Innovators & entrepreneurs

摘要

The resiliency, tenacity and innovation of the Canadian oilpatch borders on the legendary and could perhaps not be better personified than through the oilfield service sector. The less-glamorous cousin to the oil and natural gas exploration and production (E&P) industry, the gritty, in-the-trenches, lunch-bucket group that makes up the service sector has had a long and colourful history of successfully confronting myriad challenges over the decades—from surviving numerous downward cycles, manically ramping up during boom times, to maintaining a business pulse when both jobs and equity were scarce.