It is with a sense of great loss that Nuloch Resources Inc. reports the passing of Allan Spurgeon chairman of the board of directors, on Oct. 6. His perspective and thoughtful guidance will be missed.
October 15, 2009, 12 PM MDT
Allan H. Rak, co-principal of GeoSearch Data, unexpectedly passed away at work, Wednesday, Aug. 5.
August 17, 2009, 12 PM MDT
The staff of Petrobank Energy and Resources Ltd. lost a close and long-time friend with the passing of James D. Tocher.
June 19, 2009, 12 PM MDT
A visionary natural gas pipeline company executive who played a major role in the development of an Alberta petrochemical industry and who championed the prebuild Alaska Highway natural gas pipeline has died in Vancouver.
April 24, 2009, 12 PM MDT
Funeral arrangements are being made for Daryl "Doc" Seaman, an oilpatch pioneer who, along with his brothers founded Bow Valley Industries in 1949. Seaman, 86, died yesterday of causes that were not announced.
January 12, 2009, 12 PM MST
A Calgary geophysicist and his wife have been killed in the crash of their private airplane in the mountains of Colorado enroute to New Mexico where they were to spend Christmas with friends, according to news reports.
December 23, 2008, 12 PM MST
Victor Schut, a geophysicist who worked many years in the Canadian oilpatch, died peacefully December 10 at age 90.
December 12, 2008, 12 PM MST
Les Watson, regional vice president of Cabot Petroleum Canada Corporation passed away November 13, 2008 at the Rockyview Hospital with his family present. Service arrangements will be announced in next few days.
November 14, 2008, 12 PM MST
A celebration of Ian Sutherland Anderson's life was held on Friday, June 27 after he passed away on June 21 running his last race in Kananaskis.
July 2, 2008, 12 PM MDT
Dr. Peter Gretener passed away peacefully at home in Calgary on Friday, May 16, 2008.
May 27, 2008, 12 PM MDT
George Allan Montague Warne, a key organizer for many years of Canada's participation in the World Petroleum Congresses, passed away suddenly on May 20, 2008 at the age of 82 years. Born in 1925, Warne graduated from the University of Alberta with a B.Sc. in electrical engineering in 1951 and was then employed with Calgary Power before commencing his 54 year career in the petroleum industry.
May 23, 2008, 12 PM MDT
John Grenville Stout, husband of Lucy Stout and father of Rhondda Grant and Hilary Stout, all of Calgary, passed away on Friday, May 16, 2008 at the age of 82.
May 23, 2008, 12 PM MDT
Memorial services will be held Friday for Duncan Alasdair Carswell, husband of Pat and father of Allan, passed away on Monday, May 12, 2008.
May 15, 2008, 12 PM MDT
In the early evening of Friday, March 7, Orleans Energy Ltd. was informed of a fatality at the company's Kaybob 10-22-60-19 W5M inlet separator gas facility.
March 10, 2008, 12 PM MDT
Samuel Aubrey Kerr died peacefully on February 19, 2008 at the age of 92.
February 26, 2008, 12 PM MST
Benchmark Energy Corp. advises with great sadness the death of one of its independent directors, Brent Kinney.
November 29, 2007, 12 PM MST
In memory of Vernon Dwayne Haberlack, who died on Oct. 9 this year at the age of 47, Mahalo Energy Ltd. has created the "Cole Haberlack Personal Development Fund" through Burnet Duckworth and Palmer, LLP, 1400, 350 - 7th Avenue SW Calgary, AB T2P 3N9
November 19, 2007, 12 PM MST
In memory of Vernon Dwayne Haberlack, who died on Oct. 9 this year at the age of 47, Mahalo Energy Ltd. has created the "Cole Haberlack Personal Development Fund" through Burnet Duckworth and Palmer, LLP, 1400, 350 - 7th Avenue SW Calgary, AB T2P 3N9
November 7, 2007, 12 PM MST
Husky Energy Inc. has confirmed the death of a 34-year old man on board the SeaRose FPSO, located at the White Rose oil field 350 kilometres offshore Newfoundland and Labrador.
October 12, 2007, 12 PM MDT
After a brief battle with cancer, John Shiry, former Financial Post columnist on the energy industry and the founder of Woodside Research in Calgary, succumbed to the disease on Saturday, July 28 at the Southwood Hospice, in Calgary.
August 8, 2007, 12 PM MDT
Thomas Alexander Dunnett passed away at the Foothills Hospital on Saturday, July 21, 2007 at the age of 75 years.
July 24, 2007, 12 PM MDT
One of the oilpatch's true pioneers, Robert Nichols Adair, Jr. (Bob), passed away on Saturday, July 14, 2007. Adair arrived in Alberta in May 1950 as an employee of Stanolind Oil & Gas Company, the exploration arm of The Standard Oil Company of Indiana, to assist in the opening of the company office in western Canada.
July 17, 2007, 12 PM MDT
Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Herbert Heinz Teitz who passed away peacefully at home in northwest Calgary on May 18 at the age of 84 years, where he lived happily for 37 years and where he raised his family.
May 22, 2007, 12 PM MDT
It is with great sorrow that family and friends report the sudden and unexpected passing of Ken Bergwall in Calgary on May 7 at the age of 47 years.
May 10, 2007, 12 PM MDT
Ronald Ward, an oilpatch industry veteran, died on Wednesday, March 14th.
March 16, 2007, 12 PM MDT
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