While Oilfield Firms Eye Venezuela Return, One is Already There Drilling Wells

Ensign Energy Services, with headquarters in Calgary, Alberta, and operations around the world, has had two rigs drilling in Venezuela since autumn, the latest in an on-again-off-again past several years there for the firm. “We’ve stuck it out,” Robert Geddes, president and chief operating officer, said in an interview. “It’s been a mess through the dictatorships of Maduro and Chavez and the drug cartels.”