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Five people write the reports here. Each one covers the part of the industry they know best.
Lorne Halvorsen
Lorne lives outside Red Deer, Alberta, and has spent most of his working life around rigs and service crews in the Western Canadian basin. He writes about drilling, completions and heavy oil in the plain terms he wishes someone had used with him.
3 reports
Ingrid Solheim
Ingrid grew up in Stavanger and has lived on both sides of the North Sea. She covers natural gas, LNG and offshore work, with a soft spot for compressors and the ships that carry gas across oceans.
2 reports
Esteban Villarreal
Esteban is from Corpus Christi, Texas, and writes about pipelines, terminals and refining along the Gulf Coast and beyond. He likes a good process diagram and a clear answer to where the barrel goes next.
3 reports
Morag Tennant
Morag lives in Aberdeen. She writes about health, safety and environmental practice on rigs, plants and pipelines: gas hazards, protective equipment, spill response, methane and the long work of decommissioning.
2 reports
Harriet Dunleavy
Harriet is based in Pittsburgh, in the middle of Marcellus shale country. She writes about careers, training, conferences and trade shows, and about the history of the industry and the towns it built.
3 reports