Sunday, December 15, 2024

Precision Drilling Adds New Director

Calgary’s Precision Drilling Corporation (ticker: PDS) has added Michael R. Culbert to its board of directors. Culbert is vice chairman of Progress Energy Canada Ltd, a wholly owned Canadian subsidiary of PETRONAS that is focused on the development of unconventional natural gas. Prior to becoming vice chairman, Culbert served as president and CEO of Progress Energy and president of Pacific NorthWest

Alaska

Murkowski Greenlights Tax Plan with Drilling ANWR in It

From the AP WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Senate Republicans’ tax overhaul bill (all times local): Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she supports the Republicans’ sweeping tax package, now that it would allow oil drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Murkowski got the provision added earlier this week, but her initial version violated arcane Senate rules about which provisions

New Drilling Rules Pass in Illinois

Brazil’s ‘How-Not-To’ Guide on Trade

BY Americas Quarterly A look at the sugar and ethanol industry shows why trade barriers are not the best response to globalization’s pressures. Brazil got globalization all wrong. In fact, its approach to trade can at times practically read like a how-not-to guide. Faced with globalization’s potential impact on national industries, it maintains a crony and closed economy, when a more