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Canadian Well Construction JournalThe Official Publication of the Canadian Association of Drilling Engineers

Volume 2 | Issue 2

February 2010

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President’s MessageI hope you enjoy this month’s Canadian Well Construction Journal. The drilling and completions season is at its peak right now and most people are buried in planning and execution of their drilling and completions program. While the industry chugs along, CADE continues with planning for our technical luncheons and annual CADE/CAODC drilling and completions conference.

Our 2010 conference is appropriately titled “Innovative Solutions for Unconventional Challenges.” The industry has recovered during our seasonal uptick; however, the future continues to look grey for many who see and predict very slow times ahead. The resil-iency of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin is driven by our desire to do things differently when faced with challenges unseen in the past. This decline in activity is the very spark that talented technical professionals require to step up and deliver solutions never seen or used in the past. This conference presents the latest developments and technological advancements in Canadian drilling and well completions, to promote a better understanding of best practices in operations, innovative well construction processes, changes in regulations, and new technology developments. The submission deadline is Friday, Feb. 19, 2010.

CADE also continues to strive towards providing quality education and networking events for our membership. Our volunteers are working diligently designing and plan-ning an education program that will accompany the CADE/CAODC conference. The focus will be on horizontal drilling and completions technology. Our first debate/forum series featuring three of the latest completion methods for multiple stimulation in hori-zontal wellbores was a success. Yes, we strive to do better. The interest demonstrated by the attendees and the participants is a message to continue. A new topic and venue will be chosen soon, and we invite everyone to stay tuned.

On behalf of CADE and its volunteers, I wish you success in the coming months.

Patrick Murphy, P.Eng.President, Canadian Association of Drilling Engineers

Feature Stories

Hard on soft skills 8

leading safely 10

DEPArTMENTS

Member Profile: John Pahl 5

Association News 6

Upcoming Events 7

Conference News 11

Stats At A Glance 14

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John PahlVice-President—Akita Drilling

Describe your role with Akita, your background, and career path.I am currently vice-president, Joint Ventures and Business Development, responsible for the management of our joint-venture companies. The job involves a lot of travel, so I tend to miss a lot of CADE meetings and functions. I started as a roughneck with Akita in 1995. My first degree was in English, majoring in 20th Century American Literature and Renais-sance Poetry, so it wasn’t necessarily what I thought I would be doing when I started university, but it was a fine employment opportunity for a Bachelor of Arts nonetheless. I left to do a MBA in Australia in early 2000, working as a bartender during the year and for a drilling company in the desert in the summer, but returned to Canada after a couple of years and rejoined Akita, this time in the office as a contracts representative. Prior to Akita and during university, I was also a general manager for Earls Restaurants Ltd. I am the current CAODC liaison to CADE.

What is the most rewarding part of your job?Aside from the excitement generated when our men get to go to work, I really enjoy being a part of some unique projects in a wide range of areas. Akita does a lot of work in some places that most people don’t get an opportunity to see, like Canada’s northern territories. We’re not a huge company, so I grew up with a lot of our people and have become good friends with them, our joint-venture partners, and people in their communities. It’s very satis-fying and rewarding to be part of a “family” like this.

What is the toughest part of your job?That’s a tough question to answer because I really enjoy what I do. I think it can be tough for everyone in this business to be subjected to the ups and downs of a cyclical industry and everyone’s morale can take a beating in the deep troughs.

Who has had the greatest influence on your career?That would have to be my family. There has been someone in my fam-ily either working on, sitting on, or paying for a drilling rig continuously since 1946. My father influenced me to work on the rigs with his stories of heavy machinery, travel, and adventure, and he continues to be active in the industry even today. My mother also worked for several drilling contractors over the years. Both have them have a strong work ethic and enthusiasm for tackling problems that I will never lose my admiration for. I also couldn’t fail to mention the people that I work with; we make each other who we are.

What do you like to do when you are not working?I have a three-and-a-half-year-old son named Henry. He’s always cheer-ful, fully mobile, all-terrain capable, and there’s almost nothing that we don’t do together.

