Be visible, pay attention, follow up, and make deliberate efforts to not fade into the background. Highlight your accomplishments, and volunteer. This is the ethos which has guided YPAC President and CEO, Molly Beckel, through her career, taking her from school in Ontario and touching down in Alberta, California, China, Mexico, and back again. On […]
CONTINUE READINGWe’re committed to exceeding our 2030 Paris target and getting to net-zero emissions by 2050, as well as to putting our five-year targets into law. Hon. Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Environment and Climate Change Canada (2019, December 20). Government of Canada releases emissions projections, showing progress towards climate target. https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/news/2019/12/government-of-canada-releases-emissions-projections-showing-progress-towards-climate-target.html Accounting […]
CONTINUE READINGIt can be daunting to think about how one might navigate their career in the Pipeline Industry. With many career paths from technical to commercial to operational to ESG, there are no shortage of options. But what are some good tools to figure out where to take your career? On October 21st, the YPAC Calgary […]
CONTINUE READINGOne of the main horizontal directional drilling (HDD) challenges is underground uncertainty; a common solution is to drill technical boreholes to get a better understanding of the soil. However, according to one Avatar Program team’s presentation, such a method inevitably requires some assumptions and misses the “full picture” in the earth. “To solve this problem, what we’re […]
CONTINUE READINGOriginally authored by Carter Haydu and reposted with permission: https://www.dailyoilbulletin.com/article/2020/10/21/cbm-to-the-rescue-avatar-team-recommends-data-driv/ Condition-based maintenance (CBM) “sets in motion a shift” in understanding and applying operational data, and it is one Avatar Program team’s core recommendation for energy companies to make decisions on their assets. “What we propose is to shift our maintenance strategy from a reactive to […]
CONTINUE READINGOptimally, Canadian hydrogen production will leverage existing energy assets, repurposing or reusing orphaned or inactive wells in a way that is both economically and environmentally sound, according to one Avatar Program team’s final presentation: Hydrogen in the New Energy Future. “These are wells that have been left due to economic reasons,” Mohammad Pour, process engineer-in-training at Stantec […]
CONTINUE READINGIn the spirit of promoting energy advocacy, a team of young oil and gas professionals participating in the recent Avatar Program proposed the conversion of abandoned, inactive and orphaned wells for geothermal development, which ultimately could provide direct heating and power generation to nearby communities. “We believe this industry needs to take action to help […]
CONTINUE READINGCheck out the links below to view YPAC x AVATAR Session 5 with Federal Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan and Alberta Minster of Energy Sonya Savage, and YPAC x AVATAR Session 6 – Final Presentations! YPAC x AVATAR Session 5: https://vimeo.com/459778175/5003f9e138 YPAC x AVATAR Session 6: https://vimeo.com/449137016/d9599e552f
CONTINUE READINGRemoving the hydrostatic test and replacing it with alternative solutions could maintain safe pipelines in Canada, while also being better for the environment and more cost effective for industry, suggests one Avatar Program team’s presentation to a panel of industry experts. Hydrostatic testing is a process used to test tanks and pipes for leaks by pressurizing the […]
CONTINUE READINGA secure and easy-to-use digital platform designed for collaboration between First Nations communities and oil and gas companies would effectively strengthen industry engagement with Indigenous Canadians, according to one Avatar Program presentation, and ‘TECUMSEH’ is the proposed name for that platform. “Logging in and uploading information will be as easy as updating your Facebook or LinkedIn, but […]
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