Canadian drillers set hot summer pace

Gary Park, Petroleum News Calgary correspondent

Operators set a lively pace in June, pushing first-half well completions in Canada to 7,788, comfortably ahead of last year’s total of 6,833 to the mid-point, but lagging 15 percent behind the 2001 record of 9,126, partly because wet spring conditions stalled programs. The normal spring and summer....