Enthusiasm shines through professional reserve when Trent Yanko explains the subterranean rocket science he uses to reopen the Turner Valley black gold reservoir. Deep and horizontal barely begin to describe his designer wells.
To visualize the underground trails blazed by modern drilling, first look at that office supply store, says the engineer, pointing down from his president’s suite at Legacy Oil and Gas Inc. Then imagine a sculpture in steel pipe that starts at the store’s parking lot and soars over seven blocks of downtown Calgary to his 44th-floor picture window.
Instead of following a direct line the pipe wanders up, down, left and right at random, he adds.
Gordon Jaremko – Calgary Herald – May 13, 2014.
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