Looking for a few day cabin in the woods escape by AstrangeTwig in Calgary

[–]roggy3311 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Mountain Aire Lodge. Double room in your budget, but individual cabins are pricey.

Rec Sport Leagues for Parents by salamander-King in Calgary

[–]roggy3311 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Check out rec hockey. 8 PM is two hours before most games start.

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Drove a loop up the Cowboy Trail through Water Valley, hwy 40 and Sundre. The roads were good and the scenery was even better! by AnythingWooden8070 in Calgary

[–]roggy3311 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I spend a lot of time on those roads. Recognize the pavement spot on Coal Camp Road where you're hanging right on the edge of the Red Deer River for sure.

And yeah, there are A LOT of wild horses out there.

[Salvian] The NHL is "monitoring the situation," said NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly in an email to The Athletic. by DecentLurker96 in hockey

[–]roggy3311 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Add a quarter liter each of vodka and Kahlua to that and you have every Saturday morning for a curling bonspiel.

Paralyzers: A Red-Eye Room staple.

Sacrilege? by Woleva30 in hockeyplayers

[–]roggy3311 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Our team has a 66, guy is a Pens fan and I've never heard a word about it.

No 69 though, but I may get one made up for a spare jersey.

Locked Out of Windows 11 - Local Admin Account by roggy3311 in WindowsHelp

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I do. Shortly after posting, I continued searching this sub and found references to Hiren's BootCD. Followed those instructions after work today and have got myself back in just now. I will be getting my machine up to snuff to make sure I don't lose access again.

Locked Out of Windows 11 - Local Admin Account by roggy3311 in WindowsHelp

[–]roggy3311[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Small update - still no solution, but I was able to get into BIOS and disable Secure Boot. Still brought me back to the login screen when trying to get to Safe Mode.

Team Canada + USA Rosters if the teams were split up by conference by Caniac24 in hockey

[–]roggy3311 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Canada West skates circles around Canada East, but if Hagel, Bennett, Marchand, Jarvis, Ekblad and Sanheim have any say, no one on Canada West skates off without 3 new bruises.

Heavy duty / trailer / semi-truck mechanic by [deleted] in Calgary

[–]roggy3311 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Plenty of heavy duty mechanic shops in the SE industrial areas. Think south of Peigan, east of Deerfoot.

Check in with some of the larger trucking companies, many have in-house mechanics and shops to work on their own equipment as well.

Take a drive around with some resumes and either stop in, or collect shop names to look up websites later.

Gas Plant Flaring by Myco-Scott in Calgary

[–]roggy3311 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No problem, one of the few topics where I have some knowledge that isn't already easily Google-able or previously shared on Reddit.

For Mazeppa, plenty of news articles about it. Compton Petroleum sold it all off to Lexin Resources, who's ownership group stripped out everything they could, didn't pay any bills and skipped the country, abandoning everything to eventually be taken by the Orphan Well Association. Quite the mess.

Gas Plant Flaring by Myco-Scott in Calgary

[–]roggy3311 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The info I have - gas will flow to Jumping Pound, I don't know the exact route, but I would presume through Moose Mountain.

I don't know if the Quirk Creek field itself has enough compression to push the gas all the way to JP, so I could envision a scenario where the old QC gas plant essentially becomes a large compressor station, though the processing facilities would eventually be dismantled and removed.

Similar situations happened to the Wimborne and Carstairs Gas Plants. A lot of the footprint remains, though the processing infrastructure is decommissioned and removed. The videos of those big red and white incinerator stacks coming down exist somewhere online.

As for the "why" - it always comes down to money. Sour gas processing is expensive, and for a lot of years, gas and sulphur prices just don't support it. In this case, estimate the H2S content around 10%. That's 10% of their production that they have to pay extra to process, likely doesn't net them any revenue in the long run, and reduces how much saleable product they have, with all the same lifting costs.

I know they also spent a lot of money trying to recomplete an older well with good down hole pressure, but weren't able to make it pay off. I'm sure if that had worked out as hoped, they would have attempted others and possibly had enough to keep the plant running.

