Sentences with phrase «from oilpatch»
As smart as some are in the Shell organization, they've really offerred up two limited if not false choices, mostly from the oilpatch perspective.
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Following the U.S. State Department's decision to postpone a decision on TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL pipeline, Canadian pipeline boosters from oilpatch CEOs to federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver responded that Canada would have to look to other markets — namely China — to buy our oil.
«What we're seeing is a whole bunch of engineers who were laid off from the oilpatch,» he says.
Not exact matches
It was no coincidence that the last surge of foreign investment in Canada's oilpatch followed the Arab Spring and came from China.
Nevertheless, Canada's infrastructure in the north has recently benefited from the boom in the oilpatch.
Even so, there are lessons to be drawn from how forest companies found their way out of this stalemate, some of which can be directly applied to the oilpatch:
The Canadian oilpatch is going from a supply - driven approach to a market - centred approach for energy products and services.»
In hiring Coady two years ago to fill its newly created chief sustainability officer position, Enbridge was acknowledging that the oilpatch might have something to learn from the forest industry about moving past environmental controversy and renewing its social licence.
Alberta famously drew job searchers from across Canada for years, before the latest downturn in the oilpatch made the other provinces competitive again.
Add to that a substantial corporate reorganization at the top, which included both promoting some long - term Husky insiders, but also bringing on - board five new senior VPs with deep oilpatch experience (including John Myer, now Husky's senior vice-president of oilsands, from Suncor Energy, and Rob Symonds, Husky's senior vice-president of Western Canada productions, from Enerplus Resources Fund), and Ghosh was ready to focus on crafting the new Husky story.
As Cosh puts it, «The oilpatch isn't distinguishable from other kinds of mining or manufacture, or even service businesses, in the degree to which it involves risk, innovation, or scientific sophistication.»
James Stafford: What separates the good management teams from the mediocre in the Canadian junior oilpatch?
TORONTO — Delinquency rates on auto loans are soaring, pointing to another spillover effect from the slowdown in the oilpatch.
The records, including a leaked email and an internal government memo from January 2016, provide a glimpse into public servants» deliberations over opposition to the multi-billion-dollar Kinder Morgan project as well as the power and influence of the oilpatch over Canadian government policies.