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JUNE 2014 :: $10 WESTERN CANADA’S OILFIELD SERVICE AND SUPPLY MARKET AUTHORITY
ALL REV VED UP,
READY TO GO
Western Canada’s petroleum industry spins
its wheels waiting for market access
Inside
A province-by-province, play-by-play guide
to western Canada’s petroleum industry

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Tracking The
What goes into an average extended-reach horizontal
Truckloads
Table of Contents
shale gas Well With multistage-fracture treatment?
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early well-pad development (first well, all water delivered by truck)
COVER STORY
Based on average first well results in a multi-well pad in the Marcellus shale play in New York City.
WCSB
4455 All revved up,
drill pad construction
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reriga modbilizyatio nto go
Western Canada’s petroleum industry
4455 spins its wheels waiting for market
non-rig equipment
access for growing reserves
5500
12 drilling
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completion chemicals
FEATuRES
55
completion equipment
hydraulic fracturing
117755
equipment
british cforluamctbuiraing water hauling 550000 Saskatchewan
Gearing up More in the tank
Operators begin drilling British New discoveries, improved drilling
Columbia’s giant shale gas and completion technology,
2233 23 resource to prove up reserves in 58 and enhanced recovery drive
fracturing sand advance of LNG exports oil production growth in
110000 Saskatchewan going forward
Produced water disposal
4455
final pad preparation
AlTboetratal one-way loaded Service & Supply
Fuel-injected 11,,110033Waiting for the light
trips per well
Alberta boasts a vast geology to change
of petroleum-soaked rock. Light oil the focus of service
32 Producing it and fi nding markets 70 and supply sector until LNG
for it are the challenges for projects get green lit or shale oil
generations to come. exploration pays off
number of different
average number of oilsands occupations involved infographic
workers per well Workhorisne drilling one well Disecting a shale gas well
441100 Oilsands sp11endi5n5g to 00keep Tracking the truckloads of
chugging along materials it takes to drill and
51 130 complete a shale gas well
sources: all consulting; government of new York
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130 June 2014
COMPANY PROFILES
78 Advantage Valve Maintenance 96 Lynx Creek Steaming & Oilfield 114 Tak Rentals Inc
www.advantagevalve.com Services Ltd www.takrentals.com
80 AWI www.lynxcreek.ca 116 Terrapro Group of Companies
www.awincinerators.com 98 NCS Oilfield Services Canada Inc www.terraprogroup.com
82 BHD Tubular Ltd www.ncsfrac.com 118 Thru Tubing Solutions
www.bhdtubular.ca 100 New Age Oilfield Services Inc www.thrutubing.com
84 Clean Solutions Inc www.newageoil.ca 120 Trendon
www.cleansolutionsinc.ca 102 Park Derochie Inc www.trendon.ca
86 Cummins Western Canada www.ParkDerochie.com 122 Valley Mats
www.westerncanada.cummins.com 104 Peregrine Pressure Testing Ltd www.rigmatsab.com
88 Flo-Back Equipment Rental www.peregrinepressure.com 124 Venture Production Testing Inc
And Sales 106 Rapid Rod Service Ltd www.ventureproductiontesting.com
www.flo-back.com www.rapidrodservice.com 126 Wise Intervention Services Inc
90 IHS Global Canada Ltd 108 Rick’s Oilfield Hauling www.wiseisi.com
www.ihs.com www.ricksoilfield.ca 128 Wolseley Industrial Canada Inc
92 Jewel Energy Service Inc 110 Specialized Desanders Inc www.wolseleyinc.ca
www.jeweles.ca www.desanders.com
94 Learn-Rite Courses Inc 112 Spectrum Wireline Services Ltd
www.learnrite.ca
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ADVERTISERS’ INDEX
11 Alken Basin Drilling Ltd 49 EnviroBore Directional Drilling iFc PROMORE
www.alkenbasindrilling.com www.enviroborehdd.ca www.promore.com
21 Apex Technological Field 68 FB Industries Inc 7 Raven Oilfield Rentals
Services Ltd www.fbindustriesinc.com www.ravenoilfield.com
www.apextech.ca
49 Formula Alberta Ltd 21 Rocky Mountain Containment
3 Arctic Boilers & Fabricating Ltd www.formulaalberta.ca www.containment.ca
www.arcticboilers.com
21 Global Dynamics Inc ibc Rotation Power & Equipment Inc
50 BendKing Inc www.gdioiltools.com www.rotationpower.com
www.bendking.com
31 H F Nodes Construction Ltd 65 Rush-Overland Manufacturing
4 Bitz Power Tongs Ltd www.hfnodes.com www.rushoverland.com
www.bitzpowertongsltd.com
5 K & L Oilfield Holdings Ltd 6 Sci-Tech Engineered
21 Bob Miller Trucking (2001) Ltd Chemicals Ltd
29 Kel-Gor Limited
www.bobmillertruckingltd.ca www.scitechinc.ca
www.kelgor.com
50 Bohn Pumpjack & Picker Service 27 Skinner Bros Contracting Ltd
20 Meter-Man Flow Products
www.bohnpumpjack.com www.skinnerbros.com
www.meter-man.ca
49 Calibre Drilling Ltd 49 Springburn Oilfield Services Ltd
49 Northwest Machine & Welding
www.calibredrilling.com www.springburn.biz
(1994) Ltd
41 Commander Combustion 19 Stan Schmode Holdings Ltd
50 Paddle Plastics Ltd
www.commandercombustion.com
www.paddleplastics.com 47 Target Safety Services Ltd
21 Creative Impact Consulting Inc www.targetsafety.ca
31 P.C. Oilfield Construction
www.creativeimpactconsulting.ca
Supplies Ltd obc (WWL) Weaver Welding Ltd
49 Delorme Enterprises Ltd www.pcoilfield.com www.weaverwelding.ca
31 Dendoff Springs Ltd 50 Petroline Rentals Ltd 67 Western Fiberglass Pipe Sales Ltd
www.dendoff.com www.westernfiberglass.net
57 Piston Well Services Inc
50 Empire SCBA & Supplies Inc www.pistonwell.com
www.empirescbasupplies.com
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Editor’s Note
PuBLISHER
Maurya Sokolon | [email protected]
EDITORIAL
Editor
Darrell Stonehouse | [email protected]
Contributing Writer
Jacqueline Louie
Editorial Assistance Manager
Tracey Comeau | [email protected]
Editorial Assistance
political will Kate Austin, Laura Blackwood, Shawna Blumenschein,
Sarah Maludzinski, Matthew Stepanic
CREATIVE
Print, Prepress & Production Manager
W Michael Gaffney | [email protected]
estern Canada has been blessed with a storehouse of petroleum resources.
