AKITA Drilling Ltd. is a premier oil and gas drilling contractor with drilling operations throughout Western and Northern Canada. The Company strives to be the industry leader in customer relations, employee expertise, safety, equipment quality and drilling performance. In addition to conventional drilling, the Company specializes in pad and other purpose-built drilling rigs and is active in directional, horizontal and underbalanced drilling providing specialized drilling services to a broad range of independent and multinational oil and gas companies. AKITA currently employs, at full operations, approximately 800 people. The Company has ownership in 39 drilling rigs in all depth ranges.