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Vol. 2, 2008
Cover Story Excerpt:
Lights, camera, engine power!
A Bronco Drilling oil rig becomes a focal point of a Canadian television reality series
On the first episode of the Canadian reality television series The Rig: Oil Sands, rig manager Donnie MacPhee gives a tour of his company’s new drill rig, pointing out its new PowerTech 6125H floor engine. The John Deere engine serves as the main power source to the 1,006-kW (750 hp) draw works assembly aboard the drilling rig now known to thousands of Canadian viewers as infamous Bronco 1.
For five months in 2007, the Bronco 1 drilling rig was center stage for the second-season Outdoor Life Network (OLN) television series. Donnie and his rig crew worked and lived under the spotlight of television cameras, giving viewers a rare glimpse of day-to-day life at this land-based oil rig, owned and operated by Bronco Drilling Services Limited, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the publicly traded junior oil sands company, Bronco Energy (BCF-T)
of Calgary, Alberta.
On and off camera, Bronco 1 is a real-life telescopic double-drilling rig designed to drill to depths of 3,500 meters (11,500 ft.) in the oil sands of Wabasca, Alberta. Bronco Energy formed a joint venture with the Bigstone Cree Nation with plans to drill an additional 400 horizontal wells to develop the massive oil sands deposits on traditional native land in the region. It’s an operation that will keep Donnie and the crew busy for more than 300 days a year for the next several years, long after the series has aired.
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