OUR GREAT MINDS

    by Tina Olivero

    McKeil Marine Offers Innovative Marine Solutions

    Successfully operating for over 55 years, Hamilton-based McKeil Marine Limited has enjoyed a long and meaningful relationship with the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. A familyowned business, McKeil takes great pride in its people, and it was 55 years ago that Captain Ralph Tucker, who hailed from NL, joined the McKeil team as its first captain to work alongside founder, Evans McKeil. Today, over 70 percent of the McKeil sailing crew hails from the great province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

    “To help further our growth and enhance our services, we have recently opened an offi ce in St. John’s (McKeil Newfoundland & Labrador Limited) and added a new addition to our fl eet,
    which was christened in the Port on May 15th. It is an exciting time for the McKeil team as we plant even deeper roots in the soil of this province.” said Steve Fletcher, the company’s president.

    Under the leadership of local resident David Porter (president), the corporate offi ce of McKeil Newfoundland and Labrador Limited is located at 49 Elizabeth Avenue in St. John’s. In addition, plans are already underway to purchase a shipyard in the province to provide a facility to service and prepare its vessels for work that McKeil is doing in the province, along the East Coast and up into the Eastern Arctic. Currently providing all of the barge services for the Vale Long Harbour project, McKeil is actively seeking contracts under the Hebron and Bull Arm projects and is optimistic about the opportunities to expand its offering and grow its business in Newfoundland and Labrador.

    McKeil Marine’s core business is providing cost effective transportation and project services for a wide array of industries. With its skilled sailing and support crew, marine architects and
    engineers, the company works closely with customers to provide innovative marine solutions throughout the Great Lakes, the East Coast and the Canadian Arctic.

    Tina Olivero

    30 years ago, Tina Olivero looked into the future and saw an opportunity to make a difference for her province and people. That difference came in the form of the oil and gas sector. Six years before there was even a drop of oil brought to the shores of Newfoundland, she founded The Oil and Gas Magazine (THE OGM) from a back room in her home on Signal Hill Road, in St. John’s, Newfoundland. A single mother, no financing, no previous journalism or oil and gas experience, she forged ahead, with a creative vision and one heck of a heaping dose of sheer determination. With her pioneering spirit, Ms. Olivero developed a magazine that would educate, inspire, motivate and entertain oil and gas readers around the world — She prides herself in marketing and promoting our province and resources in unprecedented ways. The OGM is a magazine that focuses on our projects, our people, our opportunities and ultimately becomes the bridge to new energy outcomes and a sustainable new energy world. Now diversifying into the communications realms, a natural progression from the Magazine, The OGM now offers an entirely new division - Oil & Gas Media. Today, The Oil and Gas Magazine is a global phenomenon that operates not only in Newfoundland, but also in Calgary and is read by oil and gas enthusiasts in Norway, Aberdeen, across the US and as far reaching as Abu Dhabi, in the Middle East. Believing that Energy is everyone’s business, Ms. Olivero has combined energy + culture to embrace the worlds commitment to a balance of work and home life as well as fostering a foundation for health and well being. In this era of growth and development business and lifestyle are an eloquent mix, there is no beginning or end. Partnering with over 90 oil and gas exhibitions and conferences around the world, Ms. Olivero's role as a Global Visionary is to embrace communication in a way that fosters oil and gas business and industry growth in new and creative ways.

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