CAGC

Mike Doyle is the President of the CAGC – the Canadian Association of Geophysical Contractors - representing the business interests of the seismic industry within Canada. The CAGC website may be found at www.cagc.ca . In late 2013 the National Energy Board along with the two Offshore Boards put a draft safety culture framework for the Oil and Gas Industry. The Government’s concern is one of process safety in which the ultimate failure is catastrophic events that cause human fatalities/deaths and/or severe environmental damages. The full context can be found at the following link however this column only captures the very brief outline from the site and then excerpts from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) that represents much of Industry’s position. https://www.neb-one.gc.ca/clf-nsi/rsftyndthnvrnmnt/sfty/sftycltr/sftycltr-eng.html From the website Advancing Safety in the Oil and Gas Industry - Draft Safety Culture Framework The National Energy Bo...

Mike Doyle is the President of the CAGC – the Canadian Association of Geophysical Contractors - representing the business interests of the seismic industry within Canada. The CAGC website may be found at www.cagc.ca . In December 2013 I attended an evening at the Bon Mot Book Club in Calgary featuring author George Friedman and his book The Next 100 Years . I think it is safe to say the farther out you try to predict the more likely you are wrong however the author’s structure of modern history was very interesting. A couple of conclusions that I found interesting which he made were as follows: 1) In order to control the globe and/or be a superpower you must control the oceans; 2) China is split geographically with coastal areas being quite affluent and inner-land areas being quite poor. The only thing that has kept the country from civil war is the unbelievable growth curve. This will not be sustainable. Look for civil unrest to follow; 3) Russia is always concerned about t...