Oil price making beeline to $125 plus by end of June – May 25 All the stars have lined up for indefinite rise oil prices with such factors as: China’s economy will shortly open up, thereby significantly restoring demand US gasoline and diesel inventories at seasonal...
“They call natural gas the fuel of the future. It must be because it has no present value.” So quipped the head of the Independent Petroleum Association of America at an industry event in Calgary in 1991. Gas was big business 30 years ago, and it’s finally back in a...
When I write these columns, articles, opinion pieces or whatever the hell you call them, I know full well the people reading them probably agree with what I have to say. Hey, I work in the energy industry and this publication is Pipeline Online, right? So yeah, the...
The message is now to resume normal activities even though ‘civil society’ has spent years trying to crush the industry The love/hate relationship between oil companies and the world’s billions of customers is unique in the world of commerce. ...
Editor’s Note: In setting up Pipeline Online’s thriving opinion section, I am seeking voices from a variety of vantages from the energy sector. So far we’ve got geology, corporate, nuclear, investing, politics, humour (which isn’t too far removed from politics),...
One of the most important skills in the Oilpatch is finding your way to location. It sounds silly, but it is one-hundred percent true. Scratch that, it is THE most important skill. If you can’t find your way to the job, your chance of getting paid is zero. That...