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Association/Membership News

Welcome New Members

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Tom Bratrud Delta-P Test Corp. 403-861-3390 [email protected]

Michael Furukawa Furukawa Consulting 403-547-4713

John Hindman Marquis Alliance Energy Group Inc. 403-444-7436 [email protected]

Eric R. Olson Halliburton - Drill Bits & Services 403-260-5288 [email protected]

Michael Wilton BP Canada Energy Company 403-233-1570 [email protected]

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President Patrick Murphy 403-266-7383

Past President David White 403-699-5160

Vice-President John Garden 403-441-2300

Secretary Tammy Todd 403 613-8844

Treasurer Alice Skoda 403-232-6066

Membership Chairman Jason Tiefenbach 403-543-8012

Education Chairman Mike Buker 403-213-3615

Social Chairman Dan Schlosser 403-531-5284

CWCJ Editor Todd Brown 403-230-3055

Technical Chairman Jeff Arvidson 403-232-7100

IT Chairman Cris Catrinescu 403-720-2024

Drilling Conference Liaison Doug Hollies 403-604-6645

Executive Member Ryan Schoenhals 403-767-0202

CAODC Liaison John Pahl 403-292-7966

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Upcoming CADE Luncheon

Editor’s Note

Date Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Place The Westin Calgary

Time 11:30 a.m.—Reception

12:00 noon—Luncheon 12:30 p.m.—Presentation

speakerDoug Hollies

Upcoming Events

CADe Technical luncheonWednesday, March 10, 2010 The Westin Calgary

CAoDC Annual luncheon and BallFriday, March 12, 2010Calgary Telus Convention Centre

CADe Technical luncheon Wednesday, April 14, 2010 The Westin Calgary

Advancements in the Technology of Horizontal Drilling— What you as a Driller Need to Know Well construction professionals in the oil and gas sector sometimes take things like drilling at 90-degrees inclination for granted. The science of horizontal drilling marches steadily forward and has made enormous strides in the understanding of the fundamentals of sur-vey science. Deep-water environments have challenged directional providers to present more high-quality, real-time data than ever before. And clearly, there is a level of reliability of modern-day directional equipment that has made the service not only useful but es-sential in modern oil and gas exploitation. Most of us never see the results of this work because the sole mandate of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin drilling department is to keep their costs as low as possible to maximize the rates of return on capital projects. An understandable goal in an aging, under-pressured basin, however, in the world of new unconventional resources, is cost cutting forcing us to miss the technology train?

Doug Hollies, vice-president of Engineering of Codeco Energy Group, has surveyed industry-leading professionals in directional services industry to come up with a list of things that everyone should know about directional drilling. This interview process pre-sented a unique opportunity to access the latest commercial technologies available for drilling your horizontal wells in the best part of your reservoir, at reasonable prices.

I can’t believe it’s February already. The winter’s plowing by at breakneck speed, breakup is around the corner, people are getting busy, the industry is huffin’ and puffin’, and it’s time for the February edition of the Canadian Well Construction Journal. We are a dili-gent bunch here behind the lines of your association and this month we have a great story on our mentoring program. Once again a few of our finest CADE evangelists (Jason Tiefenbach, membership chair; and Doug Hollies, past president and 2010 conference chair) have made the connections and events happen that have brought along many of the new graduates from the University of Calgary and SAIT into our industry. Thanks to Doug and Jason and all involved. We’re all paying it forward around here.

We have another new CADE evangelist by the name of Kyle Klam. Kyle is a SAIT student and industry field professional who

recruited almost every student in the SAIT oilfield training program. We are grateful for Kyle’s hard work and diligent efforts to bring the future of our industry into CADE. You will hear more about all these new members as time goes by. If you are looking for some new employees from either of these programs, Kyle would be glad to provide a road map to the training and expertise taught at two of our finest training sources.

Hope you enjoy the issue.

Todd Brown, CADE News Editor [email protected] | cell: (403) 969–8148


Engineer-in-training Tyler Cook gradu-ated from the University of Calgary’s (U of C’s) Schulich School of Engineering at the height of the recession. But it didn’t take him long to land a job, thanks to a new soft-skills training and mentorship initiative for engineering students, intro-duced by CADE last spring.

“The most valuable part was learn-ing the soft skills that you don’t learn in school, mostly the networking skills,” says Cook, 29, who was hired as a pipeline and pressure vessel integrity engineer at Northern Materials Engineering last November, through a contact he made through the CADE program. “I learned that [networking] is more than just going up and saying hi. You’ve got to come up with a pitch to get the other person’s interest in yourself. And then once you get beyond that, it’s really trying to show an interest in what they have to say, and trying to absorb all the information.”

The CADE initiative for soft-skills training was introduced thanks to CADE drilling conference liaison and past president, Doug Hollies, who had gone to speak about the oil and gas industry last winter to senior-level engineering stu-dents enrolled in a U of C Introduction to Drilling Engineering course. After his pre-sentation, several students asked Hollies whether they could give him their resumé,

and Hollies went to the CADE executive for suggestions on how CADE might help.

