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 Ali A. Zaidi Senior Advisor, Morrison & Foerster From the surrounding rhetoric, the soundtrack to the signing ceremony for the Trump administration’s latest executive order should have been the noise of a never-used spigot turning. The order issued in April 2017 was messaged as a dramatic – and seemingly instantaneous – reversal of the…
By Jill McLeod, Partner, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Anchorage, Alaska There has been a lot of press surrounding what President Trump has done in his first 100 days of office, especially when it comes to his actions that have an impact on domestic energy production in the U.S. Since taking office in January, President Trump…
By Maurice Walch Many investors are feeling as though there is no safe haven for their investments these days. Depending on what you read, U.S. stocks are overvalued and the recovery is over, leveled out or fading. Europe, recently the darling for investment capital, has been a disaster of late. The influx of refugees threatens…
By Scott Jeffrey Well, the simple answer is because they can. When Peter Lougheed started the Fund back in 1976, he invested $2 billion as seed money, and said that his new government would commit to investing 30 per cent of the government’s take on oil and gas revenue to help grow the Fund. This…
By Heather Douglas “These illustrations suggest four general maxims[…]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don’t over-estimate your own merits. The third is: don’t expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. And the fourth is:…
