Pipeline News November 2008

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Sask. leading nation in job growth Eighteen thousand more people were working this September over last September in Saskatchewan according to Statistics Canada.

Full-time employment reached staggering levels when the number was entered at 15,400 more jobs over this September over last.

“The record employment levels are evidence that Saskatchewan people are talented, driven and committed to a secure and prosperous future for our province. I am optimistic that we will continue to see impressive employment levels, as we all work together to sustain our economic momentum,” said Advanced Education, Employment and Labour Minister Rob Norris.

Sask. land sales top $1 billion mark October sale brings in $223 million

By Stephan Burnett Pipeline News Regina - For the first time in Saskatchewan’s history the annual revenue from the sale of Crown petroleum and natural gas rights has topped the billion dollar mark.

Energy and Resources Minister Bill Boyd said the land sale is the latest vote of confidence in our resources as well as Saskatchewan’s strong business climate.

“This tremendous response by industry will lead to high levels of oil and gas development activity in our province for years to come. And that means more jobs and more economic benefits for Saskatchewan people,” said Boyd.

Even though oil prices have dropped in half over the last couple of months Roy Schneider a spokesman with Ministry of Energy and Resources says the department takes a lot of encouragement from the October sale results.

October’s sale brought in $223.4 million in revenue for the province -- the third best result on record. The year-to-date revenue figure from land sales now stands at a record $1.07 billion, with one sale remaining in the year. The top five land sales in Saskatchewan’s history have been the five that have taken place in 2008.

Schneider adds while the lower price for oil is grounds to assume there may be a nominal cooling off period in the market, he added the October results are “no small vote of confidence.

The industry is voting with dollars and that’s what we like to see.”

The mind boggling overall land sale result and continued positive figures for October despite the falling price of oil is indicative of a combination of the regulatory environment as well as comparable levels of industry taxation, said Schneider.

“More can be extracted from pools in EOR in the Bakken and Lower Shaunavon. The province has untapped potential. Some of these licenses are being issued where there hasn’t been a drill bit in 40 years,”

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SaskEnergy Rate Increase SaskEnergy got approval from the Provincial Government on October 15 to increase the delivery rate request for two dollars per month on top of the basic charges.

The increase, with the commodity hike of $8.61 per Gigajoule, will bring the regular bill up around $19.50 per month which is a 20 per cent increase for the average residential consumer.

he said.

Schneider added while some industry analysts are predicting an 11 per cent drop in drilling activity throughout the country, Saskatchewan forecasters are predicting a modest increase in drilling activity for the coming year.

“Keep in mind the five land sales so far this year are greater than the last nine years put together. From 1999 to 2007 is less than what we’re at in ‘08,” he said.

According to a government news release, October’s sale featured 49 petroleum and natural gas exploration licenses that sold for $164.5 million and 344 lease parcels that brought in $58.9 million.

The report goes on to state the Weyburn-Estevan area again attracted the most bids with sales of over $191.7 million, reflecting the continuing strong interest in the Bakken play. The Swift Current area was next at $22.3 million, followed by the KindersleyKerrobert area at $6.6 million and the Lloydminster area at $2.8 million.

The department states the highest price paid for a single parcel was just under $33.9 million. Standard Land Company Inc. acquired this 1,554-hectare exploration license of deeper rights, located 28 kilometres east of Estevan. The highest price on a perhectare basis was a new record at $46,503. Pioneer Enviro Group Ltd. acquired this 65-hectare lease parcel of deeper rights nine kilometres north of Forget in southeast Saskatchewan, for more than $3 million.

The next sale of Crown petroleum and natural gas dispositions will be Dec. 8.

This tremendous response by industry will lead to high levels of oil and gas development activity in our province for years to come.

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Red Pheasant Cree Nation protests Alberta Clipper reported near Luseland, at the right-of-way. First Na By Brian Zinchuk tions of Treaty Four in the south and Treaty Six in the Pipeline News Kerrobert – The fall weather was absolutely perfect west were protesting, seeking their share of the pie in on Oct. 1, with temperatures in the 20s. A light breeze the Enbridge Alberta Clipper project.

Alberta Clipper is one of the largest construction caused the spectacular orange leaves to rustle slightly.

It was pipelining weather in the fall most spreadbosses projects underway in Saskatchewan, with two major contractors and hundreds of workers per contractor for could only dream of.

Yet within eyeshot of the Techint/Sommerville each of the two spreads.

Both contractors are unionized under four internayard at Kerrobert, two dozers sat idle. The mid-afternoon fall sun, low in the sky compared to the summer, tional construction trades unions - Laborers Internagave a beautiful glow to the D8T parked just west of the tional Union of North America, International Union yard, a dozer that would normally be creating copious of Operating Engineers, International Brotherhood of Teamsters amounts of dust and the United as it stripped topAssociation of soil. A large Deere Journeymen and excavator similarApprentices of ly rests along the the Plumbing highway. and Pipefitting Their opIndustry of the erators are in the United States campsite on the and Canada. south side of KerAs close-shop robert. A couple unionized workbeers are cracked places, hiring is mid-afternoon. done through the At a time when union halls, as opthe crew should posed to the more be making four to typical ‘gate hire,’ five kilometres of where someone chainage (progcan walk up to a ress) a day, beers worksite and seek are being drained. out a job.

There wasn’t With their much else to do, as a teepee sat at A teepee blocks the entrance to the Techint/Somerville yard at chief, Sheldon the entrance of Kerrobert on Oct. 1, with about 50 protesters blocking access to Wuttunee of Red the construction the site. The protests shut down work on Enbridge’s Alberta Clip- Pheasant Cree per project for the better part of a week.

Nation, having yard, a second Photo by Brian Zinchuk just left the Kerat the southwest robert site, the corner. In front of them, and amongst dozens of cars, trucks, a bus and dozen or so protesters sitting in front of the gate were a large passenger van, members of the Red Pheasant reluctant to speak to Pipeline News. An older gentleCree Nation sat or milled around. There would be no man repeatedly said the chief would speak for them, as they wanted one story out. He motioned for the others work today, the third “day of action,” at Kerrobert.

About 50 protesters could be seen. Most were to keep quiet. Before he became more insistent on that men, but some families were present, and a few older point, some basic points were communicated.

Of that dozen or so, with ages from the 20s to women. A truck with the markings of “Ahtahkaoop Peacer Keeper” sits to the side. Two Mounties were 50s, many wanted to work on the project. Did they present, a staff sergeant from Kindersley and a cor- belong to one of the four unions that the contractors poral. The RCMP have been maintaining a constant are certified under? A few did – one noting he had taken operator training in Ontario, while another said presence during the all-hours protest.

Kerrobert and White City, the yard sites for he wanted to be a labourer. However, most had not apTechint/Sommerville and Waschuk Pipeline respec- plied for union membership prior to that. “They take tively, were blockaded for the last days of September care of that for us,” one noted. ɸ Page A8 and the first days of October. Another protest site was

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Sask. Uranium development The Government of Saskatchewan has established a Uranium Development Partnership to oversee the possibilities for added development of the uranium industry.

The partnership is contrived of 12 members from the University of Saskatchewan, University of Regina, urban and rural municipalities, business, labour, First Nations, the environmental community and Canada’s nuclear industry.

This is brought into affect due to the world and Canada moving to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions.

The Government of Saskatchewan, through their Crown Corporations, will provide up to $3 million in funds.

Sask. population continues to rise Four thousand faces moved to Saskatchewan in the second quarter of 2008 raising the total over the past year to nearly 16,000. According to Statistics Canada the population in Saskatchewan has risen to 1,015,985 as of July.

“Saskatchewan today is a very different place than it was jsut a few short years ago when more people were moving out,” said Premier Brad Wall.

“Today, there is excitement and opportunities and optimism, and that is attracting people from all over Canada.”

Wall also mentioned that the consistent and sustained population growth is one more sign of the province’s economic transformation.

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A ray of light slices stormy economic clouds In the dying days of the federal election, with the world supposedly collapsing all around us and governments stepping in everywhere to rescue us from eternal damnation, a little glimpse of light peeked out from under the mountain of hyperbole.

The day after the Globe and Mail’s website ran a headline of “‘Armageddon’ in the oil patch,” the Saskatchewan government put out its bi-monthly Crown land sales report. Its headline was a little different in tenor than the Globe’s, noting “Revenue tops $1 billion from record land sale year.”

Saskatchewan Energy and Resources reported its third best sale ever, in a year that had set two records already. The Oct. 6 haul brought in $223.4 million in revenue, tipping the scale at over a billion in sales this year. There’s still one more sale to go in 2008.

To be fair, the closing date for postings for the October sale was June 18, and the sale notice was published on July 24. But land sale bids were accepted up to 4 p.m. on Oct. 6, right in the middle of the mayhem that has been gripping financial markets the world over.

Guess what folks, there’s still oil here, and it’s still worth something.

The Globe and Mail article on falling values of share prices in the energy sector should not be alarming. Yes, values have dropped substantially. But they also grew to phenomenal heights in a short order, essentially creating a bubble. Valuations may be lower now, but they are likely a little more realistic. That’s not such a bad thing.

Basing economic decisions on unstainable numbers is bound to lead to problems.

We’re also a long, long way from the depression

talk that sprung up in October. Unemployment rates in Canada were very low before the storm hit, and even lower in the States. I recently drove by a fast food restaurant that had closed its doors – not because they didn’t have the sales, but because they couldn’t find workers. It’s hard to swing a dead cat at a business luncheon these days and not hit someone who has had to import workers, because they couldn’t find enough people locally. That’s not a depression, folks.

Something else to note is where the land sales have been occurring over 2008. A little spreadsheet work reveals 81.8 per cent of the sales – a whopping $875.5 million, is in the Estevan-Weyburn area. Lloydminster has continued to putter along in the $2 million range, with $2.8 million in the most recent sale. Swift Current saw another jump in sales to $22.3 million. KindersleyKerrobert was close to it’s average for the year, bringing in $6.6 million.

These numbers show that work is still coming along in all of Saskatchewan’s petroleum producing areas. But more importantly, it shows the phenomenal strength of the Bakken oil play.

Let’s not forget that here. The conventional wisdom is that for every dollar spent on these land sales, $7 is spent on developing it. If you don’t develop your property in a few years, you lose it. That means there is a lot of money that will be spent in the Estevan-Weyburn area, and a lot more will come out of it as the pumpjacks get going.

Southeast Saskatchewan is going to keep this province humming for a long time yet, despite what the doom and gloomers cry.

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Opinion Is the joke on the investor?

In mid-October, I heard a lot of jokes about share prices.

The funny thing was they came from people seeking investment money.

One was at a presentation by 49 North Resources, the second came from Alter NRG. Both are looking at developing serious projects in the coming years.

Alter NRG is developing a power plant north east of Edmonton, and plans on a gasification plant near Fox Creek, Alta. 49 North Resources is investing in a number of resource development projects throughout Saskatchewan.

The presentations spoke about the benefits of each of their projects and long term, positive prospects. However, the common thread was the reality of the market upheaval and its impact on the projects.

Each speaker noted that capital-intensive projects were being set back several months to a year. It was just the reality of the situation.

They also joked about shares being low, and perhaps being a bargain to buy. That part is not so funny.

That might not be such a bad idea.

Stephen Harper was lambasted mercilessly during the election for suggesting there might be buying opportunities, but he was right. There will be some investments worth snatching up.

From the top of the pile Brian Zinchuk

We saw that on Oct. 20, with a surge in the market, and a number of energy companies made double digit jumps.

The difficult thing is timing. Who knows when we will hit the bottom? Maybe we already have?

Maybe it’ll drop another 30 per cent. Maybe it’ll gain another 30 per cent.

The story goes if that if someone actually knew what was going to happen, they would already be rich.

What should not be lost is that companies are still trying to do business. They need to raise capital to keep this economy rolling. I’d hate to be the guy up there asking for money. I give them credit. It’s gotta

be tough to ask people to part with their hard earned money in the middle of a financial hurricane.

But mark my words, some people will be buying, and they are going to make a killing in the long run.

I keep thinking of the Christmas movie, It’s a Wonderful Life. While the common folk are making a run on the bank, George Bailey points out that Mr. Potter, the villain of the story, is buying at pennies on the dollar.

If I had some money to throw around, I’d like to jump in right about now, and see what happens.

There’s just that little problem of having money to throw around.

A man I consider wise in many ways told me as I type this that you should consider any money put into the stock market lost. I’ve heard the same about any money carried into a casino.

The share prices on these companies may be down now, but I don’t expect that is going to continue forever. When they do turn around, the joke’s going to be on those who sold low.

But what do I know? If you follow my financial advice, you’ve got your own problems.

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

Industry is voting with their wallets We’re weathering the storm Business with Burnett Stephan Burnett

By Stephan Burnett Crude prices are down but the market in Saskatchewan will only be marginally affected and we’ll be able to weather this storm, thanks in no small part to the work of our provincial government.

Roy Schneider a spokesman with Ministry of Energy and Resources says the department takes a lot of encouragement from the October sale results which brought in $223 million in revenue for the province.

The industry is voting with their pocketbooks and that’s the way we like it, said Schneider.

Schneider adds while the lower price for oil is grounds to assume there may be a nominal cooling off period in the market, he added the October results are “no small vote of confidence.

“Keep in mind the five land sales so far this year are greater than the last nine years put together. From 1999 to 2007 is less than what we’re at in ‘08,” he said.

It’s good to know that industry analysts like Schneider are saying the drilling activity in Saskatchewan will only be marginally affected.

So despite the gloom and doom, the industry will continue on with only a slight correction in drilling

figures for 2009.

Other companies such as Crescent Point had the foresight to hedge against this outcome.

“We’re on a 3.5 year hedge program, so we’ve protected our prices so that if oil falls to $60 we have hedges on at $85 and $90 a barrel,” said Trent Stangl, VP of marketing and investor relations for Crescent Point. “Not as many companies hedge as high as we do. We’re hedging out to the first quarter of 2012 and when you have that hedge position it provides a lot of confidence to maintain distribution every month.”

On the political front everything is progressing as it should.

Premier Brad Wall receives an ‘A+’ on the political report card for reducing taxes and paying off $1 billion in debt at the same time.

“When we took office less than one year ago, the debt stood at nearly $7 billion,” Wall said. “By the end of the year, our government will have reduced that debt burden by $2.6 billion, or nearly 40 per cent.”

According to government sources, Wall noted that the U.S. National Debt Clock in New York recently ran out of digits, as the U.S. debt hit $10 trillion.

“We don’t have a debt clock like that in Saskatchewan, but if we did, you would see the debt going down by $7 million a day, $300,000 an hour, or $5,000 a minute. This reduction in debt will save Saskatchewan about $900 million in interest payments over the next five years - which will pay for most of the historic income tax reduction I announced earlier this week.”

Wall said his government’s goal is to wipe out those interest payments entirely by eliminating the provincial debt.

“I’d like Saskatchewan to have a debt clock with exactly one digit - zero,” Wall said.

The lower taxes will come in the form of increased personal exemptions - the amount of money a person can earn before starting to pay income tax.

Government sources state the Basic Personal Exemption and the Spousal Exemption will each increase by $4,000 while the Child Tax Credit amount will increase by $2,000 per child. This will mean a tax saving of $440 per year for an individual, or $1,320 per year for a working family with two children.

“A working family with two children can now earn up to $41,300 before they start to pay any provincial income tax,” Wall said. “That’s the highest level of any province and it’s one more reason Saskatchewan is the best place in Canada to earn a living and build a life.”

This move should instill renewed confidence in the province that our government is on the right track.

Federally, as predicted, Prime Minister Stephen Harper was re-elected taking all but one of Saskatchewan’s seats. Even more exciting than the re-election result is the fact that the government is working toward a free trade agreement with the EU. You have to give Harper an ‘A’ on the report card for that as well.

“In the current global economic climate, we agreed that closer economic cooperation with key partners is becoming more important than ever,” Prime Minister Harper said in a recent release. “A recently completed Canada-EU joint study indicates that liberalized trade in goods and services has the potential to boost Canada’s economy by $12 billion within seven years following the implementation of the agreement.”

In the end, even though crude prices are down and the world economic output may look gloomy, we can take solace in the fact that the Canadian Prairies and Saskatchewan in particular are uniquely positioned to weather the storm.

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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.

W. Brett Wilson is the founder, managing director and chairman of the board of FirstEnergy Capital Corp. The North Battleford native, who now lives in Calgary, founded the company in 1993 with three partners. It has since grown to become the leading investment dealer focused on Canada’s vibrant energy sector.

The father of three children, Wilson is a philanthropist who, it’s said, loves to throw splashy parties, especially if it’s on behalf of a deserving charity.

This year, he became a member of the Dragon’s Den, a CBC production that listens to entrepreneurs pitch their products while looking for investment capital.

Always a risk taker, W. Brett Wilson has taken a few of the deals, and hopes to take many more. or your father in the way you turned out, what would it be?

Wilson: My mom died 21 years ago. I always PN: What is it about giving away money that in- thought my mother was extremely outgoing and my spires you so? dad was reasonably reserved. When Mom died, we W. Brett Wilson: Well, there’s an old Indian discovered Dad was reasonably outgoing, it’s just that proverb that all that is not given is lost. And I really Mom was just the dominant force in terms of her take that to heart and believe that when you die there personality and style. I’m pretty proud to say I picked are three things you can do with your money. You up on the best traits of both. can take it with you, the second is you can give it to PN: Was there anything in particular about growyour children, and the third thing is you can give it ing up in rural Saskatchewan that made you into the away, to charities, friends or whatever. Those are the person you are today? only three choices. Let’s address the first one: Taking Wilson: I guess in terms of my roots there were it with you. I always recommend people take $1,000 two things that happened. We lived in low-rental bills because you can get more in the coffin. housing for the first few years of my life in North Second advice is please don’t get cremated, be- Battleford. Low rental housing and making do with cause at some point the kids are going to want to dig hand-me-down clothes most of my youthful life. Was you up. That takes care of taking it with you. Second, I worse off for it? No. I wanted to do stuff. I wanted in terms of giving it to your kids, it’s almost proven to wear some of the clothes like the other kids. The that overendowing your children will probably set other thing that was challenging for me is I was acthem back, not move them forward. celerated a grade, moved up a grade. The idea was to There’s a reasonable amount and no one really enhance the quality of education, but what it really knows what it is. Warren Buffet had a great line. He did was fail to recognize the emotional development wants to give his children enough money so they can of a small child relative to social and physical versus do anything, but not so much that they do noth- intellectual. I was comfortable with the work, but I ing. That concept is difficult to apply in practice, but didn’t belong in a grade above. the reality is you want to leave your children with PN: Libraries are full of stories about entrepreenough that you’ve cushioned them against some of neurs who were high school dropouts who went on to the tougher times, but not taking away the joy of life, become billionaires. What kind of value do you place on which is creating your own path, your own route, your your stint at the University of Saskatchewan? own destiny.

