Coiled tubing drilling (CTD) has its roots in Canada. In 1997, Fleet Coil Technologies,  a division of Plains Energy Services, brought a prototype rig into Canada from the United States. That rig drilled over 200 wells during its first year of operation.

By 2000, CTD was fully commercial for Canadian shallow hydrocarbon drilling. Since then, Canada has moved from drilling a few  hundred wells to drilling thousands of wells a year with coiled tubing technology. Actually, CTD has revolutionized the shallow drilling market. Now it is being utilized on a commercial basis all over the world.