BOE Report Staff

Canada’s fleet of active drilling rigs shrank from 23 to 21 since last week according to data from Baker Hughes. Total drilling count was 21 at May 22. 8 rigs were drilling for oil; 13 for natural gas. The drilling activity in Alberta fell from 11 to 10 since last week. Saskatchewan’s drilling remained at 2 rigs. View a full breakdown of Western Canada’s rig activity. [Read more]

With the recent announcement of the Alberta Site Rehabilitation Incentive Program, funded as part of the federal government’s COVID-19 Economic Response Plan for oil field services contractors, there is a new focus on defining end of life work. Resource Energy Solutions, offers an automated well abandonment programming solution called Total Operations, Risk & Control (TORC) that generates a draft program outline and it creates relevant tasks and workflow processes. TORC increases [Read more]

Canada’s fleet of active drilling rigs shrank from 26 to 23 since last week according to data from Baker Hughes. Total drilling count was 23 at May 15th. 7 rigs were drilling for oil; 16 for natural gas. The drilling activity in Alberta fell from 15 to 11 since last week. Saskatchewan’s drilling remained at 2 rigs. View a full breakdown of Western Canada’s rig activity. [Read more]

The future of drilling in the WCSB is ever -changing, but it is safe to say that more environment-friendly and cost-effective processes and inputs will always play a vital part. As a leading Alberta manufacturer and distributor of oil and gas drilling fluids and additives, Di-Corp has continually invested in the research and development of made-in-Canada solutions that address drilling challenges and increase drilling efficiency. The most recent research and development outcome is a novel, [Read more]

To slow the spread of COVID-19, we have all had to make adjustments to how we work. For many of us that means restrictions on travel and working from home. For those supporting projects in the field, site visits are often out of the question. Many project teams have managed to stay connected by adapting to collaborative online tools like Skype and Zoom, but maintaining access to data and information on a distant project site so that essential work can continue presents a different [Read more]