: Most of the times I’m in and out, so I don’t really have a spot to eat in Estevan. What would you suggest?

Usually we have a doughnut or a sandwich and we’re gone. We’re not much for fancy dining.

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Busy as busy coring

By Brian Zinchuk

(left to right) : PDC (polycrystaline diamond cutter) designed by SEBCO with a matrix body, a red bed core sample from approximately 1000 meters, anhydrate core sample from aproximitely 1200 meters, and standard PDC bit.

As it bites into the rock, the inner tube of the device swallows up the core sample. A shoe and catcher Estevan – There are plenty of ways to get a good assembly retains the core as the rig trips out with the idea of what is underground, but if you really want to sample. That means each 18 m core sample requires a trip in and a trip out. As such, “They drill as close know what you’re dealing with, you need to core.

More than a few people are doing just that, keep- as they can, usually within two to seven metres of the ing Estevan’s Sebco Coring Ltd hopping. “Our little top of the pay zone,” Mahoney explains.

When the core comes out of the hole, it is laid lab is busy as busy,” according to Shaun Mahoney, out in core boxes. The boxes are then taken into an owner.

The six-person coring operation is going full on-site trailer where they are viewed under black tilt. While about 75 per cent of their work is in the light, the sort of thing you would find in a disco. Oil Bakken play, their diversified operation also has two fluoresces under black light, Mahoney explains. More extensive work is done at the core lab in Estevan. crews searching for potash.

Oil and mining companies like it, Mahoney says, Whether they are seeing fertilizer, oil or gas, the job is the same, according to Mahoney. “The coring “because we can lay this rock down and they can pick operation is identical no matter what rock we cut,” it up in their hand. They are holding a sample of what it is.” he notes.

Tests can be performed for porosity, permeabilThe operation is done with a drilling rig, but Sebco does not own or operate any of its own. Rather, ity, mineral content and quality of oil, among other things. Then there’s the old-school tongue test. “Some they wrok with other firms.

For oil and gas, they typically core only near and of the older geologist would taste it to see how salty through the suspected pay zone. But for mining op- it is,” Mahoney says with a little bit of squeamishness erations, the company typically wants cores from top in his voice. That could be for potash, but also for salt water content in an oil zone. to bottom.

“It’s a very unique operation, and very worth the “We have a complete sample of mineral formamoney; an intricate part of the exploration phase,” tion in stratagraphical order,” Mahoney explains. “We continuously core as much as necessary. Some are Mahoney says.

Coring is typically done for the initial hopeful only a few metres thick, some are 100 metres thick.”

The cores are done in 18 m lengths, with a diam- strike, and then “You would go looking for the edge,” eter of 86 mm (3-3/8 in.). The core is cut by a coring according to Mahoney, trying to determine how far tool tipped with a polycrystalline diamond cutter bit. the deposit extends. ɸ Page A9 “It looks like a big ring with teeth on it,” he says.

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Coring - a busy business ɺ Page A8 As for the hot Bakken play, they’re still looking for that edge. “It’s a very huge play into the western edge of Manitoba and over to Radville,” he says. The play runs in southwest to northeast strips, Mahoney describes, essentially perpendicular to the pattern of highways laid out in the area. The land sales to develop the Bakken means a lot of work for Sebco.

“Oh my god, it’s nuts,” Mahoney says of the land sales.

“It means a more stable income, a lot longer sustained work. We’re liable to be a lot more steady,” he says. The downside is trying to find the staff and infrastructure to handle the volume, he notes.

“We’re part of the puzzle. Each piece has its own specific spot that it fits and makes up the whole picture.”

SEBCO allowed Pipeline News to see their own bit design. This special PDC’s (polycrystaline diamond cutter) shape was designed by SEBCO, however the combination of metals used by the manufacturer to create this design remain a secret to all.

Dirt division growing with Bakken action Weyburn – The increased action in the Bakken play has Jerry Mainil Ltd – a diversified Weyburn operation – turning down more work than they can handle.

“The work is unlimited. The growth is there if you can find bodies to put on the seat,” says Dennis Mainil, who runs the show.

About 100 people work for Jerry Mainil Ltd, with an increasing fraction in the dirt division. They are currently running a fleet of around 35 dozers, scrapers, graders and excavators. Forty to 50 men work in the dirt division, but Mainil says it’s, “not enough.”

Much of that work is in lease building and excavating.

“We’ve been to the Philippines trying to hire people,” he notes, adding they have advertised from B.C. to Ontario. “All the good people are working.

There’s just nobody.”

The extra work has been noticeable around Weyburn, Mainil says, noting trucks he’s never seen before. “Weyburn’s got a rush hour now,” he tells people who often don’t believe him. “What do you mean – there’s only seven street lights in town,” he is told. Mainil replies, “Try to move at 5 o’clock.”

Besides their dirt division, Mainil has welding crews, pickers, bed trucks, pipeline and

steamer wash truck operations. Their welding shop includes five pressure welders and several fabrication welders. They work primarily on custom jobs like header piping. We’re more of a custom shop in that regard,” Dennis says.

It’s been necessary to stay diverse, he notes.

“Estevan is the hub.

We’re on the spoke. On the fringe area, we had to diversify to survive.

We’ve got a little bit of everything. It’s kept us alive.”

When it’s slow in the winter, for instance, dozer operators might be put on steamers, keeping busy. It’s a work ethic instilled by Mainil’s dad, Jerry Mainil, after whom the company is named.

“Dad is 73, and I’m hard pressed to keep up with him.”

Jerry Mainil Ltd. is a family operation. Dennis heads it up, along with his brother Dale and brother-in-law Calvin Tracey.

Calvin handles the dirt division. Dale Mainil’s

prime responsibility is running the family farm, a mammoth 16,000 acre operation.

So while Dennis runs the oilfield operation and helps with the farm, Dale helps with the oilfield operation and runs the farm.

In the meantime, Jerry Mainil spends his time with Caprice Resources, a small oil producer. He retired from Jerry Mainil Ltd. 14 years ago.

“I’ve offered him the job back, but he won’t take it,” Dennis says.

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Estevan addressing growth challenges Work starts on new industrial zone Estevan - Jim PuďŹ&#x20AC;alt city manager for the City of Estevan says the last industrial lot in Estevan has been sold and as a result a new industrial zone is on the blackboard. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We started working on the grounds three weeks ago and they'll be working on the underground portion as well,â&#x20AC;? said PuďŹ&#x20AC;alt.

The new industrial zone will feature 15 parcels of land from two to ďŹ ve acres in size. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Contractors are on site now with Turnball Construction leveling oďŹ&#x20AC; the ground and Panteluk installing both the water and sewer. Both are local companies,â&#x20AC;? says PuďŹ&#x20AC;alt.

Construction on the site is expected to continue until freeze up while paving while be completed next year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We haven't priced the lots yet but they'll certainly be within market value,â&#x20AC;? said PuďŹ&#x20AC;alt.

The development is just part of the overall development plan the City of Estevan is helping to put in place. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need to plan for the future. Estevan is booming, we're in the heart of the Bakken oil play and lots of companies are expanding,â&#x20AC;? says PuďŹ&#x20AC;alt, who has been working for the City for six and one-half years. PuďŹ&#x20AC;alt adds he's never seen busier times in Estevan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It's ďŹ&#x201A;at out,â&#x20AC;? he says.

A residential development is underway and three to ďŹ ve hotels are either in the planning stages or currently under construction. ɸ Page A11

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ɺ Page A10 “We're rising to the challenge and continue to do our own land developments and we're working closely with private developers. One developer in particular has purchased 120 acres for residential development which is close to 500 homes,” he says.

The city manager adds the retail sector in Estevan is also booming and adds one of the challenges of the current economy is that employers are having a very difficult time finding employees.

“At any one point in time we're seeing approximately 1,000 jobs in the region remaining open ... people are having difficulties getting workers and it's limiting the service retail sector. It's hard find a place to live when your making $10 to $15 but there is relief coming and developments are set to start as early as next spring,” said Puffalt.

The city manager adds everyone at City Hall recognizes that booms come and go yet there is a growing understanding within the region that rather than being a boom, Estevan and region is into a period of extended prosperity.

“We're hoping to grow in a reasonably fashion rather than go crazy, but we realize that being at the heart of the Bakken oil play, which is one of the largest oil plays in North America, and with oil at $80 to $100 a barrel there's no reason to suggest it will change any time soon.

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Blackdog drills Whitebear with improved ¿nances Carlyle – Blackdog Resources Ltd. scratched the ground on August 24 to start drilling its first light oil horizontal well on its jointly held Whitebear property near Carlyle.

This development well is targeting the prolific Souris Valley formation.

Blackdog has a 60 percent interest in this well with a private partner. The well is budgeted to cost approximately $1 million to drill, complete and equip with a net $600,000 cost to Blackdog.

Blackdog’s partner and operator of the well boasts significant recent success targeting the Souris Valley formation on adjacent lands.

The drilling is made possible by the completion of a non brokered private sale of 2,312,288 flow through common shares at $0.35 per share and 145,000 common shares at $0.30 per share for total gross proceeds of $884,550. The shares will be subject to a four month hold expiring on December 15, 2008.

Blackdog paid total commissions of $23,640 on the offering to accredited financial brokerage firms. No warrants or agent warrants were issued.

The proceeds of this offering will be used to participate in the drilling of horizontal wells in SE Saskatchewan, the drilling of an exploration well in Evi, Alberta and for other drilling opportunities in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.

Blackdog is a junior oil and gas company with producing assets in Alberta and Saskatchewan. The company currently has 13,958,449 common shares outstanding.

Blackdog starts its latest drilling program with an improved its balance sheet thanks to record operating cash flow in June of $90,000 net of all operating costs and royalties excluding general and administrative costs.

This is the highest monthly operating cash flow to date for Blackdog and rationalizes the company’s strategy to focus the majority of its resources on the acquisition, drilling and operation of light oil prospects.

The vast majority of the company’s monthly operating cash flow is immediately available to be reinvested in future drilling or acquisitions.

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Schlumberger gets e-line back into Bakken While Schlumberger moved its e-line operations into Estevan in the spring, the fraccing crews and directional drilling crews utilize the same ofďŹ ce. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The fraccing guys use our yard and they have up to 15 trucks they use and they have a lot of people and equipment. Most of there guys are staying in hotels and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sometimes running two crews.

The directional drilling guys have moved quite a bit of equipment into the region and have up to six rigs theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re working with now and they have three of the bays in the shop,â&#x20AC;? says Locken.

Its a rare site to see frac trucks in the yard at Schlumberger, most often all their equipment is in the Ă&#x20AC;eld. These tanks are Ă&#x20AC;lled with nitrogen.

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The operation is focusing on open hole right now while most of itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cased hole work is being done out of Brooks.

Schlumberger oďŹ&#x20AC;ers a 365 day a year, 24-7 service; any time a rig is ďŹ nished drilling and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s logging to be done, Schlumberger can help out, says Locken.

There are three main services Schlumberger is oďŹ&#x20AC;ering to the Estevan region: formation resistivity, porosity logging and sonic logging.

Formation resistivity sends a current into the formation and back to tools which provide the client with a good idea on the level of water and oil in the formation.

Porosity logging is performed with two radioactive sources and based on the counts received Schlumberger can determine the porosity of the formation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Almost everyone logs porosity and resistivity, 99 per cent of the time,â&#x20AC;? says Locken.

Sonic logging sends a sound wave into the formation and instruments record the time involved for the wave to bounce back to reception instruments.

Currently, Schlumberger is within the rebuilding stages in the Estevan region and on the look out for more work, says Locken.

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“We didn’t even have a truck back then,” Anderson says. They started with a shop, then added one truck, then another, “and it just went from there.”

“This is our fifth year in operation,” he adds.

Both Anderson and Krall had worked at another local shop before deciding to strike out on their own. A few welders working for them have struck out on their own eventually as well, a fact of life in the business.

Holding on to welders is important, because, as Anderson says, “It’s a rare commodity right now.”

A lot of their workforce is brought on young, and taught from the ground up.

Their workload is about a 60/40 split, with the majority being in town, and the rest site specific. Krall runs the shop, while Anderson runs one of the mobile trucks.

The shop is equipped with one of the two CNC plasma cutters in Estevan. “It goes pretty much every day,” Anderson says.

“Anything repetitious goes on there. It’s a time saver.”

That might include fire tube flanges or brackets.

“We’ve even done sign art on it.”

Quality is very important, Anderson notes.

“Everybody wants 100 per cent X-Ray on everything,” he says of quality assurance measures. “You gotta mind your P’s and Q’s.

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An aerial view of the Consumers Co-operative ReÀnery Limited. The Saskatchewan Environment Ministry has approved a $1.9 billion project for the expansion of the reÀnery.

Re¿nery to see $1.9 billion expansion Regina - The Saskatchewan Environment Ministry has approved a $1.9 billion project for the expansion of the Consumer’s Co-operative Refinery.