Wilson: Invaluable. There’s another great line PN: How many children do you have? that I enjoy. The B students hire the A students to Wilson: Three — 17, 20 and 23. go out and get the C students working. It’s not about PN: What did you learn about the art of the deal purely academic performance. It’s about the rounded from your car salesman father? package. I know when I’m hiring, I’m always interWilson: It still comes down to making the call. ested in the person, not the transcript. I want to see The guy who gets on the phone and asks for the order people who have excelled, whether in church, choir gets the order. If you’re going to wait for the phone to or Cub Scouts or starting a small business or doing ring, as Jimmy Pattison would put it, you’re going to charity work or working on the student newspaper, be turned out at the end of the month. or active in sports, or coaching younger kids. I want PN: And in a similar vein, what characteristics people who have done more than just ride on the did you have instilled by your mother being a social bus. worker?

PN: Stamps or Riders, or do you care?

Wilson: Oh, her sense of community, her sense Wilson: Next question. (laughs). No, it’s hard of what’s right. I still remember as a kid my dad walk- not to cheer for the Stamps when you live in Calgary, ing her across the picket line when the Saskatchewan but it’s impossible not to cheer for the Riders when Government Employees Union was on strike. My you’re from Saskatchewan. mom would go, ‘I don’t care if I get paid or not, the PN: How has FirstEnergy Capital Corp. evolved people I’m working for need me today as much as from your original startup plan? they did yesterday or as much as they will tomorrow.’

Wilson: It’s evolved exactly as we dreamt it would.

So she would cross the picket lines to be there for the When we started the firm 15 years ago, our vision is people. I don’t think she realized at the time the im- we would have a full service investment bank, focused pact that would have on me in my later life. Not that on energy, capable of serving every size of constituI’m anti-union, it’s more that I understand the needs ency in the oil and gas industry in Canada. Some of and obligations of doing what’s right. our competitors at the time said we’ll work with your PN: If you had to say you’re closer to your mother till you’re a couple of hundred million market cap and

then we’ll let you work with bigger dealers and we said, ‘No, we’re going to set our firm up and manage the relationships no matter how small or how large they are.’ And that’s exactly what’s happened.

PN: How do you rate your level of risk-taking, and has it changed over the years?

Wilson: That’s an interesting question when it comes to evaluating entrepreneurs and the whole concept of risk-taking. I often suggest entrepreneurs simply view risks differently. I take risks that my father would question or someone outside our business would question. I look at it and go, ‘it’s inevitable.

It’s a given. It’s what should happen.’ So my judgment against that risk is different. So it’s not that I necessarily get a thrill about taking a great risk, it’s that I evaluate that risk differently. And sometimes entrepreneurs . . . that’s their failure. They don’t see the train coming down the tunnel. ‘The tunnel’s big, I can step around it.’ Not always. But again, sometimes without their willingness to take a flyer on themselves, to invest in themselves, to believe in themselves, sometimes there’s some great businesses that wouldn’t happen.

PN: What’s been your favourite deal?

Wilson: Probably two that are memorable. One was starting FirstEnergy with Jim Davidson, Murray Edwards and Rick Grafton. Probably one of the most pivotal deals and in terms of creating significant wealth, the deal getting us in the power business when my partner Bruce Chernoff and I partnered with Maxim to buy the Milner power plant.

We took great risk on that one. Even WE thought we were taking great risk on that one. It’s been a great reward.

PN: How about your worst mistakes, or have you had any?

Wilson: Worst mistake was not dealing with people issues quicker. It’s probably a common failure in most businesses. Some of my very few regrets in life relate to not dealing with people issues and relationship issues.

PN: How heavily is your company involved in the Canadian oil patch?

Wilson: FirstEnergy is one of the key players in research, sales and trading, and financial advisory services.

PN: So the last year must have been almost hell for you, with the sputtering economy, the price of oil going up and down. What’s it been like?

Wilson: We did our 10th record year in a row.

What do the next 12 months look like? With the economy slowing down, commodity prices plummeting, access to capital plummeting, the cost of capital rising. It’s going to be a challenge. Fortunately, we’ve got our firm up and we’re . . . we don’t have many big concerns.

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PN: How did your appearance on the CBC show, Dragon’s Den, come about?

Wilson: Dragon’s Den came about because of Arlene Dickinson. She is one of the other Dragons, and suggested to the producers that they should take a shot at the Prairie boy who might have an interest in playing the game.

PN: How did she know you?

Wilson: We just met through friends. She probably showed up at my house for one of my birthday parties two years ago. I do a large charity event called the garden party, which is effectively my birthday party. I’m pretty sure she came to it a couple of times.

PN: As a Dragon, what are a couple of the things you look for in an aspiring entrepreneur?

Wilson: People with passion. That’s the first, second and third thing I look for. I invest in people. The business that we’re investing in . . . I’d like to know a little about it, but I won’t know as much as they do.

And I’ll lay on what knowledge I have, but I’m investing in the person, not the business.

PN: How have you been accepted on the show?

Wilson: They were great. The first couple of days of shooting, I did four or five deals and showed the people that I was going to be there to stay. But the other dragons are great. Their one-screen personalities are very similar to their off-screen personalities.

Kevin O’Leary’s a tough nut on-screen and a tough nut off-screen, but he’s really bright and really easy to work with.

PN: I love that show. Did you watch it before you got involved with it?

Wilson: A couple of times, but I thought it was a little bit harsh, the way they treated the entrepreneurs.

I don’t watch a lot of TV. My TV starts at 11:30.

PN: It seemed to me to be very negative, that they turned down way more deals than they should have.

Wilson: As part of my training, I was told to watch the Season 2 shows and I sat with a friend of mine down in the States and I’m looking up and saying, ‘I would have done that deal.’ ‘I would have done that deal.’ ‘I would have done that deal.’ So it told me there was an opportunity for someone who was a little more aggressive to get a deal done. I take very much a portfolio approach to investment. I’m not afraid of

losing money, but I’m also quite confident of my judgment. I’m going to win more than I lose.

PN: How time-consuming is your Dragon Den obligations?

Wilson: We were shooting for a couple of weeks and it was pretty intense back in May and June. Since then, it’s been handling media queries and follow-up in terms of getting the deals closed, but I’ve got a team set up to do it. Basically doing Dragon’s Den type deals is what I’ve been doing for the past 15 years.

PN: So they do all the season in one shot and then show them over the fall and winter, is that right?

Wilson: Yeah, they cut and paste it. We interviewed 192 pitches, or entrepreneurs this year, and I think they’re going to use 150 of them and turn them into 11 shows.

PN: I saw the one about the golf spikes that click back up into the shoe so they don’t mark up the greens. I thought that was kind of neat.

Wilson: Good concept. As long as the patent holds, we’ll get something going with them.

PN: If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you choose?

Wilson: I’d use Calgary as my base camp and then I would hop around the world. That’s what I do do.

PN: I read in the Globe and Mail a couple of weeks ago that you bought a soccer team in England. What’s that all about?

Wilson: It’s a football team (mock indignation).

PN: Sorry.

Wilson: That’s OK. We have some fun with that.

You know, I was interviewed by the British press and I had to put the word ‘football’ on my computer, so I wouldn’t screw up and call it soccer. No, there was an opportunity through a friend. I was looking at evaluating a U.S. hockey team and I thought, let’s look at comparable evaluations and see what cash flow multiples and marketing opportunities there are and as I started looking closer I saw that Derby (County) was actually a diamond in the rough and I was very interested and that led to a series of negotiations, and we closed.

PN: Are you a 100 per cent owner of that team?

Wilson: No, not at all. I’m the largest single share-

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holder, but there’s a group of six or seven people.

PN: Have you watched them play yet?

Wilson: I was over to watch them play Manchester United last spring. We’ll get over there again with my son and daughter.

PN: How has being a prostate cancer survivor changed your life?

Wilson: Any time the word ‘cancer’ comes into your life, you have to think twice about how much time you have left, and what your values are and what’s important to you. Cancer was a wonderful wakeup call for me and I can also say I’m glad I got prostate cancer when I did because now I don’t have to worry about it.

PN: What is the W. Brett Wilson Centre for Entrepreneurs all about?

Wilson: That was a concept created by Grant Isaac. He’s the dean of the Business School at the University of Saskatchewan. He was aware I was willing to put money into the university. I had said I hadn’t seen anything that had really sparked my interest and within 48 hours he was back with something that truly sparked my interest and they have run with it.

PN: You give them scholarships . . .?

Wilson: I gave them a million dollars over four years. They’re using that to seed the centre, get the business building entrepreneurship off the ground and see what they can do to make it all happen.

PN: You’ve climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, you’ve got enough money to keep you comfortable forever and you have a loving family. What’s one thing you want to do that you haven’t done yet?

Wilson: Oh, there’s a fair bit of the world I still want to see.

PN: Where haven’t you been? Australia, New Zealand, you’ve probably been there.

Wilson: Yeah. Southeast Asia’s about the only place.

PN: You love to travel, eh?

Wilson: In the last 10 years, we’ve been to 30, 35 countries with my kids.

PN: Last question: What’s the ’W’ stand for?

Wilson: Same as my dad. My father is William George, he goes by Bill. I’m William Brett, I go by Brett.

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Clipper sees stand still near Kerrobert ɺ Page A3 Earlier that morning, a stop at the Red Pheasant band office revealed a full parking lot and a line up out the door and down the steps. “Cheque day,” a young man in his 20s says, a beer in his hand as he gets out of the passenger seat of a car in the parking lot where he is sitting with a friend. A little later a Mountie would pull out of that same parking lot, not likely aware with what she had just missed.

At the campsite half a mile down the road from the protest, several of the

idled workers were curious as to what was going on.

They, too, were reluctant to say much on the record.

But it was clear there was general displeasure that they were not working.

In the mean time, A row of campers belonging to pipeliners idled by the protests. For many, all they could do was crack electricians were busy doa beer and wait until the situation was resolved. ing the final wiring for approximately 50 new not been a shutdown of Federation of Saskatch- of the dispute. On Oct. 4, munities,” Bellegarde said.

Glenn Herchak of ewan Indian Nations the Saskatoon StarPhoecampsites, with win- work.

Enbridge noted on Oct. nix reported Edmund Media reports indinoted, “Treaty Four and terized plumbing and 16 that discussions are onBellegarde of Treaty 4 Treaty Six Chiefs agree cated Enbridge and First high-amperage service to support the pipeliners Nations officials spent 15 to an “interim agree- as saying Enbridge had going, and didn’t want to campers well into the fall. hours in meetings on Oct. ment” with Enbridge Inc. agreed to provide not only get into too much detail Those sites were largely 2. Those meetings would Chiefs, supporters and of- training, but also living on what was being disficials from Enbridge will allowances and transpor- cussed. The protests came still open, but would likely bear fruit.

On Friday, Oct. 3, a gather at the Waschuk site tation costs of trainings. down after an agreement have been filling rapidly by this point, had there press release issued by the for the end to the “days of How many individuals on initial terms.

In broad strokes, Herwill receive skills training action” occupations.

“Chiefs and En- hasn’t been determined, chak said they agreed to bridge officials will par- the StarPhoenix reported, look at additional training ticipate in a pipe cer- but more discussions will and education opportuniemony at the Waschuk also take place over some ties and job placements for the First Nations comsite, to formalize what is long-term proposals.

“We’re looking at munity. He also referred called a new “alliance.”

Enbridge officials will equity in future projects to building careers in then join Chiefs on horse- of this pipeline and other pipeline related jobs.

The project is still in back in ceremonial walk energy projects that Eneast on the #1 Highway to bridge has and looking at its early stages, and there are approximately 175 abbring an end to the “days some of their assets.

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Haulin’ tanks Diamond B Transport could be found running a convoy of tanks for GLM Industries in Battleford westbound on Highway 16. No word as to whether Paul Brandt’s “Convoy” was playing on any of the stereos.

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Lloyd. land sales creep along Lloydminster – Crown petroleum and natural gas land sales for the Lloydminster region in October have continued a trend of hovering around the $2 million mark, this time totalling $2,765,246.

The August sale, at $8.7 million was the sole blip for the Lloydminster region this year, with February, April and June sales all coming in around the $2 million mark.

No conventional exploratory licenses were up in this auction, although there were eight oil sands parcels available in Northern Saskatchewan, just across the border from Fort McMurray. Of those 63,584 hectares available, none were taken.

There were no bids, according to Saskatchewan Energy and Resources.

This was a similar result to the August sale. At that time, oilsands parcels were bid on, but no one coughed up what the province thought they were worth, and thus none sold.

Of the 29 leases posted, 26 sold, totalling 4,352 hectares of 4,497 hectares posted. They went for an average of $635 per hectare ($257 per acre).

Scott Land and Lease Ltd. was the big spender in the Lloydminster region, purchasing $538,768 to aquire four parcels.

The top price for a single lease was paid by O & G Resource Group Ltd. They paid $455,016 for a 259 hectare (640 acre) parcel situated adjacent to the Celtic G.P. Sands Oil Pool, 14 km northwest of Turtleford.

Petroland Services (1986) Ltd. paid the highest dollar per hectare, dropping $9,765 per hectare ($3,952 per acre) for a 16 hectare (40 acre) parcel. Those 16 hectares fall within the Tangleflags East McLaren Oil Pool, 27 km northeast of Lashburn.

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By Brian Zinchuk North Battleford – Commuting sucks.

Anybody who has worked away from home in the oilpatch for a lengthy time knows this fact intimately well.

There’s the Rolaids to quell the trucker mud coffee needed for the run back from Grande Prai-

rie. Maybe it’s the deadly Highway 63 south of Fort McMurray that could see a cross with your name on it. Lucky buggers get to sleep in their own bed, but here you are, another late night in your truck on the way home. What if you could just get above it all?

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“I’ve always commuted out of here,” he says, speaking highly of Battleford, where he and his wife Carolynn have a home on the scenic North Saskatchewan River valley. He grew up not too far away, at Wilkie, so staying in the Battlefords just seemed to make sense. It’s also a lot more economical, he notes, to live in Saskatchewan.

In 1997, during spring breakup he decided to get his pilot’s license and buy a plane.

“Just something I wanted to do,” he explains.

He’s now on his fourth aircraft, having started with a Cessna 172 and progressing through three Cessna 182s, improving instrumentation with each step. The current one, a gleaming refurbished 1976 model, has a prominent satellite

navigation system in the centre of the console.

“My dream is to have one of those babies,” he says, pointing to a floatplane his friend Scott Campbell is fuelling up.

Campbell and Pernitsky share a new hangar they built at North Battleford’s Cameron McIntosh Airport. It’d be nice to have one to go fishing, he notes, as his friend handles the fuel bowser wearing hip waders.

For over three years, Pernitsky commuted to Fort McMurray, a 700 km trip by land. It takes him only two hours and 15 minutes to fly the same distance.

Factoring in the cost of fuel and maintenance, it’s about $100/hour to fly, but then you are covering a lot more distance in that hour. “It probably costs me 20 per cent more for fuel than driving, but your time in the vehicle is one third of the time,” he says.

“Highway 63 gets

pretty ugly to drive, lots of traffic, lots of speed.

I’ve had people pass me going up a hill.”

Weather is a big factor for flying, especially if you are flying by Visual Flight Rules (VFR), as opposed to Instrument Flight Rules (IFR).

While he’s got over 600 hours at the yoke, Pernitski hasn’t taken his IFR rating.

“If I have a two-tothree hour window, I’ll take it,” he says, noting he’ll often call the local airport manager, Fran DeCock, for guidance.

Pernitsky is currently working with Colt Worley Parsons in Calgary, working with engineers on estimating. He flies home on weekends.

“For me, the way to go is to have your family with you,” he says as he polishes his son’s car in front of the hangar on Thanksgiving weekend. Failing that, at least he can get home a lot quicker these days.

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Nagi, an Omani, welds rods together using a Tierra Alta Fireblade welder.

Oman is trying to develop its workforce to take higher roles in its oilpatch, a process known as Omanizing.

By Brian Zinchuk Photos courtesy Aaron Grimley Lloydminster – During an open house, the boss came over and asked Aaron Grimley a question. Would he like to work as a supervisor in Oman?

This was on a Tuesday.

“Actually, we need you to leave on Friday,” Grimley recalls being told.

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Sixty degrees and no water?

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Pipeline News caught up with Grimley just a few days before he was due to head out again.

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They are working at depths of 600 to 700 metres, but they’re all horizontal wells. The whole field is steam flooded, similar to SAGD. The difference is there are horizontal producer wells and vertical injectors.

The oil properties in that field are similar to home, according to Grimley. “It’s just as heavy as here – 10-12 API. That’s why they are steaming it.”

The Mukhaizna field he’s working in is 700 km south of Musqat, and 150 from the Arabian Sea.

or drink in front of those fasting.

“At night, they can eat or drink all they want,” he says.

In such heat, the dress of the day is lightcoloured overalls and underwear, plus the obligatory sunglasses. It’s hot for a boy from Maidstone, but he notes the locals ask, “How do you live when it’s minus 50?”

Grimley came back in January to exactly that – temperatures at +40 C in Oman to -50 C in Canada. “My body stays in the house,” he says. ɸ Page A13

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I’ve been to Oman ... man ɺ Page A12 When he packs, he packs light. “All you need are coveralls, safety boots, hard hat, and a couple changes of clothes,” Grimley says.

Tierra Alta is increasing their presence in Oman. “We’ve got a couple trucks on the boat on the way over right now,” Grimley says. “We’ve won a couple bids for PC Pumps and drives.”

“Our business there is growing rapidly. There’s a lot of opportunities coming up.”

Grimley, 28, has a girlfriend here in Canada. What does she think of his overseas work?

“She puts up with it. She doesn’t like it,” he says.

“Over there, you have enough means of communication to stay in touch with everyone.”

His laptop is his companion, allowing him to stay in touch with home.

Oman is a little more lenient than some other Arab countries, but there are unwritten rules, Grimley says. For instance, showing the soles of your feet to someone would be a huge insult, he says, demonstrating by crossing his legs. That doesn’t go over well.

“Being a foreigner, in another country, you should do your research before you go,” he says.

Even after a year going to Oman, Grimley says it is still interesting. The first few times over he was pretty excited, but now it has become routine.

“I’ve told these stories about a million times. Everyone wants to know.”

Omani people are very friendly, he says, and very concerned about what people think of them.

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Thank God for the right of way

Willbros Midwest Safety coordinator Chris Neitling says driving is a major risk exposure on pipeline projects.

Camrose – “I thank God for every day on the right of way.”

So says Chris Neitling, with the same aplomb Robert Duvall says, “I love the smell of napalm in the morning,” in Apocalypse Now. In the way he says it, you have to believe it.

Neitling is a Preeceville product who

now works as a safety coordinator for Willbros Midwest on the Enbridge Alberta Clipper project. He started pipelining 10 years ago, got out of it, and now lives and breathes the job.

Neitling’s family operates the Preeceville Funeral Home.

In 1983, they bought the Preeceville Ambulance

Service, and by 1985, the 16-year-old was working in the family business.

He got his Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) qualification at the same age most kids are happy to have passed their driver’s test.

He worked as an EMT in several Saskatchewan centres over the years, including Weyburn, Moose Jaw and Yorkton. He’s even been cited for bravery for pulling a victim out of a flaming wreck. In 1996, Neitling graduated from paramedicine, working in urban advanced life support. Two years later, he got the call and began his pipeline career with Banister Pipeline.

“It was a bit of a shock – pipeline,” Neitling says. It was boots on the ground, pragmatic medicine, dealing with colds to traumatic, major medical emergencies.

