My Dad set up the Shell 1967 extraction when he worked for Shell as production manager for western Canada. He used to complain that the other Shell engineers had little interest, he could not get the ball rolling with little interest from other Shell people. This 1967 Shell facility was shut down. With a lot of conventional oil available it was a struggle. Dad used to tell the Shell executives he would take them fishing and hunting to try to get them up to Ft. Mac to visit. this is almost 80 years ago, my Dad is now 97; I took him out to lunch 2 weeks ago. Now it's 2.5 million barrels a day
I work fording coal elkford,bc 1980-88 suncor and syncrude visist all major mines in bc learn something.i visist suncor base plant in 1984 for help them.the report by fording coal include myself was going full scale with bigger trucks,shovels,dozer so on.the biggest problems was get access the major bank in wall street and bay street was not easy take long time.the war in kuwait1990-91 change everything.ralph klein was big plus too before ball start moving.😮
