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A3 Kerrobert to get massive crude-by-rail terminal B1 Entrec hauls largest highway load ever in Alberta B9 Port of Churchill working on pilot shipment

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The loading itself will take place in an enclosed environment. They will run two straight tracks side-by-side for loading, and the building will be 10 cars long. That will allow for 20 cars to be loaded at once, out of the elements.

Crude-by-rail in Canada started out a few years with just a few cars loaded Kerrobert, Calgary – Dirt work is expected to begin shortly on Saskatchat small scale sites. But as with grain elevators and the grain transportation ewan’s largest crude-by-rail facility to date. system 15 years ago, there Hot on the heels of a is now a rapid shift to unit flurry of recent announcetrains to achieve maximum ments for large, unit-train efficiencies. The same marscale crude-by-rail loading ket forces that saw confacilties for Edmonton and crete grain terminals built Hardisty, TORQ Transthroughout the Prairies loading Inc. announced on appears to be coming to Aug. 14 it will be building the burgeoning crude-byone of the largest of them rail industry. all, if not the very largest.

The facility is scaled to Headquarted in load two full-sized 120-car Calgary but with roots unit trains per day, similar in Shaunavon, TORQ is to what Gibson Energy building a facility aphas recently announced proximately seven miles at Hardisty. Based on a southeast of Kerrobert. maximum capacity of This is in addition to exist700 barrels of oil per car, ing TORQ operations at that puts the facility’s Instow (near Shaunavon), planned throughput at up Southall (near Bromhead), to 168,000 barrels per day.

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However, Zielinski expects The placement is very their cars to be loaded in strategic in nature. It’s the 600 to 625 barrel range immediately adjacent to dKZY dƌĂŶƐůŽĂĚŝŶŐ ŝƐ ŵŽǀŝŶŐ ƵƉ ĨƌŽŵ ƐŵĂůůͲƐĐĂůĞ ĐƌƵĚĞͲďLJͲƌĂŝů ƚƌĂŶƐůŽĂĚŝŶŐ ƚŽ ƚŚĞ ďŝŐ ůĞĂŐƵĞƐ͘ dŚĞŝƌ ^ŽƵƚŚͲ each.

Plains Midstream and InĂůů ĨĂĐŝůŝƚLJ͕ ŶĞĂƌ ƌŽŵŚĞĂĚ͕ ƐĞĞŶ ŚĞƌĞ͕ ǁŝůů ďĞ ĚǁĂƌĨĞĚ ďLJ ƚŚĞ ƉůĂŶŶĞĚ <ĞƌƌŽďĞƌƚ ZĂŝů dĞƌŵŝŶĂů͘ &ŝůĞ ƉŚŽƚŽ While the cars can ter Pipeline Fund terminals, hold up to 700 barrels each, each with two pipelines heavy oil is by definition heavier, and there are weight restrictions on how leading to them. Then there is the granddaddy of all pipelines, the Enbridge much weight can go into each car, depending on the route it is taking. mainline, which the two existing pipeline terminals are connected to. Finally “We believe, at full operational capacity, it should be one of the largest there’s a Canadian Pacific Railway line, the key component to a crude-by-rail facility. Kerrobert is at a “Y” junction on the CPR track, and a short hop to the facilities announced to date,” Zielinski said.

Torq is planning on building up to 500,000 barrels of storage capacity, in company’s northern mainline track. the form of 100,000 barrel tanks. The plan is to start with one heated insulated TORQ CEO Jarrett Zielinski noted, “In the location selection process for tank at first, and then add more as required. Heating will be accomplished with the Kerrobert Rail Terminal, we took the scale-at-hub approach. We feel that glycol heating and a natural gas heating plant.

Kerrobert is strategic in that it allows maximum diversity and flexibility for “Heavy, undiluted crude comes in at a heated temperature, i.e. 70 C. We crude-by-rail out of Western Canada. It is as far south and east geographically are essentially maintaining that heat.” in Canada that allows us to not only access vast amounts of pipeline delivered Heavy oil, generally speaking, does not flow well unless either heated crude oil, but also it allows us to access significant quantities of heavy, undiluted crudes in the Lloydminster-Kerrobert corridor. Kerrobert, Saskatchewan, or diluted. Since it is impossible to heat long-distance pipelines, heavy oil is traditionally diluted with copious amounts of diluent. That diluent is essentially is geographically as close to the heavy crude’s natural destination markets as dead space in the shipment – if first must be purchased, then added to the possible by rail, minimizing transportation costs relative to similar crude types shipment. It takes up room in the shipment, then is must be removed at the to be shipped by rail originating further north and west in Alberta. Our estidestination, often to be shipped back. The practice is so commonplace, “dilbit,” mation is that the Kerrobert Rail Terminal could offer transportation savings to the U.S. Gulf Coast and East Coast upwards of $5 per barrel compared with or diluted bitumen, is the key product out of the Canadian oilsands.

Removing the need for diluting heavy oil shipments goes a long way in shipping similar crudes by rail out of certain locations in Alberta.”

TORQ’s business case. By heating the oil and shipping it in cars that can then Zielinski spoke with Pipeline News on Aug. 14 by phone, detailing the be heated at the other end of the journey, oil companies don’t need to buy diluproject. ent, nor do they need to ship it back and forth in a never-ending cycle.

Unit train loading “Much of the impact can be made up by unit train capacity. Several dollars TORQ has three quarters of land either purchased or optioned next to per barrel saving can be achieved by unit train economies of scale. those terminals. They intend on building both a loop track and “ladder tracks,” ɸ Page A9 (straight portions of track) for train movement.

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Canadian Pacific Railway is investigating the cause of a derailment of seven cars carrying crude oil in Lloydminster.

The accident happened north of 52 Street at 40 Avenue around 5 p.m. on July 26 when a CP train was moving cars in the Lloydminster yard There were no injuries or public safety risks and no leaks of oil from any of the derailed cars. The incident also included a locomotive, which lost some diesel fuel. However, the fuel was contained around the engine and was removed.  CP spokesperson Ed Greeberg said the impacted cars were up righted over the weekend and the product transferred. The cars were then moved back into the yard by Monday.  An investigation is underway to determine the cause and what lead to the cause.Â

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:DOO EXOOLVK RQ (QHUJ\ (DVW Â&#x201E; By Geoff Lee Pipeline News Regina â&#x20AC;&#x201C; TransCanada Corporationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposed $12 billion Energy East pipeline could be the first major pipeline project forwarded in recent years to carry oil produced in Saskatchewan.

TransCanada is pursuing regulatory approvals to construct and operate Energy East pipeline and terminal facilities in early 2014.

Premier Brad Wall said Energy East will add more potential pipeline capacity to TransCanadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposed Keystone XL and Enbridgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Northern Gateway projects and deliver a range of direct economic benefits to the province. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is important to us for a number of reasons,â&#x20AC;? said Wall during an Aug. 1 news conference in Regina on his reaction to the Energy East project moving ahead. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You heard our government, you heard me speak out about Keystone, and speak out about gateway. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve supported both pipelines. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Actually, there would be little likelihood of Saskatchewan oil in either of those pipelines, but we supported them because we need to move western Canadian oil to tidewater.â&#x20AC;?

Wall said Energy East will help solve that problem and generate more revenue for Saskatchewan producers and the province by getting better prices for oil produced in the province.

He said the differential between world Brent pricing and West Texas Intermediate that Western Canadian producers get, deprived the province of about $300 million in revenue in last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget.

Wall said the lower price for Saskatchewan oil also costs the industry billions of dollars that could be reinvested in the economy.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;So it was a big deal even without Saskatchewan oil in the pipeline â&#x20AC;&#x201C; so this in an even bigger deal with the TransCanada announcement today because there is every expectation our producers and going to be able to tie into the pipeline,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Additionally, there will be some investments in southeast Saskatchewan in terms of terminal capacity, so there is direct economic activity.â&#x20AC;?

The Energy East pipeline will have a capacity of approximately 1.1 million barrels of day of crude oil and is anticipated to be in service by late-2017 for deliveries in QuĂŠbec and 2018 for deliveries to New Brunswick.

TransCanada based its decision to go forward after securing 900,000 bpd of pipeline supply in long term contract commitments. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is an historic opportunity to connect the oil resources of Western Canada to the consumers of Eastern Canada, creating jobs, tax revenue and energy security for all Canadians for decades to come,â&#x20AC;? said TransCanada president, Russ Girling.

The project involves converting nearly 3,000 kilometres of TransCanadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s existing Canadian Mainline to crude oil service and constructing approximately 1,400 kilometres of new pipeline.

The project also calls for the construction of a new terminal and a pipeline connecting the Moosomin compressor station in Saskatchewan with Cromer, Manitoba.

There would also be a tank farm built near Moosomin to store crude oil destined for the pipeline. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In terms of direct impact, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to see jobs in Saskatchewan as they build these terminals to accommodate the moving of more Saskatchewan oil to the east coast,â&#x20AC;? said Wall. ɸ Page A10

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By Brian Zinchuk Rocanville – Many people might think Bakken formation development is new to Saskatchewan, but in the Rocanville area, it’s a very old story. Some of the first Bakken wells in Saskatchewan were drilled there, with well licences south of the town going back as far as 1959.

Some of those wells are still producing. But with the very large Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan mine just a few miles northeast of Rocanville, further drilling nearby has stopped.

It turns out oil and potash development don’t mix.

With the potential of an oil well disturbing the integrity

of the mine, possibly leading to flooding, both the lives of the miners and the existence of the mine itself would be at risk.

It was with this in mind that the NDP provincial government under Roy Romanow in the mid-1990s set up a substantial drilling exclusion area around the Rocanville mine. Now, some 18 years on, freehold mineral rights owners are seeking compensation, and the NDP, now in opposition, has taken up their cause.

Deputy leader Trent Wotherspoon spoke to Pipeline News on Aug. 12 about their take on the matter.

“You have mineral rights holders (whose) ability to seek compensation out of

their mineral rights is in limbo. They can’t get any return on those mineral rights that they are holding. This is a circumstance that needs to be addressed.

“Government has broken a promise,” Wotherspoon said. “It’s particularly shameful that the Sask. Party went out on the eve of the 2007 election and made very straightforward promises and commitments to mineral rights holders that they would resolve this. Here we are, six years later, with no meaningful action from government.

“We’re calling for a timely response from government to bring the parties together and find a fair solution that respects the mineral rights

holders that are affected.

Welding and machine shop owner Scott Norton is with the Rocanville Potash Restricted Drilling Area committee, which was first formed in 2007. There are approximately 190 people in the no-drill zone, and about half of those have contributed membership dues to the committee, according to Norton.

“Back in ’95-’96 the NDP passed a law saying there couldn’t be any exploration within a certain area,” he said. “That rendered our oil and gas rights useless.”

The area covers approximately 107,000 acres, he said.

The Ministry of Energy and Resource’s infomap of Saskatchewan wells shows a number of wells drilled in the area at the time.

At the time, Norton and his wife were in the process of having oil developed on their land. “I came within six months of collecting royalties on oil,” he said.

“I leased my mineral rights in 2005. There was a well on an adjoining quarter,” he said.

The oil company had six months to drill a well on his land or pay royalties, he said.

That neighbouring well ended up being capped.

Norton is one of a number of rights holders who are receiving potash royalties. They started coming in roughly 2010 or 2011, he said. Asked if seeking compensation for both was double dipping, he said, “Because we’re getting one thing shouldn’t trump another. Potash shouldn’t trump oil and gas.”

He recognizes that no one wants to flood the mine, but asked, “Why not lease the mineral rights for oil as well? ɸ Page A11

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TORC management has extensive experience in southeast Saskatchewan and anticipates a smooth operational integration. TORC’s second half 2013 capital expenditure program includes the drilling of an estimated five (four net) development wells. In addition to the significant identified undrilled development drilling inventory, management believes that numerous opportunities exist on the acquired assets to further manage decline rates and maximize free cash flow from these assets.

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(QHUJ\ (DVW LV 7UDQV&DQDGD·V ELJ SOD\ DW QDWLRQ EXLOGLQJ Seldom in the Canadian media do you see such overwhelming support for a mega project, yet that is exactly what occurred when TransCanada announced they have enough support to go ahead with the Energy East project. Nearly all the talking heads spoke of how using Canadian oil to supply Canadian refineries is nation-building at its finest.

With Energy East, TransCanada is taking a page out of its existing playbook. Several years ago it took one of its existing mainline pipelines that has been used to transport gas for five decades, and repurposed it to transport oil. It became the original Keystone pipeline. Now, with gas prices bottomed out for several years and the remainder of its gas mainline pipes running at a fraction of their capacity, the intention is to convert another gas line to oil use.

By extending the system to Quebec and New Brunswick, Canadian refineries will be able to purchase Canadian oil. With 1.1 million barrels per day committed to the project, it will almost certainly displace the 700,000 barrels per day of oil Eastern Canada imports. With a deepwater export port being built at St. John, a substantial volume of Western Canadian oil, beyond what is already shipped out of Vancouver via the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain line, will have the ability to reach tidewater.

Producers will have access to higher priced markets, and Canadian refiners will have access to lowerpriced oil. We’re not exactly sure how that works, but both seem to like the idea.

Once completed, Canada will become essentially

energy self-sufficient. No matter what happens in the Middle East, you will still be able to fill up your tank in Fredericton. Strategically, this is a huge plus.

We will also be less beholden to the American markets. Instead of sending nearly all our exports to the U.S., with no other options, we can sell it elsewhere to the highest bidder. So long Cushing glut.

In the meantime, the industry is finding its way around the Keystone XL holdup. We were astonished this month to add up the numbers and realize that Saskatchewan is on track (pun intended) to have more crude-by-rail capacity than its entire oil production within about a year.

That is assuming that all the current crude-byrail facilities stay in operation, and that the new ones recently announced are carried out particularly at Kerrobert, Northgate and Lashburn. If they are all built, it means Saskatchewan will theoretically have the capacity to ship by rail every drop of oil it produces, with enough spare capacity to take care of the equivalent of most of another Bakken boom. We’re not sure how Enbridge is going to feel about that, or how they will respond.

With TransCanada planning on a 16-inch line from Cromer to feed its planned Moosomin terminal as part of the Energy East project, Saskatchewan may soon go from one export option of a few years ago – the Enbridge mainline, to several – Enbridge, rail and TransCanada. That will be the biggest shakeup in our export capability since Enbridge, under its former name of Interprovincial Pipe Line, got rolling over 60 years ago.

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In a New York Times interview published July 27, Obama said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Republicans have said that this would be a big jobs generator. There is no evidence that thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true. And my hope would be that any reporter who is looking at the facts would take the time to confirm that the most realistic estimates are this might create maybe 2,000 jobs during the construction of the pipeline â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which might take a year or two â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and then after that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking about somewhere between 50 and 100 [chuckles] jobs in an economy of 150 million working people.â&#x20AC;?

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s look at this for a second. In 1999-2000, I worked on building the Alliance Pipeline, a project very similar in scope and scale to the Keystone XL. I worked on a spread of about 600, when you added contractor, sub-contractor and Alliance personnel.

There were three spreads working on the project in Canada, and several more in the U.S. This does not count all the work that went into manufacturing the pipe (tying up then-Ipscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s production for well over a year), coating it and transporting it. Then there was the supply and building the heavy equipment (mostly Caterpillar) and trucks (Peterbilt, Kenworth, Western Star, etc.) used in the project. Nor does it count the full hotels and restaurants, the campers and trucks to

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The car carrying my father and other relatives were well ahead of us as we had stopped to attend to the baby a number of times. I approached the line of stopped vehicles and stopped as well. It was then that I realized that it was not road construction that had us stopped.

A livestock transport truck was parked facing me on the shoulder of the opposite lane with a horse trailer parked on a 45 degree angle to it on an approach. Looking ahead of the stopped traffic, I could see a police vehicle and an ambulance in the shoulder of our lane. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is not good,â&#x20AC;? I spoke under my breath to my daughter.

And it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. As the line of vehicles was allowed to move, I soon saw the cause of the obstruction. A

pull them that were purchased by the workers.

How could you spend $5 billion on Alliance and not create jobs? How can you spend $7 billion on Keystone XL and not do the same?

So far we are just talking about the construction of the project, not the 13 years hence of gas drilling and production in Canada, accompanied with its end use at Aux Sable near Chicago. One does not simply receive up to 5,350 mmcf of liquids-rich natural gas each day and do nothing with it.

Interestingly enough, Alliance is now in the process of adding a North Dakota lateral to receive gas that is otherwise being wastefully flared â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a direct benefit to the U.S. This is similar in concept to the North Dakota/Montana on-ramp that was added to the Keystone XL project â&#x20AC;&#x201C; allowing American production to make use of a line that was originally only intended for transporting Canadian production.

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s get back to Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chuckling about â&#x20AC;&#x153;50 to 100 jobs in an economy of 150 million working people.â&#x20AC;? Keystone XL is slated to carry about 0.9 per cent of global oil production each day. What do you do with it at the other end? Just let it sit there? Collect in tanks?

It takes thousands of people to process, and then use, all that oil, everything from the refinery engineer along the Gulf Coast to the gas jockey in Arkansas who pumps it into your tank. One could say those jobs will exist no matter where the oil comes from, but the

fact is the oil has to come from somewhere.

And while Americans might not count Canadian jobs created, they should. Nearly each and every worker on the project, in the oilsands where most of the oil comes from, or the American Bakken where the balance of the oil will originate, drives a truck.

Because the jobs pay well and are demanding, those trucks are almost all newer, more expensive versions.

Thousands upon thousands of Fords, Chevies, Dodges, and even the odd Toyota are purchased by workers or companies in the oilpatch. All of those trucks were built in North America, mostly in the U.S. Do the auto workers count in the job numbers?

So will Keystone XL create 50 jobs, or 40,000?

Depending on how you define it, the answer is somewhere in the middle to higher end. It most certainly is not 50.

The point appears moot, however. Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s July 27 comments are the clearest indication he will kill the project. We, as Canadians, must move forward on Enbridgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Northern Gateway, Kinder Morganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s TransMountain Expansion, and TransCanadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Energy East projects. The only jobs Obama is going to allow Keystone XL to create is in studying and opposing it.

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

&URWFKHV NLOO ² UHDOO\ WKH\ GR livestock transport trailer and semi were turned over in the ditch. But the next sight stopped my breath completely. Pig bodies were heaped up in a huge mound by the side of the road, their motionless bodies a pale contrast to the ditch now dark with churned up mud and earth.

Later, at my relativesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; house in Regina, where we caught up to the rest of the family and where we were all spending the night, we spoke of the tragedy. My aunt wondered aloud how the accident had happened.

None of us had seen any other vehicles other than the semi and trailer. She then theorized that the driver must have fallen asleep.

I nearly choked on my tea. Seriously? She actually thought that?

