Canyon Services Group Inc. is expanding its capital program by $16.5 million, primarily to upgrade the capability of existing pressure pumping equipment and expand its fluid management equipment.
September 8, 2016, 8:38 AM MDT
Select Sands Corp. has completed the previously announced purchase of a permitted and producing wet processing plant, equipment and related assets, all near its Sandtown silica sands deposit in Arkansas from Tutle Holding, LLC.
September 8, 2016, 10:57 AM MDT
Flat Lake currently makes up about 10 per cent of corporate production for its largest producer — Crescent Point Energy Corp. — and that output just keeps growing for the company as it implements a pilot waterflood in the resource play.
September 7, 2016, 7:54 AM MDT
Devon Energy Corporation has successfully tested its third Meramec spacing pilot and commenced production on two high-rate, extended-reach lateral oil wells in the core of the overpressured oil window of the STACK.
September 7, 2016, 6 AM MDT
Quebec City-based Pétrolia Inc. says it has confirmed the existence of a functional oil reservoir comprised of natural fractures on the Haldimand property.
September 7, 2016, 6 AM MDT
U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. has completed the acquisition of Sandbox Enterprises LLC, a leading provider of innovative logistics solutions and technology for the transportation of proppant used in hydraulic fracturing in the oil and gas industry.
August 24, 2016, 6 AM MDT
Fracture stimulating wells after the initial treatment can be among a producer’s most profitable investments when the re-fracs are successful, but much can be done to improve the results, says an independent frac consultant.
August 23, 2016, 9:52 AM MDT
Packers Plus Energy Services Inc. recently worked with operator Dubai Petroleum Establishment to install and successfully stimulate an offshore carbonate reservoir using an open hole multi-stage ball-drop system.
August 23, 2016, 10:17 AM MDT
Select Sands Corp. has entered into an asset purchase agreement where it will buy certain assets of Tutle Holdings.
August 23, 2016, 7:36 AM MDT
Pétrolia Inc. announced the commencement of resource confirmation work on the Bourque property, which consists of the re-entry and completion of Bourque 1, as well as the drilling and completion of an additional well, Bourque horizontal No. 3. The project should start in the next few days.
August 18, 2016, 7:17 AM MDT
Trican Well Service Ltd.’s second quarter revenues plummeted to $32.5 million from $80.3 million a year earlier as low commodity prices hammered activity levels and pricing pressures mounted as service companies battled for work in a limited market.
August 12, 2016, 10:35 AM MDT
Settling into its role as the third largest pressure pumping company in Western Canada after the asset and equipment acquisition of Sanjel, STEP has recorded several notable accomplishments the past few months.
August 12, 2016, 6 AM MDT
U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Sandbox Enterprises LLC, a leading provider of innovative logistics solutions and technology for the transportation of proppant used in hydraulic fracturing in the oil and gas industry.
August 3, 2016, 8:51 AM MDT
Depressed pressure-pumping markets in the United States will eventually recover, and when they do, Calfrac Well Services Ltd. will return to the fray, company chief executive Fernando Aguilar said on Thursday.
July 29, 2016, 6 AM MDT
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July 28, 2016, 9:19 AM MDT
Blackbird Energy Inc. has entered into an agreement for the acquisition of an indirect 10 per cent minority interest in Stage Completions Inc., a Canadian technology and services company that specializes in pin-point multi-stage completions, for a cash purchase price of $3 million.
July 28, 2016, 6 AM MDT
The Oilfield Technology Group (OTG) of Hexion Inc. today announced the release of new resin coated proppants that are produced in Canada.
July 21, 2016, 7:36 AM MDT
July 21, 2016, 9:25 AM MDT
Devon Energy Corporation has brought online another successful spacing pilot and a record-setting oil well in the over-pressured oil window of the STACK play.
July 19, 2016, 6 AM MDT
Packers Plus Energy Services Inc. announced the continued success of its StackFRAC Titanium XV high pressure and high temperature (HPHT) open hole ball drop completion system in enabling operators in Alberta's Duvernay formation to achieve cost savings of up to 30 per cent compared to plug-and-perf completion methods.
July 19, 2016, 8:27 AM MDT
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June 10, 2016, 9:32 AM MDT
The Oilfield Technology Group (OTG) of Hexion Inc. today announced the expansion of its resin coated proppant manufacturing facility in Canada to provide a more efficient supply of proppants to fracturing service companies and operators in the oil and gas industry.
June 9, 2016, 7:13 AM MDT