1. What Customers Are Saying…
Petro-Canada Lubricants at Work
“We’re impressed with the fact that we used less filters
in the drill, and the oil lasted twice as long.”
– Sigga Pala, Superintendent, Arnarfell Construction Company, Iceland
Commitment is the key to success at where we cannot cause damage or leave
the Arnarfell Construction Company. The behind debris.”
company is committed to its employees,
the environment and an excellent “We don’t set up our camps on concrete
maintenance program. foundations. The camps are wooden
structures with
THE CUSTOMER: Arnarfell, a family- basically a bed,
Arnarfell owned business closet, desk and lamp
Construction Company based in Akureyri, connected to a big
Akureyri Iceland, is kitchen. Everything is
Iceland involved in building under one roof and
roads and tunnels, we reuse the same
Construction Company drilling and blast- camp again and again.
Protects Equipment ing, producing We also use mobile
and Saves Costs with concrete, quarry- equipment and move
Environmentally-friendly ing and crushing. from site to site. Even
DURON* XL 15W-40. Founded in 1986, the large crushers are
the construction mobile.”
company employs
“We save on downtime 80 people who The Switch
because the operator work in remote Arnarfell began testing
has to drain the oil areas of the Petro-Canada’s
half the time with country and live in DURON XL Synthetic
mobile camps for Blend 15W-40 engine
DURON XL 15W-40.”
extended periods oil in one of their four
– Sigga Pala of time. Akureyri is Tamrock Ranger 700
Iceland’s second Arnarfell plans on using DURON Synthetic Blend XL Drills during a project
largest city, with in another 20 to 30 pieces of equipment on the in 2004. The project
a population of project site, including wheel loaders, bulldozers was in Karahnjukur,
14,000, and is and dump trucks. an environmentally
located in the sensitive area. It
northern part of the country, a short involved the construction of diversion
distance from the Arctic Circle. tunnels, surface excavation and road
building for a hydropower plant. The
The Conditions equipment, which operates 24 hours a
“We are contracted to work under harsh day, seven days a week, drills holes into
conditions; temperatures in the winter the ground into which explosives are
fall as low as -15° to -20° C (5° to -4° F),” placed for blasting. Drilling creates a lot
explains Sigga Pala, the company’s of dust, which impacts on the need for
superintendent. “And we work in places oil changes.

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Sigga has also been told by her operator that
DURON XL has helped to maintain the desired viscosity;
the engine is cleaner, with less soot build up. This
contributes to better engine wear protection and longer
engine life.
Arnarfell plans on using DURON XL 15W-40 on its
three other Tamrock Ranger 700 Drills. The company
has also made the decision to use DURON Synthetic
Blend XL in another 20 to 30 pieces of equipment on
the project site, including wheel loaders, bulldozers and
dump trucks.
“I would definitely recommend DURON XL to people in
the construction industry,” said Sigga. “We’ve seen a
big difference.”
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