field facts


old stereotype of rig work as unskilled, unsafe labour.


Industry statistics show just how wrong myths about rig work are.


For drilling contractors, industry’s return to healthy activity after the 2008-2009 downturn meant significant hiring and training. Contractors managed the pressures without compromising the industry safety record.


Total Recordable Incident Frequency has held steady at near record lows, fully 60% below 10 years ago.


“Our 2012 stats say something about this workforce,” says Nancy Malone, Vice-President of Operations for CAODC. “These are skilled professionals who are getting the job done.”


The site serves new jobseekers exploring career options as well as rig employees apprenticing as rig technicians.


CAODC expects the rig technician side of the site will be busiest in coming months as field employees prepare for work in the fall by taking certifications and completing the classroom component of their apprenticeship. RigTech.ca provides forms, course outlines and course dates.


Enbridge partners with U of C


The University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business (HSB) has partnered with Enbridge to create a best-in-class, Alberta-based sustainability centre.


The mandate of the Enbridge Centre for Corporate Sustainability (ECCS) will be to inform business decisions that advance the triple bottom line: people, planet and prosperity.


Its activities will be guided by an external advisory board comprising leading


scholars and practitioners of corporate sustainability from across North America. Through the ECCS, individuals and bodies will be encouraged to produce, translate, and disseminate leading-edge research on triple bottom line decision- making in Canada, across North America, and abroad and to share this work with emerging and current business leaders, ultimately changing the way businesses are run.


Enbridge has committed $2.25 million over 10 years to the ECCS, which will facilitate graduate student and faculty research, fund post-doctoral fellows, and support the ECCS’s ground-breaking


initiatives.


Pengrowth buys NAL Pengrowth Energy has entered into an agreement to buy NAL Energy Corporation to increase its light oil drilling inventory.


“The addition of the NAL assets will enhance our cash flow base and further augment our robust light oil drilling inventory,” says Derek Evans, Pengrowth's President and CEO. “The larger inventory of high netback light oil opportunities of the combined asset base enables us to high grade our investment opportunities which should lead to improved capital efficiencies going forward. The transaction substantially improves our ability to internally fund the significant portfolio of oil-weighted development opportunities of the combined operations, including our Lindbergh SAGD project."


A key attribute of the business combination is said to include an


expanded asset base of high quality conventional and unconventional opportunities with over 100,000 boe per day of current production and 434 million boe of proved plus probable reserves using Pengrowth and NAL's year-end 2011 reserves, representing an approximate 12 year reserve life index.


Oilsands alliance formed


Canada’s oilsands producers have formed a new alliance, Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA), focused on accelerating the pace of improving environmental performance in Canada’s oilsands.


Chief executive officers of 12 companies signed the alliance’s founding charter, committing to COSIA’s vision to “enable responsible and sustainable growth of Canada’s oilsands while delivering accelerated improvement in environmental performance through collaborative action and innovation.”


COSIA announced Dr. Dan Wicklum as the chief executive of the new alliance.


“I am confident COSIA will greatly accelerate innovation and environmental performance in priority areas that Canadians care most about,” says Wicklum. Companies participating in COSIA will contribute at varying levels to the alliance, based on their own areas of expertise. COSIA will rely on the input of scientists and engineers from within the ranks of the member companies, as well as leading thinkers from government, academia and the wider public.


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