However, I remembered that while commercial truck operators must now comply with the National Safety Code and provincial regulations that include driver, vehicle and operational related safety regulations, it perhaps wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always that way. Some truck drivers did likely drive many more hours than were safe to do so in the past and got into trouble as a result. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hardly think so,â&#x20AC;? I replied to my aunt. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was more likely something distracted the driver. Either he was distracted or something else caused trouble for the driver of the semi unit by their distracted driving!â&#x20AC;?

Statistics back me up. Despite education and legislation, the number of fatal collisions where distraction is cited as a cause have risen 17 per cent in Canada during the five year period 2006-2010 according to numbers from Transport Canada.

CBC News reported that studies estimate that 30 to 80 per cent of collisions are due to distracted driving. Distracted driving includes eating, drinking, grooming, and reading while operating a vehicle, but cellphone use is widely accepted as the important contributor to this percentage. Saskatchewanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s SGI recently released their statistics for the most recent year, and in 2012, distracted driving became the number one cause of fatal collisions in our province for the

first time.

For years and years, the number one cause of fatal collisions in Saskatchewan was the impaired driver, and as a result there sprang up educational programs, police blitzes, safety commercials and fines to deter this behaviour. It would appear that we need a shift in mentality regarding cellphone use while driving, similar to the shift we needed to make regarding driving while impaired.

If we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, our governments will help us to make this shift with education and deterrents. Currently, Saskatchewan has the largest fine at $280 for cellphone use with four demerit points while operating a vehicle, among the stiffest penalties in the country but increases to this fine are possible to deter behaviour.

MLA Darryl Hickie, chair of the provincial traffic safety advisory committee, wants us to keep in mind that our behavior of answering phones and texts while driving ultimately impacts our families. Saskatchewan is looking at suspending licences for distracted drivers.

That would definitely impact our oil and gas businesses, in addition to our families.

The Alberta government campaign earlier this year used humour to get the difficult message out. This campaign used a succession of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Crotches killâ&#x20AC;? posters picturing smiling drivers staring into their laps, their faces lit by the blue glow of their cellphones. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing down there,â&#x20AC;? the poster read.

In recognition of the National Trucking Week September 1-7 celebrating the 28,000 people employed by the trucking industry in Saskatchewan, which is 5 per cent of our labour force, and the fact that 95 per cent of the goods moved in Saskatchewan depend on trucks, let us all commit to driving undistracted. We will all be safer for 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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A perfect example is the major 45-day major maintenance turnaround at the Lloydminster Husky Upgrader taking place in September and early October.

A plant turnaround like Husky’s is typically the most significant portion of a plant’s yearly maintenance budget because of the loss of production and the expense that is incurred.

The big fall turnaround at the upgrader comes on the heels of a 25-day turnaround this past spring at the Husky asphalt refinery.

Some of the services required at a refinery turnaround include boiler repairs and erection, heat exchanger repairs and custom tube bending.

The positive impacts of turnarounds are an increase in equipment asset reliability, continued production integrity, and a reduction in the risk of unscheduled outages or catastrophic failure.

The Lloydminster upgrader was built in 1992 and converts heavy oil into Husky synthetic blend, ultralow-sulphur diesel, and diluents.

It has a lot of parts and operating units that need a regular overhaul in order to maintain safe and efficient operations.

In 2010, Husky conducted is largest fall turnaround in the history of the upgrader, involving more than 2,000 employees and contractors.

“It’s a major, major piece of our community so in terms of people coming, it’s going to put some pressure on in some places, but it’s great for restaurants and great for the city,” said Lloydminster Mayor Jeff Mulligan in 2010.

The economic impact of that turnaround was highly visible as it took place during the 2010 heavy oil show in the city as there were no vacancy signs in motels and hotels for miles around.

It was like a cruise ship had come to dock, bringing wealthy tourists to spend money.

This year’s turnaround is not quite that large but all the hotels, room rentals and restaurants will experience another boom at a time of the season that is traditionally the shoulder season for the hospitality industry.

Turnarounds are a boon for safety companies and suppliers and companies providing on site services from crane and equipment rentals to piping fabrication and repairs.

There is also demand for a wide range of specialized services such as welding, bolting, cold cutting and flange facing to name just a few.

Turnarounds provide high pay work for electricians, millwright, insulators, pipefitters, ironworkers, carpenters, sheet metal workers and labourers among others.

The downside is an increase in traffic and noise, but those are signs of prosperity that most residents can accept for a few weeks each year.

Plant turnarounds are also a continuous planning process for companies like Husky, with multiple turnaround assets to maintain.

Planning includes such things as naming a turnaround manager to preparing an initial budget cost estimate, determining the work breakdown schedule, and the cost control structures.

The project management also requires an organizational breakdown structure, support plans and a finalized detailed schedule, detailed cost estimates, and plant shutdown dates.

A turnaround also requires a follow-up evaluation, completion of reports, documents and debriefing meetings.

The work doesn’t end with the turnaround as the next turnaround cycle takes effect.

A well functioning upgrader is another strong sign of the positive economic impact that the oil and gas industry has on Lloydminster.

In April 2013, the upgrader shipped its 500 millionth barrel of finished product.

That likely wouldn’t have happened without these regular well planned turnarounds that also help to maintain the economy of the entire community.

It’s an impact that everyone can credit to their own bottom line.

$UH <RX &RYHUHG" %\ +DUOH\ 0F&RUPLFN %RLOHU LQVXUDQFH ZKHQ \RX GRQ·W KDYH D ERLOHU" <XS With the focus of this month’s paper being general oilfield maintenance, I felt like an introduction to an undersold and not well understood coverage would be appropriate. Equipment breakdown (or boiler and machinery) insurance provides coverage for the accidental breakdown of equipment. This type of coverage is different from property/casualty insurance for businesses.

For example, your property coverage would cover property damage in the event of a fire. Your casualty insurance would cover your business if someone tripped in your office or factory. But what would cover your expensive production equipment, or computer hardware should it become damaged?

Here’s an example: everything is going fine with your business. Then a storm blows through and knocks out the power; your production and computer systems all shut down. On start-up, a power surge courses through your electrical system and fries the circuitry in two pieces of production equipment and cooks the motherboard in three of your desktop computers.

You call your broker and find that you had purchased equipment breakdown coverage. You are told: “Property/casualty policies only cover damages to your equipment from ‘external’ causes, such as a fire, a flood, hail, or windstorm. Property/casualty policies do not cover damage from ‘internal’ causes such as mechanical failure of the equipment, electrical short circuit, motor burnout, centrifugal force, a boiler overheating or cracking, and mechanical breakdown. Coverage for these types of losses requires a ‘Boiler and Machinery’ insurance policy.”

You may not be a manufacturer, or even have a boiler in your building; however equipment breakdown insurance is still a critical component of all small business insurance packages.

For example, breakdown coverage not only provides protection for electrical system failures, but it also provides coverage for air conditioning and refrigeration systems, telecommunications, mechanical equipment, security and fire detection systems, diagnostic equipment, inventory control systems, fired hot water

heaters and boilers.

Today, more than ever, office systems, as well as production equipment, contain fragile electronic components that are subject to more frequent and more costly breakdowns than traditional mechanical equipment. The speed of business (online, “just-in-time” delivery) makes any downtime at all a critical issue.

Computerization means that you and your staff are more often than ever working off-site, and should the mobile equipment that you use break down or be stolen, you need a fix or replacement fast.

Some of the questions I get asked include the following: Does equipment breakdown insurance cover me if my software gets a virus?

No. Equipment or mechanical breakdown insurance policies are for “hardware” insurance, and is not “software” insurance. That means that if your production equipment or computers suffer some sort of physical damage, equipment breakdown insurance covers that.

However, if your production equipment’s computer modules, or your desktop computers become inoperable due to software problems, such as “bugs” or “viruses,” these situations are not covered by your equipment insurance policy.

This type of loss usually requires a different type of coverage, such as cyber insurance. Cyber insurance also goes by the names of: e-commerce, e-business, or a variety of other names.

My production equipment is covered by warranties and service contracts. Why do I need equipment breakdown insurance?

Although warranties and service contracts provide some protection, they do not cover many of the common causes of equipment breakdowns. For example, typical maintenance contracts cover routine service such as periodic calibrations and other adjustments, and possibly cleaning, etc. However, such contracts do not pay for damages due to operator error, for example.

Your equipment breakdown policy does cover such

losses. Likewise, warranties and maintenance contracts do not pay for loss of income that results from equipment breakdown; nor do they pay for spoilage, damage to surrounding property or extra expenses to restore operations. Buying equipment breakdown insurance is critical as it covers all of these risks.

I don’t own the building, so why do I still need equipment breakdown coverage?

As a tenant you may not be responsible for the building’s electrical, air conditioning or heating systems, but it is important to check your lease to be sure you are not responsible for the equipment that services your premises. If you are not responsible for these systems, your business operations and income are still dependent upon equipment of others. If the electrical, heating or cooling system of your landlord broke down, the interruption of those services can impact you. So, getting the right equipment breakdown coverage is essential to protect you even in contingencies like this.

How much boiler and machinery insurance should I buy?

Each business is unique and so your equipment breakdown insurance should be tailored to your precise needs. For example, if the destructive potential of some of your equipment is low, (contrast this with equipment such as boilers, pressure vessels and some water heaters, which can produce enough power to damage huge sections of the building), then less coverage would be needed.

As always, review all your risk exposures carefully and consult your insurance broker to determine if optional insurance protection is available to meet your needs.

Harley McCormick is a Virden, Man. based insurance broker with 10 years in the industry. He can be reached at hmccormickfca@mymts.net.

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Back in Kerrobert, up to 200 jobs are expected to be created during construction. Once complete, Zielinski said about 50 full- and part-time jobs will

be created. In order to handle all the additional bodies during construction, he said they will be building a camp on site.

The project is expected to cost approximately $100 million for its first phase, and the full build-out will bring that figure up to $115 to $120 million. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are privately funded, and intend to stay that way,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Goulet Trucking of Dollard (near Shaunavon) is a sister company, and will provide some of the trucking into the terminal.

Zielinski expects that at most, half of the oil shipped through the Kerrobert Rail Terminal will orginate in Alberta. The majority will be Saskatchewan oil. Initially oil will be trucked in, but eventually a substantial amount will come to the terminal via pipeline. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dirt is being moved in the fall and it will be completed as soon as we can next spring,â&#x20AC;? he said. Operations are expected to begin around September or October 2014.

:LWK SULFH GLIIHUHQWLDOV VKULQNLQJ ZLOO FUXGH E\ UDLO FRQWLQXH" Crude-by-rail saw a phenomenal rise to pipeline constraints and substantial discounts in landlocked oil in North America. In recent months, however, that differential has greatly shrunk. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Many of our customers had locked up long term deals. We saw our spot business reduced. Our spot business represents a very small portion of our business. We saw a small reduction on volumes being shipped. But as we look at forward pricing, September onward, that spot business is coming back. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as if the industry took a small breather and is back on track, from our perspective.â&#x20AC;?

Differentials are driven by several temporary items, one being the Syncrude turnaround. But Zielinski, added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Without crude-by-rail, pipeline apportionment would go back to record levels.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Crude-by-rail is having the effect itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s supposed to. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s helping clear the market. Crude differentials are going to find that happy medium.

The differentials are the tightest theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been in 12 months, or more, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re already seeing partial apportionment on the Enbridge system. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a coincidence.â&#x20AC;?

Crude-by-rail has been referred to by many in the industry as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;relief valve.â&#x20AC;?

Zielinski said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would support that theory.â&#x20AC;?

As for other new, large loading facilities, Zielinski said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of facilities are being considered right now. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think they all have merit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We take a slightly different approach. We are building a large-scale facility in Saskatchewan. It will be pipeline connected, at a Saskatchewan hub. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will have access to heavy, undiluted barrels, too. The general consensus of the longevity of crude-by-rail is diluent avoidance. What we havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t heard today is important. Is anybody building an undiluted crude terminal? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing.â&#x20AC;?

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Wall said Eastern Canada imports approximately 700,000 bpd of higher priced oil from the Middle East due to lack of pipeline capacity serving Canadians.

He noted that until recently that price was as much as $11 per barrel higher than the price of our own oil produced in Western Canada. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That is going to change. It will certainly help this in the long term and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good for the rest of Canada because they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to buy oil that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Canadian and is at a higher price,â&#x20AC;? said Wall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was down in March in Wash-

ington and lobbying for Keystone because, even though it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have Saskatchewan oil, for the reasons I just mentioned, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to us as well from a price standpoint.â&#x20AC;?

TransCanadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Girling also contends that Energy East is just one solution for transporting crude oil and industry in relying on additional pipelines such as Keystone XL to transport growing supplies of Canadian and U.S. oil to markets. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Both pipelines are required to meet the need for safe and reliable pipeline infrastructure and are underpinned with binding, long-term agreements,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Wall said it is also important for Canada to act like it is a national and international energy player and develop our own energy transportation infrastructure. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What we meant by that, is we

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need to move oil across our country and be proud of the fact we are an emerging energy power, and act like it, in terms of getting oil from where we produce it to tidewater,â&#x20AC;? he explained.

Alberta premier Alison Redford also threw her support behind TransCanadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plans to proceed with the Energy East pipeline to Quebec and New Brunswick refineries. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am very pleased with todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s announcement that Energy East is moving forward,â&#x20AC;? said Redford on Aug. 1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My government made a commitment to the project as part of our efforts to build new markets and get a fairer price for the oil resources Albertans own. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is truly a nation-building project that will diversify our economy and create new jobs here in Alberta and across the country.â&#x20AC;?

Wall told the media his government has been very supportive of Albertaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and New Brunswickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts to back Energy East. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I also want to express support for premier Pauline Marois in Quebec because they play a role in this, and they have also, I think, been very constructive in this particular pipeline,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Marois, however, has since stated that she promises to â&#x20AC;&#x153;consultâ&#x20AC;?

Quebeckers on economic, safety and environmental issues pertaining to Energy East. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a role in terms of the environment, in terms of safety, provincially and federally, and we take that role very seriously,â&#x20AC;? said Wall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pipelines of course, are one of the safest ways â&#x20AC;&#x201C; many would argue the safest way to transport oil, but not without risks.â&#x20AC;?

Girling said Energy East will be â&#x20AC;&#x153;designed and operated with a singular focus on safety,â&#x20AC;? given the public awareness about pipeline safety during the ongoing review process for Keystone XL. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a TransCanada pipeline company that has an excellent track record. The alternative is increased reliance on rail,â&#x20AC;? said Wall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are doing more rail in Saskatchewan and it certainly can be done safely. It is been done safely, but many would argue that transporting through pipelines is as safe as you can find. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll work with the company through our respective ministries.

The feds will makes sure that TransCanada pipeline continues to do what they have done as an operator which is to operate at an optimal level in terms of safety and environmental awareness,â&#x20AC;? Wall concluded.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re drilling all around us. They canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t drill because of the buffer zone,â&#x20AC;? he said, adding some oil wells in the area were shut down in the 1990s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to drill here and cause trouble for the mine,â&#x20AC;?

Johnston said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all have friends and relatives working there. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to drill. You just have to compensate us. â&#x20AC;?

Just prior to the 2007 election, the group were told by Brad Wall, who was running for premier at the time, that their concerns would be addressed.

Norton said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We tried to negotiate with the government in 2008 and 2009 and got absolutely nowhere. They told us to go to court.â&#x20AC;?

The group hired Regina lawyer Tony Merchant, who specializes in class-action lawsuits. His successful cases include Indian residential schools and the 2001 North Battleford water crisis.

However, Merchant found they couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sue for compensation, so Norton said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We fired him last spring.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s retarded. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

you determine that if you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t drill for oil in the first place? Seismic surveys show where there is the potential for oil, but as anyone in the industry knows, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lots of potential for dry holes, too.

In 2008, T-45 Oil Corp., a small startup company drilled a well right in the heart of the Bakken near Kisbey.

While there was oil all around it, their well proved uneconomic. ɸ Page A12

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Éş Page A5 He added that in the coal area around Estevan, they have oil wells in areas that have surface mines. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not trying to harm anybody or get rid of the no drill zone, but pay us something.â&#x20AC;?

Back in 1996, he said mineral rights for oil were running around $10 per acre, and now are $25 per acre.

He noted that royalty rates are 2.4 per cent for potash, a fraction of what oil royalties currently run at.

Norton said the group is seeking a straight lease of $10 per acre per year, starting retroactively in 1996 and indexed from there, â&#x20AC;&#x153;until they lift the no drill zone.â&#x20AC;?

Allan Johnston is a grain broker north of Welwyn. He and his wife have land in the Welwyn area. They have freehold mineral rights on five quarters of land, but no oil wells on it and, as of yet, no potash mined under it. Due to flooding issues between his property and the existing mine, he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect any potash development on his land for a long time, if ever.

One of the potential issues with providing compensation to freehold mineral rights owners for oil development that never happened in one area is that the government could then be flooded with similar requests throughout the province. Then there is the issue of how much oil is actually in the ground within the no drilling area. Is there actually oil under all 107,000 acres? And how would

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He added that beyond the mineral rights, landowners also are foregoing surface lease revenues.

Both Norton and Johnston said oil was encountered in digging the initial mine shaft, as well as the most recent one.

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There would need to be evidence brought to bear in seeking compensation,

he said, adding, â&#x20AC;&#x153;There has to be a better solution.â&#x20AC;?

Norton said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anybody in a no-drill zone should get compensation.â&#x20AC;?

He added there arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t many freehold mineral rights holders in other areas of the province with potash development.

Minister responds Minister responsible for Energy and Resources Tim McMillan spoke with Pipeline News on Aug. 15 regarding the PRDAaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concerns. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our position is this prohibition on drilling was put in place about 20 years ago for safety. When thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s individuals underground, having a water leak is one of the biggest safety issues.â&#x20AC;?

At that point, there certainly were some loose ends not tied up. Now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20 years later, and issue is still an active one.

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Even though the group says they no longer have a lawyer, McMillan stressed, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is before the courts still. Where they are as individuals, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t speak to. But we have checked â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is it before the courts? And the answer is yes.â&#x20AC;?

Asked if there were instructions given to â&#x20AC;&#x153;sue us,â&#x20AC;? McMillan said he had no knowledge of that. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know how incredibly careful officials are in giving legal advice. I would find it doubtful they would. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The courts are the ultimate arbiter of property rights. I know Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m giving vague answers, but when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s before the courts, anything specific is off the table.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I will not minimize this as an issue or the importance of it. The individuals affected asked for and received a meeting with our officials recently on a without prejudice basis. That was a meeting recently where they could talk freely in a structured environment.â&#x20AC;?

He said that meeting took place within the last year, but he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sure exactly when.

Asked about cases where freehold rights owners would like to get paid for both potash and oil royalties, McMillan said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it comes back to a certain amount of property rights and the law.

In legal terms, the issue put forward does matter.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not a lawyer on how that is balanced out, but I think there is precedent in British common law. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the type of thing that is very complex.

