Flint Energy Services Ltd. is North America's leading fully integrated upstream and midstream construction and production service provider to the energy and resource industries. Flint has built its reputation on over 100 years of experience and has proven its ability to execute. Flint supports the oil and gas industry with services that are key to linking hydrocarbon production to markets and keeping this production flowing. Through over 60 locations in North America, Flint's 10,000 employees plan, fabricate, transport, build, and maintain customer projects from individual well tie-ins to the complete construction of major infrastructure projects. Our geographical footprint spans from the top of Canada's Northwest Territories down to the southern border of Texas covering all the major producing basins in North America to serve our customers where they work.
Flint operates in four primary (key) areas of the North American energy production:
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Heavy Oil and Bitumen Development and Production |
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Natural Gas and Conventional Oil Development and Production |
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Refinery, Plant and Oil Sands Maintenance |
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Northern Exploration and Development |
In December 2008, Flint restructured and streamlined its operations from five business segments down to four. These new segments are:
Oilfield Services - providing drilling rig moving, service rig moving, specialized and heavy hauling, fluid hauling and mobile pressure and vacuum services.
Production Services - providing a full range of midstream services that involves constructing and maintaining pipelines and oil and gas processing facilities from the wellhead to the refinery, and everything in between.
Infrastructure Services - providing construction management and the building of major oil sands facilities in Fort McMurray, Alberta.
Maintenance Services - providing planning, management and the execution of maintenance services for refineries and oil sands facilities including major shutdowns and turnarounds, as well as sustaining capital projects.
Flint's services, offered through these four diverse business segments, cover the full hydrocarbon exploration, development and production life-cycle.
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Diverse Business Segments and Services |
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OILFIELD SERVICES |
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 - Drilling rig moving
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Transco Energy Services Ltd. provides service rig, drilling rig and oilfield equipment hauling to production companies. Flint markets the oilfield transportation services under the Transco Energy Services Ltd. and Mighty Peace Oil Services Ltd. brand names which were added to Flint's operations in 2006. Transco supports the modular fabrication activities in Sherwood Park, Cold Lake and Elk Point by providing specialized hauling of the large module equipment to its installation site, most often north to the oil sands region in Alberta. - Transco Energy Services Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Flint and has 14 operating locations in western Canada
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PRODUCTION SERVICES |
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This business segment within Flint is the most comprehensive. Production Services supports exploration and production companies in every aspect of their field operations. Services range from specialized, highly technical expertise such as customized automated control systems and energy management operations through to general environmental clean-up. Flint offers field services in Canada and in the United States (through a wholly owned subsidiary Flint Energy Services Inc.) to a broad range of customers throughout its North American operations, operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The strength of this segment is in its ability to build long-term, alliance relationships with customers. Through these alliances, Flint has been able to expand its current service offerings and develop new services as the company proves itself with safe, efficient, and high quality performance. The Production Services segment also combines Flint's successful oilfield tubular inspection, repair, sales, refurbishing and storage services as well as Flint's plastic pipe manufacturing business - Global Poly Systems Inc. in Edmonton, Alberta. Flint's U.S. based design and fabrication of oil and gas processing equipment through J.W.Williams, Inc., also is included in this segment.. J.W. Williams, Inc. focuses on manufacturing customized equipment for natural gas and crude oil processing and conditioning. Its capabilities cover all facets including conceptual, process and mechanical design, detailed drawing preparation, materials procurement, equipment fabrication, assembly, quality control start-up, and measurement systems design and manufacturing. JW Williams has 3 plants located in Casper, WY and Waller and Odessa, TX. - Flint's largest operating segment with over 6,500 employees
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INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES |
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- Project 'build' design and construction management |
Infrastructure Services provides the fabrication and installation of oil sands and heavy oil processing plants as well as the assembly of oil and natural gas process piping and equipment. Flint's modular fabrication facilities are located in Sherwood Park, Cold Lake and Elk Point areas of Alberta. Installation operations are located in the Fort McMurray, Alberta oil sands region. Flint's full-cycle focus provides single-source services covering concept, development, design, module fabrication, transportation, final installation and field construction management, and labour services. Overall, Facility Infrastructure is a major contributor to Flint's total revenues and earnings. Current work on large capital projects include: - OPTI-Nexen - Bitumen Recovery and Heavy Oil Processing Plant, Long Lake, Alberta - Flint has been involved in some aspect of almost every oil sands project built to date in Alberta
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MAINTENANCE SERVICES |
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- Plant maintenance
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With Flint's philosophy of 'build it, and then maintain it', Flint Transfield Services (FT Services) was established in 2006 through a joint venture with Transfield Services to provide complete delivery of sophisticated management services for all routine maintenance, plant turnarounds for oil sands production facilities, oil refineries and related chemical, energy, electrical and processing plants. FT Services signed a five year, $1 billion contract with Suncor Energy to deliver asset management and maintenance services at its oils sands facilities near Fort McMurray and in-situ facilities, and their Sarnia, Ontario refinery. Additional services under the Suncor Energy contract includes engineering and construction for their sustaining capital projects. In 2007, FT Services also signed a smaller three-year maintenance contract with another oil sands producer and is involved in bid proposals with several oil sands producers. Flint's three northern companies are jointly owned by aboriginal enterprises representing the Gwich'in and Sahtu First Nations and provide construction and maintenance services to a number of producers in the Mackenzie Valley regions. With the billions of dollars in new oil sands and upgrading projects planned over the next 10 years, the potential volume of maintenance work is expected to grow rapidly. Similarly Flint is well positioned to provide service for the proposed Mackenzie Valley pipeline when it proceeds. - Plant maintenance and turnaround services marketed by Flint Transfield Services, a joint venture company with 50% ownership by Flint and 50% by Transfield Services. In 2007, Flint Transfield Services successfully negotiated a 5-year, $1 billion maintenance contract with Suncor Energy;
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