Trican Well Service Ltd

Infobox_Company
company_name = Trican Well Service Ltd.
company_type = Public (tsx|TCW)
foundation = Lloydminster, Alberta, Canada (1979) | location_city = Calgary, Alberta
location_country = Canada
key_people = CEO and President: Murray Cobbe
num_employees = 2,794cite web |url=http://zenobank.com/index.php?symbol=CA;TCW&page=quotesearch |title=Company Profile for Trican Well Service Ltd (CA;TCW) |accessdate=2008-10-10]
market c

industry = Oilfield Services
revenue = CDN$847 742 000 (2006)
homepage = [http://www.trican.ca/ www.trican.ca]

Trican Well Service Ltd. is an oilfield services corporation headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with operations in Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan, Canada as well as Russia, the United States and Algeria. Trican maintains an employee count of over 1000 people and provides a wide range of services such as acidizing, coiled tubing, fracturing, nitrogen pumping, cementing and polybore. Trican is publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

History

Trican Well Service was founded in 1979 as a private corporation near Lloydminster, Alberta. In December 1996 the company went public and management was shuffled. Since then Trican has expanded to include fifteen operational bases (twelve in Alberta, two in northern British Columbia and one in Saskatchewan) and began operations in the United States and Russia under Liberty Pressure Pumping and Newco Well Service respectively. In 2007 Trican began operations in Algeria.

In 2006 Trican posted a revenue of $847,472,000 CDN with a net income of $172,563,000 CDN. [Trican Well Service. [http://www.trican.ca/pdf/annual_reports/SEDAR%20TCW_ar_06.pdf "Annual Report,"] February 27, 2006.]

ee also

*List of oilfield service companies

References

External links

* [http://www.trican.ca/ Trican Well Service Ltd.]