By Dr. Gord Knight The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has a large facility in Cleveland, Ohio. It’s where CSA does a lot of product testing and certification. The CSA employs a lot of people; it has a large parking lot. One day, a CSA manager was having a heated argument with a CSA engineer in…
By Heather Douglas Workers who might be endangered by oil and gas containing hydrogen sulphide (H2S) need special protection, especially those who are repeatedly exposed to small amounts, day after day, over a working lifetime, to ensure they do not suffer adverse effects. Although H2S detection monitoring practices vary by province, there are many type…
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…
The pressures on oilfield services to continually improve worker safety and protection are relentless, as they should be. Safety first. Drive to zero. Everybody on any worksite should be able to work safely and go home healthy. The determination of the upstream oil and gas industry to deliver has been relentless for over three decades….
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…
