foray into the oil industry at a
young age. By the age of 15,
they both were already help-
ing their father out by tear-
ing apart spools at his Maple
Creek yard or building chains,
and at 18, they both began to
work full time for the com-
pany.
The appreciation for a cal-
culated business decision has
not been lost on Derek or Joel.
In 2008, Maple Creek End-
less Tubing was an exclusively
shallow gas coil tubing com-
pany. The decision to switch
the company’s focus from
shallow gas to other forms of
oil has allowed Maple Creek
Endless Tubing to continue to
be at the forefront of the Tub-
ing industry.
This emphasis on innova-
tionhas also led to the increas-
ingly sophisticated technol-
ogy in Maple Creek’s Endless
Tubing’s possession. “A few
years ago, our guys made the
most out of our equipment
via the hydraulics and their
skill-set, now the guys have
at their disposal sophisticated
computers in the trucks tell-
ing them a whole array of dif-
ferent measures they have to
take and prediction software
as to what they will encoun-
ter at different intervals of the
well,” says Joel. “You can’t be
bad with computers on these
trucks. You either learn or get
left behind.”
It is clear to the observer
that Maple Creek Endless
Tubing takes pride in their
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