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“We still need to discuss that with them, but we did it last year.

“Our plan is to continue doing that moving forward. Last year, it was well attended. It worked out very well for us. We would definitely like to continue that because it’s a win-win for everybody.”

Bacon said that he planned to attend the second annual SPE Heavy Oil Conference – Canada held in conjunction with the Oil & Gas Expo in Calgary June 11-13.

Bacon is a thermal sales and services representative for Nalco Champion, a company formed with the acquisition of Champion Technologies by Ecolab Inc. in 2012.

“Our company has gotten quite a bit larger with the merger so we pretty much have a presence everywhere,” said Bacon.

“Specifically, what I do is SAGD. Right now, we do a lot of demulsifier sales. It’s a big ticket item in the oilfield – demulsifiers and water clarifiers.”

Bacon thinks he might also do some networking at the Oil Sands Heavy Oil Technologies conference in Calgary July 23-25.

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By Geoff Lee Pipeline News Lloydminster – The 20th annual Lloydminster Heavy Oil Technical Symposium originally scheduled for Sept. 11-12 has been cancelled due to competition from too many larger heavy oil conferences.

Organizers from the Lloydminster Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) have plans to embed the symposium in the Lloydminster Heavy Oil Show that is held every second year.

“It turned out there’s actually just too many oil show conferences going on this year that we were not able to get enough speakers to run our conference,” explained SPE chairman Mark Bacon in Calgary.

“We only had interest from two or three groups, and we needed at least nine speakers.

“If we had enough speakers we would have run it, but it just makes more sense moving forward to partner with the heavy oil show.

“It works out better for everybody. Two or three companies showed interest. Had we pressured them, we could have got four or five speakers. It’s not really the route we want to go.”

Bacon said if the SPE holds its symposium every other year, there will be enough technical changes in the heavy oil industry to warrant having a full symposium.

The SPE put out a call for speakers several times before the May 31 deadline, leading the board to pull the plug on the 2013 event.

“There are multiple heavy oil conferences going on this year,” said Bacon. “I’m thinking there must be some profitability in some of these because a lot of these conferences are starting to be run by third parties.”

The Lloydminster SPE runs the symposium on a non-profit basis and relies on sponsorships to cover the costs. There are no plans to turn the conference over to a professional event planner.

“What we’re likely going to end up doing is partner with the heavy show every second year,”

finding they are getting more bang for their buck so to speak, if they present new technology in Calgary where the engineers and the CEOs and the decision makers are.”

The theme for this year’s symposium was 20 Years of Heavy Oil Innovation.

Bacon said cancelling the event doesn’t detract from Lloydminster’s reputation as the technical centre of heavy oil innovation.

“The technology is developed in Lloydminster, but it’s sold in Calgary and Edmonton,” said Bacon who used to work in Lloydminster.

“So that’s what we really run into with trying to head conferences, because so many of the decisions are now made in areas like Calgary and Edmonton.

“A lot of the technical decisions are still being made in places like Lloydminster and Cold Lake, but the financial decisions which really drive a lot of these conferences, and a lot of the networking, happens in Calgary.”

The Lloydminster SPE technical luncheons will resume in September after the summer break, with no shortage of heavy oil topics available for a local audience.

The lunch presentations at the Days Hotel cover subjects ranging from surface equipment and downhole activities to case studies, regulatory compliances, safety issues and equipment and system failures.

“If you are going to talk about something in Lloydminster, you probably want to do that in the area where the technical decision makers are,” said Bacon.

“Our luncheons aren’t so much about financials because SPE is non-profit. We don’t want people doing sales pitches.

“For us to get local content isn’t a problem.

If people want to sell something, they probably wouldn’t want to do a technical luncheon anyway.”

The September lunch presentation will feature a SPE distinguished lecturer whose name has yet to be announced.

Each year, SPE selects a group of around 30 individuals who are experts in their field who share their expertise with SPE members through visits to local sections.

The luncheons are also supported by local oil DĂƌŬ ĂĐŽŶ͕ ĐŚĂŝƌ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ >ůŽLJĚŵŝŶƐƚĞƌ ^ŽĐŝĞƚLJ ŽĨ WĞƚƌŽͲ and gas sponsors who are getting more exposure ůĞƵŵ ŶŐŝŶĞĞƌƐ͕ ǁĂƐ ŚĂƉƉLJ ƚŽ ŝŶƚƌŽĚƵĐĞ ƐƉĞĂŬĞƌƐ Ăƚ ƚŚĞ thanks to a new SPE Young Professionals group ϮϬϭϮ >ůŽLJĚŵŝŶƐƚĞƌ ,ĞĂǀLJ Kŝů dĞĐŚŶŝĐĂů ^LJŵƉŽƐŝƵŵ ŚĞůĚ that Bacon organized in the Cold Lake and BonnyůĂƐƚ ^ĞƉƚĞŵďĞƌ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ĮƌƐƚ ƟŵĞ ŝŶ ĐŽŶũƵŶĐƟŽŶ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞ ville area. >ůŽLJĚŵŝŶƐƚĞƌ ,ĞĂǀLJ Kŝů dĞĐŚŶŝĐĂů ^LJŵƉŽƐŝƵŵ͘ dŚŝƐ LJĞĂƌ͛Ɛ ƐLJŵƉŽƐŝƵŵ ŚĂƐ ďĞĞŶ ĐĂŶĐĞůůĞĚ ĚƵĞ ƚŽ ĐŽŵƉĞƟƟŽŶ ĨƌŽŵ ƚŽŽ ŵĂŶLJ ƉƌŽĮƚ ŽƌŝĞŶƚĞĚ ĐŽŶĨĞƌĞŶĐĞƐ͘ &ƵƚƵƌĞ ƐLJŵƉŽͲ ƐŝƵŵƐ ǁŝůů ďĞ ŚĞůĚ ĞǀĞƌLJ ƐĞĐŽŶĚ LJĞĂƌ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞ >ůŽLJĚŵŝŶͲ ƐƚĞƌ ,ĞĂǀLJ Kŝů ^ŚŽǁ͘ &ŝůĞ ƉŚŽƚŽ

The Lloydminster symposium also finds itself up against the annual Oils Sands Trade Show and Conference scheduled for Sept. 10-11 in Fort McMurray.

Bacon said the fact that more decisions are being made in Calgary and Edmonton makes it challenging for the SPE to have a conference in Lloydminster.

“With the changing workforce, you don’t need to live in Lloydminster to make decisions. You can fly in and fly out,” he said.

“You can do things on the Internet. There’s teleconferencing.

“I have talked with a few companies in Lloyd and what they told me is that if you are going to present a new product or a new idea, you do it in Calgary or Edmonton. You wouldn’t do it right in Lloydminster.

“Even the Lloydminster-based companies are

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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been something of a wet spring, but nowhere near what was seen two years ago when large portions of southeast Saskatchewan, in particular, were flooded.

RMs cut roads for water to pass, and nearly every grid road still had road ban signs on it. Yet the active drilling rig count from breakup to mid-June was around half half of what it was in 2011, the flood year, and 2012, when flooding issues had largely cleared up.

As of June 14, Saskatchewan had just 46 active drilling rigs at work. This is in contrast to roughly 70 rigs working at the same time in 2011 and 2012. Both of those years saw the rig count rise to approximately 75 before a mid-June dip.

Two years ago the rig count then rapidly rose to 110 and stayed there much of the summer, with a slight dip in October but still floating in the 90 to 100 range until the Christmas break. In 2012, the rig count remained relatively flat around the 75 to 85 mark until the Christmas break.

Briefs courtesy Nickleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Daily Oil Bulletin

Â&#x201E; By Brian Zinchuk Pipeline News Weyburn â&#x20AC;&#x201C; From a roughneck to head of a drilling company and now an oil company, Derrick Big Eagle has truly pulled himself up by the bootstraps. Big Eagle was recognized at the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show in Weyburn on June 5 as the Saskatchewan Oilman of the year.

His citation read: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Derrick Big Eagle was born in Manor, Saskatchewan.

As a youngster, Derrick admired the people in his community, including his father, who worked on the oil rigs.

He sought the prestige his father enjoyed and was motivated to earn that respect and prestige in his own right. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the age of 15, Derrick was offered the opportunity to work in the drilling industry. The hardworking teenager soon parlayed that summer stint a career.

After he graduated from high school, he became a full-time roughneck. By the age of 20, and working with various contractors, he became the youngest driller in Saskatchewanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regional oil industry. When he turned 25, he was the youngest drilling rig manager in southeast Saskatchewan. Five years later, he turned his focus and became a drillling consultant. Derrick worked for numerous small E & P companies but worked very closely with Northrock Resources for 4 years. During this time Northrockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s production went from 800 barrels per day to over 7,000 barrels per day and Derrick earned Northrockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s award for health, safety and environment.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;At 35 years of age, he co-founded Eagle Drilling Services Ltd., to become the youngest owner of a drilling company in Canada. A member of the Ocean Man First Nation, he also became the first aboriginal to own and operate such an enterprise. The Saskatchewan-based business, which serviced the burgeoning Canadian Bakken oilfield area, achieved rapid growth in three years through advanced technology and commitment to its employeesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; health and safety. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In 2011, Eagle Drilling was acquired by CanElson Drilling for $78 million. In the year prior to the acquisi-

tion, Daily Oil Bulletin records showed Eagle drilled 152 wells in Canada. Eagleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s key customers were Crescent Point Energy Corp. (57 wells) and PetroBakken Energy Ltd. (35 wells). â&#x20AC;&#x153;CanElsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fleet of 27 rigs has operations in Saskatchewan, Alberta, Mexico, and the United States (Texas and North Dakota). Derrick held the position as vice-president of business development and was responsible for the leadership and co-ordination of CanElsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business development, marketing and expansion incentives in new geographic regions and to explore opportunities to expand

into different types of equipment used in the current and expanding markets. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eagle is one of the most respected contract drilling providers operating in southeast Saskatchewan and southwest Manitoba that has consistently realized higher than industry utilization levels and also has a reputation as an efficient and safe drilling contractor,â&#x20AC;? said CanElson president and CEO Randy Hawkings in a news release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not all. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In 2006, Derrick won the ABEX New Venture Award and Business of the Year Award.

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By Brian Zinchuk Weyburn – With weather that was perfect, the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show was another success.

With a little rain in the days beforehand, oilpatch workers were given an excuse to not work in the field but rather check out the event.

The show, which took place June 5-6 in Weyburn, had approximately 3,700 attendees, with over 1,500 exhibitors and over 100 volunteers.

Speakers included Minister of the Economy Bill Boyd, Minister Responsible for Energy and Resources Tim McMillan, and talk show host John Gormley. Derrick Big Eagle was named Saskatchewan Oilman of the year, while Craig Lothian and Cliff Nankivell were named Southeast Saskatchewan Oilmen of the Year. Murray Edwards, Marvin Romanow, Hank Swartout and Stewart Hanlon were all inducted into the Saskatchewan Petroleum Industry Hall of Fame.

Ron Carson, of Carson Energy Services (a Flint/URS company) has been show chair three events in a row.

“We recognize a little bit of growth, more people, and lots of good exhibitors. Every year gets a little better,” he said.

The show has been so popular with exhibitors, it could have sold out almost twice. That has the board looking at some changes to allow more companies to take part.

“We actually have quite a waiting list for exhibitors and whatnot. We have a bit of a plan and have done a study on how we can fit more lots in the vicinity here and what we can do better.”

It will be a bit of a bigger footprint, and a bit of subdivision of what is already there, allowing more companies to be

squeezed into the same space.

“We’re not happy with the same every year. We would like to change things and grow.

“I think it’s a good thing. Everybody can be proud of what happens here every two years. Every year would be too often, but every two years, everybody’s ready for another show.”

Carson noted, “One thing we see a lot of change with, when we look at the outdoor displays, is we see a lot more tents, and a little less equipment. We kind of feel that everybody knows what everybody has for equipment. Moving it in, and moving it out, the equipment is so much bigger every year. We see less equipment coming in. Although there’s a lot here, there’s less than there used to be.

“People are doing the tents, selling their products and services in the tents.”

As for new products, he noted, “I think there’s new technology, especially in the drilling sector, downhole. I think that continues to grow, and probably always well. Technology seems to expand our business.”

Asked for a blue-sky prediction two years from now, he said, “I would like to believe we will still see a lot of drilling in the Bakken, and I think we will see more drilling than to just make up the decline. I think we will see added production.”

Earlier in the day, Carson spoke on CJME’s John Gormley Live about the prospects of CO2-based enhanced oil recovery in the Steelman field. “I picked the Steelman field because it is one of the older fields, although we do have old ones like Carnduff, Oxbow, Alida area. Steelman is an old field. It needs something to revive it. I think CO2 in the Steelman field would be a wonderful thing.”

Epsilon Energy Ltd. has acquired its operating partner’s 50 per cent joint venture interest in Saskatchewan for $2.4 million.

The transaction will increase Epsilon’s leasehold interests in Saskatchewan to 49,007 net acres from 28,234 net acres. In addition, Epsilon will acquire all oil production, third party agreements, well interests and equipment.

The joint venture was formed in 2008 to focus on oil exploration and development in Saskatchewan, targeting the Bakken and Midale formations.

Earlier this year, Epsilon drilled two wells within the Saskatchewan joint venture leaseholds. The first well in Torquay targeting the Midale formation is currently being completed. The second well in Ceylon targeting the Bakken formation is scheduled for completion in late June.

0XOOHQ FORVHV DFTXLVLWLRQ RI -D\·V Mullen Group Ltd. have closed its previously announced acquisition of Jay’s Moving & Storage Ltd. as of early June.

Jay’s has been in business since 1964 and is a recognized leader in the Saskatchewan less-thantruckload transportation business. The company will operate as an indirectly, wholly-owned subsidiary of Mullen Group.

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*URZWK JURZWK DQG PRUH JURZWK There sure is a lot of growth being talked about in Saskatchewan these days. Lloydminster is drafting a planning document to help carry that city to a population of 50,000 by 2032. If the Border City reaches that level, it will have tripled its population in a mere 30 years. It is already well on its way to doing just that.

Regina and the surrounding RM of Sherwood are currently locking horns on their development plans, trying to determine whose vision will prevail in scenarios that see the population of the Queen City double in the coming years.

These are grand visions, indeed, in a province that for decades struggled to maintain a population of a paltry million people while our neighbours absorbed our young adults.

Radio talk show host John Gormley touched on this during his keynote speech on the last day of the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show on June 6. His message was â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going back,â&#x20AC;? as in not going back to an attitude of complacency. We are going to continue to grow.

It was a message the audience seemed eager to hear, because for every other speaker in the dinner hall, the speaker had to talk over a loud crowd, busy chatting amongst themselves. Recordings of their speeches were almost indecipherable due to crowd noise. But for the message of hope, Gormley spoke to an almost silent room, comparatively speaking.

The audience was rapt with attention.

This is not to say Gormley is that much more a dynamic speaker compared to the others, although he does make a living talking. Rather, it was the message that seemed to matter most. People wanted

to hear that we are on the right path.

Ten years ago, could anyone fathom the city of Regina considering how it would double in size? That Saskatoon would be approving a new north bridge so soon after a new south bridge nears completion?

There used to be decades between new bridges in Saskatoon. Now they are building bridges one after another.

We havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t heard much out of the Ministry of Highways regarding new twinning projects, improving corridors like Highways 7, 16, 39/6 or 10. Instead all of the talk is of bypasses â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the most recent one was approved for Regina. Work on Estevanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finally begins this year, several years after work began on Yorktonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

Saskatoon is also looking at a bypass, since Circle Drive these days looks more like a parking lot than a freeway.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a subtle message in this. Our cities are becoming so busy, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just zip through them in 15 minutes anymore. Old bypasses â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Ring Road in Regina, Circle Drive in Saskatoon, canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t handle the strain anymore.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because we have more people here now, doing more things. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re finally seeing the growth that has eluded Saskatchewan for so many years.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good feeling â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to no longer be the runt of the litter. Rather, on so many fronts, Saskatchewan is now leading. As Gormley pointed out in his speech, we now have the lowest unemployment rate in the country. Our exports have tripled in 10 years, to the point where weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve outstripped British Columbia,of all places, in terms of total global exports.

Gormley was right. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going back. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good thing.

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7KDQN \RX 7UXG\ IRU VDYLQJ P\ OLIH Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to riff off Nadine Elsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s column here, so you might want to read it first (below). In it, she talks about taking refresher safety training, including first aid, CPR and H2S Alive. I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t agree more, because that very training saved my life, twice, in the past year.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not talking about a casual, oh, I dodged a bullet in traffic sort of saved my life, but rather a case of minutes counting and, in one instance, there was no time even to call an ambulance.

June 21 marked the first anniversary of the second phase of my life â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the post heart attack phase.

On that day in 2012 I had an angioplasty done and a drug-eluding stent installed. It was done just as I started to have the cardiac enzymes show up in my bloodstream indicating a heart attack. In this case, this was no minor impending heart attack, but something known as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;widow-maker.â&#x20AC;?

After 25 years of being diabetic, I had accumulated a 99 per cent blockage in the largest artery in my heart. When that number reaches 100 per cent, your wife becomes a widow.

Where first aid comes into play here is several weeks before. I had been experiencing weird feelings in my chest for weeks â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not pain, mind you, but what I called â&#x20AC;&#x153;flutters.â&#x20AC;? When I had noticeable pain late one night in my left wrist and shoulder, that got my attention, and I drove myself to the hospital.

While the ECG and bloodwork at the time didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t indicate a heart attack, it got me on the path to seeing a cardiologist, and eventually the life-saving angioplasty.

This past March I had a routine dental appointment. Because of the heart work, the dentist now wanted me to take a prophylactic dose of antibiotics

just prior to the visit. This is to combat the introduction of any germs from the dental work into a body whose health is already compromised. The prescription was for amoxicillin, something Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve likely had dozens of times before, most recently just six weeks before, for a similar dental procedure.

I took it at 8:05 a.m. I dropped my son off at daycare at 8:40. Walking out of the daycare, on the far end of town, all of a sudden my hands felt like they were on fire, itching. I got out of my truck and put them in the snowbank to cool them. When I got back in the truck, I realized my tongue and lips were going numb. Looking in the rear-view mirror, my lips and chin were puffy, and the rest of my face was grey. I realized, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Holy crap! Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going into anaphylactic shock!â&#x20AC;?

I had no prior allergies to any consequence.

This was totally out of the blue. Now I was having a severe allergic reaction.

The first aid training kicked in right then and there. It was almost instinctual â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t explain it any other way, despite the fact I am not a medical professional. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have time to pussyfoot around.

I phoned my wife, a nurse working on the medical ward at the hospital, and told her what was going on.

I blew threw three red lights, blinkers on and horn blaring, to get to the hospital on the other end of Estevan. They started treating me immediately upon arrival, which was crucial, because minutes counted.

Ten minutes after I arrived, my throat had swollen to the point of not being able to swallow my own saliva, and this was after they had given me a bolus of drugs to counteract the allergic reaction. The difference of a few minutes was the difference between life and death.

These two incidents are why first aid training is so important. Unexpectedly, something can come up that can threaten your life. Twice in one year was enough for me.

I ran into my most-recent first aid instructor, Trudy Cochrane, of the Saskatchewan Energy Training Institute while at the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show. You will see her on occasion in a Pipeline News front page ad for SETI. I choked back tears as I thanked her profusely for saving my life with her training.

Refresher courses may seem boring at times. But you never know when they can save a life, including your own. Even if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think your own life is all that important, I can guarantee this â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it is to your children, and wife.

Brian Zinchuk is editor of Pipeline News. He can be reached at brian.zinchuk@sasktel.net

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2QH :RPDQ¡V 3HUVSHFWLYH RQ /LIH /LEHUW\ DQG WKH 3XUVXLW RI /DQG /RFDWLRQV %\ 1DGLQH (OVRQ I listened in disbelief as the radio talk show host read aloud an article published in the New York Times.

During the past month, I had updated most of my safety courses. Many oil companies have stringent safety policies for the safety of their own workers and outside contractors on their leases. Minimum requirements include training in surviving deadly H2S gas leaks and basic first aid.

I had spent two days in the new Saskatchewan Energy Training Instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classroom, learning first aid and CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation), where I and the other students were trained in emergency scene management, a sequence of actions that first aiders need to follow to ensure that safe and appropriate first aid is given.

We learned (and relearned because safety courses are only valid for three years) how to quickly assess the casualty for life-threatening injuries or illnesses and give life-saving first aid. We learned the ABCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s of first aid â&#x20AC;&#x201C; check the airway (A), check the

ing difficulties caused by asthma, allergies, choking and injuries and we practised CPR manually, and then with the AED (automatic external defibrillation) machines on the lifelike dolls provided by the institute.

Our instructor, Trudy, tested our knowledge and understanding of the material on the last afternoon by simulating all manner of injuries. Her bag of tricks allowed her to create head injuries, stab wounds, and amputations of fingers and hands, to name just a few. We had to quickly assess and then treat the injury using our newly acquired knowledge.

Thankfully, all the casualties survived.

The next week found me and a different batch of students learning (and relearning) how to stay safe in the oilpatch in the presence of the H2S (hydrogen sulphide) gas in the course called H2S Alive. That was a full day learning how to use a self-contained breathing apparatus, how to do gas monitoring, and the best rescue techniques to lift, drag, or carry a casualty to safety.

So in light of all I had learned about lifesaving techniques during the past few weeks, I was simply shocked when I heard the news broadcast over the airwaves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The WHO (World Health Organization) says the habit of handwashing could save more lives than any single vaccine or medical intervention,â&#x20AC;? the host concluded.

Handwashing saves more lives than any single vaccine or medical intervention? The host had been reporting on a study from Michigan State University that had sent 12 research assistants to public

to be discrete so they pretended to text on their cellphones as they actually entered data on 3,749 people as they washed with soap or wet their hands or washed not at all.

The study found that only five people out of every 100 people observed washed properly using soap for at least 15 seconds. This falls short of the Center for Disease Controlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guidelines of a 20 second scrub of all part of the hands including between the fingers and under the nails. Not sure how long 20 seconds is? Sing Happy Birthday twice under your breath and that is about right. This is important because according to the CDC, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Researchers in London estimate that if everyone routinely washed their hands, a million deaths a year could be prevented.â&#x20AC;?

The remaining 95 per cent of the bathroom users in the study include 10 per cent of people who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wash at all and 23 per cent who washed without soap. The average time was six seconds under the water. Splitting it out by gender, only half the men reached for the soap dispenser compared to 79 per cent of the women.

So it would appear that in addition to the refresher courses in safety, many men, and some women, could use a refresher course in hygiene. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s definitely a problem, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m washing my hands of it.

Nadine lives in Estevan with her husband and family, and shifted gears a few years ago, becoming a hot shot driver for the oilpatch. Her people skills are put to good use in the patch as she delivers the goods quickly and efficiently. Contact her at shifting.gears.hotshot@gmail. com with comments or questions.

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/1* JDPH FKDQJHU RSHQV GRRUV Just as the wide oil price differentials caught everyone off guard in 2012 and early this year, the sudden emergence of liquid natural gas could also be a game changer in Western Canada.

Prices for natural gas will rise as a result of a stronger global demand for exports from British Columbia’s fast-evolving LNG industry with five major LNG projects proposed by 2020.

Pacific Northwest LNG plans to build a worldscale LNG facility at Lelu Island near Prince Rupert, B.C. that would liquefy and export gas produced by Progress Energy Canada.

The developer has already secured its first gas buyer, Japex Montney Ltd., the Canadian subsidiary of Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. Ltd. for 10 per cent of the production for at least 20 years for domestic use in Japan.

Progress Energy is currently producing more than 300 million cubic feet equivalent of natural gas per day from shale plays in northeast B.C. and northwest Alberta.

The company is building new capacity to supply Pacific Northwest LNG with gas for export beginning in 2018.

Contracts for front-end engineering and design (FEED) were awarded in May. Ottawa recently approved a 25-year export

licence for shipping LNG from a proposed LNG Canada project to be built at Kitimat by a consortium headed by Shell.

The licence will allow the facility owners to export up to 24 million tons of LNG per year.

Apache and Chevron are also proposing to build the Kitimat LNG liquefaction and terminal facilities.

Both companies are equal joint venture partners in the LNG plant, the Pacific Trail pipelines and 644,000 gross undeveloped acres in the Horn River and Liard basins – major shale gas plays in B.C. There are billions of dollars worth of other LNG projects in the works for northern B.C. coastal communities that will generate high paying long-term jobs and help drive the economy.

The U.S. Energy Department just approved the first new natural gas export terminal in the U.S. near Freeport, Texas after a two year review of the impact that exports and higher gas prices may have on U.S. manufacturing.

The Freeport terminal will export up to 1.4 billion cubic feet of natural gas a day for 20 years.

Rapid growth in shale gas production has placed the U.S. in a position to be a major gas exporter ending fears of having to rely on gas imports.

The longer it takes to get new projects off the

ground however, the steeper the competition will be from other countries including those in Europe.

The prospect of higher gas prices from the rapid development of LNG export facilities is bound to create resurgence in gas exploration, drilling and gas well servicing in Western Canada.

The emerging industry definitely has the potential to improve economic and employment prospects of the sector right across Western Canada.

Failure to spot this trend may be at one’s own peril if an expected oversupply in oil production in North America from shale oil and Alberta’s oilsands reduces the price of oil and corporate profits.

The winners in this new LNG paradigm shift will be the pipeline and facility construction companies along with shale gas producers and suppliers.

Pacific NorthWest plans to recruit and hire up to 30 Canadian engineers to work with the FEED contractors to determine if that project goes ahead.

Saskatchewan and Alberta companies have a relatively short window of opportunity to jump on the LNG gas export wagon that is clearly headed onward and westward.

B.C. held its first-ever international conference on LNG in Vancouver this spring where more than 500 people attended to discuss B.C.’s LNG future.

The LNG boat has come to dock. It’s time for companies in Saskatchewan and Alberta to punch their ticket. All aboard or miss the boat.

%DNNHQ ODQG VDOHV WDE WRSV DOO Regina – The Weyburn-Estevan area of Saskatchewan is oiling the gears of provincial sales of petroleum and natural gas rights in 2013 thanks to the productive Bakken play.

The June land sale generated a total of $9.6 million in revenue for the province, with $7.9 million of that coming from bonus bids for Bakken rights.

“We have seen production in the Bakken area reach 69,000 barrels per day and this is driving investment in the area,” said Energy and Resources Minister Tim McMillan.

“The majority of the lands sold in the Weyburn-Estevan area are targeting Bakken-prone lands, accounting for more than 80 per cent of the sale total.”

The Lloydminster area was next at $1.4 million, followed by the Kindersley-Kerrobert area at $208,370 and the Swift Current area at $139,326.

The highest price paid for a single parcel was $1.5 million for a 64-hectare lease parcel north of Lampman in the heart of the Bakken play.

This parcel, acquired by Badger Pass Minerals Inc., also had the highest price on a per-hectare basis at $23,576.

“While the Bakken garnered most of the attention, we are particularly interested in a cluster of parcels that sold near Avonlea,” McMillan said.

“This is a dynamic industry and it is encouraging that industry is confident in the potential for new discoveries in Saskatchewan.”

The village of Avonlea is about 60 kilometres southwest of Regina.

The deeper Red River Formation produced oil

for a short time near Avonlea in the 1990s, and several other geological horizons have been tested in the past in this area.

The province is optimistic that exploration of these lands will provide further information on production potential.

Weyburn-Estevan area The top purchaser of acreage in this area was Badger Pass Minerals Inc., who spent $1.7 million to acquire four lease parcels.

The highest price paid for a single lease in this area was $1.5 million by Badger Pass Minerals Inc. for a 64.75 hectare parcel situated within the Viewfield Bakken Sand Oil Pool, 12 kilometres north of Lampman.

This was the highest dollar per hectare in this area at $23,576/hectare.

Top price paid for a single licence was $618,243 by Ranger Land Services Ltd. for a 1,424 hectare block located two kilometres north of the Crystal Hill Souris Valley Beds Oil Pool, seven kilometres west of Wawota.

Lloydminster area (numbers rounded off ) The top purchaser of acreage in this area was Standard Land Company Inc. that spent $958,924 to acquire three lease parcels.

The highest price paid for a single lease in this area was $533,058 by Standard Land Company Inc. for a 259 hectare parcel situated five kilometres south of the Senlac Lloydminster Sand Oil Pool, 15 kilometres southeast of Macklin.

The highest dollar per hectare in this area was received from Husky Oil Operations Limited which paid $8,139/hectare for a 16.19 hectare

parcel located five kilometres east of the Northminster North Sparky and G.P. Sand Oil Pools, 12 kilometres northeast of Lloydminster.

Kindersley-Kerrobert area The top purchaser of acreage in this area was Standard Land Company Inc. that spent $135,939 to acquire two lease parcels.

The highest price paid for a single lease in this area was $80,920 by Standard Land Company Inc. for a 259 hectare parcel situated 12 kilometers south of the Mantario East Basal Mannville Sand Oil Pool, five kilometres south of the town of Mantario.

The highest dollar per hectare in this area was received from Scott Land & Lease Ltd. which paid $437/hectare for a 64.75 hectare parcel located nine kilometres south of the Glidden Viking Gas Pool, four kilometres southeast of Eatonia.

Swift Current area The top purchaser of acreage in this area was Standard Land Company Inc., which spent $69,106 to acquire five lease parcels.

The top price paid for a single lease in this area was $26,396 by Landsolutions GP Inc. for a 712.25 hectare parcel situated 15 kilometres southwest of the Rapdan Upper Shaunavon Oil Pool, 20 kilometres west of Frontier.

The highest dollar per hectare in this area was received from Dickson Resources Inc. that paid $158/hectare for a 64.75 hectare parcel located four kilometres southeast of the Instow Upper Shaunavon Oil Pool, 15 kilometres northeast of the town of Shaunavon.

