The Petroleum Services Association of Canada

THE PETROLEUM SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF CANADA who we need to be successful but also for the benefit of our members. I’m pushing to raise awareness of best practices from around the world and to bring those ideas to Canada to help us improve our efficiency.This is a very high cost basin to get oil and gas from under the ground. So every initiative we can come up with to lower the lifting cost of a barrel of oil, I’m looking at, and PSAC is pushing the supply chain rela- tionship to help identify those best practices to improve our cost situation to make us more competitive.” And finally, to those people who suggest that the oil and gas industry is going to disappear anytime soon because of environmental concerns, Salkeld has the following response: “I challenge them on that,”he declares.“Try and go a day without oil and gas.They can’t do it; their children can’t do it; their grandchildren won’t be able to do it; and I would even go so far as to say that their great-grandchildren will not be able to go without some form of oil and gas in their lives. We may well get away from burning it–that’s not the best way of utilizing these resources, but oil and gas are a natu- ral gift of the planet, just like air and trees.Howwe’re using themmay not the best possibleway,but there are over 6,000 productsmade fromoil and gas–the chair I’msitting in has oil and gas; the car you drivemight be electric someday,but it will bemanufacturedwith refined by-products of the oil and gas industry. So, this industry is not going anywhere soon.” And while the industry continues to exist, the Petroleum Services Association of Canada will continue to be the voice of its service, supply, and manufacturing sector.