“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” Mark Twain (1835 – 1910), pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American writer and humourist. The word ‘fake’ invokes deliberate deception, it hints at cunning disguises meant to dupe customers into buying an ersatz…
By Heather Douglas “Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated. It satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening – and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.” Arnold Palmer (1929 — 2016). The golfing legend, known as “The King,” won 92…
Igor Yusufov is an electrical engineer with more than 30 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry. He was deputy chair of the Russian Federation Economic Security Committee and deputy industry minister, chair of the Russian States Reserves Committee, and later general director of the Russian State Reserves Agency. He led the Energy Ministry…
by Scot Jeffrey, Publisher It comes as no surprise that we’re the industry everyone loves to hate. Even the nukes don’t come in for as much criticism, despite little mishaps like Chernobyl, Fukushima, and Three Mile Island. One of the reasons for this is that oil and gas is a daily fact of life. Most…
By Maurice Walch Shakespeare knew what he was talking about. What matters is what something is, not what it is called. Some national columnists and assorted marketing organizations have heralded the introduction of exchange traded funds (ETF’s) as the “cure all” for the small investor to save them from the demon called the “Mutual Fund.”…
By Heather Douglas Another month, another Russian hacker attack on an electricity control centre in Kiev, Ukraine, which plunged parts of the city into total darkness. Some experts suggest these attacks are trial balloons so the hackers can perfect their attack methodology on critical infrastructure and then it can be replicated across the world on…