All of those issues are part of this conversation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is something we have resources in the ministry working on today, trying to find out who has what rights, who has multiple rights, what the legal ramifications of all these scenarios are. It is very complex and there are substantially different groups whose rights would potentially be in different positions. That work is ongoing, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about as far as I can go. â&#x20AC;˘ Boom & Knuckle Pickers â&#x20AC;&#x153;We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t control the court process or the speed â&#x20AC;˘15-50 Ton/165â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Reach it will go forward.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;˘ Winch Tractor c/w Lo-Boys â&#x20AC;&#x153;There may be possibilities of moving some â&#x20AC;˘ Tandem & Tri-axle Trailers pieces forward and not others, but I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want â&#x20AC;˘ Tank Cradles c/w Hydraulic Arm to get ahead of where we are as a government â&#x20AC;˘ Pilot Trucks trying to act responsibly with a complicated issue â&#x20AC;˘ Double Man Basket thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been in place for a long period of time.

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By Brian Zinchuk Estevan – Saskatchewan is undergoing a phenomenal build-out of crude-by-rail capacity, so much so that if it all gets built, this province theoretically would no longer need pipelines. There would be enough crude-by-rail capacity to ship every drop of Saskatchewan-produced oil in rail tanker cars, and then some.

TORQ Transloading is seeking to position itself as the largest, by far, transloading operator in the province. The company already has transloading facilities throughout the province. Instow, near Shaunavon, has a facility with an 18,000 barrels per day capacity, of which about 5,000 to 6,000 is currently used. Southall, near Bromhead, has a capacity of 19,500 bpd and is using around 5,000 bpd. Lloydminster is running closer to its 25,000 bpd capacity, running at about 18,000 to 19,000 bpd. Unity currently has a 26,000 bpd capacity and is running at about 13,000 bpd, but that facility will soon be bumped up to 40,000 to 50,000 bpd, with 120 car unit train loading capacity. Combined, that totals 131,500 barrels per day capacity.

Now add in the 168,000 bpd maximum capacity of the Kerrobert Rail Terminal that is set to begin construction very soon. That brings TORQ’s capability to ship crude by rail to 280,500 bpd by roughly this time next year.

Put into perspective, Saskatchewan’s oil production has recently been running around the 475,000 barrels per day mark, after spending much of the last decade hovering around 425,000 barrel per day.

If TORQ builds out all of its announced planned facilities to full capability, they alone could theoretically ship 59.1 per cent of Saskatchewan’s oil production.

But wait! There’s more! Ceres Global Ag. Is currently building its own Northgate Hub, which, if built to full planned capacity, will be able to handle 70,000 bpd as well as unit trains.

Crescent Point Energy has its own loading facilities in Stoughton. At 45,000 bpd capacity, it is currently the largest operating facility in the province. They also have one at Dollard (near Shaunavon), which is being expanded to 12,000 bpd, with an additional 120,000 barrels of storage in the works. After being stung by pipeline apportionments and shutdowns, the company has adopted crude-by-rail in a big way. ɸ Page A14

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30 cars now, so that may be higher. The Bienfait transloading facilty was recently expanded, but generally speaking only a few tanker cars are seen there at any particular time.

CPR was loading crude-by-rail in Estevan, but that seems to have diminished as the trucking company that had been doing that run hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hauled a load into Estevan in months. In January 2012 they had a capability of roughly 9,000 bpd.

Arrow Reload Systems loaded their first cars in Kerrobert last January. With a capability of loading 10 cars per day, they can handle 6,000 bpd.

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When you consider the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bakken boomâ&#x20AC;? added roughly 70,000 bpd in production, that 56,500 bpd in additional capacity is enough to handle another boom of similar size.

Three years ago, there was effectively no crude-by-rail in Saskatchewan.

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The Royal Canadian Air Force at 4 Wing Cold Lake conducts live fire training exercises on the range so access and movement within CLAWR is strictly controlled.

Reporters, who took part in an Aug. 8 tour of Canadian Natural Resourcesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Primrose oilsands sites where bitumen is leaking to the surface, were advised not to photograph the security gates.

Range control projects co-ordinator and military liaison Brad Williamson from Cenovus Energy explained access and policy issues during an orientation at CNRLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wolf Lake administration office, located 55 kilometres north of Bonnyville.

Williamson is a member of the Cenovus Range Control Safety and Coordination Team that is charged with the responsibility of granting access to all people involved in oil and gas activities on CLAWR. ɸ Page A16

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Éş Page A15 â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a range control officer, what we do is ensure that the military and the oil and gas industry remain separate,â&#x20AC;? said Williamson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We also control the access for the oil and gas industry get-

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ting onto the range and making sure that everyone that is on the military range is accounted for working for the oil and gas industry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every single person who goes onto the range must have an orientation prior to going on the range so they are aware of all the hazards and all the boundaries that are required to keep them safe.â&#x20AC;?

Williamson said contrary to popular belief, the Air Force is not dropping any weapons near oil and gas operations or facilities within CLAWR. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are well defined and well separated and the two do not mix at all,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Cenovus and CNRL are the largest oil and gas companies in the area, along with pipelines owned and operated by Enbridge and TransCanada Corporation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are very proud of our safety record.

We keep everyone very safe,â&#x20AC;? said Williamson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All the people on the range are aware of the hazards that go with working on a military range. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For the most part, they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see very much of the military because we do a good job of keeping them separated.â&#x20AC;?

Major Craig Ekstrom, a deputy wing operations officer and an F-18 pilot who flies sorties on the range, said the military target area is well-defined

from the oilfield. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The area is separated. We â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;deconflictâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; on a daily and weekly basis to make sure that the targets that we are going to drop on through CLAWR control â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re aware and they keep the oil and gas workers away,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Ekstrom, whose call sign in the air is Ekky, said the weapons that are dropped are inert with no explosives in them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have cement that simulates the large Mark 80 series bombs,â&#x20AC;? he explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We also have small modular bombs that are steel and contain a little smoke charge so that we can spot the strike. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We also have laser-guided bombs that again are steel and have a little smoke charge in them so we can spot those. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They simulate the real thing, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no explosion and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no other materials.â&#x20AC;?

Ekstrom has been an F-18 pilot for 15 years at 4 Wing and he called weapons training fun.

He also had no argument with the assumption that the weapons range and adjacent oil and gas activities make for unusual work partners with communication being paramount for safety. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good relationship, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got its co-ordination to make both work,â&#x20AC;? he said. ɸ Page A17

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Éş Page A16 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not many people do understand the intricacies of how much co-ordination needs to happen to make both events occur.â&#x20AC;?

Mike Catley, CNRLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vice president of conventional and thermal operations in Calgary, said understanding and complying with Department of National Defence rules makes it easy to work at CLAWR. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We work well with the DND up here.

I think it shows that government and the oil industry can work well together,â&#x20AC;? said Catley.

What grabs Catleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attention, however, is the abundance of wildlife as CLAWR is under restricted access to the public.

During the orientation it was noted that due to its restricted status, there are more bears in CLAWR than anywhere else in Alberta. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wildlife up here. There are quite a few bears up here. You see them along the ditch lines quite often,â&#x20AC;? said Catley. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The only people that can hunt up here are the First Nations group out of Cold Lake.â&#x20AC;?

The Cold Lake First Nations has been granted access to CLAWR under an agreement with 4 Wing Cold Lake for traditional hunting,

trapping, fishing and berry picking activities.

Jocelan Ladner, an environmental field coordinator with CNRL in Lloydminster, said sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seen lot of other wildlife besides bears during the clean-up operations at Primrose. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is a long list.

Part of what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done is we take observations about what wildlife theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s caribou, moose, beaver, muskrats â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a whole variety of different birds. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have to give you a list of probably 40 different birds that have come through here,â&#x20AC;? said Ladner.

CNRL crews have taken extra precautions to keep animals out of four leak sites at Primrose although by the tour date, CNRLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s total death count was 27 birds, 23 small animals and 71 frogs.

Ryan Cameron, a project site leader where bitumen was discovered leaking to the surface from fissures on June 8, said fencing is the key to preventing more animal contact with bitumen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are three components to our wildlife fencing. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bottom portion thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like a woven fabric. That helps us keep the frogs and amphibians out,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Above that there is an orange fencing that helps the larger animals.

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layer of rope and on the rope there is Mylar flagging. It makes noise to keep the birds away.â&#x20AC;?

There are also noise devices like loud cannons and decoys of coyotes and foxes to help deter other animals.

The company collected approximately 7,300 barrels of bitumen emulsion from the four affected sites since the first leak was detected and reported to the Alberta Energy Regulator on May 20.

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The Kerrobert Rail Terminal that will be

other issues, but we have to contend with that. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got some housing developments and stuff going on here for people to rent or to buy.â&#x20AC;?

Poggemiller said he heard the news that morning from the RM of Oakdale, because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

for crude-by-rail out of Western Canada,â&#x20AC;? said Zielinski. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is as far south and east geographically in Canada that allows us to not only access vast amounts of pipeline delivered crude oil, but also it allows us to access significant quantities of

heavy, undiluted crudes in the LloydminsterKerrobert corridor.â&#x20AC;?

The Kerrobert

terminal will be designed to accept inbound rail back-hauled condensate and is expected to com-

mence operations in the third quarter of 2014 to the delight of Poggemiller.

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served by Canadian Pacific Railway, will be engineered to handle two, 120-car unit trains per day or up to 168,000 barrels per day.

The transloading facility will be located about eight kilometres southeast of the town.

The project follows the construction earlier this year of a crude oil transloading facility that is operated by Arrow Reload Systems Inc. on Railway Avenue in Kerrobert.

The new TORQ project was announced Aug. 14 and put Mayor Erhard Poggemiller over the moon with the prospects for economic spinoffs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As far as Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m concerned â&#x20AC;&#x201C; great, because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more people around here,â&#x20AC;? said Poggemiller. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The town is growing and with growth comes a whole bunch of

in their jurisdiction. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The municipality may have passed a bylaw that they could even do this,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right where Enbridge is out of town.

They bought some farm land there.â&#x20AC;?

The Kerrobert Rail Terminal will be located near Enbridgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kerrobert pumping station for the Alberta Clipper pipeline.

TORQ is negotiating multiple pipeline connections to accommodate delivery of both light and heavy crudes to the new terminal.

Jarrett Zielinski, TORQâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CEO, said the company took a â&#x20AC;&#x153;scale at hub approachâ&#x20AC;? in the location process for the new terminal in Kerrobert. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We feel that Kerrobert is strategic in that it allows maximum diversity and flexibility

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The Kerrobert terminal is also designed to handle significant volumes of oil by truck with on site storage for up to 500,000 barrels of oil for both heated (for undiluted heavy crude) and non-heated crude.

Poggemiller says the potential for increased oilfield traffic causing further damage to Highway 51 running east-west through town

2015. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when the paving program is supposed to go on Highway 51 going west. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That will be upgraded to a primary weight standard, so hopefully it will be able to carry the load.â&#x20AC;?

Highway traffic will also increase by late 2014 when SaskPower is expected to begin the construction of a new 138 kV substation at Superb, 14 kilometres

linski. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are extremely proud to be working with CP Rail again to provide the producer and refiner communities with what we feel will be the most economically advantaged crude-by-rail terminal in Canada with abundant access to heavy crudes seeking premium markets.â&#x20AC;?

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will be diminished by various infrastructure projects. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The road is presently closed through the town because we are changing the water line,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Highwaysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; are going to pave it in

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The local construction boom comes at a time when all of Kerrobertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s motels and hotels are booked solid. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need another one. We have a guy interested in setting it up, but all this stuff takes time,â&#x20AC;? said Poggemiller. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I welcome the activity â&#x20AC;&#x201C; you bet.â&#x20AC;?

TORQ said its new Kerrobert terminal will allow the company to access significant quantites of heavy undiluted crude oil in the busy Lloydminster-Kerrobert corridor.

The company also said Kerrobert is â&#x20AC;&#x153;geographically as close to the heavy crudeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s natural destination markets as possible by railâ&#x20AC;? which will minimize transportation costs relative to oil shipped by rail from north and west Alberta. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our estimation is that the Kerrobert Rail Terminal could offer transportation savings to the U.S. Gulf Coast and East Coast upwards of $5 per barrel compared with shipping similar crudes by rail out of certain locations in Alberta,â&#x20AC;? said Zie-

tions in the Shaunavon, Unity and Bromhead areas.

One of its affiliates, Goulet Trucking, provides delivery of trucked-in volumes across the network of six crude-by-rail terminals in Western Canada.

The Arrow Reload crude-by-rail facility in Kerrobert is located on about a six acre site, which is a stoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s throw from Poggemillerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s KEP Industries supply and manufacturing business.

Asked if his phone is ringing off the hook with the news from Torq, the mayor said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are not building there right now. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once they are physically doing things, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when the phone starts ringing.â&#x20AC;?

Poggemiller also reported the construction of the new $23 million Integrated Kerrobert & District Health Care Centre is about twothirds complete.

The facility will include acute care and long-term care beds, public health, mental health and addictions services, and 24/7 emergency medical coverage.

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The new rail terminal, due to be operation in March 2014, will handle two unit trains, with up to 120 railcars per day, moving up to 140,000 barrels per day of multiple grades of crude. â&#x20AC;&#x153;USDG has pioneered the crude-by-rail concept in key markets across the U.S.,â&#x20AC;? said Mike Day, vice-president of USDG during the Aug. 6 announcement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With the Hardisty Rail Terminal, we have expanded the platform to accommodate increasing Canadian production.â&#x20AC;?

Gibson and USDG have jointly secured sufficient customer term commitments to con-

struct the new terminal which will have pipeline connectivity from Gibsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hardisty terminal.

The Hardisty hub is Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s equivalent to Cushing, Okla. With numerous, immense storage tanks as well as underground caverns, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the kickoff point for the Keystone pipeline and the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, as well as a major transit point for the Enbridge mainline.

USDG is a Houston-based developer of rail logistics and terminal facilities, and Gibson Energy is a midstream energy company based in Calgary.

News of their project came a week after plans were made public for the Alberta Crude Terminal, a 40,000 bpd crude-by-rail facility in Edmonton.

The demand to transport crude by rail for the export market is quickly growing as producers seek ways to

ease congested export pipelines. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our Hardisty Terminal is well connected to all the major pipelines coming into and leaving the Hardisty area,â&#x20AC;? said Rick Wise, Gibsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s senior vice-president, operations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The development of the Hardisty Rail Terminal provides our customers with more optionality to facilitate crude oil movements across North America,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Major pipeline proposals such as the Keystone XL and Northern Gateway are facing opposition over safety and environmental concerns which is opening the door to crude-by-rail marketing.

The projects are not deterred by the oil train explosion in Lac-MĂŠgantic in July that killed 47 people and led to calls for greater rail safety.

In the wake of the tragedy, Transport

Canada has tightened its safety regulations and imposed a ban on one man crews with dangerous goods.

The Hardisty Terminal will served

by Canadian Pacific Railroadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s North Main Line and will provide Canadian producers with an efficient means

to access major refining and distribution markets across North America. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Canadian Pacific is pleased to work with USDG and Gibson in providing the capability to move crude to market via rail,â&#x20AC;? said CP marketing executive Tracy Robinson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The capacity, flex-

ibility, market access and speed to market that rail offers makes it an important option for the transportation of crude.â&#x20AC;?

USDG and Gibson are continuing their discussions with several customers regarding further crude oil commitments to the Hardisty Terminal.

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Â&#x201E; By Geoff Lee Bonnyville â&#x20AC;&#x201C; It will cost Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. approximately $40 million to clean up bitumen emulsion leaking to the surface at four sites in their Primrose oilsands operations north of Bonnyville.

The company had spent $10 million by the time a media tour was held on Aug. 8, the first time reporters were allowed on site, prompting questions about CNRLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s transparency.

A contrite Steve Laut, president of CNRL, faced the media at a small unnamed lake at Primrose South where crews were cleaning up an oily emulsion entering the lake bottom through fissures. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Really, as you know, we take responsibility for this incident to happen. We caused it and are responsible for it,â&#x20AC;? said Laut. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are very sorry it actually happened, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing everything we can here. We are very committed to make sure we get this cleaned up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We understand the cost; we know how to prevent it and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get this thing back in shape and make sure this doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen again in the future. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our goal.â&#x20AC;?

Crews had collected 7,300 barrels of the emulsion from all four sites previous to the day that the media was invited to view two clean up sites within the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range.

CNRL produces bitumen at Primrose East and Primrose South using cyclic steam stimulation with just one horizontal wellbore required for steaming and production on alternating cycles.

The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) announced on July 18 that they ordered CNRL to suspend and restrict steaming operations at the four sites until the cause is determined.

Reporters at the scene wanted to know if the AER had any role in calling for the media tour. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We encourage any company involved in an incident like this to communicate directly with their stakeholders and that includes local Alberta media,â&#x20AC;? replied AER spokesperson Cara Tobin. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We actively encourage the company to take on that responsibility.â&#x20AC;?

Tobin was also asked if the AER was satisfied with its own level of transparency, given its holding back of information to the public AER didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t publicly disclose the spills until the fourth spill on June 24, after CNRL reported the first two leaks to the regulator on May 20 and a third leak on June 8.

Tobin explained the fourth leak occurred in the water body which met AERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s criteria for a news release as well as determining whether the incident has a public and environmental impact. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With every incident we learn more and we are always to improve the transparency from our point of view as the regulator as well as encouraging the companies to improve their transparency as well,â&#x20AC;? said Tobin.

Tobin said the AER has recently begun to report every incident on its new website within 24 hours an incident being reported to them by oil and gas companies. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in response to the community wanting more information,â&#x20AC;? said Tobin, who noted the new reporting tool wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t created until AER began operating as Albertaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new single regulator on June 17.

The initial total impacted area from the bitumen emulsion leaks at Primrose covered 20.7 hectares which had been reduced to 13.5 hectares by time of the media tour.

The rate of seepage had also declined to less than 20 barrels per day. There was also a cleanup crew of approximately 200 workers at the site and another 180 involved in investigative activities.

CNRL believes the cause of the seepage was a mechanical failure of wellbores,

similar to a 2009 leak at Primrose. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the 2009 incident it was a wellbore that we had drilled for a producer, so it was a new wellbore,â&#x20AC;? said Laut. â&#x20AC;&#x153;After we found that leakage, we changed our design on our wells. We changed our cementing practice and the way we cement the well. We havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t had any issues since then. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This one looks like they are old legacy wells that were drilled in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s and some in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s.â&#x20AC;?

CNRL will investigate potential problem wells at Primrose including former gas, water source wells and stratigraphic wells on site.

A service rig was checking for wellbore damage on one of two vertical strat wells at the Primrose South water site.

Laut said all of the new wellbore casings use thermal cement to prevent the flow of bitumen behind the casings.

Leaks can happen in casing or cement defects in old vertical wells.

At Primrose, escaped bitumen under pressure can be forced into natural fractures in the upper Colorado formation and released to the surface. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are going back and look at every vertical well in our area,â&#x20AC;? said Laut. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we see a yellow flag, we are going to go back and repair that well.â&#x20AC;?

