Tundra Oil & Gas recently donated $20,000 toward the Maryfield Rec Board’s project to repair the roof of the community skating rink. Roughly 85 per cent of their production is in southwest Manitoba, with the remainder in southeast Saskatchewan. There are 137 companies in the Tundra Oil & Gas … "For that not to happen didn't even enter my mind, that we wouldn't enter into a partnership," LeDoux said. It took them a couple months to get back to us, to say, ‘Okay, we actually have a buyer for the non-Manitoba assets, so if you’re interested, let’s talk.’. Tundra Oil & Gas has 1,627 competitors including Royal Dutch Shell (Netherlands), ExxonMobil (United States (USA)) and BP (United Kingdom (UK)). A few years earlier, EOG had built a pipeline from Waskada to the Enbridge mainline terminal at Cromer, Man., and PennWest used another line, of which Tundra had a share. A news release from Tundra noted that in 2014, the company bought 550 oil wells from EOG Resources Inc., boosting Tundra’s daily production by around 7,000 barrels per day. He said Tundra followed all provincial regulations in locating its wells. You can infer the rest from there," said Neufeld. He said Tundra did not share the results of seismic exploration work the company did on Gamblers reserve land because the information is proprietary. While this means reduced drilling costs, it also means less reward. “We concluded a deal in late 2014. Each year, when recently-retired director of the Manitoba Petroleum Branch, Keith Lowdon, would make a presentation to the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference, he would typically show a series of slides showing the phenomenal growth of the Sinclair-Daly oilfield which runs just east of the Manitoba/Saskatchewan border and centres around Cromer, which just happens to be the oil hub that receives southeast Saskatchewan and southwester Manitoba oil for shipment on the Enbridge Mainline. We have to be in this together.”. Indeed, several oilfield service companies over the years have told Pipeline Newsthat if they wanted to do business with Tundra in Manitoba, they were strongly encouraged to set up shop there, something Neufeld acknowledged. Comments are welcome while open. “We gave them a number. Be sure to follow our page for more information over the coming days. The Company's line of business includes performing geophysical, geological, and other exploration services for oil and gas. However, the Sinclair field remains dominant. It also means shorter travel for crews, which can also be a safety consideration. Effectively, it costs less to drill, but you get less as well. But we did tell them we’d be interested in the Manitoba assets. “I think we’re going to be able to execute our (drilling) program for the year with just two rigs. The setback distance for an oil well from a competitive lease boundary is 100 metres, the province said, and if another well is drilled closer than that, its production can be restricted. Founded in 1980, Tundra Oil & Gas is a private family company that specializes in performing geophysical, geological, and other exploration services for oil and gas. Leaders of a small First Nation in Western Manitoba say they feel betrayed by an oil company that drilled for oil on land adjacent to a native reserve but did not make the First Nation a partner in any oil well profits. Tundra Oil & Gas is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Winnipeg-based James Richardson & Sons, Limited (JRSL), a private family company established in 1857. Tundra is committed to cleaning up these properties and restoring the land to its original condition. on July 19, employed by Tundra Oil & Gas Limited. “As of July 1, we removed the Partnership label and moved back to being Tundra Oil & Gas Limited,” Neufeld said, “Also, effective July 1, Tundra Energy Marketing Limited, is no longer a subsidiary of Tundra Oil & Gas and now reports directly to its parent company, James Richardson & Sons, Limited. Tundra Oil and Gas. “The whole industry had to re-gear. Tundra’s wells in the Sinclair-Daly field are often around 900 metres deep. Tundra CEO Ken Neufeld said his company drilled six wells near the First Nation's land in 2013 and 2014, with five of them currently producing oil. So to starve these folks, there’s no benefit in that. Houston, Texas – (February 20, 2013) – Tundra Oil & Gas announced today that it has secured an equity commitment from Denham Capital, an energy and resources-focused global private equity firm. James Tanner, an adviser to the First Nation, said "there was not only no consultation but after several concerted attempts at contacting the Manitoba government, they responded and said 'there's no duty to consult.'". By hello 0. A lot of it has since been unitized. Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted. Some are growing. The province said the law provides directions on protecting rights of adjacent land and mineral rights owners. EnergyNow is an online energy news and data media service dedicated to providing essential up to-date information on the Canadian oil & gas industry. The province said no oil underlying Gamblers reserve land has been depleted by offsetting oil wells, all of which have been licensed according to Manitoba's Oil and Gas Act. Their head office resides in Winnipeg. The company very much has a Manitoba focus and commitment. Tundra’s community project support is typically done through the Richardson Foundation. JRSL is a multi-disciplined enterprise with operations in agriculture, food processing, financial services, property management and energy. It was a bit opportunistic, in a sense. By July 1, 2015, Tundra closed the acquisition of the PennWest Waskada properties at a time when PennWest was rapidly shedding assets to deal with its debt issue. On July 17, Tundra Oil & Gas Limited president and CEO Ken Neufeld spoke to Pipeline Newsby phone from Winnipeg. Commuter workers at remote oil and gas fields have brought infection to outposts in the vast Russian North. Box 500 Station A Toronto, ON Canada, M5W 1E6. CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices. If they have the rig people, the operators, the labour… Clearly, in 2016, with US$26 oil in February … when the price was slow, just about everyone pulled back on their drilling programs. But when things change, you have to look at all aspects of your operations to deliver profit to your shareholders. Tundra Digital Strategy Roadmap. Industry: Oil and Gas . But also, Manitoba doesn’t have a lot competitors; it’s not an area of operations for many oil and gas companies . Tundra Oil & Gas Limited is located in Winnipeg, MB, Canada and is part of the Oil & Gas Field Services Industry. In the past few years, Tundra acquired much of the Waskada field from the two dominant players in the area – EOG Resources and PennWest Exploration. It has a technical office in Calgary, consisting of reservoir engineers, geologists, geophysicists and land admin people. Vice President, Development Operations. “In 2016, we would have done close to 200 downhole abandonments; a record number for Tundra. The Office of Oil and Gas Resource Management is the regulatory authority in Illinois for permitting, drilling, operating, and plugging oil and gas production wells. Winnipeg, Virden â€“ It would be no exaggeration to say that Tundra Oil & Gas Limited employs in excess of half of the Manitoba oilpatch. The reason we could run a different business at US$100 is because virtually all drilling was profitable at that point. Tundra is a newly formed E&P company that will pursue low-risk acquire and exploit opportunities along the Gulf Coast, primarily South Texas and South/Central Louisiana. "To provide them with our detailed information would allow them to take that and shop it around to other oil companies, so that would be kind of counterproductive from our perspective," Neufeld said. We will strive to assist as many of the eligible requests as possible, however, we may be unable to support every application for sponsorship. Principle operations are based in Virden, Man., where it directly employs roughly 200 people. June 19, 2017. The profit margins were good on the supply side. As Tundra is committed to managing within its cashflow, funds allocated to those acquisitions resulted in a small reduction in its drilling program. ", Neufeld said Manitoba's petroleum regulations govern the spacing of oil wells and how far they have to be from boundaries of neighbouring lands. We thought that was a big win for the larger region. To encourage thoughtful and respectful conversations, first and last names will appear with each submission to CBC/Radio-Canada's online communities (except in children and youth-oriented communities). "We continue to offer to meet with them. As of July 17, they had two Trinidad Drilling rigs working for them at Sinclair and Hargrave. Neufeld said he doesn't know at this time whether it would be worthwhile drilling on Gamblers reserve land. It wasn’t just about Virden, but also about surrounding communities,” he said. We reserve the right to close comments at any time. “While we have a common shareholder, we are two separate businesses with two separate board structures.”