Refinery manager Bud Van Iderstine says the project met board approvals in January of this year and that the environmental approvals provided near mid-September were a big hurdle in the process.

Now the project has to meet approvals from the City of Regina, which is expected to come forward with their recommendation some time in October.

“We will increase capacity of fuels in the refinery from 100,000 barrels a day to 130,000 barrels a day

and as we mature we will be able to move it up to 145,000 barrels per day range,” said Iderstine.

The project is well into the engineering phase with 15 to 17 per cent of the engineering complete.

“We’ll start the early parts of earth moving in the next few months and then the civil and underground. … Heavy equipment will be moved in to the west side of property … and we’re beginning to order a lot of equipment,” said Van Iderstine.

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“There will be something like 3,000 person-years of engineering and construction will go into this project, with most of the engineering being done in Houston and Toronto,” he said.

“Once construction is complete we'll be adding about 100 permanent staff to the 650 permanent and temporary employees we have now. So we’ll end up with between 730 and 750 employees.”

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QWS holding the line on expansion

By Brian Zinchuk Estevan – “It’s a strong market right now,” says Michael Muir of Quality Wireline Services, but they are planning on staying at where they are for size. Expanding equipment would simply mean more headaches in finding staff.

“We’re what the industry calls a slickline,” Muir explains. “All of our stuff is mechanical.

We don’t use explosives or radioactive material.

We manipulate, evaluate and control the flow of fluid in the well.

“Typically we’re working in tubing,” he says.

Once a well has been logged and shot (by others), Quality will run pressure recorders and determine fluid levels and types, giving a baseline for bottom hole pressure.

That can mean running the recorder in and out, or leaving it in for longer periods as the well is

swabbed or flowed.

Quality can also set plugs for pressure testing of tubing, or to repair well heads. Sometimes they will use a mechanical perforator to cut into the tubing, if there are issues in pulling out the tubing. The perforation allows the oil to drain out of the tubing before it is brought to the surface.

Quality operates three wireline trucks and a picker. “We generally work under pressure,” Muir says, necessitating things like blow-out preventers and stuffing boxes. Everything is pressure-rated. “We control the pressure all the time, leaving the pressure on the well. That gives a more accurate downhole pressure.”

Quality usually

runs with eight staff, but when Pipeline News called in mid-September, they were down one.

That’s not unusual, with all the competition for staff coming from service rigs or even construction. “People are going for bigger bucks,

Muir notes. That’s why it makes little sense to consider adding more equipment. “It’s all we can do to keep enough people to run what we have.”

Most of his staff is young. “There are no real classes, no real courses you can take to teach you

to become a slickliner.”

As such, staff are taught from when they walk in the door.

While there’s a lot of talk about the Bakken, Muir says 75 per cent of their work is “the same old stuff I’ve been working on for 15 years.”

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Ironwolf and Redhead team up Lloydminster – Q. What’s big with ferocious teeth?

An Ironwolf.

Ironwolf is slashing its way into the Canadian slasher market, having recently hooked up with Redhead Equipment as its Saskatchewan dealer.

Cutting a swath 10-ft. wide, it can separate an A horizon soil from the B horizon. Slashing in this manner offers zero to minimal disturbance of the terrain, according to David Griffis, Cana-

dian sales manager for Ironwolf.

The carbide-tipped teeth can be used to cut asphalt or to chew up trees.

It works well in frozen ground, he notes.

The slasher can be mounted on a dozer, replacing the blade on the front while a power pack is mounted on the back. A Caterpillar D8 configured in this manner was on display at the Lloydminster Heavy Oil Show.

Ironwolf has begun manufactur-

ing purpose-built carriers in Canada at Woodstock, Ontario. From a dozer adaptation, it has evolved into a purposebuilt machine.

“We’ve engineered and designed a product we could have made in Oklahoma. We wanted to get associated with a Canadian firm,” Griffis says, speaking of their partnership with Bron.

“Once we checked them out, the DNA’s pretty close,” Griffis says of Bron.

“Built by Canadians, for Canadians,” Griffis says.

Currently Ironwolf has three units in the Estevan area, and another 40 in Alberta. They are just getting started in the Saskatchewan market, he explains.

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Classic Steam surpasses expectations

Tim Erickson has found a busy market for his Classic Steaming Inc. business which is contained in a modiÀed Peterbilt truck worth more than $250,000. After more than a month in service, owner Tim Erickson says it makes tank cleaning three times faster and a lot safer.

Alida– It’s gaining steam and fame. Tim Erickson’s custom built steam truck has been turning heads in the tank cleaning field ever since it rolled out of the Frontier Peterbilt shop in Estevan just over a month ago. It has been put to the test cleaning tanks for Crescent Point and Encana in the Weyburn area.

Peterbilt’s sales representative Karl Haselhan said his general manager Mike Smeltzer had made follow up calls and a visit to see Erickson’s truck in the field and wanted Pipeline News readers to know Erickson was happy with the product.

The distinctive looking truck sports a modified 26-ft. box that was designed by Peterbilt to house the equipment for Erickson’s Classic Steaming Inc. company truck that he confirms is surpassing his expecta-

tions.

“Customers are always looking for faster, safer ways of doing things, and this truck provides it all,” said Erickson. “Business has really picked up because of the truck. I am hoping to build a second truck as soon as I as can financially.”

Steamers clean oil, wax and salt water from tanks and batteries but with his new truck, Erickson can do the job three times faster than smaller conventional steamers.

“It’s been going out every day. We’re doing three to four vessels a day and the customers like it because they don’t have to send a man into the tank until it’s 98 per cent clean.”

This reduces the time

and the danger working in a confined space with gas content and exposure to heat generated from the steam wand.

With its 3.5 million BTU heater, the Classic Steaming Inc. truck can also be used during the winter for frac jobs involving the use of fresh water or salt water.

“They (oil companies) are circulating water for the Bakken zone so we have to provide steam to thaw out their valves and thaw out the tanks they have on site to get the fluids moving,” said Erickson.

His truck is painted with eye-catching oilfield graphics. “Everyone is taken back when they see it,” said Erickson who bought the truck to use in conjunction with Classic Vacuum Trucking in Alida.

“Our other steamer is a small 3-ton red and white truck. That truck is quite a bit different

from what they’re seeing with the classic steaming truck.”

“The truck has worked out beyond our expectations. It hasn’t given me a minute’s trouble.”Peterbilt was excellent to us to have the truck built in a short time frame and to have it out here working was just amazing,” he said.

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The head office was formerly based out of a farm that belonged to Sobush and Bob Betts, making the move especially exciting for the two who no longer have to work and live in the same place. “With the expansion, we were able to put another field supervisor in the office,” said Sobush.

The small drilling company, which employs approximately 65 people, continues to grow, fueled by the ever-expanding oil and gas industry in Southeast Saskatchewan.

Sobush says they're always busy, drilling anywhere from just inside the Manitoba boarder to Stoughton and Weyburn.

Currently, Totem operates three rigs, however,

they're in the process of building two more. “We expect the next one to be ready in November and the second in March,” said Sobush.

The company may be adding to their fleet, but they plan to remain a smaller drilling company in order to keep their customers happy. Totem needs to keep their small customers happy because they would not exist without them. In fact, those small customers are the reason Totem started in the first place.

Investors from Calgary were unable to find drilling contractors, so Betts, who worked as a field supervisor for another drilling company for 20 years, decided to start Totem in 2006.

Sobush, as well as a number of other Totem employees, worked with Betts in the past, making it easy for him to find people to work with him to build Totem. “As soon as Bob went over and started Totem, we were with him,” said Sobush.

Totem has an impressive safety record, one that makes the company a safe place for guys to work. “All rigs include iron roughnecks and hydraulic catwalks that have helped Totem Drilling achieve a strong safety record, receiving its Certificate of Recognition in 2007,” stated a press release. “Totem Drilling is proud to have had over 1,000 plus days of drilling with zero lost time accidents and are excited to be active in the Carnduff community.”

Although some companies are experiencing a worker shortage, Sobush said they haven't had any trouble yet. “I receive quite a few applications a day,” said Sobush. “Most days I get three, not all are experienced, but some are, so we don't have any trouble finding guys.”

PIPELINE NEWS October 2008

KRJ busy with custom fabricating Estevan - KRJ Custom Fabricating is a straight custom fabricating shop, building tool box enclosures, deck skids and cabinetry amongst

many other items.

The uncle and nephew team of Ken Mehler and Randy Franke are the co-owners of the operation.

While much of the business is dedicated to oilfield work -- close to 80 per cent -- Mehler says they also do work for SaskPower as well as for the mining and agricultural industry.

“We do steel boxes or electrical boxes and computer storage in both steel and aluminum and we do a lot of tool boxes and we build decks from scratch pretty much everything,” says KRJ president Mehler.

The company is now going into its 12th year of operations.

Mehler adds there's a difference between being a fabricator and being a welder.

“We are like finishing carpenters. The welders do pipelines where we do cabinetry,” Dustin Schroeder uses a hydraulic tool to straighten a piece of equipment.

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Company moves into new shop, develops new lots and moves into water hauling

Ken Mehler and Randy Franke, owners of KRJ Custom Fabricating stand at their new location in Estevan.

ɺ Page A21 The company employs eight people now, not including the two main partners.

“It's extremely busy.

It's really almost a bad thing. We can't get customers job done as quickly as they want it and customers have a hard time understanding that they can't get it done today. If you're in business in Estevan right now you can't find any employees. The Chamber of Commerce has 743 job ads out for Estevan right now and that tells how far behind everyone is with employees. If you can't get a job in Estevan you aren't looking,” he says.

KRJ Fabricating recently moved into a new 10,000 sq. ft. shop based on 10 acres of land.

“We rented for a few years and now we've moved into the new shop,” says Mehler.

The company is also keeping up to date with it's equipment.

“Our break is only one year old and our shear is one month old keep and we keep updating the equipment. We've got a roller and a spot welder and that's pretty much it, 99 per cent of everything we do is breaking and we do parts for different companies,” he says.

“We don't have any mobile trucks and we made agreements with others welders in town that we'd work with them rather than being in opposition to them,” he says.

The company is also just starting in to water sales.

“We have a pit to sell fresh water to drilling rigs. That should take off fairly well. The Stoughton area is starting to run out of water,” he explains.

The pit that KRJ has access to is fairly deep.

“There's a ton of wa-

ter in there,” says Mehler.

“It's actually one of the pits from the coal mining in the area and they allowed us to lease it because it's out of their working area and we've been lucky to get it,” explaining the water will be hauled to drilling and fraccing operations.

The company has also been keeping active with supplying farm signs

“We do big yard signs for guys yards and we've got one cut one for a customer who has his name and a couple horses on it and we do a lot of rig signs for different drilling rigs. We're always looking for something to develop and we have a good relationship with the welders and we're not stepping on other peoples toes,” he says.

The company also keeps active as a supplier for Carson and Supreme.

“We do a lot of parts for those guys. We are a service to the other shops in the area,” he says.

Mehler adds this is by far the busiest he has ever seen business activity.

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delivery. This is by far the busiest it's ever been now and its only getting busier,” he says.

Another venture Mehler recently completed was the development of a new industrial park, one mile east of Estevan.

“That was our venture last year and now the lots are all sold off. By next summer there should be quite a few shops out here,” he says.

“We''re trying to find new things to keep changing and we've posi-

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Arc drilling 50 wells near Hatton Maple Creek - Arc Resources is going great guns in Horsham, Hatton and Crane Lake.

The company is drilling 50 wells in Hatton this year and drilled 44 in Crane Lake last year along with another 24 wells that were drilled in Horsham last year.

Arc's work in the area is a shallow gas play.

The play itself was purchased by Arc Resources from Star Oil and Gas in 2003.

Each well represents an investment of close to $500,000 per well, which means this year's drilling program in the southwest is close to a $25 million investment.

Arc is about halfway through this year's drilling program and has two drilling rigs working on the project.

“The weather's been good. It hasn't been that busy, so getting services hasn't been an issue,” says Arc's field foreman Rob Meads.

“We generally try to do 100 wells a year,” says Meads, adding most of the gas wells require about a day to complete.

Arc utilizes consultants and contractors to

perform the drilling and once the wells are completed, “we turn them on and make sure the facility can handle the extra production.

“We turn them on and test them and figure out what they're making,” he says.

“They're not metered so you have to spot test them. You have to physi-

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Spot testing involves a portable test unit along with a computer. The production is switched through the tester and back to the pipeline.

“A two-minute spot test is what's required

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Arc has 13 workers in the southwestern region of the province with most of them living

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“There's other stuff we own that we don't operate and I don't see much on the reporting end of that,” he says.

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Orton adds that when it comes to competition the more the merrier.

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Newalta provides waste management

Brad Odland, branch manager for Newalta in Maple Creek.

Golden Prairie When you’re talking about the environment Newalta Corp. is one of the companies taking care of business.

Brad Odland branch manager for Newalta explains the company performs oilfield waste management at a facility at Golden Prairie, roughly 50 kilometres north of Maple Creek.