While the pace changed substantially, he notes, “It was a good change, because you’re getting to know people. You get to

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“I got a lot of job satisfaction from being a medic on the rightof-way,” he says. Soon, however, he was brought into the safety aspect, including routing, flagging, piloting and incident reporting.

That job would lead to stints in Alberta, Nova Scotia, and then the next big job – the Alliance Pipeline. Eventually he got out of the industry, returning to more conventional paramedic work. But the streak of nomad, as he says, came back when he was offered another pipeline job in late 2005, and he’s been going hard ever since. That work has been with Midwest, now Willbros Midwest, and all over Alberta.

“The work changes sometimes hourly,” he notes, speaking of the diversity he’s found in the job. “My time with Willbros/Midwest is amazing.”

He’s not saying that to suck up, either. He’s been known to say that long before an interview came about. “I work with a great bunch of people.

I’ve got a great staff.”

Over time he’s evolved into a safety coordinator, with a staff of around a dozen on the current project. You don’t find him driving a Suburban with a stretcher in the back anymore, trading in the rig for a foreman truck.

Fast pace The robust tempo and fast pace are in keeping with his personality. “We’ve put a lot of pipe in the ground in the last three years,” Neitling says, speaking of challenging projects they’ve done. One had an 80 km stretch where it was oneway-in, one-way-out.

Another had three lines come in to meet like spokes on a wheel, while another saw the vast, vast majority of its 126 km made up of muskeg. On this job, there are 153 road crossings, 100 power line crossings, and 250 foreign line crossings.

“We’ve done over 1100 orientations in 70 plus days. Coordinating logistics – it’s really something else,” he says.

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– see those signs? They’re yellow, red and black, he explains. The visibility is improved in all seasons, compared to signs with a white background.

Whereas signs used to be hand-done, now they are professionally produced.

A few phone calls during the day place orders for several more replacement signs, as the wind, 70 km/h on this day, has been playing havoc with the signage.

“A person chooses not to be in compliance.

The biggest part of incident reduction is awareness,” Neitling says.

He points out a sign near a power line crossing. The signage and ‘goalposts’ indicating an overhead line crossing are meant to ensure awareness, he explains.

“Ninety-five per cent of incidents come down to awareness and compliance.”

The safety programs have become multifaceted, he notes. “On a project this size, the logistics are enormous.”

One of the important things is routing, and marking of those routes. Lost workers mean an increased risk exposure due to the vast amount of driving on the project. It also means lost production.

Workers can be lost in more ways than one, however. With the amount of work in the labour market, Neitling notes a “hollowing out of the middle.” There’s grey-out of the older generation, and a lot of younger workers, but not much in between. “New hands a few years ago are now strawbosses,” he notes.

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Lee Creech and his Mighty Hamster Trucks are trying to Ànd a niche in the utility vehicle market in the oilpatch.

Lloydminster – “We’re not big, but we’re small.”

That’s the tagline for the fictional record store on CBC radio’s Vinyl Cafe.

It could easily apply to a class of trucks that are popping up like gophers around Lloydminster, imported from Japan.

Perhaps hamster would be a more apt term.

That’s what Lee Creech calls the trucks he began importing about a year and a half ago, under the company name Mighty Hamster Trucks.

The K-class Japanese mini-trucks are tiny – really tiny. This is not your jacked up three-quarter tonne that is so prevalent on the streets of Lloyd.

Far from it. They would hardly be a speed bump,

and Heaven forbid they should ever get in a collision with one of the jacked up monsters.

But they do serve a purpose as a utility vehicle, one with 4x4, a heated, lockable cab and decent carrying capacity. Creech figures they fit between a quad and a pickup, and that’s the niche he’s trying to fill.

For guys who check wells on a quad, but might find it a little cold at times on a side-byside utility ATV or quad, the hamster trucks have an important quality – a heater that puts out.

Some even have air conditioning for the summer months. There’s also a lot more cargo capacity for seismic cables on one of

these units than a quad.

At around 45 miles per gallon, the fuel efficiency on these units blows away the typical work truck.

The units come from a variety of Japanese manufacturers, and are typically white, with fold-down sides on the bed. The two-seat cab is a cab-over design, and forward enough to get real close and personal with the vehicle ahead of you.

Why does he call them “hamster trucks,” anyhow?

“They kind of look like a rodent,” Creech explains with a laugh.

When he first started dealing with them, someone told him they

must have a mouse on a wheel for an engine.

When asked how much power is under the hood of these things, Creech says “about 45 hamster power.”

Just in case you still have a hankering for modifying your hamster truck, there are plenty of options. Quad tires mean much better off road capability, but at the expense of being streetlegal. The same goes for high floatation tracks.

One unit Creech has includes a three-inch lift kit, “Enough to give you clearance going over frozen cow turds,” the son of a rancher says.

Another model he has done up in RealTree

camouflage has a dump truck bed capable of hauling 350 kg, or 770 lbs.

Creech started using them around the ranch as a utility vehicle, and saw an opportunity to start importing them for resale here. He’s been going at it for a year and a half now, and is doing well enough to make “hamster wrangling,” his full time business.

The business opportunity comes from regulatory requirements in Japan. Once such vehicles there reach 15 years of age, they become increasingly prohibitive to operate, and end up being dumped on the market. Creech has a

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“A year ago, it was me and two other guys in Western Canada. Now competition is popping up,” He says. Indeed, Pipeline News observed a similar truck dealer in Yorkton recently.

What about the sex appeal?

“Size doesn’t matter, I guess?” he responds. So far, there’s not too much love for a hamster wrangler, he notes.

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Coleville – Traxion Energy Inc. is getting established in Saskatchewan, but is also looking south, way south.

“We’re drilling for oil, in a nutshell,” says Jim Ehret, president of Traxion Energy.

Traxion Energy had been known as Apex Capital Corp until a name change in July 2008.

In mid-September, the company announced it had drilled and cased its first Bakken well on the western side of Saskatchewan, near Coleville.

The well is a conventional vertical well. They are not going for the horizontal, multi-fracced wells that are becoming more common. Ehret says, “We’re not sure if that tech is technologically viable.”

Ehret is anticipating production to begin in late November.

They have close to seven sections, acquired since the beginning of the year.

“We’re in the process of picking locations right now,” he says.

Traxion has some land in Alberta as well, including a few watered-out wells.

They are doing a recompletion on one well.

Traxion is small, with three full-time staff and a few part-timers. Yet they are a public company. “We got to be bigger, sooner,” Ehret says.

“We’ve been looking down in Columbia for potential to do business there as a junior producer,” Ehret says, noting they have submitted prequalifying documents for a bidding round of land.

“We’ve just initiated it. It’s a long, slow process, but Columbia’s got some good potential.”

The government take is not as high, Ehret explains, saying, “The royalties are feasible.”

Along those lines, he notes, “We like Saskatchewan. After the new royalty regime in Alberta, we haven’t purchased any land in an Alberta Crown sale since.”

The Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin is substantially drilled up, he notes, and costs have skyrocketed. In Saskatchewan, he says, 500,000 barrels is a small pool. In Columbia, 10 to 20 million barrels is a small pool.

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Keeping the heat from blowing away

Brahma Resources Lloydminster – After driving your truck for a while, stop, get out, and put your hand on the hood. Pop the hood and feel the heat coming off the radiator. Then walk by the exhaust and see how warm your leg gets.

You won’t be standing there very long.

What if you could harness all that heat and put it into a secondary use? What if, in doing so, you could totally eliminate another source of emissions?

This is the brainwave Kevin and Helen Clarke have been working on for several years, and now they are beginning to move from the prototype to commercialization stage.

For many heavy oil well site storage tanks, a fire tube is used to keep the oil warm enough to transport. It’s basically a blowtorch burning casing gas or propane in a tube. Off to the side, an engine on a skid package provides the power to turn the progressing cavity pump.

That engine, typically a Chev 350 c.i.d., will turn casing gas or propane into hydraulic power to turn the drive head. Being a combustion engine, a lot of heat is the result – so much so that on hot days, the shack might have to be opened up to provide better ventilation. All those BTUs of heat are shed into the environment, through the glycol radiator, out the exhaust and through the walls of the hydraulic tank.

What if you put that engine in an oil storage tank, and used all its heat to keep the oil warm?

You wouldn’t even need the fire tube.

That’s the idea the Clarkes had, and the concept they have been pouring their hearts and souls into developing.

Kevin used to be a service rig consultant and they sold their flushby company in 2003.

The first design put the engine in a compartment on the floor of the tank. It didn’t work out, however, as sand would settle around the engine compartment, insulating

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the heat from the oil.

A few years down the road, they have their second design operating just west of Lloydminster. In this one, the engine compartment is elevated, suspended in the lower portion of the tank. As a result, the sand can settle under it, at the bottom of the tank.

The compartment looks like the inside of a clay oven pioneers used for baking bread. An arched roof allows sand to flow down over it. Two beams run across the tanks inside, supporting the compartment.

Out of the engine compartment one finds several tubes running through the inside of the tank. Above all is a twoinch line with sprayers meant to loosen any sand that might become deposited on the apparatus.

The next layer is a one-inch pipe that runs back and forth in a plane across the tank above the engine compartment.

That’s the engine-cooling radiator, with glycol running through it, as opposed to your conventional rad.

Another four-inch pipe runs through the tank, circulating the heat of the exhaust through the tank before it exits out of one of two very large, very quiet mufflers.

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Clarke’s move to commercialization stage ɺ Page A17 Currently, that is manually controlled, but there are plans to have that automatically done

via a thermostat.

The muffler is so quiet, you can stand beside it and have a normal conversation without

raising your voice. At the dike around the lease, it’s barely noticeable – a meagre 57 decibels on the Radio Shack sound

meter Kevin pulls out of the truck.

It’s so quiet, the owner of the adjacent acreage, asked when the Clarkes were going to turn the engine on. It had been running for a week.

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proof equipment. That is an option, however.

Of course, the discharge fan is at the end of a pipe that draws the ambient engine heat through the tank.

“We’ve had all the major and junior guys look at this and pull it

temperature.

“We’re harnessing all the heat off that engine,” he says.

“My goal was to hit 60 degrees C,” Kevin says. “The magic number is 70-75 C.” The current trial unit is getting its trial by fire,

Kevin Clark shows the engine package built inside a heavy oil production tank, where most of its heat from burning fuel can be put into heating the tank.

engine compartment can either run through a bypass or through a preheating tube, similar to what you would find on a truck engine. The intake has to be a certain distance from the tank, with discharge fan drawing air out of the engine compartment at the other end. By pulling a certain number of air exchanges through the compartment, they don’t have to use explosion-

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The two of them camped out on the wellsite for a month this summer, testing out the unit.

“We were +30 for two weeks,” she notes. Even with the higher ambient temperature, the engine in the tank did not get too hot, despite the doors being closed on the engine compartment.

Incremental improvements The next two tanks are currently being built in Lloydminster. As of early October, one tank was about to be insulated, and the next tank had the engine compartment about to be installed.

The tanks are 1,000bbl. tanks. While the engine insert looks rather large, in fact it only displaces about 60 barrels of tank capacity.

Each tank is seeing incremental improvements as the concept is refined. The hydraulic tank, for instance, is now built into the wall of the engine compartment to maximize its potential to heat the oil. The size of the engine compartment has also shrunk, while the exhaust tube and glycol coil has increased in size by 25 per cent.

The big challenge, according to Kevin, was to create enough heat with the engine to warm the oil to the desired

or sand, depending on how you look at it. The well, owned by Brahma Resources, is producing a 20 to 30 per cent sand cut. Half a cubic metre an hour is being recycled down the hole. They are heating approximately 22 cubic meters a day.

Yet given less than ideal test conditions, the unit has been putting out the heat necessary, with oil temperatures in the 70 to 75 C range.

Those temperatures have resulted in an unexpected bonus – shipping cleaner oil. “We stumbled on that by fluke,” Kevin says.

The next big test it to see how much heat it will generate over the winter.

Right now they are not looking for an exclusive arrangement with any particular manufacturer, but would rather see the concept become widespread.

Existing tanks could also be retrofitted, they note.

“We’ve got to develop stuff to clean up the environment,” Kevin says. “There has to be a balance between the economics and the environment.”

“You have to make the decision,” Helen says of their choice to put all their effort into the project. “We really believe in the product.”

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Around the world for 28 years North Battleford – He’s circled the globe chasing oil, but it was putting out the They also salvaged big collapsed oil tanks, and re-killed well. “You just went fires of Kuwait that had his heart racing the most. and did your job. It was actually a lot of fun,” he says. The strong friendships deFor the better part of three decades, Terry Dunn of North Battleford and area veloped then have lasted to today, Dunn notes. “If you weren’t a team player, you has been working out of Canada. Now he lives at Jackfish Lake, just north of the didn’t stay long.”

Battlefords.

“A bunch of us had trouble getting back to life in the slow lane, with no Dunn started out as a driller, working his way up to rig manager by the mid- adrenalin rush every day.”

1980s.

Having a marriage that has lasted nearly three decades while spending most His first job was in Algeria in 1980, shortly after he married his wife Cyndi. of that time working overseas is quite the achievement.

When work slowed down in the mid-1980s, he worked on a Canadian In“You gotta wrack that up to a very tolerant wife.” ternational Development Agency (CIDA) project in Pakistan for three years.

They have three daughters, now grown.

“When things were really flat, it kept a guy working.”

“She basically raised the girls,” Dunn says.

He’s been offshore in the Beaufort Sea, but much of his work When he was home, however, he was a very active parent, a has been overseas. Dunn has collected passport stamps for full time dad.

Philippines, Bangladesh, Yemen, and other locales. “It was “I probably participated in a whole lot more activities crazy then,” Dunn says of Yemen. “It still is. Everybody with my kids than other people, because when you were there is carrying guns, eh?” there, you were there.”

There were plenty of guns around during one Currently Dunn is working as a management conof his far and away most adventurous job. In 1991, sultant in North Dakota, primarily on the Bakken Dunn found himself putting out the fires of Kuwait play. after Saddam Hussein lit the oilwells of the small Why do all these countries need a Canadian to Persian Gulf country ablaze at the end of the first come and tell them what to do?

Gulf War. “They don’t have the expertise,” he responds. It’s “It was a pretty wild job, definitely different the same in most of these countries.” than my preconceived ideas,” he says.

Even if they do have the technical expertise, they Standing in one spot and looking around 360 may be lacking in management expertise, he explains. degrees, he counted 197 fires burning. “Everything In many cases, locals were the roughnecks, while the you could see,” Dunn says. rig managers were pretty much all ex-patriots.

Some of those wells had watered out, and they put Any advice for people planning on working overout “goopers” that wouldn’t burn anymore, capping them. seas?

Dunn started on the job as a well headman and ended “If you think it’s going to be like Canada or North Amerup as a crew chief. Safety Boss gained a world-wide reputation ica, you better stay in Canada or North America,” he says. on that job, putting out 180 fires.

“A guy has to maintain a sense of humor. Yelling and screaming Terry Dunn “It was something I always wanted to try,” he says, noting he was workdoesn’t work. You’re in their country, and you’re their guest.” ing in Yemen at the time. American outfits wouldn’t return his call, so he staged He’s found that crews he’s worked with always start at a slower pace, but a something of a sit-in at the Safety Boss office. He was there from 9 a.m until 5 gentle push brings them up to speed. p.m., and wouldn’t leave until they saw him.

“Canadian expertise and technology is some of the best in the world, there’s Eventually Dunn would be sent out on the second crew, heading out in April, no doubt about it,” Dunn says.

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Commanding an army on the march Camrose – If he was in the army, he’d likely be a lieutenant colonel.

That’s the rank typically held by someone who commands 600 to 700 men, and that’s in the ball park for the size of Darcy Beckner’s spread. On this day in mid-October, the actual count is 623. It’s an apt comparison, too, because a major pipeline project is often characterized as an “army on the march.”

Beckner is the su-

perintendent of Willbros Midwest’s pipeline division, working on the Enbridge Alberta Clipper and Line 4 Extension projects from the Saskatchewan border to Edmonton.

In pipeline parlance, the superintendent is also known as the “spreadboss,” or “Number One” after the code number used on the radio. Beckner has been in that position for about 10 years now, after around two decades as a foreman.

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years, he’s been able to spend maybe two months of each year at home. It’s a lifestyle he finds appealing, however, in that there is a start and a finish. “That it ends is a highlight.”

The conclusion of a job is “similar to when you got out of school as a kid,” he says. The difference is you’ve got money in your pocket. “When you leave a pipeline job, you’ve got a bank account,” he says.

The routine of an office job in the city loses its shine, he says. He gets psyched up to hit it hard for four to five months.

“You can do that because you know it will end.”

When it does end, he spends some time on his boat on Lake Okanagan, or on an annual trip to Mexico. No matter how much you make, and how much your standard of living improves, you still find things to spend your money on, he notes. “That’s where you can’t turn it off.

No matter what you do, you never have enough.

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Chainage The workers leave the yard at 7 a.m. The foremen are there around 6 a.m.

That means the spreadboss needs to be an early riser.

Yet Beckner still gets eight hours of sleep, he says, retiring at 8:30 p.m. and rising at 4:30 a.m.

Meeting those foremen in the morning is what lets him run a crew the size of an infantry battalion. “We’ve got 24 foremen. That’s how you narrow it down – delegation and accountability. That’s what I’ve got to push to the guys.”

There are also three assistant superintendents looking after different parts of the job.

It’s a big job, with nearly 300 pieces of equipment ranging from pumps to dozers, spread over three areas from the Saskatchewan border to Edmonton. In the end, it all comes down to how much work gets done in a day – chainage, in pipeline terminology.

“We have a certain

amount of metres a day we have to achieve. It’s a moving assembly line.”

If one crew gets hung up, it can lead to an accordion effect, he explains.

The client, in this case, Enbridge, also want to ensure the desired chainage is being achieved. It’s “clientdriven to achieve what you said you were going to do,” he says.

Most of the big pipeline contractors are working on this project, Beckner explains, but working in Alberta is a good fit for Willbros. Willbros is certified under CLAC, or Christian Labour Association of Canada. “We’re the perfect fit for the Alberta side because of the flexibility of the building trades,” he says.

“With all the work that’s going on, we’ve managed to attract and recruit some really good foremen, labourers and workers.”

As for the people who pay the bills, Enbridge, Beckner notes, “Those guys are really good to work for. These guys work with you. Everyone chips in to make it happen.”

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Heier and Alter NRG say gasify it Lloydminster – Alter NRG is looking at two major projects in the coming years that would put its knowledge of gasification to work.

That was the message behind Mike Heier’s presentation to the Petroleum Society – Lloydminster Heavy Oil Section on Oct. 15.

Gasification, he explains, is the partial reaction of hydrocarbon in an oxygen-starved environment.

It’s not exactly new, he says, explaining the Germans used the process during the Second World War. “It just hasn’t been fully economical until recent years,” he says.

The first project is a powerplant northeast of Edmonton near Fort Saskatchewan. They are taking a brownfield development, and at first turning it into a natural gas-feedstock power plant. Depending on capital markets, the first phase could be in 2010.

The next phase would be to use a synthetic gas (syngas) stream to fuel the plant. This would take advantage of their gasification technology.

