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Canadian Oil & Gas Review Click here to read the article in PDF format. Lloydminster is coughing up another 15,00sq ft of its pristine dirt bike terrain for Kudu Industries' new service centre and manufacturing plant. The company's expansion brings it closer to the nexus if the Western Canadian heavy crude industry. "There is a great future in Lloydminster for us," said Jordy Gerling, service centre manager for Lloydminster. "As the heavy oil capital of Canada, many of the industry's major players have significant resources invested here." OilWeek Click here to read the article in PDF format. IN 1999, RAY MILLS WATCHED nervously as ramp workers at Calgary International Airport loaded a shipment of Progressing Cavity Pumps into a Russian cargo plane that would soon be bound for Kazakhstan. Petrokazakhstan had ordered two giant trailer trucks full of the equipment produced by Calgary based Kudu Industries for transport to their oil fields. “When I saw the trucks, I said, are we going to get it all in there?” recalled Mills, who is Kudu’s vice-president. It was one of the largest shipments his then five-year old company had ever sent overseas. |