“We handle produced water and waste water, we do water injection, we also accept lube oil for collection and we also have a decanter process which splits mud and water,” says Odland. “We’ve got three wells with this facility and inject back into a zone.

What will happen when the zone fills up the injectors can’t inject anymore so we’d have to drill a new

well or find a different zone.”

Newalta gets two main streams of activity: one from production and the other from completion or fraccing.

“Once they’re drilled we have production component as well. When the wells are operating they generate water and mud,” Odland explains.

A typical day for the Newalta’s Golden Prairie facility sees it processing anywhere from 20 to 40 trucks a day.

Newalta Corp., publicly traded on the TSX, has been in operation for 25 years and the facility at Golden Prairie was acquired by the company in 2003.

“We have more offices, one in Swift Current, a facility in Regina, another at in Halbrite and we just put another up in Alida,” he says.

Currently, Newalta has four operators at the Golden Prairie facility, running the day-to-day operations, they manage dumping the trucks and transferring the fluid as well as running the equipment.

“Throughout the province I’d say we have about 30-plus guys. We’re all over Alberta and we’re

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The Newalta branch manager adds 2008 has been a good year for business.

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Chemical supplier keeps things clean Swift Current Chemicals by Sterling provides oilfield chemicals to southwestern and central Saskatchewan as well as east central Alberta.

"It's a chemical for treating oil and the corrosion inhibitors, scale inhibitor and wax solvents," says Kevin Burton, senior technical and safety rep for the company.

The company is not involved with the drilling aspect of the business.

The chemicals are primarily used for the production end of the business after the oil comes out of the ground.

"We have chemicals that take the water out of the oil. The water has to be out of the oil so it can be clean to ship down the pipeline," says Burton.

The company's products also deal with corrosion in piping.

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ty harsh water. There's a lot of salt in it in some places," says Burton.

The chemicals come in the form of a liquid.

It's all blended - like a recipe - and different companies have different formulas.

The main blend plant for the company is based in Estevan and the product comes to Swift Current ready to distrib-

ute to the field.

Generally, the product is administered at an oil battery.

The company also offers a wax solvent. At times a type of wax flows up with the oil.

"We can treat it and dilute it down so we can get rid of it just like that," says Burton.

The company has been in Swift Current

since 1994 and was started in Estevan in 1986.

The company also has a corporate head office in Calgary.

Chemicals by Sterling has two employees in Swift Current and seven employees in Estevan. Three years ago the company was sold

and the original name, Sterling Chemicals was simply flipped on its head.

The company is privately held and headed up by general manager Blaine Fallis.

Burton explains the Swift Current unit of the company has a wide

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Versatility is key to Chemicals by Sterling ɸ Page A29 Burton himself is a 32-year veteran of the oil patch.

"I've been in the oil patch since 1976 and worked for a trucking company and then I got into production for 14 years and I’ve been with Chemicals by Sterling for 12 years," he says.

He says the activity in the Swift Current region is busy.

"A lot of companies are adding on and that helps us. Every little bit helps," he says.

When it comes to advantages in the marketplace Burton says because

Chemicals by Sterling is smaller than many of its competitors, that it is also more versatile and able to adapt too change more quickly.

“We have our own lab in Estevan and lot of the big companies in order to change formulas have to go through quite an ordeal. We’re small enough that we can change our blends in a very short order. We have a full-time lab in Estevan and a lab person there as well,” he says.

For the time being the company is set for employees and Burton adds they could handle a little extra work.

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One of the main aspects to change within the oil patch overall is attention too safety and Burton says Chemicals by Sterling is taking this change seriously.

“One of our big things is the safety end of it. We have our safety program in place and we’re going for our safety COR. That’s a big deal in the oil patch now everyone’s looking for safety certification,” he says.

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Saskatchewan’s Petroleum Monthly

Waste heat in Alameda provides power to Saskatchewan Story and photo

by Lizz Bottrell for Pipeline News Alameda - As the Saskatchewan economy continues to grow at an alarming rate, so does the province's energy needs. At a time when environmental regulations are becoming more rigid and the country watches closely to see how the province handles the environmental implications of its newly discovered oil sources, Saskatchewan looks for new green power sources.

To help meet this new need for green power, SaskPower and NRGreen Power found a unique and exciting way to harness the energy produced from waste heat along Alliance Pipeline's mainline in Saskatchewan. “NRGreen Power is constructing waste heat units at Alliance compressor stations that employ innovative technology to generate electricity from the heat emitted by the natural gas turbines,” said Murray Birch, president and CEO, NRGreen Power. “This heat would otherwise be released into the atmosphere.

This method of producing electricity generates no greenhouse gas or other emissions – it is environmentally responsible energy production.”

NRGreen and SaskPower built waste heat power generators at each of Alliance Pipeline's four compressor stations in Saskatchewan. The first three units built in Kerrobert, Loreburn and Estline are already operational, while the remaining unit in Alameda should be operational within the coming weeks. “Each of these units are capable of providing an average of five megawatts of energy per day, enough to power the equivalent of 5,000 homes,” said Birch. When all four units are in operation, SaskPower will have a total of 20 megawatts of power generated a day available to its power grid, which is equivalent to powering 20,000 homes.

To put this into perspective, the power created by these units could potentially provide enough electricity to power all the homes in Carlyle,

SaskPower and Alliance Pipeline employees, along with community members and dignitaries, toured the new waste heat facility in Alameda.

Alameda, Oxbow, Carnduff and Redvers. “This is an exciting example of economic growth and expansion that benefits us all,” said local MLA, Dan D'Autremont. “It will ensure power is in place to meet the increasing electrical needs of Saskatchewan residents.”

One of the biggest advantages of the waste heat recovery units is the fact they do not add to the province's current greenhouse gas emissions.

They helps to ensure Saskatchewan can meet the environmental regulations for greenhouse gas emissions in the future. “This is a clean source of electricity adding power without adding emissions into the atmosphere,” said D'Autremont. “It's real action to addressing greenhouse gas concerns without affecting the economy. Projects such as this will help power our province to a bright future.”

SaskPower and NRGreen entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement for the power generated at each

of the four waste heat recovery units.

The exhaust heat from the jet engines that move the natural gas through the Alliance pipeline will be captured at the Alameda compressor, converted into electricity and fed into the provincial electric grid.

According to Rich Wilcott, District Opererating Supervisor, SaskPower, Oxbow District, SaskPower will finish building the tie line that NRGreen will use to generate power into SaskPower's grid system within the coming weeks. “It will be potentially online by the end of September,” said Wilcott.

“Each waste heat unit has three main components: a heat exchanger, a thermal loop and an energy converter,” said Birch. “A unique feature of the 'waste' heat system is that it is entirely self-contained. Electricity leaves the station via transmission lines and goes to the SaskPower grid for distribution to customers.”

Unlike other sources of green energy, waste heat recovery works over 99 per cent of the time. For example, wind power works at 40 percent availability in Saskatchewan, and that's the best in Canada. “As the Alliance system operates over 99 per cent of the time, this is a reliable source of energy that is being generated in an environmentally responsible manner – no new emissions are created in this process,” said Birch. “Waste heat recovery projects are one cost-effective way to address North America's increasing energy needs and a more efficient and effective way to operate our facilities.”

This new and innovative technology benefits SaskPower in other ways as well. “It will help us avoid voltage swings at the end of a power line,” said Larry Christie, Media Spokesperson, SaskPower. “This action will help SaskPower deliver better service to its customers.”

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The three founders, Dale Fox, Roy Arndt and Ken Dowhaniuk were present for the breakfast.

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Gibson Welding Ltd. OilÄeld Welding & Construction Thursday, September 18 Land Solutions ofÀcially cut the ribbon to open their Lampman ofÀce.

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Land Solutions capitalizes Lampman – Land Solutions’ Lampman operation started with a man working out of his house. On Sept. 18, the ribbon was cut on their new office where five staff work. Eventually, that could double, according to the man who started the operation.

Randy Fleck, one of Land Solutions’ land-

men, started the operation two-and-a-half years ago, working from home.

It was the start of the excitement around the Bakken oil play. “That’s the main reason,” Fleck says.

“Since then the workload just increases every day.”

Now they are running with three landmen and two administration staff. “I wouldn’t be sur-

prised to see 10 people,” he says of the future.

Land Solutions acts as an intermediary between oil companies and the surface rights holders. While they handle mineral, pipeline and wind projects, much of their work in southeast Saskatchewan is centred around oil.

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companies allow oil companies to keep their expansions private, bidding on Crown land sales with some obscurity. It’s a standard practice, according to Fleck. “Everybody does it. Not many oil companies want their name out. The odd one will.” ɸ Page B4

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BBQ held in conjunction with grand opening ɺ Page B3 “We’re just a gobetween, dropping off bids for clients.”

One of those bids in the August land sale turned out to be the highest price paid per hectare in that round.

The purchase price was $5.7 million for 130 acres of deeper rights just southeast of Kisbey. It worked out to $44,201 per hectare.

Fleck, of course, is not revealing who was the actual buyer.

Why Lampman?

There are a couple reasons. First, Fleck farms north of Lampman. “We’re right in the middle of the oilpatch here,” he adds.

They also wanted to keep the small town growing.

With all the land sales and anticipated drilling, Fleck says, “My prediction is very, very busy for the next five years for sure.

“Nothing lasts forever, but we’ve got a few years left yet.

“My main goal is to

keep good relations between the farmer, landmen and oil company.

If there’s a beef, call me first and I will try to solve the matter.”

It probably doesn’t hurt that Fleck is the reeve of the local RM of Browning No. 34.

While he’s relatively new to the reeve’s chair, he’s been on council for several years.

“It helps dealing with people I know,” he explains, adding “A lot of the oil companies like that.”

The usual order of things is a son follows in his father’s footsteps.

The reverse is the case for Fleck. He farmed and worked as a contract operator, looking after wells. It gave him experience on both the farmer and oil sides of the land business. His son became a landman after college, and now works for Conoco Phillips. This led to Fleck getting into the landman business part time.

“The part-time part is gone.”

Shawn Howard (right) and Randy Fleck (middle), both of Land Solutions Inc., presented Austin Green with a basket full of donation cash.

Austin is a Grade 8 student at Lampman Junior High who is battling cancer.

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BJ Services busy Estevan - Pumping and coiled tubing are the two main applications provided by BJ Services Company in its Estevan operations.

“We also provide pipeline inspections and process pipeline servicing but not so much in Western Canada,” says Blair Albers, vice president of Canada operation for BJ. The company is also active in cementing,

fracturing and acidizing. Whenever casing is run into a hole cement is used to hold it in place.

At times, there are two or more strings of casing run into a well and it is cemented in place by being pumped down the well and circulated and then it is allowed to harden, says Albers.

Fracturing means that fluid is pumped under high pressure into the rock, cracking the

reservoir and quite often the fluid that is being pumped includes proppant which keeps most of the sand in place.

Acidizing involves the use of hydrochloric acid to provide a path for the reservoir. Many formations in Saskatchewan are comprised of carbonated material such as a limestone which is dissolvable through the use of acids.

“The Midal formation would fall under this category,” said Albers.

Coil tubing involves a special steel. A lot of technology has gone into the manufacturing of that type of steel and it's rolled around in a big drum length up to whatever length you want, he says.

Shaun Bird, district operations manager of BJ Services works from his desk at the Estevan location

“The advantage of coil tubing is that it's much quicker than running jointed pipe. The pipe can hit the bottom within a few hours. Most coil operations are a day or less,” Albers explains.

BJ been around international oilfields since the 1800s but BJ in Canada acquired a company, Nowsco, in 1996 that's when it primarily returned to the Canadian market while the company has been in Saskatchewan since the early 1960s. ɸ Page B7

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Darryl Corbin of Enviroline Group addressed the Lloydminster Heavy Oil Technical Symposium on Sept. 11, speaking about ways to keep an eye on

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“We refer to this detection as your smoke detector,” Corbin says. ɸ Page B8

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45 workers lead the charge SE SK. Éş Page B5 Until recently mostly of BJâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Canadian operations were centred around Alberta, Saskatchewan and northeast B.C. But now the company also has plays in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a growing market down there,â&#x20AC;? says Albers.

Estevan is BJâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main oďŹ&#x192;ce for Saskatchewan and currently the only oďŹ&#x192;ce the company has in the province.

Albers adds, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Bakken Play is a big part of our Saskatchewan activity with horizontal multi-zones that require lots of hydraulic fracturing.â&#x20AC;?

The company cur-

rently has close to 45 people working in the area and is also in the process of moving additional equipment into the area. BJ is also hoping to make some additional hires in Saskatchewan in the very near future. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our preference would be to hire local people but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a tight labour market down there.

Everyone is busy in the oilpatch, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty busy everywhere,â&#x20AC;? he says.

