All About Us
North West Sequoia believes that acquiring good people and keeping them
involved and busy enough to earn a decent living is crucial to our
success. We have been able to build capacity as a company
through our employees with support, mentoring, respect, fair wages
and ongoing education.
The industry NWSD serves is varied, and we believe that our expertise
in addition to our goal of excellent execution is the foundation of all
our achievements, past, present and future. Our rig set-ups are geared
to simplicity and to the safety of our people. NWSD recognizes that
continued success as an organization depends on our performance
record. In part, this includes ongoing attention to proactive
maintenance and high quality of our equipment and an unrelenting strong
commitment to health, safety and environmental issues. These qualities
consistently result in a win/win relationship between NWSD and its
clients.
A few examples of the types of drilling NWS excels in are listed
below:
- Large diameter bulk sampling for diamonds, coals, etc;
- Oil sands evaluation core drilling;
- Reverse Circulation (RC) air or air/flood;
- Surface casing to 30 inch;
- Heli Portable RC/core exploration drilling;
- Paste backfill holes for underground mines;
- Large diameter water or dewatering wells;
- 6 inch core capability
Jacob Entz
General Manager Message
Jacob Entz, General Manager. Jacob successfully managed projects and operations for over 20 years in Canada and around the world - countries on the African continent, Russia and the United States. Jacob then moved from a supervisory role to the position of Operations Manager for a large international drilling company and after 5 years as Operations Manager, Jacob left on favourable terms to form North West Sequoia Drilling Ltd.