The second project is a gasification plant near Fox Creek, with a timeline of 2014 to 2016, again depending on capital markets. It would be a poly-generation plant, creating carbon dioxide, high quality diesel, ethanol and other products. “I’m very excited about getting into the booze business,” he jokes about the ethanol.

The carbon dioxide can be used for enhanced oil recovery. He points to the EnCana operation at Weyburn as a model. The difference is that their project would put the gas plant in the middle of oil country, as opposed to requiring a 300 km pipeline.

The Fox Creek plant would make use of coal as its feedstock.

“You want to have an idea of what this will look like – look at Weyburn’s oil field,” he says.

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“Right now we’re just testing the waters and what it may turn out to be in 2009 is very difficult to say ... everything is results based and once we get the results if it’s positive look we’ll at the area further in terms of numbers.”

Anderson adds Galleon has not yet set its 2009 budget.

“Drilling will be dependent on the results of those wells and new royalty regime in Alberta and commodity prices as we head into the new year,” he said.

There is some concern within the oil and gas industry that because the price of oil is down that drilling activity will decrease in the upcoming year.

“We’re well below what we were. It’s $69 today. It’s significantly lower than what we’ve seen. It’s dropped more than half in the last three months.”

Galleon’s land manager says he expects to see a lot of “demand destruction” are a result of a slowing global economy. Anderson quoted the Calgary Herald when stating the U.S. government’s oil inventory has increased from 2.5 million barrels to six million barrels.

“There will be a significant lag effect from Wall Street to Saskatchewan. Still, our biggest consumer is the U.S. and they’re hurting pretty bad and when you see that kind of demand destruction the price is going to follow that down,” he said.

Galleon’s drilling budget is set to remain statics for the upcoming year but that may change.

“Right now our budget is, as far as I know, set to remain similar with ‘08 year and ‘09 year but the caveat I attach to that is that it’s dependent on commodity prices and our budget remains dynamic to commodities and we have to continually reevaluate,” he said.

“I do think drilling will pull back as a result of lower commodity prices into 2009 and you’ll also see share buybacks. Shares are undervalued compared to assets now and the cheapest barrel a company can buy is to buy back it’s own shares.”

The Conservatives ban on bitumen a concern North Battleford One stance taken by the Conservatives during the federal election raised some eyebrows in Saskatchewan, namely Prime Minister Harper talking about a ban on raw bitumen.

The Edmonton Journal reported on Sept. 27, “If re-elected, Harper pledged, his government would ban exports of raw bitumen to any country that failed to conform with Canadian carbon emission reduction stan-

dards, including the U.S. His plan, he said, would keep upgrading investment and jobs in Canada, and make sure that no one circumvented Canadian environmental rules by shipping bitumen abroad for processing.”

“Our concern is that would be a way to escape environmental controls,” explained Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz on election night. Ritz has been Saskatchewan’s political minister pending a post-election cabinet

shuffle.

“We want to see the oilsands in Saskatchewan move ahead,” he said.

New projects, he noted, will have to have carbon dioxide sequestration.

When asked how such a ban would affect the Alberta Clipper pipeline being built across Saskatchewan, Ritz said, “We’ll have to see what stage the pipeline is at.”

The pipeline is currently under construction. Enbridge’s website explains, “With the supply from Western Canada oil sands developments expected to grow by as much as 1.8 million barrels per day by 2015, the industry has asked for more capacity out of the oil sands and into the U.S. Midwest markets. The request is driven by oil sands producers and refiners that have long development timelines and need assurance that adequate pipeline infrastructure will be put in place in time to serve their projects. Alberta Clipper is a direct response to this request."

Saskatchewan has also offered up oilsands land in its two most recent Crown land sales.

So far, there have been no takers.

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You call that a vacuum?

Camrose – Tim Allan, in his wildest home improvement dreams, could never imagine a vacuum the likes of this – an excavator with a vacuum strong enough to lift a joint of 36-inch mainline pipe.

Stringing pipe can be one of the higher risk jobs on a pipeline right of way. Long, large and heavy joints of pipe are stacked on long trucks, where typically a sideboom uses cables to lift the pipe off the truck and place it on skids on the ground. A sideboom, also known as a pipelayer, is a dozer chassis modified into a form of crane. An Aframe is mounted on the left side, and a counterweight and drawworks sit on the right side.

Lifting a 2,500 kg joint of pipe off a stringing truck means manoeuvring hooks onto each end of the pipe, then using the load lines to lift it up. Getting the hook onto the front of the joint, between the load and the cab of the truck, is tricky and hard work. The top of that load is 15-feet high (4.6 m), and “You gotta get up there somehow,” notes Stan Perzylo, stringing foreman for Willbros Midwest.

On the Enbridge Alberta Clipper and Line 4 Extension projects, Willbros Midwest is using a new method – the vacuum lift system, commonly referred

to as a sucker hoe.

A 45-tonne Deere 450 LC excavator has its bucket removed, replaced with an attachment that looks like an big orange box with a rubber bottom that acts as a seal. That box contains a motor that is capable of generating a huge amount of suction through a hole that’s about an inch in size, positioned in the centre of the bottom.

The box is manoeuvred on top of the pipe, with the rubber sealing to the top. With the vacuum engaged, the pipe is picked up. The operator, in this case, Brady Horsnett, can then move the pipe as need be, placing it on the appropriate skid piles.

No labourer has to run a cable to the front, and no climbing is required.

The beauty of the system is that nobody gets near it. It’s fast and quick, and a whole lot safer.

“The tractors were fast too, but at what risk?” notes Perzylo. “A man has to run all day to stay up with that.

“I worked in Algeria with 748 km of 48-inch [pipeline] with one of these,” he says.

It is also possible to mount the vacuum unit on a side boom.

“It’s high paced. I like it,” says Horsnett, who used to run a sideboom.

Instead of using a sideboom and cables, the vacuum attachment on this excavator is able to pick up joints of 36 inch pipe and removed them from the stringing truck. The result is a substantial reduction in risk for the workers.

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Pumping up overseas sales Lloydminster – A Lloydminster company specializing in heavy oil tools is beginning to explore the potential of overseas markets.

HOT Tools of Lloydminster is looking to promote one of their pumps in Malaysia and Indonesia.

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we’ve designed for CO2 corrosion resistance and high volume lift capacity,” says Glen Joki, president of HOT Tools.

HOT stands for Heavy Oil Technical.

It turns out that CO2 can be very corrosive. “You know how your exhaust on your car can eat your muffler up?

This is ten times worse,” says Joki.

The patented pump was developed in Lloydminster. It’s a doubleaction piston pump, created by Wade Tokarek.

He’s a shareholder in the company.

The pump uses a liquid nitride process to harden its components.

“We have to make it out of special metals to accommodate that,” Joki says.

The pumps have seen use in southeastern Saskatchewan, but now the company is looking to take them interna-

tional. Already they are in use in California.

Through the friend of a friend, they set up a relationship, and are now working on an agreement for an agent in Malaysia. They think they’ve found a mar-

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“These guys had wells for 50 years, and they finally had to start pumping them,” Joki explains. ɸ Page A25

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HOT Tools goes international ɺ Page A24 A trip this past July to Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia included meeting with the Malaysian technical development board.

Joki says they are willing to grant substantial money to work in Malaysia, but you have to partner with a Malaysian company. One of their meetings was with the dean of petroleum engineering at a local university. “They’re interested in seeing how they can assist us,” Joki says.

There’s a possibility of working with the university to develop computer software that works with the pump.

Eventually it could lead to a manufacturing agreement and production of the pump in Malaysia. That’s a ways off, however.

“They want not only our product, but to source other western ideas and technologies,” Joki says.

One would think larger companies would have an advantage in overseas dealing, but that’s not what Joki found.

“They want to deal with local guys who can answer questions imme-

diately.”

“We might be a little naive, but we’re learning quick.”

Small world “The oilpatch is a pretty small place around the world,” Joki says.

“I’ve been sitting in a bar in Venezuela with seven different people from seven different countries, and they were all from Saskatchewan or Alberta.”

“We’ve sold some stuff into Albania and Venezuela,” he notes, but explains that he’s not too eager about going back to Venezuela. About two years ago, when he was there, they were rioting in the streets and throwing rocks at the van he was in.

When flying overseas, Joki prefers to book online. “I use Expedia. I do everything myself,” he says. “The one time I did use an agent, it was more hassle than if I did it myself.”

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Black gold girl Camrose – A newly minted EMT-A, Hope Christensen is learning the ropes on her first big pipeline job.

Contracted through Industrial Paramedic Services of Whitecourt, Alta., Christensen is working as a medic on Enbridge’s Alberta Clipper and Line 4 Expansion projects, between the SaskatchewanAlberta border and Edmonton.

Christensen, 24, grew up in Regina, graduating from Winston Knoll Collegiate. She now calls Calgary home.

She wrote the Alberta College of Paramedics test in February, and got her successful results back in April.

She now holds the qualification of Emergency Medical Technician-Ambulance, or EMT-A. Since then she’s worked with drilling rigs, service rigs and gas plants, “But this is my first pipeline,” she says.

“It’s way different than anything else.”

Rig work, she notes, all happens within 30 metres. Pipeline production, on the other hand, moves several kilometres a day. “I like making my rounds in the morning,” she says. Currently that includes spending a fair bit of time around the bending and stringing crews.

“It’s actually a lot safer than I thought it was. Very minor stuff,” she explains when asked what she’s seen so far.

To keep herself fresh, Christen says she reviews her course material a lot. “I’m kind of a nerd at heart. You’ve got to stay fresh.”

EMT-A Hope Christensen is about to set out for a day on the line with Willbros Midwest on Enbridge’s Alberta Clipper/Line 4 Extension project.

Strike Energy hits Saskatoon

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The new location is part of the Strike Electric and Instrumentation Group and is the first location for Strike in the province of Saskatchewan.

Chad Stolte has been placed in the position of area manager.

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They want it, we have it Tom MacNeill of 49 North Resources Fund points to the mineral wealth of Saskatchewan and says there are investment opportunities to be had.

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North Battleford – In a plug for investment in Saskatchewan’s resource sector, Tom MacNeill, head of investment company 49 North Resource Fund, says Saskatchewan has a lot of opportunity. He relayed that message to the Battlefords Chamber of Commerce on Oct. 16.

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No retinal scanner needed, yet Biggar – The skeleton of a substantial new building on the west side of Biggar was receiving its skin in early October, but its guts are a little more secretive. There are jokes of retinal scanners needed to access the building once it is in operation.

AGI Envirotank is in expansion mode. The new structure is one of several. A 40-tonne gan-

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His employees were a little more coy, saying, “It’s going to be good for the industry as a whole.”

While they produce a wide variety of tanks,

AGI Envirotank has two primary lines – heavy oil production tanks and above ground fuel storage tanks that have become the norm at many service stations. At any given time their work is usually 60/40, but that 60/40 will flip from one side to the other.

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There’s not much oil production around Biggar. In fact, you have to put a few miles on your truck to reach the closest well with a big black tank parked beside it.

The towering malt plant is the most prominent feature in town. So why are they building tanks in Biggar, as opposed to somewhere else?

“When we started in Biggar, there was a building,” Burton says.

That was basically it, and they’ve stayed ever since.

That original building is no longer there, however. In 2004, the company sustained a devastating fire. It wiped out the main shop, cutting, offices, stock room, maintenance and a small paint bay.

The ‘temporary’ offices have ended up being longer term, but the emphasis is apparently on production, and thus the expansion.

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AGI growing bigger in Biggar ing to a Carlyle battery.

However, their sales go beyond the petroleum industry. One orangepainted 400-bbl. tank is destined for forest fire retardant storage. Another tank will be used for liquid fertilizer storage. There were some stainless steel tanks built for a new ethanol plant at Unity, and another one at Belle Plain. Currently they are working on several tanks for the Louis Dreyfus canola crushing plant under construction in Yorkton.

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rently working. “We’ve got a standing order, every six months we get two to three guys,” Burton explains.

“Labour is pretty tough. We’re going to get bigger by doing more with the people we have.

We’re hoping this automation will allow us to do more with the same amount of people.”

The company has recently achieved its pressure vessel certification, and has done about 10 to date. But that’s not where the action is right now. “We’re capable of doing bigger tanks.” Burton notes, “If you can’t make the big tanks right now, you’re not going to be terribly busy.”

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“Years and years ago, it was ‘bang it together and make sure it doesn’t leak,’” Wappel says, of prior industry practices.

“Expectations are much higher,” Fines says.

AGI Envirotank has grown over the years into Eastern and Northern Canada, as well as the Northern United States.

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Sask has just about everything China craves ɸ Page A27 From a mineral perspective, MacNeill says Saskatchewan has the best of both worlds. He points to a geological survey map showing hard rock in the north and sedimentary rock in the south.

“It is literally a sea of potash under this room,” he says, but notes it has been 40 years since a new Greenfield potash mine was developed. That means existing mines have minefaces a long ways from the shaft.

Athabasca Potash is planning a new mine, just north of the Lanigan mine, to open in 2014.

MacNeill speaks of missed opportunities for investment in what would end up being successful Saskatchewan companies. Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan is one, SaskOil, which then became Wascana Energy and then Nexen is another. Cameco is a third. Saskatchewan ownership ended up being very low in these properties, and as such, we missed the boat, he claims.

To that end, 49 North is aiming to invest in Saskatchewan projects.

The Bakken oil play is showing 41 API oil, he says. “That stuff ’s like salad dressing.”

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“In Saskatchewan, you could probably drill a million conventional wells and not run out of targets,” he says.

Another of those prospects is a potential coal play near Hudson Bay. “We found out just this spring up to 39 m of coal just below the surface,” he says. Preliminary testing indicates that coal has twice the energy per pound compared to Estevan-area coal. “We’ve always relied on this junk down south,” he says, adding Saskatchewan is held to ransom by Manitoba on electrical pricing.

MacNeill says Saskatchewan has the largest diamond-bearing kimberlite field in the world. As a result, 49 North is adding to its Shore Gold holdings, one of the companies in pursuit of Saskatchewan diamonds.

Other resources MacNeill touches on include gold, rare earth elements, and helium.

MacNeill speaks of the need for a Saskatchewan capital market, saying he’s tired of going to centres like Toronto or Vancouver to seek investment dollars.

Very little capital is raised locally, he says. The focus has been on job creation, but not wealth creation. No capital market ever formed in Saskatchewan, he points out. There are high barriers to entry for retail investors.

“We must invest our own capital for long term prosperity,” he says.

“To actually develop wealth, you have to take well-earned, tax-paid dollars and invest it in this stuff.”

The reality of current markets is a downer, however. MacNeill says this is not like the crash of 1929. “You got to go back to 1873,” he says, noting markets built on extreme levels of credit.

“Most things are going to get beat up,” he says, adding for 18 months, “Things are going to be crap.”

In the end, assets will be priced as they should, he says, and there will be a return to “straightforward business.”

49 North is in the middle of a unit offering which will close in early November. In the current market, any investment is a tough sell. MacNeill acknowledges, “Like any stock, [it] had the crap kicked out of it.”

But he adds it is “probably cheap.”

They are setting the seeds for economic development in this province, he says.

Oil and gas are in excess of a third of 49 North’s holdings right now. “We’ve been making more investments of late,” he notes. “I love the cash flow light oil and gas develops, and quickly.

“Little companies become big companies in this environment.”

MacNeill projects future Crown land sales will see the same amount of land tendered for, but the price will be lower.

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PIPELINE NEWS

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Saskatchewan’s Petroleum Monthly

Enbridge turns the tap on the Westspur

$30.5 million investment made

Enbridge employees and local dignitaries ofÀcially opened the Alida to Cromer Capacity Expansion on October 3. (L to R: Leon Zupan, Vice President, Operations; Kevin HatÀeld, General Manager, Gathering Systems, Larry McGuire, MLA Arthur-Virden; Ed Kormanicki, MP, Souris-Moose Mountain and Peter Taylor, Manager, Enbridge, Saskatchewan) Photo Courtesy of Carlyle Observer.

Alida - After nearly a year of construction representing a $30.5 million investment, Enbridge officially celebrated the opening and expansion of its Westspur Pipeline running from Alida, Sask. to Cromer, Man. on Sept. 26.

Turning the tap on was ceremonial of Enbridge’s commitment to eliminate a capacity bottleneck as a result of increased crude oil production in southeast Saskatchewan.

Construction began on the Westspur expansion in November, 2007.

The pipeline project consists of two components: first, the construction of the 60 km of six-inch pipeline to transport natural gas liquids from Alida to Cromer and secondly, the conversion of the existing 12-inch pipeline from natural gas liquids to crude oil service.

As a result of the two components of the project there was some infrastructure development needed at the terminals to accommodate the changes in the design. Changes were made at the Alida terminal and some modifica-

tions were also needed at the Enbridge mainline terminal in Cromer, Man. The project has increased capacity on the Westspur system between Midale and Steelman by approximately 20,000 bpd and between Alida and Cromer by approximately 77,000 bpd, the company stated in a recent news release.

Approximately 300 workers were involved in the project – most of whom were contractors.

“With growing production in the region, Enbridge continues to develop additional capacity on our system and provide increased market access,” Leon Zupan, vice president of operations said in a release.

There is still some capacity within the pipeline and some space open for sale, said company spokesman Peter Taylor.

“It’s of strategic importance to us as a service provider and for our shipping and producing community,” said Taylor.

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SaskPower goes green â&#x20AC;&#x201C; big time Corporation targets $1.4 billion to CO2 capture and enhanced oil recovery Â&#x201E; By Stephan Burnett

as well as the switch gear in the project. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a long, long Estevan - The $1.4 list of components in the billion CO2 capture projnear retired facility that ect at Boundary Dam is can be re-used and by one of the corporationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going the re-used largest suggested capital projects in When all these numbers come route we can reduce recent years, says together weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re forecasting the capital investment a great deal,â&#x20AC;?

Max Ball, manager of SaskPowerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see this as being a good says Ball.

Even though clean coal project. investment the corporation will C o m mu n i t y -Max Ball have to replace the leaders in southturbines and the east Saskatchewan including Estevan have at 2013. Rather than re- boiler as well as highbeen a large force behind tirement, SaskPower will pressure piping and conthe corporationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision use the infrastructure, the trols, it works out to be a to capture carbon diox- cooling water, the founda- better investment than a ide and funnel it toward tions, the structural steel, new build.

The process will start an enhanced oil recovery the transmission lines, the coal supply and handling by stripping out the sulfur project.

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Once that is complete the amine or ammonia a sorbent is sprayed through the ďŹ&#x201A;ue gas where it will absorb the CO2. Then the CO2 laden sorbent will be piped into a separate tank where it will be heated up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The heat will cause

the CO2 to come out of the sorbent and from there it will be taken to a compressor then through a pipeline to an enhanced oil recovery site,â&#x20AC;? says Ball. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Meanwhile, the sorbent can be recycled to the ďŹ&#x201A;ue gas to pick up more CO2,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve have pretty good knowledge on what size the pipe will have to be to deliver one million tonnes per year of CO2, which is in the area of an eight-inch pipe,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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Clean Coal Project at Boundary Dam ɺ Page B2 The decision to construct will be based on the life cycle cost of all the equipment installation and operation, as well as the potential carbon credits and the enhanced oil recovery (EOR).

