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industry news Flaring down About $1 million worth of LNG saved William Stodalka Pipeline News North

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The amount of gas flared in B.C. last year was slightly lower than the amount of gas burned and lost in 2011, new information from the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission (OGC) states. In 2012, about 197 million cubic metres of gas was flared from a variety of gas extraction and refining methods. In 2011, the total was about 205 million cubic metres. Flaring is when natural gas that cannot be processed or sold is burned into the air, a process that is done for a variety of reasons on the oilfield. Much of this drop comes from a shift in the amount of gas flared because of underbalanced drilling, which were wells being drilled despite their pressure being lower than the fluid pressure in the gas formation. In 2011, there was about 13 million cubic metres of this type of flaring, but last year, this amount dropped down to about 100,000 cubic metres. Flaring at gas processing plants went up, which the OGC attributes to increased capacities in both these areas. According to provincial estimates, B.C. produces about 3.1 billion cubic metres of natural gas annually. This means that of the natural gas produced, about 6 per cent of that was flared into the atmosphere in 2012. Another reason for the decline had to do with well cleanup testing, namely “a change in regulation that removed the require-

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Buidling a boomtown in Fort McMurray Service sector takes cautious approach

industry news 7 Oil and gas industry makes a large country 10 Shell unveils Groundbirch Saturn 1 plant

profile Natural gas is flared on an industrial site.

ment for well testing in many cases,” according to the OGC report. Dawson Creek councillor Charlie Parslow was quoted as saying earlier that flaring on a potential project was a concern to the community. The issue is also one that the oil and gas community has attempted to reduce. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers has identified flaring as releasing “greenhouse gases, sulphur dioxide (SO2) and methane into our atmosphere.” The province is also working on a project to identify the “potential human health risks associated with oil and gas activities in northeastern B.C.”

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The practice also has certain economic developments, as when gas is flared, it cannot be sold. The difference between the 2011 and 2012 totals, 8 million cubic metres, would be worth about $1 million if sold on the New York spot market for natural gas. ““The flaring of natural gas is a tremendous economic waste, and it threatens oil developers’ license to operate, as well as the environment,” Pat Zerega, director of shareholder advocacy at Mercy Investment Services, was quoted as saying. Hers is an American group that describes itself as “socially responsible asset management program” for the Catholic Sisters of Mercy religious institute.

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building a boom town james waterman Pipeline News North Facing the challenges of huge growth in both population size and oil sands production, the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo is getting by with a little help from their friends in the provincial government. The Alberta Government announced that they would be allocating over 55,000 acres of Crown land to sell to Wood Buffalo so that the city of Fort McMurray can grow as required over the next 25 years. “This is about creating an even better quality of life for the residents of Fort McMurray, a thriving community that is expected to more than double in population by 2030,” said minister of energy Ken Hughes in a news release issued at the time of the announcement. “We think it’s important that people call Fort McMurray home, and not just their place of work,” he added. That tract of land is now known as the Urban Development Sub-Region (UDSR). “Incredibly important for future growth in our region,” said Melissa Blake, mayor of the Regional Municipal-

ity of Wood Buffalo, discussing the UDSR in the same news release. “It means stability in our housing market and a new world of business, cultural and recreational opportunities.” Mike Evans, executive director of government relations with Wood Buffalo calls this development the “most important announcement to this community” since the regional municipality was created by the amalgamation of Fort McMurray with the two adjacent districts in 1995. “What it enables us to do for the first time is to become the masters of our own destiny and to grow a community that will be a model for sustainable urban living in the North in support of the responsible development of oil sands resources,” said Evans. Urban growth hasn’t been an easy task for Fort McMurray. Evans explained 97 per cent of population growth in Wood Buffalo between 1998 and 2005 occurred in the Fort McMurray community, but 70 per cent of population growth has taken place in oil industrial work camps since 2005.

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Alberta gives Fort McMurraY a chance to grow affect housing prices to any great extent. “And then we’re also doing a very aggressive redevelopment downtown, which would provide new housing for singles, young marrieds, double-income-no-kids and empty nesters that just isn’t available in the community today,” he added. “In the short term, it’s not going to do an awful lot [for housing prices]. But it is going to enable us to do long term planning for 10 to 30 years and to build the kind of community that we need to build to attract and retain the labour force required to develop the oil sands.” Acquiring UDSR land isn’t just about housing either.

Don Scott, associate minister of accountability, transparency and transformation with Service Alberta, Melissa Blake, mayor of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, and Ken Hughes, energy minister, during the announcement that the Province is allocating land to Wood Buffalo for the growth of Fort McMurray.

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“It’s a balancing act,” said Alberta Energy spokesperson Sheri Strickland. “Oil sands development is obviously very important to the economic prosperity of Alberta,” she continued. “But, at the same time, healthy communities and growing sustainably is also a huge priority for Alberta. And you can see that referenced in government reports like the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan. It’s also in the CRISP plan. “It’s really a balancing act to ensure that we can grow economically and prosperously, but also grow sustainably in a way that serves the needs of Albertans.” It is thought that this plan will help stabilize the housing market in Fort McMurray, where the cost of homes and rental properties are so high that a mobile home can list for as much as $525,000 and a bungalow can list for $669,900, but Evans noted that is a long-term benefit, not a short-term reality. “Over time, what this is going to do is stabilize housing prices so that houses in Fort McMurray are more competitive with houses in other jurisdictions,” he explained. “In the short-term, and we’re talking about five to 10 years, this announcement is going to have very little effect on housing prices.” After all, Fort McMurray is already developing two new neighbourhoods capable of housing a total of 40,000 residents, but that isn’t expected to

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“This is critically important to us to be able to address that imbalance and to create a community in which people can live permanently,” he continued. “And that is important because the operational expenditures in the oil sands will exceed the capital expenditures for the first time in more than a decade – probably close to two decades – in 2017. … The amount of money that they’re spending to produce bitumen will exceed that being spent on construction projects. And when you consider that there was something close to $20 billion spent in the region last year, that’s going to be a hell of a lot of money. “A very healthy investment.” It is an investment that likely means a greater number of permanent jobs and permanent residents in the Athabasca Oil Sands Area (AOSA). The Comprehensive Regional Infrastructure Sustainability Plan (CRISP) for the AOSA indicates that the current population of that region is hovering around 130,000 people and the present bitumen production is just over 2 million barrels per day. According to the CRISP, by 2025 those numbers are expected to rise to 165,400 people, which represents a 51 per cent increase in population size, and 3.7 million barrels of bitumen production per day, which is a 185 per cent increase over current production. Additionally, by 2045 the population could be just over 240,000 people and bitumen production could stand at 6 million barrels per day.