The Bakken Play being one of the hot areas in Western Canada and Albers says he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see activity falling oďŹ&#x20AC; anytime soon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Bakken play is an oil play, there are other hot areas such as northwestern Alberta

and northeastern B.C. Which are shale gas plays and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re quite a bit diďŹ&#x20AC;erent than an oil play. With oil being over $100 a barrel itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quite attractive and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what transpiring on the Bakken. There are changes in technology resulting in multiple horizontal completions. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a technology that has evolved rapidly over the past 24 months that has enabled that play to be economic,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Albers added that with all the research heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s done the Bakken reservoir could be in a high state of activity for many years to come but he adds input costs also have to remain favourable. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have to factor

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Hydrogen method acts as â&#x20AC;&#x153;smoke detectorâ&#x20AC;? Éş Page B6 Current detection methods include â&#x20AC;&#x153;smart pigs,â&#x20AC;? hydrostatic testing, direct assessments, liquid and gas sampling, corrosion coupons and ultrasound.

The process has been around for 30 years, ac-

cording to Corbin, but has since been updated.

The old way of doing it was putting a foil on the outside of the vessel, and with wired leads, monitor how fast hydrogen is collecting outside of the vessel, i.e a pipeline.

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Changes can be measured within two hours, and results are web-based.

The technology can be used on pipelines, in gas plants, for water disposal, or even on closed or sealed rail cars or tanker trucks.

There are limitations, Corbin notes. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work in a fully oxygenated water system or pond, and each system has to be considered individually.

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Weatherford ‘s business is expensive Lloydminster – It’s new and shiny, and soon it’s going to go to work, blowing things up.

Such is the life of a wireline unit, like Weatherford Wireline’s new express truck on display at the Lloydminster Heavy Oil Show.

Sandy Adams is the manager for the Lloydminster shop of Weatherford Wireline, which runs eight trucks.

Wirelines are just that – they send a wire line down a well. At the end of that line might be sensors or explosive charges meant to perforate the casing of the well.

After a well is drilled, a wireline is used to log the well to see where the producing zones are. “And

then we go in and perforate with explosives,” Adams explains.

Logging the wells is done with tools hanging on the end of a 5/16 inch cable, spooled on the back of the truck. It might be a gamma ray log or a sector bond log, looking at the quality of the cement.

Weatherford Open Hole does its work while the well is still an open hole, performed with the drilling rig in place, and drilling mud running down the hole.

The geologist picks the zone, the drilling rig installs the casing, cements it and leaves.

Wireline is the next process. “We have our own pressure control gear,” Adams says. An express unit can work without a rig present. ɸ Page B10

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Charges gets oil Àowing ɺ Page B9 “Around the Lloydminster area, most wells are gamma ray perforated. Gamma ray is basically a fingerprint of the well.”

The geologist determines which zones to perforate. “It could be 800 m to 805 m, so we’ll build a 5 m gun,” Adams explains.

The “gun” is an explosive device. It uses multiple shaped explosive charges to cut a hole through the casing and cementing and into the formation, punching holes for the oil to flow through.

A shaped charge uses explosive behind metal, usually in the shape of a cone. When the explosive goes off, it turns the cone in front of it into a jet of molten metal, cutting through whatever is in its path.

“Around Lloydminster, they go with ‘big hole charges,” Adams says. That provides a bigger entry hole to allow the heavy oil to pass through. For instance, a 30 gram extra big hole charge leaves an entry hole of one inch and makes a 9-1/2 inch penetration into the formation, passing through the casing and cement. Typically they use 26 shots per metre, with a 135/45 degree phasing.

One of the hazards of shooting the perforation is sand coming in after the perforation is complete.

It can cause the gun to become stuck. A good pull will disconnect the gun, but it means a service rig is needed to fish it out.

The unit is run by three people – one supervisor in the cab, and two operators outside.

Placement of the perforations is important.

Adams says it has to be “bang on every time, or our customers don’t call us back.”

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Carlyleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boom leads to jobs Â&#x201E; By Lizz Bottrell for Pipeline News Carlyle - Carlyle is booming and you don't need to live in the small community of just over 1,200 people to notice. Just take a drive through the south side of town and see all the new homes being built.

Or drive a bit further south down Highway 9 and visit a number of new oil-industry related businesses that popped up to support the growing oil industry surrounding Carlyle. Or take a drive out west down Highway 13 and you'll see two major vehicle dealerships to the north and a big open ďŹ eld where a drilling company sits to the south.

No matter how you look at it or where you look, Carlyle is growing. "Carlyle is a good example of the growth experienced all over the province," said

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This service rig, which belongs to Mayco Well Servicing, stands on the outskirts of Carlyle.

Health Minister Don McMorris. "Nowhere is the growth more evident than in Carlyle.â&#x20AC;?

The town of Carlyle boasts a number of shopping outlets, restaurants and services from beauty salons to ďŹ tness centres to marine and ATV repair shop unseen in other communities of its size. Carlyle truly oďŹ&#x20AC;ers something for everyone â&#x20AC;&#x201C; whether you're looking for the latest trendy fashions, a friendly watering hole or quality advice on purchasing a vehicle, Carlyle 'Has It.' â&#x20AC;&#x153;People from out of town always say there's good shopping here,â&#x20AC;? said Huguette Lutz, Administrator, Town of Carlyle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It just amazes me how many people go out of there way to tell me that.â&#x20AC;?

For years, tourists ďŹ&#x201A;ocked to Carlyle in order to visit one of its many attractions. In fact, with all the cottagers and tourists who visit areas such as Kenosee Lake and White Bear Resort, which both sit about 10 minutes north of Carlyle on Highway 9, the population of the small community can grow by as much as 10,000 people.

Carlyle oďŹ&#x20AC;ers a picturesque view of Moose Mountain Provincial Park, with Kenosee Lake right in the middle. The park also oďŹ&#x20AC;ers locals a place to rip around on their quads with friends and families, thanks to the many dedicated volunteers who maintain the trails.

The community recently built Bowen Rekken Motocross Track on the west side of town, which hosts riders from all over Saskatchewan and Alberta.

This new track is part of the Southeast Corner Racing Circuit, which also includes Estevan and Weyburn. Right in the middle of the track sits the site for Carlyleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s yearly demolition derby, which attracts large crowds and drivers from far and wide. ɸ Page B13

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and new homes for residents Éş Page B12 For those enjoy a little more serenity in their daily routine, Carlyle oďŹ&#x20AC;ers three golf courses, Golf Kenosee, White Bear Golf Course and Carlyle Golf Course. Each course oďŹ&#x20AC;ers a diďŹ&#x20AC;erent level of terrain, attracting many avid golfers who travel many miles just to take a swing at each one.

There are also many who travel to Carlyle just to catch a glimpse of the numerous pump jacks, service rigs and drilling rigs surrounding the community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting to be a lot of people who come out here just to see the oil activity,â&#x20AC;? said Town of Carlyle Mayor, Don Shirley. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s some that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t live too far away who have never seen a drilling rig before.â&#x20AC;?

Residents and visitors alike donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to look far to see how much oil activity increased in the area over the last few years. With it, the increase in oil activity brought an inďŹ&#x201A;ux of newcomers, which is starting to cause a few challenges for the small community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I probably get 20 calls a week a least for rental units,â&#x20AC;? said Marilyn Carter, Manager, Carlyle Housing Authority. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If there isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t something available, they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even put in an application for the wait list. I try to give them other options, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a real lack of housing thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good for transient people. With the oilďŹ eld, a lot of the guys move in and then move out.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not looking to buy. We are missing the housing to take care of people not really looking to purchase or unable to purchase.â&#x20AC;?

Currently, Carter overseas the rental of 73 units in Carlyle. She noted two other people in town own apartment buildings, each with six units. There is the odd person in town who rents out a home privately, but since those go so fast, these homes donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even make it to market.

However, she hopes that with the new develop-

Construction on the new subdivision is already beginning on the south side of Carlyle.

ment on the south side of town, which houses 42 lots, more older homes may become available to purchase for those looking to stay in the area, but not wanting to spend the money for a brand new home.

People looking to build a new home though, are in luck. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We sold all town-owned property in April of this year,â&#x20AC;? said Lutz. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So council put a rush on a plan of a new residential subdivision. Now we have lots for sale again. This should help free up homes in the existing area.â&#x20AC;? Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a few modular homes available right now that are ready to move into. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all just growing pains,â&#x20AC;? said Lutz. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With growth comes challenges.â&#x20AC;? One of these challenges involved a shortage of water. The town began searching for a new source a few years ago and recently drilled a new well which pumps 400 gallons a minute at the beginning of September. Now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a matter of receiving approval to construct as they work on

plans to expand the water treatment plant to accommodate the extra ďŹ&#x201A;ow of water.

Another growing challenge the community battled head on was the shortage of health care professionals. After spending months actively recruiting a new physician to the area, Carlyle proudly opened its new primary care centre on Sept. 10. The primary care centre includes a primary care team, made up of two physicians and a nurse practitioner, who work together as a team. Taking this team approach allows the health care professionals to enjoy a healthier quality of life, encouraging them to remain in Carlyle.

As the small community continues to grow in the coming months and years, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sure to face further challenges in the future. However, this optimistic and hard working community will come together to face whatever challenge comes itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s way in order to ensure the prosperity of Carlyle.

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Eagle Drilling acquires naming rights for Estevan Bruins Estevan - Eagle Drilling recently entered into a one-year naming rights sponsorship agreement with the Estevan Bruins. Under the contract, the Bruins will be known locally as Eagle Drilling Estevan Bruins, making the Carlyle-based company the title sponsor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My partner Rob MacCuish and I, right from the beginning of our company's start, one of our goals was to get involved with the local communities,â&#x20AC;? said Derrick Big Eagle, president and general manager, Eagle Drilling. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It gives us direct involvement with all communities because they draw players from all areas just as we draw employees from all the communities.

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Bruins Head Coach and General Manager, Karry Biette, says he is excited about the new partnership. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As we begin what will be a very successful year for the Bruins franchise, we are excited to enter into this partnership with Derrick Big Eagle and Eagle Drilling,â&#x20AC;? said Biette. He also added that the Bruinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s logo will not change as part of the agreement and the franchise will remain known provincially as the Estevan Bruins. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The rising costs of operating a junior hockey franchise have forced teams to search for new and innovative methods to generate revenue,â&#x20AC;? said marketing and operations manager Becky Tait. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We feel this partnership with Eagle Drilling will assist us in accomplishing this goal while protecting the integrity of this proud hockey club.â&#x20AC;?

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Big Eagle, like many other young men who grew up in the Carlyle / Estevan area, always dreamed of playing for the Estevan Bruins. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can't play for the Bruins, so this is the closest I can get,â&#x20AC;? said Big Eagle.

He's excited about the naming agreement, saying he wants to bring hockey back into the lives of the younger generation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought back to when I was a kid and I just didn't get the feeling that it's as big of a draw as it used to be,â&#x20AC;? said Big Eagle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the younger generation is losing contact with the sport because of things like Play Station. I want to bring back the hoarah.â&#x20AC;?

Although Big Eagle has not found the time to speak with some of his employees to ďŹ nd out their thoughts on the agreement, he anticipates they will feel proud knowing their company name represents a local SJHL team. He said the naming agreement would give self-meaning to the employees. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They'll say, Eagle Drilling Bruins, that's my company.â&#x20AC;?

The one-year naming agreement may just be the start for Eagle Drilling, as the company hopes to renew the agreement in the coming seasons. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We'd like to follow the Bruins into their new arena and be a big part of that,â&#x20AC;? said Big Eagle.

Eagle Drilling Estevan Bruins hit the ice for their season-opener on Sept. 12. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have one more announcement to do there,â&#x20AC;? said Big Eagle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will deďŹ nitely be a big part of that game and we want to keep the excitement going.

It's not just something to put our hands on and walk away. We want to make sure everyone is happy with this agreement.â&#x20AC;?

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Border City premiers speak

Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach (left) points over his should to all the trucks in the parking lot, noting they came from Ontario, while Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says this is no longer next year country. Both were in Lloydminster the week of Sept. 8 for the inaugural joint cabinet meeting and to speak to the Lloydminster Heavy Oil Show audience.

Photos by Brian ZInchuk

By Brian Zinchuk Lloydminster – Coming off the first joint cabinet meeting between Saskatchewan and Alberta, the premiers of those respective provinces addressed the opening night banquet of the Lloydminster Heavy Oil Show on Sept. 9. Both spoke of the benefits heavy oil has brought their respective provinces.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall extended greetings from “Saskatchewan’s newest have province, and we plan on staying a have province.”

“We have a huge opportunity,” Wall says, and has been advised “not to screw this up.”

“We’re no longer next year country. Next year has arrived.

Speaking of the great wealth created by the petroleum industry, Wall noted that without it, “We can’t hire nurses, provide cancer care, education or a social safety net.”

“We’re going to keep the momentum going,” Wall added, noting plans to keep working with Alberta.

Stelmach said the meeting was the first of many, and that they intended to remove barriers on things like transportation.