Laut noted that if they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t repair the well to the satisfaction of AER, they will change their steaming tactics around that wellbore. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you change the steaming tactics, you can totally control the amount of pressure. If you go by that wellbore, you will not have (see) this release,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If there is any good news from this â&#x20AC;&#x201C; this is totally solvable and totally manageable.â&#x20AC;?

With steaming restrictions in place, CNRL has begun the production cycle on the affected single cyclic steam horizontal wellbores.

Laut said seepages are rare, but when they do occur, the only option is to manage them until the zone is depressurized. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is no delay in getting the site cleaned up. There are no steps we can take to stop the leakage,â&#x20AC;? he acknowledged.

The AER has ruled out the use of high pressure steam as a root cause of seepage because steam is injected into the producing Clearwater zone and canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t physically penetrate the cap rock above it.

Stopping all steam production at Primrose East and South until the cause is known is not an option. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have to follow our investigation and learn the cause and the source of these challenges and steer where we go from there,â&#x20AC;? said AER team leader Colin Woods, who is based in Bonnyville. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We put in a steaming restrictions at the all the sites where there was an identified release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With the likelihood of it being a mechanical challenge, it would be a broad brush effect just to stop steaming across the entire operation and thousands of wells.â&#x20AC;?

Woods said it was too hard to say when the cause will be pinned down. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll take it as it comes and we wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop until we have,â&#x20AC;? he said.

In the media scrum, Laut admitted CNRL could have done a better job communicating news of the leaks to the public, but he said they have complied with all regulatory requirements. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been very transparent with recording everything thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happened to the regulator,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think if you go back and look at hindsight, we werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t communicating quickly enough to the province. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lesson learned from us. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re here today to make sure everyone understands whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on and get some of that misinformation out of the system,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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Mulligan said he believes he can make a bigger difference to the community by firing up his consulting company, Ahha Moments Inc., to work alongside the city and regional companies.

He will retain his role as chair of events for Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada to be held in Lloydminster from Jan 14 to 18, 2014 culminating with a live broadcast by CBC Hockey Night in Canada.

Mulligan was elected to his first term in 2009 and acclaimed to a second term in 2012. He sat down with Pipeline News during his final week as mayor to discuss his legacy and some current oil and gas topics and activities in the community.

Q: When will we know exactly what you will be doing in the future?

Mulligan: I think people know now. I am going to be seeking projects around the city. I am hopefully going to be doing contract work from everybody from the City of Lloydminster to leading businesses in the area.

I am going to expand Ahha Moments. That was my consulting company that I invested a lot of money in before I became the mayor and spent a lot of time getting certified in leadership development training â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a change leader road map â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that kind of certification to augment my professional skills.

So yes, I am expanding my Ahha Moments thing contrary to all of the talk about other political aspirations â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I have no other political aspirations.

I am going back to the private sector and I am going to expand my Ahha Moments company and do good work in the region.

Q: Are there any wacky Jeff Mulligan conspiracy theories out there?

Mulligan: One of the press called from CBC Toronto and they were thinking Rob Ford (Toronto mayor) and people like that. I said â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to dig a long time to find any big-time dirt on Jeff Mulligan.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; What you might find is that I have an unpaid â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;rolling through a stop signâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ticket thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s due on Aug. 8, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taken care of.

Q: What will you miss most about being the mayor of Lloydminster?

Mulligan: What I am going to miss the most is diversity. You can be dealing with a simple bylaw through to a multi-million dollar initiative with one of

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The next day you can be cutting a ribbon or reading a book to a Grade 2 class. I have learned a tremendous amount in this position.

I often say to people I wish I had done this at 26 or 27 years of age and taken that knowledge back to the workplace.

I will miss the diversity and I will miss the people.

Q: What do you think is your top accomplishment as mayor?

Mulligan: I think my greatest accomplishment is the work I did around the workplace culture â&#x20AC;&#x201C; moving it from a permission-based culture to a servicebased culture, both internally to staff and externally to the taxpayer.

The other thing we did was say we are really open for business. We are here to partner and enable. We are not here to control and approve.

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W Page A25 Citizens of Lloydminster made this happen. All we did was enable it. We knocked down barriers to success.

So when we are looking at the last three years, we are really talking about $180 million of development every year.

Whether people

like it or not, being business friendly and open for business has to be at the core of what you do.

Q: Do you believe the new culture can be maintained when the next mayor is chosen?

Mulligan: Absolutely. We put in place some amazing building blocks and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got good people. When we put stuff on the wall

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Q: What is your message to your successor?

Mulligan: My message to my successor is you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to come in with a change agenda. Some of the heavy lifting on change has been done.

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Once you get that shared vision, the next thing on the horizon is shared success.

Q: What is the most memorable oil and gas event that you attended as mayor?

Mulligan: I think Huskyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opening.

(Husky Place office in 2012). The energy in that building â&#x20AC;&#x201C; if I closed my eyes and opened my eyes â&#x20AC;&#x201C; many people wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe the structure and the technology and fore-

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on building this new foundation that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve created.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got good people; we are very committed to the success of the city and the taxpayers. Now what we have to do is be fiscally prudent, and we have to make sure that we stay on plan.

Q: Is Lloydminster safe given the rail disaster at Lac-MĂŠgantic in Quebec and the high volume of crude oil moving through our city by rail?

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The movements on the train tracks are not handled by the City of Lloydminster. They are not governed nor overseen and the safety standards arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t created by the municipal government.

We have to realize if there is risk what role would the municipalityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s be? The municipalityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role near term would be protective service people, fire â&#x20AC;&#x201C; those kinds of things.

With a disaster of that size (Lac-MĂŠgantic) you are quickly leaning on the province.

Note: That evening after the interview with Mulligan, a Canadian Pacific Railway train derailed in the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CPR yard while moving tankers. Seven cars were derailed but no oil was spilled. An overturned engine did leak diesel fuel which was contained at the site. The derailment led to the evacuation of the Lloydminster Golf and Curling Centre. All of the cars were removed from the area by July 29 and sent to the yard for repairs and inspection. CP is continuing to investigate the cause.

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What you are going to see now is an opportunity to leverage all of that work and really take it up a notch.

Q: As the event

chair for Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada, what kind of oilfield messages and videos about Lloydminster can viewers expect to see?

Mulligan: We are engaging some of the people who would be noted community leaders in the oil sector in terms of sponsorship and sitting as chairs on some of the committees.

There will be an oil-

field influence, but this really a CBC Scotiabank celebration of hockey.

You will see some vignettes when they are featuring Lloydminster and whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unique about Lloydminster â&#x20AC;&#x201C; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to talk about the history of heavy oil and exploration in conjunction with our proud history as it contributes to the foundation weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve built with hockey.

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W Page A26 Q: Is there any cause for concern regarding oil transloading facilities in the city?

Mulligan: Not to my knowledge. The procedures are very tight.

They are reviewed often and the safety standards are at the optimal levels.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too soon to comment on what happened in Quebec. There are some early signs that there were just some simple safety standards that werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t adhered to.

Now theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve tightened up some controls, saying you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t leave those engines unattended any longer.

Understand that in Lloydminster, the movements are generally limited to a few train links of 50 or so. They are being shunted back and forth.

The circumstances were very different in Quebec â&#x20AC;&#x201C; left in a location unattended with those materials in it â&#x20AC;&#x201C; circumstances very different than what could happen here in Lloydminster.

Q: What is driving the rapid expansion of new and existing industrial parks in Lloydminster lately?

Mulligan: Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had existing companies that have grown and we have new companies that are saying â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;we need to be a part of that oilfield scene in the Lloydminster play.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; We have some that have consolidated their operations â&#x20AC;&#x201C; where they have expanded their operations but in pieces

around the city â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and they are now consolidating those into one bigger project.

Add to that a couple of bigger projects like Atco and Husky in the past 18 months, and those have also stimulated tremendous activity in and around those facilities.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a couple of big announcements coming â&#x20AC;&#x201C; one doing some consolidation.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeing some growth in materials handling because of the transloading facilities.

People are asking are there other verticals off of that â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is there complimentary business off of that that we can contemplate?

Q: What do you think the economic impact is of plant turnarounds such as the 45-day turnaround Husky is running at the upgrader in September?

Mulligan: They are very necessary obviously to maximize efficiency of operations and ensure safety. The ancillary benefit is to the economy.

People come here, they stay here. They need to do things at night, whether it be going to the movies or eat, so overall, there is positive economic benefits.

It shows there is a commitment in the oil sector to safety and to maximizing operations.

Q: 2012 was a banner year for the city with construction and planning milestones.

Do you see this type of growth carrying through 2013 into 2014?

Mulligan: There is a lot of foundational work done to create those programs and processes. Now council and management are asking â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;How can we take it up

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The 21st annual championships held Aug. 2 to 4 generated approximately $500,000 in direct economic benefits, with most of the spoils shared by non-profit organizations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s huge for pretty well everyone in town â&#x20AC;&#x201C; private business and nonprofit,â&#x20AC;? said event coordinator and town administrator, Kim Gartner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That number doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take into account the businesses and what they generate. We have no way of tracking ÄŤĹ˝Ć&#x152;Ä&#x161;Ä&#x201A;Ä?ĹŻÄ&#x17E; Ć&#x152;Ä&#x17E;ĹśĆ&#x161;Ä&#x201A;ĹŻ Ĺ&#x161;ŽƾĆ?Ĺ?ĹśĹ? Ĺ?Ć? Ä&#x201A;Ć&#x161; Ä&#x201A; Ć&#x2030;Ć&#x152;Ä&#x17E;ĹľĹ?ƾž Ĺ?Ĺś DÄ&#x201A;Ä?ĹŹĹŻĹ?ĹśÍ&#x2022; Ä?ĆľĆ&#x161; ÄŽÇ&#x20AC;Ä&#x17E; ĹśÄ&#x17E;Ç Ĺ&#x161;ŽƾĆ?Ä&#x17E;Ć? Ä&#x201A;Ć&#x152;Ä&#x17E; Ä?Ä&#x17E;Ĺ?ĹśĹ? that. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The non profits run all the food Ä?ĆľĹ?ĹŻĆ&#x161; Ĺ?Ĺś Ć&#x161;Ĺ&#x161;Ä&#x17E; Ć&#x161;Ĺ˝Ç ĹśÍ&#x203A;Ć? WĆ&#x152;Ĺ˝Ĺ?Ć&#x152;Ä&#x17E;Ć?Ć? Ć?ĆľÄ?Ä&#x161;Ĺ?Ç&#x20AC;Ĺ?Ć?Ĺ?ŽŜÍ&#x2DC; Ä&#x161;ĹľĹ?ĹśĹ?Ć?Ć&#x161;Ć&#x152;Ä&#x201A;Ć&#x161;Ĺ˝Ć&#x152; <Ĺ?Ĺľ 'Ä&#x201A;Ć&#x152;Ć&#x161;ĹśÄ&#x17E;Ć&#x152; Ć&#x2030;Ć&#x152;Ĺ˝Ç&#x20AC;Ĺ?Ä&#x161;Ä&#x17E;Ä&#x161; Ä&#x201A; Ć&#x161;ŽƾĆ&#x152; ŽĨ booths and the liquor and beer sales Ć&#x161;Ĺ&#x161;Ä&#x17E; ĹśÄ&#x17E;Ĺ?Ĺ?Ĺ&#x161;Ä?ŽƾĆ&#x152;Ĺ&#x161;ŽŽÄ&#x161; ĹŠĆľĆ?Ć&#x161; Ĺ&#x161;ŽƾĆ&#x152;Ć? Ä?Ä&#x17E;ĨŽĆ&#x152;Ä&#x17E; Ć&#x161;Ĺ&#x161;Ä&#x17E; ÄŽĹśÄ&#x201A;ĹŻ Ć&#x152;Ä&#x17E;Ĺ?Ĺ?Ć?Ć&#x161;Ć&#x152;Ä&#x201A;Ć&#x;ŽŜ Ć&#x161;ŽŽŏ Ć&#x2030;ĹŻÄ&#x201A;Ä?Ä&#x17E; ĨŽĆ&#x152; Ć&#x161;Ĺ&#x161;Ä&#x17E; ĎŽĎ­Ć?Ć&#x161; Ä&#x201A;ŜͲ ŜƾÄ&#x201A;ĹŻ tĹ˝Ć&#x152;ĹŻÄ&#x161; ƾŜŜŽÄ?ĹŹ Ĺ&#x161;Ä&#x201A;ĹľĆ&#x2030;Ĺ?ŽŜĆ?Ĺ&#x161;Ĺ?Ć&#x2030;Ć? Ĺ&#x161;Ä&#x17E;ĹŻÄ&#x161; ĆľĹ?Í&#x2DC; ĎŽ Ć&#x161;Ĺ˝ Ď°Í&#x2DC; WĹ&#x161;Ĺ˝Ć&#x161;Ĺ˝Ć? Ä?Ç&#x2021; 'Ä&#x17E;Žč >Ä&#x17E;Ä&#x17E; on the weekend. It turns out to be the largest fundraising event that a lot of our non profits have every year.â&#x20AC;?

Companies such as Husky Energy, Talisman Energy, Clean Harbors and Maverick Oilfield Services were listed among the major sponsors &HOO QXPEHUV of the championship.

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Bunnock is played with two opposing teams of players who each toss larger bones at an army of smaller opposition bones, starting with the guards.

The team that knocks down their opponentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bones first with the least number of shots wins.

This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event also drew major support from companies such as Crescent Point Energy, Bozco Enterprises, Gibson Energy, Alliance Pipeline, Nu Vista, Weatherford and Noralta Technologies.

The list goes on and on with oilfield employees also participating or pitching in to help. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got about 1,000 volunteers. You are running volunteers on all the food booths and liquor staff and looking after all the courts and everything like that,â&#x20AC;? said Gartner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The companies try to slim down as much as possible with their staff over the weekend to allow us to use those volunteers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The local companies are really supportive of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on.â&#x20AC;?

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707,305, 5,>: :LW[LTILY W Page A28 The event draws up to 4,000 visitors to Macklin over the weekend and puts the town on the map as an attractive place to live, work and play. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People know the name and they associate it with the tournament,â&#x20AC;? said Gartner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When someone is looking to settle in the area with a company, they know a little bit about the history and that helps.â&#x20AC;?

Macklin has become an active oilfield service centre with an agricultural setting that provides employment and things for young families to do. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for the oilfield and the families that they bring in, I think we would have a tough time keeping the school full and the services being used to the extent that they are,â&#x20AC;? said Gartner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s allowed generations to be able to stay and given our children something to look forward to. They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily have to go

away. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will have some that will actually go away work for awhile and then move back because they realize itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good place to live.â&#x20AC;?

Gartner said more than half of the members of the bunnock organizing committee relocated to Macklin for oilfield jobs and they hope others do the same. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The event shows we are open to people coming in to the community. We are open to sharing with friends and welcoming people to the community,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Oil companies such as Northern Blizzard, Husky and Nu Vista have drilling programs in the area and that attracts new workers, but housing for temporary workers is tough. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Housing is a huge issue, especially with rental housing,â&#x20AC;? said Gartner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have zero vacancy and we have a tough time trying to attract anyone to invest in rental properties because of the transiency of the oilfield. They come and

go. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very tough to get long-term renters.

Anybody who is into rental construction market tends to shy away because of the longterm investment they have to put into it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do have all kinds of people looking to rent â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the vacancy is zero.â&#x20AC;?

The regional park is usually filled with temporary oilfield workers during the summer and early fall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The last five to 10 years, the campground has been full with pipeline and crews,â&#x20AC;? said Gartner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When it comes to

this weekend, a lot of the workers will actually accommodate us by pulling out for the weekend and come back on Monday morning.â&#x20AC;?

Five new family houses are currently under construction in the 21-lot Pioneer subdivision that was serviced by the Town three years ago. Another 34 lots have now been leveled off. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve sold 12 and have five under construction. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve averaged anywhere from up to 10 homes a year for the last 15 years,â&#x20AC;? said Gartner.

The Town purchased a 30-acre patch

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Traffic counts at the intersection of Highways 14 and 31 through town are roughly 5,000 vehicles a per day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s busy. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re open for business,â&#x20AC;? said Gartner who hopes that a new hotel and new oilfield service companies will locate at the commercial subdivision.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the long run it will be very good for the tax base. Temporarily, we do provide some incentives for the new businesses to help them get started and established. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It also allows us to time to get everything in the subdivision completed because we are developing ourselves. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of done in stages.â&#x20AC;?

Infrastructure is top of mind for Macklin as the Town completed a $3.6 million sewage lagoon last year to go with a new $2.5 million water treatment plant. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Through the last 15 years, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve completed all of our major infrastructure of our buildings,â&#x20AC;? said Gartner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The recreation facilities are all new. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done our water and sewer infrastructure, and we

will now focus on completing our roads.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The main focus will be on rejuvenating our streets because you only have so much money to do so much at one time.â&#x20AC;?

The community also has a new outdoor swimming pool that is not town owned, but was partly funded by donations from oil and service companies in the area.

Gartner said the oil industry allows young people to provide services to the oilpatch and keeps the community young. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seventy per cent of our population is under the age of 40,â&#x20AC;? said Gartner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It keeps the school full and the community vibrant.â&#x20AC;?

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And that is were 24-7 Enterprises Ltd. of Midale comes in. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do it all when it comes to well optimization. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fluid levels, dynamometers, pressure surveys, foam depressions, equipment, sales, rentals and repairsâ&#x20AC;? said Scott Brown.

Brown owns and operates 24-7, along with his wife Anita, who is the secretary for the company.

Their son Ryan is the lead field technician, while daughter Chantal manages the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Voidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; a home dĂŠcor, fashion and accessories store in Weyburn owned by 24-7. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our qualified field staff of Keith Jordan, Brett Borys and Jim Milton, also play a huge part in keeping us going 24/7," Scott said.

24-7 Enterprises Ltd. was formed in 2003 to meet requirements and replace the old HBT title, prior to that it was Hei-Bro-Tech Petroleum Services which was started in 1993. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always been busy,â&#x20AC;? Scott said.

Based on the information gathered by 24-7, the field operator for the oil company can have the strokes per minute or stroke length adjusted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all based on fluid level in the hole.â&#x20AC;?

Pump card Various transducers are used to measure parameters like gear box torque, rod load to create a â&#x20AC;&#x153;pump card.â&#x20AC;?

An ideal pump card shows a rectangular pattern showing maximum plunger travel, effective plunger travel, and differential load on the plunger. From the shape of the card a wide range of conditions can be deduced.

An anchored pump in normal operation is rectangular, whereas an unanchored pump looks â&#x20AC;&#x153;pushed overâ&#x20AC;? in a diamond shape. Rounded corners on the top can show a leaking travelling valve or excessive plunger slippage. Similarly, rounded corners on the bottom can indicate a leaking standing valve.