“We’ve also been critically short of commercial retail, industrial, cultural and social infrastructure space in the community as well,” said Evans. “What this is also going to enable us to do is to better plan for schools and health care, for an arts and culture community, for recreation opportunities. “We’ve been really short on commercial retail space,” he continued. “People tend to take safaris down to Edmonton to do their shopping. We’ll be able to develop some of that capacity right within the community. “It’s really about building a wellrounded, world class, medium-sized city.”

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Fort St. John will be hosting its annual energy conference next month to increase knowledge of the energy sector among industry leaders, all levels of government, and academics alike. The conference will take place October 1st to 3rd at the Pomeroy Hotel & Conference Centre. To kick off the conference participants will get to head out on field trip to get a first-hand look at a working camp and drilling rig, and the technology involved. Following that the conference will include a variety of talks and panel discussions about all things energy including, but not limited to: temporary foreign workers, issues for work-

ing camps, the future of natural gas, Fort St. John’s strategies to deal with climate change, an update on Site C, pipeline issues, lessons learned from rapid economic growth in other communities, demystifying deep well injection, aboriginal opportunities, and a talk about the 3 key regulatory barriers for industry in BC. Big names are being brought in to lead the conference along. Rex Murphy from the CBC is going to open up the conference and Richard Florida, noted urbanist, and author of several best-selling books including, The Rise of the Creative Class will be the keynote speaker. The City of Fort St. John has taken a chunk from their overall budget to attract key communities involved in the Northeast B.C. energy sector in-

cluding members of the North Central Local Government Association (local governments from 100 Mile north to the Yukon border and Alberta right out the Queen Charlottes, and some First Nations) to the conference. Member communities of the NCLGA are being provided with a free registration for up to two of their members. Ackerman is optimistic about the conference and the road ahead for energy in Northeast B.C. “I’m really passionate about this because so many people are saying no. And that’s just not the way I was raised,” she said. “I was raised to look at the opportunities, to ensure that the opportunities are sustainable, and to make sure that if there’s a way to decrease the footprint than let’s do that.

“But we need to make sure that we have a jurisdiction that continues to be the best place on earth to live and has got opportunities that have not been diminished for our children.” Ackerman also hopes the conference will serve to open the minds of everyone there not just about energy literacy itself, but also about a literacy that can be applied to any industry. “I say to people, every industry leaves a footprint. And it’s how you deal with that footprint and what your attitude is. “Are seeking constantly to do better? Or have you become just kind of that lethargic industry that just carries on doing what it does without considering the footprint.” For more information, visit: www.bcenergyconference.ca.

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OIl and gas nation If the industry was a country, it would be bigger than Cuba and Norway combined The amount of land that is used by oil and gas development in northeastern B.C. is more than the combined total metropolitan land areas of New York, Los Angeles, and Paris, according to new information from the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission. The OGC – which is responsible for regulating the oil and gas activities within B.C. – released a report last month about the land use for oil and gas activities in this part of the province. It was the first of its kind last year, according to spokesperson Hardy Friedrich, and is part of a new area base analysis initiative done by the province. The land in northeastern B.C. as defined by the OGC is about 17.5 million square hectares. If northeastern B.C. as defined by the OGC were to secede from Canada and declare itself a new nation, that nation would be bigger than Cuba and Norway combined. Of that area, the total area of land used by the oil and gas industry is about 400,000 hectares, according to the report. This makes up about 2.3 per cent of that area. These 400,000 hectares includes wells, roads, facilities, pipelines, and other types of activities used for the oil and gas sector. The report also detailed the amount of oil and gas activity within specific portions of northeastern B.C. The report said that in the Fort St. John area, there were about 18,600 hectares of land used for wells, about 21,200 square hectares used for pipelines, and about 88,500 square kilometres used for geophysical exploration. This amounted to about 3.7 per cent of the 171,700 hectares of land to the north of the city of Fort St. John. (The entire land area as defined by the OGC is about 4.7 million hectares – larger than the entire country of Denmark.) Land located south of the city of Fort St. John was part of the Dawson Creek land area. Of that area, only about 5,200 hectares of land was used for wells, about 9,600 was used for pipelines, and about 38,400 was used for geophysical exploration. This amounted to about 2.3 per cent of the approximately 70,000 square hectares within that land area - which is more than the land area of Albania. The area around Fort Nelson had the largest amount of net area, at about 9.8 million square hectares - a land area larger than Hungary. The amount of land used for oil and gas activities in that part of B.C. was around 158,000, or 1.6 per cent of that land area. It had about 6,400 hectares used by wells, about 13,100 hectares used by pipelines, and about 101,000 hectares for geophysical exploration.

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Take your seat james waterman Pipeline News North Gerry Protti wasn’t exactly taking a summer vacation at the beginning of August. The inaugural governance board chair of the brand new Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) was only taking a short break to catch his breath after a whirlwind four months of action that began with his appointment to that position on April 2, finally culminating in the introduction of six part-time hearing commissioners on July 25. It was a period that saw the official launch of the new regulator on June 17, just prior to the flooding in Southern Alberta that had its Calgary head office temporarily closing its doors as quickly as they were open. Protti was visiting old Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) field offices throughout the province over the following weeks for their new beginnings as AER detachments. “I plan to visit every office,” said Protti, also noting that he hopes to do so by the midpoint of September. “This is a great time of year to just drive around,” he added. Protti has risen to this position on the back of what he calls an “eclectic background” as a scholar and a professional that goes far beyond being simply an oil and gas industry man. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Protti has spent all but three years of his life in that province, his time away featuring the completion of graduate studies in economics at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario and a stint with the company that was known as Ontario Hydro in those days. “After a couple of years there, I had an opportunity to be one of the first employees at the Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI),” said Protti. “I went there initially to work on electricity policy,” he continued, “but I very quickly got involved with oil and gas issues. It was right about the time that the federal government was considering the National Energy Program (NEP).” Protti wasn’t a fan of that policy. “It’s just very intrusive,” he said. “That experience, probably more than any other, hooked me on energy completely, because I saw the importance of it and I saw implications of bad policy.” The eighties was a decade of bad energy policy in his point of view. It was also a decade of public service, during which Protti held a senior position with the Alberta Treasury

