We were driving through southern Alberta a couple of weeks ago on our way from Writing-on-Stone to Beaver Mines. It was beautiful seeing the mountains rise up from the prairies. But you didn’t click on the link to read about that view. It has been described many times before by better writers. But it seeing the looming mountains of the Lewis Range brought to mind the Waterton Gas Field. The 1W0/12-09-003-30W4/00 well is worthy of being a Petro Ninja – Enlighten Geoscience

Stampede is on and your boots are both as shiny as the sun but (hopefully) with a few blots from the stables to make it real. (It has been a couple of years so a reminder, jean cuffs belong on the outside of your boots). The Stampede provides a chance to slip off the traces a bit and think outside the corral. For instance, this Petro Ninja – Enlighten Geoscience Well of the Week provides a good opportunity to highlight both an oil producer and a speculative exploration. Thi

The Petro Ninja – Enlighten Geoscience Well of the Week follows up on the tale of the Lodgepole Blowout by for October is a focus on the well that launched the modern Canadian oil and gas industry: 100/05-22-00-26W4/00 otherwise, and better, known as Leduc No. 1. The story has been told countless times, so what new light can the WotW shed on this well? Let us see. George Longphee was a pioneer in the industry and involved in choosing the 5-22 location. He was also my sister-

I’m thinking back. Way back before anyone heard of bingeing a series through a streaming service. Further back then when cable brought dozens of channels into our homes. Back to when the introduction of a third (A third channel! Can you imagine?) channel was big news for Calgary. Those were the days when, if you missed the latest episode of The Beachcombers, you had to wait for summer re-runs to catch the excitement. And why, you ask, do I bring up summer re-runs? Because I