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5RXJKQHFN WR RLO FRPSDQ\ &(2 W Page A4 â&#x20AC;&#x153;In 2007 he won Aboriginal Business of the Year 2007. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In 2011, Derrick founded Element Technical Services in Carlyle Saskatchewan and continues to sit on the board of directors. Element is a highlevel fracking company that services Saskatchewan ,Manitoba and is currently putting focus on Alberta. This company has grown organically from inception and boasts three working frac spreads and a team of the industryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most well recognized technical personnel. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then in 2012, Derrick co-founded Cheveyo Energy Inc., a new Oil & Gas Exploration and Production company. Derrick currently serves as the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director, president and CEO. Chevayo is focused in southeast Saskatchewan where he and his team are committed to the same pride, passion and determination in ensuring the success of this company. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If he isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t busy enough, Derrick also is the founder/chairman, president and CEO of Eagle Motorsports, which is Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first dirt modified race car fabrication, car sales and parts distributor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Today Derrick has earned the soughtâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;after prestige and respect â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not only from his community, but from his employees and throughout the oil industry.

Derrick credits his strong sense of family as being a motivator to build family orientated companies. Happily married, he and his wife Shelley, have two boys, Masen and Jett."

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Derrick Big Eagle said in response to his being named Saskatchewan Oilman of the year.

He got a call while at his Calgary condominium, â&#x20AC;&#x153;watching Duck Dynasty,â&#x20AC;? when he got a call from Montreal.

After some chitchat, he was told he would be named Saskatchewan Oilman of the Year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yeah, right!â&#x20AC;? was his thoughts, then â&#x20AC;&#x153;Holy Geez!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hung up the phone and bawled for about an hour,â&#x20AC;? Big Eagle said. He wanted to tell everybody, but had to keep it mum.

Two weeks before the oil show, however, he hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t had a follow-up call. Was it a joke, he wondered? â&#x20AC;&#x153;What dirty bastard played a trick like this on me?â&#x20AC;? he said to laughs.

Thankfully, a call soon came. It was no joke. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not going to bore everyone with frozen body parts stories,â&#x20AC;?

Big Eagle said. But he did want to thank his

family â&#x20AC;&#x201C; his wife Shelley, and sons Masen and Jett.

He also thanked Trevor McAuley for giving him a shot in the early days. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They get you into a truck and house, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got you for life.â&#x20AC;?

He also thanked Brian Chicoine, who used to head up Big Sky Drilling, for providing a deeper understanding of the business.

John Dutchik was â&#x20AC;&#x153;a guy we went to with problems, a true oilman legend.â&#x20AC;?

Jason Waugh has also been a strong compatriot and supporter.

Tina Tweitmeyer at Eagle, who kept things straight for him, and Harold Ross, Eagleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s controller, made a big difference, even if he initially thought Ross was a spy.

He also thanked the teams at Element Technical Services and Chevayo Energy.

Thanking the services in the southeast Saskatchewan oilpatch, he said he wanted to keep it hidden, â&#x20AC;&#x153;our little gem.â&#x20AC;?

When corporations come, they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to leave, because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such a good place to be, Big

Eagle said.

In conclusion, Big Eagle thanked the Weyburn Oil Show and said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The oilman of the year is the highest award available. I accept this on behalf of everyone who has helped me throughout my career. "

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/DGLHV VKRRW WKH EUHH]H IRU GLDPRQGV Lloydminster – They say a bad day of golf beats a good day of work.

That’s the way it was for ladies of the patch golfers at the eighth annual PWM Steel Petroleum Golf Classic on May 24.

Mother Nature stormed onto the Rolling Green Fairways in Lloydminster, with strong gusty winds, cool temperatures and late morning rain, but the hissy fit didn’t faze anyone.

The event attracted a record turnout of 265 female golfers who came to enjoy themselves to the max, come what may on the weather front.

“It was pretty cold and wet out there, but you know it was amazing,” said Debbie Horbach who heads the Ladies of the Patch organizing committee.

The most popular stops on the course were the sponsored refreshment holes that provided shelter and liquid warmth to ward off the chills.

“Some of them had heaters and refreshments that warmed you up,” said Horbach.

“Good time – I think just about everyone finished all 18 holes. I think it was just absolutely fabulous.

“We have such wonderful sponsors that come out year after year and have set up booths out there. It’s just great.”

More golfers than ever were lured to play with the introduction of a par3 format and a new banquet facility

that can accommodate more than 300 people.

“This is the first year we’ve changed our format from an 18-hole, par-72 to a par-3 course,” said Horbach.

“That way it allowed us to open up the tournament to more golfers.

“The new building just gives us so much more space. We would never have been able to host this size had they not had this new facility here.”

Players were also motivated to register knowing there were 18 pairs of diamond earrings to be awarded for the closest-to-the-pin tee shot on every hole.

The new format and the prizes excited Stacey Sydian from Canadian Natural Resources, but her stated goal was to “party it up, have fun and golf good.”

She and her playing partners, Cheryl Grewpner from King’s Husky, Melissa Oracheski from Hancock Petroleum and Crystal Inge from NOV Wilson, got into the mood wearing purple shades for the shotgun start.

Leanne Oman, a field clerk with Baytex Energy in St. Walburg, would have worn a TGIF golf shirt if she had one.

“It’s a good for a bunch of us women in the patch to get together.

It’s Friday and we’re not at work, so it’s a good time,” she said.

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W Page A10 As for her chances of winning a diamond she said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not so much for me, but maybe one of the other girls here on the hole. I will try my best with this wind.â&#x20AC;?

Rheanne Thackeray, on the RJ Hoffman team, with great expectations in mind, was spotted signing her golf ball prior to teeing off. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am looking forward to it. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really hoping to win something,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I guess thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 16 people at each hole and we all hit at the same time, so we all have to put our name on our ball.â&#x20AC;?

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Hill was playing with Starlight Transport team and was enjoying the early vibes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So far so good,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m loving it â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a lot of good people â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a lot of fun.â&#x20AC;?

Lorie Dillon, the chief operating officer of the Onion Lake Business Development Corporation, came to golf with business and pleasure in mind.

The mix was an opportunity for her to meet new people in the industry and imagine winning a pair of those diamond earrings, if only she could. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hope so â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not likely, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hoping,â&#x20AC;? she said about her odds.

Networking and fun were on the mind of Brenda Lodoen, a property accountant for Northern Blizzard, who has been at the tournament six or seven times. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It just a really fun day and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good way to network and get to know people and also to see some old friends,â&#x20AC;? she said.

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Maidstone â&#x20AC;&#x201C; What would Chris Oman do?

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a question that all of the golfers who play in the Maidstone Heavy Crude Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Golf Tournament will have to ask themselves each year before heading to the Silver Lake Golf Club.

Oman works for Husky Energy and was the only golfer to accurately forecast rain at this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 24th annual event that was held on June 7.

Oman knows his stuff and dared Pipeline News to challenge his prediction. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to get wet later.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no doubt about that,â&#x20AC;? he said while scanning the morning sky. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can see it on the horizon. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to play as many holes as we can dry, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to finish wet.â&#x20AC;?

Oman was true to his word as it began to pour an hour later, but he had two raincoats and two towels at the ready. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been through this before. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been through the monsoon. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bring gloves. Sometimes when it is cold and rainy, you need gloves,â&#x20AC;? he

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advised.

Oman has been coming to the Maidstone for eight or nine years to chalk up some fun and talk about weather â&#x20AC;Ś to heck with any serious golf. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good time. Nobody really cares about their scores and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not about who wins and loses.

Everybody wins no matter what,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being paid to be here is icing on the cake.â&#x20AC;?

Lead organizer Jeff Watt, who works for TWB Construction in Maidstone, tried his skills at forecasting, but he mistimed his call for rain as 72 golfers were set to tee-off under overcast skies and calm conditions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were calling for rain here all week, but it looks like now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to break,â&#x20AC;? he boldly stated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We should have some cloud cover and we should be good until 4 oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock when they are forecasting rain now. I think we might get lucky.â&#x20AC;?

Watt spoke only words of optimism as he covered media questions about everything from course conditions, to sponsorships and oilfield activity in the area.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The course is looking good. Everythingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dried out and fresh. They got a new greenskeeper this year so everythingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s looking really good,â&#x20AC;? he said just prior to the tee-off. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re full and we have an extended waiting list again, so everything is good. We are just about to get underway here. It looks like everything should go as planned.â&#x20AC;?

Watt was also excited to have a lot of new sponsors on board as the oil and gas activity in the area continues to run flat out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a really busy area right now. It makes it really easy. It fills everything easy and it fills the sponsorships quick. It makes life a little easier all round,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our platinum sponsorship is quite extensive.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve lost some of the smaller sponsorship this year and kind of went bigger. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really good. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very much appreciated.â&#x20AC;?

Watt opted not to golf in order to help his committee members run the tournament and check his phone messages on the fly.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a busy few months. Trying to do that and organize a golf tournament has been a little hectic lately,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Wattâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first major task was acting as master of ceremonies at the opening chip-off for $500 that was won by Terry Schneider from L&L Oilfield in Lloydminster.

Schneider made a quick getaway, but a Pipeline News detective cornered him at a watering hole where he spilled the beans about his plans for the loot. â&#x20AC;&#x153;By the looks of it, buy some people some beers out here,â&#x20AC;? he said adding he was surprised his shot was closest to the pin measuring 19 feet, 10-inches.

In fact his shot was the only one among the 10 competitors in the field to hit the green. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was surprised. One guy hit a branch, and I think he would have been closer than me,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Schneider also said he was planning to buy a lotto ticket, hoping his luck would hold out a little longer.

Sean Hill, from Logan Scope admitted, he

would need a lot of luck to win any of the hole prizes during the 18-hole match play format. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Never had one so you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really count on her today,â&#x20AC;? he commented.

Glenn Leroy, owner of Leroyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Oilfield Services was one of those golfers who had the wrong weather script for the day although things seemed fine at the start. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The rain seems to be holding off, and hopefully, it holds off for most of the day,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It looks like all the golfers are out here to have great time, and hopefully we will. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is just our second hole â&#x20AC;&#x201C; so far so good.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see how the day goes.â&#x20AC;?

Damien Rice, with Apex Advanced Solutions, was asked to explain why he was using a club to scratch and stretch his back before his first tee shot of the day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a new routine â&#x20AC;&#x201C; just took it up today,â&#x20AC;? he joked while preparing for the next question about his expectations for the day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To win â&#x20AC;&#x201C; what do you think the expectation is?

Going to win it all â&#x20AC;&#x201C; take everything home.â&#x20AC;?

Kirby Tang, from Titanium Tubing Technology, somehow mistook the Pipeline Newsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; golf cart as the objective in a shoot-the-messenger contest, scoring a direct drive on the roof. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought you were the hole-in-one prize, so I aimed right at you and got ya,â&#x20AC;? he said with a laugh. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It looked like you were sleeping. Call it a wake-up call.â&#x20AC;?

The fun side of the Maidstone is what draws Casey Phipps from Tryton Tool Services to Silver Lake for annual round of golf, although he has no thoughts in his mind about winning prizes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just here to have fun â&#x20AC;&#x201C; maybe a few beers,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Phipps has played in the event three times and he likes the small town feel of it and the fact itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a one day tournament held on a Friday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nice that it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take up the whole weekend. You still have some time to get back to work and do some things with family and friends,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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It was the driest of times at the Lloydminster golf course. It was the wettest of times at the Lloydminster golf course.

The tournament began with partly cloudy skies on June 14, but a late afternoon drizzle turned into a steady downpour that forced organizers to cancel play midway through the final morning on June 15. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The call was made half way through the first round this morning when it was pouring rain. The course is unplayable. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too wet,â&#x20AC;? said committee member Carl Swatschina at noon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think most of the morning flights got finished and the championship.â&#x20AC;?

The washout was the second one in the past three years, prompting Swatschina to ponder the possibility the event could revert back to its previous slot in July. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I guess weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll talk about it and think about it. If thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a spot that works better in the summer then weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll maybe do that,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the toughest weather Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever golfed in I think. It was windy and rainy.â&#x20AC;?

The opening day began with a sunny forecast from Jim Wheeler, sales manager for aptly named BlueSky Process Solutions from Surrey, British Columbia. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It looks like itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coming out,â&#x20AC;? he said about the sun. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hopefully, it sticks around,â&#x20AC;? adding that his company is responsible for fine golfing weather. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yes, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we do. I brought it with me from Vancouver,â&#x20AC;? he joked.

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Cameron went on to hit his next shot on the 9th hole green, but he claimed it was a fluke. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I got lucky â&#x20AC;&#x201C; just played a little 52 degree wedge and hit it and hoped for the best,â&#x20AC;? he said.

His shot made him eligible to challenge for the longest putt prize, one of 18 hidden hole prizes up for grabs â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but likely out of Cameronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reach by his own admission. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m here for the golf and the beers and the fun, and if prizes come along with that would be great,â&#x20AC;? he said with a laugh.

Luck has little to do with Sean Loneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game. He won the championship flight for the second year in a row, but he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that sure of himself on the opening day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had better rounds,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hardly played at all this year compared to other guys.â&#x20AC;?

As for the weather he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a nice day â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the sun started to shine â&#x20AC;&#x201C; what can you do?â&#x20AC;?

Loney hails from Moose Jaw but is originally from Lloydminster. He comes back each year to see his family and tag up with his brother Brent who also played in the oilmenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my one event of the year that I can get away from the wife and kids,â&#x20AC;? he joked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We come back and play a bit of golf â&#x20AC;&#x201C; drink a little beer.â&#x20AC;?

Loney edged John Higgins and Ryan Rivett in championship play.

Lead organizer Kevin Simard said all 208 golfers turned up for the start of play and after a quick scan of the sky he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We really got lucky with the weather today. If it holds up, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have a great couple of days.â&#x20AC;?

Simard said sponsorships were the best ever this year with some major sponsors stepping up for the 35th since every fifth year is a special milestone.

He singled out golfers Gary Munro and Jerry Christman who have played in all 35 annual tournaments.

Simard came dressed to golf with his committee members wearing blue checkered pants and a bright yellow shirt, an outfit that he said he took â&#x20AC;&#x153;right off the manikin in the store.â&#x20AC;?

Style points were definitely not part of Tyler Morrissetteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game that featured a lot of memorable fishing trips like the one he talked about on the watery fifth hole. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I shanked it off to the left and it kind of disappeared into the deep blue,â&#x20AC;? he said. This is the fourth hole and I did it in three of the four holes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The one hole I hit it in twice, so I guess I have been in the water four times.â&#x20AC;?

Water and course conditions were top of mind for Jeff Graham, the assistant pro at the Lloydminster Golf & Curling Centre on Saturday morning with just a few players still out during a downpour and gusty winds.

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W Page A16 “It’s pretty wet. It’s windy. It’s blustery conditions out there. It’s ugly. It’s very ugly,” said Graham.

“We had some guys quit. Just hoping to get it in before we get too much rain and we have to shut the course down.

“The championship flight definitely has to finish because they’ve got money with the Calcutta so they’ll finish. Some guys will troop through it and some will quit. That’s just the oilmen’s.”

In 2011, a torrential downpour cancelled all play on the final day and it rained last year as well.

This time around, only the $1 million holein-one, a putting contest, and the afternoon Texas Scramble for flight losers were cancelled with no damage to the course from the rain.

“We usually drain pretty well. We have put a lot of money into our drainage system so it drains awesome,” said Graham.

Before play was called, Dean Segberg was already calling it a day.

“Unfortunately we are going to pack it in. As much as we love golf we just don’t like being cold,” he said.

“We’re going to have to have an OTS fishing trip I think lately with all the rain the last three years.

