About Us
Imola Operations (Autumn) Ltd is a privately held, oil and gas production start-up, headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. Focused on oil and gas production assets. During the past five years, the company has invested considerable time and effort identifying and planning the implementation and integration of the appropriate technologies and business processes required for achieving its business objectives.
Mission Statement
Imola's mission is to acquire, drill and optimize oil and gas properties in a safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible manner. Our strategy is to be a performance leader in the Canadian oil and gas industry, utilizing proven technologies coupled with extensive engineering and production experience. By focusing on our mission objectives, we will achieve operational excellence and superior financial performance for our shareholders.
Our Motto
Working together we all succeed.
Strategic Focus
Imola’s operations strategy is focused on:
- purchasing oil and gas properties where opportunities for optimization exist
- optimizing the producing assets using the latest, industry-proven engineering, financial, and operations best practices, methodologies, and technologies.
Technology
Imola firmly believes that technology is a strategic component for company success, and has several key business partnerships and relationships already in place with key technology providers.
Imola has been very careful in selecting those technologies that will be embedded into the company’s business processes. The following principles have helped guide this selection process:
Management Team
Imola’s Management Team has a unique combination of engineering, technical, and commercial skills, combined with a disciplined approach to asset evaluation and assessment. Several key team members have been instrumental in achieving a 97% drilling success rate over the past 30-plus years during work assignments with other Canadian oil and gas firms.
Shandon Clarke
Shandon is President and has over 20 years of oil and gas operations experience, including tenure in a variety of supervisory and management positions. His educational background includes an extensive portfolio of industry-specific qualifications and certifications.Core Business Principles
Imola’s core business principles are as follows:
- Manage Shareholders’ funds in an open and transparent manner. Imola has an enterprise-wide system for reporting and disclosing expenditures and revenue information.
- Commit to “small footprint” environmental practices and ensure that all practices are ISO 14001:2004 compliant.
- Utilize Best Practices to guide overall management practices, increase revenues, and control operating costs. The use of Best Practices provides the foundation and the ongoing policies and procedures for operating a successful company that conducts itself in a safe and ethical manner, while embracing a philosophy of high quality work, repeatable results, and constant optimization.
- Provide online information access to all stakeholders, enabling enterprise-wide collaboration and real-time decision making.
Business Plan
The Imola Business Plan provides the blueprint for seamless growth, optimized processes, and reduced stakeholder risk. The plan is based on careful opportunity analysis, a sound risk reduction strategy, and the creation of shareholder value. The plan is also designed to leverage the skills, contacts, and expertise of the Management Team and the Investor Group.
Standards
Compliance with ISO and other industry and regulatory standards directly impacts key success factors, including quality, customer satisfaction, and reliability. Based on Imola’s staff experience with system implementation, documentation control, and Total Quality Management, it is anticipated that full standards compliance will be achieved immediately upon commencement of field operations.
The applicable standards under which Imola operates include the following:
- ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004 Certification – Quality Management System, Environmental Management System, work instructions, processes, procedures, audits, certification process, and ongoing compliance surveillance.
- Security Management Program CSA Z246.1 (SMP) – a system for establishing governance, conducting system planning, implementing security operations (including detection and mitigation practices), and refining the security management program through change management and audit processes.
- Enhanced Production Audit Program (EPAP) – all well sites will have a managed service that ensures compliance with AER Directive 17.