CADE ended up asking Prominent Personnel, a Calgary-based global energy search firm, to deliver two soft-skills training seminars on resumé writing, networking, and communication skills. Approximately two dozen young people attended, most of them new engineering graduates from the U of C class.

In addition to the seminars, Prominent Personnel invited the young people to par-ticipate in an industry networking event, which allowed them to begin building their networks and increase their visibil-ity within the oil and gas community. The program also included a mentorship com-ponent that connected the new graduates with CADE members, who agreed to make themselves available to chat about career directions and give them some insight into the business.

It was through the program’s mentor-ship component that Cook found a job in his field. Glenn Leroux, president and chief executive officer of BOS Solutions, was one of more than a dozen CADE members who agreed to act as a mentor. Cook and Leroux met for a golf game with two of Leroux’s friends, both engineers. “It became quite apparent, the more we talked to Tyler, that he is a very good guy,” Leroux recalls. “The credit needs to

go to Tyler. All we did was facilitate a few things, which was very, very easy.”

After Cook mentioned his interest in pipeline and pressure vessels, one of Leroux’s friends, Garry Moyse, offered to forward Cook’s resumé to a friend and colleague, Dan Semenuik, president of Northern Materials Engineering, an Edmonton-based firm that helps upstream oil and gas companies administer their pipeline and pressure vessel integrity programs. For Semenuik, the timing was right, and so was the candidate. “I thought his skills set and his frame of mind seemed to fit well with our company,” he says.

In general, Semenuik thinks that job seekers should be able to demonstrate good communication skills—“which is important, particularly in the engineer-ing industry and in consulting—as well as demonstrating your ability to write and be personable. As far as the technical aspect goes, you’ve already demonstrated your ability by graduating from engineering.”

The CADE initiative has drawn high praise from everyone involved. “CADE really stepped up and helped out,” says U of C professor and NSERC-CAODC drilling engineering chair Geir Hareland, an international authority on drilling engineering simulators, who teaches the Introduction to Drilling Engineering course that Cook and the others attended.

FEATurE STOry

Hard on Soft SkillsThrough a new mentoring initiative, Jason Tiefenbach, Doug Hollies, and CADE aim to provide graduates with the soft skills essential to landing a first job


The CADE soft skills and mentorship initiative is “absolutely impressive,” says Prominent Personnel president Catherine Brownlee. “I really believe that every asso-ciation and every group should be doing this. Soft-skills training is required for all disciplines, designations, and all types of people. You can’t just be linear and focused on your technical abilities. You’ll never be able to achieve your greatest suc-cess without the soft skills.”

Adds Prominent Personnel vice-president, Carmen Goss: “In today’s challenging job market, these students cannot rely on what has traditionally been done from a career search perspec-tive. Finding ways to make contacts in the hidden job market is going to be critical to their success.”

For his part, the U of C’s Hareland would be keen to see CADE continue its soft-skills training initiative. He empha-sizes that finding jobs is an ongoing concern for young engineering graduates, especially in tough economic times. And his suggestion for the oil and gas industry is clear: “The idea is to step up to the plate and keep consistency in their recruiting.”

CADE membership chair, Jason Tiefenbach, would like to see the CADE initiative continue. “The big thing for us is to try to help students get to the next level,” he says.

Tyler Cook says CADE’s soft skills and mentoring program helped him land a job as a pressure vessel integrity engineer with Northern Materials Engineering.


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Leading SafelyFor nearly six decades, Enform’s safety conference has been helping the industry get home safely after every tour

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A safety tradition in Canada for 59 years, the Enform Petroleum Safety Conference is gearing up to gather green hands, super-visors, veteran safety professionals, and industry leaders for the 2010 event in Banff, Alberta. Arguably the best safety confer-ence in the industry, the event promotes health and safety within the oil and gas industry and provides a forum for profes-sional and supplier networking.

“We’re very excited about this year’s lineup of speakers,” says Lloyd Harman, Enform’s vice-president of Safety Services. “As the safety association for Canada’s upstream oil and gas indus-try, our goal is to work with industry to build a safe, well-trained workforce. We’ve designed a program that will help increase awareness of safety issues and how to manage them effectively.”

The theme of this year’s conference is Leadership: The Business of Safety. Safety is a unique business. It is both top-driven and bottom-driven, giving everyone involved the opportunity to demonstrate leadership. That means everyone—from the corner office to the newest hand with the still-spotless steel-toed boots—can demonstrate leadership. It makes good business sense to encourage everyone’s participation—because it is everyone’s business.

