Closes Latest Deal – Acquires Canyon Services Group “There is a reason drivers have a big windshield on the front of the car and a small rearview mirror. The large windshield represents your future while the small rearview mirror shows your past. In the business world, the rearview mirror is usually clearer than the windshield.” …
Advanced flexible polyurea coatings, applied directly to the substrate or pre-applied to geotextile liners, provide seamless containment for facilities and field applications When used for primary or secondary containment, traditional coatings have been too inflexible and not sufficiently elastic to accommodate ground, concrete, or metal substrate movement. This deficiency can lead to cracks or holes…
Miniaturized Rupture Disks Deliver Protection Against Over-Pressurization at Low, Medium, + High Set Burst Pressures For more than 85 years, the rupture disc has served as an effective passive safety mechanism to protect against overpressure or potentially damaging vacuum conditions in oil and gas storage tanks and other enclosed vessels. However, as these pressure relief…
By Fred Jauss Partner, Dorsey & Whitney Every time I have travelled to Calgary to visit my Canadian clients during the last few years, the question that was always near the top of their list was, “When is the U.S. government going to authorize Keystone XL construction?” Now that the Trump Administration issued the presidential…
By Heather Douglas “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” Dante Alighieri (1265 – 1321), Dante’s Divine Comedy: The Inferno (published 1472). It’s no secret the deeper the well, the hotter the temperature and the higher the downhole pressure. Unlike Dante’s The Inferno,…
By Heather Douglas When the chairman of one of the world’s largest oilfield services company — known for its capabilities in reservoir characterization, drilling, production, processing, and pipeline solutions — speaks, it’s important to listen. Paul Kibsgaard, Schlumberger’s chair and CEO, presented his strategy to restore the strength and capabilities of the global oilpatch to…
