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Scope of work

Everything from spud to reclamation certificate.

We supervise wells. We do not own equipment, sell tools, or take a cut from the vendors on your location. The list below is the whole business.

01

Drilling supervision

A ticketed consultant on location from spud to rig release, on days, nights or both. We run the program you and your drilling engineer wrote, flag the moment reality diverges from it, and put the numbers in front of you the same morning.

  • Daily drilling report, cost tracking against AFE, and morning call-in
  • Third-party and service company coordination on location
  • Mud, directional and cementing oversight against program
  • Sour service experience — H2S contingency plans and drills run properly
VERTICALHORIZONTAL PAD DRILLINGSOUR SERVICE DAY & NIGHT
02

Completions & frac supervision

From rig release through to flowback and tie-in. We are on location for the pressure work, and we keep a record that stands up later when someone asks why stage fourteen behaved the way it did.

  • Perforating, stimulation and coiled tubing oversight
  • Real-time pressure monitoring and treatment records
  • Flowback supervision and initial production data capture
  • Written completion summary for your reservoir group
MULTI-STAGECOILED TUBING FLOWBACKTIE-IN
03

Workovers & well servicing

Service rig supervision on producing wells. This is where operating cost is actually won or lost, and it is the work most consulting outfits treat as filler between drilling programs. We do not.

  • Recompletions, zone changes and re-perforating
  • Pump changes, rod and tubing failures, artificial lift optimisation
  • Remedial cement, casing repair and fishing operations
  • Downhole failure analysis so the same job is not repeated in eight months
RECOMPLETIONREMEDIAL CEMENT ARTIFICIAL LIFTFISHING
04

Abandonment & reclamation

Inactive well liability is not going away, and the regulator is not getting more patient about it. We run abandonment programs end to end and close the file properly.

  • Downhole abandonment, cut and cap, and surface equipment removal
  • Phase 1 and Phase 2 environmental coordination
  • Surface reclamation through to reclamation certificate application
  • An honest assessment of where your inventory sits against closure spend
DIRECTIVE 020CUT & CAP RECLAMATION CERT
05

Regulatory & compliance support

The field paperwork that decides how an inspection goes. We keep current with AER and BCER directives because our consultants are the ones signing the tickets.

  • Well licence applications and amendments
  • Compliance reviews ahead of an audit, not after a finding
  • Incident reporting and follow-up correspondence
  • Records organised so an inspector can find what they asked for
AERBCER AUDIT PREPLICENSING
06

Project management

For operators without an in-house drilling group. We take the program from AFE through to on-stream, hire and manage the vendors, and report to you as though we were your staff.

  • AFE preparation and cost control through the whole program
  • Vendor selection, tendering and contract administration
  • Single point of contact for the entire well
TURNKEYAFE CONTROL VENDOR MGMT

Day rates

Quoted before mobilisation.

Indicative 2026 rates in Canadian dollars. Your actual rate is confirmed in writing with the consultant’s resume before anyone leaves for location.

Drilling consultant

12-hour tour, days or nights. Minimum three days.

$1,250 / day

Completions consultant

12-hour tour through stimulation and flowback.

$1,250 / day

Workover / service rig

Daylight supervision on producing wells.

$1,050 / day

Abandonment supervision

Including cut and cap and surface work.

$1,050 / day

Regulatory & office work

Licensing, compliance reviews, audit preparation.

$135 / hr

Mobilisation

Truck, accommodation and subsistence, billed at cost.

at cost

No standby games

If weather or a vendor puts the job down, standby is billed at half rate, and we will tell you the moment we think you should send us home. We would rather lose three days of billing than have you find that line on an invoice you did not expect.

Straight answers

What we don’t do.

  • We do not own equipment. No rigs, no tools, no trucks for hire. It keeps our advice on your vendors genuinely independent.
  • We do not take vendor rebates. Not from mud companies, not from directional providers, not from anybody. Ask us to put that in the contract.
  • We do not do engineering design. We execute and supervise the program. Your engineer or a consulting engineering firm writes it.
  • We do not do offshore. Land wells in western Canada, and nothing else.
  • We do not take work we cannot staff. If our consultants are out, we will tell you that and give you a date rather than send someone green.

Availability

Tell us the spud date.

We will confirm the same day whether we can staff it, and send you the resume of the consultant who would be on location.