This is the sixth time I have been under-employed in my career. The oil price pendulum has that impact! To date, this is neither the
After reading Marshall Frank’s Three Carbon Dioxide Utilization Technologies, we identified another promising CO2 feedstock process that promises to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Solid Carbon Products LLC
With the global effort underway to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, particularly carbon dioxide, most activities focus on carbon capture and storage (CCS). These technologies involve
The Fort McMurray fire highlights how privileged most North Americans, Oil Sector workers, and oil industry support service providers are to live in a region
International Oil and Gas Training Company Can Now Train and Issue SQA Qualifications for Assuring Workforce Competence IHRDC and the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) are
The ultimate goal of a competency project is to design and deliver a targeted learning and development plan that will lead to a fully competent workforce. IHRDC
Last March, I wrote about several Chinese companies planning to build methanol plants in the United States with the purpose of shipping the product to
Project Drivers Cost, time, and quality are the three main drivers behind any project, and finding the balance between these things is key to success,
In August 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new regulations for the oil and gas industries to cut emissions of methane into the
This note is a sequel to the blog I posted in April 2015 that examined the connection between Federal Reserve policy and the collapse of
After attending the SPE Conferences on Unconventionals in Calgary and Brisbane at the end of last year, I am blown away by: What the joint
As follow-up to my June 23rd blog, on November 30th, the EPA issued the volume requirements and associated percentage standards for conventional and advanced biofuels
A new form of learning is sweeping through the US higher education system in response to recent discoveries of how students learn best. A few
During the past ten years, thanks to hydraulic fracturing of horizontal wells and the high cost of crude oil, the U.S. has gone from being
I had the fascinating opportunity of meeting and listening to Dr. Michael Mann at Penn State University a few weeks ago as he explained how
Back in 2011, Shell Chemical received strong local support when it announced plans to build an ethylene and derivatives petrochemical complex based on the large
I still find it hard to believe. A friend of mine told me a year ago that he had just built a 350 MW solar
The workforce challenges faced today by the oil and gas industry’s Human Resources managers are very different from those of the past. The increasing number