“It’s still a good time. For all the hangovers and blurry eyes, the guys had a lot of fun today.”

The winners of flights 1-5 are Tomas Weikle, Garth Mayer, Bart Redden, Dwayne Erb and John Neff.

Finishing first in flights 6-10 are Lance Nichless, Richard Jory, Cory Dougan, Dwayne Keichinger and Jonah Mackay.

Topping flights 11-15 are Mike Scott, Kyle Walden, Gary Kelahear, Wayne Johnson and Brad Pelley.

The winners of flights 16-20 are Johnathon Miller, flight 17 unavailable, Ray Gardiyash, Dean Segberg and Glen Strunk.

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The arrival of Torq Transloading, Altex Energy Ltd. and Savage transloading stations on CN Rail and Canadian Pacific lines in town is generating an economic boom that is led by the trucking industry.

Trucks that used to haul oil to pipeline sites on Highways 14 or 21 through Unity are now coming right into town to deliver oil to the new road-to-rail transloading sites.

“It’s more a direct benefit to us,” said Carey Baker, Unity’s director of economic development.

“We are aware of three large truck storage facilities that might be built.

Obviously, the demand is there.

“We will see potentially up to 150 trucks per day in and out of our community, delivering oil to rail.”

At one time, Unity envisioned becoming an agricultural transportation hub, but that’s changed with trucks hauling oil on different routes to the Torq, Altex and Savage transloading stations.

“Now, we realize that it can be all commodities, and that’s where oil has really opened many people’s eyes of the importance of the road and rail infrastructure into and out of our community,” said Baker.

Grant Huber, who owns Huber Machining located on the Altex access road in the industrial park near the downtown core is an eyewitness to the growing truck traffic on his road.

“There are a lot more trucks around and there seems to be a lot more people in town,” he said.

“The part I see is our roads are taking a beating and hopefully, they can be looked after.”

A grader was at work on the road while Huber commented he was pleased to see more truck transloading customers are coming to his shop for driveline repairs and maintenance.

“I think it’s good for the town. I don’t think Unity has seen so many jobs now as we’ve had in the last five years. We are looking for workers.”

The town has reached a road improvement agreement with Altex and is working on one with Savage that will benefit municipal taxpayers. Torq is located east of Unity.

“We have agreements with them that not only will they pay 100 per cent of the road maintenance and road construction costs; they are also going to share their profits with us as well,” said Baker.

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Savage, based in Utah, just began operations in June and is adding to the economic boom started by Calgary-based Torq and Altex in 2012.

“The direct job creation has been over 50 employees at those three sites. There’s been significant spinoff employment in terms of the trucking industry,” said Baker.

“One can go down from that to different service industries and from that to our hotels and our restaurants. They are well-paid jobs.

“It’s given people in the oil industry the opportunity to have jobs right in their own backyard as opposed to always having to commute for their employment.”

That’s the case for Altex site manger Dwaine Schaab who grew up on a farm near Unity.

He spent 14 years managing an asphalt emulsion plant in Macklin before parachuting into his new career last October.

“I live here, this is home,” he said while moving on to talk about the positive impact that Altex is bringing to his community.

“There’s been a huge economic impact on the community. There are a number of trucking companies moving ground to set up shops. We’ve got 22 people employed here and I can see that increasing.

“There are rumours of another gas fuel station going in and different things like that.”

Schaab thinks the biggest benefit of Altex is helping to keep people in the community.

“You see the community changing. I worked out of town for 14 years, and at the time there were not a lot of young people in town. The jobs weren’t here,” he said.

“Now that we’re back, the crowd is totally different. If you go to a community function, it’s all young people.

“Most of the young people are involved in the patch. It’s a reasonably well-paid job now.”

As site manager, Schaab is responsible for the overall operation of the facility that he says he is a good place to work.

“Altex is very positive and safety orientated.

They are very aware of employees’ need. They’ve got good benefits. They pay reasonably well. We really focus on the people. We want them to have a career.”

All three transloading stations are on Baker’s radar as he hopes to approach them as potential donors or sponsors of a Unity Facilities Project including a $4 million new cultural centre and $1 million outdoor pool.

The Unity Credit Union has purchased the pool naming rights for $250,000 and sod turning was to be held in June thanks to a new $250,000 federal grant. They expected there will be more corporate sponsorships to come.

“Many of the companies seem excited about the possibility,” said Baker. “Our pool was built in 1967, so it’s outlived its expected usefulness.”

Several new retail businesses have opened in the downtown since the arrival of Torq and Altex, including Unity Family Foods and Ridgeline Engineering.

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Looking ahead, Baker is hopeful Unityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success at attracting new transloading facilities in the past year will help to generate more secondary industry or spinoff businesses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are hopeful because of this increased transportation capacity around us that companies will see the opportunity to increase some exploration and drilling activity as well,â&#x20AC;? said Baker. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Between pipeline and rail infrastructure, there should be more opportunity for more transportation.â&#x20AC;?

Unity is also hopeful that repairs

will be made to a rough section of Highway 21 in town or barring that, a highway bypass â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have been in some discussion with Highways whether or not they may re-route a portion of the highway around our community because of all the increased truck traffic, or do a major upgrade to the existing one which is obviously required,â&#x20AC;? said Baker.

Construction is currently underway on a bridge replacement seven kilometres east of Unity on Highway 14.

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That amount puts the four-year total over the $130,000 mark and Jack thinks thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s room to top this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s turnout next year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll start looking for 100 trucks,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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Jack said hitting the 50 mark was amazing, but he credits the Vermilion RCMP for helping to make it happen before the convoy got rolling. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They found a guy from Ontario and he joined in,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We hit the 50 mark. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve wanted that ever since we started.â&#x20AC;?

Truck 51 was his own that he forgot to count until the following day.

This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event was bigger than ever thanks to a truck show and shine held at the Lloydminster Exhibition Grounds where the convoy ended.

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Buhnai, the owner of Action Towing, got behind the wheel of a new â&#x20AC;&#x153;rotatorâ&#x20AC;? tow truck. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a brand new Kenworth with a 40-ton NCR sliding rotating deck on the back. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quite a unit,â&#x20AC;? he said.

The yellow tow truck followed Jackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shiny red Western Star into the exhibition grounds with 12 year-old cancer survivor, Delaney Saunders, and her younger brother, Brennan, onboard.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Delaney became a friend of the convoy last year,â&#x20AC;? said Jack. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She was diagnosed with cancer and she finished her battle with cancer, and on May 25 she became one-year cancer free. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I asked her to come and ride with us. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no better face on my event this year than to have a little girl who won her battle.â&#x20AC;?

Jackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sister, Pat Rossi, also made a surprise visit from her home in Toronto after joining other relatives in the convoy in 2012. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was great last year and that was my first one, and I just really wanted to be here again,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I felt I just needed to come. It was a big surprise for Tom. His wife, Janice, knew about five weeks ago and I kept it a secret from him.â&#x20AC;?

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That was the case for Dana Coffey who came out for the first time in support of her father, Larry Lewis, who had esophagus cancer but is now back to work at Redhead Equipment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was down for a year, so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had cancer in my family. It kind of means something to me to be out and I used to haul oil with Tom Jack,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Coffey drove a truck in the convoy for Dia Ä&#x201A;ĹśÄ&#x201A; ŽčÄ&#x17E;Ç&#x2021; Ä&#x201A;ĆŠÄ&#x201A;Ä?Ĺ&#x161;Ä&#x17E;Ć? Ä&#x201A; mond International in Lloydminster, where she Ä?Ä&#x201A;ĹśÄ?Ä&#x17E;Ć&#x152; Ä?Ä&#x201A;ŜŜÄ&#x17E;Ć&#x152; Ć&#x161;Ĺ˝ Ć&#x161;Ĺ&#x161;Ä&#x17E; ĨĆ&#x152;ŽŜĆ&#x161; ŽĨ Ä&#x201A; Ĺ?Ä&#x201A;žŽŜÄ&#x161; /ĹśĆ&#x161;Ä&#x17E;Ć&#x152;ĹśÄ&#x201A;Ć&#x;ŽŜͲ works as a parts manager. Ä&#x201A;ĹŻ Ć&#x161;Ć&#x152;ĆľÄ?ĹŹ Ä&#x201A;Ć&#x161; Ć&#x161;Ĺ&#x161;Ä&#x17E; Ä&#x201A;Ć?Ć?Ä&#x17E;ĹľÄ?ĹŻÇ&#x2021; â&#x20AC;&#x153;So far itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wonderful and the turnout is excelĆ&#x2030;Ĺ˝Ĺ?ĹśĆ&#x161;Í&#x2DC; lent,â&#x20AC;? she said, as trucks assembled at the Vermilion weigh scale on Highway 16 for the 9:30 a.m. start.

With cancer cause top of mind, it was an emotional morning for Kodi Ferguson, who was the top fundraiser last year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got quite a few family members that have got cancer over the years â&#x20AC;&#x201C; gotta do something to help out, I guess,â&#x20AC;? he said. , 1 & 5 ( $ 6 ( <2 8 5 3 5 2 ' 8 & 7 , 9 , 7 < %< â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had a couple of family members die in the last couple of years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birthday today, so thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of a bonus too.â&#x20AC;?

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Superior Propane has five pink trucks across Canada and has raised over $165,000 in the last three years with its pink truck cancer program.

Kendra Young, who drives for Rickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hauler in Lashburn, also had personal reasons for taking part in the convoy for the third time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have cancer that runs very high in our family, and I just feel like itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good cause,â&#x20AC;? she said, adding she raised $3,400 for the event.

Neil Brooks brought his kids, Charlie and Jaden, along for the ride in a Quick Pick Waste Management truck and was thrilled to get behind the wheel for the first time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I came out the last two years to watch it, and this year I got the opportunity to participate inside it,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My grandpa passed away with cancer a few years ago. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a nice thing to come to. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first time I came a couple of years ago it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so big, but this year itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot bigger than it has been.â&#x20AC;?

Amber Williams, representing the Alberta Cancer Foundation that funds the Cross Cancer Institute in Alberta, was almost at a loss for words about this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outcome. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fifty trucks â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is just amazing. This community is so supportive of Tom. This is bigger and better.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s awesome. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any words for it,â&#x20AC;? she said at the finish. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the fourth year and every single year it just gets bigger and better and more is happening. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a full year fundraiser when it comes down to it.â&#x20AC;?

The convoy is sponsored by 106.1 FM The Goat and Action Towing and Recovery in Lloydminster, Simply Signs and Tom Jack Trucking in Vegreville and W-K Trucking in Mundare.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;I tried for quite some time to get in there, and it finally paid off with lots of phone calls and meetings,â&#x20AC;? said Tim Sharp who co-owns the company with Troy Illingworth.

Marwayne, Alta. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Go big or go home. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was definitely a big step for us to finally get our foot in the door up Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the new plan of T&T Oilfield Services, a company that provides there. Right now, they have definitely taken a liking to us and keep throwing plant construction, fabrication and oilfield maintenance services to a growing more work at us.â&#x20AC;? list of blue chip oil clients from their base in Marwayne, Alta.

A 10-man T&T crew is also working on a new maintenance shutdown T&T Oilfield has gained a foothold in the Bonnyville and Cold Lake areas contract for Cenovus at Christina Lake in the Athabasca oilsands. with a flow of facility contracts at Cenovus Energyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Foster Creek thermal oil The crew headed to the area on May 27 when Sharp and Illingworth spoke project near Cold Lake and a summer turnaround at a Devon Canada heavy oil about their success to date with Cenovus in Cold Lake. facility near Bonnyville. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been recommended in other areas too, so thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going Their previous strategy to hold their own went out the window last fall over to Christina Lake and getting work there,â&#x20AC;? said Sharp. when they landed their first facility construction contract at the Foster Creek â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hopefully, it will be a constant thing of getting referrals and stuff.â&#x20AC;? project.

Business is also gaining traction for NuWave Industries Inc., a separate well abandonment business owned by Sharp, Illingworth and Sandy Cumby, who serves as the manager.

NuWave, which operates four mobile units in Alberta and British Columbia, provides a safer and more environmentally friendly cut and cap abandonment process for oil and gas wells.

Cumby and Sharp were headed to Calgary the following day to pitch their oilfield construction and well abandonment services to new clients.

T&T Oilfield completed a new 6,000 sq. ft. shop for fabrication and vehicle storage at the Marwayne yard in 2012 with the idea that would suffice their expansion needs â&#x20AC;&#x201C; until opportunity knocked in Cold Lake. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were going to hold our own, but then we decided to take that extra step and go for something bigger, and it turned out pretty good so far,â&#x20AC;? said Sharp who handles sales and operations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can see us doubling our manpower. By six months to a year we might be up to a 100 guys or so. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to say.â&#x20AC;?

Illingworth, who manages human resource functions, is equally bullish on growth at T&T Oilfield as the pace of heavy oil thermal projects picks on multiple plays up north. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to continue to grow. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to stop,â&#x20AC;? he said. dÎ&#x2DC;d Ä?Ĺ˝Í˛Ĺ˝Ç ĹśÄ&#x17E;Ć&#x152; dĹ?Ĺľ ^Ĺ&#x161;Ä&#x201A;Ć&#x152;Ć&#x2030; Ç Ĺ˝Ć&#x152;ĹŹĆ? Ć&#x161;Ĺ&#x161;Ä&#x17E; Ć&#x2030;Ĺ&#x161;ŽŜÄ&#x17E; Ć&#x161;Ĺ˝ Ä&#x161;Ć&#x152;ƾž ĆľĆ&#x2030; Ć?Ä&#x201A;ĹŻÄ&#x17E;Ć? ĨŽĆ&#x152; dÎ&#x2DC;d KĹ?ĹŻÄŽÄ&#x17E;ĹŻÄ&#x161; ^Ä&#x17E;Ć&#x152;Ç&#x20AC;Ĺ?Ä?Ͳ Ä&#x17E;Ć? Ä&#x201A;ĹśÄ&#x161; EĆľtÄ&#x201A;Ç&#x20AC;Ä&#x17E; /ĹśÄ&#x161;ĆľĆ?Ć&#x161;Ć&#x152;Ĺ?Ä&#x17E;Ć? /ĹśÄ?Í&#x2DC;Í&#x2022; Ä?Ä&#x201A;Ć?Ä&#x17E;Ä&#x161; Ĺ?Ĺś DÄ&#x201A;Ć&#x152;Ç Ä&#x201A;Ç&#x2021;ĹśÄ&#x17E;Í&#x2DC; Ĺ˝Ć&#x161;Ĺ&#x161; Ä?ĆľĆ?Ĺ?ĹśÄ&#x17E;Ć?Ć?Ä&#x17E;Ć? Ä&#x201A;Ć&#x152;Ä&#x17E; Ĺ?Ĺś Ä&#x201A; Ĺ?Ć&#x152;Ĺ˝Ç Ć&#x161;Ĺ&#x161; â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to become a company that people wonder â&#x20AC;&#x201C; if weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re bidding â&#x20AC;&#x201C; žŽÄ&#x161;Ä&#x17E;Í&#x2DC; thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good chance weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to get it. We want to get work.â&#x20AC;?

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T&T was anticipating the opportunity to start some facility construction work for Devon as well in June.