Program Advisory Committee chairman Patrick DeFoe is passionate about safety


Conference News

This year’s conference co-chairmen George McHardy (Nabors Drilling) and Patrick Murphy (Newpark Drilling Fluids) are excited to announce that there is a new venue for the 2010 CADE/CAODC Drilling Conference. We are moving back to the Telus Convention Centre with an enhanced technical format. The one-day, presentation-only conference will be held on Wednesday, May 26th, so mark your calendar. In association with the conference, CADE will be sponsoring a new educational op-portunity focused on the technical requirements for well construction professionals in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Stayed tuned for more information on the event as it becomes available.

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leadership. DeFoe believes that “safety is a moral obligation and it is a core value that when integrated with the other facets of business creates a sustainable enterprise.”

DeFoe is leading the charge this year on the development of the conference program, along with a Program Advisory Committee comprised of association and industry rep-resentatives. The committee has delivered a powerful lineup of topics and presentations that are timely and relevant to the industry.

The conference kicks off on Tuesday, May 4 with a day of pre-conference work-shops designed for the in-depth examina-tion of the subjects of presentation skills, incident reporting, and risk. Back by popu-lar demand is author and speaker Dr. Joe Sommerville. Sommerville’s highly inter-active session called “7 Keys to Creating Powerful Presentations” gives participants the tools to get a point across when deliver-ing presentations. Netherlands-based safety expert Eelco Sixma, formerly of Shell, will lead a half-day session that discusses high-risk focus concepts with the aim of reduc-ing the number of fatalities in the work environment. Finally, AOSSA will give insight into effective incident reporting.

The main plenary sessions will take place on Wednesday, May 5 and Thursday, May 6 and are geared toward the conference’s central theme of leadership. Lyn Heward, veteran of the Cirque du Soleil organiza-tion, will open the conference with her dynamic presentation on leadership and safety. Using her considerable experience with one of the world’s leading entertain-ment organizations, Heward will chronicle the challenge of balancing creativity and providing a safe workplace.

The two-day conference will also explore the hot topics of supervisor competency, contractor management systems, and the benefits of investing in safety and leading metrics will all be explored. Special focus has been given to journey management with a series of presentations focusing on the sub-ject slated for day two. A new programming segment, “Up Close and Personal,” will also be unveiled at the 2010 event. The segment will feature issues significant to specific industry sectors.

For an adrenaline-filled finish to the agenda, the conference is pleased to announce that fighter pilots from Afterburner Inc. will take delegates into

the exhilarating world of aviation. The Afterburner presentation called “Plan.Brief.Execute.Debrief = Win: A Fighter Pilot’s Safety Secret” uses the combat proven methodologies of elite military professionals and translates it into tools to achieve victory in a rapidly changing safety environment.

The annual tradeshow that runs concur-rent with the conference will once again fea-ture exhibitors from a wide cross-section of industry with new and innovative products for delegates to preview.

Enform was created almost 60 years ago by major oil and gas trade associations to help them meet their safety and training needs. Through their safety and training products and services, including a portfolio of more than 120 courses covering safety, technology, and operations, Enform collabo-rates with industry to provide the knowledge and skills necessary to create a safe, well-trained workforce.

You can register online for the event at www.psc.ca. Don’t miss out on the oppor-tunity to acquire fresh knowledge and resources while connecting with peers and potential clients.

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Drilling rig Activity January 26, 2010

PSAC Zone ACTIVE DOWN TOTAL % ACTIVE

Alberta 378 180 558 68%

Saskatchewan 74 36 110 67%

British Columbia 91 27 118 77%

Manitoba 13 2 15 87%

Western Canada Total 556 245 801 69%

Northwest Territories 2 2 4 50%

Northern Canada Total 2 2 4 50%

Ontario - 1 1 0%

Quebec - 3 3 0%

New Brunswick - 3 3 0%

Nova Scotia 1 - 1 100%

Newfoundland - 1 1 0%

eastern Canada Total 1 8 9 11%

Canada Total 559 255 814 69%

Service rig Activity January 26, 2010

PSAC Zone ACTIVE DOWN TOTAL % ACTIVE

Alberta 323 250 573 56%

Saskatchewan 111 70 181 61%

British Columbia 22 13 35 63%

Manitoba 7 3 10 70%

Western Canada Total 463 336 799 58%

Quebec 2 - 2 100%

eastern Canada Total 2 - 2 100%

Canada Total 465 336 801 58%

JouRNAl CoNTeNTInformation in this publication may be sourced through a variety of contributors. Members are encouraged to email their suggestions regarding articles, general content, and statistical graphs and charts to: Dale Lunan at [email protected]

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