Creative Services Manager
Trapped in the oilsands of Alberta are 1.8 trillion barrels of bitumen, with Tamara Polloway-Webb | [email protected]
almost 10 per cent, or 170 billion barrels, recoverable with current technologies. Creative Lead
Cathlene Ozubko
Add to that a conventional heavy oil resource of around 30 billion barrels and a best esti-
Graphic Designer
mate of 30 billion barrels of tight oil in the early stages of development. Add to that another Janelle Johnson
462 billion barrels of oil estimated to be trapped in shale deposits yet untapped. Creative Services
Peter Markiw, Paige Pennifold, Jeremy Seeman,
Natural gas? Ginny Tran Mulligan, Teagan Zwierink
The Montney Formation alone has 449 trillion cubic feet of marketable resource, says the Contributing Photographers
Aaron Parker, Joey Podlubny
National Energy Board (NEB), enough to meet Canada’s requirements for 145 years. The
SALES
NEB mid-range estimate for the Horn River is 78 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. And these Sales Manager–Advertising
numbers could be dwarfed by shale plays in early development in Alberta. Monte Sumner | [email protected]
Senior Account Executive
The Alberta government currently pegs the Duvernay shale resource at 443 trillion cubic Tony Poblete
feet, the Muskwa shale at 419 trillion cubic feet, the Nordegg at 148 trillion cubic feet and Sales
Mark Bec, Robert Byar, Marc de Vooght, Gary Henderson,
the Wilrich at 246 trillion cubic feet, for a total of 1,256 trillion cubic feet of gas in place.
Dennis McBryan, Ken McPherson, Demian Newman,
This is a world-class resource endowment by any measure. Patricia Nicholl, George Parkson, Linda Selin, Gregg Wolkowski
For advertising inquiries please contact
But without new markets, it will remain in the ground.
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On the oil side of the ledger, the situation is dire. Without the Keystone XL Pipeline to the Ad Traffi c Coordinator–Magazines
U.S. Gulf Coast, the Northern Gateway Pipeline and Trans Mountain expansion to Canada’s Lorraine Ostapovich | [email protected]
DIRECTORS
west coast, and the Energy East Pipeline to Canada’s east coast, western Canadian oil is
CEO
trapped, says Ed Kallio, director of gas consulting for Ziff Energy, a division of HSB Solomon Bill Whitelaw | [email protected]
Associates LLC. And that will have major impacts across the industry. President
Rob Pentney | [email protected]
“If we don’t get any of that, then we are in trouble,” he says. “We stay around three mil-
Director of Sales & Marketing
lion barrels a day, and that’s where we top out. Differentials crater, and you can’t add more Maurya Sokolon | [email protected]
oilsands production or even incremental tight oil production.” Director of Events & Conferences
Ian MacGillivray | [email protected]
Natural gas demand would also be affected because current oilsands demand for gas is Director of The Daily Oil Bulletin
about 1.3 billion to 1.4 billion cubic feet per day. Stephen Marsters | [email protected]
Director of Digital Strategies
“By 2020, with this view [the oil pipelines built], we are going to three billion cubic feet per
Gord Lindenberg | [email protected]
day. If we don’t get this, we top out at 1.3 [billion to] 1.4 billion cubic feet per day on the gas Director of Content
demand side,” says Kallio. Chaz Osburn | [email protected]
Director of Production
Developing the huge natural gas resource, however, depends on more than the oilsands. Audrey Sprinkle | [email protected]
It will also require liquefi ed natural gas (LNG) export markets. Director of Finance
Ken Zacharias, CMA | [email protected]
The NEB estimates, if oil pipelines and LNG export terminals are built, western Canada
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