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Following are links to MP3 files, or full-text versions, of speeches and presentations made to PHS meetings on historical topics. (Summaries are usually provided in our Archives newsletters.)
Special thanks to PHS directors Penny Colton and Peter McKenzie-Brown for recording slide shows with narration, and to PHS member David Finch for recording the MP3 files of these talks.
| Title |
Speaker |
Date |
Co-operation or Showdown: The Interaction of Government, Capital and People in the exploitation of Non-renewable Energy Resources
3.5 meg audio WMA file
Slides for this presentation 1.1 meg PDF |
Erik Lizée, Alberta Historian
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Jun.9, 2010 |
Schlumberger in Canada:
A Tale of Unique Challenges and Opportunities
4 meg audio WMA file |
David Finch, Petroleum Historian and Author |
May 5, 2010 |
Northern Tigers: Building Ethical Canadian Corporate Champions
8 meg audio WMA file
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Dick Haskayne |
Mar.31, 2010 |
Unconventional Gas in North America – the massive paradigm shift
48 minutes in Flash format, audio and slides |
Dave Russum, V.P. Geoscience, AJM Petroleum Consultants |
Feb.24, 2010 |
Bringing to Rest an Industry Icon: The Dingman #2 Well, Turner Valley
7.3 meg audio WMA file |
Kary Cuthill, Engineer and Abandonment Specialist |
Nov.25, 2009 |
Estimating the Credibility of the CCF's Threat to Nationalize Oil Resources in Saskatchewan (1944-1964)
3.2 meg audio MP3 file |
Jennifer Winter, PHS scholarship recipient |
May 6, 2009 |
The values that helped shape the modern Canadian oilpatch: Doc Seaman - Builder and Giver
5.8 meg MP3 file |
Sydney Sharpe, Author |
Mar.25, 2009 |
East and West: Outsiders and the Western Canadian Petroleum Industry
11-page PDF file 163k |
David Finch, Historian |
Feb.25, 2009 |
The Politics of Oil and Gas in the Social Credit Era, 1937-1952
8 meg audio MP3 file |
Brian Brennan, Author |
Jan.14, 2009 |
Arctic Seismic Operations – Anderson Plains 1967
10 meg audio MP3 file
Note: quality improves after first few minutes. |
Herve Collet, COO of PanTerra Resource Corp |
Dec.3, 2008 |
The Supreme Court of Alberta
and the Petroleum Industry: Landmark Cases
8 meg audio MP3 file |
Prof. Alastair R. Lucas, Dean of Law, University of Calgary |
Feb.27, 2008 |
Back to the Future: The Canadian Petroleum Discovery Centre
7.1 meg audio MP3 file |
Norm Haines |
Jan.23, 2008 |
History of Encana Fee Title Lands in Canada: From a Past Employee's Point of View
9.3 meg audio MP3 file |
Gordon Dainard |
Dec.5, 2007 |
Writing Petroleum History a New Way - The creation of "PUMPED: Everyone's Guide to the Oil Patch"
9.8 meg audio MP3 file |
David Finch |
Oct.25, 2007 |
Sulphur: From the Big Bang to Big Boom and its importance to the Alberta Economy
24-page PDF 1.25 meg of PowerPoint Presentation
Audio file of the Sulphur presentation
9.2 meg MP3 file |
Dr. Peter Clark |
Sept.19, 2007 |
Early Days of Seismic Field Operations
In Western Canada
Web page |
Bob Rintoul |
June 20, 2007 |
Alberta's First Natural Gas Discovery
Web page |
Micky Gulless |
September 20, 1995 |
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