Trican Well Service Ltd. is a provider of

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services, including acidizing,

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fracturing Fracture is the separation of an object or material into two or more pieces under the action of stress. The fracture of a solid usually occurs due to the development of certain displacement discontinuity surfaces within the solid. If a displ ...

, nitrogen pumping, cementing, microseismic, and industrial services. It is headquartered in

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, with operations in

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, and

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, as well as in the

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History

Trican Well Service was founded on April 11, 1979. Until 1997, it primarily operated in the

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area and the

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area. In December 1996, the company became a

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and changed its management. In January 2013, the company acquired i-TEC Well Solutions. In 2015, the company sold its Russian operations to

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for $197 million. It also suspended operations in Australia,

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, and Colombia to cut costs. In 2016, the company sold its United States hydraulic fracturing business to Keane Group. In June 2017, the company acquired Canyon Technical Services.

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