Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, July 28, 1923 Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today. It’s fun and illuminating to look back 100 years ago at what
Read More...Reclamation Art Shows Us Oil and Gas Are Beautiful! [Editor’s Note: Reclamation follows oil and gas development, including pipelines, and it’s often beautiful, as the Canadian Energy Centre shows with S.C. King’s reclamation art.] There’s something about art that can change a person’s perspective. An artist’s interpretation can highlight the stunning beauty in
Read More...Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, March 3, 1923! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today. I thought it might be fun and illuminating to look back 100
Read More...Hydrogen Hoopla All Hyperbole? Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Hydrogen has been hyped bigly as an alternative to natural gas, ignoring that the latter is the best source of the stuff, so why not use the real thing?] A University of Alberta (Canada) mechanical engineer and his
Read More...Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, October 21, 1922! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today. I thought it might be fun and illuminating to look back 100
Read More...Alberta Has Had It with Trudeau, the World Economic Forum’s Man Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. No one better depicts the condescension of elitists shilling for the World Economic Forum and its climate agenda than Justin Trudeau. Alberta has had enough. Dan Markind has an interesting column up at Forbes on the
Read More...Elitists Feeling the Power: The Revolution Comes Closer Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Elitists are feeling the power worldwide and unwittingly stirring a world-wide revolution over energy and food issues as they blithely ignore the citizenry! The globalist ruling class feels it’s on the cusp of replacing the citizenry of the world
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Foreign policy belongs in the hands of the President, not governors captured by the demands of fractivists and other special interests. Our friend Dan Markind has a great post up at Forbes that i encourage all readers to check out. It’s about pipelines and the abuse of the
Read More...Almost a whole year after it was originally intended to end, Alberta has officially set an end date to oil production limits the province laid out in 2018. The new date all of Alberta’s oil producers can anticipate ramping up production is the end of December 2020, although the provincial government will maintain its regulatory
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Medicine Hat, Alberta, threw a cool $12 million into a solar facility that still cannot compete with natural gas; it’s bitter medicine. This one is a pitch perfect illustration of the foolishness that is the premise green energy can compete with natural gas. It has to do with
Read More...Suncor Energy has announced plans to cut its workforce by up to 15% over the next 18 months, after crude oil demand has been reduced by the coronavirus pandemic, Kallanish Energy reports. The company, with headquarters in Calgary, Alberta, said 5% of the workers will be cut in six months and another 10% to 15%
Read More...Canadian Natural Resources last week evacuated its Pelican Lake and Woodenhouse operations in northern Alberta, the first major shut-in of oil production triggered by wildfires in 2019, Kallanish Energy reports. The producer removed all 240 people working at the two sites, stopping a combined 65,000 barrels per day of heavy crude production, according to a statement
Read More...Rangeland Energy III’s Rangeland Midstream Canada unit Tuesday announced plans to design, construct and operate new crude oil and condensate pipelines in the Marten Hills region of north central Alberta, Kallanish Energy reports. The Marten Hills Pipeline System will extend roughly 52.8 miles and include crude oil and condensate pipelines and related facilities. The system
Read More...United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney was sworn in Tuesday as the 18th premier of Canada’s largest crude-producing province, Alberta, and named a cabinet he says will go to bat for the energy sector, Kallanish Energy reports. Kenney, a former conservative federal cabinet minister, won the election in a landslide victory against Rachel Notley’s New
Read More...Power giant TransAlta Corp. said this week it’s received notice investment firm Mangrove Partners intends to nominate five candidates for election to the company’s board. Election of directors will take place at TransAlta’s upcoming annual and special shareholders’ meeting on April 16, Kallanish Energy reports. Mangrove owns 7.1% of Calgary-based TransAlta, while its associated investor,
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