Department as well as serving as assistant deputy minister for Alberta Energy, eventually leaving government in 1989. The next step was joining the Independent Petroleum Association of Canada (IPAC), which represented the small to medium companies prior to its merger with the Canadian Petroleum Association (CPA) that created the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP). “A lot of the issues that … resulted in the creation of IPAC back around the days of the National Energy Program were because the government of the day … discriminated between Canadian and foreign-owned companies. And so the Canadian companies decided they needed their own organization – IPAC,” said Protti. “All of those issues had kind of gone away,” he continued. “And there was a decision that they would merge the two to create CAPP. And I was asked to be the inaugural president of CAPP. That was my really first experience with governance. “I was the … chief executive officer for an organization that had 30 board members, ranging from the largest companies, the Imperial Oils, down to very, very small ones. The two person companies.” Protti would soon join the boards of several organizations, including the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Public Policy Forum, STARS Foundation, Alberta Economic Development Authority, Calgary Economic Development, Calgary Opera, SAIT Polytechnic, the University of Alberta and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, as well as the Technology Futures group with Alberta Innovates. “I really enjoy doing the board governance work for those organizations,” he said. Protti left CAPP to join PanCanadian Energy Corporation as an executive, where he took part in another merger, the one between PanCanadian and Alberta Energy Company to form Encana. “I was on the executive team there until I retired in 2010,” said Protti. All of that experience has brought Protti to the point where he is ready and able to tackle his new role with the AER. “I just feel very fortunate that at this point in my life, my career, I can really, hopefully, make a difference in terms of having a regulator that’s operating very efficiently and effectively.” Protti has great confidence in his governance board and the executive team led by chief executive officer

Energy sector veteran Gerry Protti has had a busy start to his latest role as the inaugural governance board chair of the new Alberta Energy Regulator.

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Jim Ellis. “I’m really looking forward to seeing them operate,” he said. “And they’ve got a huge challenge in front of them because we’ve got to integrate not only the activities of the old ERCB, but the environmental and water responsibilities of Environment and Sustainable Resource Development, plus the land registry and land issues, all into this single regulator. “They’ve got a huge task in front of them,” he continued, ‘’but [they are] really capable, strong individuals, all of them with good operations experience and strategy experience. I think it will work really well.” Protti has similar confidence in the full-time and part-time hearing commissioners. “The full-time [commissioners] are there on a permanent basis to work on the issues,” he said. “But the parttime commissioners will play a critical role, because they’ve got a wide range of expertise and we can bring

them in on specific issues, either in hearings or in alternate dispute resolution.” Protti said the new regulator is going to work hard to avoid hearings through alternate dispute resolution as much as possible, which is a bit of a departure from the old ways of the ERCB. “Quite a few of them have alternate dispute resolution experience and capabilities,” he said of the hearing commissioners. “I think that will be very useful as we work through the issues of development within the province.” The hearing commissioners are led by Brad McManus, a veteran of Alberta’s Public Utilities Board (PUB) with a wealth of experience with issues around energy and utilities. The full-time hearing commissioners are professional geoscientist Alex Bolton, energy sector veteran Rob McManus, alternate dispute resolution expert and longtime public ser-

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embracing his role as first AER chair vant Christine Macken and mediator Barbara McNeil. Part-time hearing commissioners include: farmer and community leader Terry Engen; farmer Jurgen Preugschas, who has also served as director of the Alberta Swine Breeders Association and chairman of the Canadian Pork Council; academic in the field of environmental health sciences Steve Hrudey; environmental, regulatory and Aboriginal law expert Cecilia Low; lawyer Lorne Ternes, who specializes in Aboriginal, intergovernmental and trade law; and longtime public servant John Lawson, who brings experience with the Yukon government and the Yukon Energy Corporation to the AER. “What we’ve done here with the new regulator is we’ve separated out functions that were previously all contained within the ERCB board members,” said Protti, adding that the ERCB board had an adjudicative role, but also dealt with operations and financial responsibilities. The governance board, which is part-time position, is now separate from daily operations and the hearing process, which are also separate from each other. “The people we recruited for [the governance board are] people who had good governance experience,” said Protti, noting the eight members of that board have collectively sat on 160 boards spanning the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. “I think we’ve done a pretty good job of having a very balanced board with a tremendous amount of experience.” The board consists of: energy sector consultant Cameron Bailey; rancher, Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency board chair and chair of the

Ministerial Advisory Board of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency David Chalak; international executive and experienced public servant Elizabeth Dowdeswell; consultant Fred Estlin, who also serves on the board of the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie; corporate veteran Peter Flynn; business consultant Sheila O’Brien, whose areas of expertise include workforce and leadership issues; and longtime forestry professional Andy Niegel. “It will actually operate pretty close to a corporate-style board,” said Protti. “The chief [hearing] commissioner will sit in on the board meetings and he’ll report on their activities,” he continued. “And the one question we’ll ask him at each board meeting is: ‘Do you have the resources from the regulator … sufficient for you to perform your adjudicative function?’ But we have no role whatsoever in terms of the hearing process or in terms of the day-to-day regulation enforcement the regulator operates under.” Protti said 99 per cent of the work to be done by the AER will be done by Ellis and his staff, since there are thousands of applications submitted every year, but very few hearings actually take place. “I think the regulator has got a huge responsibility to balance all of the interests within the province going forward,” he added, discussing the single window approach being taken with the new regulator. “There’s tremendous … economic development capability possible in these projects, but they have to be done in an environmentally and socially responsible manner,” he continued, noting the single window isn’t simply a way to streamline the application process, but also an op-

portunity for individuals to voice their its eyes on the oil sands and conconcerns about development without troversial pipeline projects such as running back and forth between variTransCanada’s Keystone XL and Enous government agencies. bridge’s Northern Gateway to move “I think that product to having it all market. together in “I don’t think one is more we have any effective,” said other option,” Protti. said Protti, The AER explaining that also intends to the transibe open and tion from a transparent, “benefit of the particularly doubt world” – Gerry Protti when it comes to a “prove it to providing to me world” Board chair of Alberta Energy information on over the past Regulator its website. decade has “I think that’s put a greater going to really emphasis on benefit not only Albertans, but Canaeffective regulation of industry. dians, and others who are watching “In the old days,” he explained, “evAlberta,” he continued. “We have to eryone had the benefit of the doubt: be clear, transparent and effective in ‘That’s a good company. They’ve got the way we operate.” good people. We’ll just see how it That extends to third party evaluagoes.’ There was a lot of benefit of tion of the regulator’s performance. the doubt. “We’re going to go to experts within “Now the expectation from society the province and outside the province is: ‘Prove it to me. You did a good job that have a knowledge of best pracyesterday – great. You say you’re gotices and regulation, and we’ll ask ing to do this tomorrow – prove it to them to assess us and tell us how me. How can you demonstrate to me we’re doing,” Protti explained. that you’re doing what you said and “We’re also going to put perforyou’re meeting your objectives?’ mance metrics on the regulator. So, “In that type of world, we don’t have we’ll lay out a series of expectations any other option but to have a regulaon … how we expect it to perform [its] tor that’s out there, communicating, duties. And we’ll be public about … telling people what we’re doing, the performance of the regulator relawhat actions are being taken by the tive to those performance metrics. developers in the industry.“We’ll take “That’s quite different than what action where companies aren’t meetwe’ve seen before as a regulator.” ing the expectations of the regulator. Protti said this shift toward a single And, by definition, that is the expectawindow agency with a greater level tions of the public. of transparency and accountability “We have to show this on a global is now essential in a world that has basis because everyone is watching.”