“When all these numbers comes together we’re forecasting we will see this as being a good investment and proceed to the construction phase,” he says.

If construction does proceed it is scheduled to commence in 2011 with the height of construction occurring in 2013.

“We’ll shut down the existing facility in 2013 and put the new equipment within the building and couple it to the flue gas processing facilities,” he says.

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The number of people working on the project during the construction phase has yet to be worked out and the corporation is still searching for an EOR partner.

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that particular boiler.

“CO2 itself does not have a regional effect,” he said.

“It is our hope this project will be technically and commercially successful and that will clear a pathway to reduce emissions on our other boilers but we are a number of years away from knowing the results of this demonstration project.”

Ball adds the Harper government has been actively pursuing criteria regulations for air contaminants and he is hopeful details of those regulations will be included in the federal draft which is expected within the next six months.

“It’s amazing what a difference a few words can make in those regulations.”

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bon credit aspect of the project might save the corporation is still up in the air.

“We’re probably going to have to wait until 2010 before we understand that,” said Ball.

In terms of regional impact for air quality, Ball said the project will reduce the sulfur dioxide and other particulates, so there will be a reduction in the full range of air contaminants from

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TriAxon partnering in SE Sask.

By Brian Zinchuk Flat Lake – TriAxon Resources has recently partnered with two other firms, to continue the expansion of their Bakken assets in southeastern Saskatchewan.

TriAxon is a Calgary-based junior energy producer, working mostly in light oil.

Triaxon has four major areas of operation – with the two principle areas being southeastern Saskatchewan and the Pembina field in west-central Alberta.

There is increasing activity in Big Valley, south of Stettler, Alta. They have also drilled four horizontal wells near Plato, in west central Saskatchewan, working in the Viking play.

The southeastern Saskatchewan holdings include some contiguous land near Flat Lake, right at the U.S. border, and a number of scattered sections near Midale. The Midale operation is a joint affair, operated by Painted Pony Petroleum.

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iary, Pebble Petroleum, TriAxon is jointly drilling wells in a block near Flat Lake. They had done four wells in the Flat Lake area by mid-October, when Pipeline News spoke with TriAxon.

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A Ryland press release on Oct. 2 noted Ryland chairman Dick Findley as saying, “We are very pleased to have TriAxon as a partner. With approximately 572 sections of land to explore and develop, it makes good business sense for Ryland to look for strategic partners to assist in accelerating our exploration and development program. By farming out to TriAxon we are gaining access to additional rigs and

TriAxon and Traxion?

It can be confusing, trust us, but these are two separate junior energy producers with similar names. Both are written about in this edition of Pipeline News. The main difference in spelling between TriAxon Resources and Traxion Energy is the placement of the “i.” TriAxon also capitalizes their “A.” TriAxon is privately held, and working in southeastern Saskatchewan and in central Alberta’s Pembina Field. They also have work in west central Saskatchewan and east central Alberta.

Traxion is publicly held, and working near Coleville in west central Saskatchewan. They are also looking at pursuing work overseas, in Columbia.

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“TriAxon is an established and successful operator in the Bakken Formation in southeast Saskatchewan, and they concentrate exclusively on developing low permeability reservoirs with horizontal, multistage fracture stimulated wells. Their expertise in the application of this technology in the Bakken will be very helpful in the continued exploitation of our extensive holdings.”

A second project is being done in the Roncott area, near Viceroy. That’s being done jointly with Century Energy.

Similar comments could be found in Century’s news releases, including one on Sept. 3.

“We’re drilling almost exclusively multi-frac horizontal wells,” says, Colin Flanagan, vice-president of engineering for TriAxon.

“We’re looking at expanding significantly,” he adds.

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Lynco’s setting up new shops

By Stephan Burnett Wapella - Lynco Construction is a growing concern.

The company, founded in 1997 in Wapella, Sask. expanded in 2003 to have shops in Midale, again in 2005 for shops in Red Deer and most recently added another location in Moose Jaw in 2008.

John Adderley is a partner and the general manager for Lynco Construction, Collin McPherson is another partner and the founder of the firm and the trio is rounded out with partner Ivan Herlicks.

“Ivan and myself were both welders and Collin was a spread boss with one of the largest pipe contractors in Canada and I had previously worked for Collin,” says Adderley.

While McPherson is a construction manager, Herlicks is the field and shop coordinator and Adderley is the general manager.

“We work with the potash industries and the refineries and we work with the oilsands out in Alberta and the local oilfield as well,” says Adderley.

The company is involved with pipeline construction, along with fabricating, as well as pipe spooling, constructing pressure vessels and structural steel components.

“We pretty much offer a whole compliment of fabrication services with the latest of technology and welding, STG and sub-arch processes

in a fully functional fabrication shop we have inhouse engineering too,” said Adderley.

Lynco is quite active in the construction and maintenance of oil construction facilities and it supplies service crews that assist or do turnarounds with a lot of the major players in terms of refineries and plants.

The company is also involved in in-house facility builds where modules are built within the shop and installed within the field.

“We basically offer the full-meal deal offering a full compliment of trades people,” says Adderley.

The business is expanding quite rapidly through a multitude of opportunities in the commodities market.

“We also make oilfield batteries and gas plants and any type of oil and gas facility. We also work with TransCanada Pipeline on mainline transportation systems,” says Adderley.

The company presently has close to 75 people working for it and Adderley says he expects the Lynco team to grow too close too 100 employees in the very near future.

Lynco is growing on the strength of the Bakken Play as well as anticipated expansion at the Co-op upgrader as well as expansions in the Potash Corporation and in the oilsands.

“There are a lot of different refineries around and a lot of growth opportunities

and we’re working with them along with TransCanada and Enbridge,” said Adderley.

Lynco’s equipment includes trackhoes and side booms as well an assortment of other related equipment.

“We have a full service 20 by 30 plasma cutting table capable of cutting steel six inches thick,” says Adderley.

Lynco’s grew through word of mouth and prior contacts of the partners within the oilpatch.

Lynco has also recently formed an association with Glosky Energy Services, which has in excess of 3,000 employees.

“It’s a great trade for resources that we all benefit from. Within this alliance there tremendous diversity strengths from heavy hauling to machine shops and growing,” he says.

Adderley says the company is busier now than it has ever been and adds 2009 is shaping up

to be a banner year with all the anticipated expansion work at refineries as well as in the potash industry.

Finding skilled employees is a challenge for Lynco but through the

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“We’ve formed a human resources recruitment alliance where we have a data base for a number of different in-

dividuals to fulfill our needs as well foreign recruitment,” he says.

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Wil-Tech Industries The Desk and Derrick Club of Southeast Saskatchewan toured the new 14,000 square foot expansion facility at Wil-Tech Industries on September 15th.

The owners & tour guides for the evening were Jim and Crystal Wilson. This family based company has been operating in Estevan for 17 years. Wil-Tech Industries specializes in hydraulic hoses and Àttings, as well as hydraulic repairs. Jim explained how the new specialty hydraulic equipment operates, including a high torque disassembly bench.

Wil-Tech is also the agent for Explosives Limited for Southern Saskatchewan offering perforating, seismic and mining products.

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Customs broker celebrates 70th year anniversary

By Stephan Burnett Estevan - Percy Davis is a customs broker and when you’re moving equipment into Canada, Percy Davis is the company to contact.

The company was started way back in 1938 and is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year.

“The corporate name actually comes from my uncle and since then it’s been a family business,” says partner Mark Davis.

The main part of the business is customs brokering but the company is also involved in other areas of forwarding goods as well as consulting.

“First and foremost we are mainly a Canadian customs broker and we deal with the U.S. people coming to Canada and in many respects it’s similar on the export side of it,” he says.

To put it in simple terms, Percy Davis negotiates the red tape that Canada Customs requires on goods purchased in the U.S. “The second area where we would be more involved in is the actual equipment to perform the work,” says Davis.

There are situations where goods can be imported under a temporary bond and in other cases the goods and taxes have to be paid under NAFTA. The company also gets involved with transport inspections and satisfies the needs of Natural Resources Canada.

Davis adds that under NAFTA many items are duty free.

When dealing with moving crews across the border Davis says the company would have to deal directly with the immigration department of that country and meet whatever requirements they may have.

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Crescent Point is the player in SE Sask.

In seven short years Crescent Point became dominant Point completed $64.5 million of acquisitions in southeast Saskatchewan, increasing production to 9,604 boe/d with 38 wells drilled that year.

In 2005, the company made $166 million of acquisitions, consolidating assets in southeast Saskatchewan and in the John Lake area of Alberta. In the fall of 2005, Crescent Point acquired Bulldog Energy Inc. for $118 million, further consolidating Crescent Point’s core area at Manor in southeast Saskatchewan. Crescent Point’s 2005 production averaged 13,791 boe/d and the company drilled 50 wells throughout the year.

The website also states that in January 2006, with a $257 million acquisition of long life reserves in southwest Saskatchewan the company created a new core area and expanded its asset base to more than 1.5 billion barrels of original oil in place.

Over the course of 2006, Crescent Point completed 10 more acquisitions and spent $110 million drilling 77.4 net wells with a 100 percent success rate.

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provided the company with controlling interest in the Viewfield Bakken resource play -- the largest conventional pool discovered in Western Canada in the last 50 years. In October of 2007, Crescent Point acquired Innova Exploration Ltd. for approximately $400 million, adding close to 4,300 boe/d light oil and natural gas production, 65 percent of which is in the Viewfield Bakken resource play.

In January 2008, Crescent Point closed the acquisition of Pilot Energy Ltd. for $76 million.

At the time of the transaction Pilot was producing close to 1,000 boe/d -- 50 percent of which is in Crescent Point’s core Viewfield Bakken light oil resource play in southeast Saskatchewan. The Pilot consolidation acquisition increased Crescent Point’s Bakken production to more than 12,500 boe/d.

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Trent Stangl, VP of marketing and investor relations with Crescent Point says 85 per cent of the company’s production comes from Saskatchewan.

Crescent Point Energy Trust was created through the merger of Crescent Point Energy Ltd. (CPE) and Tappit Resources Ltd., in September 2003.

Stangl states in its first two years, CPE grew from a start-up company with only 275 boe/d to a substantial producer of approximately 5,000 boe/d at the time of the Tappit acquisition.

“We been around since 2001 and started as a junior exploration and production company producing 275 barrels of oil equivalent a day to over 5,000 barrels after the merger with Tappit. That was 2003 and we’ve just celebrated fifth anniversary as an income trust,” he says.

The company’s website outlines its growth since that time: In 2004, Crescent

Point’s investment represents a 20 percent interest in Shelter Bay. “We’re in a very good debt-to-cash flow position of one time and we’re on a 3.5 year hedge program, so we’ve protected our prices so that if oil falls to $60 we have hedges on

at $85 and $90 a barrel,” said Stangl. “Not as many companies hedge as high as we do. We’re hedging out to the first quarter of 2012 and when you have that hedge position it provides a lot of confidence to maintain distribution every month.

“Present production is sitting at 36,250 barrels a day. We expect the fourth quarter to be over 37,500 boe/day,” said Stangl.

“If you go back to our beginning, we’ve offered a 60 per cent rate of return

on average year over year ... Now with the value of stock combined with monthly distributions last year we had a 55 per cent rate of return.”

While Crescent Point’s hedge plan provides the company with a measure of predictability for the foreseeable future, Stangl adds the manufacturing sector will feel the pinch in the coming months and hopes the Prairie provinces will be insulated from the effects of the global credit crises.

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Most start out looking for inexpensive airfare, notes Darleen Duce of Estevan’s Bannatyne Travel.

Bannatyne hasn’t seen a lot of overseas workers, but they’ve had a few, she notes. “We point you in the right direction,” she says.

That direction may be in the way of the embassy, or to your doctor to line up vaccinations.

Health insurance is another priority.

Few airlines allow open returns, Duce says, but return fares can often be changed, for a fee.

Things also get easier with higher class tickets.

Clients most often seek the shortest routing, looking to get there as quickly as possible.

One website Duce recommends is www.voyage. gc.ca, a government of Canada website full of useful information. She adds it’s important to register with the Canadian embassy while overseas.

The recent war in Lebanon is a prime example, when Canada extricated thousands of citizens who were caught up in a war.

With increased security over the years, Duce notes it has become more difficult to travel. Some countries require a visa just to transit their country.

Online bookings are prevalent in the travel industry now, but when asked if that means you’re on your own, Duce says, “Absolutely.”

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Golden Opportunities in Saskatchewan oilpatch

By Brian Zinchuk Saskatoon - In turbulent financial times, what’s an investment fund to do? As long as the fundamentals are there, you can weather through it, says Grant Kook CEO of Golden Opportunities Fund Inc. According to its website, Golden Opportunities was Saskatchewan’s first provincial labour-sponsored investment fund, headquartered in Saskatoon. The province’s Labour Sponsored Funds invest in growth companies that have a substantial impact in Saskatchewan, operating here and paying wages here.

Golden Opportunities Fund is not a hedge fund, but rather a value fund, investing for the long term.

Look at Golden Opportunities’ map of investment, and you will notice several clusters of investment in Saskatchewan’s oil patch.

In the past 10 years since its inception, the Fund has invested in excess of $42 million in the oil and gas industry in Saskatchewan. The fund is currently invested in about 10 oil and gas companies. There is a mix of private and public companies. A substantial number are in the Estevan-Weyburn area, with others working around Swift Current, Lloydminster and Kindersley.

The list changes over time as the fund exits investments. Some of the current companies Golden Opportunities has a stake in include Pearl Exploration and Production Ltd., Bonus Energy (Saskatchewan) Ltd., BOS Rentals W3 Ltd., G5 Energy Limited Partnership, G4 Energy Limited Partnership, BNP (Saskatchewan) Resources Inc., Tyvan Oils Ltd., Quality Wireline Services Ltd., and Canetic Resources Trust.

On Oct. 21, the fund announced a $10 million investment in Connect Energy Partnership, a Saskatchewan gas marketing partnership, that has more than $150 million in sales. The company supplies natural gas to commercial and institutional clients by

way of long term, fixed contracts, according to the press release.

Besides oil and gas, Golden Opportunities is invested in biotechnology, renewable energy, valueadded manufacturing, technology, agriculture, service, environmental and health care companies.

In a call with Kook regarding the Saskatchewan economy, he said there isn’t easy money out there any more, but there is capital to be had. Value investors will likely continue to be active. These turbulent mar-

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Saskatchewan is not insulated from the global financial crisis at all, but this province’s economy is doing very well, he notes. Kook points out both the Royal Bank and TD cite Saskatchewan as leading the country in growth for 2008 and 2009.

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Around the world with a major Canadian player

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Lloydminster – Originally from Midale, Kim Hilkewich is now flying around the world, improving process safety management for Nexen, one of Canada’s biggest energy players.

Hilkewich, 51, started his career in Estevan after training as a petroleum engineering technologist at SAIT. He was back in Estevan for a decade, from 1991 to 2002.

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He rotated in and out of Yemen for a year, before taking a position at Lloydminster.

That year just happened to be the year after the World Trade Centre was attacked, when the United States was just establishing itself in Afghanistan, and gearing up for war in Iraq. It was a nervous time to be in the Middle East.

“They did play on a person’s mind,” Hilkewich says.

“Our company has been excellent ensuring our employees are safe.

“My family also had a concern,” he explains. “If anyone can do this safely, it was Nexen.”

Indeed, the Yemen military was contracted to protect the facility.

Their operation is approximately 150 km from the coast, isolated, with very limited access. The landscape is almost like the moon, rocky with deep wadis (gullies).

“Once we were at the facility, security wasn’t an issue,” he says.

It was an issue at the coast, however. Terrorists struck the supertanker Limberg at in October, 2002, off the coast of Yemen. The tanker was due to take on oil produced by the company. Hilkewich was not affected, but there was a heightened awareness.

Even so, he says, “I’m really glad I went.”

It was a good opportunity to see a part of the world he wouldn’t otherwise see. Yemen isn’t exactly a tourist hotspot.

“The people are great, willing to work.”

Hilkewich says ex-pats are brought in due to education levels. “Their education systems aren’t the same as ours,” he says. Wealth is shared by few people in Arab countries, and education is a function of it.

“Most of our ex-pats over there are fairly well educated.”

Yemen is still very poor, compared to other Arab nations, he says. Nexen is a prominent player there. “We are, by far, the biggest operator in Yemen.” ɸ Page B11

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Around the world ɺ Page B10 Wells there are prolific, producing as much as 20,000 to 30,000 barrels a day in initial production, but there hasn’t been a lot of expansion of production.

Water production is definitely a problem, he notes, with water cuts in excess of 95 per cent.

Now Hilkewich is working as an operations and maintenance optimization manager. Pipeline News spoke to him while he was in Lloydminster for meetings. The project he’s working on is bringing process safety management in across the organization and around the world. That means travelling around the world, but not “working overseas.” Hilkewich makes a distinction between the two. What he was doing in Yemen was working overseas.

“I’ve been in Yemen once since this project started,” Hilkewich says. “It’s nice to see how the operation has changed.”

Yet some things don’t change. “Going to Yemen is like stepping back 300 years – mud huts, herding goats, when you can’t see what the goats may be eating,” Hilkewich says, explaining the vegetation can be very sparce.

The same project has also taken him to the North Sea and Gulf of Mexico. The Buzzard oil platform in the North Sea is a new, state of the art platform with 200,000 barrels a day capacity. The Gulf of Mexico has platforms with more vintage to them.

“As long as I’m in this role, there will be travel overseas,” Hilkewich says.

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By Stephan Burnett

Taylor Gardiner gives a visual demonstration and displays the equipment used to inspect pipelines.

Estevan – There’s a new business trio in Estevan headed up by a familiar name.

Wayne Naka is the most experienced hand

working with Sonar Inspection along with partners Taylor Gardiner and Cory Rougeau.

The Naka men are well-known in the Estevan area, most of them being employed in the welding field.

The company’s first official day was Oct. 1 and Gardiner says business has been pretty busy over the last month.

Sonar Inspection is a weld inspection company utilizing ultrasonic, magnetic and liquid penetrant testing to ensure the safety of welds within the oilfield.

The equipment being used is not very big and it’s very portable, says Gardiner.

“With the ultrasound we shoot sound into metal or welds and if there’s any defects or cracks the sound will bounce back from the cracks and show up on our screen,” says Gardiner.

The process is immediate. The sound zips

through the welds at 3.2 kilometres per second and the result is automatic. The process is used on oilfield batteries, fire tubes, pressure vessels and pipelines as well.

Throughout southeast Saskatchewan Sonar Inspections is one of the rare companies qualified to perform ultrasonic testing. There are only 17 people working throughout the province that are qualified to perform the work and only 1,100 similarly qualified people throughout the country.

While both ultrasound and radiography work on the same theory, Gardiner adds, “they shoot x-rays and we shoot sound. Ours is safer and cheaper.”

To get into the business both Naka and Gardiner bought two 2008 Dodge Ram 1500’s.

“Everything we need fits basically in the back seat. Everything comes out to site with us,” says Gardiner.

In the normal course of action, if a welder is on hand, the weld is gouged out and repaired. Otherwise, the company submits a report and repair action is taken as soon as a welder becomes available.