The company has plans to set up a field office in Bonnyville in the near future to cut the drive time for crews and equipment to various job sites in the region. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have some good superintendents in that area who will able to manage things from up there,â&#x20AC;? said Sharp. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Foster Creek job is the longest that we will be on right now. It could go for another roughly 10 years. As long as we keep doing good work, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be up there.â&#x20AC;?

The company is issued performance-based contracts by Cenovus.

T&T Oilfield crews are busy tying in modules at Phase F at Foster Creek, with new work being generated as the SAGD project progresses.

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“One thing about working for Cenovus is safety is number one. It’s a good thing to have.

“You never have to worry you are going to come home at night or not because safety’s always your first thought.”

Cenovus operates work camps at its Foster Creek and Christina Lake SAGD projects.

This makes it more efficient and safe for those working there.

Sharp said he tries to get up to the site a couple of times a shift to keep abreast of what’s going on.

“Cenovus definitely likes to see ownership up there and showing our faces and going to safety meetings. We

know just about all of our guys that are up there.”

T&T currently has about 28 employees based in Marwayne and

another 28 are working on new oil projects in Western Canada.

“We are looking for pipefitters all the time … and welders,” said

Illingworth.

In Marwayne, crews are busy fabricating spools, pipe racks, piping and production skids for oil, steam and water services.

“Right now, there are five skids we’re doing the piping for,” said Illingworth.

“We have a couple of guys set up welding up a storm. If it goes well, there will be more of those skids coming in as well.”

Most of T&T’s construction equipment is up north, but that’s expected to change quickly with summer field work ready to kick in.

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More young workers are choosing to move to the community each year for nearby oilfield jobs and the chance to raise a family in an engaged, rural environment.

Hundreds of people poured into the local arena on June 1 to help the Marwayne Agricultural Society as they held a community auction raise the $300,000 balance remaining on a $3.7 million fundraising goal for the completed Agri-Plex.

Just about everyone there gave two thumbs-up to the new community hall that opened in June 2012 along with a campground, an arena lobby expansion and improvements to the curling club. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a community with a tremendous amount of community spirit and they work very hard for their facilities to have a lot of events in town,â&#x20AC;? said Richard Starke, MLA for Lloydminster-Vermilion. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The oil and gas sector, but also the agricultural sector and business and community members have been very generous. You look around and see auction items that are going to be available.â&#x20AC;?

Todd Hames, president of the Marwayne Agricultural Society who has donated $100,000 toward the project himself, was excited to see the five-year fundraising campaign draw to an end. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great feeling to be this far along. We are hoping this will be the last kind of push â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the last big event to raise additional funds,â&#x20AC;? he said.

One of the highlights of the evening was a cheque donation of $30,000 from Doug Ford, owner of Riverhill Enterprises Limited, a company that specializes in oilfield and pressure welding.

Ford got a big round of applause as he explained why he was motivated to help support his community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we needed to do. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good for the community,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lots of service companies that we work for â&#x20AC;&#x201C; they all donated money â&#x20AC;&#x201C; like Newalta and CNRL.â&#x20AC;?

An up-to-date list of individual and corporate donors is posted on a wall plaque inside the community hall which includes an auditorium, kitchen and meeting rooms.

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Weddings are booked here now,â&#x20AC;? said Joanne Horton, chief admin-

istrative officer for the village of Marwayne. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re booking into 2014 already for the community hall. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a nice hub for the community to have to gather.â&#x20AC;?

The community hall also has washroom and shower facilities for campground guests who are mostly oilfield workers these days.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are exploding in this area and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not enough housing,â&#x20AC;? said Horton. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some of the them are from Nova Scotia and they are here temporarily in the area.

They are here while deciding if they are staying or not staying.â&#x20AC;?

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no rental housing other than two duplex units. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We really need for someone to come in for multiple housing and build more duplexes and an apartment building or row housing,â&#x20AC;? said Horton.

The demand for housing is likely to increase as local oilfield companies such as Riverhill Enterprises and T&T Oilfield Services continue to grow along with the oilfield traffic in the area.

Alberta Transport reports the average daily summer traffic count in 2011 on Highway 897 was 2,440 and 870 on Highway 45. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It seems to be getting busier and busier all the time. You can just see the big trucks going through. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re noticing that traffic and you can see it in the campgrounds,â&#x20AC;? said Horton. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of the younger families are working in

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Chuck Berg, who was born and raised in Marwayne, is an eyewitness to the growing impact of oil and gas on his village. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It seems to be getting busier and busier all the time. You can just see the big trucks going through. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re notic-

ing that traffic and you can see it in the camp grounds,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Berg, and his son Cody, are field supervisors for Larson Management Inc. in Lloydminster a fluid hauling company owned by Lorne Larson of Tulliby Lake.

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We haul fluid both produced water and oil from as far north as Frog Lake which is 25 miles north of here all the way to the Battle River and from Highway 41 over to Lashburn,â&#x20AC;? said Chuck. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We went through our growing pains last year. We were extremely busy. The drilling activity was really busy last year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This year itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of mellowed out right now. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what they are going to be doing in quarter two, but it is certainly going to be busy.â&#x20AC;?

The Bergs came to the auction to sell raffle tickets for a new Dodge truck donated by Vermilion Chrysler that was to be raffled at the Lea Park Rodeo June 5 to 9.

Chuck also took the opportunity to explain why Marwayne is a great place to live or visit.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got the school; weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got the curling rink; weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got the hockey arena â&#x20AC;&#x201C; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a great place to raise a family. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody is very friendly. They know everybody. It always has been a tight knit community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting a lot of people coming in from across Canada that are finding Marwayne as a home.â&#x20AC;?

Chuck said Larson employees are also settling into other nearby communities such as Dewberry, Elk Point, Kitscoty and Lloydminster. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are happy to be out here and be steadily employed,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Marwayne has also embarked on an ongoing $1.9 million downtown revitalization project in keeping with the villageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top strategy to promote growth.

Sanitary sewers were replaced on Centre Street in 2012, with storm sewers, sidewalks, curbs, lighting and repaving on tap this summer.

The bulk of the summer work, valued at approximately $900,000, will be done by E. Construction Ltd. from Edmonton. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a year of torn-up streets. At least toward the end of the summer weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be seeing a street that looks very different, so that is exciting,â&#x20AC;? said Rebecca Oakes, a community development officer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anytime you can beautify your streetscape and have a professional image where things look open and ready to serve good service and good product, you always attract more people. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As well, anytime you invest in your infrastructure, people that look at investing here

see that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re making the right decisions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve put these plans on our website, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had a lot of calls from different sectors. I am sure most of it is related to oil. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you can show that growth and the will of people here to improve things â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that attracts people and investors,â&#x20AC;? Oakes said.

The village is also proceeding with a related business revitalization project with funding assistance from Community Futures to enable businesses to adapt their storefronts to a western heritage theme.

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B.C. rejected the $6 billion project in its final written submission to the Joint Review Panel on May 31 on the basis that it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t satisfy the provinceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s environmental concerns. â&#x20AC;&#x153;British Columbia thoroughly reviewed all of the evidence and submissions made to the panel and asked substantive questions about the project including its route, spill response capacity and financial structure to handle any incidents,â&#x20AC;? said B.C. Environment Minister Terry Lake on May 31. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our questions were not satisfactorily answered during these hearings.â&#x20AC;?

Premier Christy Clarkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s government has set five conditions in order for the province to consider the construction and operation of any heavy oil pipeline project in B.C. These include the completion and approval of an environmental re-

view, developing worldleading marine oil spill prevention and response systems, and implementing world-leading practices for land spill prevention and response.

The B.C government expects pipeline projects to create opportunities for First Nations and to have treaty rights respected. The province also wants a fair share of the fiscal and economic benefits.

In a news release, Janet Holder, Enbridgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s executive vice-president, said the five conditions cannot be fully met until the end of the joint review process, but her company is working toward that goal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is a path to yes. On that the government is very clear,â&#x20AC;?

Holder told the Business Council of British Columbia on June 6. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But it will take hard work and a willingness to do everything possible to fully meet the high standards the premier has set out for us. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am excited about that work. And I have never been more optimistic.â&#x20AC;?

Enbridge estimates Northern Gateway

would create up to 3,000 jobs during construction and 560 long-term jobs for British Columbians.

It would also generate approximately $1 billion in local goods and services spending.

The B.C. government was not fully satisfied with Enbridgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s response to questions about the projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s route, spill response capacity and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;financial structureâ&#x20AC;? to handle any incidents. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have carefully considered the evidence that has been presented to the Joint Review Panel,â&#x20AC;? said Lake in B.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s written submission. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The panel must determine if it is appropriate to grant a certificate for the project as currently proposed on the basis of a promise to do more study and planning after the certificate is granted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our government does not believe that a certificate should be granted before these important questions are answered.â&#x20AC;?

The Coastal First Nations, opposed to the project, congratulated the B.C. government for its decision to put environ-

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ment ahead of jobs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The B.C. government has done the right thing by rejecting the Enbridge pipeline for the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s failure to protect the environment,â&#x20AC;? said Art Sterritt, executive director of the Coastal First Nations in a May 31 news release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Coastal First Nations are celebrating this victory today by reaffirming our unequivocal opposition to oil tanker traffic on B.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s North Coast.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Northern Gateway has said that they would provide effective spill response in all cases,â&#x20AC;? said Lake to the review panel. â&#x20AC;&#x153;However, they have presented little evidence as to how they will respond. For that reason, our government cannot

support the issuance of a certificate for the pipeline as it was presented to the Joint Review Panel.â&#x20AC;?

In April 2012, the panel released 199 potential conditions that could form part of an authorization for the Northern Gateway Pipeline project if it received federal approval.

In preparing the final argument submission, the provinceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legal and technical experts analyzed the conditions and determined that they must be strengthened to meet B.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interests and requirements.

Albertaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Environment and Sustainable Resource Development Minister Diana McQueen downplayed

B.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rejection of the Northern Gateway, noting the review process would continue. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Alberta respects the hearing process underway for the Northern Gateway pipeline, and we trust that the panel will make its decisions based on science and all the evidence that has been presented,â&#x20AC;? she said.

The joint review process was to hear closing arguments until the end of June.

It would then deliberate and make a recommendation to the federal government by the end of this year. The federal government will then have until the middle of 2014 to render its decision.

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 By Brian Zinchuk Weyburn – Murray Edwards is the very definition of a mover and shaker in the Canadian oilpatch. The company he founded, First Energy Capital, is one of the most important financiers in the industry. He spoke to Pipeline News briefly at the conclusion of the ceremony where he was inducted into the Saskatchewan Petroleum Industry Hall of Fame.

Pipeline News: What do you think of what our industry is facing when it comes to pipelines and their development?

Murray Edwards: The oil and gas industry in Canada has more challenges than I’ve seen at any point in the last two decades – our bottleneck in terms of getting our product to market by lack of

our products. Not just oil – other products likes potash from Saskatchewan, hard rock mineral from Ontario and Quebec – we have to ensure we have access to the markets.

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United States. We would move our products south. The globe is now growing more east-west, and we have to make sure we can move our products eastwest and supply goods to Asian markets.  Page B14

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ME: I think all those pipelines are having to go through a public process in which they explain to the public the environmental safety standards that are now governing pipelines, and also show how the

economic benefit of pipelines flows not just to the industry, but also to the country, and the communities the pipelines flow through.

I think the pipeline companies are realizing they have to become a lot more engaged with the communities they impact. I think all of us have to be much more sensitive to such questions.

PN: How important is this debate to Saskatch-

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ME: The debate is important to the country, which is important to all of us. I think we have to keep it at that level of debate â&#x20AC;&#x201C; for all of Canada, not just Saskatchewan.

PN: Can we continue growing if we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t?

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The oilsands is a very long-term game, and I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t count out any resource, whether in Alberta, Saskatchewan, or anywhere in Canada.

PN: Talking about exports, how important is getting that to tidewater, be it Northern Gateway, TMX, both, rail, what do you think of that?

MR: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crucial to the country. We export our wheat, we export our lumber. We export many, many products. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve exported oil for probably close to 60, 70 years. Canada would actually import oil on the East Coast and export western production to the United States. That made sense, because that was the low-cost way to do it.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s extremely important now, as Canada continues to grow and wants to exploit its oilsands, that the United States market has matured. Their highest era of demand was 2006. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s over six year ago. Asian economies are growing, and we need an outlet, either through the eastern seaboard of Canada or the western seaboard of Canada. To be in such an important

industry, where itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 25 per cent of the Toronto Stock Exchange, and not have a way to export your products is an incredible handicap for the country. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re losing $1,000 per person, per day, by not having this ability to do that. We need to solve that problem.

PN: What do you think of the eastern option â&#x20AC;&#x201C; converting natural gas lines to oil?

MR: I think all these alternatives are feasible, whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s building a pipeline to the West Coast or converting a portion of our natural gas pipelines to the East Coast. All of these are feasible choices.

We need to move forward with at least one or two of them, to deal with our inability to move products to market.

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The new name went into effect May 22 with shareholdersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; approval. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Over the last several years, our asset base has

grown to include a diverse portfolio of light oil resource plays focused in Alberta and Saskatchewan, and we are no longer an affiliate of our former parent company, Petrobank Energy and Resources Ltd.,â&#x20AC;? said a Lightstream spokesperson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our business plan remains unchanged, however the name change

better reflects our corporate evolution and the company we are today.â&#x20AC;?

PetroBakkenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s split from Petrobank as a separate company took effect on Dec. 31, 2012.

The new Calgarybased company produced an average of 49,078 barrels of oil equivalent per day in the first quarter of 2013 with an 82 per cent light oil weighting.

The company also finished the quarter ending March 31 with a profit of $2 million.

Capital spending totalled $302 million or 41 per cent of Lightstreamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $675 million capital budget for 2013 with 53 net wells drilled in a 129 well program this year.

Twenty-three of the 53 net wells drilled in the quarter targeted the

Cardium light oil play in central Alberta.

The company expects to end 2013 with a production rate of 49,000 to 52,000 boepd and yearover-year average production growth of eight to 12 per cent.

Lightstreamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main operations are focused on the Bakken formation and conventional Mississiippian reservoirs in south-

eastern Saskatchewan.

The company also produces oil from the Cardium play and is exploring and delineating emerging light oil plays in north-central Alberta.

Lightstream also has land holdings in the shale gas plays of Horn River and Montney plays in northeast British Columbia for future diversification.

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CJME/CKOM talkshow host John Gormley was the keynote speaker during lunch on the second day of the Weyburn Oil Show. His was the only speech where the person at the microphone didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to speak over the din of the crowd. The audience listened with rapt attention as he made his case for Saskatchewan moving forward in its economic thinking. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even in uncertain global times, the future of

Saskatchewan is better than itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ever been,â&#x20AC;? Gormley started out with. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to reflect on the fact weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going back.â&#x20AC;?

He characterized Saskatchewanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s path in the past like that of Alice in Wonderland. The Cheshire Cat told her, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going, any road will get you there.â&#x20AC;?

Saskatchewan, indeed, had taken many roads over the years. One hundred years ago, it built the largest legislative building, which was in keeping with the promise for what was the third largest province until 1947, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In those days, opportunity was spelled

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;wheat,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Gormley said. Railways and farms spring up.

Now, people from Mississauga to Manila are coming here to take part in our opportunities.