“I saw the importance of energy and I saw implications of bad policy.”

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For week ending September 3, 2103

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2013

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Province

Drilling Down Total

Utilization

British Columbia

66%

Alberta

233

366

599

39%

Saskatchewan

133

49%

Manitoba

46%

Northwest Territories 0

TOTAL

471

821

43%

352

Week of August 19, 2013 Province

Drilling Down Total

British Columbia

63%

Alberta

244

360

604

40%

Saskatchewan

130

54%

Manitoba

42%

Northwest Territories 0

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459

823

44%

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Week of August 27, 2013 Province

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Alberta

257

347

604

43%

Saskatchewan

130

55%

Manitoba

46%

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823

47%

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Shell Gas unveiled its new Saturn 1 Plant to company executives during a commissioning tour on Tuesday, Sept. 3, cutting the ribbon on what was described as the first of many “milestones” in the company’s massive Groundbirch natural-gas project. “We’re delighted to be hitting this milestone for this particular project, which fits into our overall portfolio and concepts,” said Shell Canada’s onshore vice-president, Dave Todd, as he addressed company leaders and employers on the tour. “Forty years from now, 50 years from now, this Groundbirch facility will still be producing gas, supplying it to North America and Asia.” The liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant, which is still in commission with two more months of prep work left, will at its capacity produce 200 million cubic feet of gas per day – equivalent to roughly 6 per cent of the current natural gas production in British Columbia. And Shell plans to add two more Saturn plants in the next 10 years with the same capacity, meaning that when all done, roughly a fifth of the province’s gas will come from these fields. Shell officials pointed to the groundbreaking tech-

Utilization

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68%

Alberta

238

364

602

40%

Saskatchewan

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47%

Manitoba

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Northwest Territories 0

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niques in energy supply, water use and emissions reduction to Saturn 1, as the corporation looks to be a leader in effective, mass-fuel extraction for supply to B.C.’s coast. “This is a journey to more wells, and depending on how technology develops and what the opportunities look like … the potential is there to build and learn from this,” added Shell’s manager of onshore projects, Paul Pickering. “It’s taking the best of what we’ve got from this site and tweaking the bits we think we can do a little smarter for the next plant. It’s all about learning.” Saturn 1’s inventive on-site projects include its own electric plant, powered by two 20,000-horsepower natural gas turbines, as well as a selfintegrated recycled water system and two vapour recovery units that allow for 100 per cent emissions control during the end-stage refrigeration process. Furthermore, the plant’s fully automated system requires the work of only four Shell operators. With its own power plant, Saturn 1 is can work entirely off the grid until it is able to connect with BC Hydro’s Dawson Creek/Chetwynd Area Transmission (DCAT) Line, which is now expected to come online in 2015. “For this particular project, one of the innovations has been leveraging the turbines to generate some of the electricity,” explained Shell Groundbirch operations manager Rej Tetreault. “We don’t have access to the electrical grid right now … but we were hoping that because we could have a more efficient plant if we had electricity, we designed the plant with that in mind.” Along with the water it will draw from the Dawson Creek Reclaimed Water Project – of which Shell is a primary investor – Saturn 1 will be able to use its own recycled water, drawn from its inlet header. “You have to be looking at multiple different innovations as you develop in the field,” Tetreault said of Saturn 1’s systems. “If you are too narrow in your focus, you might

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Alberta

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311

677

Saskatchewan

135

193

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397

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303

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189

Manitoba

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390

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Upwards of 300 well sites will feed Saturn 1 to start, with an expected 100 more planned for drilling this year that will ship east to the TransCanada Pipeline, and eventually to the proposed Kitimat LNG project. As for Saturn 2 and 3, development on those plants is expected to begin within the decade, as Shell draws from its Groundbirch reserves. “In terms of reserves, the shale gas that we have on our end is quite vast, and we believe that we can be drilling to access those reserves for 20-plus years. And then the wells produce for another 20plus years as well,” said Tetreault. “It’s a multigenerational opportunity, and there will be generations of people working here for years to come. And it will be local people.”

British Columbia

Alberta

161

316

677

Saskatchewan

121

190

Manitoba

Northern Canada

TOTAL

499

414

913

Drilling Down

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Week of August 13, 2013 Province

British Columbia

Alberta

362

317

679

Saskatchewan

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188

Manitoba

Northern Canada

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408

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think you are doing really well, but you might actually be missing certain information. “It’s extremely important in our business, because we’re a marginal business like many others,” added Tetreault. “Gas prices have been suppressed for the last two years, and the most competitive companies in our fairway (the Montney Formation) will continue to essentially attract capital. If you aren’t able to attract gas to market at an attractive price, you will eventually go out of business. “We’re a marketable business, and we need to be looking at every dollar and cent. And we believe through innovation, we can actually leverage technology to become the most competitive company in the fairway.”