“Once it passes we’re done,” says Gardiner.

Gardiner describes the magnetic particle device as a hand held coil with a north and south pole on it which magnetizes the surface area, exposing surface or subsurface cracks.

“The read out is visual, so you’ll actually be able to see the cracks,” says Gardiner. ɸ Page B13

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Sonar Inspection Ltd. of Estevan started operations on October 1. From left: Taylor Gardiner, Wayne Naka and Cory Rougeau.

Sonar opened ‘truck’ on October 1 ɺ Page B12 The other method used by Sonar Inspection is a liquid penetrant which is sprayed on with a red dye and then wiped off, showing a red crack.

Gardiner worked as a welder’s helper with the Naka family during his teen years then moved to Saskatoon and started working with Hitachi.

“Wayne was working there and convinced me to apply for the NDT (nondestructive testing) and that’s how I got into it,” says Gardiner.

Gardiner worked with Hitachi for four years prior to moving back to Estevan to start into business with Naka.

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Metis Nation dispute La Loche agreement La Loche - Access Energy Inc. announced Oct. 15 that it had signed a joint venture agreement/impact benefit agreement with La Loche Clearwater Development Authority.

The Agreement covers approximately 3,000,000 hectares of La Loche traditional lands in north western Saskatchewan, Canada, north and west of the northern town of La Loche, Saskatchewan. The Agreement requires ratification by the aboriginal members of the area, which is expected to take place on or before December 3, 2008.

That agreement is not sitting well with the Metis Nation - Saskatchewan, however. On Oct. 20, they put out a press release saying the Access Energy Inc./ La Loche Clearwater Development Authority (LLCDA) agreement had no legal standing.

“Further, LLCDA has no authority or jurisdiction to negotiate an agreement on behalf of the Metis

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Robert Doucette, president of the MNS, stated that Metis harvesting rights have been established throughout northwestern Saskatchewan. Metis in the region have partnered with the Metis Nation in filing land claims in northwest Saskatchewan. He notes there is a large rights bearing Metis community throughout the entire region, which is part of the large Metis Nation.

“Metis leaders have time and again echoed their concerns in relation to the lack of meaningful consultation that have taken place to date, but indicate our willingness to work with the government as well as any company in order to address these concerns in the future,” the release states.

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Access Energy’s press release states it is a private company, “engaged in the business of exploring for, developing and operating unconventional oil and gas projects. Such projects may include oil produced from tar sands, also referred to as oil sands, or bituminous sands, which are a combination of clay, sand, water, and bitumen.”

Blacksands Petroleum Inc. owns 75 per cent of Access, according to a release from Blacksands posted Oct. 15.

Oilsands in northwestern Saskatchewan near La Loche were offered up in the August and October Crown land sales. While there were bids in the August sale, they did not meet the province’s minimum requirements. The October sale saw not bids, according to Saskatchewan Energy and Resources.

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Following the introduction of two route options for the transmission line – west and east – in May 2008, the eastern route best met the selection criteria and was chosen as the preferred option. The line will be built between an existing trans-

mission line near the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan’s (PCS) Rocanville facility and the TCPL Moosomin Compressor Station – adjacent to the road allowance that runs along the SaskatchewanManitoba border.

“This new transmission line will help TransCanada Pipelines meet their growing need for power in the area,” said Mike Marsh, vicepresident, Transmission and Distribution. “By maximizing the use of road allowances and infrastructure corridors, it will minimize agricultural, environmental, social and economic impacts.”

In order to ensure the most appropriate route for the transmission line was selected, consultations were undertaken with landowners, municipal officials and members of the public. An open house held in Welwyn in May provided people with an opportunity to learn more about the project, as well as provide their input into the proposed route alternatives.

With the selection of the preferred route, a project proposal will now be submitted to the Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment for approval. The planned completion date for the project is September 2009 at a cost estimated to be $7.1 million.

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Carnduff growing ‘There’s a lot going on,’ says EDO Tara Beck

By Stephan Burnett Carnduff – Nestled right in the southeast corner of the province 20 minutes from the U.S. Border and 20 minutes from the Manitoba border lies the town of Carnduff.

Tara Beck, economic development officer,89 with the Town of Carnduff says there’s a lot going on in her hometown.

“I was born and raised in the community and returned upon completing my post secondary education. This is a new position a joint venture between the town and the R.M.,” she says.

“The two municipalities, the Rural Municipal-

ity of Mount Pleasant #2 and the Town of Carnduff work closely together to ensure the enhancement of economical and commercial growth and development in our area. Our combined population reaches approximately 1,500 people.” she says.

“We’ve got some development happening residentially and some new lots and there will be 12 serviced lots available for development in the spring,” says Beck. These lots range from 65 feet wide by x 120 feet deep to 100 feet wide by 120 feet deep.

Tenders are currently being put forward for the development of the services, both water and sewer.

“That is planned to be completed by the spring of ‘09.

A firm price has not yet been put forward on a per square foot frontage,” she says.

The town also has a new industrial subdivision which is where Totem Drilling has located.

“We currently have five commercial lots available in the industrial sub division that range in size from 1.8 to 3.4 acres,” she says.

The two municipalities also work closely together on planning and developmental issues with regards to commercial development which can be seen through the opening of Precision Ag Services as well as other commercial planning development, she said.

The community has seen a lot of growth and with that comes a higher demand for housing.

“We’ve seen a lot of young families move back to the community. They’re looking to raise their families in smaller communities and they’re also attracted to the jobs available in the oil industry right now,” she says.

With a population of roughly 1,200 people Carnduff ’s two main industries are oil and agriculture.

Some of the oil and gas companies operating out of town provide both rig moving services as well as lease preparation.

While the oil industry is booming in the southeast portion of the province the agricultural industry seems to be holding its ground as well.

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g with the times “I believe the harvest was a relatively good harvest,” says Beck.

The economic development officer also says that Carnduff has a vibrant small business community.

“We’ve got two grocery stores, a hardware store, a lumber yard and a pharmacy along with two convenience stores with gas stations,” she says.

There are two franchise stores in town including the Source and Subway.

“We do have a number of eating establishments for both fast food and fine dining,” she says.

There are also two financial institutions in Carnduff including Spectra Credit Union and the Bank of Montreal.

One of the more unique features of the town is that it does have a movie theatre that plays movies on Friday and Saturday evenings.

“We also have a clothing and gift shop in town as well,” she says.

Beck is also keeping busy trying to attract more businesses to Carnduff.

“We are looking to attract new businesses to town but I’m not at liberty to speak specifically on them. They include both retail and service businesses,” she says.

The town also has a number of recreational facilities including a nine-hole grass green golf course, located just off the Antler River.

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“The two municipalities also work together in order to continue to provide the recreational facilities that we see in the community,” she said.

“We’ve also got a curling rink and a skating rink which is home to a number of minor sports teams as well as a senior hockey team,” says Beck.

“We also have a strong junior golf program that includes instruction,” she says.

Similar to many other towns across the province, Carnduff hostsan annual July 1 celebration in its Centennial Park.

“The Ag Society also hosts an annual team roping and barrel racing event in the fall.”

Another project that has been happening in our community includes the reconstruction of its swimming pool.

“We’ve added a toddler paddling pool play area.

It was the first phase that was completed and Phase 2 is the reconstruction of the main swimming pool,” she says.

The swimming pool is an outdoor operation running from June until the end of August.

“There’s also a number of recreational opportunities from gymnastics to boxing to baseball, hockey figure skating and bowling,” she says.

“We also have a new toddler park that was put in place and funded by our Lions Club and we do have some campgrounds located at our ball diamond facil-

ity that are full service and we also have the Lions campgrounds with power and water and we do have a couple of hotels,” she says.

The community has also recently converted its old high school into a community centre, dubbed the Dean Fraser Community Centre.

“That is where our daycare is located,” says Beck.

Carnduff also has a K-12 school that was opened in 2004, with enrolment sitting at 350 students.

“We pull from three other communities and there’s one feeder school where the kids come from in Grade 9. Those three communities include Gainsborough, Storthoaks, Alida, and then our feeder school is Carievale.”

It was through collaboration of the two municipalities that provided funding for an additional 2100 square feet of space in the construction of the Carnduff Education Complex. This allowed for a larger gymnasium and library, of which is the first fully integrated Southeast Regional Library. Together the municipalities invested just under $500,000 for this additional space and supplemental fixtures.

Beck adds the community is looking at its health care options including trying to attract a physician and a dentist to the town -- a hospital is located nearby in the town of Oxbow “Carnduff is a great place to raise a family with excellent opportunities for the youth.”

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86% of October lands sales in Estevan-Weyburn area Estevan â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Estevan-Weyburn area is once again the belle at the ball with the announcement of Crown land sales for October.

The Oct. 6 auction saw 86 per cent of the dollar value of the sale go for land in the Estevan-Weyburn area, for a total of $191,754,587.

The average came to $1333 per hectare ($539 per acre). Both numbers are down from the August sale, which saw a $212,311,498 total and a $1,618 per hectare ($654 per acre) average.

Of the 72 licences posted for 138,259 hectares, 43 were sold, totalling 101,290 hectares. This brought in $145,489,744, an average of $1,436 per hectare. For leases, 206 of 260 posted leases were taken up, totalling 42,544 of 55,505 hectares. This brought in an average of $1,087 per hectare.

Standard Land Company Inc. spent $61,576,878 on three

leases and four licences, making it the top purchaser of acreage.

Scotte Land & Lease Ltd. paid the top dollar for a single lease, at $4,376,365. That bought a 582 hectare (1,440

acre) parcel situated partially within the Hazelwood Central Tilston Beds Pool, 20 km south of Kipling.

The most expensive license was 28 km east of Estevan in the Pinto Mi-

dale Beds Pool. It went to Standard Land Company Inc. for $33,884,239, giving them 1,554 hectares (3,840 acres).

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OTS Award honours three from southeast Tuesday, October 21 was a special evening for all who attended the Estevan Oilfield Technical Society special awards ceremony.

The awards night, held nine years in a row now, is set up to raise funds for the OTS, but is also in place to honour the members who have dedicated their lives to the Oilfield.

Three were honoured this year, Graham Shirley, Jim Coulter and George McGillicky.

Shirley, a long-haul trucker who started in the business in the early 1960s moved along the ranks from trucker, to dispatching and sales and finally business owner as

his wife Nancy bought out a friend Bert Baxter, of Bert Baxter Trucking. The Shirley’s have turned Bert Baxter into a true family business as the boys joined the team, Vaughn, Todd and Derrill.

The second two honoured, McGillicky and Coulter, are a team and were introduced together.

The well-known duo put their handy skills in construction to good use creating a very solid business in the southeast area.

McGillicky, out of the Macoun area joined forces with Coulter, who started in Virden, MB during the season of 1955.

In just seven short years of working for Maloney

and Crawford Oilfield Construction the duo purchased the company and began their career as business owners and operators.

The company grew under their leadership and continued to grow right through their retirement in 1996.

Also during the evening the OTS honoured two of Estevan’s youth with their annual scholarships. Stephen Kitchen and Dean Meek received the honour presented by Minster of Energy and Resources Bill Boyd.

Neither Kitchen or Meek were on hand as they are both in the midst of midterm examinations at university.

From left: Graham Shirley, George McGillicky and Jim Coulter. The three were honoured Oct. 21 with the lifetime achievement award from the Estevan OTS. Photo courtesy Norm Park, Estevan Mercury Oxbow, Sask.

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Start-up sees progress in Swift Current Swift Current - Conley Forsyth’s Key Energy Inc. is one of those success stories that Pipeline News loves to report on.

Key Energy has been in operation since January of last year, although the owner has close to 20 years of oil and gas experience tucked into his back pocket.

Since start up, Forsyth has invested close to $2.2 million in two 2007 tandem tridem Kenworth coil-tubing units that were manufactured by Celtic Pride out of Brooks, Alta.

“I’ve got them mortgaged over 16 years but I hope to pay them off sooner,” he says.

Forsyth started out in the industry in 1989 with Shadow Well Servicing in Swift Current and then worked with Lockwell out of Kindersley and later did work with Eagle Well Servicing and then worked with Diamond Energy.

“I started out as a rough neck and over the years moved up to derrick hand and driller and push and then as field super for Diamond,” he says.

“When I started out in the industry I never thought I would have made it this far,” says Forsyth, who just recently celebrated his 40th birthday.

Forsyth adds getting two coil tubing units so quickly came as a bit of a surprise for him.

“I ordered the first one and I figured it was going to take a longer time and ordered another because they were backed up and I got it in five months. I wasn’t expecting to get it for 12 months,” he says.

One unit is fairly busy while the second unit could stand a little more business.

“We could always be busier. I have one truck

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A coil-tubing unit is a lot like a service rig but the coil-tubing unit has a 660 CFM Hurricane compressor on it that’s used to clean out the wells.

“The coil tubing units are more predominant on gas wells. We hang siphon strings in the wells to produce gas,” he says.

Coil tubing units have been around for a while but people didn’t notice them as much around Swift Current because the gas play in the area is still relatively new, he says.

While business is fairly steady, Forsyth adds activity levels are not at all-time highs in the southwest portion of the province.

“I’ve experienced busier years myself back in 1996 to 2000 were probably the busiest years I’ve seen,” he says.

In the relatively short period that Forsyth has been operating his own business, he’s been able to get a good crew together quite rapidly.

“I have six guys working for me right now. I have one rig manager and one rig operator/swing manager and one operator per unit. I have the guys on a rotation system of 16 days on and five off,” Forsyth explains.

He adds a rig manager manages the books for the field tickets, safety meetings and hazard ID and oversees everything on location while the rig operator runs the unit.

“In January of last year we were busy right through to spring break up in the Lacadena and Cabri area,” he says.

Lacadena is up by Kyle and Cabri, is more towards Leader.While the company has been kept

busy north and northwest of Swift Current, Forsyth adds they have done work southwest of Swift Current as well.

“We’ve also gone up to Kindersley and Unity and down to Frontier. I’ve had a few requests to go down to Estevan,” but as of yet Key Energy has not gone into the Bakken Play.

“They’re in the oil industry and they only call you down there to clean out wells or if they’re stuck in the hole. Most times when they call it’s spur of the moment and you have other jobs on the go,” Forsyth says, while explaining his decision to stay closer to home.

Forsyth adds his mother Cherrill Forsyth and his brother-in-law Brent Neudorf are partners in the venture.

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Soupy!

When the ditch becomes a souphole, as seen here, you want to get that pipe in as soon as possible. Here a labourer with Flint checks the depth of cover that will go over the pipe. The 16-inch pipe makes way for a new ethanol plant near Unity. Photo by Brian Zinchuk

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Excavating ‘the big ones’ in the southwest

By Stephan Burnett Swift Current - Kelly Knudsen, owner Knudsen Excavating says his company does anything that requires excavation. “We run track hoes. The bigger ones. We don’t run the small stuff. We get bigger work like sewer and water in the city and big excavator work in the oilfield,” he says.

Knudsen started in 1988 he bought what he calls an old wreck of a machine, a a drag line that he was constantly fixing.

Business started picking up about eight years ago when he got into track hoes.

Now the company has two 330 size track hoes. They are 75,000 pound machines.

“We build reclamation pits for Focus Energy and Husky Energy. Reclamation pits are when they’re drilling the tailings from the drilling rigs; the mud cement and drilling fluid,” he says.

“We also have a gravel truck and in the winter time haul matting in the sand hills. They have have to lay matting down for the rigs. It builds up with ice and we pull it up and shake it off. We also haul reclamation material and with a semi gravel trailer we haul the matting to the landfills.”

The company also utilizes a pay loader. We use that for back filling when digging and a 66 inch vibrating compactor when were back filling ditches we compact the back fill.

Knudsen says working out of the Swift Current region means it takes a little more time to build yourself up in business.

“That’s why we’ve had too diversify into water and sewer and dug outs and anything for excavator work and we do a fair amount of work for RMs as well.”

Business just keeps getting busier and busier for Knudsen Excavating.

The company now has five employees not counting Knudsen.

The company is also a family affair.

He describes his son Tyler as amazing with excavating. Tyler is 20 years old and when he got out of school he went to work with service rigs and soon decided to go to work with his dad – he has been loving it ever since. Craig,

25, is Knudsen’s my oldest boy and he does a lot of traveling and when he’s around he’s working for me. Another son Dustin is studying petroleum engineering in U. of R. while Knudsen’s wife, Carla, is the secretary and bookkeeper of the company and his daughter Amber is attending school in Saskatoon.

“I think Tyler may eventually take over. He’s a natural. I’ve always told my sons if you want to become good with excavating you have to become one with the excavator, and they laugh at that but he’s getting really good at it,” he says.

The geographic area the company covers includes Swift Current and the southwest. The company does not go much further south than Shaunavon but it does go up to the Alberta border and north as far as Elrose.

“Another thing we do a lot of is train derailments and the reason that is because of the size of our excavators. They have to be the bigger ones to lift those train cars,” he says.

Knudsen explains working on train derailments can be difficult.

“You have to be there until you’re done and until the track is cleared.

Until the trains are going through again and it can be 30 hours or more.

Which is hard because that could be at the end of a work day already and when they phone you and you have to move. Some winters if it’s cold we’ll do one after another as the tracks shrink and break.

Metal shrinks in the cold and they go off the rails,” he explains.

When Knudsen was younger being in business for himself wasn’t a bowl of cherries.

It wasn’t easy starting out. I didn’t even graduate from high school. I got married and wanted to buy some equipment and it wasn’t easy. It was always a struggle until the last couple years when it took off for the family.

Knudsen says he does have a lot of competition in the marketplace.

“There’s a lot of guys who get into it and buy new equipment and end up losing it. But now it’s a lot easier there’s so much work out there now.”

Knudsen confides there is currently a small boom going on in SW Saskatchewan and a lot of excavation work happening within the Swift Current region.

Nowadays there also seems to be less problems with cash flow than there was 15 to 20 years ago.

“Back in 1990s they would take months to pay bills. Now they pay within

45 days.” Sometimes in the past Knudsen had to wait six to seven months to get paid.

“Now that’s changed and it makes it more feasible to run big equipment

and make some money over and above,” he says.

“Another thing we’ve always done is to have pride on the job and we’ve got a good name for doing that.”

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Big Eagle nominated for ABEX awards Derrick Big Eagle and his business parter Rob MacCouish were honoured by getting three nominations for Achievement in Business Excellence awards.

Just three years into business, Eagle Drilling did not expect this honour, but nevertheless it has called.

“We didn’t expect this,” said Big Eagle. “I feel good. I think once the duct has settled, overwhelmed actually. You never expect something like this – I’m

just a rig hand from Manor trying to do as good as job as I can and hoping somebody recognizes it.”

The ABEX awards, presented by the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce to highlight business and business people throughout the province, nominated Big Eagle as a finalist for Business Leader of the Year. Eagle Drilling was also nominated for the Investment award and Job Creation, both of which Big Eagle is also very proud about.

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OPEC settles on production cuts as oil price collapses to under $63 a barrel The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed to cut production by 1.5 million barrels a day. That was the bottom line announced after the cartel held its meeting in Vienna, October 24. The existing quota was 28.8 million barrels daily.

Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said demand has dropped sharply following the global ďŹ nancial crisis which seemed to come out of nowhere. Crude prices hit a record $147.27 U.S. on July 11. Since then oil, along with world equity markets, have fallen oďŹ&#x20AC; a cliďŹ&#x20AC;. Crude fell over $3 to under $63 per barrel on the day of the Vienna meeting.

It took just three months for oil to sink by 56 per cent. Since September crude has fallen $54 a barrel and some analysts are predicting $50 by early 2009.

Those same analysts are proclaiming OPECâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s announcement is futile, considering the bleak economic outlook in the industrialized countries. Slower global growth and falling demand has burst the bubble for most commodities.

Demand among oil consuming nations will fall 2.2 per cent this year, reducing overall world demand growth to 0.5 per cent, according to The International Energy Agency.

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Few experts agree with the OPEC president that the announced cuts will stabilize prices. They cite a history of inďŹ ghting and cheating by OPEC members on their own quotas. Most OPEC members need the money and will continue to sell as much oil as they can, said Robert Laughlin, senior broker at MF Global Ltd.

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Snapshot of Maidstone’s oilpatch

By Brian Zinchuk

Kevin Pike, mans the counter at Keranda Industrial Supply, Maidstone.

Photo by Brian Zinchuk

Maidstone – In a town where town officials have a hard time pointing to someone who doesn’t have a direct or indirect tie to the oilpatch, Maidstone’s industrial park keeps the wheels of the town turning. Here’s a sampling of some of the businesses found there: GreMur Industries “I’ve been working in this oilpatch for 26 years,” Bob Ormiston says. Ormiston is partners with Murray Brausse in GreMur Industries, a welding shop located in Maidstone.

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They saw a need for a welding shop in Maidstone, and now work in oilfield construction, maintenance, pipe, water plants, disposal sites and the like.

GreMur operates four one-tonne picker trucks and one threetonne picker truck.

“I try to hold about 12 people,” he says.

“Most of the guys I have working here, live here.”

While sometimes Ormiston has people commute to Maidstone, they rarely stay, waiting until something bigger comes along. “If I can find local guys, that’s the way to go.”

But that can be a problem, he notes, as Maidstone is a small centre with a small workforce.

While he’s got a fairly young workforce, Chris Zerr, Darrell Harwood, Sheldon Rhinehart and Bryan Wesson have been around for a while.

GreMur works from Bonnyville to Kindersley and pretty much all points in between. Their primary clients are Husky, Baytex and CNRL. BMW Weatherford BMW Weatherford has seven people on staff, running a pump shop and completion service. The business is split about evenly between the two, according to Ross Donald, store manager. He notes BMW Weatherford is the only servicing company based in Maidstone.

“Our pumps are

made in Edmonton, and assembled in Lloydminster,” he says.

“We’ve been going in Maidstone since 1993 under various names,” Donald says.

“We’re anticipating the higher price of oil, the higher the activity,” he adds, but as of early June, had not seen it yet.

Ross Donald has been at BMW Weatherford for 15 years, while Earl McLaine has been there for 13. Corey Young has put in 11.

Hardy Excavating With all the activity around Maidstone, there’s a need to support the road infrastructure going to the wells. Hardy Excavating runs 25 gravel trucks, 14 backhoes, 11 loaders, two excavators, and six to eight sanders. As the name says, Hardy does excavating, but also gravel hauling and spill cleanups.

Hardy is associated with Wesco, a concrete redi-mix operation in Maidstone.

Keranda Industrial Supply Keranda isn’t actually located in the industrial park, but rather just north on Highway 21.

Keranda has been operating for 29 years, starting with a focus on agriculture, but now with a heavy emphasis on supplying the local oilpatch as well. “It’s definitely strong growth in the oil end of it,” says Kevin Pike of Keranda.

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GreMur Industries - an essential part of Maidstone patch ɺ Page B28 “We keep good quality stuff, and our customers expect that.”

Covering the ag sector has been an important hedge to fall back on during the down days of the energy sector. “If it wasn’t for the farmers...” he says.

“It’s been pretty good for four, five years,” Pike says, expecting even more positive times to come.

The company saw a substantial expansion about six years ago. “We’ve grown about as wide as we want to go,” he explains.

Ten people work at Keranda. Greg Ballan has been around for 20 years, and Blair Ryan has just hit 10 years. Lou Wilkinson, Chris Gerlinsky and Becky Harmel have each put in over five years.

Does Pike have people poaching staff? “Constantly,” he says, because of their knowledge. “You’ve got to have a fair salary and good work ethics,” he says.

“You’ve got to work with the guys. Bosses who tell people how to work don’t stay bosses long unless they’ve got a lot of money.”

Bryan Wesson works on some pipe at GreMur Industries, Maidstone.

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Heat prep A labourer with Willbros Midwest preheats the end of a joint of pipe, using a six-headed torch.

Willbros Midwest is working on Enbridge’s Alberta Clipper project.

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Entrepreneur council announced Regina- Saskatchewan entrepreneurs will now have a channel to voice their recommendations to the government on how to attract and improve entrepreneurial activities in the province.

The Saskatchewan Entrepreneurship Council was announced Oct 23, Youth Entrepreneurship Day, by Enterprise and Innovation Minister Lyle Stewart.The council will be one of several strategic issues councils operating under the new economic development agency Enterprise Saskatchewan.

The Minister also announced $10,000 in funding that will go toward partnerships with Junior Achievement of Saskatchewan, an organization that provides entrepreneurship and leadership training to youth,

and a new youth education centre in Regina, donated by TCU Financial Group, and managed by the Arcas Group Inc., a Saskatchewan-based marketing consulting firm.

“Entrepreneurs are the people behind the growth of our economy, as they see business opportunities and decide to exploit them,” Stewart said. “Their input into what goes into our economic policies will not only be relevant and timely, but also be a benefit to the province by better positioning people for self-employment, and enabling them to create additional jobs for others, leading to expanded economic growth.”

The following are members of the Saskatchewan Entrepreneurship Council:

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Clients of the Provincial Training Allowance and Transitional Employment Allowance programs will receive offsetting increases to their home heating allowances.

Saskatchewan Assistance Program clients will continue to have their actual utility costs paid, based on billings.

“It is important that our Government increase the training allowance to provide relief to students in basic education programs” Advanced Education, Employment and Labour Minister Rob Norris said. “This increase will reduce the burden incurred by students due to rising energy costs, enabling them to focus their attention on their studies and on achieving their educational goals.”

For Provincial Training Allowance clients, rates will increase by $24 per month per household for single students living away from home and single parents and $26 per month for married students. In addition, rates will increase by $2 for each child in the household.

Transitional Employment Allowance clients will receive an increase of $24 per month for the first person in the household and $2 per month for each additional person.

“We’re committed to protecting Saskatchewan’s social assistance clients from high energy costs,” Social Services Minister Donna Harpauer said.

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Encana holds mock emergency “Someone with media relations was engaged in anticipation of the media people contacting our people to get a stand by statement and that all took place within minutes.

“We had a few glitches, some hand-held twoway radios that were difficult to hear but it was good to practice and know that communications is at the utmost importance,” she says.

Walkeden adds Encana personnel muster in a certain area with the person in charge, depending on the air quality personnel may travel to a different location to muster, depending on the wind direction as well as the gas.

In the mock emergency “we had two contractors that were unaccounted for and injured and one Encana employee unaccounted for and injured as well.

Because the conditions were too hazardous for our people to mask up we had to wait for the fire department before entering plant facility.”

It was about 90 minutes before rescuers could enter the facility.

“We had to make sure that we weren’t sending our rescuers into a hazardous situation.”

A mock emergency was held at Encana’s Weyburn plant on October 1. The exercise took months to plan.

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By Stephan Burnett Weyburn – A mock emergency was held at Encana’s Weyburn plant on October 1.

“It was planned well in advance. We had been doing preliminary planning for two months. The local staff had a two-week window to know there was a mock emergency coming but didn’t know when or what it would be,” Twila Walkeden, community relations advisor said. “We wanted to mimic those conditions and the reaction time.”

The mock emergency was a fire and explosion at one of Encana’s large storage tanks. The lid was blown off and a large crack and a large plume of smoke with intense heat and H2S gas all occurred but it was all imagined and nothing you could see.

Encana’s Weyburn plant is located at its CO2 injection project, about 22 kilometres south of Weyburn and 10 km east, just north of Goodwater.

“We sounded the alarm and what happens is our operations superintendent gave them the details in the control room at 9 a.m. By 9:05 all people were mustered and accounted for except three people and by the time our incident commander made all the decisions necessary we called it off at about 10:45 a.m.” said Walkedon.

“The purpose was to provide our staff and contractors with the resources to effectively repair and respond to an emergency and activate an emergency

preparedness program and involve all levels and government agencies including the governors of OH&S and Sask Environment as well as first responders and emergency personnel,” she said.

The ambulance and fire truck were notified of the emergency in advance.

“We didn’t want any confusion about whether this was an actual emergency compared with a mock,” she said.

The fire department was dispatched and we had a chief and deputy chief and it was valuable to them as well as they had little experience with oil emergencies.

The exercise assisted emergency responders in practicing their roles and improving preparedness.

“Afterward we came together as a group afterward and discussed what went well and areas we could improve,” said Walkeden.

In terms of timing all contractors and personnel mustered and did a head count within four minutes.

“The initial response went very smoothly,” she said.

Encana’s Weyburn personnel were in close communication with its incident command office in Calgary.

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The mock injuries were such that all personnel survived.

“They were located upwind of the plume of gas and were not affected by the gas leaking from the tanks. That was all very purposely thought out and planned, we actually had one dummy and two people that were placed in certain parts of the plant. Their locations and injuries were all predetermined.

“The best thing was to show in a state of duress how our people and contractors thought things out and worked together to manage this scenario along with communications with EMS and first responders. It was a very successful exercise.”

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Reece now working in four areas of Sask.

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In announcing its third quarter results, Reece management assured investors it is in sound financial shape, and continue on its drilling program.

While publicly traded Reece is based in Precision Drilling rig No. 239 has been showing Medicine Hat, its area of good results for Reece Energy with its horizontal operations is primarily in drilling in the Viking formation Saskatchewan.

Viking play; completed play in south western During the quarter, preliminary exploration Saskatchewan.

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Land base expansion ɸ Page C2 Bakken The last of the three planned exploratory wells was drilled and tested. The well encountered what appears to be a natural fracture in the formation and does not appear to be economic for production.

The first delineation well was drilled in the Bemersyde area (near Reece’s first successful Bakken exploratory well) and initial test results are positive. A further 1,920 acres (net 960 acres) of land was acquired in the October 6th land sale to further enhance the Company’s position at Bemersyde.

Reece has a total of 7,680 acres (net 3,840) of land in the Bemersyde play. After all testing and fracturing is complete and production has been established for the existing wells the next delineation wells will be drilled to establish the extent of the pool.

Lower Shaunavon As previously announced, Reece entered into a joint venture with Anterra Energy Inc. (“Anterra”) to explore and develop the Lower Shaunavon formation on 1,760 acres of Anterra land in south west Saskatchewan. Reece has completed drilling on the first well in the area and is preparing to run the fracture string for stimulation. At the October 6th land sale Reece was

successful in acquiring 12 sections jointly with Anterra, (50/50), and an additional 23 sections of land (100%) for a total of 22,400 (18,600 net) acres of exploratory land in the area. Reece plans to undertake a more aggressive program on these lands in 2009.

Viking Reece’s Dodsland Viking play continued to see the majority of activity and expenditures during the quarter. An additional 10 (10 net) extended reach, multistage fractured horizontal wells were drilled during the quarter, with 7 of these being tied in and on production by the end of September. These wells have added more than 500 BOE/d of net production to Reece. An additional 760 acres of Viking mineral rights were added to the Dodsland Viking play through an acquisition of adjacent property.Drilling in the area continues with another 10 wells planned

for the fourth quarter of 2008 and a minimum of an additional 25 locations identified for future drilling.

Outlook Destruction of confidence in the United States banking sector surrounding subprime lending has taken its toll on all of the capital markets, Reece notes. The resulting pull back in share prices of the equity markets has affected most issuers including Reece Energy.

The management of Reece state they can assure their shareholders that Reece is in sound financial condition. The Company’s debt is less than one times cash flow and is held with Alberta Treasury Branch (“ATB”). ATB has been largely unaffected by the banking mess due to its mandate to only lend to Alberta based companies.

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Martin Head looking to grow Shaunavon â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Two years ago Kim Davies reorganized Martin Head Oil and Gas and now theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re rolling ahead. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We did a ďŹ nancing last July and bought some properties in Saskatchewan. Now weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sitting at a little over 400 boe per day in the southwest and southeast,â&#x20AC;? says Davies, president and CEO for the company.

Martin Head Oil & Gas Ltd. is a private company registered in Alberta in 2005. It was reorganized in the fall of 2006 to focus on new exploration prospects and the acquisition of lower risk exploitation properties with good growth potential, company information states. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am a geophysicist by trade,â&#x20AC;? she says.

She started her career in PetroCanada in 1981 and worked in the Frontiers and International divisions and then started at Co-Enerco in 1983 and went to Compton in 1996 when they went public. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking at a lot of resources plays,â&#x20AC;?

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Saskatchewan an attractive place to do business in. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do have some lands in the Dollard area (13 km east of Shaunavon) and we just ďŹ nished our ďŹ rst horizontal and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re putting in the fraccing.

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Martin Headâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s corporate strategy is to concentrate on acquiring a balanced risk portfolio in select areas where its team has technical expertise. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A number of potentially large oil trends have been identiďŹ ed and we are being pursued in Saskatchewan with the aim to develop long term value creation,â&#x20AC;? states the company website. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the southeast we have about 40 sections of land that we have access to and a lot of diďŹ&#x20AC;erent types of land and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting ready to drill a well,â&#x20AC;? she says.

Davies adds the company is well ďŹ nanced and that she is interested in buying corporations whether they are public or private.

Whether or not the coming acquisition will be in Alberta or Saskatchewan is still up in the air. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hope it will be in Saskatchewan but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible that Alberta may become more competitive, otherwise it would be Saskatchewan,â&#x20AC;? she says.

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Ryland acquires Viceroy

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Vancouver-based Ryland Oil Corporation announced on Oct. 8 it had acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares of Viceroy Resources Ltd., a private Calgarybased oil and gas exploration company.

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from the lands held at the time of completion of the purchase. The company is debt free.

Viceroy holds a 50% working interest in and to Saskatchewan Crown petroleum leases covering approximately 4,320 acres (or approximately 6 3/4 sections) in southeast Saskatchewan. The lands include ďŹ ve existing wells, of which two are currently producing from the Bakken formation, with average total production of approximately 15 bbls per day.

Ryland, through Viceroy, will continue to be operator of the properties.

The Viceroy properties are contiguous with acreage held by Ryland (through its subsidiary Pebble Petroleum Inc.)

in the Roncott Bakken area in the northwest portion of its southeast Saskatchewan properties.

Ryland is currently production testing its ďŹ rst horizontal Bakken formation well on its adjacent acreage and is completing a second horizontal Bakken well.

The company also is drilling its third horizontal Bakken well and has applied for four additional horizontal permits in the immediate Roncott area. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While our 345,000 gross and net acres already make Ryland one of the largest holders of PNG (petroleum and natural gas) rights in southeast Saskatchewan, Viceroy was a strategic

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The area has historically had some of the best production from vertical wells producing from the Bakken formation in the Williston Basin and will be an important development area for Ryland.

The company believes the acreage is highly prospective for its Bakken potential and that Ryland can signiďŹ cantly expand the commercially productive area of the Roncott Bakken pool through the use of current horizontal drilling and completion techniques.

Through its acquisition of Viceroy Resources Ltd., Ryland now operates the Roncott Bakken ďŹ eld. The ďŹ eld, discovered in 1956, has had some of the best vertical Bakken production in the entire Williston Basin (both in the U.S. and Saskatchewan), greatly exceeding production from vertical wells in the Saskatchewan ViewďŹ eld area, according to Ryland.

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TransCanada’s conversion project underway

By Stephan Burnett

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Swift Current – Work is progressing for TransCanada on its Keystone Pipeline project.

“Work is continuing on converting line 100-1 from gas to oil services and work will be continuing into 2009,” said TransCanada spokeswoman Cecily Dobson.

The 100-1 is an existing pipeline that is being converted from natural gas to crude oil service.

The converted section is approximately 864 kilometres in length and begins near Burstall, Sask., approximately three kms east of the Alberta/Saskatchewan border and ends near Carmen, Man. “The existing 100-1 will be isolated from the other existing parallel natural gas pipelines and 26 delivery and receipt metering station connections will also be isolated.

In-line inspection tools will be run in the pipeline to ensure the integ-

rity of the pipeline for oil service,” said Dobson.

The majority of the US$7.0 billion in additional capital investment required to expand Keystone to the U.S. Gulf Coast is expected to be made between 2010 and 2012. Approximately 30 per cent of the project investment will be made in Canada.

The proposed Keystone expansion is a crude oil pipeline starting at Hardisty, Alta. and extending south to serve markets at Port Arthur and Houston on the Gulf Coast in Texas. The expansion initially will be designed to transport up to 700,000 barrels per day of crude oil and ultimately will be expandable to 900,000 barrels per day with the addition of incremental pumping facilities, said Dobson.

TransCanada reports that while the capacity of the Keystone expansion is approximately 700,000 barrels per day,

Keystone will serve the Cushing area market demand of approximately 200,000 barrels per day through the expansion, leaving nominal capacity of 500,000 barrels per day to flow south to service the U.S. Gulf Coast market. The commercial terms offered during the Keystone expansion open season are based on throughput of 500,000 bpd to the U.S. Gulf Coast.

As of the end of September, there were approximately 1,500 people working on the project -500 in Canada and 1,000 in the United States.

The company reports that on the Canadian side of the project, work has commenced at nearly all of the pump station sites in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, including sites adjacent to existing TCPL compressor stations. Pump station work in Alberta will commence shortly. ɸ Page C13

Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, EMR Drilling Inc. (“EMR”) is a recently formed energy services provider set to launch its newly built 3600 m telelscoping double drilling rigs in November 2008. Lead by a management team with a wealth of experience in the oil and gas industry, EMR is committed to building an organization based on involved leadership and respect for its employees.

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TransCanadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conversion Éş Page C12 Pump station work has commenced in the U.S at all locations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All Phase 1 pump stations are scheduled to be mechanically complete and commissioning is to

commence in the fourth quarter of 2009,â&#x20AC;? said Dobson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The peak loading for manpower will be 20 to 25 people per station.â&#x20AC;?

Civil related construction activities have

commenced with topsoil stripping and grading.

Each pump will be supported by a concrete foundation under steel piles. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pump station equipment will arrive on site shortly. The contractor

sets each pump and motor on the concrete foundation and sets the electrical buildings and other major components on their respective foundations. Mechanically and electrically, activities to connect all the major components will occur in parallel. At the same time, local utilities are running in power lines and constructing substations where required to provide electric service for the site,â&#x20AC;? she said.

