Once the scope of work is established, our technical sales team works with you to determine the type and level of experience necessary to complete the work in a safe and efficient manor. That information is then matched to the best possible supervisor for the job. Pajak supervisors are assigned to operations where the scope of work is closely related to their strengths and experience level.

Pajak supervisors are all IRP (industry recommended practices) #7 and #16 compliant. This ensures they are fully qualified to manage the safety of the operation. Pajak maintains a certification database that allows us to ensure that a supervisor's tickets are always current before they go out on any job. Pajak senior technical staff are available on a 24 hour/day back-up to all of our domestic and international supervisors and engineers.

Pajak drilling supervisors have experience in all aspects of directional drilling, including: highly faulted formations, long reach horizontal, and SAGD; various mud systems including: gel chemistry, invert, polymer, silicate, air drilling, under balanced, and reverse circulating.

Pajak drilling supervisors have experience in all parts of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, Williston Basin, the Yukon Territories, the High Arctic, and east central Canada. Many of our supervisors are educated in, and have experience with, sensitivity to First Nations and environmental issues which can determine the success of a project.

Pajak completions/workover supervisors have experience in all aspects of conventional and non-conventional well completions, including: CBM, shallow gas, heavy oil, HPHT, critical sour, multi-zone and directional completions/workovers.

Pajak provides ongoing soft skill development, performance feed back and the resources to maintain a safe, healthy work environment.

Our engineering support personnel have hundreds of years of experience in domestic and international completions and production operations, and provide multi-well project coordination and supervision. We are extremely proud of our COR and safety records over the past 40 years and continually strive to improve. Pajak completions/workover supervisors have experience in all parts of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, the Yukon Territories, the High Arctic, east central Canada, as well as many other areas around the globe.

Pajak provides experienced wellsite, road and civil construction supervisors in Canada and worldwide. Through a broad network of contacts spanning a variety of industries, Pajak can source specialized construction and maintenance expertise.

More information coming soon.

Our safety professionals have experience in all aspects of safety management systems applicable to your exploration and production operations, including:

• Management Involvement and Commitment
• Hazard Identification, Risk Assessment and Control
• Safety Rules and Procedures
• Employee Training

Information on Health & Safety

• Our focus is to help clients develop and/or maintain health and safety management systems for their respective operations. Pajak maintains a core of experienced safety professionals who are proven experts at providing our Domestic and International clients with the highest quality of safety management attainable in the industry.
• They are excellent problem solvers, determined to provide a selection of options and stress quality over quantity.
• All of our safety professionals are required to remain current with relevant legislation and industry recommended practices pertaining to the petroleum industry.
• We can also provide safety professionals who are certified to perform the Alberta Human Resources and Employment Partnership audit using the basic safety program to evaluate a company's HSE program.

Benefit from having a complete Drilling & Completions Department at your disposal ...only when you need it!

Several Calgary operators utilize Pajak as their in-house drilling and completions group. In today's economic climate the fiscal health of the small and medium sized explorer relies on the success of each well drilled, re-entered or re-completed. Pajak removes the need for junior explorers to staff up an in-house drilling and completions department and support it during a crucial phase in a firm's development.

Pajak can solve your drilling and completions concerns whether you are drilling one well or two dozen.

With forty two years of serving operators with drilling and completion engineering and well-site supervision, Pajak offers a complete "Drop-in" Drilling Department with a self-contained suite of expertise and services to assure regulatory compliance, optimum well design, project management, supervision, HSE, civil construction, logistics.

Pajak's "Drop-in" Accounting Team: Rather than engage full time accounting personnel, junior explorers can now outsource their project accounting functions to Pajak's experienced team of accounting professionals. Pajak's team can handle budgeting, cost control/reporting, AP/AR for civil construction, drilling and completions.

Lessen your costs and headaches and strengthen the odds for success by calling Pajak Engineering today.

Pajak Engineering Ltd. has spent decades finding the right personnel and management to make our team one of the best in the industry. Learn more about the people that make Pajak great.

Mickey Sutherland B.Sc., P.Eng. 
President, CEO and Manager of Projects
 

Mickey Sutherland has been working since 1976 in the oil and gas industry, starting as a roughneck on a drilling rig.
Mickey graduated from Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology in 1976. He worked as an operations engineer prior to forming a turnkey drilling operation that provided services in Canada and the United States. In 1984, Mickey joined Anderson Exploration and was their manager of drilling and completions from 1988 through to 1996. He subsequently joined Pajak as project manager and vice- president.