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The “big challenge” for the continued growth in crude-by-rail transportation out of Western Canada is ensuring there is terminal capacity at both ends of the rail route, says an oilsands company executive. Fortunately, efforts are underway to increase loading and unloading terminal capacity for rail transport of Canadian crude, with a number of refineries building in fairly major infrastructure in order to access less-expensive crude not currently linked by pipeline, Ed Koshka, operations vice-president for E-T Energy Ltd., told the Bulletin. “Refiners are sort of getting into this and saying they want to participate in it on the offloading side,” he said, adding that terminal operators have also been increasing their investments to enable rail transport of crude. “On the loading side, I think there has been lots of new capacity built, but there is more capacity that has to come online in the next five years.” A recent Arc Financial Corp. report suggests that if all publicly-announced Canadian projects occur as planned, by 2015 they would add more than 700,000 bbls per day of capacity compared to the 850,000-bbl-per-day capacity of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. According to Koshka, growth in the crude-by-rail sector should continue into the future, regardless if a major pipeline project such as Keystone XL increases the link between Western Canadian producers and markets. “Keystone answers a lot of the issues around access to the U.S. Gulf Coast, but it doesn’t do anything for California, Washington State, and it doesn’t do anything for the East Coast of Canada and PADD 1 East Coast of the United States. Those markets definitely want to have takeaway capacity opening up to them.” Koshka noted that rail transportation largely reduces the need for diluent in heavy crudes and bitumen, which definitely changes the economics associated with rail transportation versus pipelines. “It makes it even that much more attractive to avoid the diluent-blending issue that you get into when you’re producing bitumen.” Rail and pipelines offer a co-operative approach to transporting crude for producers trying to ramp up production and ship it into a particular market, said Ken James, co-president and chief executive officer at Point Energy Ltd. “I think rail and pipelines have a lot of synergies where they’ll develop rail until a certain capacity and then build a pipeline to move those secured volumes,” James said, adding that he is both “surprised and not surprised” by how quickly rail has picked up over the past couple of years as an alternative to pipelines, given the current bottleneck situation. Canadian producers and U.S. refiners are increasingly seeking crude-by-rail as a transportation option, as is evident by a series of capital project announcements. For example, TORQ Transloading Inc. recently announced an expansion to its rail infrastructure and services at the North West Terminal Ltd. operation in Unity, Saskatchewan. Service would be expanded to allow segregated crude storage and multiple additional tracks for 120-car unit-train shipments with dual access to both the Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. and Canadian National Railway Co. rail networks (DOB, Aug. 20, 2013). TORQ recently announced plans for a $100 million crude-by-rail terminal at Kerrobert, Sask., capable of handling up to 168,000 bbls per day and loading a 120-car unit train with heavy, undiluted crude within 9.5-hours (DOB, Aug. 14, 2013). Ceres Global Ag Corp. recently announced a $90-million commodity logistics hub that will be connected to BNSF Railway’s United States rail network with the facility designed ultimately to handle up to 70,000 bbls of oil per day (DOB, Feb. 5, 2013). Tundra Energy Marketing Limited recently entered into an agreement with Cando to provide railcar loading and switching services at Tundra’s new crude petroleum terminal near Cromer, Manitoba, which will handle 30,000 bbls of crude per day, with plans to grow to 60,000 bbls per day (DOB, May 16, 2013). Keyera Corp. and Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP are jointly developing a terminal next to Keyera’s Alberta diluent terminal, which will have 20 loading spots capable of loading approximately 40,000 bbls per day of crude oil into tank cars and will be served by both CN and CP Rail (DOB, July 31, 2013). Canexus Corporation has entered into long-term agreements with Inter Pipeline Fund and Inter Pipeline Polaris Inc. for the delivery of bitumen blend from the Cold Lake pipeline system to load into unit trains at Canexus’ Bruderheim terminal which the company is expanding to move about 70,000 bbls per day

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the Rails (DOB, July 23, 2013). In August, Gibson Energy Inc and U.S. Development Group LLC announced development of a 140,000 bbl-per-day crude-by-rail Hardisty-area terminal (DOB, Aug. 6, 2013). The companies jointly secured sufficient customer term commitments to construct a new state-of-the-art unit train rail loading facility near Hardisty with pipeline connectivity from Gibson’s Hardisty terminal. South of the boarder, independent refiner Tesoro Corp. and supply system provider Savage Companies are building a new crude-by-rail and marineoffloading facility at Vancouver, Washington which will have an initial capacity of 120,000 bbls-per-day and be expandable to 280,000 bbls a day (DOB, April 23, 2013). Expected to cost $75 million to $100 million and be operational in 2014, the facility will enable Tesoro to ship crude to its three West Coast refineries. Refiner Phillips 66 intends to build a 30,000-bbl-per-day offloading facility at its Washington State refinery, with a completion schedule of December 2014 and the goal of increasing rail shipments of inland U.S. and Canadian crude DOB, April 4, 2013. The 100,000-bbl-per day refinery now receives about 20,000 bbls a day of such advantaged crude, but a rail facility will allow much larger shipments. Earlier this year, Valero Energy Corp. announced it would seek a permit allowing the company to bring up to 70,000 bbls per day of inland United States and Canadian crude oil to replace pricey imports at its 132,000-bbl-per-day California refinery in Benicia (DOB, March 5, 2013). According to Reuters, Valero is also seeking a permit to build a 60,000-bblper-day offloading facility at its 78,000-bbl-per-day refinery at Wilmington, Calif. In February, refiner PBF Energy Inc. announced completion of a rail expansion project at Delaware City, Delaware allowing the refinery to handle 70,000 bbls a day of light crude oil deliveries from sources such as the North Dakota Bakken formation, as well as 40,000 bbls per day of heavier Canadian crude rail deliveries for a total of 110,000 bbls a day (DOB, Feb. 5, 2013). Based on the success the company has had running Canadian heavy crudes to date, PBF plans to increase the discharge capacity of the heavy crude rail unloading facility to 80,000 bbls per day. Earlier this year, Genesis Energy LP announced expansion of its existing Natchez, Mississippi rail terminal which is designated to handle straight and/or minimally-diluted bitumen delivered by CN. The first phase of the facility includes 40 railcar spots that were to be completed in June 2013. Due to significant demand for the flexible capacity at the facility, Genesis is moving forward with a second-phase expansion to provide an additional 60 railcar spots and additional heated tanks to be fully operational in late 2013. ARC Terminals LP is working with CN to build a rail tank-car loading terminal in Mobile, Alabama, which could bring up to 75,000 bbls a day of Western Canadian heavy oil shipments and Bakken light crude to Gulf Coast refineries. Koshka said he envisions rail increasing its reach as a means of transporting crude to market in the years ahead. For example, he sees an opportunity for rail to move crude to Canada’s West Coast for export options, provided there is available terminal capacity. “There is huge rail capacity in Prince Rupert (British Columbia) that exists today, but it’s just that we don’t have the terminalling capacity up in Prince Rupert to be able to offload large amounts of heavy crude. So I think that’s just a next logical step for rail to open up that whole market to Canadian producers.” Largely because it is easier to finance, crude-by-rail is particularly attractive to smaller producers who might not want or be able to commit to long-term pipeline contracts, said Koshka. “Typically pipelines require you to have very strong balance sheets in order to have the credit-rating worthiness to commit to a pipeline, and that always makes it difficult for new and emerging producers versus companies that have those established cash flows.” Even if diluted crude or bitumen is shipped to refineries via pipeline, James said rail can play an important role in transporting that diluent back to the producers. “Of course, all the dilbit that gets shipped gets fractionated back out in the refineries, and it needs to return home.” James said the current trend of crude-by-rail was largely initiated by a lot of the juniors who had to get product to market but didn’t have access to pipelines. What surprises him today is the degree to which larger producers are finding cause to take advantage of the rail advantage as well. Continued on page 18

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line construction, the construction of LNG terminals, the ramping up of oil sands, all of these industries are going to be competing for the same labour pool that we are.” Scholz said he can see the development of “multiple Fort McMurrays … across Western Canada” if LNG export trains are being built alongside oil export trains. “There’s huge economic opportunities,” he added. “The challenge is: are we going to be able to supply and provide the needed labour force to be able to accomplish them?” Scholz suggests the solution to energy sector labour woes is not just a Canadian energy strategy, but also a Canadian labour strategy. “We have underemployment,” he said. “Just recently, the OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development) came out with a report talking about Canada’s long-term unemployment concerns, which is … if a worker is looking for work after a year, and hasn’t found any work, they get put into a category of long-term unemployment. We shouldn’t have any people in this country in that statistic. “We have to figure out ways of incentivizing people in this country to relocate to where work is. … We have to do a better job with linking Canadians with jobs. And I don’t think we’re doing nearly enough on that end.” “More marketing to other regions,” said Art Jarvis, executive director of Energy Services BC (ESBC), R001492257

