The Executive Letter - Photo Edition: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

A picture is worth a thousand words, so with this in mind, I thought it would be appropriate to showcase how Blackbird has been moving forward through a series of photos.

The first set of pictures is from early October when Craig Wiebe, VP Exploration, Don Noakes, VP Operations and I toured our completed facility equipment at Compass Compression Services.

Compass Compression Services is assisting us on our 12-14 facility through building our group separator, solution compressor, stabilizer and vapor recovery unit. I would like to personally thank the entire team for bringing these pieces of equipment on time and budget. Compass is an exceptional company, and I look forward to working with them again in the future as we continue to develop our Elmworth / Pipestone project.

Inspecting completed equipment for Blackbird facility at Compass Compression. I am standing here with Scott Douglass (right) and Phil Ness (left) of Compass Compression.

Our completed group separator at Compass Compression’s facility. This piece of equipment will be brought up to our 12-14 site in the next couple weeks for final installation.

Touring the inside of our completed group separator. 

Reviewing the equipment design in Compass’ state of the art facility located in Calgary, AB.

Further inspection of Compass’ work.

Me, Craig Wiebe and Don Noakes celebrating the completion of our facility tour with a light-hearted moment.

I would also like to share with you some photos from our 02/2-20 site visit that we conducted in mid-October. Before we get into these pictures, I would like to take a moment to thank all of our service providers that assisted us in the drilling of our 02/2-20 well which we finished this past weekend.

Blackbird drilling the 02/2-20 well with the Precision Drilling 535 rig.

Another shot of the PD 535 rig drilling our 02/2-20 well.

Craig Wiebe, VP Exploration, giving site tour attendees a geological overview before the group visited the PD 535 rig.

Sean Campbell, President and CEO of Stage Completions giving an in-depth look at the Bowhead II completion system to site tour attendees. Thank you, Sean, for taking the time to come up to our site and explain what can be accomplished with Stage’s technology.

Travis Hanna of Canadian Energy Services explaining how switching to brine-based drilling fluids from invert can yield superior results. I would like to thank Travis and the entire team at Canadian Energy Services for assisting Blackbird with achieving the second monobore in the Elmworth / Pipestone corridor and for allowing us to drill more efficiently with brine.

Craig Wiebe, VP Exploration, Sean Campbell, President and CEO of Stage, and a Director of Blackbird, me, and Don Noakes, VP Operations in front of the PD 535 rig at the Blackbird 02/2-20 drill site. I want to thank Don Noakes as Blackbird has now successfully drilled the first and second monobore wells in our corridor.

Inside the PD 535 rig at the Blackbird 02/2-20 drill site.

Craig Wiebe and me going through some geology at the 02/2-20 drill site.

Blackbird’s gathering system right of way.

Blackbird’s 12-14 Facility site under construction.

Before I sign-off on this piece, I would like to thank all of Blackbird’s stakeholders. Without your support our success would not be achievable. Thank you.

Garth Braun, Chairman, CEO, and President, Blackbird Energy Inc.