Weekend Watch: Sucker Rods the Amoco Way

It may be in Spanish, but the visuals are quite interesting. This is a training film (note, not video, as video wasn’t a thing then) from the 1960s. So we’re looking at almost  60 years old (even older than Brian Crossman), yet a lot of the hardware is...

States and companies compete for billions to make hydrogen

  By Jennifer Mcdermott And John Flesher As fossil fuel emissions continue warming Earth’s atmosphere, the Biden administration is turning to hydrogen as an energy source for vehicles, manufacturing and generating electricity. It’s offering $8 billion to...

CAOEC releases Embarking on the Energy Evolution video

The Canadian Association of Energy Contractors (CAOEC) released a short video on March 31 entitled “CAEOC: Embarking on the Energy Evolution.” There’s some cool in the field shots, including a time lapse of a walking rig on a pad site. Check it out....

Brian Zinchuk: How does an ice age start? With one snowflake

Editor’s note: I originally wrote this column in mid-April 10 years ago, at the tail end of a winter that never seemed to end. Funny how things haven’t changed that much since then, have they? Wasn’t the world supposed to warm up in the meantime?...