The CINDE Hamilton location is open for NDT training, workshops, and exams. CINDE will be following health and safety procedures as provided by the Ontario Government and Mohawk College. Please note that the procedures may cause delays in your travel within the campus and during the registration process – please plan accordingly. We will be monitoring the ongoing situation and will provide updates on the CINDE website.
 

2) After passing the Mohawk College Security checkpoint, continue to the CINDE designated waiting area (Main Administration Office E006A) in the hallway.
3) You will be required to have your temperature taken via a non-contact thermometer as well as signing a waiver (health declaration) at the main office before entering the office/class.
4) We will be registering one (1) student at a time in the administration area. Students will then be directed to the Exit and sent to their training/exam room.  Regular social distancing rules and hygiene will be required (hand sanitizer available in each classroom, exam room, and administration area).
 

Additional precautions that CINDE is taking to increase health and safety of staff, students, and community:

    hand sanitizer will be used to decrease the probability of transmission.
3) Hand sanitizer will be provided at all classroom doors so that students can practice increased hand sanitizing.
4) All surfaces will be disinfected and then also sprayed with Clorox electrostatic disinfectant spray.
5) We will continue to limit the number of staff working at the facility to limit the possibility of exposure to students and staff.
 

 

 

 

It is with sadness that the news of the passing of Norman Grieves Harding has been received.  A passionate stalwart of NDT, not only in Canada but throughout the International NDT community, where Norman wore many hats. 

 

Norman .was a founding Director with INTEG (International NDT Training & Education Group); PT & MT Instructor with CSNDT Foundation; founding Managing Director of Brent Canada; past President of CSNDT; past Executive Director of CSNDT;  past publisher and Editor of the CSNDT Journal (1982-1990).

 

His passion for training and education was demonstrated by being a member of the CGSB NDT Certification Committee (1968-1999); Canadian Delegate to the ISO Committee for the Cerification of NDT Personnel that created the International Standard (1983-1999); Consultant to International  Atomic Agency Vienna (1984-1998); President of Namron Associates and Surface Methods Inc.

 

An accomplished singer and actor, Norman tread the boards on stage, radio and TV with his many evenings at Mystery Dinner Shows being a favourite The recent success of his beloved "Wolves" (Wolverhamton Wanderers) returning to the the English Premier Leaque provided great joy.

 

Norman is survived by his five children, 10 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

 

RIP Norm.

Cenovus Energy Inc. agreed to buy Husky Energy Inc. in a C$3.8 billion ($2.9 billion) all-stock deal that will combine two of the largest players in Canada’s beleaguered oil-sands industry, which is struggling after the slump in crude prices.
 

The transaction will create the country’s third-largest oil and natural gas producer and lead to C$1.2 billion in savings, the companies said Sunday in a statement. Following the completion of the deal, Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing and CK Hutchison Holdings, the conglomerate he founded and Husky’s biggest shareholder, will together own about 27% of Cenovus.
 

Like most of their industry peers, Cenovus and Husky are currently losing money following the crash in oil demand due to the pandemic. But even before the devastating impact of Covid-19, the Alberta oil sands had already lost their luster due to a chronic lack of pipeline capacity to export crude. That has forced producers there to accept hefty price discounts.
 

The oil sands also face increased environmental scrutiny arising from their carbon intensity, which makes the deposits more polluting to exploit than conventional reserves or shale. International oil majors including Norway’s Equinor ASA, France’s Total SA and Houston-based ConocoPhillips have either left or reduced their presence in Canada in recent years.
 

Cenovus’s purchase of Conoco’s oil sands assets in 2017 left the Calgary-based company with heavy debts, magnifying its exposure to tumbling Canadian heavy oil prices. Its shares have fallen 72% since the deal was announced and 75% over five years. Husky’s shares are down 85% over five years. Husky jumped as much as 17% in early trading Monday, and was at C$3.40 at 9:46 a.m. local time. Cenvous slumped 14% to C$4.21.
 

That terms of the takeover, excluding the share warrants offered by Cenovus, represent a 21% deal premium. That’s an “excessive” level, although the deal makes strategic sense, said Credit Suisse Group AG analyst Manav Gupta, who downgraded Cenovus to neutral from outperform.
 

For Husky, “the combined portfolio offers exposure to a premier oil sands asset base and a clearer path towards deleveraging and accelerating shareholder returns,” analysts at Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. said in a note.
 

Buying Husky will boost Cenovus’s production to about 750,000 barrels a day of oil equivalent from about 475,000 now. But perhaps more importantly, it will gain substantial downstream assets, namely additional refinery and pipeline capacity.
 

‘More Resilient’

The merged company will be cash-flow positive “right out the gate,” Cenovus Chief Executive Officer Alex Pourbaix said in an interview. According to the statement announcing the deal, the company will break-even at $36 a barrel for WTI crude. That’s seen falling to $33 by 2023. WTI closed Friday at $39.85. “The combined entity is far more resilient,” Husky CEO Robert Peabody said in the interview. “We will deleverage faster.”
 

Cenovus, which is rated Ba2 by Moody’s Investors Service, aims to be an investment-grade borrower, executives said during a call with analysts Sunday. The company said the deal will help it create an “accelerated path” to cutting debt to less than two times earnings within 24 months.
 

“Nobody should be surprised if non-core assets are sold,” Pourbaix said in the interview. Husky’s retail business, which includes gas stations and travel centers across most of Canada, is a division “we will take a look at.” Cenovus and Husky started their “on-and-off again” merger discussions during the pandemic, with a more concentrated effort to reach an agreement over the last couple of months, Pourbaix said.
 

The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2021, after which Cenovus will have about C$12 billion in net debt and C$8.5 billion in committed credit facilities from a broad banking syndicate.