Getting caught up on some energy items from Pipeline Online:
Letter to the editor on why activity levels are so low in the Saskatchewan oilpatch
“How low?” you ask. Just 29 drilling rigs working in Saskatchewan Oct. 3 (10 years ago, that number would have been around 90. During the depths of the downturn, it would have been 40-50.)
Tammy Nemeth’s podcast talks about net-zero red tape for small and medium enterprises in Canada. You think you have paperwork now…
Enbridge’s CEO had a lot to say this week:
Enbridge CEO op-ed on delivering LNG to global markets, reducing global CO2 emissions and supporting energy security. (He did a long speech, which I’ll be posting verbatim, if I have a chance).
Enbridge CEO calls for national Indigenous loan guarantee program so they can buy into energy projects, like pipelines.
And what do we need pipelines for when rail works so well? Except for when it doesn’t. Undetected broken rail causes fiery crude-by-rail derailment.
And for something completely different: A farmer, a pump shop manager and a superintendent walk into a liquor store … and buy it. No joke.
What a depressing pile of garbage from the CEO of one of Canada’s largest pipeline companies. It is garbage ideas like his that will ensure our third world have not status.
I notice that he has no scientific or technical background at all, just another left wing paper and money shuffler.
Some Texan oilman humour: (Readers Digest 1954)
A Kentuckian was bragging to a Texan on how great Kentucky was: great ladies, horses and pastures.
– “Even enough gold to build a 4′ high by 1′ thick wall all around Texas.” The Texan replied: “Okay you build it and if I like it I’ll buy it.”
– A Texan visiting Niagara Falls calls home: “They have water flowing here like champagne!”
– Two Texans walk into a Cadillac shop. “How much for that deluxe model?” asked the first. “$10,000” replies the salesman. Starting to whip off $1000 bills from a roll, his partner interjects, “Oh no you don’t, you bought lunch!”
My movers offered me a job when they moved me…impressed with the preparations that really made moving quicker and more easier.
And I’m retired.
My neighbors are really good as I’ve not taken work from them in this area.
And yet, all the work on my place was done by myself except for the furnace and gas stove installation.
Brian Z – speaking of energy company CEOS, did you see this?
‘Company of yesterday’: Shell CEO’s plans to refocus on oil induce staff anxiety
“Investors have warmed to Sawan and his strategy, helping to narrow the valuation gap between Shell and U.S. peers Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp.
Sawan has faced a backlash from environmentalists for placing shareholder returns at the heart of his strategy and renewing focus on the core oil and gas business. While many staff have been supportive of this approach, he’s facing resistance from others, especially those working in the Renewables and Energy Solutions division,
Shell’s global CEO is a Lebanese Canadian.
https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/oil-gas/shell-ceo-oil-shift-staff-anxiety
The climate delusion is general. Sad to see that the staff at Shell are so ignorant.
roaddog – not ALL Shell staff. However, anxiety can result if you are a climate-change activist that gets a job at an oil company hoping to make net zero a reality.
My gas in suburbs of Vanc went from 2.15 early last week to 2.05, and today 1.74… The Turd has seen the bottom of the bowl,and he/she dosnt like the flushing sound!.
WTF? – Wow! It was 2.15 in Victoria last week. What is driving the sudden drop?
It’s $125.9 at Costco in Calgary.
roaddog, covid showed you all you need to know delusion. Climate bullsh*t is just icing on the cake.
I’m beginning to question the validity of the “rig count” as a relevant metric in the age of directional drilling. Current US oil production, with a greatly reduced number of operating rigs, is pretty phenomenal.
That modified GMC pickup bed in the Estevan liquor store is beautiful. The old man taught me to drive in a ’67.
Brian Z – “…(IEA) Headlines May Please The Masters, But The Data Usually Says Something Else”
“Then the IEA attracted the attention of one Mr. Bill McKibben, one of the world’s fiercest and most effective climate activists. He had a large hand in killing Keystone XL through his global org 350.org and other well funded channels. McKibben accused the IEA of saying the wrong things which “became self fulfilling prophecies…by pointing out how much oil the world consumes and then indicating the total would grow. One could ponder the merits of the argument that nations consumed oil at accelerated rates because the IEA told them it was going to happen,”
A good article from Terry Etam. It also gives a bit of background on McKibben: “…a lifelong activist against business, capitalism, and anything vaguely construed as right of centre, far before he was a climate hawk”.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/10/06/international-energy-agency-oil-demand-claims-their-headlines-may-please-the-masters-but-the-data-usually-says-something-else/
CO2 is plant food
No more, no less.
The rest is make believe to scare little old ladies glued to their crtc approved ministry of truth screens