If one thing is certain about the emerging liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry in British Columbia, it is the uncertainty. Although the province has just seen a seventh LNG project proponent submit an export license application to the National Energy Board (NEB), the fourth such application this summer alone, it still isn’t clear how many of those proposals will become reality, when the pipelines and liquefaction facilities will be up and running, how much natural gas they will require and how much exploration and production activity they will create. “The only real preparation that our members can do in this circumstance is just stay on top of developments as they evolve,” said Mark Salkeld, president and chief executive officer of the Petroleum Services Association of Canada, an organization that represents a group of companies that includes those who perform the horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing so essential to shale gas development and the LNG industry by extension. “It comes down to economics,” he continued. “They can see the potential for work, for contracts with respect to LNG, the pipelines and the facilities and the plants and anything they can provide services for. They can see all the potential. But they won’t be in any kind of position to hire or ramp up until they are more confident they’re going to secure

some of those contracts. “There will be some companies that have the cash backing to maybe expand their facilities and their yards and stuff like that … in speculation … that they are going to win some contracts. And if they don’t, it doesn’t hurt them so much because … they’ve got a bigger shop and a bigger yard. “Where they can’t mess around too much is with regards to skilled trades. And people in general. You can’t hire and let go because you didn’t win a contract.” Labour – skilled or otherwise – is always a hot topic in the oil and gas industry, but that issue could become increasingly interesting if LNG-related activity ranging from drilling to pipeline and facility construction ramps up alongside oil sands activity and the construction of oil pipelines such Enbridge’s Northern Gateway. Mark Scholz, president of the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors, explained that a big part of the labour problem dates back to the beginning of the recent recession, when a significant number of experienced workers left the sector, never to return. “We’re not having an issue on the beginning end of the spectrum, which is new entrants, new recruits,” said Scholz. “The challenge is – and will be for the next several years – bringing those green hands to a level of experience and competency that had left the industry. “What we are going to see, particularly with pipe-

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Service sector takes cautious approach the organization that represents the oil and gas service sector right at the heart of the LNG industry in B.C. Jarvis believes word-of-mouth could be a powerful too. “Most people have got employees from other areas working for them already,” he explained, suggesting those employees could help promote the industry and the region of northeast B.C. where natural gas is taken from the ground to old friends in other parts of the country. “Of course, coupled with that is housing has to keep up with the demand of people coming in,” said Jarvis. “I think that we’re recognizing that right now. There’s not a boom going on, but there’s continued building. There’s more hotels planned – two more hotels planned for this area. And more apartments coming.” The construction sector is also eager for new workers. “That is just as stressed as anything else,” said Jarvis. “Really, it doesn’t matter where you drive around town, from the coffee shops to the retail stores to the service sector, everybody could use more people.” “We have to look at this in terms of worse case scenarios for labour and developing strategies as individual companies, as CAODC works with all levels of government to try to look for ways of increasing the supply end for labour,” said Scholz, drawing attention to the sheer volume of projects being proposed, whether they be pipelines like Northern Gateway, Keystone XL and Energy East or the seven and counting LNG export projects under consideration for the west coast. “You can’t just kind of sit on the sidelines and say, ‘Gee, if a couple of these don’t get approved, maybe we won’t have to work so hard to recruiting guys.’ I think, at the end of the day, with the amount of projects on the go right now, we’re going to need as many hands as we possibly can. So, the strategy really is working with government to get Canadians

relocated [and] using the temporary foreign workers program as a short term band-aid,” said Scholz. “We’ve got to get people in the door, get them trained and into the industry, where we can mentor them and [place them in] some of these senior level positions as they develop their experience.” Still, despite the uncertainty and the potential labour challenges, the discussion around the LNG business in B.C. is largely about excitement and enthusiasm for the possibilities. “Definitely optimistic on that,” Salkeld said of the number of export license application submitted to the NEB to date. “B.C. in particular is doing some really good things with respect to encouraging the development of LNG trains and … the producers that are operating in B.C. are looking to negotiate contracts and secure buyers and [create] demand for the product.” “The fact that there’s enthusiasm … has created an impact already,” said Jarvis. “Certainly, some of the service companies in town have had to ramp up their equipment and manpower to supply some of these producers already,” he added, noting that those companies are increasing production despite the fact that they may not see any returns in terms of LNG sales until 2018 at the earliest. “There are pipeline companies that have expanded their inventory of equipment in anticipation of getting one or more legs of the proposed pipelines to the coast.” Jarvis suggests planning is easier for those service sector outfits that are closely tied to big companies such as Shell Canada or Progress Energy that are aggressively moving forward on LNG projects. “There’s a few … service companies that are very secure that they’re going to be busy for three or five years,” he said. “And there’s others that are just hoping to get pieces of what’s going on and hope that more majors move in here and buy land. Land sales are a good indicator. And then, of course, who’s buying it is really important too.”

“The drilling companies will have their equipment set up to do the jobs that they are pretty confident … their customers will expect of them,” added Salkeld “As far as winning the work, you go to your sales department.” When asked what the future might hold for LNG in B.C. in terms of a realistic best case scenario, Salkeld thought back to his days in Australia, when about half a dozen LNG projects had been approved, but it wasn’t widely believed that all the proposed facilities would be constructed. “I don’t know if everybody honestly believes that all six in B.C. [will] get built,” he said, suggesting that only a few projects will actually come to fruition. “You’ll see some mergers and acquisitions,” he added. “Best case scenario is to get two or three up and running as soon as possible. That’s just a really good scenario for B.C. because that creates the activity in the North for drilling and the development of infrastructure and roads and pipelines and everything else that’s required to support that develop and then secure the contracts for the sales.” Jarvis is hopeful B.C. can move forward while avoiding the boom and dip cycles that can come with natural resource industry activity. “Booms and dips are never healthy,” he said. “They create problems both ways. They create labour shortage and confusion and difficulties when they’re stressed the most for getting employees and getting the job done. And when they dip again, of course, there’s the other side of the complications to the social aspect. People suddenly can’t afford their apartments and move out, and landlords and retail stores take a dip. That’s not healthy. “The healthiest thing would be to move forward with all year-round drilling – something sustainable where people can count on long-term employment. And, of course, that’s a nice request, but a lot of oil companies still are doing the winter program and slacking off in the summer.”

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careers Taking the message on the road Enform tours the Peace Region with a focus on safety james waterman Pipeline News North Change has been a popular topic at Enform lately. Hydraulic fracturing, horizontal drilling and multi-well pads have brought new health and safety concerns and training requirements to the industry, while incidents such as the Gulf of Mexico oil spill of 2010 have thrust industry-wide health and safety issues into the spotlight. Enform’s president and chief executive officer Cameron MacGillivray was visited the Peace Region to discuss how the upstream oil and gas industry safety association is tackling those issues.

