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In February this year, Export Development Canada (EDC)<\/a>, the State-owned export credit agency provided C$750 million ($553 million) in emergency loans to small and medium-sized oil and gas companies. This aid was a bid to help the industry survive the current downturn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

EDC Support Helps United Safety Expand Globally<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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By demonstrating a solid survival plan for the next two years, United Safety is one of the firms that EDC is supporting. The company has been at the forefront of bringing Canadian expertise in the field of health and safety. It has done so by taking its innovations and value-added services to 13 oil and gas producing countries. These countries are spread across the Americas, Asia, and Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe supply goods and services to major energy-producing companies around the world by providing industrial safety equipment, safety consulting and safety training for oilfields, refineries, gas plants, and power-generation facilities to ensure that the workforces and the public remain safe,\u201d says Lee Whittaker, United Safety\u2019s CEO<\/a>, who founded the company in 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, according to EDC, Canada\u2019s oil and gas sector contributes an average of $17 billion to government coffers yearly. It also employs approximately 500,000 through direct and indirect jobs. Additionally, leveraging on their years of experience in Canada’s oil patch, some enterprising Canadian companies, such as United Safety have gained significant success in international markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is a big job to launch outside of your home country,\u201d says Whittaker. \u201cWe launched into Vietnam first and then we broadened out in the Far East – Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines. That was all offshore work. Then we moved into Africa, and then the Middle East, and it has been a continuous march since then,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company has called on EDC\u2019s services for accounts receivable insurance with its foreign customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe accounts receivable insurance from EDC helps the Canadian banks who support our global operations to relax a little. EDC has also helped save us from doing business with undesirable people,\u201d Whittaker says of the assistance they received from EDC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EDC is said to be focusing on investments aimed at boosting productivity and opening up new markets for resources. It is also advancing technology that can help companies diversify into different industries. Furthermore, they are improving environmental sustainability. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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