Stelmach took umbrage with the recent visit of federal NDP leader Jack Layton. Layton, in the opening days of the federal election, flew over the Alberta oilsands, and then promised to stop further development until environmental concerns were met.

Stelmach pointed over his shoulder, indicating the parking lot was filled with trucks made in Ontario, and pointed out that Alberta has continued to share economic prosperity with the rest of Canada.

“The evolution of the role of heavy oil in Canada’s economy is remarkable,” Stelmach noted, adding Alberta and Saskatchewan are fortunate and blessed with heavy oil supplies.

He said technology will help get past greenhouse gas emissions.

Stelmach thanked the Lloydminster Technical Society, hosts of the oil show, saying, “You are the economic driver.”

He also thanked the OTS for all they do in the community.

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Steam, sand and pipes:

By Brian Zinchuk Kindersley – Horizontal wells, combined with multi-stage fraccing, seem to be the ticket for production in Southeast Saskatchewan’s Bakken play.

The same strategy is now being used in the Viking play north of Kindersley by Reece Energy. Pipeline News accompanied a Schlumberger frac crew in early September as they processed one of Reece’s new wells.

Hydraulic facturing, according to the Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (www.glossary.oilfield. slb.com), is defined as: “A stimulation treatment routinely performed on oil and gas wells in low-permeability reservoirs. Specially engineered fluids are pumped at high pressure and rate into the reservoir interval to be treated, causing a vertical fracture to open.

“The wings of the fracture extend away from the wellbore in opposing directions according to the natural stresses within the formation. Proppant, such

as grains of sand of a particular size, is mixed with the treatment fluid to keep the fracture open when the treatment is complete.

“Hydraulic fracturing creates high-conductivity communication with a large area of formation and bypasses any damage that may exist in the nearwellbore area.”

Put in other words, the fluid forces cracks into the formation, and the sand keeps those cracks open for the oil to flow through. Doing this ten or so times over the length of about a kilometre of horizontal well means the well can pull oil from large stretches of the formation.

The first thing that strikes you is the sheer number of vehicles – the wellhead is surrounded by numerous trucks of various forms and functions. Most tie into a complex manifold attached to the wellhead. At one end, there are tankers full of nitrogen. In the middle a number of pump trucks tie into the manifold. At the other end is the data van, the nerve centre of the operation. It has a hopper

where sand is brought into the mix, literally. On the far side of the data van are several tanks filled with water. A consultant’s trailer is nestled in near the tankers, with a window and laptop facing the action.

A picker is there for heavy lifting.

Jason Unwin is the consultant on this job. He’s a recent graduate of Petroleum Engineering technology from SAIT. Prior to that, “I worked on a lot of service rigs before I went back to school.”

This well is nearly 1400 m in length, and has 12 stages working throughout the unconsolidated sandstone formation, he explains.

On Unwin’s trailer counter is a white ball.

It’s one of many, ranging in size from 1-1/4 inches to 3-3/4 inches in diameter. The balls play a crucial role in the multi-stage process.

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fraccing in the Viking ɺ Page C2 They start by working from the far end of the well, also known as the toe. Packers and liner assemblies are set at certain depths along the horizontal portion of the well. Starting at the toe, they use the smallest ball and go up increasingly with size with each stage. The ball plugs off each fractured section, allowing the next port to be opened. Eventually the balls will come out when the well begins to flow. A testing crew is on site, ready to set up once the frac is complete.

Nitrogen is mixed at the wellhead with water chemicals and sand, and pumped underground. The liquid nitrogen is warmed to a gaseous state by a burner box before it is sent to the wellhead.

Underground, the pressurized mixture is then forced through the perforations and into the formation. When the fluid mixture creates fractures, the sand then remains, creating channels for the oil to flow through the sand. “You’re artificially making your own pathway for the oil to flow through,” explains Claudio Roscioli, who runs the show from the data van.

Sand grain size and fluid type are highly sensitive trade secrets.

The sand and chemicals are mixed in the blender under the data van. Water comes from four tanks behind the data van.

The inside of the data van looks like the bridge of a starship. The crew inside the frac van monitors pressure, sand concentration, foam quality and fluid rate off of multiple monitors.

Everyone wears headset radios with boom microphones. The heavy ear protection is necessary in the noisy environment.

When the setup is pressurized, after the operation begins, one man is stationed to monitor the job proceedings in the high-pressure area. While the rest of the crew monitor and operate their equipment as per the hydraulic fracture treatment requirement..

As an industry safety standard, a medic stands guard at the entrance of the lease, keeping track of who is coming in and who is leaving. Everyone must check in with the medic to confirm all safety training requirements are completed.

Frac crews are expected to drive heavy machinery and having a class 1 drivers license is important.

This crew is based in Medicine Hat. They come from various backgrounds and nationalities with varying levels and types of experience. Every crew has experienced oilfield employees training and mentoring new hires.

Typically they are done in a day, and this day is no different. By mid-afternoon, they’re tearing down, and getting ready to head back to Medicine Hat.

Steam is visible around the nitrogen units as a wellhead is assembled for the next stage of fraccing.

Nitrogen comes into the manifold from the left, while the water, chemical and sand mixture enter via the large pipes on the right.

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Surface Rights Board speedy, but usually not needed

By Brian Zinchuk North Battleford - For all the drilling going on in Saskatchewan, one might think there would be more than a few farmers who simply don’t want some oil company mucking around on their land. But that really is not the case, at least so far. With the deluge of Crown land sales in the Bakken play, more farmers are going to see a lot more drilling, so there is a possibility of a few more disgruntled farmers.

In the vast, vast majority of cases, amicable settlements are met between the surface owner, and the oil

company (or operator), according to Richard Gibbons, the North Battleford lawyer who chairs the Saskatchewan Surface Rights Board of Arbitration. He estimates it might be as high as 98 per cent of deals are reached without the need of the board.

That number is pretty close, based on just under 3500 wells drilled in Saskatchewan in 2007. In that year, the board heard 21 right-of-entry hearings encompassing 11 surface landowners. There were 13 compensation orders, but for only three landowners.

While Gibbons says the fundamentals of the act

under which the board operates are sound, he has been asked to review it for updates, hopefully to be introduced in the next spring sitting of the legislature. A few things, like $1000 limits for tortious acts (i.e. damages) are outdated, Gibbons notes. “We would like the government to update the act,” he says.

He will be keeping an eye out to streamline the process, making it more efficient. This may include things like electronic documentation, or updating notices, documentation or procedures. ɸ Page C6

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Dealing direct is a solid option ɺ Page C4 - But before anyone gets excited about regulator changes – don’t.There’s no plan to shake things up. “The basics of the act are solid,” Gibbons says.

The Saskatchewan Surface Rights Board of Arbitration is a quasi-judicial board whose purpose is to work out differences between surface rights owners, typically farmers, and oil companies who have leased the rights to develop the minerals underground. Its orders are court enforceable, and if disagreed with, must go to the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal, the highest court in the province, to be overturned.

“In Saskatchewan, for an operator, the surface rights board will get you on the land, and in a cost-effective and prompt way,” Gibbons explains.

There are two forms of hearing the board reviews – a right of entry hearing and a compensation hearing.

The right of entry hearing is key, with a short timeline meant to move things along quickly.

All leases must be filed with the board’s office in

Kindersley, both for right of entry and reclamation for wellsites and pipelines. Gibbons notes that while Alberta is maybe two years behind in its reclamation certificates, “We are up to date.”

Being current on reclamation is important, because it saves money for the public purse.

“We don’t want to have orphan wells,” he says, speaking of wells owned by bankrupt and defunct operators.

If there is difficulty in getting access to land, the operator can apply for a hearing. That starts a short clock ticking – the board must hold a hearing within 21 days.

As chair, Gibbons presides over all hearings. The board makes the order and Gibbons writes out the decision. Ken Neil is vice-chair and a Unity lawyer.

Herb Gordon is a retired farmer from Midale. Leonard Haukeness is a farmer from south of Estevan. Ken Francis is a Kindersley landman and farmer.

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It’s a scramble to arrange, Gibbons admits. He’s in a single-lawyer practice, and his calendar can be booked months in advance. Yet they make it happen.

A hearing can take a full day or more. It is important to be prepared with the particulars of the land in question. “How are we going to know this – junky sand or three feet of black soil?” Gibbons asks. The board usually is not going to drive out to the farmer’s land to take a look at it. Rather, the farmer should have things like soil classification and land assessment readily available. While a lawyer is not required, it’s also not a bad idea.

A good deal of information can be found at the board’s website - www.er.gov.sk.ca/SurfaceRights. It includes all board orders from recent years. This is quite revealing, because there are no Beverly Hillbillies-type compensation orders. Most are a few thousand dollars a year.

The website also makes the strong hint that it’s best just to sit down and settle matters without going to the board.

That’s something Gibbons also stresses. For instance, once the site is drilled and the lease is reduced to basically a road and wellhead, the operator is still required to control weeds. This is often accomplished by letting the farmer use the land on the lease right up to near the wellhead. In return, the farmer controls the weeds. The farmer is still being paid for this land, even though he is farming it. If the operator needs to use that land, for a service rig, for instance, they still can.

The hearings are paid for by the government, but a landowner must pay for their own lawyer, if they have one. And then there is the time and effort involved.

The board, however, can order costs.

After a hearing takes place, the board tries to turn out a decision promptly – hopefully within 21 days of the hearing. That makes a total of six weeks from start of the application process to an order being in hand, a quick turnaround from a bureaucratic process. Gibbons notes a recent Kindersley hearing has already prompted calls, “Where’s the order?”

One area the board does not have jurisdiction on is federal lands, i.e. all First Nations reserve land. On that front, Gibbons says, “There’s a real vacuum.”

“No one’s dealing with these issues at a federal level except for Indian Oil and Gas.” Indian Oil and Gas Canada is a Crown agency, part of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.

Gibbons cites an Alberta ruling that pretty much sums up much of what they do. Alberta Associate Chief Justice Miller noted: “We have two competing and frequently incompatible rights to use the same surface of land owned or controlled by two different parties. Whether they like it or not, the two parties must try to live together as neighbours.”

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North slope, SAGD and pumps: Heavy Oil Symposium Approximately 150 people registered for the Lloydminster Heavy Oil Technical Symposium, held in conjunction with the Lloydminster Heavy Oil Show Sept 10-11.

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In closing the symposium, Mahesh Makkar, vice chair of the Lloydminster & District Heavy Oil Section of the Petroleum Society, said, “We tried to cover different aspects of heavy oil.”

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So says Travis Todd, a burner technician for Superior Propane. He’s adjusting the flame on a burner on display at Superior’s booth at the Lloydminster Heavy Oil Show. Currently, the burner is emitting a orange flame that looks good on camera, but not so good in a firetube.

Todd is one of three burner technicians with Superior Propane. He spends his time making sure the burner burn cleanly and efficiently.

“I’m a tech, through and through. This intrigues me,” he says as he adjusts various parameters on the burner.

“We work on treaters, free water knockouts, tank heaters, dehys and reboilers – anything in the oil and gas industry that is gas fired.”

“When the industry began, welders, instrumentation techs and operators controlled how you got the heat to the vessel. [There were] no safeties or anything like that,” Travis explains, but adds this developed into issues with poor gas and getting the proper heat required.

“Gas fitting’s a trade. We learn how to make things burn, and do it safely,” he says.

“If you have a burner in a fire tube, and that burner caused damage to the fire tube and a failure, we could end up with a large spill.”

Clean burners also mean making the most of a finite resource, trying to maximize efficiencies to use as little gas as possible to reach the necessary temperature.

Making it safer means, “When the operator walks up, he knows it’s safe to work with.”

A flame fail ignition system monitors the temperature, liquid level and gas pressure before it allows a flame to be ignited. If the fluid gets below the fire tube, gases can be ignited. If the system does not detect a flame, it shuts off the gas so you’re not dumping gas down the fire tube. “I ensure all this is happening,” Todd says.

“It’s a sooty, sooty, stinky kind of job,” according to Todd.

However, spending the time on servicing can pay off quickly, he says. Spending three or four hours on location can mean “those costs can be returned to them in as little as a day in savings in fuel.”

“Overall, it comes down to economics, health, safety and the environment,” Todd says. A clean burner reduces emissions.

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Maple Creek - Magnum Fabricating's Richard Ehret says he prefers oil and gas work and is considering expansion in the oilfield but he also does fabricating for industrial use and the agricultural sector.

“We pretty much have the capability to do most anything we set our mind to. I've tried to simplify things, do to market and expansion, and we're trying to expand on the well gate fences as well as Texas gates, but we also build truck decks and hydraulic decks,” says Magnum Fabricating owner Ehret.

The company recently acquired a shearing break and is currently housed within a 13,000 square foot building.

Magnum started up in 1998 and incorporated in 2001 and currently employs 12 workers.

“Most of the guys are welders and some of them cut and some deliver and then we have a salesman also and a bookkeeper. I'm trying to train our people so that they're flexible,” he says.

“We also have a store in here to and sell Cloverdale Paints as well as industrial supplies,” which is run by Ehret's wife Rena.

