Sep 16, 2026 · 41 min · 11 segments
On this episode of **The Jay Young Show**, Jay revisits his conversation with **Andrew Richards**, an energy sector innovator helping change the way the industry approaches oil and gas operations…
Andrew RichardsGuestJay YoungHost... what are, what are the big, what are the big challenges that, that you may have up there that we don't have?
So- Breakup is the freeze and the thaw, and, and, and so you d- you're not allowed to move equipment-
There's bonded roads by the oil companies, so they'll actually put that bond up, and then if th- if they need equipment moving down that, that, that road, and if that road's damaged, then they end up paying for it.
And that is okay to move the equipment, but a lot of the times during breakup, things pretty much stay where they're at, so they're either out on location or they're trying to get rushed back pre-breakup, um, uh, to the shop so that they can get any sort of work done because basically for those sometimes six weeks, whatever, eight weeks, we can't work.
Um, a tremendous amount of the drilling, I don't have the actual statistic, but a tremendous amount of the drilling in Canada happens January, February, March.
So that's where the bulk of the, th- the bulk of the work happens for the whole year.
Uh, it's just a... it's, it's an interesting thing to me because the scale, you know, Canada has a lot more oil and gas than the US, however, the scale is so... it's 10 times or more smaller, or sorry, 10 times less-
Like, it's just, I think a lot of it's that regulatory environment with our, with our government and, uh, the uncertainty of what the decisions might be made at those, those, those government levels on-
... what are, what are the big, what are the big challenges that, that you may have up there that we don't have?
So- Breakup is the freeze and the thaw, and, and, and so you d- you're not allowed to move equipment-
There's bonded roads by the oil companies, so they'll actually put that bond up, and then if th- if they need equipment moving down that, that, that road, and if that road's damaged, then they end up paying for it.
And that is okay to move the equipment, but a lot of the times during breakup, things pretty much stay where they're at, so they're either out on location or they're trying to get rushed back pre-breakup, um, uh, to the shop so that they can get any sort of work done because basically for those sometimes six weeks, whatever, eight weeks, we can't work.
Um, a tremendous amount of the drilling, I don't have the actual statistic, but a tremendous amount of the drilling in Canada happens January, February, March.
So that's where the bulk of the, th- the bulk of the work happens for the whole year.
Uh, it's just a... it's, it's an interesting thing to me because the scale, you know, Canada has a lot more oil and gas than the US, however, the scale is so... it's 10 times or more smaller, or sorry, 10 times less-
Like, it's just, I think a lot of it's that regulatory environment with our, with our government and, uh, the uncertainty of what the decisions might be made at those, those, those government levels on-
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