I can probably give examples of specific companies. We can take a look at a company like Encanex, which is based out of Nova Scotia. It's a local company developed by a guy actually from Newfoundland. They're in the process of moving operations or having an office in Alberta, and that has dramatically changed the people who are working for the company. It's expanded. It has offices in St. John's, Halifax, and Calgary. We're basically talking about going from zero to about 150 people in the space of about two years.
If you look at some of our engineering companies, we have engineering companies that are working on projects with some of the oil sands companies and are actually in Nova Scotia or in New Brunswick working on those projects, coming up with the engineering schematics, and then procuring that locally with various fabricators.
If you're talking about west to east, you can take a look at a company in Moncton, a fabricator that is part of the Shell global supply chain and actually fabricates certain specific components for offshore production facilities in the Gulf of Mexico. There are 50 people working at that company that would not have such high-paying jobs if we didn't have those contracts into the Gulf of Mexico or into the Shell supply chain.
I was on a conference call yesterday with a company in Alberta. We'll be working with them to provide better procurement information for companies in eastern Canada to be able to tap into the potential contracts that are coming out in Alberta. As you know, your supply chain is beginning to max out and needs help from the east. But that's work that will be done here and then sent across the country.