As one of the largest landholders in Argentina’s most prolific hydrocarbon basin, Americas Petrogas Inc. (API) is well on its way to becoming a leader in South American natural resources, says Guimar Vaca Coca, managing director – Argentina. The Calgary-based company owns more than 2 million acres in Argentina’s Neuquen Basin, which are spread across 16 blocks, 15 of which it currently operates. These blocks are located in the western shale corridor of the basin where the Vaca Muerta and Los Molles shales are extraordinarily thick.
Based in Anchorage, Alaska Clean Seas (ACS) is a nonprofit oil spill response cooperative of 11 member companies engaged in oil and gas exploration, development, production or pipeline transport activities on the North Slope. It was formed in 1979 as an equipment cooperative, and in 1990, was restructured into a full-response organization that provides personnel, material, equipment and training to its membership.
Dave Bundy entered the coal mining business in 1985 with $100,000 in capital and formed Bundy Auger Mining in Pennsylvania with a single auger machine he operated alongside his only two employees. Since then, he’s expanded to a multimillion-dollar full-service mining operation encompassing 14 affiliate companies.
Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, Weatherhaven has grown considerably since President Jim Allan’s expeditionary business joined forces with Vice President of Operations Brian Johnson’s construction firm to create portable shelter solutions for remote camps around the world. In three decades, the Burnaby, British Columbia-based company has evolved from a specialized domestic supplier into a groundbreaking world leader serving a variety of clients on all seven continents. Notably, its growth has been solely organic – not a result of corporate acquisitions, according to Allan.
With expanding international opportunities and a growing customer base and revenue stream, Volant Products isn’t just celebrating a milestone anniversary – it’s celebrating 10 years of success. The Edmonton-based company originally was founded in 2001 as the manufacturing spin-off of Noetic Engineering Inc., a groundbreaking engineering firm that specializes in the design, evaluation and optimization of downhole mechanical systems for demanding drilling service environments.
Ventana Gold Corp. barely has entered its fifth year in Colombia’s mining industry, but already President and CEO Stephen Orr believes the company has discovered a project that could position it as Colombia’s leading precious metals producer. Ventana’s La Bodega project, an 880-hectare property in northeastern Colombia, resides in the historical California-Vetas mining district initially mined by the Spaniards in the 1500s. Until now, mining projects in the area have been small scale, but Orr says Ventana and other exploration companies in the area are determined to change that.
Oil and gas companies in Alaska, Canada and elsewhere look to Unique Machine LLC for support in every stage of production. “A lot of people use the analogy that we’re the hub that holds things together in terms of how we support drilling operations,” says Pat Hanley, General Manager and Vice President of the Anchorage-based company.
SilverCrest Mines Inc. brought its Santa Elena Mine from acquisition to production in less than five years, which it considers to be a significant achievement in today’s mining environment. The operation is confident this is just the beginning of the company’s and mine’s upcoming success, because the management team has more than a century’s worth of international mining success and there is a strong potential for resource expansion and underground mine development.
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