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...

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?...