Canary, which was known as Frontier until 2013, was officially founded in 1984. However, rapid expansion didn’t begin until 2009, when Dan Eberhart & Don Pfister purchased a small wellhead company in Watford City, North Dakota—located in the heart of the Bakken shale play.
After the purchase of Frontier, Eberhart became the CEO and the company operated with just 12 employees. But that didn’t last long: Five years and over 10 acquisitions later, the newly rebranded Canary, LLC has around 500 employees—and they’ve added 265 of those jobs in just the last three years. The company is now the sixth-largest privately held oilfield services company and the largest independent wellhead service provider in the United States.