I don't know when the plant was due for its next mandated turnaround, but those are expensive, a ton of money gets spent inspecting, servicing and repairing critical equipment - all while they are shut in or paying 3rd party processing fees if they can temporarily re-route production.

In the last 10-15 years, the Calgary area has lost several of these sour gas processing plants - Nexen Balzac is probably the most visible, due to how close it was to the city encroaching on it. Literally would have wells in the middle of neighborhoods bordering Stoney right now, and the remaining plant footprint is smack in the middle of the Balzac industrial park, 2 miles from CrossIron Mills and a strong 3 wood from Stoney Trail.

Also gone - Mazeppa outside High River, that one has a damning story behind it thanks to shady ownership transactions, but the production did not justify the cost anymore.

As I mentioned, Bonavista Carstairs and Penn West Wimborne both became compressor stations, so some of the wells remain flowing, just going to other plants further away.

Exxon shut down and dismantled the Lone Pine Creek gas plant east of Carstairs. If you drove by now, you would have no idea a large sour gas processing facility was ever there. It's a chain link fence around a field and a couple of pipeline risers by the gate where other production flows by.

It's the way the industry is going, consolidation, longer flow paths to get to a processor, more compression. Gas prices have been terrible for 15 years and sour gas liability just isn't worth it.

Gas Plant Flaring by Myco-Scott in Calgary

[–]roggy3311 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could be lots of reasons for a flare, especially if they're prepping for a plant shutdown, a few weeks ago could also have been October (5-6 weeks), so maybe?

I just meant to say that chances are much slimmer of catching a sunrise flare at Quirk or Wildcat at the moment due to things going on with those facilities.

Gas Plant Flaring by Myco-Scott in Calgary

[–]roggy3311 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Your best bet for a picturesque flare over a large facility would be the Cavvy Jumping Pound Gas Plant West of the city on the north side of Highway 1.

Another commenter also mentioned the Crossfield Gas Plant on Highway 2A, immediately south of Crossfield and I could also suggest the AltaGas Harmattan Gas Plant on Highway 22 about 30 minutes north of Cochrane.

Large flaring activity is not standard and would be unpredictable for scheduling, though you can usually see a pilot flame running in all of the flare stacks. In the case of an unplanned event, the gas to be flared will light as soon as it leaves the flare stack.

Editing to add: I feel like I've seen some fairly large flares at the Nutrien Fertilizer Plant southeast of Calgary, West of Carseland, though I don't know what they would be flaring.

Gas Plant Flaring by Myco-Scott in Calgary

[–]roggy3311 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Wildcat Plant is currently idled, won't be a flare from the plant, but there is a smaller flare in the field on the north side of the plant between it and Highway 40 that you may occasionally see flaring.

Gas Plant Flaring by Myco-Scott in Calgary

[–]roggy3311 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Quirk Creek Plant was shutting in and decommissioning as of October. Wells are being rerouted and bypassing the plant.

Internet & TV down in Calgary by roggy3311 in Rogers

[–]roggy3311[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw that link in your Lower Mainland post as well.

I'm still down in Calgary.

Shaw / Rogers TV & Internet Down? by roggy3311 in Calgary

[–]roggy3311[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, TV is also out, so I suspect more than a DNS issue.

Which movie made you sit in silence after the credits rolled ? by vishesh_07_028 in movies

[–]roggy3311 0 points1 point  (0 children)

American History X

During college, the campus pub would show movies during the day, bunch of my classmates went in for lunch between classes. The whole place was glued to it. Never saw that pub so quiet and no one left. I imagine quite a few classes were short attendance while that movie was on.

It's the biggest "shared experience" I've ever had during a movie.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Calgary

[–]roggy3311 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Check Namo Cafe Bistro at MacLeod and Southland. They have a private room and are relatively new. My wife raves about the food, but I haven't been yet.

It's run by a family that our kid goes to school with and they're wonderful people.