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ROD MCPIKE Propak Systems Ltd.
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n the complex, vital and fiercely competitive oil and gas industry, Calgary’s Propak Systems Ltd. continues to not only earn a Canadian and an international reputation for excellence in oil and gas production packages, modularized processing plants and for being an innovative leader in engineering and fabrication but Propak manages to achieve tremendous success built on just three very basic and uncompromised principles: individual attention to every job; quality craftsmanship; and a solid commitment to deliver on-time and on-budget. Formal corporate definitions (and the company’s comprehensive website) simplistically explain that Propak Systems Ltd. is “primarily an engineering, manufacturing and construction company.” Of course that qualifies as a gross understatement. Technology, sophistication and new ways of doing things have drastically altered most aspects of the oil and gas industry during the past four decades. And Propak System’s growth is a credit to the company continually updating itself and its staff to stay solidly focused and on a steady course, assuring the industry with the latest and most efficient services. Propak’s industry-leading specialties range from maximizing the use of modular design concepts as provenly effective methods to minimize overall project costs, improving project
schedules and allowing for thorough inspections in controlled environments; supplying engineering for oil and gas production, field gathering, midstream or product transmission; and providing custom-engineered products for all aspects of the oil and gas processing industry. “It’s what we do and what we have done for more than 37 years,” says Patrick Dewey, Propak’s vice-president of sales. “We are always up-to-date and change with the times and, aside from the tremendous growth to the point that we now have more than 1,300 staff, by far technology, computer capabilities and software have revolutionized not only the oil and gas industry but the processing supply and service side of the business. The biggest change in the engineering