Movers & Shakers
LATITUDE
A LIFE WELL-LIVED Life Member Thomas Morimoto, P.Eng., has lived through some of the most influential timess of the last century. Pictured as a goalie with a hockey team in the Northwest Territories and, at right, with his wife Kim. -photos courtesy University of Alberta
part of a joint venture with the Dubai government. The resulting Dugas Project aimed to profit from the natural gas flared from Dubai’s oilfields. Mr. Morimoto started as a consultant overseeing the design of the Dugas plant, but soon moved up to Vice-President of Scimitar, where he was responsible for the plant’s engineering and operations. As production in the oilfields soared, Dugas produced 30,000 barrels a day of propane and butane and 150 million standard cubic feet of dry gas. The Dugas Project and Scimitar Oils were an international success. Mr. Morimoto retired from Scimitar in 1987. He wrote a memoir chronicling
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