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ABB Adaptive Execution™: The solution for our times
Sunday, 25 Oct 2020 | by Tina Olivero Inspired by the new world order ABB Adaptive Execution™ is the ability to adapt to ever-changing conditions along the life cycle of a project. A new project execution methodology coined by...
Cenovus and Husky Combine to Create a Resilient Integrated Energy Leader
Sunday, 25 Oct 2020 | by Tina Olivero Cenovus Energy Inc. (TSX: CVE) (NYSE: CVE) and Husky Energy Inc. (TSX: HSE) today announced a transaction to create a new integrated Canadian oil and natural gas company with an advantaged upstream...
INNOVATION CHALLENGE: Zoom out 1000 years and realize pandemics have come and gone many times before.
Saturday, 24 Oct 2020 | by Tina Olivero We are in unprecedented times. The perfect storm you might say. A time of a deadly global pandemic. Sadly so many lives have been lost. Oil price dropped, supplies lagged, business came to a...
CANADA’S OIL INDUSTRY & LEARNING FROM Y2K
Wednesday, 21 Oct 2020 | by Tina Olivero OPINION FEATURE Were you around when the year 2000 hit and we were supposed to have a global meltdown because of computer formatting and storage of calendar data? It sounds ridiculous now, but the...
OIL & GAS: Think bigger my people, think bigger!
Thursday, 17 Sep 2020 | by Tina Olivero EDITORIAL OPINION: Ms. Tina Olivero, 30 year publisher, The Oil & Gas Magazine Canada’s oil and gas industry is our golden egg, our treasure chest, and one of our top commodities. Natural...
Community and Business Leaders Call for Federal Investment in Offshore Newfoundland
Thursday, 23 Jul 2020 | by Tina Olivero On July 7, 2020 community and business leaders, as well as supporters throughout Canada, were united to send a clear message to the Government of Canada that action is needed to attract investment in...
Could Newfoundland Boom With An Offshore Land Lottery?
Tuesday, 5 May 2020 | by Tina Olivero Covid-19 has much the world’s oil and gas industry on hold. When we stop moving, we stop using energy at the level we did. On top of a dramatic decrease in oil and gas consumption, oil prices...
RECENT PROJECT UPDATE: West White Rose
Friday, 7 Jun 2019 | by Tina Olivero 350 kilometers southeast of the capital city, St. John’s, Newfoundland, the White Rose field sits at the edge of the Jeanne d’Arc Basin. Nothing but ocean and skyline, this foggy cold region of...
Salmon Farming: The next mega-project offshore Newfoundland
Thursday, 14 Jun 2018 | by Tina Olivero I asked Thomas if he was related to the great composer from Norway, Edvard Grieg. His response was just like something you’d hear on George Street, over a beer. “Yes, he’s my great, great,...
REMEMBERING OUR PEOPLE: Flight 491 Anniversary of Helicopter Crash
Monday, 12 Mar 2018 | by Tina Olivero On route to the SeaRose FPSO at the White Rose Oilfield, a fatality of unforgettable proportion happened. Cougar Helicopters Flight 491 ditched on 12, March, 2009. In the cold, Atlantic waters...
7 Mega-Influential Energy Leaders
Sunday, 15 Oct 2017 | by Tina Olivero Companies in the energy industry are the bedrock of society. Why? Simple. Because energy moves every single thing we do. There are millions of people who have spent their lives building the...
Are you aligned with the fastest growing cloud platform on the planet?
Sunday, 10 Sep 2017 | by Tina Olivero Why Amazon Web Services is important to your future Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the fastest growing cloud computing platform on the planet. AWS is located in 14 regions around the world and offers...
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...
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The Super Seven: The Top 7 Shale Plays Dominating North American Oil and Gas Production
Thursday, 19 Mar 2015 | by Linita E. Mathew New drilling strategies using a combination of hydraulic fracturing, vertical and horizontal drilling have drastically increased the amount of production in many areas. In 2012, 7 major plays were...
These 4 Women of Distinction are Shaping the Offshore Industry
Wednesday, 4 Feb 2015 | by Aaryn Lambert When I first started working in the oil and gas industry 23 years ago there were just a handful of women involved. The Oil and Gas Magazine began in Newfoundland six years before Hibernia’s first...