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W Page B18 â&#x20AC;&#x153;The new Saskatchewan really identifies three things,â&#x20AC;? he said.

The first is a more robust economy â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not a new one, since weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had potash, oil and uranium for a long time. But weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeing a robustness unlike anything seen since the 1920s.

The second is an attitude change.

The third is a new government elected in 2007.

Saskatchewan has been breaking records in food and oil production.

But Gormley noted, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a boom any longer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The place to be in this continent is Saskatchewan,â&#x20AC;? he said, referencing an economistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s statements about Saskatchewan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re finding a new normal here.â&#x20AC;?

That means growth at three per cent. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not five per cent, but three.

Overall exports have grown every year.

Saskatchewan now exports three times what it did 10 years ago, selling more than we ever have. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We sell more to the world than British Columbia,â&#x20AC;? he pointed out.

Of that, 38 per cent is energy, 35 per cent is agrifood. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at the leading edge of what we sell to the world,â&#x20AC;?

Gormley said.

He said Michael Barry, a noted economist, said your children will likely work in the same Saskatchewan economy we are working in today, which suggests the growth is sustainable.

He noted Saskatchewan has the lowest unemployment rate in Canada. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jobs are plentiful.â&#x20AC;?

For decades, the province had a hard time cracking a million people in population. Now weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re approaching 1.1 million. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to go back to a Saskatchewan where the number one grad gift for 50 years was luggage. Everyone got luggage in Grade 12.â&#x20AC;?

Slagging socialism, he said the attitude was, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get your hopes up. The government will look after distribution of wealth and jobs. The government will take your wealth and redistribute it. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want capital markets. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want a market-based economy. Everybody else is using, free independent markets, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re unique.â&#x20AC;?

In Alberta, where thousands of jobs were created, our children followed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were about security and there was a heavy dose of fear â&#x20AC;&#x201C; fear of the unknown, fear of change, fear of what

might happen if the government got out of the way. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We saw what happened when the government got out of the way of the economy, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a fearful sight at all.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to go back to a time when weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re down all the time, a Saskatchewan where excellence happens somewhere else. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do you know what â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;potentialâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; means? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big fancy French word for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t done anything yet.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to go back to those days.â&#x20AC;?

Pulling a reference from The Big Book in Alcoholics Anonymous, he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do as we think.â&#x20AC;?

Going forward, he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have to be able to identify opportunities.

Next, a plan needs to be in place, and people shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be afraid of measurable targets.

A few things have changed in Saskatchewan. Cheap airfares, the 500 channel universe and the Internet have opened our eyes and awareness. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Things are going the way they are deserving to go. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to go back,â&#x20AC;? Gormley concluded.

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I want to say something we don’t often say enough, here across Canada: That is a big thank you to the industry.

“It’s very important that you know your industry is a big part of the economy of Saskatchewan, the backbone of our province. The oil and gas industry contributes tremendously to the well being of Saskatchewan, and the economy of Saskatchewan, employing thousands and thousands of people in our province. (They make) a tremendous amount of investment for Saskatchewan.

“This show couldn’t come at a better time for our province, in the middle of unprecedented growth in Saskatchewan. Your industry, the oil and gas industry, contributes widely to that growth of our economy.

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It is very important you know and understand that. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Statistics still show Saskatchewan is doing very well, leading the economy right now across our country.

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The honours were bestowed during the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show in Weyburn. Lawrence Woodward read the citation for Cliff Nankivell: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Clifford James Nankivell was born November 12, 1932, third son of William and Eileen Nankivell. He came from a family of seven siblings, living in the Arrow River and Crandall, Manitoba area. Like most families back then, they were farmers on a small scale. It was here that Cliff learned the concept of pride in your possessions, such as his beautiful team of horses and later the older family cars that he drove his parents around in. He always felt pride in your work and a little elbow grease could take you far.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cliff married Joanna Souter on June 17, 1955 and they struck out farming on their own. Their son Kalvin was born April 7, 1956. That year farming was disastrous in the area, as aphids moved in and ate all the barley crops. Cliff was totally wiped out of farming. His lifelong dream of running his own farm was shattered, but, not to be disillusioned, he dusted himself off and looked for greener pastures.

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This was quite a large company at the time, with 35 50-barrel trucks serving the areas of Alida, Carnduff and Storthoaks. The hours were long and the lease roads were virtually non-existent, just goat trails, so when the rains came, the roads were impassible. Life in the camps was not all that easy for the families, either. Water had to be hauled in and trailers were small and crowded. Joanna stated that living under these conditions built character and many of the people they worked alongside were quite the characters, themselves. Cliff â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother-inlaw stated at one time that they should put a motor on these little trailers and drive them to the next camp instead of having to pull them around. Little

did she know that motorhomes would be all the rage in the next 10-20 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In 1959 the oilfield around Alida and Carnduff really started to boom. More and more oil companies and trucking companies started to spring up. Cliff moved to Carnduff to work for Berman & Garvey to find greener pastures. Their daughter, Claudia, was born March 14, 1960, which completed their family. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The oilpatch was becoming progressively more modernized, with trucks, leases, roads and lots of new drilling. In 1961, Bergman & Garvey sold and Cliff started working for RE Line Trucking out of Alida. Richard Line was a mentor to Cliff in many ways, instilling in him a fine appreciation for his role in the company and giving him good business lessons. The family moved to an abandoned service station just outside of Carnduff called â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Short Stop Service,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; where Les and Mary Laird, the truck push,

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lived. This arrangement grew into an adopted family scenario. As anyone who has grown up in the patch knows, long hours spent working together makes a family bond that travels with you everywhere you go. Cliffs hours were still long and the family life was limited. He would be gone in the morning before the kids awoke and in at night after they were asleep. This made Joannaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s job as a parent very stressful and trying at times, but everyone was in the same position, so you made do and made the most of the times spent together. They were simple times, but everyone always came together for fun time. In 1962 Cliff was aksed to drive for Dempsey Laird in Halbrite, one of RE Linesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; field shops. He moved the family there for nine months, and then moved back to Carnduff for six years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In 1969 Cliff got his break and a chance for advancement when RE Line asked him to move to Kisbey to manage that trucking office. This was a big step for him; he had always been an employee, never a boss. Cliff picked up the challenge, and with Joanna at his side to run the office, they headed out on this new adventure. When they first started, they had two trucks to push. The days were still long, but Cliff was finding more time to be involved with his family and his new community. As the years passed, the oil industry in the area grew and so did the company, with local drivers being the backbone of the company. In 1978, Cliff bought out his share of RE Line Trucking in Kisbey and Cliff Nankivell Trucking Ltd. was incorporated.

This was a major accomplishment in Cliff â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life and the family was determined to pull together as a team to make it succeed. Kalvin had been driving for the company since 1974.

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Due to health problems in 2001/2002, Cliff had to turn over the farming land to a local farmer, but is still eager to see machinery working in the fields during seeding and harvest seasons. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cliff retired from the company in 2002, but still keeps a keen interest in the workings of the company as Kalvin and Claudia took over the leadership roles. He feels that it has been a privilege to work alongside a host of fellow oilpatch workers. The memories and friendships will carry with him a lifetime.

Some say it is a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;rags to richesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; story, but he feels it is a journey of â&#x20AC;&#x153;grain fields to oilfields.â&#x20AC;? Never forget where you came from.â&#x20AC;?

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&OLII 1DQNLYHOO UHVSRQGV Cliff Nankivell, with some assistance from his daughter Claudia, spoke of the challenges of his career as well as the people who were significant during his response to being named one of two Southeast Saskatchewan Oilmen of the Year.

Talking about the early days in which the family lived in a trailer, he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Back in those days, everyone that worked in the patch and moved around owned a spacious eight by 41-foot house trailer. It was a challenge to raise a family or even think of having guests over in those small quarters, but we had the best of times and a lot of stories could be said about that. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Like most small companies, it is the family involvement that makes things come together and grow. After all the years of driving crazy hours night and day, I really enjoyed being able to work close to home and enjoy my family and really get to know them. I was lucky to have my family involved in all aspects of the company. Road bans in the spring was usually a busy time for us as we fixed, painted, and polished up the fleet for the next season. I took great pride in looking after the growing fleet. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Running a business like ours in a small community had many perks as we were able to hire a lot of our drivers locally. Farm boys usually made the best choice. They had a good knowledge of the landmarks and were mechanically inclined and also had pride in what they drove.â&#x20AC;?

In closing, Cliff thanked his wife of 58 years Joanna; son, Kalvin; his wife, Kathy, and their family; daughter, Claudia, and her family. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is a great honor for me to ask Patricia Line, the wife of the late Dick Line, to please stand up and be recognized. A special heartfelt thank you for all your support and guidance that you and Dick provided Joanna and I in our early years. It has not been forgotten.

Additionally, Cliff thanked Kevin Brigden, Doug and Susan Curtis, Bob Curtis and Bob Quantrill, key long-term staff. Colin Brownridge of Colidge Trucking was also recognized as their first leased operator.

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Initial dirt work had to contend with some mud, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re now moving forward on Ceres Global Ag Corp.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commodity logistics hub planned for Northgate, Saskatchewan. On June 11, ground was broken and work commenced on site preparation that is now under way. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It going okay. The first couple of days were challenging â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a lot of mud and rain,â&#x20AC;? said Ceres president Michael Detlefsen in a phone interview on June 18.

The planned commodity logistics hub is being built on 1,500 acres of land owned by Ceres at Northgate, and is expected to include a grain handling and shipping facility, as well as a facility for transloading and shipping oil. In addition, the logistics centre will unload equipment and materials for Saskatchewanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and North Dakotaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s booming resource economies. When complete, the Northgate hub will connect to BNSF Railwayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s United States rail network.

Much of the work is confined to where the track will be going, with lots of track and road grading taking

place. There is also pad preparation for the grain elevator, oil storage tanks and laydown yard for the intended oil supply facilities. This will include bringing in items like pipe and frac sand.

The tankage number has not yet been resolved. Currently it could be between 30,000 and 120,000 barrels of storage once complete. Some of it will be common, and some will be for a specific group.

Most of the oil brought into the facility will be by truck, but some is expected to arrive by pipe. How much is piped in is a function of trucking.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fair bit of drilling in the area, with Elkhorn Resources drilling on their land as an example.

The initial crudeby-rail capacity is expected to be in the 10,000 to 25,000 barrel per day range. Further phases could bring that to 40,000, 60, or 70,000 bpd in one scenario, or 50,000 then 70,000 bpd in another. Put in perspective, Saskatchewanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entire Bakken production is now in the range of 70,000 bpd.

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Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also concern about rationing of pipeline capacity for producers.

The management, he noted, has 21 per cent of the ownership of the company, so they view it as their own money at work. It helps, too, that the Northgate facility will have multiple functions, including exporting of grain and importing of oilfield supplies.

The current plan is to begin laying rail in September. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We hope we can ship oil by December, and maybe some grain,â&#x20AC;? Detlefsen said.

Their partner, The Scoular Company, expects to be up and running by next April. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Breaking ground at Northgate represents a big step forward for us and our fellow shareholders, for our partners, for our customers and for the province of Saskatchewan,â&#x20AC;? said Detlefsen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In addition to the opportunities the hub will open up for Western Canadian farmers, it will be great news for Canadian oil producers looking for new, cost-competitive ways to market Saskatchewan crude to higher priced markets. We are excited to be moving into the

construction phase and expect to make further announcements shortly.â&#x20AC;?

Site preparation with this initial phase is funded equally by Ceres and The Scoular Company. Scoular is the major U.S.-based agricultural marketing company that, subject to reaching a final agreement, intends to fund and own the hubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grain operation.

Facility construction is planned to commence this summer, subject to receipt of all remaining necessary permits and approvals and finalization of agreements with project partners. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This groundbreaking is an exciting first step towards our plan for the grain handling and shipping facility,â&#x20AC;? said Bob Ludington, chief operating officer for Scoular. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When complete, the facility will help Saskatchewan farmers increase their participation in an expanding global market, giving high quality Canadian wheat direct line access to U.S. and Mexican flour millers and opening extensive new markets for Canadian canola.â&#x20AC;?

The Northgate commodity logistics hubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s connection to BNSFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s network will give shippers direct access to customers in 28 states, numerous Pacific and Gulf ports, as well as Mexico, using BNSFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 32,000 mile network, including over 45 crudeby-rail destinations.

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He started with Vertex a year ago. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a good year, a good company. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good mix of senior guys and young, eager professionals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I turned to networking after I found out I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be returning to the Riders. I always tried to network, even when I was with the Riders. I started making more phone calls, looking for what opportunities are out there. Vertex was one of the first to respond. I thought it was a growing company,â&#x20AC;? Cates said.

Professional sports players always need a second act, once itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to hang it up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You always hope itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to last forever, but it never does,â&#x20AC;? Cates said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had a six-year career. I remember being a 25-year-old rookie, thinking if I get in five years, I would be doing pretty good. Be careful what you wish for,â&#x20AC;? he said with a chuckle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most guys get into professional sports at 21 or 22. I had a late start. I know that being a running back, 30 seems to be that magic number.

Cates grew up in Columbus, Ohio, which has one of the biggest football fan bases in the country. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I actually went to a school in Pennsylvania called California University of Pennsylvania.â&#x20AC;?

It was an hour south of Pittsburgh. He obtained a business/sports management degree. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about dealing with people. With every job, you feel like a rookie, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m learning fast. My education has helped me in all parts of life, not just now.â&#x20AC;?

The NFL pays many, many times more than the CFL does. As a result, CFL players will often have other jobs in the off-season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I did many appearances,â&#x20AC;? Cates said, showing up at schools, and speaking at dinner functions.

One doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make much at schools, but dinner functions helped.

Asked how he knew the next step in his life was coming, Cates said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Change is always hard, but change is good. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been one of my mottos to live by. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had so many coaches over the past few years. Brendan Taman came in, the GM, but not the guy who brought me in. Then you had Corey Chamblin, a young coach, that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m almost the same age. It comes a time when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time for a change.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of the plan, which is understandable. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had five coaches when I was there â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Kent Austin, who took us to the Grey Cup in 2007. Then we had Ken Miller, who took us to two Grey Cups.

Then Greg Marshall, and then Millerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comeback as a different coach â&#x20AC;&#x201C; he was new to some people, then Cory Chamblin. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of those things. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Riders had a young coach and a young team, and started over. You know, I had a great run.

I understood it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to be forever, so it was a good time for the transition.â&#x20AC;?

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not married, but has had a â&#x20AC;&#x153;long term lady,â&#x20AC;? for pretty much his entire stay here.

Cates has been quite visible in the patch these days, attending a MNP presentation this past spring, then the Weyburn oil show and golf tournament.

Despite the brutal winter weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had last year, Cates says Saskatchewan has become home. As for why, he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;People ask that a lot. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the opportunity. I have built a name for myself and become accustomed to the life, and seen the potential of Saskatchewan. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m excited about being part of that growth.â&#x20AC;?

