Natural Resources committee  Respectfully, I'll pass on that question. It's outside my area of expertise.

Natural Resources committee  I'm aware that there are a number of studies going on across Canada and North America. We're actually supporting one through the University of Calgary that is directly related to greenhouse gas emissions with respect to hydraulic fracturing. That study is just getting under way.

Natural Resources committee  Sure. Thank you very much. In regard energy efficiency, Canadian service company expertise can help by utilizing the latest technologies to develop resources in-country for those countries with unconventional resources. Those efficiency gains learn from the 70-plus years of expe

Natural Resources committee  I've worked overseas, in Europe and Siberia as I mentioned. The basic model is that we come in on a contract to teach to the point where local nationals can take over. I won't say that's the overriding model for all Canadian producers exploring internationally, but it is a signif

Natural Resources committee  So this involves economics and politics to a certain degree. As for the regulatory regime, we have a very significant one here in Canada, a very good one, that we could always apply and adapt to an existing regime there and make the best of two worlds.

Natural Resources committee  That said, I was part of a group that went to Siberia in the early nineties when it opened up, and we're still operating there very successfully over 20 years later and it's come around. So there are definitely success stories and those are similar types of resources and geology.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much. To your last question, yes, there is opportunity for Canadian services companies to develop revenue, earn money in the European market, specifically because of the technologies we have today in North America with respect to horizontal drilling and multi-stag

Natural Resources committee  —to drill the long, horizontal legs with multiple stage fracking, drilling highly productive wells with a fewer number of wells on the surface.

Natural Resources committee  Right now with respect to Ukraine itself, it's essentially the business environment. It's very onerous as I mentioned in my testimony. Our members have been there, where it's difficult to deal with the shadow economy. I was actually just there and heard first-hand in Kiev that th

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much. On the subject of Poland, I apologize in that I can't speak in detail on the exploration activities. I do know from talking to our member companies that had traveled over there that the efforts involved in identifying and tapping into the unconventional reso

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much, and thank you for the opportunity to participate in this study. The Petroleum Services Association of Canada is the national trade association representing 250 of Canada’s leading oil field service companies that have a cumulative employee base of over 75,00

Natural Resources committee  From a PSAC perspective we actually have a number of significant areas with regard to labour development within Canada, working closely with institutions, but we've also been in discussions with the federal government. I have a senior vice-president who heads up our human resou

Natural Resources committee  I sincerely apologize. Could you—

Natural Resources committee  You know what, I've got it. There's one thing I want to really try to clarify here. Everybody talks about shale gas. Actually, it's always all natural gas, but we find it in different formations, one of them being shale. From surveys that we've developed over the years, we real

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much. To respond to your question with respect to $12.8 billion being generated in revenue, based on Canadian companies, Canada has a unique environment in which there is a high level of collaboration between the producers, the CAPP member companies and PSAC membe