“What we want to do, really, is to help the industry and the public know more about what Enform does,” said MacGillivray. “Enform’s a fairly busy and large organization.” MacGillivray noted that Enform conducts training across Canada at a cost to industry of about $30 million per year. “We’re trying to do much more outreach,” he continued, adding that local representatives such as Rick Newlove, operations manager for British Columbia, have a significant role to play in that respect. “Rick is trying to talk to individual companies about their performance.”

MacGillivray explained that some of those companies may not have their own safety systems, perhaps because they are small companies lacking the resources to put such systems in place. “Consequently, their safety records suffer,” he said, noting that has negative impacts ranging from employee injuries to payments to work compensation boards. “We’re trying to put much more emphasis in the local area [on] talking to specific companies and helping them with their safety issues,” he added. Some of the discussion stems from lessons learned from the Gulf of Mexico incident of three summers ago. “The lack of coherent activity among

the oil and gas producers to deal with safety,” said MacGillivray, discussing conclusions resulting from the study of that oil spill. “They weren’t communicating with the regulator,” he continued. “And … they weren’t focusing on process safety.” MacGillivray explained that process safety is increasingly important as the industry moves from vertical wells drilled into shallow zones at low pressure to the “more complicated” world of horizontal wells, multi-well pads and hydraulic fracturing operations conducted at high pressures. Continued on page 21

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Canadian willingness to export energy Ricahrd Macedo Daily Oil Bulletin Canada’s experience as an exporter of hydrocarbons bodes well for Chevron Corporation and Apache Corporation’s planned Kitimat LNG, executives for both companies said this morning. Speaking at the Barclays CEO Energy-Power Conference, George Kirkland, Chevron’s vicechairman and executive vice-president, upstream, reinforced a point he made last month that the company wants at least 60 to 70 per cent of Kitimat LNG supply under long-term agreement before announcing a final investment decision (FID) on the project (DOB, Aug. 2, 2013). He said front-end engineering and design work continues for the LNG plant, and activity in the Liard Basin is also ongoing to assess resources there that could supply the plant. “We feel the Horn River resources are very well defined, so it’s really Liard which in our view, and I believe in our partner’s view, Apache, that is the bigger long-term opportunity,” he said. From a resource point of view -- for the first two trains and more -- Chevron has no concerns; the challenge is for Kitimat LNG to secure sufficient gas contracts to underwrite the project. “Preferentially for us [the contracts will be] very much so tied to oil,” Kirkland said. “We are not Henry Hub-related at all because we are someplace else in the world. We are trying to have buyers enter into the project as equity owners and that will give them, we think, actually much better protection than Henry Hub pricing. “Why do we say better? Every index that you’re marked off of, indexes go up but they also go down; if they go up and you’re a buyer you really don’t have much protection, so there’s a risk there.” The FID is very much contingent on the marketing side, Steven Farris, the chairman and chief executive officer of Apache, told the conference earlier in the morning. “Luckily I can now punt that ball to our partner Chevron because they are in charge of the marketing,” he said. “In terms of the competition with other projects, I will tell you I think that the amount of LNG in the United States that’s actually going to be taken offshore is going to be smaller than we anticipate. “Canada has been exporting natural gas for years

Canada’s hydrocarbon history is a good sign for Apache’s Kitimat LNG project.

and years ... so they are much more attuned to export than the United States is. I’m not so concerned about competition in the U.S. Obviously, worldwide competition continues [to be] very strong. Certainly, China needs a tremendous amount of LNG over the next several years.” Kirkland echoed the point of Canada’s experience as an exporter during his talk, when asked about competition from the U.S. “We like Canada because Canada has been exporting gas for a long period of time; Canada exports oil,” he said. “Canada has a different focus on a willingness to export resources, so we have, we believe, greater surety from the political side in Canada than you do in the U.S. “The U.S. has not been since -- you go back many, many decades -- has not been an exporter, or a significant exporter, of any of our hydrocarbons.” In addition to the political concerns in America, he noted that manufacturing groups have come out against LNG exports. “We don’t from a policy point of view believe that’s right,” Kirkland said. “The U.S. needs to take advantage of this opportunity that they have in this

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big [gas] resource.” The company also likes Canada because of the quality of the resource and the ability to control it. “We can really control the gas to a much greater extent,” Kirkland said. “From every perspective, we like that opportunity better.” Earlier this year, Apache agreed to sell oil and gas producing properties in the Nevis, North Grant Lands and South Grant Lands areas of western Alberta to Ember Resources Inc., a private Calgarybased producer, for C$220 million (US$214 million) (DOB, Aug. 15, 2013). “I think you have read a number of small releases about assets that we’ve sold in Canada,” Farris told the conference. “We’re selling some of our shallow gas; we’re going to end up selling about $400 to $500 million of Canadian assets. “What we’ll be left with, honestly, is going to be horizontal drilling stuff. We’ve got seven rigs running right now and they’re all horizontal [wells]. The Duvernay, the liquids-rich Montney, the Dunvegan we have a tremendous acreage position through all those and hopefully in the fourth quarter, we’ll come out and show you a little bit about what our resource potential is in Canada.”

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‘Great future’ for crude-by-rail Continued from page 13 “What I think is most interesting is to look at the volumes the big oil companies are looking to move, so I think [crude-by-rail] has a great future.” According to Mark Hallman, spokesman for CN, the company started to test transportation of various types of crude to markets in Canada and the U.S. in 2010 and in 2011 moved approximately 5,000 carloads of crude oil. “In 2012, CN moved more than 30,000 carloads of crude oil to various North American markets, and believes it has the scope to double this business in 2013.” Hallman said rail complements pipeline in the movement of crude oil, as both modes are safe and present an extremely low risk of accidental release during transportation. CN sees continued opportunities for growth in its crude-by-rail business largely because rail works well with new and existing pipelines, and does not replace them. However, Hallman said rail advantages for moving crude include an ability for shippers to move product anywhere along the rail network to access the most profitable market of the day. Further, he said, rail affords customers the option to start with moving smaller volumes and increasing the size of shipments as required. Rail provides an alternate means to move product and avoid shutting in production due to capacity apportionments or other pipeline-system disruption, Hallman suggested. In response to customer demand, according to Hallman, CN is moving heavy crude, light crude and pure bitumen from Western Canada to markets throughout North America. “CN’s network provides direct access to heavy oil and bitumen production areas in the Lloydminster, Peace River, Cold Lake, and Athabasca regions of Western Canada, as well as to the Bakken area in Manitoba and Saskatchewan,” he said. Shipping heavy product by rail without diluent is competitive with pipeline economics and provides market flexibility and scaleability, now and into the future, Hallman added.