Other shapes demonstrate a severe fluid pound

as the well is being pumped off. Spikes up or down indicate tapping at the bottom or top of the stroke.

A sweeping curve on the bottom right shows gas interference.

Scott said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It will show gas interference,a bad traveling valve or standing valve, and a pumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efficiency. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fluid levels are probably the biggest thing.

If you have fluid, you want to get it. You want to maintain some fluid above the pump, keeping up with inflow, but not pumping the well dry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gas interference has a lot to do with it.â&#x20AC;?

Not all wells have foam, but some do, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We use a well analyzer,â&#x20AC;? Scott said, referring to one of their key tools. With it we can perform fluid levels, dynamometers and a fifteen minute foam depression.

The old way of doing a foam depression took hours of repetitive testing. Now, with modern tools, a test can be done in about 15 minutes and a IPR can be created, with the proper well information.

The wellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s IPR (inflow performance relationship) is a key element a well optimizer looks for.

Scott explained, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It gives you what the well will produce in oil and water, based on current production rates.â&#x20AC;?

Pump adjustment There are several ways to vary production, including type of pump, its size, and how that pump used.

In southeast Saskatchewan, pumpjacks are the most common, followed by progressing cavity pumps, electric submersible pumps and Rotaflex jacks. There are also some more exotic artificial lift systems out there, like the hydraulic jack, but the pumpjack is being the king, with about 85 to 90 per cent of the market.

Then again, some wells flow on their own, without artificial lift. These are usually newer wells.

For a typical pumpjack-operated sucker rod pump already in the well, it generally comes down to two primary things â&#x20AC;&#x201C; stroke length and speed.

Since adjusting stroke length means changing the

position of the pitman on the crank the easiest way to change a wellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s output is through changing its speed. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accomplished by changing the motor sheave or hitting a few buttons on the variable frequency drive. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ideally, for most any well, long and slow gives you the best production,â&#x20AC;? Brown said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most wells are started as a long stroke and you see what it does. A long stroke means more torque on the gearbox as the well pumps down.â&#x20AC;?

Reducing the pitman position or strokes per minute can reduce the gearbox torque.

Finer adjustment can be made with the counter weights and balancing the unit.

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Scott has been involved in well optimization in one form or another since he was 16. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now 50. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I once saw on a small jack, a guy welded a basket on the end of the walking beam and threw rocks in it, to balance the unit. The farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rock pile was next to it.

On progressing cavity pumps and electric submersible pumps, there is really only one adjustment to be made â&#x20AC;&#x201C; speed â&#x20AC;&#x201C; without changing the pump itself. You can speed it up or slow it down.

Doing the rounds â&#x20AC;&#x153;We shoot fluid levels on some wells daily, weekly, some monthly. It depends on the customer and how/what they want to monitor the well for.â&#x20AC;?

For a fluid level test, Scott said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can be in and out in as little as 10 minutes. The average is 15.â&#x20AC;?

All the information is stored in a laptop, which is downloaded at the end of the day. All the shots are then reviewed moved into an Excel format and emailed to the customer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We collect fluid level, tubing pressure, casing

pressure, strokes per minute and stroke length,â&#x20AC;? he said. They also indicate the type of jack and pump in the report. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We mainly cover southeast Saskatchewan and southwest Manitoba, but we do venture further.

Building guns In the shop, one finds the maintenance and sales area of the operation. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s there Scott noted, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I build my own guns,â&#x20AC;? referring to fluid level guns. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I do repairs here, too. It all plays hand in hand.â&#x20AC;?

They also sell and rent new and used equipment along with all the necessary parts and supplies.

Rentals In addition to the principle company, the Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also have rental accommodations properties in Weyburn and Midale. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We get calls stead for rentals. All we do is take peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s names. Everything is constantly full,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We could probably stand 100, if you had good tenants.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had staff stay in a couple, but right now none of our staff are staying in them.â&#x20AC;?

The company has four people in the field, plus Scott, if necessary. The company has had more staff

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“Since he was six, he’s ridden with me,” said his father, Scott, who runs the family business of 24-7 Enterprises Ltd. Since Scott spent much of his time in the field, taking his son along was a way to get some family time in. As a result, Ryan bounced along in the van they used to use for testing.

“He’s like a 20 year hand, and he’s 27,” Scott said proudly, talking of Ryan’s experience.

These days it’s Ryan driving the truck, a big black Dodge pickup. In the back seat is the crucial hardware used for fluid level testing – a laptop hooked up to an Echometer Well Analyzer, a fluid testing gun, cables, ammeter and tape measure. There’s a few wrenches for good measure.

Pulling up to the pumpjack in the Heward area, Ryan parks his truck just outside the jack’s fence.

First, he ties into the casing on the non-production side of the well with a fluid level gun.

“We shoot a volume of nitrogen down the casing of the well. Then the pressure from the nitrogen will deflect off the collars on the casing, all the way down to the fluid,” Ryan said.

“You have a microphone in your gun sensitive enough to pick up the

sound. The echo on the way back will give you a repeat of your shot.”

Sure enough, on the computer screen one can see the waveform of the sound pulse as it travels down and up the pipe. The software then churns out the numbers.

“There’s foam. We do a foam depression by closing the casing on the production side,” he said, likening it to closing the top on a bottle of pop.

The equipment is capable of analyzing the fluid levels without compressing all the foam, a process that would otherwise take hours. A manual foam depression can take up to 24 hours to get a gradient build.

“While we’re here we do tubing pressures,” he says.

One cable is tied to a pressure transducer, taking the pressure of the casing during the test.

Using a clamp on the polished rod and a tape measure, he determines the length of the stroke.

“Depending on what you’re doing downhole, the different stroke length determines how much fluid you’re pulling.

An ammeter is used to get amperage readings. While that information is available on variable frequency drive, he said, “We physically measure it. We always do it manually.”

In about 15 minutes, everything is taken off the wellhead and packed up. It’s time to head down the road to the next site.

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The sale generated $15 million in revenue including three oil shale special exploratory permit blocks on offer near Hudson Bay that netted $4.6 million in work commitment bids from Canshale Corp. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Industry continues to show confidence in the potential for new discoveries in Saskatchewan, and the rejuvenated interest in our oil shale underscores that optimism,â&#x20AC;? said McMillan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Prior to this sale there were four oil shale special exploratory permits active in the Hudson Bay area.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The addition of three new permits in this sale more than doubles the acreage under exploration.â&#x20AC;?

McMillan was also stoked by the average $690 per hectare price paid for leases during this sale. a level not seen since the August 2011 land sale. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Saskatchewan continues to offer great resources in a competitive climate,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The premium that industry has placed on acquiring oil and gas leases shows that this is a great place to invest.â&#x20AC;?

Year-to-date revenue from the four land sales held in 2013 is $44.3 million.

The Weyburn-Estevan area received the most bids with sales of $11.1 million.

The KindersleyKerrobert area was next at $2.1 million, followed by

the Swift Current area at $1.1 million and the Lloydminster area at $688,887.

Weyburn-Estevan area (numbers rounded up) The top purchaser of acreage in this area was The Soo Line Resource Group Inc. which spent $2.2 million to acquire five lease parcels.

The top price paid for a single lease in this area was $1.2 million by Windfall Resources Ltd. for a 259 hectare parcel situated adjacent to the Oungre Ratcliffe Beds Oil Pool, 60 kilometres west of Estevan.

This is the highest dollar per hectare in this area at $4,562/hectare.

The top price paid for a single licence in this area was $1.7 million by Scott Land & Lease Ltd. for a 1,036 hectare block situated adjacent to the Benson Midale Beds Oil

Pool, 22 kilometres north of Estevan.

Kindersley-Kerrobert area The top purchaser of acreage in this area was Rock Energy Inc. which spent $940,999 to acquire four lease parcels.

The top price paid for a single lease in this area was $423,540, dished out

by Rock Energy Inc. for a 518 hectare parcel situated next to the Onward North Basal Mannville Sand oil Pool, 10kilometres west of Kerrobert.

This is the highest dollar per hectare in this area at $818/hectare.

The top price paid for a single licence in this area was $87,471, by Windfall Resources Ltd. for a 1,036 hectare block situated three kilometres north of the Bayhurst West Viking Gas Pool, 10 kilometres southwest of Eatonia.

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The top price paid for a single lease in this area was $363,702 by Mammoth Land Services Ltd. for a 64.75 hectare parcel situated two kilometres east of the Bench Shaunavon Oil Pool, 22 kilometres south of Gull Lake.

This is the highest dollar per hectare in this area at $5,617/hectare Lloydminster area The top purchaser of acreage in this area was

Scott Land & Lease Ltd., who spent $350,748 to acquire three lease parcels.

The top price paid for a single lease in this area was $211,896 by Windfall Resources Ltd. for a 259 hectare parcel situated adjacent to the Edam East Lloydminster Sand Oil Pool, 35 kilometres northwest of North Battleford.

The highest dollar per hectare in this area was received from Sandstone Land & Mineral Company Ltd., who paid $3,113/ hectare for a 16.19 hectare parcel located adjacent to the Edam East Lloydminster Sand Oil Pool, 36 kilometres northwest of North Battleford.

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Fall classes are fully booked and there is a waiting list for all of the one year certificate and two year diploma classes in 4th class and 3rd class power engineering respectively. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think our waiting list is at 100 qualified applicants, which is really quite unbelievable,â&#x20AC;? said Kara Johnston, director of energy, entrepreneurship and Saskatchewan programming.

The fall term begins with construction underway on the $17.5 million Petroleum Centre to help meet the growing student and industry demand for more full-time and part-time oil and gas programming.

The official sod-turning ceremony was held last September, with the construction kickoff in early July. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been very thrilled. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been patiently waiting for the construction to start,â&#x20AC;? said Johnston. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The goal is to be in that facility in 2014, but we know how construction goes, so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re certainly not going to bank on that. We hope that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no hiccups with the construction.â&#x20AC;?

The Petroleum Centre will house a large power engineering and heavy oil lab, with three steam boilers, water treatment equipment, a turbine generator

and breakout training spaces.

Students will be able to simulate complete heavy oil upgrading and steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) processes from beginning to end in the lab.

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The Lloydminster campus starts off the fall term with a newly renovated steam lab that stayed opened during the summer to provide accredited steam time hours for 4th class power engineering students across Canada. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really a phenomenal facility. Everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been really pleased so far. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had nothing but positive feedback,â&#x20AC;? said Johnston.

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The renovated power engineering lab is equipped with a fire tube and a water tube boiler to provide power engineering students with hands-on experience. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a state-of-the-art facility,â&#x20AC;? said new energy chair and instructor Robert Jago.

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They also have to be very technologically aware of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on with the instrumentation.â&#x20AC;?

Lakeland provides students with training and qualifying time that meets both Alberta and Saskatchewan government requirements for power engineers.

Jago said there is actually no shortage of 4th class or 3rd class power engineers in the industry, but there is a shortage of 2nd class power engineers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s creating the demand for 3rd class.

There is a shortage of 2nd class thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s causing the pressure and industry to turn out fourths and thirds,â&#x20AC;? he explained.

Jago has more than 42 years of combined power engineering work and teaching experience in heavy oil, manufacturing, processing, power generation and thermal plants in three provinces.

He gives Lakelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s energy programs the edge over other colleges he has taught at including NAIT in Edmonton. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our heavy oil pro-

gram and power engineering program is the only program of its kind in Alberta that provides students with hands-on heavy oil experience,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have instructors here who have come right out of industry who have worked as field operators or as operators at the upgrader who can take that knowledge and pass it directly along to the students.â&#x20AC;?

The campus has also hired Reg Lee from Northern Lights College in British Columbia as its newest energy instructor.

More new employees could be hired despite Lakelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plans to cut 40 full-time positions over the next two years at the Lloydminster and Vermilion campuses due to a $4 million deficit.

The cuts were announced in April when Alberta reduced its campus grant by 7.3 per cent, but the energy program is deemed a core revenue generator that is expanding. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The college was rocked by some very

serious cuts as whole to our team. We were fortunate our area was left relatively unscathed,â&#x20AC;? said Johnston. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are an area of growth for the college.

We have great waiting lists and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an area where the board has really put their support behind as a pillar on the Lloyd campus and our new wing thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s being built. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To be able to accommodate the 100 on the waiting list, we need to continue to grow our faculty. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to double our faculty in the next couple of years to be able to accommodate the number of students that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeing who are interested in our programs,â&#x20AC;? Johnston said.

The campus will also continue to run its introduction to heavy oil and gas program this year at the Onion Lake First Nations reserve. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great program.

This will be the third year and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen such amazing success with those Aboriginal students that have taken

that program and come into our mainstream programs,â&#x20AC;? said Johnston. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have been successful. Our very first group is now 4th class power engineers. How amazing is that? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are always working with our partners, especially on the reserve at Onion Lake, because they are the closest reserve we have in our area. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got some really exciting things coming down the pipe.â&#x20AC;?

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Waughâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife, Joanne, a recently retired school administrator, has done books for the company for roughly half of its existence. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She helps out occasionally,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Each of their three children have been involved as well, and one is still hanging around. At 30, Byron is now a manager for SaskTel, looking after cell towers out of Saskatoon. Throughout university and a year afterward, he ran an excavator, drove dozer and truck.

Daughter Jenna, 28, now works for Crescent Point Energy, having formerly worked for Penn West Exploration until it divested its Estevan operations. She has a diploma in environmental science and works in Crescent Pointâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s environmental regulatory department.

Rylan is back in the area now, working with his father when heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not working on his own condominium project, of which Gordon is a backer. He went to the University of Guelph and got a degree in commerce majoring in real estate development.

Putting that to good use, at 25 heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already wrapping up the first phase of a townhouse project in Carlyle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s his money and my money,â&#x20AC;? said Gordon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All are very hard workers. My kids, right from five years old, rode with me on equipment. For the first 30 years, I worked seven days a week. To be with Dad, it was on a construction job.â&#x20AC;?

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A dirt work contractor, G.W. Trenching worked closely with Carson Welding in its early years in the 1970s. Waugh looked after the dirt work while Carson did the welding. In 1980 Carson took on pipelining full-bore.

The company did water and sewer work in Alameda, Kisbey and Stoughton in those years as well, in addition to farm water and sewer systems.

The in early 1980s G.W. Trenching started to get into more flowline construction, specializing in fibreglass line. During that time, four gravel trucks were added to take care of lease gravelling as well as construction. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still an active part of the business today.

The company has chain trenchers for power cable installation, running from SaskPower lines to leases.

The first wheel ditcher was added in 1981, but the two parked on the yard havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been used since 1998. Excavators have taken over that line of work.

A relatively new innovation has been the adoption of V-buckets on their excavators, making for a much quicker, and cleaner, sloped trench. Waugh said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s twice as fast. You never push, you just dig.

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The production and the quality of the ditch really improved. The bottom of the ditch is as smooth as this table. It requires minimal raking.â&#x20AC;?

As a result, G.W. Trenching is able to get more chainage of pipeline done in a shorter length of time. While itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easier on the labourers cleaning up the ditch, they end up having to hustle to keep up on the pipe assembly end, with more pipe being put together. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can run with one to two fewer men than a typical flowline crew,â&#x20AC;? Waugh said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do it a little differently than most crews.â&#x20AC;?

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also built a specialized hopper trailer with a conveyor for sandpadding ditch or distributing rock for weeping tile. Pulled by a tractor, it provides a nice, even distribution of material, and uses less of it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do some environmental work. We work for consultants for some large oil companies. We do weeping tile and well systems to collect hydrocarbons out of the ground.â&#x20AC;?

The 1990s to today have seen mostly pipeline work. In the last decade, they went to three excavators. A large chain trencher saw use for companies that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t require workers to go into the ditch.

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707,305, 5,>: :LW[LTILY W Page A40 While the Bakken boom dramatically affected many businesses in the area, Waugh said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Bakken, in all honesty, never changed a lot of things for me. Being a smaller company, I never chased it.

Regular companies gave me all I could handle.â&#x20AC;?

G.W. Trenching has remained small over the years, with a workforce varying from three to seven. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My major problem here hiring people is finding people to come here, then finding accommodations,â&#x20AC;? Gordon said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No one wants to invest in rental accommodations in Lampman.â&#x20AC;?

That seems to have been a continual issue. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t send people to Estevan. The rates are skyhigh.â&#x20AC;?

He had one worker recently who ended up spending his weekends in Regina because he couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford to stay in Estevan.

To combat this, he even picked up a house near the shop to provide staff housing. The rent charged was minimal, but workers used to having full subsistence pay in Fort McMurray balk at paying any rent. The conundrum is that while oil companies are willing to dish out for living allowances for drilling and fracking operations, Waugh found that those same oil companies arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t willing to provide those benefits for ongoing production work.

As with any long-term company in the patch, there have been ups and downs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This spring was my slowest in 15 years,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone had issues with it being too wet where they want to lay pipe.â&#x20AC;?

After a heart attack six years ago, Waugh decided to ease up on the hard-charging pace. They now work five days a week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s way better. The guys are happier. They work a lot better. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s often 12 hour days, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better than seven days a week and no time off.â&#x20AC;?

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He aimed at the senior's market. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It frees up other housing in the community for younger people to buy,â&#x20AC;? he said, adding, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of people have been waiting for a maintenance-free lifestyle.â&#x20AC;?

The company was founded in 2010 while in his last year of university. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been plenty of challenges, going through three contractors in the process.

He kept trying to convince his classmates to come here for work, but with little success. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every spring I would try to convince friends to come out here to work. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d make so much money. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be lucky to work for two months in the summer. Some of my friends never worked in the summer. They couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fathom the money you could make (here).â&#x20AC;?

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By Geoff Lee Lloydminster – Entrec Corporation can write the book on moving superwide loads on Alberta’s highways with the contract to move 14 huge inclined plate separators from Foremost Industries in Lloydminster to Fort McMurray.

The second of 14 loads 11.4 metres wide, 12.7 m high and weighing 362,150 kilograms left Foremost at 7 p.m. on Aug. 20 on a five night journey to Canadian Natural Resources Horizon oilsands project.

The series of loads, which began on July 30 and will go well into 2014, are touted by Entrec as the widest and highest “over the road” transport in Alberta’s history.

“We moved the first one successfully and now we’re on to number two,” said Dan Killin, Entrec’s project manager on Aug.17.

The Inclined plate separators made by Foremost are used to clean water after it is used in the process to extract bitumen from oilsand.

Foremost said the vessels are a $20 million project, with a projected completion date of August 20.

The tank heads are manufactured at the Calgary shop and shipped to Lloydminster for assembly.

Northern Crane Services from Edmonton brought 250, 275 and 360 tonne cranes to the Foremost yard to begin the process of loading the inclined sepa-

rator onto Entrec’s heavy hydraulic platform trailer.

The trailer is a 14-axle four file Goldhofer with 16 wheels per axle for a total of 248 wheels. It has automatic steering capabilities, raises and lowers hydraulically, and weighs about as much as the vessel does.

