Canada has a rich oil history. Imperial oil was founded in 1880 & largely stayed in the refining business with some discoveries in Turner Valley, AB. In 1922 Imperial set out across Saskatchewan and Alberta in one of the most aggressive Wildcat Drilling campaigns ever. Legend 🔥

Canada is healing

Merry Christmas 🎄 from MPS. Yes a floating doghouse is a thing, this is not AI slop, I was there when this well hit the Clause formation and produced 18,788 presents/day.

Wigle’s patent that designed a way to pump water or mud down the well (hose #41) to flush out rock cuttings while the rig was still using the "lift-and-drop" cable tool method removing the need to constantly stop and bail out the debris manually.

Happy New Year from MPS. 2026 will be one to remember.

And so it continues! Hope everyone had a great Christmas break!

Oilfield making MC Hammer pants a thing again.

Throwback to 1956: Rare construction photos of Canadian Utilities’ Battle River Generating Station Unit 1 in Alberta. Unit 1 ran for over 44 years (1956–2000) with ~30 MW capacity, and the full station operated on coal for 70+ years before converting to natural gas.

Everyone concerned about Venezuela but no one understanding the remarkable amount of time it takes to properly develop heavy oil resources.

Did you know Husky Energy & Encana both held exploration licenses around Greenland? The USGS released a report that estimated Greenland’s potential O&G resources at 17-50 billion bbls right around when oil was $147/bbl which created interest, however nothing feasible came of it.

Fox Vegas is so much better than Las Vegas, don’t even pretend like it’s not.

Natural gas reserves by country

Them: “yea but the Oil industry has actually cut jobs in the past decade” Me: “they just know how to do more with less” Less:

Venezuela over 1 million bpd again. “The Orinoco region is now producing slightly over 500,000 bpd after increases over the weekend at several projects”

This oilsands truck holds 440 tonnes on each load. This is about 1.3 Empire State Buildings. About 3 Blue Whales About 300 automobiles About 16 John Deere Combines About 2 Boeing 747 Jet planes There are around 400 of these operating at anytime in the Alberta oilsands.

Peter Bawden a Canadian legend. Owned the largest private drilling company in the world In business for 35 years. Owned Australias first self-contained platform rig Largest development driller in the North Sea Promoted Canada LNG in 1964 He also dominated Chuck Wagon racing

A once in a lifetime opportunity exists for Canada, do not squander this.

Is……. is this right? I think this is right.

These are the posts I’m here for.