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Hey guys,

I know every year I say I'm not going back but they've made me an offer I can't refuse so I'm headed back to the land of black gold for another Winter. It's a couple months earlier than normal but I'm moving up the ladder a bit further this year so I need to go in early to do some work in the shop and get some tickets. It's business as usual at CVT while I'm gone. Email may be a bit slower while I'm away but we will still get back to you. For anything urgent just give us a call at the shop.

Thanks again to all who ordered sets last month, hopefully I'll have another batch ready in the Spring. I'll be home fulltime by April.

-Jason-

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If you're talking Albian, Kearl, Horizon, Syncrude or Firebag, I get up there quite frequently Jason. Maybe we can have a coffee sometime and talk guitars.

Sounds like we're working for Nexen this year. I pretty much eat work and sleep while I'm up here but if you're swinging through it's doable

What are you up to in the oilsands?

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Jason,

If you have some time - can you post some pictures of your work place ? I figure some cool oil rig pictures would be great to see.

Thanks ! and be safe up there.

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I'll look and see what I have from last season, right now I'm working in the yard getting the rig ready for Winter so it's pretty boring for photos.

I wish I had more old drilling photos, I used to work on really big rigs drilling holes that were 3000+ meters deep and took months to drill. Up here we're on little rigs drilling 300-500 meters and we're done in 3-5 days.

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Sounds like you're doing the multi-well SAGD thing Jason. I'm mostly involved with the mining operations well North of you. Have fun!!

Yup. We're primarily a coring rig. Taking core samples and occasionally installing SAGD monitoring wells. I almost went to Firebag last year but changed crews and ended up working on a Grizzly contract. I've thought about getting into the mining end of things to turn this into a more year round thing.

I'm coming home for a few days this weekend (Thurs-Mon) so I'll see if I can get some pics up from last Winter.

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Interesting stuff Jason. We're supporting a coring operation for Fugro/Fluor right now at Kearl for the new mine.