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Builders need more jobs Continued from page 5 However, the availability of land isn’t the only issue. “Our local building community needs to have enough work that they can guarantee employment,” said Evans. “We have 40 lots for sale in this community of 80,000 people in the summer of 2013,” he continued. “That’s not enough to sustain a homebuilding industry.” The two new neighbourhoods under construction and the announcement that land will be available for future builds is expected to solve that problem.

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“This announcement now gives homegrown building trades or development industry enough confidence that they can build a business in the community, but it also will be significant enough that we could be able to attract interest from other places as well,” said Evans. The next step for Wood Buffalo is to decide the parcels of UDSR land to develop first and how to acquire those lands now that they are available. “We need to do that on the basis of the cost of infrastructure and transportation offsets. And then we need to work out with the government how to support the transfer and sale of the subject lands,” said Evans. “They’re not giving these lands to us. They’re being made available for sale.” Although this decision by the provincial government appears to be a good one for the future of Wood Buffalo, reaction to the announcement hasn’t been unanimously positive. Some oil sands producers are unhappy with the move because all the land contained in the UDSR has previously been leased to industry. “There’s a cancel and compensation process in place,” said Strickland. “Government officials are meeting with industry and walking them through the process,” she continued. “Depending on the type of lease that they own, there is a process in place under specific legislation.

For surface leases, for example, that would be under the Public Lands Act. And for subsurface leases, that would be your oil sands leases that are being cancelled, that would be under the … Mineral Rights Compensation [Regulation].” Strickland acknowledged that there have been complaints from a few companies, but also noted that the government is meeting with all affected producers on an individual basis to reach a resolution. “There’s a very well explained process under each regulation,” she added. “We have to work stepby-step with the companies to make sure that the process is followed. Companies will be providing us with information. And we’ll just walk them through the process. We understand that this does have an effect on companies, but it’s necessary for urban growth, and this community does support industry.” Industry was also involved in the discussion when the boundaries of the UDSR were being drawn. “The boundary has sort of evolved over time,” said Strickland. “There was an extensive consultation process. Government undertook that process. There were consultations with First Nations, for example, in the local area. There was consultation with the public. There was consultation with industry. And also there were numerous meetings with the municipality. “It was all about balancing the interests of everybody involved. And the boundary was the result of all of those consultations.”

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Supervisors are key to safety Continued from page 16 “That’s not just an issue of personal safety,” he said, noting that personal safety measures are still important. “Now you’re talking about how does the individual connect to those complicated systems and other people,” he continued. “Now you’re talking about individual safety plus what kind of management or operational processes are in place to prevent accidents. And also engineering controls – valves that shut things down automatically in case somebody does make a mistake. “That whole bag of tricks … is process safety.” Enform is trying to steer the conversation with industry toward process safety, which takes place on a company-bycompany basis, but also during events such as their annual safety conference – attended by about 1,000 industry representatives – and the safety summit

held in Calgary this year, which included executives from about 90 companies. “What we’re trying to do is talk to those senior executives about what can you do in practice that helps the safety culture develop,” said MacGillivray. “We’re working on new programs to deal with some of those issues.” A significant concern with hydraulic fracturing is the silica dust associated with the sand used for that operation, which is now handled in large volumes and can pose a threat to human health through inhalation. “We know it’s a current issue. We know that the health folks are focused on it,” said MacGillivray, noting that Enform tries to provide the most current information on such issues on their website. Another issue popping up in the Peace Region is the difficulty some service sector companies are experiencing when trying to recruit new workers, R001424278

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particularly for entry-level positions. The trouble is finding new people with a clean driver’s abstract who can also pass a drug and alcohol test and show up for work at the right time every day. “There’s a principle in the oil and gas industry that one of the requirements and responsibilities of the individual worker is to show up fit for work, free from influences of drugs, including alcohol, but also well rested,” said MacGillivray. The worker must also have the appropriate training. MacGillivray said part of the problem is that the type of worker is also changing. “We used to get the local farm boy who was familiar with mechanical systems because he grew up on a farm,” he said. “There are fewer of those available. So, you’re tending to pull in workers that are non-traditional.” Some of those non-traditional workR001424349

ers are new Canadians, which is why Enform has partnered with the Calgary Catholic Immigration Society (CCIS) to train over 500 new Canadians to work in the oil patch, utilizing their heavy equipment training facility in Nisku, Alberta. The efforts to address labour issues has been aided by the April 1 merger of Enform with the Petroleum Human Resources Council, which conducts labour market analysis on a regular basis. The new partners are currently completing programs for which funding was already available while also applying for new funding, particularly through Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. “We’re in the process of waiting and answering questions, and we expect to know some time in the early fall about the level of funding for that work,” said MacGillivray. New programs will put an emphasis on supervisor competency.

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Yawning on the job Elaine Anselmi Pipeline News North Six oil and gas industry associations are supporting a document intended to mitigate risk in the workplace. Enform’s Fatigue Risk Management Guiding Principles, released on Sept. 9, aims to raise awareness of risks caused by worker fatigue in the rapidly growing industry. “Fatigue affects virtually everything we do in the industry, whether we’re working with equipment or driving vehicles,” said Enform president and CEO Cameron MacGillivray. “What we’re trying to do is pay more attention to it. As we see new workers coming in we want to make sure that we deal with the risks associated.” Enform was founded as the safety association for the upstream oil and gas industry, by the representatives of the industry’s six sectors: the Canadian Association of Geophysical Contractors, the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association, the Explorers and Producers Association of Canada and the Petroleum Services Association. “We focus on issues where we think we can make an impact, like fatigue,” said MacGillivray. “Fatigue has always played a role in accidents and injuries.” Due to the growing activity in the industry, and subsequent increase in new workers coming in, training on issues like fatigue management are particularly important. “We anticipate between 20 and 40,000 new jobs coming into the industry … it’s always a challenge, and that’s part of the reason we’re drawing attention to this.” The principles offer a guide to integrate fatigue management into the workplace, on the part of the employee and employer. Enform has released a number of tools concerning workplace fatigue, including a guide released in 2007. MacGillivray said in developing the principles, Enform built off of these tools and response from industry experts. Offering a frame of reference, the document assists employers in developing a program for workers that addresses the issues around managing fatigue. “When you show up to the work force, you’re not only knowledgeable, but we also expect people to be well rested,” said MacGillivray. “Fatigue can affect not only physical, but mental functioning as well.” Alberta Human Services noted that after 20 hours without sleep, impairment could be comparable to increased blood alcohol levels. One area of focus for Enform was to consider not only the working hours of employees, but also travel time, particularly when commuting to remote workplaces. “When they arrive at the job, we want them to arrive well rested,” he said.

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