It is pulled and pushed by three trucks.

“We utilize three trucks every time. We’ll have one power unit in the front to pull and steer and two behind it to push,” said Killin.

The convoy travels with an RCMP escort in front and behind the load that is guided by six pilot trucks.

“The RCMP helped us immensely with the first one,” said Killin.

“Since we are doing all this travelling at night, having those red and blue lights out there is essential to make sure the public general is aware that we’re coming.

“Everyone worked extremely well together. I could not say anything bad about anyone on these roads. It was just absolutely incredible.”

In the wintertime, Entrec will likely take a gravel truck along to sand the roads to prevent slipping.

The load takes up the entire width of a two-lane highway including the shoulder with portions of the highway temporarily closed to traffic.

Portable electronic signs are placed at intersections and access points to warn other motorists of the closure.

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Alberta Transport issues a special permit to move loads heavier than the maximum or any load wider or higher than standard. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What the permitting process does, it allows us to work with the carrier to select a route and select a schedule and the times that things can be moved,â&#x20AC;? said Trent Bancarz, Alberta Transport spokesperson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to do two things â&#x20AC;&#x201C; weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to ensure the safety of the load itself and, of course, the travelling public. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to balance that and try to minimize the disruptions to traffic, dĹ&#x161;Ĺ?Ć? Ĺ?Ĺ?Ä&#x201A;ĹśĆ&#x161; ĹŻĹ˝Ä&#x201A;Ä&#x161; ĹľÄ&#x201A;ĹŹÄ&#x17E;Ć? Ĺ?Ć&#x161;Ć? ÄŽĆ&#x152;Ć?Ć&#x161; Ć&#x161;ĆľĆ&#x152;Ĺś Ä&#x201A;Ĺ&#x152;Ä&#x17E;Ć&#x152; ĹŻÄ&#x17E;Ä&#x201A;Ç&#x20AC;Ĺ?ĹśĹ? &Ĺ˝Ć&#x152;Ä&#x17E;žŽĆ?Ć&#x161; /ĹśÄ&#x161;ĆľĆ?Ć&#x161;Ć&#x152;Ĺ?Ä&#x17E;Ć? Ĺ?Ĺś >ĹŻĹ˝Ç&#x2021;Ä&#x161;ĹľĹ?ĹśĆ?Ć&#x161;Ä&#x17E;Ć&#x152; Ä&#x201A;Ć&#x161; Ďł Ć&#x2030;Í&#x2DC;ĹľÍ&#x2DC; ĨŽĆ&#x152; Ä&#x201A; ÄŽÇ&#x20AC;Ä&#x17E; ĹśĹ?Ĺ?Ĺ&#x161;Ć&#x161; ŊŽƾĆ&#x152;ĹśÄ&#x17E;Ç&#x2021; Ć&#x161;Ĺ˝ &Ĺ˝Ć&#x152;Ć&#x161; DÄ?DĆľĆ&#x152;Ć&#x152;Ä&#x201A;Ç&#x2021;Í&#x2DC; dĹ&#x161;Ä&#x17E; ĎŽĎ°Ď´ Ç Ĺ&#x161;Ä&#x17E;Ä&#x17E;ĹŻ Ć&#x161;Ć&#x152;Ä&#x201A;Ĺ?ĹŻÄ&#x17E;Ć&#x152; Ĺ?Ć? Ä?Ä&#x201A;Ć&#x152;Ć&#x152;Ç&#x2021;Ĺ?ĹśĹ? Ä&#x201A;Ĺś Ĺ?ĹśÄ?ĹŻĹ?ĹśÄ&#x17E;Ä&#x161; Ć&#x2030;ĹŻÄ&#x201A;Ć&#x161;Ä&#x17E; Ć?Ä&#x17E;Ć&#x2030;Ä&#x201A;Ć&#x152;Ä&#x201A;Ć&#x161;Ĺ˝Ć&#x152; ĹľÄ&#x201A;Ä&#x161;Ä&#x17E; Ä?Ç&#x2021; &Ĺ˝Ć&#x152;Ä&#x17E;žŽĆ?Ć&#x161;Í&#x2DC; dĹ&#x161;Ĺ?Ć? Ç Ä&#x201A;Ć? Ć&#x161;Ĺ&#x161;Ä&#x17E; Ć?Ä&#x17E;Ä?ŽŜÄ&#x161; ŽĨ Ď­Ď° Ć?ĆľÄ?Ĺ&#x161; Ĺ&#x161;Ĺ?Ĺ?Ĺ&#x161;Ç Ä&#x201A;Ç&#x2021; Ć?Ĺ&#x161;Ĺ?Ć&#x2030;ĹľÄ&#x17E;ĹśĆ&#x161;Ć? Ć&#x161;Ĺ&#x161;Ä&#x201A;Ć&#x161; Ç Ĺ?ĹŻĹŻ Ä&#x17E;ĹśÄ&#x161; Ĺ?Ĺś ĹŻÄ&#x201A;Ć&#x161;Ä&#x17E; ĎŽĎŹĎ­Ď°Í&#x2DC;

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Bancarz said the advantage of moving at night is there are not a lot of vehicles around which reduces the potential for safety issues to arise.

All of the loads will travel along Highways 16, 36, 29, 28 and 63 which are designated as high-load corridors.

On the newly twinned portions of Highway 63 into Fort McMurray, the shoulder and the shoulder lane are wider than the standard lane to allow other traffic to pass on the left.

On other corridors, power lines have either been raised or buried. Some traffic signs and lights are on rotatable bases to swing them out of the way as the load passes by, while some routes feature removable guard rails. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are developing these corridors to help with the moves of these very large loads so they can safely get to their destination and minimize disruptions to traffic,â&#x20AC;? said Bancarz.

Killin said getting out of Lloydminster and onto Highway 16 and navigating through Fort McMurray are the most challenging sections of the route. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had to remove stop signs and a lot road signs where we are going around things because we are so wide,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have even had to remove railroad cantilevers to allow us to get through because we are such a wide unit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because we are so wide, we have to drive over centre medians so we have to use curb ramps to drive up over them.â&#x20AC;?

Bancarz said Alberta Transport has permitted loads up to 500,000 kilograms, but he said the load being moved by Entrec in Lloydminster is definitely one of the widest. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not often we have a load thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wide enough that it literally takes up the whole highway,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These types of loads are unique. An ordinary tractor trailer weight limit is 69,000 kilograms. You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really call this thing a tractor trailer. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing like a tractor trailer. â&#x20AC;?

Entrec has one of the largest, newest and best maintained fleets of Goldhofer THP/HL hydraulic platform trailers in North America for large loads. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The key is the weight per axle. Even though a load like this is really heavy, if you put it on enough axles, the damage to the road is minimal,â&#x20AC;? explained Bancarz.

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Just about every oil and gas customer of MRC in the area participated in the World Bunnock Championship from Aug. 2 to 4 as event sponsors, players or volunteers.

On the Friday of the tournament, customer orders for MRCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s line of pipes, valves and fittings for the oil and gas industry were mixed with talk about bunnock that is played with horse ankle bones. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think this year they have over 400 teams. It brings a lot of people into Macklin. It doubles the size of the town for a weekend,â&#x20AC;? said Bast who opted to skip this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event in favour of a family outing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be tired when you come to work on Tuesday, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good weekend to be gone!â&#x20AC;?

A normal workday at MRC in Macklin is devoted to filling and delivering orders for pipes, valves and fittings mostly pertaining to oilfield completions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably 50 per cent walk-in business,â&#x20AC;? said Bast. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of crews will come to pick up their stuff in the morning then the remainder we deliver in the field. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the store, usually itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the maintenance crews coming in to pick up their pipes, valves and fittings for the dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We provide anything to do with oilfield completions. We do downhole stuff as well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do progressing cavity pumps, sucker rods, tubing, top drives, surface equipment â&#x20AC;&#x201C; hydraulic skids all that kind of stuff â&#x20AC;&#x201C; anything you need to do to get oil out of the ground,â&#x20AC;? Bast said.

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MRC has access to more than 150,000 products on their integrated global supply network including stainless pipe and fittings to deal with corrosive H2S in the regional oilfield. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As well we keep a lot of internally coating fittings â&#x20AC;&#x201C; IPC coated which is a Teflon coating,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;MRC has a wide range of products and approved manufacturersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lists that we can draw from. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Usually, we get daily freight out of Edmonton. As long as we get an order by 4 p.m. itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s usually here at 6:30 the next morning.â&#x20AC;?

Midfield is coming off a banner year in 2012 for local business but demand has slowed somewhat through the first half of 2013. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This year has pulled back, but I think the entire industry has pulled back a little bit projecting about 20 per cent off of what it was last year,â&#x20AC;? said Bast. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The biggest player in the area in Northern Blizzard and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been very busy, but all in all it seems to be flatlining for this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The area is still busy, and 2014 is supposed to be a busy year in the first and third quarter.â&#x20AC;?

Macklin, itself, is on a growth spurt with the recent opening of a new Rona hardware and a Co-op grocery store fronting Highway 14 near the junction of Highway 17.

Those businesses and others coming soon are helping oilfield service companies like MRC to attract new employees, but housing is tight.

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Lac-MĂŠgantic, dealing with this tragic loss.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a long road back, rebuilding to a sense of normalcy,â&#x20AC;? said Saskatchewan NDP deputy leader Trent Wotherspoon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost impossible to comprehend the

loss that that community and families have faced. What we need to make sure comes from tragedy like that is thoughtful analysis; meaningful action to make sure communities are protected as it relates to rail transportation.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;The rail transportation connected us as a country, and defined in many ways who we became as a nation, and has an important role into the future. But we need to make sure that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re addressing concerns about safety. We need to make sure that recommendations of the Transportation Safety Board arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t brushed off and ignored by the federal government. We need to make sure that when the auditor general makes recommendations about safety, those arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t brushed off by the federal government. And we need to

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As it relates to any concerns about the transportation of oil, as may flow out of the crisis in Lac-MĂŠgantic, what we need is for government to provide a leadership role in a measured way, to make sure that the risks are understood and communities are protected,â&#x20AC;? Wotherspoon said.

Noting that short lines, in many cases, are made up of local members who have pooled their resources together, Wotherspoon said they need to be enabled to step up to the challenge of meeting new regulations while protecting communities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If risks need to be mitigated to protect communities, then certainly government needs to be there to step up and be an active partner with short line rail to be able to meet those challenges. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very important communities are safe,â&#x20AC;? Wotherspoon concluded.

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707,305, 5,>: :LW[LTILY W Page B4 â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the things we really struggle with when new people move into the community is rental housing. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a lot of rental housing,â&#x20AC;? said Bast. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anything that comes for sale in the lower end of the market is usually snapped up within a couple of days.â&#x20AC;?

MRC opened the shop in Macklin in 2006 and has grown to nine employees and two contractors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We get our fair share of the business. We are the only pipes, valves and fittings supplier in Macklin,â&#x20AC;? said Bast. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do have lots of competition in Provost.

Being the only company situated here, it works well for us.â&#x20AC;?

MRC has three salesmen on the road and three mechanics in service trucks who do every from installations to equipment oil changes in the field.

Equipment is also trucked back to the shop and rebuilt for the customer.

As the branch manager, Bastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top priority is to make sure employees come to work and do their jobs well and in a safe manner.

He is also mindful for the shop to provide a product and a service to the customer that they are happy with while allowing the company to make money.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;That would be kind of the way it flows,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We try to make sure our customers have what they want when they want and priced accordingly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is my 20th year in the business so I have dealt with a lot of them over the years. There are some pretty good relationships there.â&#x20AC;?

Bast also knows a lot of guys at the Lloydminster shop. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lloydminster just seems to be steady, steady, steady. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got guys like Husky. They do so many wells every year whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good or bad.

They just keep drilling. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Macklin is cyclical with the oil industry. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s primarily oil and farming. Neither one of them has been super duper. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always one or the other thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting beat up.â&#x20AC;?

Bast also works as Macklinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s volunteer fire chief who typically sends a crew to the bunnock

championship to water the dusty roads at the Macklin Lake Regional Park.

A lot his employees were also helping out at the event, which the oilfield supports, to raise funds for non-profit groups in town. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone kind of pitches in and works a shift here and there for sure,â&#x20AC;? said Bast. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For a lot of service organizations, it is their one and only good fundraiser that they manage to have throughout the year.â&#x20AC;?

Northern Blizzard presented $73,000 to the Macklin and District Health Foundation and $15,000 the fire department a month before the bunnock tournament.

Northern Blizzard raised $168,000 for organizations in Macklin, Kerrobert and Neilberg at its invitational vendor golf tournament held in Lloydminster on June 6.

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The campus used the break to run two five-week steam labs to provide 4th class power engineering students from across Canada with 200 hours of accredited steam time for certification. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because our lab is now a 3rd class lab and has more capacity, this is the first year weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve run it,â&#x20AC;? said Kara Johnston, energy director on July 31 during the second lab. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All of the students in there have been successful in their 4th class technical portion. All they are missing to be fully accredited is the 200 hours in the lab.â&#x20AC;?

Most of the students in the summer intakes studied power engineering online or took distance training, then came to Lakeland with oil industry jobs or career changes in mind.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hope to get my 4th class ticket, then hopefully get into power engineering back home,â&#x20AC;? said 24 year Jarrod Gauchier from High Prairie, Alta. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to be a heavy oilfield operator, then hopefully go for my Class 3 after that. I am a heavy equipment contractor and I kind of wanted something else, so I got into power engineering.â&#x20AC;?

The Lakeland steam lab is an efficient alternative to an industry practicum that could be unpaid and take up to 900 hours to complete. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every lab is structured and has specific outcomes, so thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an advantage to come here,â&#x20AC;? said Johnston.

The lab is equipped with a high tech water tube boiler that was installed last fall to go along with an existing teaching fire tube boiler and a small oncethrough generator. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nice. Everything is hands-on here,â&#x20AC;? said Gauchier, who hopes to work in a heavy oil thermal project in the Seal Lake area northwest of High Prairie.

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of people are approaching retirement age. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most students recognize Lakeland College for the heavy oil program and they recognize the heavy oil program as an entrance into the oil and gas industry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a stepping stone for students. If they want to get into heavy oil, this is the place to be.â&#x20AC;?

A career change was top of mind for 33-yearold Teresa Lawrence, a nurse from Penticton B.C. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always wanted a trade underneath my belt. My family comes from a trade back-

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Mohit Sharma, an 18 year-old power engineering student from Edmonton, is also eyeing a career in the heavy oil industry once he is fully certified. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to work in the oil and gas industry too â&#x20AC;&#x201C; anywhere I can find a good job in Alberta. I want to stay in Alberta. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter if I am close to Edmonton or not,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Energy program chair and instructor Robert Jago said thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a demand for up to 5,000 power engineers in Canada, just to cover attrition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of it is growth in the oil and gas industry. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bit of a demand everywhere in Canada for power engineers,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the heavy oil industry, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s age. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be a huge turnover in the next four or five years because a lot

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The steam lab is approved by the Alberta Boiler Safety Association and the Technical Safety Association of Saskatchewan as a requirement to write the 4th class Part B examination.

Students who want to work as power engineers in other provinces have to also write exams in those jurisdictions.

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The steam course is a combination of hands-on training as well as submitted assignments to be completed on site during lab hours. Jago said the technology being used in the industry is mostly computer based these days and Lakelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teaching lab is no exception. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This lab is state-of-the-art.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ideal for teaching. The students here get hands-on experience with equipment that they will work on in industry,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All this equipment we have currently in our lab is identical to the equipment they will work on in industry.â&#x20AC;?

Johnston said there â&#x20AC;&#x153;there is a huge demand for lab timeâ&#x20AC;? in the industry and believes the summer labs will help ease pressure on industry to create student work placements for steam time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It helps pay to keep our doors open and helps pay to keep our lab running, so thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bonus as well,â&#x20AC;? said Johnston. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we have a major breakdown, we have funds available to fix that.â&#x20AC;?

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Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s okay for now, according to 48 year-old Stephen Lacoste, who is being trained by Millar Western Forest Products Ltd. in Whitecourt, Alta., to maintain their dry kiln boilers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been a saw filer for 30 years and decided it would be something new to try and something to challenge my mind again,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Lacoste also realizes that having a 4th class power engineering ticket could give his some added career options in the energy sector. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With the interest in the oil industry the way itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going, I thought this would be something different to try instead of saw filing for all those years,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For now, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m thinking with this company and the way theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve treated me â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I want to complete this course and help them out by taking care of the kilns and drying the lumber.â&#x20AC;?

Lacoste said Millar Western is building a new cogeneration plant on site that will require power engineering expertise.

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Efforts have been underway to get landlocked Western Canadian sedimentary basin to tidewater via the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline to Kitimat, Kinder Morganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s planned Trans Mountain Expansion to Vancouver, TransCanadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stalled Keystone XL to the U.S. Gulf Coast, and the recently announced TransCanada Energy East project to St. John, New Brunswick. But the closest tidewater to the WCSB is in fact Churchill, Man., and by rail itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s literally all downhill to get there.

Jeff McEachern, executive director of the Churchill Gateway Development Corporation (CGDC), spoke via phone to Pipeline News on Aug. 15. while on the road doing community consultations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing some community information sessions right now,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a key point for a project that will depend on crude-byrail to get to the northern port, especially with the tragedy that struck Lac-MĂŠgantic, Que., where a runaway train carrying crude oil killed 47 people in July.

They had just spoken to a community meeting in Churchill, where approximately

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At The Pas, approximately 40 people came out. Thompson was the next on the list. Both The Pas and Thompson are on the Hudson Bay Railway, which services the Port of Churchill. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still working through the process, working on the infrastructure buildup of the port, working with industry partners. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking to communities right now about our plans and what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking toward, trying to provide as much information as we can,â&#x20AC;?

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Operations and maintenance of Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway have been called into question with regards to the Quebec disaster. Asked about the Hudson Bay Railwayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s track, McEachern said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The line is in as good a shape as it ever has been. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been significant investment put into the line in the last couple of years and there will continue to be. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A unit train on the Hudson Bay Railway is 80 cars. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most likely they will be unit trains that come up, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been communicating to the community.â&#x20AC;?

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barrels of oil.

The port was originally built to ship grain, with the rail line completed in 1929.

But in the early days of the Cold War, Canada and the United States and built a substantial army base at Churchill, resulting in substantial petroleum storage tanks being built at the port.

At one time tankers were to bring in fuel, but now that comes in by rail. Just a fraction of the tank farmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capacity is currently used for refined products â&#x20AC;&#x201C; diesel, jet fuel, gasoline. But it can also be used for crude. The system can both receive and ship petroleum products.

The tankage has a total capacity of 250,000 barrels. McEachern said last December they anticipate approximately 200,000 barrels could be used for unrefined product. The remainder is used to service the community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are in the midst of making modifications to ensure we can transload the product from rail to vessel efficiently, and safely. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going through certification of the existing infrastructure and making modification to enhance the throughput.â&#x20AC;?

