Alberta
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June 2015
UK, Alberta elections generate very different results
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June 09, 2015
Compact Compression Inc. is announcing the commercial roll out of the Hydraulic Casing Gas (HCG) line of Solution Gas compressors.
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June 05, 2015
Cenovus Energy Inc. has agreed to purchase Canexus Corporation's North American Terminal Operations (NATO), a crude-by-rail trans-loading facility, for $75 million, subject to adjustments.
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June 04, 2015
An Alberta wildfire that shut 10% of Canada’s oil sands production won’t be contained for three days as Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. ramped up production at its Kirby South site.
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June 02, 2015
Companies in Alberta prepared to return to work as rain eased a wildfire that prompted the shutdown of 10% of Canada’s oil sands production.
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June 01, 2015
ConocoPhillips achieved a significant milestone at its Surmont oil sands project in Canada with the on-schedule start of first steam at phase 2 on May 29.
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May 28, 2015
Northern Alberta firefighters are battling a wildfire that has moved within 5 km of Cenovus Energy Inc’s oil sands operations.
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May 27, 2015
Cenovus Energy Inc. has announced that four Cenovus executives have made the decision to retire. Their transitions off the executive team will begin at different times over the course of 2015.
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May 27, 2015
Wildfires in northern Alberta kept about 10% of Canada’s oil sands production offline for a third day as Bank of America Corp. warned the blazes may slow the economy.
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May 22, 2015
With a global oversupply of crude and ever-changing price environment, the crude oil supply chain between the U.S. and Canada has reacted quickly to rebalance supply and demand by moving U.S. crude north to the Canadian East coast, adding new infrastructure to de-bottleneck oil sand storage hubs, and conducting maintenance at Canadian oil sands production facilities, according to Genscape analysis.
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May 22, 2015
Husky Energy has started commercial steam operations at the 10,000 bpd provider, Rush Lake heavy oil thermal project in Saskatchewan, approximately eight weeks ahead of schedule.
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May 21, 2015
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. cut its forecast for moving crude by rail for a second time in four months because of production delays and lower demand for the commodity.
This year’s total will probably be 100,000 to 140,000 carloads, Chief Operating Officer Keith Creel said Wednesday. Canadian Pacific had forecast 140,000 in January, a reduction from its original outlook of 200,000.
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May 21, 2015
Canada’s oil sands industry faces an equal risk from its reputation as an environmental laggard, as from high operating costs, industry observers said.
The failure to win approval for pipelines like TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL and Enbridge Inc.’s Northern Gateway is tied to concerns about carbon emissions with oil production, Ed Whittingham, executive director of the Pembina Institute, said at the Bloomberg Economic Series Canada summit in Toronto. “The oil sands feeds into concern about the climate,” he said. “The primary driving concern is climate.”
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May 15, 2015
An indication that crude’s recent rally has further to run can be found in the northern forests of Alberta, where companies are paying the most in eight years to lease land for oil sands development.
Article
May 2015
Perhaps the most significant, extensive changes in crude-by-rail transportation were made on May 1, 2015, by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and its agencies, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA). The changes are contained in a “final rule” for “the safe transportation of flammable liquids by rail.”
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May 2015
The Class 1 railroads are back in the U.S. crude oil business. Now, the hard part.
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May 05, 2015
Heavy Western Canadian Select crude’s discount to West Texas Intermediate shrank to the least since 2012 as a new pipeline started and production sites were shut for maintenance.
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April 13, 2015
The Volant Group of Companies has announced the DeltaTORQ Ring (DTR), which was developed to provide additional torsion capacity in casing and tubing connections for the upstream market.
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March 13, 2015
Tourmaline Oil has entered into a transaction to acquire Perpetual Energy's interests in the West Edson area of the Alberta Deep basin. The interests include Perpetual's land interests, production, reserves and facilities that are currently joint with Tourmaline.
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March 13, 2015
Nexen Petroleum, a subsidiary of CNOOC, has announced that Buzzard field has passed a significant landmark by producing its 500 millionth barrel of oil.
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March 12, 2015
CALGARY, Canada -- Husky Energy has started oil production at the Sunrise Energy Project in northern Alberta.