While business activity levels are pretty steady, Ehret adds inputs costs are increasing significantly with steel costs being close to double and rising fuel costs.

“We used to offer free delivery but we can't do that any more.

We deliver a lot of stuff to Estevan and Grande Prairie and a lot of other places in between,” he says.

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“I just got the shear brake hooked up the other day and I'd like to get into manufacturing 200 to 400 gallon tanks,” he says.

“They're used in the oilfield for produced fluids, either water or oil.

We also build flare stack trailers,” he says.

Ehret says he got his start in business while working on the drilling rigs.

“It was break up and I bought some pipe and an old welder and the neighbour came along bought the first panels that I built for livestock and then I ended up building Texas gates.

It was such a very hard market to get into back then.”

Along the way Ehret started looking at fences that were put up around well heads.

“They were somewhat less than desirable and they had a bolt together design and the cattle were always rubbing on them, so I designed a fence that had completely round corners with no place for cattle to rub on that pin together in two minutes or less. I can go and set up a standard well fence in about six minutes.

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The fences pin together with half inch rods in a clevis style, similar to a door hinge.

Ehret says his first customer was Renaissance. He was working in and 8 X 12 garage at the time and showed up in a beat up 74 truck. The job was to put up a fence. ɸ Page C12

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Who let the boats in?

You need a commercial boat licence to operate one of these spill-response boats, operated by Western Canada Spill Services. The orange stripe in the background is a boom leading to a skimmer.

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Lloydminster – Just what are boats doing at a heavy oil show?

Cleanup, if, heaven forbid, there should ever be a spill on a body of water.

Western Canadian Spill Services has a small flotilla on site in the far corner of the Lloydminster Heavy Oil Show. A non-profit co-operative, the outfit responds to spills on water bodies.

The Lloydminster region covers both sides of the border, from east of the Battlefords just about to Lamont, Alta., in the west. “We’re one of the bigger ones in terms of well count and size,” says George Greening of Nexen, one of the volunteers with WCSS. All producers and pipeline companies are mandated to be members of the co-op, and must have staff involved in its operation.

The majority of the gear is meanr for water-borne spills, with approximately 1200 m of booms on hand. That includes several boats, skimmers and trailers.

Three years ago when CN had a rail car spill into Lake Wabamum, west of Edmonton, Greening notes, “A good portion of our equipment was there.”

Maps and diagrams show where the team can deploy from on certain water bodies. For instance, numerous points are marked on the North Saskatchewan River.

If a spill were to occur on that waterway, one of the major things to consider is the current. After a spill is reported, it takes time to get the equipment out to the site. Since the current stops for no man, they must deploy kilometres downstream, allowing time to get there and deploy.

Not just anyone is allowed to operate the boats either. A commercial boat licence is required.

“The company that has the spill is required to clean it up,” Greening explains. They provide the initial response, then hand it over.

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Both wells run horizonally through a layer of sand. At Christina Lake, that puts it about 380 m in depth. This pay zone has fine-grained oilsands and mudstone. While the mudstone slows down the process, it doesn’t otherwise impact it, according to Abatte.

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“Too close to the water zone, you’re going to have water pouring in,” he notes.

If not done right, all the steam produced goes into the water zone.

“We have to make sure all three zones are in equilibrium – top gas, SAGD and bottom water,” he says.

As steam is injected into the well, if forms a V-shaped steam chamber along the length of the well. The top of the V is the top of the pay zone.

The steam chamber starts as a narrow V with steam rising, then widens as the well develops.

Along the outside of the V, bitumen flows down to the bottom point of the V, where the producer well collects it.

“Steam is pretty much the most expensive part of the operation,” Abatte notes, pointing out the Steam-Oil Ratio (SOR)

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That said, Abatte spoke at length about the importance of getting the most from your steam. You don’t want any cool zones, for instance, because you’re wasting steam. “It’s very important to get your entire wellbore hot,” he explains.

“The hotter you can get that oil, the less viscous, the more production,” he says. “If you have steam in your producer well, you have problems.

Once a SAGD well is mature, they enter a “blowdown” phase, where they stop injecting steam, and instead inject gas.

The producer continues to pump oil.

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Propane + CO2 solvent = recovery rates

By Brian Zinchuk Lloydminster – Like the CSI TV show, Jose Alvarez of the Alberta Research Council is looking for the clues the reservoirs in the Lloydminster area are telling us. Using those clues, the ARC is looking at methods of production to follow cold production.

Alvarez addressed the Lloydminster Heavy Oil Symposium on Sept. 11. The symposium was held in conjunction with the Lloydminster Heavy Oil Show.

The first clue, according to Alvarez, has the industry running out of new sites for cold production in the Lloydminster area, tied with a decline in the quality of new wells.

The second clue, he says, is Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) will be needed to sustain producing in the region.

Third, recovery factors of cold production are in the range of eight to 15 per cent, leaving about 90 per cent of the resource underground.

Improvements in technology have lead to plateaus of production. The first, directional drilling, came in the mid-1970s, and lasted for six years. The next came in the 1980s with the introduction of progressing cavity pumps, and it lasted for seven years.

The third plateau started in 1995, with horizontal drilling.

Requirements for enhanced recovery include drive energy to push the fluid to the wellbore, reducing viscosity, and replacing fluids underground.

The Alberta Research Council has been conducting experiments simulating production in the Lloydminster region. “The first thing we tested was thermal,” Alvarez explains. Their simulations found they can produce around a 25 per cent recovery factor in the lab, but that can’t be extrapolated directly to the field. The simulations are likely optimistic, he noted.

Jose Alverez, a researcher with the Alberta Research Council, speaks of promising results with cyclic solvent injection.

Heat losses may also compromise effectiveness.

The next experiment was in using Cyclic Solvent Injection (CSI). The process is similar to Cyclic Steam Stimulation (CSS), where steam is pumped into a well, and then the well produces oil, then more steam is pumped in.

In this case, solvents are pumped in. They are testing to see if it is better to use liquid, gaseous solvents, or a two-phase solvent.

The testing has included carbon dioxide, methane and propane mixtures. The CO2-propane mixtures recovered more oil, according to Alvarez.

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“We got about 55 per cent of the recovery factor,” Alvarez says.

Field pilots are being held at Husky-Edam, with two wells at play. Solvent is being injected into two different zones, the Colony and Waseca zones. Several offset wells are monitored for production gas and composition. The pilot has been running for two years, and recycles the solvent.

“Pilot tests are important for learning,” he says.

Other pilots are being done with Nexen, PTRC, Husky and CNRL. “Each producer s running their own pilot tests but sharing the knowledge with the consortium,” Alvarez says.

He speaks of a circle, where the lab leads to simulation and then the field. That in turn goes back to the simulation and the lab, then back to the field.

Several questions remain.

What solvent blends should be used?

What is the optimal phase – two phase or gaseous?

What solvents are compatible with the heavy oil?

What are the operating strategies for injection and production? Should it be cyclic or continuous injection?

What is the solvent penetration and distribution of solvents. Noting the use of carbon dioxide as a solvent, he says, “Probably we want to leave behind the CO2.”

While propane as a solvent is recovered to an extent, if the propane stays, do you consider it reservoir storage or reservoir losses?

Concluding, Alvarez says, “In order to improve any technology, we have to do pilot tests.”

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While Lance is a third-generation rancher operating out of the Maple Creek region, it is Jayne that provides all of the medical services.

"I trained specifically as an oilfield medic," she explains of her second career. "I have EMR training and I'm licensed to the Alberta College of Paramedics.”

Along with the medical training, Weiss also has all the prerequisite oilfield tickets such as H2S, WHIMIS and TDG. While a lot of paramedics want to work in the city, Weiss' training is specifically for the oil-

patch.

"I wanted to learn as much as I could about the chemicals and the hazards," she says.

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"If a man has experienced a spill we have to ensure they are showered down and bundled up and taken into my unit where we transport them to the nearest EMS who in turn transport them to hospital. We meet them enroute," she says.

An oilfield medical unit consists of either a three-quarter tonne or a one-tonne with 4X4 capacity.

"My mobile treatment centre is a onetonne and has a fibermold treatment area as well as two-stretcher capacity and a jump seat where I would sit or a third patient might sit, and that's all on the back of the truck," she explains.

The unit is stocked much like a regular ambulance with a defibrillator, burn kits, splint kits and many more medical items.

"The whole unit is built very compact and is easily mobile," she says.

Weiss is now in the midst of having another medical unit fabricated and she adds she has a healthy list of very qualified candidates ready to take on the reins for a second operating medical truck. All emergency medical units have to meet occupational safety standards and the Weiss’s had theirs built in Saskatoon.

"We decided to go with the fiber-mold unit because the wooden units can shake apart after a while," she explains.

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Jayne Weiss stands beside one of her mobile medical units. Weiss is a fully qualiÀed oilÀeld medic based in Maple Creek.

some differences in the jobs she takes. Some can be day jobs and on others she's required to stay on site 24 hours a day.

"When I bid into drilling jobs I'm there 24 hours a day," she says.

The wintertime is when Weiss gets most of her 24-hour work.

In the early spring and summer she was busy attending to the City of Medicine Hat's Big Stick shallow gas play and was providing EMS services and monitoring the gate.

"When you're on site you do your regular 12hour shift and sleep at night but you're on call, exactly the same as the city," she explains.

While Weiss has never had to deal with a fatality in the oilpatch, there have been days when workers have been hit with pressure hoses and other days when things didn't go as smoothly as planned.

When looking for business the wife and husband team go online or watch news reports and much of the work

comes to them through word-of-mouth, she explains.

"You have to find out who is the head guy and go to them to submit a bid and go in and give your information," she explains.

Jayne has been in the business for three years now and she says while activity at the start was slow, it is now starting to pick up.

"This winter is going to be crazy, especially in the southern Saskatchewan and Shaunavon regions," she says.

Both Lance and Jayne have been in the region for close to 35 years and are very proud of providing an EMS service to the oil and gas industry.

"We meet all the safety priorities and safety is my highest priority," she adds.

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Story and photos by Brian Zinchuk Lloydminster - Agreeable weather and a booming industry made for a successful Lloydminster Heavy Oil Show Sept. 10 and 11.

Held at the Lloydminster exhibition grounds, the event actually kicked off on Sept. 9, with keynote speaker Pat Carlson of Seven Generations Energy. Carlso spoke of the need to innovated to deal with climate change. Premiers Brad Wall of Saskatchewan and Ed Stelmach of Alberta both addressed the Sept. 9 banquet.

The Petroleum Society’s Heavy Oil Technical Symposium ran in conjunction with the oil show, with half-day sessions in the mornings. This allowed participants to still take part in the show.

Given the very high demand for booths which were sold out long ago, those who laid out the big bucks made the most of it with impressive displays. Weatherford took up both sides of an aisle and made up a large pass-through display, complete with a private meeting area. National Oilwell Varco’s display included spinning progressing cavity pump rotors. At Kudu Industries, you could hand-crank a PC pump with a cut-away wall, allowing you to see just how these pumps work.

Grit Industries had both indoor and outdoor booths. Gerald Ford at the outdoor both handed out music players for visitors to take a self-guided tour, similar to a museum. The music players weren’t to keep, however.

A few companies ended up sharing booths, because they couldn’t get one of their own. ICI Artificial Lift, for instance, shared a booth with A-Plus Machining, while Pipeline News worked with sister publisher JuneWarren. One company noted it took three shows before they were finally able to nail a booth.

The initial throng on the first day was the strongest, but there was a steady flow of people throughout. Outdoor exhibitors were relieved that the weather this time was much more amicable than two years ago, when, they reported, it was cold and generally miserable.

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ngs out the masses barbecues at the outdoor booths. With the amount of food being offered for free, it was a surprise to see much activity at the cafeteria.

“Everyone likes to eat,” noted Steve Mitchell, who does sales and marketing for Bandit Pipeline of Lloydminster.

Mitchell was turning bratwursts on their barbecue, something he ends up doing frequently. It might be at a tournament or a charity function, or lunch for a crew at the end of a job. “It’s our own recipe – a Bandit Brat,” Mitchell explained.

His counterpart, Jeremy Walcer, tossed out dozens of tiny red footballs to passersby. He notes they’ve had an “unreal response,” going through about 450 bratwursts on the first day, and 300 by mid afternoon the second day.

You could tell there are some Saskatchewan Roughrider fans in the crowd.

One lady, when tossed a football, asked, “Don’t you have a green one?”

One of the trade show standards are the give-aways, meant to either draw someone to a booth or remind them of the company. Shopping bags were very popular to carry the rest of the loot. There were plenty of pens, keychains, doodads and knick-knacks. One company working the floor handed out condoms – a “mini-spill kit,” from the company that works in the containment field. Like Bandit, several companies handed out small footballs.

One booth – Foremost Universal – extended the football theme to their whole booth. Trying to get across the idea that their numerous companies are working as a team, each of the booth works donned football jerseys.