. The acquisition added roughly 6,000 bpd at the time. Tundra has an old proprietary system that manages their business and any inefficiencies in their system would cost them a significant amount of production time, lost mining time, and revenue. Leaders of a small First Nation in Western Manitoba say they feel betrayed by an oil company that drilled for oil on land adjacent to Indian Reserve land but did not make the First Nation a partner in any oil well profits. “I think we’ve got to recognize we’re in a new day and everyone has to find ways to be more efficient and survive at these prices,” Neufeld said. At the time, E&P companies like ourselves could afford to pay it, so that’s how the business ran. Fifteen Tundra Oil and Gas employees were laid off Monday, including 12 from southwestern Manitoba. Company-wide, Tundra Oil & Gas employs just over 300 people. We are committed to achieving a balance of economic, social and environmental sustainability. Tundra Oil & Gas is Manitoba’s largest oil producer, currently exceeding 30,000 barrels of light, sweet crude per day. Product delivery times are shorter. JRSL is a multidisciplined enterprise with operations in agriculture, food processing, financial services, property management and energy. Petroleum News. He noted 120 wells are planned this year. The Sinclair field is largely Bakken and Lodgepole production. Europe's largest oil company was targeting resources it said could be 10 times greater than the oil and gas produced so far in the North Sea. Carrier Application. It changed who we were and our growth trajectory like nothing else has, but I wouldn’t consider us a one-trick pony,” Neufeld said. That brought in an additional 1,000 bpd of production. We’re proud of those things too, even though they don’t add a lot to the bottom line. "Whatever we saw in seismic related to the First Nation lands did not lead us to pick locations to drill there. He said Chief LeDoux and Councillor Tanner both signed a Jan. 16, 2014, "permit to conduct geophysical operations" on the reserve land and paid the First Nation compensation of $13,550 for costs associated with exploration work. We weren’t interested in the properties they had further west which was out of our wheelhouse of expertise. Asked when vendors can start increasing rates, Neufeld said that’s a tough one to answer. “We try to be a good corporate participant on many fronts,” he said. DARREN VANDE GRAAF. At Waskada, the target formation is the Spearfish, also referred to as the Lower Amaranth by the Manitoba Petroleum Branch. The Gamblers lawsuit alleges the province had an obligation to consult with Gamblers before granting licences to Tundra, but did not do so. “We were a major contributor to the Virden Rec Centre in the past, which carries our name. Gamblers First Nation is suing Tundra Oil & Gas Partnership — which is owned by Winnipeg-based James Richardson & Sons Ltd. — and the Province of Manitoba, which licensed the company's drilling on land next to the First Nation reserve land. Tundra Oil & Gas Limited is a private energy company, with offices in Winnipeg, Virden and Calgary. If they have equipment they’ve always had on hand, that’s kind of a sunk cost. The Manitoba government granted 6 oil well licences to Tundra Oil & Gas Partnership on privately owned land within 2 km of Gamblers First Nation. “We saw a number of responses like that that made us feel we had good alignment, and mutual goals to keep the iron moving, so that we’d both be there when things picked up again,” Neufeld said. “We’ve been as high as 30,000 barrels per day, but with a reduced drilling program over 2015 and 2016, we’re producing approximately 25,000 barrels per day right now.”, Presentations given over the last decade by the Manitoba Petroleum Branch to the annual Williston Basin Conference have shown that, historically, Tundra has been, by far, the largest player in Manitoba. Tundra Oil & Gas is owned by James Richardson & Sons. I guess, when we see sustained activity. Tundra Oil and Gas sues company for $5M after 2015 oil spill The February 2015 spill amounted to about 1,200 barrels of an oil-water mixture near Waskada, about 275 kilometres southwest of … *Breaking News* Tundra is excited to announce that we’re now a part of the Wajax Corporation & family! U.S. drillers add oil and gas rigs for ninth month April 30, 2021 11:03 AM Canada’s oil sands becomes country’s COVID-19 hotspot April 30, 2021 7:30 AM Imperial announces first quarter 2021 financial and operating results April 30, 2021 5:55 AM Tundra Oil & Gas on Wikipedia, Google News & Yahoo Finance. It is owned by the Richardson family through James Richardson & Sons, Limited which is part of the same business conglomerate that includes Richardson International, Pioneer Grain, and Tundra Energy Marketing Limited (TEML). But when we ran into the wall in 2014, we said, ‘Hang on here, we can’t be the only ones taking a