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A Landman or "Petroleum Landman"—in the United States and Canada—is an individual who performs various services for oil and gas exploration companies. [1] According to the website of the American Association of Professional Landmen (AAPL), these services include but are not limited to: negotiating for the acquisition or divestiture of mineral rights; negotiating business agreements that ...
The Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League used to use an oil rigging roughneck with an ice hockey stick as one of their secondary logos. The roughneck, as a symbol of hard work and fortitude, was the inspiration for the Calgary Roughnecks lacrosse team, as well as the Tulsa Roughnecks of the North American Soccer League, the Tulsa Roughnecks of the United Soccer Leagues, and the Tulsa ...
However, Ontario's status as an important oil producer did not last long. By 1880 Canada was a net importer of oil from the United States. Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin Most of Canada's oil and gas production occurs in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin which stretches from southwestern Manitoba to northeastern BC.
Pumper: A worker whose job is to monitor and maintain active oil and gas wells. Rat hole: A hole on the drilling rig floor used to store the kelly and swivel. Roughneck: an honor reserved for the top tier members of a drilling crew. Sidetrack: A planned deviation from a previously drilled section of the wellbore.
In his blog entitled "Canadian Oil and Gas: The First 100 Years", Peter McKenzie-Brown said that the "early uses of petroleum go back thousands of years.But while people have known about and used petroleum for centuries, Charles Nelson Tripp was the first Canadian to recover the substance for commercial use.
Governments are pushing oil and gas producers to increase output with prices hovering around $100 a barrel amid a worldwide supply shortage. N. American oil companies scramble to find workers ...
At the time, Nexen's 2.5 billion boe reserves would've ranked 8th among Canada's oil companies. [92] When Nexen was created in 1971 it was a subsidiary of the American company Occidental Petroleum called Canadian Occidental Petroleum. After taking over a number of smaller companies in Canada while increasing their international holdings they ...
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