The initial plan is to load from rail directly to ship. Eventually modifications would be made to the tank farm to al-

low oil to be transferred from rail to the tank farm, and then the tank farm to ship. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Storage will be a factor for growth in the future. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re focused on running an initial shipment first, a pilot shipment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re working through that process right now, potentially as early as October,â&#x20AC;?

McEachern said.

Since the shipping season ends at the end of October or early November, there would be only time for one shipment. But if that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work out, the plan would be to look at the 2014 season for the first shipment. Due to ice, Churchillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shipping season is from July 31 to Oct. 31.

The tanker vessels would be in the 250,000 to 300,000-bbl. size. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The growth will be driven by the market. In our community meetings, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking about growing slowly. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to see 10 vessels per year in the coming years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be a phased approach.â&#x20AC;?

That would put total export capacity via Churchill for a year at approximately 3 million barrels. In contrast,

thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s less than the proposed TransCanada Energy East pipeline would ship to Eastern Canada in a long weekend, or the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline would export in six days. Western Canada currently produces roughly 3.5 million barrels per day.

As for spill response should an oil tanker get into trouble in Hudson Bay, McEachern said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very extensive emergency plan put

in place. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been discussing that with the community and working with leading experts in the industry to assist us to not only make plans that meet industry stands but exceed the standards of the industry. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very conscious of the environment weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in and the ecosystems. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going well beyond industry norms to ensure everything is done very safely. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The spill response and emergency plan

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Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been working closely with regulatory agencies to ensure the plan is above standard.â&#x20AC;?

A â&#x20AC;&#x153;significant investmentâ&#x20AC;? is being made.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a private company, OmniTRAX, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the asset owner and making the investment.

Churchill Gateway Development Corporation is the marketing arm for the Port of Churchill.

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PFM just concluded commitments and placement of approximately $20 million in the oil and gas sector this past summer, in addition to $23 million in placements and commitments earlier in the year. PFM Capital is Saskatchewanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest private equity firm with $485 million in assets under management.

Approximately $100 million of that figure is currently invested/committed in the oil and gas sector. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a busy but good summer,â&#x20AC;? said Jason Moser, senior investment manager with PFM. PFM is the manager of the SaskWorks Resource Fund, SaskWorks Diversified Fund, and Apex Investment Limited Partnership, among others.

Moser sat down with Pipeline News earlier in the summer to discuss their various investments in the patch. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We see more service companies than producers based on the quantity of service companies in the basin.

You see a lot of them, but you have to be disciplined. You have to think about the exit and being properly capitalized amongst other criteria. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are still good opportunities out there as there are many talented management teams. However, institutional investors need to be judicious in where we put capital. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We see a lot of owner-operator companies for sale given their demographics.

He said that companies that do a good job in building for succession are of interest. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a one man show and he or she is taking all of their chips off the table, then thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s less desirable for us.â&#x20AC;?

The fund manager usually looks for investments to last five to seven years, until it

is time to exit. Exits are situation specific, according to Moser and depend upon company and market specific circumstances. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We go into most investments with the expectation that we may be in there for five to seven years,â&#x20AC;? he said, adding, â&#x20AC;&#x153;As long as thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s value being created weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re happy to remain involved and help grow the companyâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have to balance continued growth with monetizing a gain.

We wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exit just for the sake of exiting.â&#x20AC;?

PFMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s investments discussed here are either done through APEX LP or the SaskWorks funds, so references to PFM should be considered to be through either or, sometimes both, funds.

Plains Environmental Plains Environmental is a waste disposal operation that was purchased by Rotex Energy, a company that PFM had invested in.

Rotex then took on the long-established Plains Environmental name.

Regarding Plains, Moser said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a space we like, especially on the cavern side. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s difficult to replicate the facilities they currently have.â&#x20AC;?

With more onerous environmental regulations, the result is a good market for waste disposal operations. Funds managed

by PFM invested $6 million in April 2011, and followed that with a further $1.6 million investment in September 2012.

CanElson Drilling When it comes to CanElson Drilling, Moser said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were in at the inception when it was private, prior to the CPC transaction.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a well-run company, basically, from top to bottom.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;They kept their nose clean during the recession and have been opportunistic and selective in what they acquire. Just like they have through the cycles in various predecessor companies Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re one of the premier drillers in the space.â&#x20AC;?

CanElson has 14 rigs in Saskatchewan.

Through its shareholdings in CanElson, PFM has indirect exposure to CanGas Solutions, owned by CanElson. They are seeking to capture natural gas that would otherwise be flared, as well as use compressed natural gas to fuel drilling rigs.

Stampede Drilling Estevan-based Stampede Drilling is a new player to the game, drilling its first well in November 2012. The company has two rigs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We liked the depth of the management team, with financial, marketing, safety and operational backgrounds. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a little better rounded than some other small independent teams,â&#x20AC;?

Moser said.

Bill Devins looks after operations, Jackie White takes care of health and safety, and Darrin McKay does sales and marketing.

Praising Stampedeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s environmental and safety background, he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The quality and comprehensiveness of your safety program can dictate who you can and canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work for in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s environment.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We did one-third of a $15 million raise,â&#x20AC;? he said, adding there was â&#x20AC;&#x153;good management participation, which we always look for.â&#x20AC;?

Crusader Drilling Yorktonâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;based Crusader Drilling now has three rigs, Moser noted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have good utilization, and good contacts. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve kept their crews active and working throughout the cycle due to the quality

of the equipment and management.

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by PFM have a $7.0 million investment into Crusader.

Steel Reef Infrastructure PFMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest investment in the oil and gas sector is Steel Reef Infrastructure Corp. Funds managed

by PFM made a $20 million commitment at the end of March.

Steel Reef is a private midstream start-up company out of Calgary whose senior management team was previously at Keyera Such a company likely wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see the same return as a startup oil and gas company,

but it also has a different level of risk, with use or pay contracts over a fixed period of time and operating costs flowing through to the producer, he noted. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s room for something with those characteristics within their investment portfolio.

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looking at gas processing plants, blending facilities, batteries and pipelines amongst other assets.

With a lot of producers forced to make difficult capital allocation decisions, using Steel Reef on existing or new assets can be an

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Bennett is the vicepresident of operations for Sun Country, heading up things on the ground in Estevan, and one of three partners, the others being Tony Hodges, president, and Rob Wasylyniuk, vicepresident of finance.

Sun Country is one of the larger independent service rig operators in

Saskatchewan. They currently have 10 rigs with number 11 set to arrive this fall.

Producers PFMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s funds have made numerous investments in small oil and gas producers. Moser said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;In general, we are seeing a lot of emphasis on cost control and efficiencies. The market is making producers more disciplined.â&#x20AC;?

With regards to southeast Saskatchewan, where the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bakken Boomâ&#x20AC;? has somewhat cooled, he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a grow-at-all-costs basin anymore.

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707,305, 5,>: :LW[LTILY W Page B14 â&#x20AC;&#x153;At a high level, Crescent Point or PetroBakken (now Lightstream Resources) are forecasting modest production increases over the next four to five years. If the big producers arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to see huge increases in this region, overall, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably not going to (happen.) Still, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decent activity, and producers can realize good returns.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the hockey stick growth trajectory that was seen 10 years ago, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still an attractive place to invest.â&#x20AC;?

Moser said these are the signs of Bakken becoming a mature field, with companies like Crescent Point Energy looking at secondary recovery methods such as waterfloods.

Avalon Oil & Gas Avalon is the third iteration for this heavy oil management team who has achieved two successful liquidity events. Funds managed

by PFM made a $10 million commitment in Avalon in August as a part of a larger equity raise. Moser said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We believe Avalon is well capitalized and can be opportunistic to benefit from some attractive asset and land packages for sale.â&#x20AC;?

Caltex Resources Caltex Resources has operations concentrated near Druid, south of Lloydminster. Col-

lectively the Funds have $8.3 million invested in Caltex â&#x20AC;&#x153;They acquired a heavy oil producer of ours, concurrent with an equity raise,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Moser described the company as well financed, with good institutional investors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the third iteration with this management team. They know heavy oil and have had good returns before.

These guys are good at driving down costs and are very efficient,â&#x20AC;? Moser said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being private, they can grow at their own pace and can be opportunistic with their acquisitions given the strength of their balance sheet and ability of investors to follow-on.â&#x20AC;?

Elkhorn Resources Elkhorn is a very focussed company with all assets concentrated in the Northgate area in southeast Saskatchewan.

They secured their land position early and are one of the larger private producers in the area. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We participated in a follow-on last fall with a $4.0 million investment,â&#x20AC;? Moser said.

Firesky Energy Firesky Energy Inc. is a â&#x20AC;&#x153;carve outâ&#x20AC;? of family owned T. Bird Oil in Estevan.

Firesky is headed

by Warren Waldegger, who has been the general manager of T. Bird Oil since its inception.

Firesky represented an

opportunity to bring in outside investors, and funds managed by PFM made a $5 million investment in the June 2012 equity raise. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They had a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;starter kit,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; of some existing production and undeveloped land which can be more desirable than starting from scratch,â&#x20AC;? said Moser. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fire Sky has had a good first full year of operations. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve completed a few â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;tuckin acquisitionsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and are growing internally.â&#x20AC;?

Some family-run companies are good with stretching a dollar, and Fire Sky has many of these attributes, Moser added.

High Rock Energy Ltd. The fundâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $4.5 million investment in High Rock Energy came about indirectly, through High Rock's acquisition of Bulldog Oil & Gas in 2012. The company has southeast Saskatchewan operations with a good mixture of lower risk plays and some exploration prospects.

Villanova 4 Oil Corp.

In a case where investment funds tend to follow successful management teams, PFMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s involvement with Villanova 4 Oil Corp. is their sixth team-up with the Villanova crew through successive companies that have been built up and then sold. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have the

infrastructure in place.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very little turnover over there. If you have consistency and quality in the management team, and good access to capital then the likelihood of a good outcome is increased.â&#x20AC;?

The company is a southeast Saskatchewan conventional producer.

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have a $5.2 million investment.

Spur Resources The fundsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 2011 $5.1 million investment was part of a larger equity raise used to acquire some legacy assets in SW Saskatchewan.

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Saskatchewan NDP deputy leader Trent Wotherspoon told Pipeline News, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Saskatchewan New Democrats support Energy East, the pipeline thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been proposed. We have, as a party, championed this sort of development in Canada. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Certainly for projects like this, the triple bottom line must be met, from an environmental, economic and social perspective to ensure there is a benefit to Saskatchewan people and communities. But we see a lot of benefit in Energy East. It needs to be focus for our government. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It creates jobs in Saskatchewan.

We see it getting our oil to market, very important markets, that can work towards potentially closing the oil differentials, getting us a better price for our oil. Certainly itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my job to advo-

cate for Saskatchewan, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my focus, and the Energy East project would be important to Saskatchewan people and add value for all of Canada.â&#x20AC;?

While nearly all of the pipe for this project in Saskatchewan is already in the ground, with the repurposing of an existing natural gas line to oil service, the biggest impact will be the creation of a substantial new oil terminal near Moosomin. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important for us to get Saskatchewan oil into those pipelines and to market. In doing so, we need to ensure that whatever projects are proposed, they pass an environmental, economic and social benefit, to make sure any communities impacted are protected on the environmental front. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is an important project for Saskatchewan. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important from a jobs perspective, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important for getting a fair price for our product.â&#x20AC;?

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/DF 0pJDQWLF LPSDFWV 6DVNDWFKHZDQ FUXGH E\ UDLO Calgary â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Lac-MĂŠgantic disaster has had impacts on the crude-by-rail industry here in Saskatchewan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Obviously, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a horrific tragedy,â&#x20AC;? said TORQ Transloading CEO Jarrett Zielinski. â&#x20AC;&#x153;From an operational perspective, it has reduced some shipments to Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s East Coast from any origin that may take that route.â&#x20AC;?

Asked if any of their shipments had taken the Quebec route in question, he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;There have been some shipments of ours, on a manifest basis, but it is not Bakken crude that was taking that route. It is heavier crude from southern Alberta and southern Saskatchewan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not good for the industry, period.â&#x20AC;?

As for what will happen in the future for crude-by-rail, he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early to speculate. What I can tell you is over the past four to six weeks, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a slight drop in volumes. I would say the majority is associated with crude pricing and not the tragedy in Lac-MĂŠgantic. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to impact our business in the future, my expectation is there will be higher safety controls. It extends all the way from the delivery of crude to a loading facility; the loading of it, those processes and procedures; and the actual transportation of the supply chain; then the delivery and receipt of the product as well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think it will be crude oil-specific, but an umbrella covering any dangerous goods.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Remember, the nature of most of the product we ship is heavier crude, with a much higher flashpoint. The nature of that crude is much different from Bakken crude from a dangerous goods perspective and its ability to ignite. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not an expert. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not a chemist. Typically crude oil does not explode.

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Zielinsky said.

With the cleanup and compensation from Lac-MĂŠgantic going well into the millions of dollars, how will this affect insurance for the short lines which service many crude transloading facilities? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t comment on their insurance. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going through a full review of our insurance to ensure we are covered for things that may happen further down the supply chain. If changes are significant in insurance requirements and the costs are significant as well, it may become more difficult for some of the shortlines that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see a lot of traffic. Or those costs may be passed on.

But when you spread them across a per-car basis, it may not be as significant as one would think,â&#x20AC;? Zielinski said.

TORQ has had brief discussions with respect to a review of policy and procedure with the rail lines they work with. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early to make wholesale changes to our loading procedures, given we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know yet if it was a rail car failure, a mechanical failure ... we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know enough detail about the actual chain of events of what occurred and led to that disaster,â&#x20AC;? Zielinski said.

The train that caused the disaster was operated by one man. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can comment that we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t operate under those metrics. We certainly have more than one person at any facility at any given time. They also have methods of communication, such as radio. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t actually move the tank cars, by and large,â&#x20AC;? he noted.

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Lyndon Forseth is the assistant director of field operations. He has been with Brady since 1997, first as a driver, then dispatcher. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been in his current position for a year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I look after the customer base, and do the bidding,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Brady has been in business for nearly 50 years. Most of that time, it was a family business, but in 2006 it was purchased by the Mullen Group.

The Mullen Group tends to allow its subsidiaries to operated with a lot of independence, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exactly what is found with Brady. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every (Mullen) company runs on its own individual basis,â&#x20AC;? Forseth said.

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Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about the same size as 2009, after a few years of marked growth.

Right now the fleet isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t growing so much as gradually changing, with the adoption of larger units. For instance, the company now has seven sets of Super-B trailers instead of traditional straight trailers. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in part due to the difficulty of attracting new drivers, common throughout the industry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easier to pull bigger units with the employees you have,â&#x20AC;? Forseth said.

The companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s area of service has also greatly expanded.

Bradyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home base is smack dab in the middle of the Weyburn unit, operated by Cenovus. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We used to haul within, say, a 40-mile radius. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now southern Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba.â&#x20AC;?

One truck has a steady run hauling calcium water from northern Alberta.

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Crescent Point currently has the largest crude-by-rail facility in Saskatchewan, but that is expected to be eclipsed within the next year by new facilities at Lashburn, Northgate and Kerrobert. Enough crude-by-rail projects have been announced in recent months that if they are are built, Saskatchewan will theoretically have the ability to ship all of its crude production, and then some, by rail.

TORQ Transloadingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Southall location, near Bromhead, a recently launched crude-by-rail facility, is very close to Bradyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s base. Brady is now hauling for two larger producers in the area to that facility. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in our backyard. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in our turf,â&#x20AC;? Forseth said, noting the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eagerness to do that sort of work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;TORQ is so close to us, we want to be the No. 1 there.â&#x20AC;?

As of early August, that was the only crude-by-rail facility Brady was hauling into, but it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the first. The company had the run from Roche Percee production to Estevan, but it has been several months since theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve hauled a load into Estevan.

Brady is currently pursuing trucking opportunities for other crude-by-rail facilities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You take Crescent Point. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to back down on crude-by-rail, so of course you want to be a part of that.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anything going to crude-by-rail, a trucking company smiles,â&#x20AC;? he said, with a smile on his own face. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything going to rail has to be trucked there. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no pipeline connections yet.â&#x20AC;?

Forseth noted that a lot of trucking companies hauling to crude-by-rail facilities are tied with marketers, something Brady has not done. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As Bradyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, we havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t got that. A marketer doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t own us. As far as the Mullen Group goes, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve looked at it.

In addressing this shift in the business, Forseth said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be ready. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been sitting reasonably slow right now. We have a lot of metal waiting right now. If thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the route itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taking, we will definitely be involved in it.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;It comes up every day at coffee.â&#x20AC;?

The aforementioned Super-Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s are well-suited for that sort of hauling. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You need your Super-Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, which we expanded two years ago. ɸ Page B21

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Those units see a lot of work in the Weyburn unit, mostly hauling water, but also oil and chemical. Body-jobs, as they are often called, are more nimble on tight leases than larger units.

The bulk of the fleet is approximately 80 triaxle trailers units. They are big enough for crude oil transfers, emulsion, produced and fresh water hauling.

Brady’s will often assist Mullen Group sister company Spearing Service LP, out of Oxbow, with its frac water hauling, as needed. Spearing operates a large fleet of frac trailers, but Brady does not. They stick to hauling the water in those cases.

Brady’s has four pressure trucks, including one

one-ton for flowline pressure testing. These units see a lot of use in pressure testing. Two tandem units are kept full of water in case a fire pops up somewhere in the region.

Three combo vac units on tri-drive bodies have been a plus, according to Forseth. “We’ve seen a big change in that. It’s been a big asset to us.”

These units have a heated pressure washer and boiler for hot, fresh water, in addition to their vac capabilities. He explained, “You can wash and suck as you go.”

“We have one semi-vac unit used for bigger spill or facility turnarounds.”

The gravel division has 12 units, with a variety of end- and belly-dump trailers. They primarily work in lease building and maintenance, especially within the Weyburn unit.

“We build leases daily,” Forseth said.

When moving gravel, it helps to have your

own excavators and payloaders, as well as your own gravel pit.

Staffing Brady currently has about 120 people on payroll. Asked if they have enough staff, Forseth said, “At the present time, yes, we do. I do communicate with other guys that are ready to come on if things did come up. Of course, being part of the Mullen Group, we have access to other Mullen companies.”

Like many of the larger operations in southeast Saskatchewan, Brady has found a need to have its own housing for staff.

“We have apartments in Weyburn the company rents full-time. I think we have 10 units.”

The company also makes use of the former Griffin School, which was converted several years ago into housing.

“We have three drivers there right now,” Forseth said.

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Halbrite â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something in the oil thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chewing up truck tankers.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the conclusion Brady Oilfield Services LP came to, and as a result, the company has established its own on-site repair shop.