hit.’, “In order to continue our programs, like many of our peers we approached our suppliers with the message that they, too, had to share in the downturn.”, Neufeld added, “I think you always want to be aware of the fact that these are relationships, and they’re longer term. Tundra went from 200 wells a year to 38 wells last year. On July 17, Tundra Oil & Gas Limited president and CEO Ken Neufeld spoke to Pipeline News by phone from Winnipeg. By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any manner CBC chooses. Hydraulic fracturing in Southern Illinois has the potential to create more than 47,000 jobs and more than $9.5 billion in economic impact, a new study suggests. Horizontal wells that used to take eight days now take four days to drill. Tundra Oil & Gas Ltd Tundra Oil & Gas Limited was founded in 1980. “It was the biggest transaction to date in the history of Tundra.”. That applies to their company as well. The Brandon Sun asked the company about layoffs after a tip from a Virden employee. A provincial spokesperson said in a statement, "Manitoba Mineral Resources is of the opinion the oil wells licensed in the Binscarth area on privately-owned lands will not have an adverse effect on the exercise of treaty and aboriginal rights by members of Gamblers First Nation.". Your support is vital to helping us provide free local news. “Wajax customers will benefit from a broader range of valve, instrumentation and electrical products and services, and existing Tundra customers will benefit from Wajax’s extensive … Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered on CBC Gem. The statement of claim alleges that "due to the proximity between the adjacent lands and the reserve lands, the extraction activities have resulted in the capture of the natural resources from the reserve lands and have depleted the natural resources" (meaning the oil and gas reserves). It can host major tournaments and events. He feels a sustained US$50 price for WTI is a tipping point for more activity, both economically and psychologically. Company Location: Winnipeg, Canada . Reviews from Tundra Oil and Gas employees about Tundra Oil and Gas culture, salaries, benefits, work-life balance, management, job security, and more. He started with the company in 1989, and was its chief financial officer for a number of years prior to his current appointment. There’s still a lot of E&P companies that aren’t really making any money. In 2016, Tundra, through the foundation, made nine donations totally $99,000 in the region, and 10 donations, to date in 2017, totalling $131,500. CN said that it expects to move more than 30,000 carloads of crude oil in 2012, and it believes that it has the scope to double this crude oil business next year. “It forced everyone to tighten up. Tundra Oil & Gas stands out from many of its industry peers in that it is privately owned. With the downturn, drilling in the Waskada area all but came to a halt, but Neufeld said they are more active there this year, having drilled seven wells to date of a total of a dozen planned for this year. Services were in demand, with very little surplus capacity in the drilling and completions area, which meant suppliers could charge extra. He noted that they had some long-term drilling contracts when the downturn hit, but the driller was willing to work with Tundra to get through the slowdown and keep as many rigs working as possible. Field Office Tundra Oil & Gas 295 3rd Avenue, Box 1960 Virden, Manitoba, Canada R0M 2C0 204.748.3095 Â. In the Yamal Peninsula, regional health authorities now close down the Sabetta airport, Coronavirus spreads across Russian Arctic tundra, threatens thousands of oilmen | The Independent Barents Observer The Office implements the Illinois Oil and Gas Act and enforces standards for the construction and operation of … Directly, and through subsidiaries, Tundra produces more … The EOG purchase closed in November 2014. Transportation Client. We also completed and obtained landowner signed offs on over 100 site restorations. (Gamblers First Nation) To apply for sponsorship or donation, please follow the instructions below to upload and submit a proposal outlining your request. The Result. This commitment underlies the way we conduct our business across all of our operations. Prices were coming off and everyone was a little gunshy in terms of taking a longer-term view and stepping up. “We prefer to work with suppliers that  have a local presence,” he said, adding that it makes for much better contact and face-to-face service. As southwest Manitoba is the edge of the Williston Basin, well depths are generally shallower than what you would see in southeast Saskatchewan and much more shallow than