The U.S. domestic natural gas production has experienced an unprecedented increase during the past 10 years. This was mainly attributable to ongoing advancements in drilling and producing technologies, such as hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, coupled with access to prolific shale plays. In just a decade, production grew to more than 26.4 tcf (trillion cubic…
Technical Safety BC Last fall, the British Columbia Safety Authority announced it would be changing its operating name and identity to Technical Safety BC. According to their news release, the identity change comes following extensive consultation with clients and industry stakeholders. It reflects the move toward becoming a knowledge and data-driven organization that uses smart…
By Bill Stomp More propane and petroleum marketers are benefitting from cutting-edge technology in the form of innovative apps that handle everything from geo-location, on-site invoicing, safety inspections, sales improvements, marketing automation and digital replacement of paper forms and documents. Hardly a week goes by without some new app rolling into the marketplace to help…
Outages and shutdowns at industrial plants are awfully expensive. Unscheduled stoppages are technically called “incidents,” but are otherwise known as massive screw-ups. The scale of the screw-up is the scale of the cost, usually. Keeping costs down means keeping production up. And that’s where Turnarounds come in. A deliberate, scheduled stoppage for maintenance or reconfiguration…
“Lukewarmers are climate change experts [many Nobel Prize winners] who understand that increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases exert a mild warming pressure on the lower atmosphere. This has been known for 150 years. But lukewarmers have been aware for some time that something is not right with the climate projections made…
By Heather Douglas “It is now well understood that the ‘energy crisis’ of the 1970s was entirely the product of bad government policy … Federal price and allocation controls meant that disruptions in the oil market by OPEC were magnified here at home [the U.S.], with the result being artificial shortages.” Peter Grossman, U.S. Energy…
