Q. What is the official name of your company?
A. McAda Fluids Heating Services
Q. Is your firm a subsidiary or affiliate of other companies?
A. We are a subsidiary of McAda Drilling Fluids, Inc.
Q. What do you most want people to know about your company?
A. We now service the Bakken Shale area.
Q. Where is your company located?
A. Fort Lupton, CO
Q. What year was the company founded?
A. McAda Drilling Fluids, Inc. was founded in 1989 and McAda Fluids Heating Services in 2004.
Q. What is your company’s primary business activity?
A. Frac Fluids Heating.
Q. Are there important projects the company is currently a part of or has done recently?
A. We are now available to work for customers in the Bakken Shale.
Q. How many employees does your company have?
A. We currently have 175 employees.
Q. Describe the equipment your company uses.
A. We are the largest supplier of frac fluids heating units in the industry with 1.6 Billion BTU’s of heating capacity.
Q. Is your company expanding any of its operations or locations?
A. Yes, Our new Colorado location enables us to services all the Rockies and mid-continent areas including the Bakken Shale.
Q. Is the company changing any of its services or products?
A. We have the largest number of frac fluids heating units in the industry and we are a licensee for the patented method of Heating On-The-Fly®. Just as other materials are added to frac fluids on the fly, we heat the fluids while they are being pumped from the water source to the frac fluid pumping equipment or the frac water storage tanks located at the well site at the volumes and flow rates needed for well completion.
This process usually involves one or more of our units positioned in line between the water source and the frac water storage tanks located on the well site that is being frac’ed. The total volume per minute needed is pumped thru the units and heated to the customer’s desired temperature, or a portion of the unheated fluids are taken out of the total flow to the frac tanks, called split-streaming, heated, and then returned to the flow line. Once heated, the fluids are either pumped directly to the pump trucks or transferred into holding tanks at the location prior to being pumped down-hole by the frac service provider.
McAda Fluids Heating Services is an industry leader in using this methodology to heat frac fluids because of the size of our units. Smaller BTU rated units cannot provide the desired temperature rise in the flow line from the water source to the frac site.
Q. What is your company’s main strength or its edge over the competition?
A. McAda Fluids Fluids Heating Service continually invests in additional frac fluids heating technology to ensure that our current inventory of equipment will meet the industry’s need for high-volume, on demand fluids heating services. We’ve built an inventory of modern, specially designed equipment, and have 16MM BTU, 21MM BTU, as well as 35MM BTU units. As a result of our inventory and HOTF license, we are equipped to handle any size job.
Q. What new markets, clients or projects did your company attract in the last year?
A. We have had a positive response from our customers in the Niobrara Shale when we moved into Colorado last winter.
Q. What is the most challenging work/contract the company has undertaken?
A. Heating a +40 mile above ground water transfer system along with multiple frac water storage ponds during the winter in Pennsylvania. We successfully met the challenge and learned important aspects of running such a large job.
Q. What are the biggest obstacles to completing work your company undertakes?
A. The uncertainty of the weather.
Q. What do you see as your company’s biggest challenge in the next five years?
A. Keeping up with the worldwide demand for our equipment and services and Shale exploration projects are developed in other areas of North America and around the world.
Q. Does your company have an anniversary or other landmark event coming up?
A. In 2014 McAda Drilling Fluids will be celebrating its 25th anniversary. We also should exceed 2.0 Billion BTU’s of heating capacity in 2014.
Q. What is your company’s safety record? What steps does the company take to ensure a safe work environment?
A. We were just awarded top 200 of 52,000 insured for our great safety record in workmen’s comp coverage from Texas Mutual and strive to provide our employees with a safe, stable working environment by preventing the occurrence of accidents and injuries.
In addition, we operate with a high level of awareness of the environment and we go to great lengths to provide environmentally responsible equipment.
Q. What is the address of your company’s Web site?
A. McAda Fluids Heating Services – www.mcadafluidsheating.com
