offshore services and operations .
Halliburton Canada ’ s operations are spread across Western and Atlantic Canada from Fort Nelson , BC to St John ’ s Newfoundland . The company has been present in Western Canada since 1926 when Erle P Halliburton sent his two brothers , George and Paul to Turner Valley AB to start the spread of Halliburton into an oifiled services company with global reach . Today , Halliburton is one of the largest oilfield services companies operating in western Canada providing excellent reliability and engineering to numerous customers from hydraulic fracturing to drilling .
Halliburton has been present in Atlantic Canada since the 1970 ’ s when offshore exploration activities around the Hibernia offshore oilfield were first kicking off . Nowadays , the company is looking forward to the Hebron platform work starting as they are well positioned with multiple services involved to make a big impact on that project .
Gorman adds that alongside becoming the lowest cost provider , the oil price fall provided Halliburton with a chance to revamp a number of its
“ WE FOCUSED ON TRYING TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE ALL OF OUR TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR CUSTOMERS HAVE THE BEST TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE THEIR PRODUCTION WHILE KEEPING THEIR COSTS AT A REASONABLE LEVEL ”
— John Gorman , VP for Canada , Halliburton
operations and drill down on becoming a lean organization . A hitherto less explored activity that the downturn has necessitated is repurposing old oil wells which , as Gorman explains , has been an unexpected source of growth : “ We believe we are going to grow out of the downturn . We have actually had a better adoption of some new technologies like refracturing wells . One of our key strategies is coming back into wells and giving them a new life – very often back to production and very often with a lower decline curve .
“ If you can go into a well that ’ s already been drilled and recompleted – you can do it for half the price or less of a new drill and very often get close to
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