He ended up playing in one of the hottest economies in North America. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Definitely, Saskatchewan is one of the places to be,â&#x20AC;? Cates said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You know, looking for a career, to better your life, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of opportunity and space and beautiful people, so why not? Why go to a struggling market in the

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Cleveland, Ohio, just a few hours from his hometown of Columbus, has made a name for itself in recent years for demolishing homes by the hundreds to combat the blight that has overtaken the city. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s out there. Even before I came to Canada, I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play for three years after college, except for a season in Nebraska, playing for an indoor team, making a few hundred bucks a week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be afraid of change. Most peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest hang-up is to being afraid of change. Step out on a limb and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be surprised. The world will set your path for you.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m spiritual, religious. My mom raised me in a Christian home. I believe in a higher power,â&#x20AC;? Cates said.

Wikipedia says Cates is still a free agent. When told that, he responded, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You know whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crazy? I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t officially retired. I have to take care of that.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll hear a little blurb or see something in the paper about it.â&#x20AC;?

He still keeps himself in good shape, but there are plenty of new athletes out there. He noted your chances of winning a championship are better with experienced players, though. ɸ Page B34

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You werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the 13th man, were you? â&#x20AC;&#x153;No, I was not. I was sitting on the sidelines,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I guess it happened for a reason. I always think back to the fact that Montreal had a lot of veterans that had done a lot of losing in the Grey Cup. It was just their good karma showing up at our expense.â&#x20AC;?

He keeps his Grey Cup ring in his pocket. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little too big for everyday wear, however.

Catesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; work with Vertex is based in Regina. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sherwood Park is our major hub, but we have offices all over Saskatchewan and Western Canada,â&#x20AC;? he said.

In Saskatchewan, they have offices in Regina, Weyburn, Saskatoon and Oxbow. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We also have a guy located in Manitoba, in the Virden area. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I help with operations, I try to know everything thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on and keep co-ordinating.â&#x20AC;?

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According to Belton Johnson, there were seven around on the second day of the show. The former right tackle was visiting with Mike Abou-Mechrek, a former right guard at the Site Energy booth when Michael Palmer, a former running back, came up to say hello.

Wes Cates could be found in the Vertex booth, and Don Narcisse wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t far away either. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seven of us here, and not one of us knew where Saskatchewan was 20 years ago,â&#x20AC;? said Johnson. Both he and Abou-Mechrek were there in support of Tremcar West Inc. Johnson is originally from Mississippi. He retired from the game in 2012. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had actually been

working for SGI for two years previous, but I would only work for four or five months until training camp. They offered me a permanent position whenever I was going to be done with football. I told them 2012, at the end of that year, I would be done. Next thing you know, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m permanent, just trying to move up the corporate ladder. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in the file claims service. I have an interview Monday to move up that ladder.â&#x20AC;?

His home town is Cofleeville. He spent 10 years playing ball, three years with the NFL Cincinnati Bengals, and seven years in Regina.

Asked what kept him here, Johnson said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, man, Mississippi is probably the poorest state in union.

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Everybody loves everybody. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hospitality left and right. On sight, people are like, come over! Have something to eat! Everybodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s friendly.

Abou-Mechrek, on the other hand, probably did know where Saskatchewan was, having grown up in Toronto.

He came to Saskatchewan in 2007. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sell our place in Toronto. We planned on going back right after football was done.

About a year into being here, Kathie and I got to talking â&#x20AC;&#x201C; we have to put that house up and sell it. We started having kids. She

really called the shots.

She allowed us to come here. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such a great community. The riders have done a good job with the players here.

I played for two other teams, and no one treats you as well as the Riders. The fans are really close. The bring you in and welcome you and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let you leave. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are seven of us here today, and not one of us probably even knew where Saskatchewan was, except maybe me, because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m from Canada. Now weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re settling down, getting married, raising our children. Football or no football, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great place to live, a great place to be. People are so welcoming. What a tough job it is! Someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got to be the Rider alumni representatives in the community. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just unfortunate itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such a sunny day, the drinks are

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You should come to my office and see! Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got an economics degree, a religious studies degree, my CFP, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m doing my CLU now.â&#x20AC;?

Since Saskatchewan has more money flowing through it now, is it a better place to be as a financial planner?

He responded, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re basically asking me if I would prefer to make money versus not make money? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to think about that for a minute. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great place to be. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You know what?

If I was in Toronto, I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know my six and three year olds as well as I do now. I know that for sure. All the economics of how good Saskatchewan is, all that aside, I believe I could grow a business wherever. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not about having money, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about planning. The biggest thing for me is my time.

I could work five to 10 p.m. in Toronto, or I could work until I pick my daughter up from the school bus. I chose the later. I chose to hang out with Belton and Luke on the weekends.â&#x20AC;?

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There were several community dignitaries and other guests in attendance, notably: Mayor Debra Button; city manager Robert Smith, Jeff Richards and other leaders from the Weyburn Chamber of Commerce, and Wyndham Hotel Group representative John Henderson. The anticipated January 2014 opening of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fastest growing new hotel brand is a welcome addition to the accommodation sector for the booming community in southeast Saskatchewan. ɸ Page B38

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Once open, the Microtel Weyburn hotel will mark the fourth new Microtel to open in the country since MasterBUILT Hotels acquired the master territorial development rights in 2011. Over 20 more Microtel hotels are expected to open or commence construction in Canada over the next 24 months, with a vision to opening at least 75 Microtel by Wyndham hotels in Canada over the next 25 years. There are currently two other Microtel Inn & Suites by Wyndham open in Canada in Woodstock and Parry Sound, Ont., both of which

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Located on a 3.6 acre site at the crossroads of Grace Street and Highway 39, the Microtel Weyburn is located in close proximity to many of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s major retail and service outlets frequented by locals and visitors alike. In addition to Microtelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contemporary design and ultra-comfortable rooms highlighted by the signature beds, the hotel will cater to business and leisure guests alike with complimentary hot breakfast, coffee, wireless high-speed Internet, weekday newspaper, fitness centre, hot tub, and business centre. Mayor Debra Button said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is my sincere pleasure to welcome Microtel Inns & Suites by Wyndham and MasterBUILT Hotels to the City of Weyburn. Thanks to the exceptional economic activity within our community and region, we have become a very popular place to visit and to call home and the need for quality accommodation has never been greater.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are proud to have a globally recognized brand like Microtel by Wyndham select the city of Weyburn. By adding another 20 quality full-time jobs, the hotel will be another great contribution to our rapidly growing economy.

The additional 84 rooms will also be a great asset for our community to attract additional events, investment and visitorsâ&#x20AC;? said Jeff Richards, manager of the Weyburn Chamber of Commerce â&#x20AC;&#x153;The new positions created with the opening of the hotel will be filled predominantly by local Weyburn residents,â&#x20AC;? says Microtel Weyburnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s general manager Andrew Arksey, who recently returned home to the Weyburn area after having worked in various hospitality leadership roles in Manitoba and Ontario in recent years.

Along with responsibility for the Weyburn hotel operations, sales and guest service, Arksey is currently overseeing the operation (on an interim basis) of the Microtel Inn & Suites by Wyndham in Estevan which opened in September 2012.

He said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am delighted to return to the area where I grew up and be a part of the development of the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dynamic economy.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;It gives us great pleasure to develop Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most exciting new hotel concept in one of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fastest growing cities. We believe that Microtel by Wyndham and Weyburn are a perfect matchâ&#x20AC;? said Eric Watson, vice-president of development for MasterBUILT Hotels.Â

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Did the lights go out, the lightning flash, and your innards quiver with the rumble of a twister on its way?

Probably not, but now, thanks to an inventive public safety approach being taken by the Weyburn Fire Department, you can. This past spring they took delivery of a new simulator trailer meant to teach the public how to react in events as diverse as kitchen fires, electrical fires, and severe weather.

The $150,000 trailer was sponsored by Cenovus, which is the operator of the Weyburn field.

“This is a great innovative idea to give back to the community,” said, Leanne Courchesne, group lead of community investment for Cenovus. “Safety is one of our key focus areas when we make contributions to our operating communities.”

The idea is to focus on prevention, knowledge and education for Weyburn and the surrounding communities, where the trailer will be used at schools and community events like the recent Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show in Weyburn. It’s only the second simulation trailer of its type in Canada.

“It’s community oriented,” Courchesne said.

As such, this trailer is not a simulation of a just a work site, but a home. One end is a kitchen, the

other is a child’s bedroom. In the middle, there’s an electrical panel simulation which could be considered more industrial, complete with lock outs.

The bedroom area is meant to teach children how to respond in case of a fire. The door smokes, as does the electrical outlet. The door also gets warm to the touch. Children are taught to roll out of bed and feel the door with the back of their hand. If it’s warm, they are to open the window and climb out of the room.

The child is supposed to put a towel or blanket along the bottom of the door to keep the smoke out if they need to buy time. If they can’t get out the window, a blanket hanging out the window is a signal to firefighters that help is needed.

Firefighter Marc Schweitzer said, “This room is mostly aimed for Grade 2 and smaller children.”

There’s a generator that allows for usage off the grid. The ramp used for the generator also makes the trailer wheelchair accessible.

When asked why they would go for a fire safety trailer as opposed to equipment like the Jaws of Life, Fire Chief Steve Debienne said, “I think prevention is the key. If we can educate people, that’s a start, before we need the Jaws of Life.

Prevention has been something near and dear to his heart for years. It’s something he wants the department to focus on. “We’ve really let go of public education,” Debienne said. That’s something

he wants to change.

During the bi-monthly safety meeting held at the Cenovus Goodwater plant, he told the staff members and contractors, “At a young age, my family lost its home and business to a fire.”

The Weyburn Fire Department is getting busier. “We’re seeing our fire stats go up with the simple fact the city is growing,” Debienne said. The city had minimal sustained growth for years, then saw it jump to the double digits.

There were 277 calls in 2012 including medical.

There were 52 fire calls with active fires.

There is no age range for the trailer, he pointed out. It is as applicable to adults as it is to children.

The simulator trailer was built by a specialized firm in Albany, New York. The fire department looked at building their own simulator piecemeal, but felt that a complete unit was the way to go. The project was started in earnest about 18 months ago.

In total, three years of work have gone into the project. Cenovus gave the go-ahead for its support just before Christmas last year. “What a great Christmas present,” Debienne said.

Back in the trailer, one finds the kitchen area to be the most intense simulation. Most of the props are interactive. Open a cupboard door, and you see simulated flames. The oven, too, will glow as if it is on fire. ɸ Page C2

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The â&#x20AC;&#x153;fire extinguisherâ&#x20AC;? has a laser which activates sensors, â&#x20AC;&#x153;putting out the fireâ&#x20AC;? wherever the nozzle is pointed.

The toaster simulates an electrical fire. You need to unplug it to stop it.

The phone is even programmed to simulate a 911 call centre.

While the fire simulations are very impressive, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the storm simulation that rocks the boat, or trailer, as it were. Subwoofers shake the trailer as a tornado comes in. The weather radio turns on, warning you to take cover.

A cartoon of Popeye on the TV soon switches to a weather alert. The sound of heavy rain and hail is deafening. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever been in an RV during heavy weather, you would recognize the sound.

The lights start to dim, then go out. While you stand in the dark, waiting for what comes next, lightning flashes in the window.

All the while, a series of closed circuit cameras show what is going on in the different parts of the trailer, displaying the multiple camera angles on a large screen TV mounted outside the trailer. This allows people on the outside to get a glimpse of what is happening inside.

Deputy Fire Chief Mason Sawatszky said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;With this, it has so much interaction, it keeps people interested.â&#x20AC;?

The trailer can also be programmed to simulate hurricanes, floods and earthquakes. Two of those donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have much application to the Weyburn area, but flooding occurred as recently as 2011.

The centre portion is an electrical area, with a large panel that looks like itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arcing. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a pull station fire alarm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the type everyone is warned about in school not to touch unless thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a real fire. But would you know how to operate one if you had to? Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a certain technique that is demonstrated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you can prevent fires, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to do fire suppression,â&#x20AC;? Debienne said.

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67$56 6DVNDWRRQ D KRW Ă \ ]RQH Â&#x201E; By Geoff Lee Regina â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Time flies and so does STARS air ambulance in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

STARS keeps getting busier by the day, particularly in Alberta and Saskatchewan, as more work sites register with STARS Emergency Link Centre.

In 2012, STARS responded to 1,539 emergencies in Alberta from bases in Grande Prairie, Edmonton and Calgary. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can tell you that in Alberta and Saskatchewan, we traditionally respond to 100 calls a year specific to industry,â&#x20AC;? said STARS spokesman Cameron Heke. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Last year, we responded to 135 industry calls in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s responding with the helicopter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In addition to that,

on any given day, we have over 4,000 work sites registered through our emergency link centre through our work site registration program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not unusual to have over 5,000 sites registered with STARS.â&#x20AC;?

In Saskatchewan, STARS flew or rendered care to more than 300 patients in its first year of service marked on April 30. STARS has bases in Regina and Saskatoon, and Heke noted that activity levels are picking up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Alberta is busier by virtue there are more work sites, but Saskatchewanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been booming in the last five or 10 years,â&#x20AC;? said Heke. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every day, we are seeing more and more work sites come online with our registration system.â&#x20AC;?

Registered work sites can range from temporary locations such as those where

upstream oil and gas activity is taking place to permanent sites such as gas plant, batteries, mines, and large pipeline and electrical projects. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What that allows us to do is to respond to emergencies as they occur over the phone.

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personnel and services in the surrounding area if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not present at that certain location,â&#x20AC;? explained Heke. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty incredible the number of companies and organizations involved with this program.â&#x20AC;?

Flights are also increasing in Saskatchewan as are the number of work site registrations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our new base at Saskatoon is quickly becoming one of our busiest bases of all six STARS bases,â&#x20AC;? said Heke.

The Saskatoon base opened in the fall of 2012 and its early success has caught STARS off guard. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are gathering more information to learn why, but one thing, it is a sign of acceptance

in the community in that local emergency services are really seeing STARS as another partner in a chain of survival,â&#x20AC;? said Heke. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are being called out to a lot of emergencies in the Saskatoon area and also in Regina. Regina is becoming a very busy base as well.â&#x20AC;?

STARS air ambulance was launched in Regina in 2012 with financial support from the government and by industry in the form of donations and site registrations.

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STARS currently operates a fleet of eight Eurocopter BK117 helicopters. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We also have a new AW139 helicopter based in Edmonton. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s set to be operational in the next few months,â&#x20AC;? said Heke.

A second AW139 is expected to arrive in Calgary later this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We anticipate in the future having another AW139 located out of Saskatoon,â&#x20AC;? said Heke. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Right now in Saskatchewan, we have on BK117 in Regina and one BK117 in Saskatoon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our helicopters will move around as needed. At any time all of our bases will have at least (one) helicopter dedicated to service.â&#x20AC;?

STARS also has a BK117 based at the Winnipeg Airport.

All the helicopters in the fleet bear the logos of oil and gas companies and industries that make substantial financial donations to the program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something that we are very proud of â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to be able to reflect that support back to the community to say you know these companies have stepped up and decided to support STARS.â&#x20AC;?

The Eurocopter logo will also be placed on all STARS helicopters in the coming weeks in recognition of more than $500,000 that Eurocopter has contributed to STARS in various forms since 1986.

STARS has operated the Eurocopter BK117 helicopter since 1985, flying nearly 24,000 emergency missions in that time.

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6XQ VKLQHV RQ SURYLQFLDO ZDJHV Regina â&#x20AC;&#x201C; It pays to live in Saskatchewan where average weekly earnings continue to rise along with the sun.