The issue has been with aluminum trailers, adopted because their light weight allows more product to be carried within weight restriction. Problems have arisen from failures of protective lining, a coating inside the tank. Cracks in the lining, especially in the sump area, can result in the aluminum being eaten away, rotted with holes. The result looks like metal Swiss cheese. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your coating does crack, allowing chemicals onto the aluminum. To repair a trailer can be a $40,000 repair,â&#x20AC;? said Lyndon Forseth, assistant director of field operations.

The resultant sandblasting, repair and recoating can take weeks, allowing for the new coating to dry. That puts the unit out of service for an extended period. Many haulers are now adopting stainless steel tankers that require no coating and are thus quicker to repair. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;old crude,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen as much. But with Bakken crude, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something in the Bakken crude thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s terrible on trailers.â&#x20AC;?

Once they get caught up with their own repairs, Bradyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is considering offering the service to third parties at some point in the future. But thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lineup of trailers that has to be worked through first. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At this point, lining is the issue. We really focus on the lining. We steam them out and inspect them ourselves. If the lining is cracked, we repair it.

When we do the lining in our shop, we can bring it back in a year and do minor maintenance such as touch-ups. We make sure every bolt and bracket is coated.

Thomas â&#x20AC;&#x153;T.K.â&#x20AC;? Oman is the lead hand in the repair shop. His history with tanker trailers is long. He used to build them in his native Quebec.

Oman worked for Tremcar in St. Cesaire. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I started out running a forklift with sheets of aluminum or stainless steel,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been doing this for six years, since I was 19. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I built them from the ground up. I know what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re supposed to look like.

Oman is one of six people working in the tank repair shop. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I moved to Western Canada in 2009, working in Weyburn.â&#x20AC;? ^ŽůĹ?Ä&#x161;Ć? Ĺ&#x161;Ä&#x201A;Ć&#x152;Ä&#x161;Ä&#x17E;Ĺś Ĺ?ĹśĆ&#x161;Ĺ˝ Ä&#x201A; Ć&#x161;Ç&#x2021;Ć&#x2030;Ä&#x17E; ŽĨ Ä?Ä&#x17E;ĹľÄ&#x17E;ĹśĆ&#x161; Ä&#x201A;Ć&#x161; Ć&#x161;Ĺ&#x161;Ä&#x17E; Ä?ŽƊŽž ŽĨ â&#x20AC;&#x153;These tanks are aluminum alloys. The acid in the oil doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get along with Ć&#x161;Ć&#x152;Ä&#x201A;Ĺ?ĹŻÄ&#x17E;Ć&#x152;Ć?Í&#x2DC; it. Nothing does but stainless. Bakken oil is higher in acid. It wears down the aluminum, valves, pipes. It eats everything. Even over time, it will get stainless. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not rusted, but more like rotten,â&#x20AC;? he said of the aluminum that is affected. ɸ Page B25

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Éş Page B24 To prove his point, Oman went to the scrap storage area behind the shop and pulled out a chunk of aluminum he had recently cut out of the sump area in the bottom of the middle of the tank on a trailer he is working on. A bracket from that piece is sitting in the main office, with more holes than a block of Swiss cheese.

Similarly, the area around the sump was rotten.

Part of that is due to the placement of the load line. Running from the back of the tanker, it flows to the middle of the trailer, right above the sump.

The result is any sand or particulates in the oil end up effectively sandblasting the bottom of the tank below it. This ruins the coating, and allows the corrosion to occur.

The pressure itself doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help either, and screens donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t trap everything.

To combat this, Oman blanked off the old load line ports, and installed a new external load line. One of the negatives is that it is more subject to freezing. But on the positive side, the increased visibility means the operator knows when repair is needed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was a 2008 trailer,â&#x20AC;? Oman said.

The sump area of the trailer was completely cut out and replaced with all-new 5454-H32 grade aluminum. Once everything was put back together, a new lining was needed.

In other instances, solids can build up in a trailer, forming something like cement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It literally makes cement you have to chisel out with a hammer.â&#x20AC;?

He pulled out a black piece that was extracted from around a valve in a tri-drive body job truck.

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Halbrite â&#x20AC;&#x201C; When it comes to having done it all, Brady Oilfield Services driver Lee Beacock might be in the running.

Pipeline News ran into Beacock when he was working with his tri-drive body-job tanker truck on a lease near Halbrite. The truckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hose was hooked up to the service rig setup as a wireline truck performed a multi-finger caliper logging run looking for irregularities in the casing. But what does he, the truck driver, do? â&#x20AC;&#x153;It varies. Some days youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re feeding the well. Others, they are bleeding the well back into the truck. Sometimes youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re feeding the pump (truck) while theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re circulating the well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometimes you have a kill fluid on, other times you show up empty,â&#x20AC;? Beacock said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some days youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re there just in case, on standby, and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pump a drop all day.â&#x20AC;?

Brady Oilfield Services has 12 such tridrive trucks whose principle purpose is to work with service rigs in a similar manner. The gas scrubber on the truck is helpful, dealing with the majority of H2S that may be coming off the well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This well, H2S is not an issue. But other wells can be up to 18 per cent. You always have to be aware of it,â&#x20AC;?

Beacock said. As such, every well is treated as if

it is sour. A gas monitor pinned to his chest is a testament to that fact.

Beacock spent his early days in Ontario, including North Bay, Ottawa, and a place north of Toronto. The 59-year-old came out West in 1972 when he was 23. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worked on and off in the patch for around 20 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hauled fuel and propane. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve built houses, done renovations, fire and flood restorations, and sales â&#x20AC;&#x201C; giftware and meat sales. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I used to work in steel, aluminum and cast iron foundries. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve worked with 12 different metals and made moulds for them all,â&#x20AC;? he added, noting he did sand-casting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing wrong with that,â&#x20AC;? Beacock said of his widely varied career. Employers often look for people with a broad range of experience, because those people can draw upon that experience to solve problems.

Now he calls the village of Dilke, Sask., home, where he lives with his second wife.

While working in the patch, he stays in a holiday trailer south of Weyburn year round.

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His wife used to work as a journalist,

Beacock added, working for the Toronto Sun. He says she was that paperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first ever Sunshine Girl, a fact heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quite proud of.

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After a few months of pumping gas this past spring, she found herself working in the tank repair shop at Bradyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, for more than twice her previous pay. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My brother works here,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fun. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually a really cool job.â&#x20AC;?

Working inside the confined space, she wears a motion-detecting wristband paired with a similar device worn by another woman working in the shop.

If either stops moving for a minute, the opposite device goes off.

Asked what her friends back home think of her working in the oilpatch, Stokes said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of them say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;What are you going there for?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The moneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s out here,â&#x20AC;? is her response.

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The Western Star and Hyundai Construction Equipment dealerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presence in Bienfait is its third location after Saskatoon and Regina. The company also works on Cummins, Detroit and Cat engines, in addition to other lines.

Jerrod Tedford came on as a partner in the Bienfait location, having merged his former business of Timberwolf Mechanical Ltd. with the Winacott Group.

Climbing down from the roof of a fracking truck, he spoke to Pipeline News about how itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good, busy,â&#x20AC;? he said. Comparing the location to his former haunt on the west side of Estevan, he said thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s way more room. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nice.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love the location. Seven or eight out of 10 vehicles that go by are trucks.â&#x20AC;?

He was doubly pleased to find out the province recently announced its intentions to twin Highway 39/Highway 18 from Estevan to Bienfait, saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perfect.â&#x20AC;?

Sales are still handled out of Regina, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a truck, trailer, loader and excavator on site for customers to check out.

The location is the former Prairie Western Reclamation site, which sold out this past spring when the owners retired.

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In Bienfait they have two parts people, one service writer, four mechanics and Tedford, who, in his coveralls, said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m still turning wrenches myself.â&#x20AC;?

It was a big day for him, as he had to pick up a recently acquired service truck. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had a lot of requests to make our service mobile, so we made it happen.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m running it, because the shopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s full.â&#x20AC;?

He added the staff has grown enough in their experience that he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to be there 24/7. The addition of a parts manager will make a difference. They are still in expansion mode, hiring in numerous positions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I still like being out there and interacting with customers. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m way too hyper for a desk job,â&#x20AC;? Tedford concluded.

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by Brian Zinchuk Estevan – PTI Group opened the largest temporary accommodations facility in southeast Saskatchewan on Aug. 1 with the start-up of its Boundary Lodge near Estevan.

The camp has 346 beds, all equipped with private washrooms.

There are 324 private “superior” rooms, 22 “deluxe” rooms, also known ͞ĚĞůƵdžĞ͟ ƌŽŽŵ͕ ĂůƐŽ ŬŶŽǁŶ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ŝŶĚƵƐƚƌLJ ĂƐ Ă s/W ƌŽŽŵ͕ ĐŽŵĞƐ ǁŝƚŚ Ă ĚŽƵďůĞ ďĞĚ in the industry as VIP rooms, and ĂŶĚ Ă ůĂƌŐĞƌ ǁĂƐŚƌŽŽŵ͘ four barrier-free “access” rooms.

Sean Crockett, vice-president of business development, spoke to Pipeline News by phone on Aug 16.

“Our business model is based on servicing multiple clients and multiple projects in high-growth areas,” he said.

Oil and gas, as well as power, are HARVEY KING: Call 306-634-9888 the biggest drivers for this project.

Run as an “open camp” concept, Owner/President anyone can book rooms, from indiSALES: Call 306-634-7212 viduals to large companies.

The facility is located approxiHarvey King & staff are eager to bring you the same quality mately six miles northeast of Estevan, service you have become accustomed to when dealing with: two miles north of Highway 39 and approximately one mile east of the planned route of the Estevan truck bypass.

The facility is substantial, with numerous wings connected by arctic corridors. All of it is on a veritable forest of steel screw piles to maintain

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Dirt work began last winter.

Just as every room has its own washroom, every wing has its own laundry. Double-bed equipped “deluxe” rooms are 149 square feet, including washroom, and standard “superior” rooms are 121 square feet, with single beds.

Rooms each have a desk, satellite TV, lockable storage and individual climate control.

Quality accommodations make a big difference for companies’ workforces, according to Crockett.

Every exterior door has its own boot room.

The recreation area has a mug-up room for snacks and drinks for when the kitchen is not open. It will include items like cookies, baking, coffee and tea. Once numbers warrant its opening, there’s a commissary area that will be a small store.

A theatre room has 24 very large, very comfy recliners and a large projection screen. In addition to recreational use, it can also be used for safety or orientation meetings. Outside this room are two pool tables, an air hockey table and a foosball table.

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707,305, 5,>: :LW[LTILY W Page B32 Eight computer workstations are also found in the recreation area. The entire facility is wi-fi Internet capable, and wi-fi is free to patrons.

There are two workout areas, one that has more aerobic machines, while the second has more of a strength-training focus with racks of free weights in addition to numerous machines.

The kitchen facilities are large enough for a lodge almost twice the size, so if the Boundary Lodge ever needs to be expanded, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ready for it. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seating for over 200 people.

As is standard for such facilities, three meals a day are included. In addition to a hot breakfast and a substantial dinner, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the bag-up room with numerous tables to prepare lunch. A large variety of sandwiches is offered, as well as â&#x20AC;&#x153;micro meals,â&#x20AC;? meals that can be warmed up in a microwave. These will vary from lasagna and spaghetti to enchiladas and stews.

A wide variety of fruits and salads are available as well. The cooler is wellstocked with drinks.

Rig box meals are also available.

Not everyone goes out into the field at noon, especially if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re working shifts, so the kitchen provides a hot lunch at noon as well.

Dinner is a big spread. When Pipeline News toured on Aug. 1, large racks of ribs were being prepared in the commercial kitchen, and deserts filled the cooler.

PTI is trying to move away from the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;camp experience,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; to a more â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;lodge experience,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; with better food, better facilities and a better all-around experience.

Timing Housing has continued to be an issue for the oil sector in southeast Saskatchewan for the last five years. Numerous hotels have sprouted up, new housing is being built, but it still doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t appear to be enough. Almost every story Pipeline News has covered in the region during that time has noted the intertwined issues of housing and labour shortage. However, there may be some relief in sight as the Boundary Dam Carbon Capture Project, which employed a peak of approximately 1,100 workers, is nearing completion.

Crockett said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Timing is everything. We have seen a lot of ongoing demand.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our model is to be there for the long term, not the short term.â&#x20AC;?

For this project he said PTI is looking at five to 10 years as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;minimum outlook.â&#x20AC;?

Asked why PTI chose a location some distance from pavement, Crocket said they consulted with the RM of Estevan and felt it would be an area wellsuited in the long run. A combination of land price and availability were other factors.

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A camp just north of Waskada was crucial in the region becoming one of Manitobaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hotspots for drilling in recent years. The tiny village had next to no temporary accommodations until the camp was set up.

Now PTI has a facility in the works for the east side of Melita, Man. Numerous camp unit modules are sitting on blocks, and dirt work has been done nearby. Crockett said as PTI was a public company, he couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make forward-looking statements regarding Melita at this time. He called it â&#x20AC;&#x153;a future project development still in the engineering phase. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have been active in that area for a number of years,â&#x20AC;? he said.

At Estevan, the Boundary Lodge will eventually employ approximately 35 people. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been in conversations with a number of clients in the area,â&#x20AC;? Crockett said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be fully operational in September and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re anticipating a strong run in the region.â&#x20AC;?

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Owned by Mike Irvine and his wife Heather, who acts as office manager, Endurance started operations in May 2011. Their initial projects included building several batteries for Gibson Energy at Stoughton and Oungre.

They still work out there, performing all sorts of maintenance.

Endurance does general oilfield maintenance. Servicing tanks, for instance, involves cleaning them out, inspecting them visually or having a certified inspector come out. Similar work is done with treaters. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lots of times weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the second crew on treater work, pulling pipe while another crew services it,â&#x20AC;? said Irvine.

Endurance does a lot of tank and pipe work. Setting tank farms and hauling light towers are other examples. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basically all pipefitting. We do pumpjacks once in a while,â&#x20AC;? Irvine said, noting that some companies have focused on

pumpjack service. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do lots of vapour recovery systems. We started taking on some pipeline work too, working with another contractor.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll pressure test it and tie it in.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;My guys are all certified for installation and building with AOS pipe,â&#x20AC;? he said, adding that such certification is not common in the area.

The certification includes red and green thread, as well as silver streak pipe. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do a lot of structural welding now, too â&#x20AC;&#x201C; pipe stands, catwalks and barrel stands,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Six people work with Endurance besides the two owners, running three crew trucks. Two are Ford F-550s, and the third is a Topkick 5500, added last December. Two have pickers, one has a small crane.

Much of the work is done close to home, in the Midale, Oungre, Lampman and Stoughton areas.

One of their highlight projects was setting up the tank farm for the Aquistore project last year. Aquistore is a carbon dioxide injection project that will send captured CO2 from Bound-

ary Dam Power Station into deep saline Aquifers. The Aquistore injection and observation wells are the two deepest wells in the province.

Crews usually know the night before where they will be heading the following day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of the consultants go directly through my foremen, Kyle Scholpp and Jason Berg, and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to be a third wheel. I still oversee projects. I still crew a truck, too. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We usually plan ahead the day before. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always those phone calls in the morning that change everything.â&#x20AC;?

One crew generally follows one company, another follows two other larger clients. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I pick up everything in the middle,â&#x20AC;? Irvine said.

In the spring of 2012 the company moved into larger quarters on the west side of Estevan, taking over the building they previously only had a bay in.

In the future heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to perhaps add one more truck, but Irvine would like to keep the staff number under 10. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the magic number between SECOR and COR certification. SECOR, or small employer certificate of recognition, cuts off at 10.

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Unfortunately, some of those broken windshields belong to the two Macklin Vac trucks that he and Brad Berezowski co-own as a separate business. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a constant process out here doing your safeties â&#x20AC;&#x201C; you always have to have good glass. That seems to be a constant business,â&#x20AC;? said Hauck at his T+T Collision shop.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s another business that we service the oilfield with. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been here for 32 years and certainly the growing oilpatch has always been a part of our business, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not all we have. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We work with everything from the smallest Toyota up to the largest vac trucks, oilfield haulers, semis â&#x20AC;&#x201C; lots of Peterbilts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do lots of windshields and fibreglass work for all different types of trucks â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Kenworth and Western Star.â&#x20AC;?

The Macklin Vac trucks are maintained and parked at another business location and are sub-contracted to Prospector Oilfield Services which is based in Provost, Alberta.

By running under the Prospector name, Macklin Vac saves the expense of obtaining a Certificate of Recognition for safety and hiring its own dispatcher. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They do a whole range of pressure trucks, vac trucks, steamers hot oilers and combo units. They are the biggest competition around here for Clean Harbors,â&#x20AC;? said Hauck. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were running by ourselves for awhile, but it got to the point where oil companies were telling us we had to have certain courses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s larger dollars in that side of the business in safety, and if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing it just for two trucks it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pay. If you have a safety co-ordinator

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Hauck said his role in the company as the manager is â&#x20AC;&#x153;just to keep everything going and pay the bills and make sure the tickets are all inâ&#x20AC;? so everyone gets paid.

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Oilfield trucks work for as a many as 46 different companies in the area. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mostly infield stuff and the disposal stuff will go to Unity CCS. Mostly, its fluid transferred within the batteries, but if there is disposal stuff it has to go out,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Berezowski was hosing down his vac truck in the shop while there were hundreds of visitors in town for the start of the 21st annual World Bunnock Championships on Aug. 2. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had some mud on it and just wanted to make it a little clean â&#x20AC;&#x201C; more respectable,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m taking it out to Pengrowth to do a mud can for a guy I work with quite a bit. They phone me direct a lot of times too. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We get dispatched out, but a lot of guys just phone me direct. I have to co-ordinate with the dispatcher at the same time.â&#x20AC;?

Berezowski gets a lots of calls from Pengrowth, Penn West and Plains Marketing and a host of smaller companies like Black Shire Energy and Arsenal Energy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do all kinds of things like oil spills and transfer fluid and stuff like that. There is always something to do. It keeps a guy out of trouble anyway,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty steady, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got its downtimes too.

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Berezowski originally hails from Yorkton, but has lived in Macklin for the past 20 years.

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When Berezowski is busy, Hauckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy going smile widens, but as a business owner and a former mayor, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seasoned to the ups and down of the oilfield in the Macklin area. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is probably a good time,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You get the lows when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to keep employees and keep everybody generating work, so those are the times you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The oilpatch is always exciting â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not necessarily all good excitement. Sometimes it can get a little scary, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been good. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve enjoyed every minute of it and working with Brad. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been great. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experienced and knowledgeable. It makes my job pretty easy.â&#x20AC;?

In the current uptick, accommodation is scarce in Macklin, but Hauck had the foresight to purchase a few rental duplexes and fourplexes for his employees, including a Filipino worker who is expected to arrive soon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Housing is tight. You get about 10 calls a week,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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Suzanna Nostadt - Vice President (306) 861-2315 Bruce Palmer - Service Manager (306) 861-2841 Bill Hunter - Parts Manager (306) 842-6100

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