By Heather Douglas “In the United States between 2005 and 2015, there were 85 deaths due to fires or explosions at oil and gas wellsites, including 27 ignited by mobile engines or auxiliary motors.” United States Department of Labor, Occupational Health & Safety Administration (OHSA), June 2017. This summer, the Americans issued a safety alert…
Breakthrough in Lowering Costs in Lifting Oil, Light or Heavy “There’s a way to do it better – find it.” Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931). In what’s being called a ‘game-changer,’ the upstream oil industry now has access to the new technological advanced wellhead polished rod with the world’s hardest, densest, and highest melt point…
Dennis Lanthier is an award-winning writer and corporate communications specialist with almost two decades of experience in the oil and gas sector. He earned an International Association of Business Communicator’s Gold Quill in 2011 for creation of a magazine distributed to TransCanada Pipeline’s employees and retirees. After full-time stints at various other organizations including ATCO…
By Heather Douglas “If anything offers a litmus test for trends in hard-nosed realpolitik, it’s the cutting of strategic international energy deals. While the Western media persists in warning of apocalyptic consequences should Iran’s nuclear ambitions lead to outright conflict with Israel – a conflict drawing in Russia et al – an entirely different scenario…
By Heather Douglas Ask any CEO who doesn’t want to face the cameras because of a safety incident during a plant turnaround, what his or her top priority is. Unequivocally, that person will tell you it’s to ensure the health and safety of all workers involved. Often workers need to clean and repair equipment in…