The province with the most sunshine in Canada also led the country in March with an annual average wage increase of 5.5 per cent compared to March 2012 according to Statistics Canada.

Saskatchewanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s increase was the highest among the provinces and well above the 3.1 per cent national average.

Non-farm payroll jobs increased 2.7 per cent in the province, the second highest increase among provinces, and above the national average of 1.2 per cent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a major contributor to the economic momentum weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had in Saskatch-

ewan,â&#x20AC;? said Economy Minister Bill Boyd. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great news all around that leads to higher spending and higher consumer confidence.â&#x20AC;?

In March 2013, average weekly earnings were $967.20 (seasonally adjusted) the second highest weekly rate in Canada.

On a real wage basis, Saskatchewanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wages were up 4.2 per cent year-over-year, adjusted for the 1.3 per cent increase in inflation. This is the highest increase among provinces and well ahead of the 2.1 per cent that was posted nationally. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is an abundance of employment opportunities throughout the province and wage rates that are surpassing inflation,â&#x20AC;?

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The company now has four mobile units on the go as word spreads about the ability of their technology to cut and cap wellbores quickly and safely with minimal ground disturbance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been very busy actually. We did a lot of work all over Alberta this winter past in the High Level area and toward Medicine Hat south,â&#x20AC;? said manager Sandy Cumby. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We seem to be getting a lot of calls from different companies all the time. Word is spreading from company to company.â&#x20AC;?

NuWave was launched in the fall of 2010 and got off to a good start with its proprietary abrasive water jet cutting tool that is lowered into the wellbore and does the cutting internally.

No harmful chemicals are used in the cutting process.

The job starts with a hydrovac removing some soil around the wellhead to simply to make it easier to pull it out with a backhoe once itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been cut by the tool.

NuWaveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s solution eliminates the traditional method of digging a deep bell hole around the wellhead to reach the required depth to cut and remove it.

The old method calls for a welder to go into the hole and torch through the inner and outer casings along with the concrete liners before the wellhead could be removed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We avoid that large excavation altogether. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no need for a big hole,â&#x20AC;? said Cumby. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just cut from the inside and pull the wellhead out with a track hoe or whatever happens to be on site.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are left with a very small hole basically, the size of the casings that are in the well.â&#x20AC;?

The well is capped with a compression fitting that allows for venting as required in Alberta by the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB). â&#x20AC;&#x153;We weld another cap on top of that with a lease location number on it,â&#x20AC;? said Cumby. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just insert the cap into the well casing and hammer it down in place. It seals the well and keeps the dirt out, and we backfill it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our process from the time we get on location until we leave is a maximum of an hour and a half. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The other way could take anywhere from six to eight hours to two or three days depending on ground locations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All the oil companies that we deal with say we save them a lot of money over the long run â&#x20AC;&#x201C; money and time,â&#x20AC;? said Cumby.

NuWave is owned and operated by Cumby in partnership with and T&T Oilfield Services co-owners Tim Sharp and Troy Illingworth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All of the technology was done in-house,â&#x20AC;? said Cumby. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We came up with the system here and had it built. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our process. We have it patented.â&#x20AC;?

NuWave recently launched a new tool to cut risers internally at gas wells. They did a job at the request of clients in southern Alberta.

They also developed a special riser cap approved by the ERCB. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our basic tool that we use for wellheads was designed for some gas wells with up to 4.5-inch casings and up,â&#x20AC;? said Cumby. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We kind of had a demand for smaller casings like risers, so now weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a tool that we can actually go down to a two-inch. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Basically, now we can cut anything from a two-inch up.â&#x20AC;?

In a gas well, gas flows from the wellhead down through the riser and into a pipeline.

The old way of removing a riser requires hydrovacing down the side of the riser and cutting a slot in the ground wide enough for a welder to extend his or her arm down to the pipe.

The welder would have to reach into the ground with a long stinger and cut the pipeline off manually and then try to cap below that. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So again it saves the hydrovac and the welder from having to use a torch again,â&#x20AC;? said Cumby. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We did some down south awhile ago â&#x20AC;&#x201C; some gas well risers and they loved the process. It was fast, and we cut off four risers. It took an hour and a half to do it.â&#x20AC;?

The small footprint left by NuWaveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cut and cap well abandonment process is catching the interest of companies working in sensitive environments. ɸ Page C8

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Éş Page C7 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Down south there are prairie leases where everything is grassed over. Minimal disturbance there is top priority,â&#x20AC;? said Cumby.

The ERCB requires oil and gas companies to return the land as close to its original state as possible once a well has been abandoned.

A reclamation certificate is only issued by Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development if the land has been properly reclaimed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We deal with one land gentleman down there.

He sent me some pictures of the traditional method a company used before we started,â&#x20AC;? said Cumby. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Typically their excavation was five square metres. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the amount of ground they disturbed on a prairie lease just to dig out the wellhead. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The company compared ours to theirs. Our excavation was two square feet. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For land reclamation purposes, they say they are three years from the time they dig up until they can get their land reclamation certificate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With our service, they were six months.â&#x20AC;?

NuWave is also using its cut and cap technology on abandoned exploration wells and to cut pilings for companies. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a location where they had a plant site and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all built on pilings, we can use our tool to cut pilings off and pull them out of the ground rather than having to go in and dig up the whole site to get the pilings out,â&#x20AC;? said Cumby. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Again, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quick and a lot cheaper for the oil companies as well.â&#x20AC;?

Cumby and Sharp were in Calgary during the last week of May to knock on doors and line up more well abandonment work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big thing to talk to the guys in person. If we can set up a system where weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing 20 or 30 year-round wells, it works out better for everybody. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cheaper for the oil companies in the long run too, do to a batch. In the wintertime, we get a lot of those where they get drilling programs going on.

Winter has been the busiest season for NuWave as they dos a lot of work in northern Alberta and British Columbia. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At that time of year you are working in muskeg. The only time you can do that is when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s frozen,â&#x20AC;? said Cumby.

NuWaveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s well abandonment process is not available in Saskatchewan where the government has yet to approve their cut and cap process. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re working on the Saskatchewan government to see if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll change their regulations,â&#x20AC;? said Cumby. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are some oil companies talking to them as well to see if they can get the process approved there because they want to use it in Saskatchewan as well.â&#x20AC;?

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$ PRGHO WKDW ZLOO NQRFN \RXU VRFNV RII Weyburn â&#x20AC;&#x201C; To hear Panther Drilling general manager Jim Kopec tell it, Tanner Herlick is obsessed with rigs. That would probably be an understatement.

The 16-year-old Grade 10 student has built his own derrick, welded out of sucker rod, at his farm. Other kids build treehouses, he built a derrick.

But his craftsmanship was what was truly on display in the Panther Drill-

ing booth at the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show June 5-6. There one found a precisely accurate 1:48 scale model of the brand new Panther Rig 4.

The detailing is so precise, one might think an engineering firm or architect had built it. Indeed, it was done to the actual building plans, as provided by Panther. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I was seven years old, there was a drilling rig south of my farm. I found an interest right then and there,â&#x20AC;? said Tanner, who was standing beside his model.

He started building models out of Popsicle sticks when he was 11. But he became more serious about it when he was 14. ɸ Page C11

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Panther bought it at a Weyburn and District Hospital Foundation charity event, and asked him to build one of theirs instead. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I went right off the blueprints, the real blueprints, the ones they were working off,â&#x20AC;?

Tanner said.

The project took 400 hours over five months, primarily after school. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play hockey, or anything like that,â&#x20AC;? he said.

The Herlick family does, however, have 200 head of cattle. Tanner is responsible for feeding them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I did it (building the model) whenever I had time. I took breaks off and on, too.â&#x20AC;?

The model is 35 inches tall. It includes the derrick, substructure and outbuildings.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s built of engineering plastic Tanner found online. He made extensive use of an X-acto knife, flue, Dremel and square. A sewing mat with a grid was also

helpful. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I find it pretty easy,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some pieces fell off. You glue them back on. I used tweezers, too.â&#x20AC;?

Sewing string is used for wires. At the end of the tugger line, necklace clasps are used for hooks.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now wired for lights, however. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to find lights that make it look real,â&#x20AC;? Tanner said.

He has big plans, noting he would hopefully like to own or build rigs in the future, possibly at a place like Do-All Industries.

But will he start at the bottom, roughnecking, like most of the people in the business? â&#x20AC;&#x153;If it comes to that,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Cory Hicks, president of Panther Drilling, described the model as, â&#x20AC;&#x153;unbelievable.â&#x20AC;?

Having bought the initial model of a different rig, Hicks noted they were in the process of building Rig 4. They had Tanner come out and visit it numerous times, with Hicks and Kopec showing him the various components. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The interesting

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Weyburn â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Royal Canadian Air Force needed additional barracks in time for its annual war games known as Maple Flag, held at 4 Wing Cold Lake. The question was, could it be built in time?

It took a tremendous effort, but 3twenty Solutions of Saskatoon was up to the task. The company, which initially gained fame as a successful investment on CBCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dragonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Den, has been aggressively growing its shipping container-based accommodations and work site office products.

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recently produced a number of security shacks for use in the oilsands.

At the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show in Weyburn, company CEO Bryan McCrea stood before a display highlighting the barracks at Cold Lake, a $2.8 million project. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our biggest project to date. It was tendered publicly in December and January, we were awarded the project,â&#x20AC;? McCrea said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We went for a kickoff meeting and the stakes were high. We had to have it done my March 29. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had 59 days to design, build and install this 180 person accommodation complex â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and we did it!â&#x20AC;?

They werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t able to use an existing design.

As barracks, these units would be more Spartan than 3twentyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s typical accommodations offerings.

The contract was done through Defence Construction Canada, the management firm for such projects for the government. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were really good to work with,â&#x20AC;?

McCrea said, adding that Col. Chris Zimmer, their contact, was also helpful. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They needed it for the Maple Flag,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Maple Flag is a large-scale, annual international air combat exercise that is hosted annually at 4 Wing Cold Lake, Alta., and

took place this year from May 27 to June 21.

According to the Royal Canadian Air Forceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website, Canadian units from across the country took part in this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Maple Flag, along with forces from Belgium, Colombia, Germany, the Netherlands, the Republic of Singapore, the United States, and the United Kingdom. In addition, nations participating in an observer capacity included Chile, India, Oman, Peru, South Africa, South Korea, and Ukraine.

McCrea noted that one of the reasons the barracks were needed was the growth of the oilpatch around Cold Lake. It used to be that the Air Force could use local hotels in the area to put up people. But since the activity level in the patch is keeping housing in the area tight, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s become less of an option. Imperial Oilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Cenovusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; activities are filling the hotels, he noted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were given the impossible task,â&#x20AC;?

McCrea said. It took hours and hours from their own people and subtrades. He pointed out that their employeesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; spouses â&#x20AC;&#x153;allowed us to get it done.â&#x20AC;?

Approximately 50 people, including 3twenty staff and subtrades, worked on the project. There was an â&#x20AC;&#x153;unreal amount of overtime,â&#x20AC;? McCrea said, often with 60 to 80hour workweeks.

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The pile foundation went in first, then they started setting up the first 24 unities. The last unit arrived on March 16, and the project had to be put together within a further 13 days.

The project itself is 36 modules, built in two pieces. Each is three units long, three units tall and two wide. A modular floor and ceiling system was used for the hallways. The two structures are linked by exterior walkways and stairs. Each module had three trooms, with double occupancy. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not fancy.

McCrea called them â&#x20AC;&#x153;utilitarian, cost effective, and quick.â&#x20AC;?

The facility has 24 washrooms and six laundry rooms, each with two sets of washers and dryers, and a laundry sink.

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The Defence work was an opportunity to diversify from their oil and mining work, which has been 3twentyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bread and butter. Their clients were helpful in allowing them to push this project through. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had some patient customers,â&#x20AC;? McCrea said.

He noted thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lots of room for more camps at the site, and he hopes this project will be the first of many. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also been interest from other countries. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can handle five more, 10 more. Bring â&#x20AC;&#x2122;em on,â&#x20AC;? McCrea boldy said.

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Cenovus Safety Stewardship Awards are presented for leadership in health and safety, ethical business conduct, and community responsibility. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Working at Cenovus means working safely and the companies weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve recognized have gone above and beyond,â&#x20AC;? said Allan Greeves, manager, Weyburn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At Cenovus, safety is a core value and we operate according to a set of strong values promoting excellence in health and safety performance. We strive to find ways to get better, every day.â&#x20AC;?

Cenovus staff members nominate companies and winners are chosen by a selection committee appointed by the Cenovus Operations Health & Safety team. The selection committee looks for evidence that the contractor has demonstrated leadership by finding innovative ways to promote safety in the workplace, working collaboratively to integrate safety into the planning process, and placing a high personal value on safety. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Cenovus Safety Stewardship Award is just one way Cenovus shows our appreciation for a commitment to safety,â&#x20AC;? said Greeves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cenovus puts a lot of emphasis on ensuring the work we do is done in a safe and responsible way, and when we have the opportunity to work with companies that share the same values, we can achieve great things.â&#x20AC;?

This year the operator of the Weyburn field decided to shake things up a bit, opening up the awards to consultants who work for them, as well as

contractors as has typically been the case.

Each award came with a $5,000 donation made by Cenovus to the charity of the recipients choice.

Three contractors were recognized this year. Shaunavon-based Fauser Energy, which does extensive work for Cenovus in the southwest, was the first. They chose the Town of Shaunavon Minor Ball as their charity of choice.

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Industrial Electric and Instrumentation Ltd., also of Weyburn, provides much of the automation and SCADA systems for Cenovus in the region.

Industrial Electric has been working with Cenovus and its predecessor companies for close to three decades. Recent project have included 14,000 and 8,400 man-hours each with no lost-time injuries.

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Saskatchewan Families for Effective Autism Treatment (SASKfeat) was the recipient of $5,000 as a result of IEIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s award.

Switching over to the consultant side, Diamond Two Oilfield Supervision Ltd. was recognized. On their behalf, the Regina Quâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Appelle Health Region NICU received $5,000.

Nominator Ron Bartlett said Kent Galbraith of Diamond Two has been working on two service rigs, and is often handed complicated and challenging tasks. As such, he has pioneered cleaning out wells with plugged casings, including one situation where a quad leg was plugged. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s become our go-to guy for well control,â&#x20AC;? Bartlett said.

G.E. Peterson Consulting and Inspections Ltd. donated to the Angus Campbell Centre for Drug and Alcohol Recovery. Since the centre was recently cut off from provincial funding, the donation was greatly appreciated.

Newman Oilfield Supervision directed their donation to the Alzheimer Society of Canada.

Finally, RTC Oilfield Consulting Ltd. chose the Weyburn and District Hospital Foundation as its beneficiary.

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Gibson Energy ULC is a progressive, growth oriented, North American midstream oil & gas company. We are currently seeking enthusiastic, result oriented individuals for our Southeast Saskatchewan Area Branch.

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DRIVER - OILFIELD Haul pipe and oilfield equipment to locations in SE Saskatchewan. Applicants must have a Class 1A driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s licence and pass mandatory drug and alcohol testing. Safety tickets would be an asset.

Duties include: load, haul pipe and supplies to destination in a safe and timely manner & unload.

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Hiring for All Positions Â&#x2021; Eagle offers

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