Showing posts with label petroleum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label petroleum. Show all posts
Thursday, December 19, 2019

The Bird Lady

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Scaly-breasted munia In this Buddhist kingdom, you will often find a bird lady just outside the gate when you go to a large wat, or...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Where it All Began

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Equipment in the Underground Test Facility proved the effectiveness of  SAGD  A quarter-century after the first Canadian horizontal well ...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Tell Your Banker to Buzz Off!

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As lines of bank credit grow increasingly restrictive, royalty financing offers new options for operators. This article appears in the Febr...
Monday, January 31, 2011

Revolution Repeated

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The Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. This article appears in the February issue of Oilweek . By Peter McKenzie-Brown First came the re...
Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Maintaining the Faith

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Five visionaries who changed the path of the oilsands industry, and the wall over which the sixth must climb.Photo: Karl Clark This article ...
Sunday, September 05, 2010

In Alberta, An Instinctive Understanding

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This article appears in the August issue of Oilweek magazine By Peter McKenzie-Brown “Pipelines are us,” Bob Taylor reminded me one day o...
Monday, July 26, 2010

Redrawing Mining Boundaries

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Alberta's Regulator increases the size of the province's surface mineable area by 40 per cent. By Peter McKenzie-Brown Last year Al...
Friday, July 23, 2010

Books on the Oilsands: A new cottage industry

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Books about the oil sands were once few and far between; today they are part of a cottage industry , and often written by people with an a...