citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . november 2007 learn how and when to remove this template message trican well service ltd. type public traded as tsx tcw industry oilfield services founded lloydminster alberta canada 1979 headquarters calgary alberta canada key people ceo dale dusterhoft and president donald luft revenue 2.21 b 2012 number of employees 5 829 1 website www.trican.ca trican well service ltd. is an oilfield services corporation headquartered in calgary alberta canada with operations in alberta british columbia manitoba and saskatchewan canada as well as the united states . trican maintains an employee count in canada of over 1300 people and provides a wide range of services including acidizing coiled tubing fracturing nitrogen pumping cementing microseismic and industrial services . trican is publicly traded on the toronto stock exchange . contents 1 history 2 see also 3 references 4 external links history edit trican well service was initially founded in 1979 as a private corporation by two cousins and a former colleague on a farm near marshall saskatchewan before it was moved to the glenn e. neilson industrial park in lloydminster alberta in 1981 . in december 1996 the company went public while a simultaneous change in management occurred . since then trican has expanded its canadian operations to include fifteen operational bases twelve in alberta two in northern british columbia one in manitoba and one in saskatchewan and began operations in the united states and russia under liberty pressure pumping and newco well service respectively . in 2007 trican began operations in algeria . in 2012 trican posted a revenue of 2.21 b cdn with a net income of 53.7 m cdn . 3 in october 2008 trican was named one of canada s top 100 employers by mediacorp canada inc. and was featured in maclean s newsmagazine . later that month trican was also named one of alberta s top employers which was announced by the calgary herald 4 and the edmonton journal . 5 6 in january 2013 it acquired i tec well solutions . the company won the 2013 new technology development oil & gas award in the rocky mountains for its trifrac mlt . 7 see also edit list of oilfield service companies references edit annual information form for trican well service ltd ca ; tcw pdf . retrieved 2013 03 21 . company profile for trican well service ltd ca ; tcw . retrieved 2008 10 10 . trican well service calgary herald alberta s top 40 places to work october 18 2008 . edmonton journal alberta s best focus on attracting keeping staff october 31 2008 . reasons for selection 2009 canada s top 100 employers competition . oil & gas awards . retrieved 14 april 2014 . external links edit trican well service ltd. retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title trican well service & oldid 724309732 categories companies listed on the toronto stock exchangeoilfield services companieshidden categories articles needing additional references from november 2007all articles needing additional referencespages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 8 june 2016 at 12 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view