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Diversifying into field construction picks up business for BGW

Estevan – BGW of Estevan has launched a new service that not only diversifies its manufacturing and welding offerings, but adds onto them. The company is now offering field construction and maintenance, adding three crew trucks.
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The addition of crew trucks like this one and field construction services has reinvigorated BGW of Estevan.

Estevan– BGW of Estevan has launched a new service that not only diversifies its manufacturing and welding offerings, but adds onto them.

The company is now offering field construction and maintenance, adding three crew trucks. This allows the manufacture to not only build items like skid packages, but install and maintain them as well.

“It’s a connection to the field construction,” said Jonathan Bachorcik, who joined BGW two months ago. He’s heading up the construction side as the field construction foreman.

“We’re taking everything from the fabrication and adding it to the field.

Brent Gedak, owner, said, “The field work adds to the manufacturing, and the manufacturing adds to the field work.”

“It’s a huge diversification,” Gedak said. “This summer we struggled to find welding, and now Jonathan got one project and our guys are welding overtime. We hadn’t had an hour of overtime since February.”

While BGW had layoffs earlier this year, the addition of this new line of business has allowed them to recall workers and even seek more for the field work.

“On the field level, we’re looking at staffing up – three plus myself, but probably seven or eight. We’ve got equipment for three crews,” Bachorcik said.

And those field crews will have access to other workers from within the company as needed.

Bachorcik got his start in the industry in maintenance and construction, where he worked for eight years. He’s spent the last 12 years on production and operations for oil companies. “I was a production foreman for a couple companies,” he said.

Gedak said, “He was the client. I used to hit him up for work before.”

He said, “We offer that construction dynamic in the field, but general day-to-day maintenance, as well. It rounds out the business and becomes a one-stop shop; a huge advantage, a single phone call. The upside is you can guarantee the quality from start of fabrication to final cleanup.”

BGW also has its own in-house insulators, a service most oilfield construction companies don’t offer. That’s in addition to their core capability – welding.

Bachorcik said there is a focus on project supervision as well, offering general contracting. That includes major facility construction, from new project builds to add-ons. Process batteries, single-well batteries to small skid packages are all possibilities.

When oil prices take a dip, the work closest to the drill bit tends to suffer. But there are some items, what Bachorcik referred to as “facilities budget capital,” where money still needs to be spent. This can include things like gas conservation, which both the public and government demand take place.

Gedak noted the field work is going back to his roots and Bachorcik’s. As an individual welder with his own truck, he noted, “I used to build batteries.”