Northern Employment and Training in the Oil and Gas Industry
Northern Employment and Training in the Oil and Gas Industry

Author: DPA Group Inc

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13:

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A study to determine the key factors which enhance or inhibit the abilities of oil and gas companies in northern Canada to train and employ northern residents, and make recommendations on strategies that will enhance the nature and extent of northern participation in northern oil and gas activities. The principal aims of the study are to develop practical, implementable recommendations that will lead to better industry/government communication and understanding, and improved employment policies for all companies and agencies involved. The study also pays close attention to regional differences in labour force characteristics and employment opportunities.

Offshore Oil
Offshore Oil

Author: Roger Voyer

Publisher: James Lorimer & Company

Published: 1983-01-01

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9780888626288

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First published in 1983, Offshore Oil is an early and prescient analysis of the prospects for oil and gas development off Canada's east coast. The book examines the potential of offshore oil to provide growth in Canadian industries. As development proceeds huge sums will be invested and oil companies' needs include platforms, drilling rigs, ships, plants and a host of smaller items such as drills, pumps, transformers and electronic equipment. This presents opportunities not only for traditional industries such as steel and shipbuilding but also for the high-technology sector. Offshore oil holds the prospect of energy self-sufficiency for Canada and of better times for the depressed Atlantic economy. But development of gas could also bring a "boom and bust" that damages the region's social and economic fabric. This book considers both possibilities.

Petrocultures
Petrocultures

Author: Sheena Wilson

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2017-06-26

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 0773550402

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Contemporary life is founded on oil – a cheap, accessible, and rich source of energy that has shaped cities and manufacturing economies at the same time that it has increased mobility, global trade, and environmental devastation. Despite oil’s essential role, full recognition of its social and cultural significance has only become a prominent feature of everyday debate and discussion in the early twenty-first century. Presenting a multifaceted analysis of the cultural, social, and political claims and assumptions that guide how we think and talk about oil, Petrocultures maps the complex and often contradictory ways in which oil has influenced the public’s imagination around the world. This collection of essays shows that oil’s vast network of social and historical narratives and the processes that enable its extraction are what characterize its importance, and that its circulation through this immense web of relations forms worldwide experiences and expectations. Contributors’ essays investigate the discourses surrounding oil in contemporary culture while advancing and configuring new ways to discuss the cultural ecosystem that it has created. A window into the social role of oil, Petrocultures also contemplates what it would mean if human life were no longer deeply shaped by the consumption of fossil fuels.