North Dakota. “Sinclair was certainly our biggest discovery, that came about in 2004. Tundra Oil & Gas on LinkedIn, Twitter & YouTube. For instance, Tundra has been extremely active during the downturn, abandoning wells and cleaning up uneconomic sites. Gamblers First Nation is located 350 km west of Winnipeg, close to the Saskatchewan border. Latest oil and gas news, well, and drilling activity for Tundra Oil . “EOG, which is Houston-based, for a number of reasons, had started their exit from Canada, selling all of their Canadian oil and gas properties prior to the price collapse. During the heady days of the oil boom, Tundra had as many as seven drilling rigs going at a time, but more commonly five or six, according to Neufeld. It is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges. “As you get further updip, towards the edge of the reservoir, you’ve got less reservoir energy and maybe less oil in place,” he said. I think there was room to do that. Both the state’s North Slope coastal areas and the upper foothills are now closed to winter off-road tundra travel. Through multiple fundraisers, a federal grant, and Tundra’s gift, the Maryfield Rec Board will begin... Read More. Â. LeDoux said he invited the company to Gamblers land to do exploration work with the belief the company would share its findings with the First Nation people and make them partners in oil wells with Tundra. It was TEML’s first acquisition of a pipeline from a third party and, together with the Waskada pipeline and Tundra’s own Sinclair pipeline, got TEML going as a significant pipeline operator in the province. Comments on this story are moderated according to our Submission Guidelines. “I would say suppliers are going to need to increase price when there’s enough activity where they need to retool and re-attract labour and can justify the costs involved. He said despite the lawsuit, Tundra would still be willing to lease the mineral rights from Gamblers First Nation for its land. It’s still a bit choppy; it’s still volatile. This database has been in development for many years by the Illinois State Geological Survey. And make no mistake about it, there’s a reason Tundra’s not headquartered in Calgary. In its statement of claim, Gamblers First Nation said Tundra drilled on land outside of the First Nation, but was considered traditional territory by the reserve and that its people continue to hold aboriginal title to that land. "I think we've been very transparent with them," he said. TEML had spun off from Tundra Oil and Gas, the Richardson family-owned oil and gas company which is, by far, Manitoba’s largest producer. Tundra employs well over half the Manitoba oilpatch. That created an opportunity for Tundra, which added roughly 1,800 bpd at the time. “We just think it’s a better way to conduct our business.”, “We have a lot of technical people in our field office in Virden as well.”, Tundra is an intermediate producer. That’s down slightly from 145 wells originally planned due to two recent acquisitions in the Daly area – Interwest and Paradise Petroleum. “It was a combination of opportunities,” Neufeld said, noting that in the fall of 2014, oil prices declined from US$100 per barrel for WTI to US$50 per barrel, almost overnight. Invasive and Migrating Species Climate change is driving down populations of some Arctic tundra natives, such as caribou (also known as reindeer), by fostering an increase in parasites and disease while damaging food sources. EOG’s pipeline was purchased by TEML prior to Tundra Oil & Gas’s purchase of their Manitoba production. "Manitoba Mineral Resources considers that Tundra Oil & Gas has complied with the act and regulations," the province concluded. Drilling efficiency has also been key in dealing with lower oil prices. We do see it as an opportunity through unitization and waterflood projects.”. Seismic testing for oil and gas operations in the 1980s left tracks on the tundra that are still visible decades later. COPYRIGHT 2017 © TUNDRA OIL & GAS. Latest news about Tundra Oil & Gas. Over the years, largely through organic growth, but more recently through some key acquisitions, Tundra is by far the largest producer in the province, being the most active driller and employing the most people. The claim alleges that when Tundra began extracting oil from the adjacent land in 2014, that also diminished the oil available under the reserve lands without providing compensation to the Gambler people. Neufeld said, “And with acquisitions in 2014, 2015 and 2016, today probably more so.”. “So, when is that going to reverse itself? So nobody was busy and everyone was looking at a way to pay the rent.

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