About Us

Drimatic Energy Services Inc. was founded in 2011 by Bruce denOuden to capitalize on his 30 years of Western Canadian drilling and completions project management experience. Bruce has assembled a team of some of the best in the business, working together to deliver safe, efficient, reliable performance to clients. In addition to Bruce, the Drimatic team currently includes:

  • 20 Drilling Supervisors

  • 1 Construction Supervisor

  • 1 Completions Engineer

Bruce and the team do business with the confidence that:

  • Efficiency through proper well design and execution is the key to successful drilling.

  • Communication, collaboration, and integrity are essential elements in the process.

  • Safety does not need to be sacrificed in order to achieve cost-effective results.

  • Doing things right – and doing the right thing – always pays off in the end.

Bruce DenOuden

Bruce denOuden has spent 40 years in the Western Canadian oil patch, doing everything from working as a Roughneck to managing multi-million dollar drilling operations in challenging conditions. He has an extensive track record of designing wells and implementing operations using proper equipment and fluid dynamics for high performance drilling in the safest possible way while staying within AFE. He also places a high value on maintaining close contact with client operations/completions and geological personnel to assure wells are being drilled as requested in order to achieve the client’s goals.

Prior to Drimatic, Bruce operated denOuden Petroleum Consulting Inc. in collaboration with another project management consulting company.

Bruce has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Petroleum Engineering from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology as well as Petroleum Engineering Technology Diploma with Drilling Major from SAIT.

Drimatic’s record of achievement includes:

  • Drilling pace setting wells in all areas that he has worked through use of proper well design and management, minimizing costs and handing over wells that Completion Engineers can maximize production on.

·         Continually achieving record bit runs for clients throughout Western Canada.

·         Providing well designs that reduce benchmark well costs by hundreds of thousands of dollars per well.

·         Acting as Drilling Foreman on remote, challenging and unusual projects such as:

o    extended reach horizontal wells – 400 mTVD with 2200 m lateral sections.

o    heavy oil, pad wells utilizing slant drilling technology.

o    sour underbalanced drilling of dual lateral horizontal wells with lateral sections of up to 1600 metres.

o    vertical plains wells with depths ranging from 800m to 3000 metres.

o    deviated, critical sour, high temp/pressure, foothills wells to depths of 5600 metres.

o    horizontals – multi-radial short radius, SAGD, slim hole re-entry and multi-lateral.

·         Wrote a Drilling Operations Manual published by a major oil company.

·         Continually, successfully, drilling Westbrick Energy’s wells since 2012.  These wells are throughout the Rocky Mountain House & Edson areas which include Belly River, Cardium, Duvernay, Ellerslie, Falher, Mannville, Notikewin, Rock creek, Viking and Wilrich formations.  These wells are all horizontal wells that have a lateral range of 1400 metres to 3400 metres. 

·         Most recently, Drimatic successfully drilled a critical sour gas (56% H2S) well right next to the Alta Gas Harmatton plant.  This well was drilled to a target 1400 metres away (from Well Centre) at a True Vertical Depth of 3550m &  3934m Measured Depth.  There were multiple Alberta Energy Regulators (AER) inspections and all passed without issue.  This well had a 2200 metre tangent section at 32 degrees inclination which landed 4 metres off target.  With the 56% H2S in the Leduc formation, only 10 ppm was detected at surface.