Trican abruptly closes Brandon location, roughly 40 jobs lost
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This article was published 22/06/2016 (3552 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Trican Well Service abruptly “suspended operations” at its Brandon shop on Wednesday, forcing roughly 40 employees to look for work elsewhere.
The international oil services company opened its Brandon location in January 2012 and moved into its current 23,000-sq.-ft. building on Limestone Road in September 2013.
Rob Cox, Trican’s vice president, Canadian region, broke the news to the employees at 8 a.m. on Wednesday and the shop shuttered its doors later that day.
“I’d have to ask what the value in giving more notice is. When you tell somebody ‘Two weeks from now you’re not going to have a job’ where is the focus?” he said.
Cox wouldn’t say when the decision to close the Brandon shop was made.
“We’ve been trying to justify keeping the base open for some time and we finally made the decision to close it down,” he said.
Some of the employees are being offered transfers to other Trican bases and some are being laid off; however, it’s unclear how many employees will be transferred.
The closure is due to faltering oil prices and a drop in demand for the pumping services that Trican specializes in, according to Cox. The goal is to reopen the Brandon location down the road.
“We anticipate being able to start up operations there again in two to three years as oil prices come back and client spending increases,” Cox said. “But it’s far enough off in the future that we couldn’t stay open for the time being.”
The company recently closed three other bases in Alberta.