Stang brings worldly and environmental perspective to oil production
BY GREG PRICE insight magazine
perspective of exactly how much Canada is world’s ahead in its environmental care for its various business models and exploration practices. Stang was a field manager for an oil company in Albania from 2006-2016,working for Banker’s Petroleum Albania Ltd (BPAL). Stang was lucky enough to be selected to work with
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a group of Canadian operations personnel who had a lot of experience with heavy oil operations. “It was a Canadian company and a team of us went
over there with an operating agreement with a state- owned company,”said Stang. “They were 40 to 50 years behind with how they
operated, just coming out of
communism.It was like a Third-World country with rows upon rows of pump jacks with no concern whatsoever for the environment back then,”said Stang. Stang had started working in the oil and gas industry
hile currently enjoying his retirement years from the oil and gas industry, Marshall Stang’s former world travels as a field manager gave the man a greater
back in 1974, and while he has seen progression in the decades since in Canada,he added it was never that bad with what he saw in Albania. “They would dump the water in the creek or in the
river and all the water went to the sea.We were 12 miles away from the Adriatic Sea and the water would chan- nel in from the river down to the
sea.You’d go walking along the beach and there would be just gobs of oil there,”said Stang.“They didn’t have really good treating
systems.They were just draining water from the bottom of the tank.A lot of the workers didn’t know anything
different.They may have worked in the oilfield for 30 or 40 years, but that’s how they had always done it. It was always the same thing.We went in there implementing our practices.” Deep water disposal wells were converted to be
used to inject produced water back into the forma- tion instead of being drained into channels to the river.
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