BGES - Big Guns Energy Services Inc. is the largest privately-held subsurface geocontainment testing and evaluation company i ... n Canada. We are one of the Top 200 companies ranked by Alberta Oil Magazine in 2015. Founded in 1996 as Big Guns Perforating & logging, a leading provider of integrated wireline solutions, the company expanded significantly through innovation and technological advancement, warranting a new, more relevant name by 2011. Today, we have simplified our name to the acronym BGES. We believe in applying science to prevent safety, environmental and financial disasters. BGES specializes in bridging the implementation gap by having a specialized multi-disciplinary team working with in-house operations synergistically taking subsurface geocontainment beyond the status quo. BGES specializes in oil sands and salt caverns, with facilities in Calgary, Red Deer and Bonnyville as well as a dedicated caprock geotechnical lab. The company’s most distinctive attributes are its strong operational foundation and technical expertise working synergistically. Its leadership team delivers many decades of experience in geoscience, geomechanics and engineering. BGES offers a broad range of services including: - Caprock Core Handling and High Temp. Triaxial Lab Test - Mini-Frac Test / DFIT, Step-Rate Test, Mobility Test - Integrated Open and Cased Hole Wireline Services - Log Interpretation and Regulatory Reporting - Geoscience, Geomechanics and Engineering Consulting read more