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Profile: Iain Munro

October 30, 2008 Category: People Tags: , ,
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President, IHM Consulting Group More →

Q&A with a Futurist

May 29, 2008 Category: Technology Tags: , , , , ,
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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

July 03, 2007 Category: People Tags: , , ,
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Editor-in-Chief Mark Wolfe and AO contributor Paul Nelson spoke to Mr. Mather on his last day at Shell Canada Limited More →

Profile: Jeremy Thigpen

April 01, 2007 Category: People, Services Tags: , ,
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We talk with the young president of National Oilwell Varco’s downhole tools division More →

Profile: James H. Gray

July 01, 2006 Category: People Tags: , , ,
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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 More →

On a Roll

April 01, 2006 Category: Gas Tags: , , ,
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Calgary-based Talisman Energy Inc. leads its North American-based peers in international oil and gas development More →

Enhanced CO2 Recovery at Penn West

October 01, 2005 Category: People Tags: , , , , , ,
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Penn West boss Bill Andrew can imagine a day, not too far off, when carbon dioxide (CO2) by–product will be a commodity in high demand More →

Chart of the Week

Alberta Oil Magazine chart of the week

Offshore drilling moves to the deep end

The proportion of deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico first began to outpace drilling at shallower depths in the early 1980s, figures from the U.S. Department of the Interior Minerals Management Service show. The gap grew steadily until the late-1990s, when production from deepwater plays rose dramatically. The sudden increase in deepwater activity lends credence to the argument that oil is increasingly harder and more expensive to access.

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