It’s an old truism. If men didn’t spend their money on booze, smokes, and burgers, they could be richer and live longer, vigorous lives. Unfortunately, men in northeast British Columbia, many employed in the natural gas industry, are among the least healthy in Canada, reports Statistics Canada, indicating higher rates of heart disease, smoking, obesity,…
By Heather Douglas “A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.” Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 – 1945), 32nd President of the United States (1933 – 1945)….
Changes to Alberta’s occupational health and safety (OH&S) system that are scheduled to come into effect on June 1, 2018 will see regulators placing more emphasis on worker and supervisor competency A champion of competency development for non-regulated occupations in the oil patch since the mid-1990s – specifically in the areas of well testing, snubbing…
By Heather Douglas It started with the brown-eyed sheiks’ anger at the United States. The blue-eyed sheiks retaliated and the battle for energy superpower status was on. In 1959, America, led by the 34th President Dwight Eisenhower (1890 – 1969), imposed a quota on imports of oil and refined products from the Mideast and gave…
TCP-X-Unit enables advanced data communication even with legacy field devices Hamburg International software and consulting company, Implico, announced a new, more powerful tool enabling customers to connect legacy field technology with the OpenTAS terminal management system. The new TCP-X-Unit is capable of simultaneously converting signals from three serial-linked field devices for OpenTAS. In addition, the…
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…
