Keating a key player in province’s energy history

For more than 20 years Newfoundland & Labrador’s offshore oil industry has been the economic engine of Atlantic Canada.

If you want to know where it all began, look no further than Jim Keating.

In 1993 Keating was known as employee number 001 on ExxonMobil’s massive Hibernia offshore oil project.

Back then the trees had not even been cut to make way for the Bull Arm fabrication yard and no one knew how significant Hibernia would be for the Canadian “have not” province.

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