June 18, 2021, 12 AM MDT
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The importance of pricing was a sentiment expressed by several oilfield services companies while reporting their first quarter financial and operational results.
May 21, 2021, 6:31 AM MDT
While resources such as hydrogen, helium and geothermal will benefit oilfield service firms, as well as support the sustainable energy story in the future, none of their developments are yet mature enough to sustain even one crew for a year, and therefore they are not yet ready to provide the sort of sustainability workers would like to see in the industry, says Duncan Au, president and chief executive officer of CWC Energy Services Corp.
May 12, 2021, 6 AM MDT
If simply raising wages would solve the energy sector’s so-called “labour crunch” problems, then that would be an easy solution, suggests Breanne O’Reilly, program manager, PetroLMI (a division of Energy Safety Canada).
May 11, 2021, 6:36 AM MDT
May 11, 2021, 7:59 AM MDT
In Western Canada, a “labour crunch” already began to show itself this past winter as oilfield service companies could not get to projects as quickly as customers would have wanted due to staffing, says Duncan Au, president and chief executive officer at CWC Energy Services Corp.
May 10, 2021, 6:40 AM MDT
For Ensign Energy Services Inc., Canada remains one of the most challenged areas both geopolitically and due to continuing COVID-19 issues, as well as in terms of securing a skilled workforce, says top brass.
May 10, 2021, 7:31 AM MDT
Cenovus Energy Inc. says it is in the process of reassessing the acquired Husky Energy Inc. assets for “synergies above and beyond the company’s original $1.2 billion target,” the company’s top executive told analysts on a Q1 conference call this morning.
May 7, 2021, 11:49 AM MDT
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Imperial Oil Limited continues to focus on mitigating the spread of COVID-19 within its operations and workforce in the hard-hit oilsands region.
April 30, 2021, 11:48 AM MDT
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April 9, 2021, 7:53 AM MDT
Can employers mandate COVID-19 vaccinations upon the workforce? It is a question for which some clients have sought legal advice from Mathews, Dinsdale & Clark LLP, although no clients in the energy sector or elsewhere have yet tried to implement such mandatory policies, says Loretta Bouwmeester, Calgary-based partner for the law firm.
April 7, 2021, 12 AM MDT
As employers in the energy sector and elsewhere try to determine what policies and incentives they might use to get employees to voluntarily take the COVID-19 vaccines, co-ordinating workplace vaccination clinics may provide a possible opportunity, says Loretta Bouwmeester, partner at Mathews, Dinsdale & Clark LLP
April 6, 2021, 12 AM MDT
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April 6, 2021, 11:13 AM MDT
All Canadians who are able to do so have a moral obligation to receive a COVID-19 vaccine once they become readily available, says Charles Weijer, a bioethicist at Western University. That includes in the energy sector.
April 5, 2021, 12 AM MDT
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