There’s four major integrated oilfield service companies in the world, companies whose service lines can number near 100. And the biggest just changed its name. Those four are Schlumberger (“Big Blue”), Haliburton (“Big Red”), Baker Hughes (“Little Blue”) and...
The future is a pretty big place. Huge. Ginormous. (Is that a word?) So where does the energy industry fit in? How are we to adapt to a future that seems to be without a standard of living that we are used to? A future they tell us is supposedly without fossil...
Alberta is back in the chips in ways nobody imagined a year ago The political success of Alberta premiers dating back 50 years has been closely linked to the oil and gas business and federal/provincial relations. Premiers fortunate enough to be in office when the...
Here’s a topic and blue sky proposal inspired by the Moe government’s ‘Drawing the Line White Paper’ and the intensifying federal assault on the west’s resource industries. Apparently there has been a serious dearth of new investment in Canada’s energy...
Premier Scott Moe thinks the overwhelming mass of federal environmental programs in the name of preventing climate change is getting to be too much. So on Oct. 21, he released a white paper called Drawing the Line: Defending Saskatchewan’s Economic Autonomy. After...
Those that should be drilling will be very cautious until Washington and Ottawa signal they want more petroleum, not more politics Saudi Arabia has reminded us again of the power of the world’s largest oil producer. Through Saudi Aramco, one country with only...