Outside displays included everything from semi-vac trucks to pumpjacks.

Gibsons had a vintage oil hauler, lovingly restored. To haul those sorts of loads today, however, would probably require a few more axles. A few booths, like Lloydminster Kenworth, hung large flags from their pickers.

For exhibitors, it was important to be seen. “A lot of our customers come here.

We want to be where our customers are,” notes Ralph Knoske of Thermon Heat Tracing.

Shawn Black, left, and his brother Carey Ànish off the Lloydminster Heavy Oil Show with bags full of give-away loot. One would think it was Halloween.

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Lloydminster - There was plenty of spit and polish in the run up to the Lloydminster Heavy Oil Show.

“A lot of guys say ‘It’s an oil show, don’t worry about making it too clean,” says Texas Lepine, as he cleans the hubs of a coil tubing unit about to go on display. “You know how it goes – make it look

pretty.”

Lepine and Joel Libradilla are cleaning off the truck in the hours before the Lloydminster Heavy Oil Show is about to begin. The hall is a buzz of activity, with forklifts whizzing by, carrying the motors for PC pumps.

Professional exhibit setup crews are on ladders, putting up the high banners

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Graham Bodner is one of those who sets up booths for a living. He works for Derrick Exhibit, an Edmonton company. This show is not really big, he says. They are doing eight booths here.

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Heavy oil development in Alaska looks to Lloydminster Lloydminster – While the north slope of Alaska is known for its light crude production, there is also substantial heavy oil in place, according to Eric Hulm of BP. With a decline in light oil, a shift to heavy oil has cast some eyes to the Lloydminster area for guidance.

“What’s nice about Canada is a lot of this is publicly available,” Hulm notes of drilling data.

BP Alaska has been bringing key consultants, such as Lloydminster’s Kirby Hayes into the planning phases, getting some guidance and making sure they don’t shoot themselves in the foot. The Saskatchewan and Alberta Research councils have also been helpful, according to Hulm.

“We’ve been making a lot of visits to the area as well,” he says, adding BP has been visiting core sample repositories.

In Alaska there are 25 to 35 billion barrels of heavy oil in place, according to Hulm. There are large challenges in recovering that, as depths make steam less effective in thermal recovery techniques.

Water flood and horizontal wells have proven effective.

The area is highly faulted and overlain with 520 to 600 m of frozen subsurface. “The oil is viscous enough to start with,” Hulm notes, before contending with the permafrost.

“We have comparable temperatures to what you see here, but we have twice the depth.”

“We started our jouney at a fundamental level, going back to basics,” Hulm says.

Solution gas drive without sand quickly results in

production declines. Sand production with solution drive includes the creation of wormhole extensions in the sand, acting like new wells. This production method – Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand (CHOPS) – can be terminated by water influx.

Pressure support from the water zone initially increases oil production, but subsequently waters out the well.

Water drive is another possibility, however.

“We think we may be onto something here,” he explains.

Sand production is less than one per cent of the reservoir, and thus not a major consideration, he notes.

Some questions they are looking at include 40 acre spacing – is that merely a surveying legacy, Hulm asks.

Simulation provides direction, but it’s important to get out in the field and test wells, he notes. One of those tests have been short term CHOPS tests. “It’s been a wild ride,” he explains.

“We’re spending a lot of time on seismic,” Hulm notes, explaining they will reshoot surveys after a few years of production.

“The aim at the end of the day is to find a solution for heavy oil production,” Hulm says.

The Arctic in February can be a pretty hostile environment, he notes. “That’s a brutal environment doing what we do day to day up there.”

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Fraser runs pipe Swift Current - Fraser Oilfield Construction runs pipeline.

The company located south of Swift Current is a family affair run by Scott, Jason and Shawn Fraser.

The pipe Fraser Oifield runs is either steel, fiberglass or poly, says Shawn Fraser.

“It all depends on the company’s preference. We do primarily fibreglass, it’s a specialized thing,” he says.

Fraser adds there’s some drilling activity around the Shauanvon area and around Gull Lake and up by the Lake Diefenbaker and near the south Saskatchewan River.

“Mostly what we specialize in is tying into the batteries and connecting their wells into the batteries and running the flow line in between.

Eight inch pipe is the largest of what we 're set up to do and most of what we do is either two, three or four-inch pipe,” he says.

The company has been around for about 25 years now and usually operates with 10 employees.

“Most of them are operators or laborers . We have some welders we contract with us and hire by the job.

With fibreglass or poly we don't need many welders,” he says.

The operators run equipment or trucks, backhoes or graders and side booms. The company also has at its disposal a couple track hoes, a grader

and a side boom a D8 cat, a wheel ditcher, a directional drilling machine, crew trucks and a semi and trailers and pipe trailers.

“Jason and I got into it more and more throughout the years,” says Shawn.

While Fraser describes 2008 as a fairly average year he adds 2006 was probably one of the company’s best years – simply because of business activity levels.

“I guess most companies we generally do the work for were busier at that point. In southwest Saskatchewan there’s a small group of companies to choose from and it’s not a lot like in Estevan or Lloydminster. You have to be in with them or you just don't get the work,” he says.

“As the oil activity increases in southwestern Saskatchewan we've definitely shown our place as a quality pipeline company that does the work in the area and I see in the next little while things are going to increase for sure in activity,” says Fraser.

Fraser adds the company has worked hard over the years to acquire a good reputation.

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How do you run three companies at once?

Consul - Larry McMillan is a busy guy.

When McMillan’s not busy with his mixed farm operation, he has his hands full with two oilfield companies: Southline Gas and Oilfield Services and Chrisnick Oilfield Services.

“We started out on the farm northwest of Consul, now we’re right in the town of Consul,” he says.

Southline Gas and Oilfield Services McMillan has been working in the oilfield under his own name since 1986 and incorporated Southline Gas and Oilfield Services in 1992.

“I was a full-time farmer before that. It was one of the survival things I did to stay on the farm,” he explains.

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A typical day on the job includes keeping the compressors running and processing the gas to go down the pipelines for sale as well as bringing the oil out of the ground and treating it and putting it on a truck for sale.

“We also do battery sites and pipelines as well as well sites,” says McMillan.

One of the company’s more recent projects includes a 21-kilometre of pipelining project, which was completed in six months. The project involved two different pipes, one that was 14 kilometres of plastic pipe and another that was seven kilometres of fiberglass pipe.

“The fibreglass is high pressure on the water injection side and the plastic is a low pressure gas line,” he explains.

The company’s equipment includes a track backhoe, a wheeled backhoe, spreader equipment, picker trucks, graders, crew trucks a

skid steer loader and a D7 Cat. “Our area of operations runs from the USAlberta border to the Cypress Hills and to the east would be Eastend,” he says.

When it comes to the competition McMillan says it all boils down to price point, service and geographic location.

Activity levels in the Consul region are poor now, says McMillan.

“The PFRA doesn’t like us in here in the summertime. There are fire hazards and mud issues and the swift fox ,which is in our region, is a protected animal,” he explains.

Chrisnick Oilfield Services ChrisNick Oilfield Services is the second oilfield company that McMillan has a hand in.

“It’s run out Consul and myself and Glen Lewis are partners in the operation along with our wives Debbie McMillan and Linda Lewis who perform administration for the company,” say

McMillan.

The company was started in 1994 and employs the services of two full-time employees and three part-time employees. Those employees keep one vac truck and three steamers busy.

“The primary use for the vac truck is for the service rigs operating in the area and we’ll use it to suck the casing off the wells and to bring the H2S down, and for transferring the fluids,” he says.

The H2S is gathered and then a line is rolled off and the gas is flared off. With the water and oil emulsion, the vac truck hauls it away to a battery site.

“Nothing is wasted,” says McMillan.

Business for Chrisnick is slow right now but McMillan expects activity will pick up during the winter months.

“Of course, for the steamers the busiest time is when there’s cold weather. When it turns cold I could use 50 of them.”

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High load corridor opens door to Fort Mac Land Fabricating, Force Compression Systems and Mahoney Industries.

Mike Nielsen is sales and estimating manager with Foremost Universal. He explains, “We built a new shop to manufacture units that big,” pointing to a poster of a mammoth vessel.

The vessel was 30 ft. in diameter, 140 ft. long, and weighed 750,000 lbs.

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“Part of our focus is to get more of this large diameter vessel work in Lloydminster,” Nielsen says.

Team approach For the oil show, Foremost Universal booth workers donned football jerseys, following the ‘team’ concept in ‘football team.’

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Oil¿eld construction company also builds gas compressor stations Swift Current - CJ Oilfield Construction is a facility construction company for oil and gas facilities including gas compression stations, oil batteries and it even has a few Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAG-D) Projects under its belt, in the Fort McMurray region.

"Our head office is in Stettler, Alta. and we have quality control programs underway for British Columbia, Alberta

and Saskatchewan. We do work in all three provinces," says Mark Coenen, area manager with CJ. From Swift Current the company covers a large area of southern Saskatchewan, including the Estevan region.

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"We're the mechanical contractors," he says.

A mechanical contractor is responsible for the assembly of the oil battery or setting any prebuilt buildings. CJ Oilfield also fabricates pipeline, buildings and pads and set the tanks; doing the same with gas compression stations and gas plants as well.

"We've been in Swift Current region since 1998. We were in Gull Lake first and moved to Swift Current in 2002," says Coenen.

The company has 12 employees working for it in southern Saskatchewan and with the upcoming project in Estevan will probably grow to 35.

"It will probably round out at a nice even 20," he says.

Coenen adds the company will be looking for additional help from both the Swift Current and Estevan regions.

"This year marks the 25th anniversary of the company. Overall we have between 55 and 60 employees," says Coenen.

The president of the company is Douglas Cumberland. It's a private company with two offices, Stettler and Swift Current and operations throughout the

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Having come originally from Stettler, Coenen has been working out of the Swift Current region since 1998 as area manager.

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It is one of our busiest times right now but it has been busier in the past. Having said that, it is but busier than the last couple of years but at the same time it's not as busy as Estevan or Shaunavon," Coenen specifies.

The company is also starting to add to its clientele list with a few more juniors operating in the area.

"I expect the future in the region will remain the same and get busier and maintain current growth," he says.

The strength behind CJ Oilfield's operations lies in its personnel, says Coenen.

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Maple Creek - Maple Creek Endless Tubing Services owner Dan Holmedal explains one of the main reasons producers are looking into coil tubing is because it’s faster.

“There’s no joints.

We don’t have to couple the pipe together and they don’t have to make a connection. It’s endless drilling for however long the coil lasts and it’s a lot quicker,” he says.

“They are less expensive as well in the drilling part of it. A company like Trailblazer can drill a hole in 18 hours and others are a day or two days,” he says.

Holmedal explains there’s an injector on the back end of the truck, which drives the coil in and out of the hole.

The company is privately held and was established in 1987, it has two field offices, one in Medicine Hat, Alta. and another in Maple Creek, Sask.

The company’s equipment includes seven tubing units in Maple Creek. and another six tubing units in Medicine Hat. Currently, the company is holding its own on equipment acquisitions.

“We’ll wait and see what the next year brings us and whether the market goes up or down,” he says.

The company works on the natural gas side of the business, which Holmedal says has been off for a couple of years now.

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cent and we’re comfortable but not running off our feet. We’re not giving away work,” he says.

Starting as a single truck operation, Holmedal’s can-do attitude combined with the timing of the oil and gas boom in southeastern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan has made Maple Creek Endless Tubing a force to be reckoned with in its sector of the shallow gas industry.

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Oil¿eld ecology expert packs a punch Shaunavon - Think that things haven’t changed as far as how oil and gas companies treat the environment? Well, Bob Phair, area manager with Three Star Environmental Corp. just might ask you to think again.

Three Star is an environmental consulting company engaged in many aspects of the oilfield’s environmental process.

“We’re doing the initial site investigations and sometimes giving recommendations on various projects. We have people who are biologists and agrologists and approach a project either on behalf of the province to help the oil companies approach the guidelines and we’re a liaison between the government and the land owners and the oil com-

panies,” says Phair.

Whereas an oil company might want to know what’s the cheapest way to clean up a spill, Three Star will go in and say, “Here’s your options.”

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“We assess everything and the acquire the proper approvals and make sure the whole area is put back the way it was. Sometimes that takes years but when it’s put back, it’s back the way it was,” he says.

In some cases when rare or endangered species are involved, an energy company might not be allowed into an area or at other times, not allowed in an area until after nesting season is completed.

“We are often delivering bad news to everyone. Oil companies are accepting that now and they sometime have to wait outside of the nesting season,” he says.

Along with performing EPP’s, Three Star is also involved in providing impact assessments.

An impact assessment provides advice to the oil or gas company on how to minimize environmental damage and can also mitigate disturbances, which have already occurred.

While an EPP is sent to a higher level in Regina, to Saskatchewan Environment, impact assessments are generally thought to be a mid-level assessment but at times can be very important as well.

Three Star recently performed an impact assessment for a proposed ethanol plant in Shaunavon and it went all the way to Ottawa.

