About Pajak Engineering

Founded in 1965, Pajak Engineering Ltd. is an upstream petroleum engineering company which provides project management and consultancy services via a roster of qualified, experienced oil and gas personnel.

The Oil and Gas industry of each nation has it's own set of operational challenges. Pajak's long experience in Canada has grown into providing personnel to operators in forty diverse lands and myriad drilling and well intervention scenarios . 

In Canada, wide variances in summer and winter temperature on the order of +90F to - 50F and vast distances and remote and unforgiving terrain combine to magnify logistical and operational issues.  Technical and safety challenges such as hydrogen sulphide  gas challenge numerous disciplines from HSE to metallurgy. These issues have resulted in solid HSE procedures, industry training and government regulatory systems that in many cases have been adopted world wide.  

Pajak Engineering began and grew in this challenging environment.  Pajak founder Lou Pajak developed Canada's first well control training program.

Pajak understood the need for fit for purpose oil and gas expertise throughout the globe.  Having operated in forty countries Pajak has the ability to provide technically qualified certified culturally experienced personnel to assist in operator's campaigns. Pajak draws expertise from wherever sharp minds, high educational standards and solid practical experience are found. Pajak management and staff are a good blend of mature individuals from both the Service and E&P sector sides of the desk.  

Pajak focuses on offshore and onshore drilling and completions, well-site  supervision and office based engineering.  Pajak offers a full slate of project management, drilling and completion engineering services. Additionally, Pajak can provide contract supervisory services in the areas of geology, geophysics, HSE, maintenance, site construction, logistics fit for purpose specialists in a variety of disciplines.  A solid well site supervisor, superintendent or engineer will be able to spot trouble before it becomes costly and save the operator considerable time and expense.  A supervisor who is willingly culturally attuned the surroundings can make a fractious worksite a more pleasant and efficient workplace for all.

Having been a part of the Canadian and International oil and gas scene for that length of time has earned Pajak a large pool of contacts and resources and the firm is often to call upon and find qualified and fit for purpose personnel on all levels.  The firm has gained the reputation of being the friend of the expat field operative back home. And thus a good firm for a consultant to work through.      

Pajak's  Project Management team meets deadlines by swiftly assembly of teams of seasoned specialists to plan, design, engineer and execute campaigns from the regulatory stage to well tie-in.  Pajak's project management group has drilled an average of 300 wells per year over the past decade and have assisted several start-up E&P firms in building production from 0-15K BOE.

Pajak Management has built a worldwide base of petroleum industry contacts.  From our head office in Calgary and through our presence in Houston, Denver, Abu Dhabi and now Doha, Qatar we recruit, pre-qualify and match specific skill-sets of contract personnel to customer work scope and expertise requirements. Pajak has provided services to energy companies in more than 40 countries.

Pajak currently supplies contract personnel to many locales including Qatar, Libya, Chad, Kurdistan, Peru, Onshore and deepwater offshore China, offshore Angola, India, Malaysia,  China, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, Canada, Mozambique, Russia, Chad and USA (Texas, Colorado  and Louisiana) Pajak is actively adding further clientele in the Gulf region.

Summary of a PAM Group Project:
 
One of the projects the PAM group was involved in was to review the wellfiles on 35 deep sour foothills gas wells and prepare the proper abandonment programs following all regulatory agency (ie. ERCB) guidelines.  While performing this contract for our client, the PAM group identified one well where the current regulations required a redundant downhole procedure that may compromise the integrity of the overall abandonment and would cost our client a considerable amount of additional funds to abandon the well following the proper regulatory procedure.
 
We arranged a meeting with the ERCB and requested a waiver from the regulatory procedure.  We presented our "case study" and demonstrated how our revised procedure would enhance the integrity of the abandonment, and in fact, would be a safer alternative, with a higher quality result, requiring less rig time.  The ERCB agreed with us and granted the waiver, thereby allowing for a higher quality abandonment job which saved our client approximately $200,000.