About the author

A Calgary-based author, editor and writer, Peter McKenzie-Brown has worked for several corporate clients and for industry and business publications. He has written many articles for energy-related magazines and was coordinator and an interviewer for the Petroleum History Society’s Oil Sands Oral History Project, which collected and transcribed 117 interviews with oil sands pioneers.

His most recent book is Bitumen: The people, performance and passions behind Alberta's oil sands, which is now available through Amazon (https://www.amazon.ca/Bitumen-people-performance-passions-Albertas/dp/1546452303/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500397126&sr). 

British by birth, he is American by upbringing and Canadian by choice. He began his writing career with the Reuters news agency in London, UK, in 1971. In Calgary he has worked for Gulf Oil Canada, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, and Amoco Canada.

His other books include Footprints: The Evolution of Land Conservation and Reclamation in Alberta (2016, with Robert Bott and Graham Chandler); Barbecues, Booms and Blogs: Fifty Years of Public Relations in Calgary (2008; co-editor and contributor); In Balance: An Account of Alberta’s CA Profession (2000, with Stacy Phillips); The Richness of Discovery: Amoco’s First Fifty Years in Canada (1998); and The Great Oil Age: The Petroleum Industry in Canada (1993, with Gordon Jaremko and David Finch.)

Prior to serving as a coordinator and interviewer for the Petroleum History Society’s Oil Sands Oral History Project, he was a recipient of that society’s Lifetime Achievement award. In 2011 he was one of several recipients of the society’s Article of the Year award for a series on the oil sands, published in the Oilsands Review.

He has completed the Ironman Triathlon eleven times – twice in Hawaii, the other times in Penticton, B.C.