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An impact assessment has a broader look at the whole scope of operations.

“Basically they’re saying, ‘We’ll let you in but you have to prove your plan is in place.’”

The company also provides impact assessment plans that deal with oil spills around berms and for on-site security as well as dust and traffic control.

Three Stars’ pre-site assessments are considered to be the lowest level of assessment which ascertains local vegetation and soil conditions while approvals are sought from local offices for the proposed drilling or oilfield construction project. The

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Banks are also involved in requesting environmental audits on industrial sites prior to a loan being processed.

The company has further activity in oil well and battery abandonment.

In this scenario, the company monitors the cutting and capping of a well and verifies there is no gas or vapours leaking from the ground. Further, if there was any sloping of the land prior to activity, everything is brought back to its original order.

“That’s why it’s important to do the pre-site,” says Phair.

Three Star also performs pre- and postwater testing, for some landowners are concerned oil or gas drilling might affect their aquifer.

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way the site appears before activity commences as well as topography and whether the project will occur on either native grasslands or on cultivated fields are all noted.

“It can be done very quickly in a couple hours and we have to screen for historical value and for rare and endangered species,” says Phair.

But pre-site assessments can also set off a higher level of environmental assessment.

If, for example, a burrowing owl nest is found, a higher level of assessment can be triggered and at times archeologists or botanists are brought in to provide their advice and assess the situation.

Three Star also provides environmental audits. Phair explains environmental audits occur when one oil or gas company is looking to buy another one — to see if there

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A baby Ferruginous Hawk in a man-made nesting platform with a Trail Blazer drilling rig in the background. The birds are an endangered species and the rig is very high tech, demonstrating business can work in harmony with nature.

Transportation and Logistics Rig Transportation Services Pipe Storage Facility 3297 North Service Road W. Swift Current, SK. S9H 4G5

Direct: 306.773.1660 Toll Free: 888.221.1022 Fax: 306.773.1660 rheitt@flintenergy.com

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Shaunavon Environment pioneers “We find it quickly and it is futuristic and a neat technology. It saves a lot of time,” says Phair.

The company also employs global positioning satellite (GPS) technology to make short work of finding pipelines.

“I don’t know what we did before GPS. We did use flags, but often they were trodden under by cattle,” he explains.

The expertise Phair says he started into the oilfield environmental business way back in 1978. He was in Calgary at the time and the environmental guidelines had just been ratified a year earlier. Responding to an ad to work in the environmental side of the oilfield, Phair learned as he progressed within his career.

Over the years, Phair has become known as an expert in his field, at

times advising the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology as well as the University of Calgary on what environmental studies students should be learning prior to graduation. Along the way, Phair has also been asked to speak on his field of expertise in Ontario and even in Brazil.

He says that while he is an expert on oilfield products and how they affect the land, he adds a project in the Arctic is much different than a project in the jungles of South America and advises that local experts be brought in on a projectby-project basis.

While Phair has 30 years of experience working in his field, Three Star Environmental Corp. has been in existence for five years and Phair has been working with the company for four years now. The

company, based in Shaunavon, has a total of five employees with the head office in Alida, which has eight employees as well as representatives in Assiniboia and Moosomin, while the firm also does some of its work in Alberta.

“The province is definitely into a real growth spurt and consulting companies are struggling to keep up. The oil companies are being patient and hanging on. We’re trying hard to keep up with the workload,” says Phair.

While recent graduates of the environmental studies field can expect to make between $40- and $50,000 a year, the industry is highly competitive and there are many topics to learn even after graduation.

“They have to learn

so many aspects of the industry and the technology, and some are not familiar with the oilfield.

We have to teach them the regulations because you have to be able to advise your client, which is the legal part of it that you have to learn.”

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- Nylon Slings - Ridgid Tools - Pipe Fittings

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PIPELINE NEWS October 2008

Opportunities

in BIGGAR, SK requires quali½ed people for the following positions:

EXPERIENCED WELDERS Tickets an asset. $18-$25/hour DOE.

Career

Progressive Oilfield Company looking for

Semi Vac Operators Scheduled days off.

Health Benefits.

Please fax resumé & abstract

to (780) 808-6393

SANDBLASTER INDUSTRIAL PAINTER Experience in foaming and internal lining an asset.

Relocation to Biggar required.

Send resumé (REFERENCES REQUIRED) to: info@envirotank. com or fax 306-948-5263

Crew Foreman

Experienced FOR LLOYDMINSTER AREA

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 DUTIES: • Daily Operation Of A Light Picker Truck • Pipe-fitting & Construction

HELP WANTED

• Truck Drivers • Equipment Operators • Labourers • Applicants with experience, and a valid Class 3A driver's license preferred.

• Group RRSP Plan • Group Insurance beneÀts package and competitive wages offered.

All inquiries will be kept conÀdential.

These positions are open immediately.

Picker Operator Required

OILFIELD SERVICE LTD.

CONSULTING & CONSTRUCTION

Applicant holding valid safety & apprentice tickets are an asset.

BeneÀt package available.

Fax or email resume to: Fax: 306-636-1537 Email: outlawoil@sasktel.net

Apply in confidence to: Fax (780) 808-2273

GLEN PETERSON CONSTRUCTION LTD.

is currently accepting resumes for the following full time positions:

•

FRONT END LOADER OPERATOR for concrete plant. Willing to train

Apply with resume to: SOURIS VALLEY PAVING INC.

• TRUCK DRIVERS

Box 1627 Estevan, Sask S4A 2L7 Fax: 634-8980

Clean driver's abstract required

Interested applicants can contact Ken at 421-7119

WELL SERVICING

RIG MANAGERS / DRILLERS / DERRICKHANDS / FLOORHANDS

Estevan, Saskatchewan

Eagle Well Servicing is a dynamic and rapidly growing company. We understand that a company is only as good as its people, and we’re proud of the exceptional team we’ve built. If you are looking to become a part of a fast paced and challenging team-based work environment, we are the place for you.

Ask about our competitive pay, excellent employee benefits and opportunities for advancement.

Applicants are invited to submit resumes to brad.bennett@iroccorp.com, fax to (306) 634-8238 or call (306) 421-2377 for more information.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those who will be interviewed will be contacted.

IROC Energy Services combines cutting-edge technology, state-of-the-art, equipment and depth of experience to deliver a product and services offering that’s unrivaled in the oilfield services business. IROC.... we’re ready.

email: careers@iroccorp.com

CE FRANKLIN LTD. CE Franklin Ltd. is the largest supplier of products and services to the Canadian oil and gas industry, and growing. We will achieve leadership through our people, our performance and our partnerships.

The Estevan branch has an immediate opportunity for a Pump Shop Repair person to join their team.

Under direct guidance and supervision of the Branch Manager you will be responsible for achieving the following outcomes: • Tear down & repair of bottom hole pumps • Inspection of BHPs for corrosion, wear and pitting, and make recommendations to customers based on problems identiÀed in the pump repair • Completion of pump reports and entry of pump reports on pump tracking system • Pick up and deivery of BHPs while following established guidelines for transportation • Perform general store and counter duties as assigned by branch manager

CE Franklin offers competitive salary commensurate with experience, competitive beneÀts, and a growing opportunity.

Please forward resumes to:

CE Franklin Ltd. Tim Beatty, Branch Manager Fax: (306) 634-5994 Email: tbeatty@cefranklin.com Visit our website! www.cefranklin.com

PIPELINE NEWS October 2008

ELECTRICAL APPRENTICES & JOURNEYMEN REQUIRED Require safety certiĂ&#x20AC;cates & valid drivers licence.

Competitive wages and beneĂ&#x20AC;ts package.

Fax resume to 637-2181 or deliver to: 62 Devonian Street, Estevan, Sk.

Renegade Oilfield Construction Ltd. Offices in Estevan, SK & Redcliff.

WE ARE CURRENTLY HIRING

â&#x20AC;˘ PIPEFITTERS â&#x20AC;˘ SUPERINTENDENTS â&#x20AC;˘ LABORERS â&#x20AC;˘ EQUIPMENT OPERATORS â&#x20AC;˘ TRUCK DRIVERS Pipeline & facility experience necessary, safety tickets & valid drivers licence preferred, top wages and benefit pkg.

306-461-6569 â&#x20AC;˘ 403-502-6069 Fax resume to: 403-548-3593 EMAIL: renegadeoil@telus.net

Picker Operator Individual must hold valid class 1A driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license and a valid picker certiĂ&#x20AC;cate.

Must be self motivated, able to work in a team environment.

We offer a beneĂ&#x20AC;t package, competitive wages and substances for over night stays away from home.

Premay Equipment LP is an employment equity company.

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Operator and Swamper â&#x20AC;˘ Both positions are permanent â&#x20AC;˘ Full time safety courses an asset Contact: Trever Spearing Ph: 483-7777 Fax: 483-5220 Oxbow, SK

24 Hour Hydro Vac Services

Trucking Ltd.

PRESSURE AND SEMI VAC OPERATORS If you have oilĂ&#x20AC;eld experience and are an enthusiastic learner, join our growing team. We offer competitive wages, scheduled days, full beneĂ&#x20AC;t pkg. Class 3 or 1A, Safety tickets and experience preferred. Apply with current abstract to: 5204 - 63 Avenue (drop off) Lloydminster, AB or FAX: (780) 875-6799

Forward resume to fax (306) 775-2777 or e-mail to lmckinnon@premayequipment.com

www.suretuf.com PLASMA TABLE OPERATORS EXPERIENCED LABOURER Will train qualified candidates.

Applicants must have welding background.

Driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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

Journeyman/Electrical

Apprentices Required â&#x20AC;˘ BeneĂ&#x20AC;t Package â&#x20AC;˘ Safety tickets an asset but not required Mail resume to: Box 730 B Estevan, Sask. S4A 2A6

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Drilling Motors

311 Kensington Avenue, Estevan â&#x20AC;˘ 634-1400

1772 - 1st Avenue NE Weyburn, Sask.

JUSTIN WAPPEL - Division Manager

Contact: Roger Breton Ph: 306-842-5113 or Ph: 780-463-3366

401 Hwy. #4 S. Biggar, Saskatchewan PO Box 879 S0K 0M0 Ph (306) 948-5262 Fax (306) 948-5263 Cell (306) 441-4402 Toll Free 1-800-746-6646 Email: jwappel@envirotank.com www.envirotank.com

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201-2750 Faithfull Ave. Saskatoon Sk. S7K 6M6

Call Linda for more information Specializing in well site and pipeline surveys

Estevan Trophy & Engraving

Tel: 306-382-5075 Fax: 306-382-5073 Cell: 306-292-9388 d.fox@sunbeltnetwork.com

Phone/Fax: 634-6005 Email: estevantrophy@sasktel.net

www.sunbeltnetwork.com

Yorkton 306.783.4100

Swift Current 306.773.7733

Edmonton 800.465.6233

Weyburn 306.842.6060

Lloydminster 780.875.6130

Calgary 866.234.7599

Regina 800.667.3546

Medicine Hat 403.528.4215

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Lloyd Lavigne â&#x20AC;˘ Kirk Clarkson Owners/Managers 5315 - 37th Street Provost, AB T0B 3S0

6506 - 50th Avenue Lloydminster, AB

Phone: (780) 875-6880

Phone: (780) 753-6449

Fax: (780) 875-7076

24 Hour Service Specializing in Industrial & Oilfield Motors

Dwight G. Blomander, CFP â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘

Life Insurance Disability Insurance Critical Illness Insurance Employee BeneĂ&#x20AC;t Plans Tel: (306) 761-7506 â&#x20AC;˘ Fax: (306) 352-9474 E-mail: dwight.blomander@gwl.ca Toll Free: 1-888-495-7275 Cellular: (306) 421-1935 THE

Great-West Life ASSURANCE COMPANY

600, 2010-11th Avenue, Regina, SK S4P 0J3

Gordon Harty Box 95 Marwayne, AB T0B 2X0

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(780) 875-9802 (780) 847-3633 (780) 847-2178 Fresh Water Hauling Custom Bailing & Hauling

PIPELINE NEWS October 2008 FAST ACCURATE FRIENDLY SERVICE STAMPS & MARKING DEVICES Box 94 Lloydminster, SK/AB S9V 0X9 PH: 780-875-4878 FAX: 780-875-4809 EMAIL: rubberduck@telus.net

STAMPS STAMPS STAMPS Address stamps, Business Stamps, Corporate Seals, Oilfield Stamps, Specialty Crafting Stamps, French Stamps, Spanish Stamps and much much more...

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Well Service Highway 39 East, Estevan Phone: 637-2060 Fax: 637-2065

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#5044 2008 Chevrolet Tahoe LTZ GM Co. Car Demo

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#5080A 2008 Chevrolet Trailblazer

#Consignment 2008 GMC SLT 3/4

$29,900*

#C 2008 Chevrolet LTZ Crew Dually 4X4 Diesel

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#Consignment 2003 Pontiac Montana 7 pass

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