Mickey has extensive foothills and N.W.T. drilling experience along with multi-rig project management experience both in Canada and internationally. He has been a member of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta since 1979.

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George Myette
International Business Development
 

George has over thirty years' experience on drilling rigs, drilling tools, directional drilling. He has over 15 years' experience in the coiled tubing industry. George worked in England for Kenting Drilling and Venezuela for Dowell Schlumberger Directional Services. He was president of Flextube Inc./Matrix Well Services from 1989 through to 1997 and joined Pajak in 1999.

George is a graduated from Mount Royal College in 1975 with diploma in Applied Social Sciences. He is a member of various industry associations, including the Drilling and Completions Committee and the International Coiled Tubing Association.

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Barry Rookes
Senior Business Development & Technical Sales

Over thirty years of oilfield experience in Western Canada, including eighteen years working in the field with a major E&P company and eight years in a technical sales capacity with specialty Service/Engineering companies. Barry has extensive experience in production operations, optimization and workover design, specializing in remedial stimulations. Pajak has challenged Barry with supporting and developing the Completions Engineering Services and initiating industry awareness of our Production Engineering Services.

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Kirk Cottrell
International Marketing / Business Development Consultant

Kirk brings Pajak’s clients nineteen years of oil and gas service sector experience in a varied range of progressive roles. Beginning with an educational background in business and marketing as well as technical diplomas from SAIT Poly in drilling and completion discipline, Kirk progressed through field technical, sales /business development and management roles for privately held and multinational service companies in Canada and abroad.

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Gerry Edwards
Directional Drilling Advisor
 

Gerry has over fifty years of directional drilling experience throughout Western Canada, Canadian Arctic Islands, offshore / onshore Eastern Canada, Middle East, Europe, Soviet Union and West Africa. He is familiar with open hole / cased hole directional drilling operations, surface and underground mining directional drilling applications, drilled pipeline river crossings and other uses of controlled well bore trajectory. He owned and operated Whipstock Systems Inc. (a directional drilling service provider) for 20 years.

Gerry attended University of Regina where he studied mathematics and physics. Additional training includes Drilling Practices School by Dr. Preston Moore; Optimized Drilling by Frank Cole and Horizontal Drilling Technology by Frank Schuh. He is a current member of CIM and SPE and past secretary of Canadian Drilling Research Association.

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Colin Stang P.Eng., B.Sc.
Drilling Engineer

Ten years of industrial project management experience in Alberta and the Northwest Territories. Graduated from the engineering co-op program at the University of Alberta in 1997. Worked as a project engineer with ATCO Electric following graduation. Joined the Northwest Territories Power Corporation in 1999 as a civil engineer and project manager. Started with Pajak Engineering Ltd in 2006. Colin has experience managing multiple projects and is familiar with the land use regulations and unique logistical constraints encountered in the Northwest Territories. He is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA) and the Northwest Territories Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists (NAPEGG).

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Cory Thibert
Business Development / Recruitment

"I am an entrepreneur at heart and my career has taken many shapes and forms over the last 15 years before coming to Pajak Engineering Ltd. I am a business development professional and my core skill is connecting with people and bringing them together. This is something in today's age of iphones, BBM, facebook and email I feel we have forgotten how to do. I come to Pajak with over nine years of experience working within the Canadian Energy Industry, five years of Technical Sales and 4 years as a Business Development consultant, with a track record of producing results for several national and international organizations."

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Pajak Engineering Ltd. strives to provide the oil and gas industry with engineering, project management and well-site supervisory services for well-site preparation, drilling, completion, production and lease restoration, both on and offshore since 1966. Pajak Engineering is an APEGGA compliant permit holder. Our activities and operations carefully follow the highest ethical and business practices.

Pajak Engineering Ltd. strives to provide the oil and gas industry with engineering, project management and well-site supervisory services for well-site preparation, drilling, completion, production and lease restoration, both on and offshore since 1966. Pajak Engineering is an APEGGA compliant permit holder. Our activities and operations carefully follow the highest ethical and business practices.