- CEO
- Colin A. Dease
- Full Time Employees
- 1,000
- Sector
- Energy
- Industry
- Oil & Gas Drilling
- Address
- 1000, 333 – 7th Avenue S.W. Calgary AB Canada T2P 2Z1
- IPO Date
- Jul 13, 2009
- Business
- AKITA Drilling Ltd. AKITA Drilling Ltd. operates as a Canadian oil and gas drilling contractor providing contract drilling services to exploration and production companies in Canada and the United States; its core offerings include drilling of oil and gas wells, potash exploration and development wells, geothermal wells, disposal wells, and carbon storage wells, as well as wells for gas storage caverns, utilizing a fleet of 32 to 36 high-specification land drilling rigs equipped with advanced technologies such as pad rigs that comprise approximately half of its deep capacity fleet for optimized drilling programs in heavy oil, shale gas, oil sands, and basins like the Montney and Permian. The company maintains two primary operating segments, with its Canadian division deploying 17 rigs across Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan targeting oil sands, heavy oil regions, and Montney gas plays, while its U.S. operations, based in Midland, Texas, feature 13 high-spec AC triple rigs, one AC double rig, and one DC triple rig primarily serving the Permian Basin. Founded in 1964 and headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, AKITA Drilling Ltd. employs around 1,000 to 1,064 personnel and functions as a subsidiary of Sentgraf Enterprises Ltd., with geographic focus on major North American resource basins. In recent developments, the company reported net income of $1.5 million for the third quarter of 2025 and $2.3 million for the second quarter including $10 million in debt repayment and initiation of a normal course issuer bid, while it previously completed the acquisition of Xtreme Drilling Corp. via a plan of arrangement to expand its fleet and capabilities.