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Company offers dry heat and tank moves

By Stephan Burnett

The investment for years,” he says. any particular oilfield The industry in Swift Current - Geoff mobile boiler depends on southwest Saskatchewan Heschel, owner of GH how you rig them up but has changed quite reWell Services Inc. says Heschel estimates he in- markably over the past there’s a couple things vested close to $100,000 21 years.

“From my perspecthat are unique about his a piece on his.

“Mine have 200 tive right out of high business.

The company has re- watts of halogen lighting, school the industry was cently moved in to tank 10,000 watt power plants really cut throat. Jobs on them and 1,000 gal- were really tight then moving in the oilfield.

The self-contained lons of water storage and and now it’s a workers’ hydraulic unit doesn’t they have sleepers and market. As an employer need a crane as the deck microwaves, which fa- it’s an uphill battle hard tilts up to and even past cilitates 24 hour work on to find people. The best 90 degrees where the two-man crews. We can way I find is to hire green tanks are attached with stay there for four or five and train them myself. cables and then lowered days and we’ve been on It’s indicative of how the back down horizontally. location for two to three industry is now,” he says.

New hires generally “It’s like a winch weeks at a time,” he says.

Having been in busi- start out as swampers truck with a flat deck,” ness for himself for the working with the boiler Heschel explains.

Apart from the new past four years, Heschel operators.

“It costs generally aspect of the business the adds he has close to 22 main thrust of GH Well years of oilpatch experi- $1,500 per employees to get them all the training Servicing are two mobile ence.

“I was out of high they need and I like to let high-pressure boilers used for steaming and school in 1987 and them to cut their teeth worked on a drilling and they need two years thawing.

The boilers are pre- rig and then after that I experience on a boiler dominantly active within went to petroleum sales before they can get there the winter months but and service. I did that tickets,” he says.

During the low periin some cases in the oil- for over 10 years and I field a battery or a facility was on the road deliver- ods of the year there are is shut down and steam ing and selling fuel and two full time workers on is applied to treaters to then from there in 2002 staff and one part-time I went back to the ser- office person. During clean them out.

“They need heat to vice industry and coil high periods in the windo that because there’s a tubed for Sanjel for a few ter there are up to seven lot of wax and oil to deal with,” says Heschel.

The thing that makes the boilers unique is that they apply dry steam.

The high-pressure boiler pressurizes the water to 150 psi before its released and it expands once it hits atmospheric pressure.

“It’s heated up to over 400 degrees Fahrenheit and it looks like smoke,” says Heschel.

One unit is an FLC112 Freightliner tandem and the other is mounted on a 28-foot Great Dane insulated trailer pulled with a Western Star highway tractor unit.

The business was started up in October 2004. At the start of the business Heschel had all his ducks in a row but the boiler was delayed in arriving for about a month, causing him to miss some business right off the bat. Now, through the service he’s offered he’s been able to expand to two units.

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people working with the company.

The business is operated on a first-come, first-served basis.

“Companies call up GH Well Services and say they need a boiler.

They’ll give you a time frame for how long they want to keep you around. ... Quite often what will happen is the consultant will phone me up with

a completion project of 20 wells and say we need you for two weeks, and half way through two weeks another project at a different area comes up.

They try to keep you busy if they can. Lots of times they’re afraid if they let you go they won’t be able to get you back.”

Heschel adds the one aspect that sets his company apart from other

boiler operations is that he trains his workers to be helpful while on the lease.

“When I used to work in the patch I found many boiler operators to be quite lazy. When you’re on lease you’re there to help and I think we’re a small company with a very good work ethic. That’s the reputation we do have.”

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Availability a major part of Graham Oil¿elds success Stephan Burnett Swift Current - Graham Oilfield Trucking has been around the oilpatch for 20 years and its owner Doug Graham has a whopping 40 years of oilfield experience.

The company spe-

cializes in wet and dry steam, in vacuuming, in winter road clearing and in the transportation of fluids.

“Dry steam is used thawing in the winter and the wet steam is for cleaning in the oilfield,”

says Graham.

The company also has one vac truck they use for clean up and service rig work.

Another use for the vac truck is when a pump fails.

“If a pump is stuck

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in the hole they pull their tubing and we suck it out so it doesn’t make a mess on the lease,” Graham explains. “That happens a lot and sometimes they’re full of sand.”

“We also have a snow blower and a tractor to keep the roads open for the lease operator. Some winter it’s a lot of hours and on other winters it’s not.”

With the tank trucks there’s a lot of transporting fluids from outlying wells into the main batteries and hauling fluid to and from the service rigs.

“We also mow lease roads and well sites and we have a bobcat we use for clean up and we have a gravel truck mostly just clean up work as well,” says Graham.

All in all the company’s equipment includes two steamers, three tanks trucks, a vac truck a grav-

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The one thing that Graham does as well if not better than the competition is provide availability, “I think because we look after a small area we’re available and we’re on call seven days a week and 20 minutes away at any time. That and the fact that I have long-term employees and they’re all well experienced,” he says.

Graham says he doesn’t see activity levels dropping off.

‘They’ll stay the same.

For us it’s been good a good run for the last few years.”

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Graham says he has three full-time employees including himself.

“Sometime we run a temporary worker in the winter for the dry-steam boiler,” he says.

Graham also has an interesting perspective on activity levels in the patch.

“Actually last year was my best year ever.

This year is a little slower.

I don’t see this big boom everyone is talking about.

I still think the big boom is down east and traditionally when oil prices are way up activity slows down. The oilfield always has been a weird place and you can’t second guess the oil companies,” he says.

“I think things will maintain where they are now. There is work in the Battrum Field about 30

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Wild River will remain active Shaunavon - Jerry Sapieha CFO for Wild River Resources says the company will remain active despite the drop in crude prices.

“We’re very active.

Obviously there’s been a substantial decline in WTI (West Texas Intermediate) which has

made everyone rethink economics but we’re still moving ahead and very much like the play and we are still concentrating our activities in the fourth quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009 in the Shaunavon area,” said Sapieha.

Wild River Resources is a private Canadian oil and gas company. The company started active operations in February 2007 with the closing of its initial offering of private shares that raised $25.3 million.

The company holds

a lot of land in the Lower Shaunavon region as well as a substantial drilling inventory.

“It will be the focus of the company for the next six months,” said Sapieha.

Throughout 2009 the company has drilled and completed a total of

eight wells in the Shaunavon region and plans drilling another six in the region throughout the fourth quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009.

Sapieha stresses that Wild River’s drilling budget has not yet been approved but adds

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the company could be drilling up too 15 wells over the next 12 months.

“Depending on the fraccing and multistage fraccing these are $2 million plus wells, so we could be looking at $30 million in the Lower Shaunavon,” he said.

The dropping price for crude has changed the outlook of the company but Sapieha adds the outlook has been mitigated by the falling exchange rate.

“It’s basically down to 80 cents on the dollar, down from 95 cents on the dollar. It’s a substantial decline,” he said.

“We very much like operating in Saskatchewan. Given the royalty regime it’s a much friendlier province to operate in which makes the economics much more favourable,” said Sapieha.

The company is also hoping to apply a water flood and have increased success.

“If our budget gets approved, and we won’t know for another month, we could see up to 24 wells drilled in 2009 up to 90 per cent of which are horizontal.”

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Renegade Oilfield Construction Ltd. Offices in Estevan, SK & Redcliff.

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Thru Tubing Field Supervisor Estevan, SK Candidates must have a solid background in the Oil & Gas industry, with extensive Downhole knowledge. This position requires an individual to supervise particular field operations in regards to Thru Tubing Operations, and prepare and maintain paperwork.

Prior fishing and Thru Tubing experience considered an asset.

All positions require individuals to have excellent customer service skills, safe working habits, and computer skills. Candidates must have a class 5 license and provide a current clean driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s abstract. All applicable safety tickets are required, additional training will be provided.

Weatherford offers competitive compensation and immediate benefits with opportunities for training and career development.

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Career Opportunities Is currently seeking Permanent Full Time

Heavy Duty Mechanic In our Lloydminster location Applicants are required to have their own tools and a valid Class 5 Drivers License. Additional courses or training would be an asset.

Wages commensurate with experience. Company benefit package.

Pre-employment drug screening is in effect.

Please apply in person at the office in County Energy Park, fax, or email resume with 3 years job history, references and current driver’s abstract to: Attention: Denis Prefontaine Fax: 780-875-8587 Email: denis.prefontaine@formulapowell.com

Permanent Full Time Position in OXBOW

If you are looking to work in a friendly small business atmosphere with a healthy work-like balance that is challenging, offers excellent advancement opportunity and offers competitive salary, then come join our team.

Estevan Meter Services Ltd. is an oilÀeld service company operating in Southeast Saskatchewan since 1967. Specializing in instrumentation, oilÀeld repairs and specialty supply items.

We offer full beneÀts, bonuses and pension plan.

We are seeking individuals to Àll the following positions:

REPAIR SHOP TECHNICIAN Duties include: Service and repair various oilÀeld related equipment.

Candidates with related or previous experience and good mechanical ability will be given special consideration.

FIELD INSTRUMENTATION TECHNOLOGIST Duties include: Service, repair, calibration and installation of various instrumentation & related equipment.

The successful candidate will posses a diploma in instrumentation Engineering Technology or have Interprovincial Journeyman status as an Industrial Instrument Mechanic or both.

Candidates with related oilÀeld experience, experience in electrical systems, SCADA systems, strong trouble shooting skills, PLC/RTU programming and a good mechanical aptitude will be given special consideration.

BURNER SERVICE TECHNICIAN

HYDROVAC OPERATOR Safety Certificates such as H2S & 1st Aid/CPR an asset.

Class 3A Driver’s License required.

Apply by FAX: 306-483-5220 • Phone: 306-483-7777 or Email: extremeexcavating@hotmail.com

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Duties include: Installation, maintenance, service and tuning of oilÀeld atmospheric treater burners, and associated instrumentation.

Candidates with related oilÀeld experience, oilÀeld maintenance personnel, and familiarity with treaters or mechanical and electrical systems will be given special consideration.

Please reply by resume to: Estevan Meter Services Ltd. Box 355 Estevan, SK S4A 2A4 or email: dmartens@estevanmeter.com

Join The Team!

Enseco Energy Services is pleased to announce our move into S.E. Saskatchewan with the opening of a new location in Midale. We are also pleased to announce that Mr. Rick Faber has joined Enseco as Production Testing Operations Manager for Saskatchewan. Rick can be reached directly at (306) 861-3365 or rfaber@enseco.ca.

Enseco is a specialized oil and gas service provider to major and independent exploration and production companies. The services we provide include production testing, swabbing, directional drilling, open hole logging, and cased hole wireline/TCP services.

We currently have openings for Saskatchewan personnel for the following position (s):

Class 1A Company Drivers Class 1A Owner/Operators Serving Saskatchewan, Alberta and BC Total Transfer is a fast-growing freight and light oilfield hauling service.

YOU CAN EXPECT Low administration costs and much higher than industry average earnings.

ENSECO PRODUCTION TESTING: • Well Test Supervisors • Well Test Assistants • Night Operators Applicants must have valid H2S and First Aid Certificate, a clean driver’s abstract, and a positive professional attitude.

Our Team members enjoy the following industry leading compensation packages including competitive wages, company matching stock savings plan, a fully comprehensive health benefits plan and an active drug and alcohol testing program.

Please forward your resume to the email address below:

WE EXPECT A good work ethic and a dedication to safety and service that has been the key to our success.

No matter where you live in AB or SK you are on one of our routes.

Talk to our people and our customers, then fax your resumé and abstract to (306) 825.4500.

Enseco Energy Services Corp.

Direct: (306) 458-2534 Toll Free: 1-866-806-0088 Head Office Fax: (403) 806-0084 Email: jointheteam@enseco.ca

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Require safety certiÀcates & valid drivers licence.

Competitive wages and beneÀts package.

RJ HOFFMAN HOLDINGS

Fax resume to 637-2181 or deliver to: 62 Devonian Street, Estevan, Sk.

IS ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR

CLASS 1A & 3A DRIVERS Based out of St. Walburg, SK or Lloydminster, AB

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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

Flush By and Steamer positions available. We train drivers. $23/hr starting driving wage or higher wages for experienced operators. We pay overtime and provide benefits. 7-3-7-4 schedule. Maximum 14 hr days. Fax resumes with references and drivers abstract to Eugene at (780) 871-0782 or email to employment@rjhoffman.com

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ELECTRICAL APPRENTICES & JOURNEYMEN REQUIRED

Apply in confidence to: Fax (780) 808-2273

www.suretuf.com PLASMA TABLE OPERATORS EXPERIENCED LABOURER Will train qualified candidates.

Applicants must have welding background.

Driver’s license required. Reliable, team player.

Wages depend on experience. Benefits available.

Performance bonuses.

Only those to be interviewed will be contacted.

Apply in confidence to: Fax (780) 808-2689

Dex’s Sandblast & Painting has Immediate Full Time Positions for: in BIGGAR, SK

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requires quali½ed people for the following positions:

PRESSURE AND SEMI VAC OPERATORS

EXPERIENCED WELDERS

If you have oilÀeld experience and are an enthusiastic learner, join our growing team. We offer competitive wages, scheduled days, full beneÀt 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

SANDBLASTER INDUSTRIAL PAINTER

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Apprentice Heavy Duty Mechanics Call Tony

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

Experience in foaming and internal lining an asset.

Sandblasters with internal experience Industrial Painters must be familiar with Endura & Devoe products Prepers must be mechanically inclined all positions require a valid drivers license

email resumes dexsandblasting@sasktel.net

We offer top wages O.T & Bonuses

or fax; 306-825-2862

Relocation to Biggar required.

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

Full Time Serviceman PRECISION RENTALS LTD. is a division of Precision Drilling Corporation and, due to an internal promotion, we have an immediate opening for a full time serviceman.

Duties would include servicing of our surface and well site rental equipment.

The successful applicant should possess a mechanical aptitude and must be able to work in a safe work environment.

Please submit your resume to:

Kevin Bowey, Field Superintendent Box 310 Estevan, Saskatchewan S4A 2A4 Phone: 306-634-8050 Fax: 306-634-6599

Lloydminster, Saskatchewan

Phone:(306) 825-0401

Employment Opportunity Slickline Operator and Assistant • Oilfield experience preferred but will train • Valid drivers license and abstract required • Safety Training an asset Duties will include: • operating and maintaining Slickline Truck & Tools Benefit Package available after 3 months.

Forward resumes ATTN Mike Muir E-mail: qualityw@sasktel.net Fax: 306-634-7976 or Mail: Box 326, Estevan, SK S4A 2A4

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D BRANCH MANAGER – ESTEVAN Feel like a challenge? In this position you will be using your exceptional leadership skills to inspire your team in serving a wide range of customers with different needs. Under your leadership, your team members will assist the customer in identifying viable solutions to these needs.

Result-oriented, you are accountable for your branch objectives in not only financial targets, but in the exceptional service the branch provides and the ongoing development of employees.

You will develop a plan to aggressively improve performance, implement strategies to satisfy customer needs and a structure in which all employees are able to develop and maximize their potential. You are an enterprising leader who enjoys healthy competition and collaboration. You are confident knowing your long-term success begins with the success and satisfaction of your customers. This will be enabled by the successful leadership of a highly motivated and trained team.

We offer an attractive compensation package with a management bonus that highly correlates with performance.

Are you up to the challenge? If you have the desire and skills to make this happen we want to speak with you.

Please submit your résumé and a cover letter to: Mark Thompson Human Resources Manager Email: mthompson@frontierpeterbilt.com Fax: (306) 242-5868

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Savanna Well Servicing Inc. is actively seeking personnel for the following positions:

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Entry level positions available.

Excellent wages, immediate benefits!

Please apply with resume, current driver’s abstract (Class 3 or higher), & copy of tickets to:

SAVANNA WELL SERVICING INC. VACANCY USED TRUCK SALES REPRESENTATIVE ESTEVAN

Carlyle, SK Office: 306.453.2616 Cell: 403.510.6616 Fax: 306.453.2614 Trobitaille@savannaenergy.com

We have an exciting opportunity for a Used Truck Sales Person in Estevan. This position has been created due to both current demand and the need to dispose of future inventory returning from lease terms.

We are in search of a dynamic, high-energy sales representative who is organized, results-driven and customer service oriented. Reporting to the Branch Manager and stationed in Estevan the successful candidate will be responsible for building and maintaining a client base within a pre-determined territory. The role demands exceptional customer service and the ability to provide problem resolution for the customer in a timely manner.

Duties: • To market Used Trucks utilizing creative solutions and product knowledge.

• To travel through designated territory to call upon regular and prospective customers to solicit orders and develop relationships.

• To identify new prospects and qualify customers in terms of needs and challenges.

• To quote prices and prepare sales contracts and documentation for orders obtained.

Requirements: • Exceptional communication skills • Must be detail orientated, organized, determined and a team player • Proven record of customer satisfaction • Comfortable in a computer based environment • Relevant knowledge in the transportation industry • Works well with and without supervision • The ability and desire to build business relationships Qualified applicants are encouraged to submit resume and covering letter to:

WEYBURN SASKATCHEWAN - 306-842-8901 ESTEVAN SASKATCHEWAN - 306-634-8912

Mark Thompson Human Resources Manager Email: mthompson@frontierpeterbilt.com Fax: (306) 664-3386

PARTS MANAGER - ESTEVAN Are you a bridge builder, a leader and a team player?

The Parts Manager is directly responsible for the overall management and profitability of the parts department. Key responsibilities include monitoring the ongoing operation of the parts department, improving department operations, and coaching, training, monitoring and leading a team that is progressive and enterprising.

The Parts Manager will accomplish ambitious growth targets and motivate parts staff to improve performance. The successful candidate will play a leadership role in attracting and retaining top talent within the department. Candidates for this position should have a solid background in marketing heavy-duty truck parts, analyzing market trends and complement your abilities with strong written and verbal communication skills. Time management is a must with impeccable organizational skills and the details in order, to go along with a fast paced work environment.

Demonstrate the ability to analyze and understand detailed financial information. Develop operating and capital budgets, and business plans to achieve branch parts sales goals. Provide department performance in accordance to budgeted targets and on time delivery.

Manage parts inventory in an effective manner to attain turn objectives and maximum parts availability. Oversee and day-to-day procurement, receiving, storage, handling and shipment of all parts stock to meet timely shipping schedules and customer requirements. Keep department expenses in check and identify and capture cost saving opportunities through improvement are paramount in your quest for excellence.

If you have the desire and skills to make this happen we want to speak with you.

We thank all applicants for their interest. Only candidates under consideration will be contacted.

Qualified applicants are encouraged to submit résumé and covering letter to: Mark Thompson Human Resources Manager Email: mthompson@frontierpeterbilt.com Fax: (306) 664-3386

Essential Coil Tubing currently has a fleet of 25 coil units. These units are tandem tandem and tandem tridems. We have coil capabilities of up to 3400 meters of 1.75”, 4500 meters of 1.5”, and 6700 meters of 1.24”. 6 sets of Class II blowout preventers, including two remote accumulators and Class III capabilities.

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Box 1605, Estevan, Sk. S4A 2L7 Cell. (306) 421-3174, (306) 421-6410, (306) 421-2059 Fax: (306) 634-1273

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Contact: Roger Breton Ph: 306-842-5113 or Ph: 780-463-3366

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