A futuristic flying fish-styled defense system for the Royal Navy, was envisaged by Saab Seaeye systems engineer, Ali Roy. With defense dangers acute at the waterline, she designed an organic shaped concept with the nimble agility to both fly and swim – to avoid detection or pursue a quarry. Joining a team of the UK’s…
By William Sattlegger, P. Geo.President, Foreshore Resources Ltd. The energy industry is faced with accrued environmental liabilities in part due to end of life reserves, subpar economics, and the culture of deferring well suspensions, abandonments, and site reclamations has resulted in an ever-increasing inventory of inactive wells across the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. This is…
By Amit Mehta CEO of Houston-based Moblize (www.moblize.com Well drilling is utilizing more and more technology each year, yet engineers are still making many key decisions based on educated guesses. However, driven by innovative professionals, skilled in both E&P and data analytics, daily operations are becoming much more technically precise. Making People Smarter…
In Calgary’s corporate headquarters, it had been long been acknowledged, very quietly of course, that Saskatchewan’s energy regulator is “a bit lax” in how it policed the oilpatch. Executives believed they could get away with more. Sadly, last fall a consortium of media claimed it had uncovered almost five years of violations in how industry…
Acceleware Ltd. won a $10.0 MM non-repayable grant to do commercial-scale testing of its clean energy technology for bitumen and heavy oil extraction. Advantage Oil & Gas Ltd. announced its 2018 capital expenditure budget will be $175.0 MM. AltaCorp and ATB announced a ‘deepening strategic relationship’ as the banker becomes the company’s largest shareholder. AltaGas…
“When the crude oil export ban was lifted in January 2016, many broadly viewed it as good for the industry and free trade but were not quite sure about its impact. In 2017, we saw U.S. exports of crude, as well as liquefied natural gas (LNG), and refined products continue to rise… “This rise aligns…
