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Iain Munro

President, IHM Consulting Group (more…)

AO editor-in-chief Sebastian Gault interviewed EDS futurist Jeff Wacker at this year’s International Green IT conference in Calgary. (more…)

Shell Canada’s last CEO opines on leadership, faith and values in today’s business climate

With the fate of Conrad Black at the time hanging in the balance, Alberta Oil thought it timely to sit down with a highly-regarded CEO. Our agenda? Simply to see what makes a standout leader tick, and if there are lessons of potential value to some of our more colourful corporate captains. Editor-in-Chief Mark Wolfe and AO contributor Paul Nelson spoke to Mr. Mather on his last day at Shell Canada Limited. (more…)

We talk with the young president of National Oilwell Varco’s downhole tools division

When National Oilwell Varco (NOV) acquired NQL Energy Services in January, it not only merged two of the largest independent providers of downhole tools in the industry, it marked a 115-year trajectory as a leading energy services company in North America. Although his time at the helm was limited to about a week, former NQL CEO Jeremy Thigpen appears to be among the industry’s younger bright lights as he continues his tenure with NOV as president of their downhole tools division. AO spoke with
Mr. Thigpen from his Houston office. (more…)

James H. Gray is best remembered today as a writer of hugely popular books about the social history of the Prairie provinces — books that dared to tackle such previously unmentioned subjects as the sex lives and boozing habits of the early settlers. But that recognition came to Gray relatively late in the day, after he had made his mark as a crusading journalist and oil company executive: during the 1950s and early 1960s, Gray was best known as a prominent player in the Alberta oil patch, first as the controversial editor of the Western Oil Examiner weekly and then as manager of public relations for Home Oil. (more…)

Calgary-based Talisman Energy Inc. leads its North American-based peers in international oil and gas development

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Enhanced CO2 Recovery at Penn West

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