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WOOD: Products & Contracts Update
Friday, 22 Mar 2019 | by Tina Olivero Wood has secured a contract from Siemens Wood has secured a contract from Siemens to install a new Siemens HL-class gas turbine at a power generating station in North Carolina. The award will see...
Lonita Judge: Supports & Elevates Women at WISTA
Friday, 22 Mar 2019 | by Tina Olivero Lonita Judge, Director of Safety and Compliance at Horizon Maritime Services Limited, has been appointed Regional Vice President, Atlantic of the Women’s International Shipping and Trading...
HOMEPORT: It’s all about Gerri
Friday, 22 Mar 2019 | by Tina Olivero She’s become a friend. Every morning she’d pop into my apartment at the Homeport Hotel in St. John’s. The first thing I hear every morning is “Housekeeping,” and in pops Gerri and her super...
THE DRILLING RACE IS ON: Will we find oil?
Monday, 18 Mar 2019 | by Tina Olivero One major discovery, that’s all it will take to set Newfoundland Offshore on fire! According to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, there are six drilling project summaries submitted by...
Large Diameter Flex-Hone Optimizes Performance
Friday, 15 Mar 2019 | by Tina Olivero Brush Research Manufacturing (BRM) has a long history of solving difficult finishing problems with brushing technology. As a full line manufacturer of honing tools, abrasive nylon brushes, deburring...
Lee Shinkle: The End Of Act One
Thursday, 28 Feb 2019 | by Tina Olivero Lee Shinkle, our mentor and grandfather of the oil and gas industry has spent the last forty years supporting, encouraging, planning and envisioning the birth of the offshore oil and gas industry in...
What if Newfoundland was more like Norway?
Thursday, 21 Feb 2019 | by Tina Olivero Publiher’s Commentary – By Tina Olivero In Norway, state-owned oil projects often have upwards of 60% ownership in their oil and gas projects. This model of investment in the energy...
BAY DU NORD OIL PROJECT IS A GO: $14 billion in economic activity to come!
Thursday, 26 Jul 2018 | by Tina Olivero Bay du Nord – The next big oil project offshore Newfoundland It’s more good news for the oil and gas industry of Newfoundland and Labrador today. Hibernia, Terra Nova, was White Rose, ...
Nalco Champion In Newfoundland
Friday, 22 Jun 2018 | by Tina Olivero “I am from Lawn, Newfoundland and I have worked in the oil and gas service industry for the past 18 years. In May 2011, while working in Angola I met Ryan Olson, who is currently Canadian Regional...
West White Rose: Project Update At Argentia
Wednesday, 20 Jun 2018 | by Tina Olivero The West White Rose project in Newfoundland, Canada includes the construction of a concrete structure and topsides. With its co-venture partners, Husky Energy is developing West White Rose with a...
Aasta Hansteen: The first of its kind and the largest in the world!
Thursday, 3 May 2018 | by Tina Olivero When Statoil began developing a field based on the gas discoveries Luva, Haklang and Snefrid, the field was called Luva. It was a revolutionary field on the Norwegian continental shelf—300 km from...
Cuisine: Jiggs Dinner at the Celtic Hearth
Monday, 29 Aug 2016 | by Tina Olivero What’s the big hairy fascination with Jiggs dinner and how come the minute Sunday hits, it’s the one thing that pops into your mind and you think, hmmm, I wonder is Mom cooking that? Could it be...
Smart, Creative and Business Savvy: These Women are Leading the Way in Alberta
Tuesday, 10 Feb 2015 | by Moona Khan These women have excelled in a variety of roles from Business Development to Operations Engineering. They encompass traits that can be found in successful leaders including determination, vision and...
The Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World
Wednesday, 15 Aug 2012 | by Aaryn Lambert The Global 100 is an annual project initiated by Corporate Knights Inc., the company for clean capitalism. The Global 100 is the most extensive data-driven corporate sustainability assessment in...
Globalization: Understanding the Impact of Globalization on our World
Tuesday, 29 Nov 2011 | by Tina Olivero With the onset of international business growth, a powerful internet communications regime and access to information anywhere – the boundaries of the world are coming down. Geography and social...