White Whale Analytics Ltd.’s latest machine-learning technology, DeepSea, centres around well production analysis that can accurately forecast estimated ultimate recovery of more than 10,000 wells in under three minutes.
April 20, 2021, 6:42 AM MDT
White Whale Analytics Ltd.’s latest machine-learning technology, DeepSea, centres around well production analysis that can accurately forecast estimated ultimate recovery of more than 10,000 wells in under three minutes.
April 19, 2021, 6:29 AM MDT
Small modular reactors (SMRs) still have a ways to go to reach the technology readiness stage for oilsands usage, says Allan Fogwill, president and chief executive officer of the Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI).
April 16, 2021, 12 AM MDT
Canadians’ appetite for climate action is holding steady, at about half of those polled, according to newly-released results of a Positive Energy survey conducted earlier this year, with many Canadians feeling greater urgency to act now than they did in the early months of the pandemic.
April 15, 2021, 8:14 AM MDT
LNG Canada should bring significant, long-term positive benefits to the oil and gas industry, including the obvious egress solution for western Canadian natural gas producers, says James Harbilas, executive vice-president and chief financial officer, AltaGas Ltd.
April 14, 2021, 12 AM MDT
Funding for the newly-launched Edmonton Region Hydrogen HUB helps ensure stakeholders develop the optimal value chain to support a hydrogen sector in Western Canada, say proponents, with additional investments still required for actually creating that value chain and seeing hydrogen projects come to fruition.
April 14, 2021, 3:10 PM MDT
The entire industry has been disciplined throughout COVID-19, and coming out of the pandemic it appears the smaller producers are starting to increase drilling, with more volumes coming off Pembina Pipeline Corporation’s system, says president and chief executive officer Mick Dilger.
April 13, 2021, 6:53 AM MDT
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance targets are not merely aspirational for Enbridge Inc.
April 9, 2021, 8:18 AM MDT
Canadian Natural Resources Limited, which met its short-term greenhouse-gas (GHG) reduction targets in the last year, is going beyond oilsands and conventional emissions reductions, and will conduct a corporate inventory, in line with what investors want, in order to come up with corporate targets sometime in the second quarter.
April 9, 2021, 8:21 AM MDT
A material increase in counterparty credit exposure is one benefit for midstream companies from consolidation in the upstream oil and gas space, says James Harbilas, executive vice-president and chief financial officer, AltaGas Ltd.
April 8, 2021, 6:23 AM MDT
Can employers mandate COVID-19 vaccinations upon the workforce? It is a question for which some clients have sought legal advice from Mathews, Dinsdale & Clark LLP, although no clients in the energy sector or elsewhere have yet tried to implement such mandatory policies, says Loretta Bouwmeester, Calgary-based partner for the law firm.
April 7, 2021, 12 AM MDT
What is best for environmentally-concerned shareholders is not necessarily for Canadian oil and gas companies to transition towards renewables, but rather for them to reduce their emissions while responsibly producing hydrocarbons, heard this week’s 2021 Scotiabank-Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) Energy Symposium.
April 7, 2021, 6:41 AM MDT
As employers in the energy sector and elsewhere try to determine what policies and incentives they might use to get employees to voluntarily take the COVID-19 vaccines, co-ordinating workplace vaccination clinics may provide a possible opportunity, says Loretta Bouwmeester, partner at Mathews, Dinsdale & Clark LLP
April 6, 2021, 12 AM MDT
Egress remains a concern for western Canadian oil and gas producers, says Tim McKay, president, Canadian Natural Resources Limited, but there is also reason to be “cautiously optimistic” for future pipeline capacity.
April 6, 2021, 2:47 PM MDT
All Canadians who are able to do so have a moral obligation to receive a COVID-19 vaccine once they become readily available, says Charles Weijer, a bioethicist at Western University. That includes in the energy sector.
April 5, 2021, 12 AM MDT
The history of Canadian federalism suggests that bilateral agreements and unilateral action by individual provinces are the most common paths forward on energy and environment matters, says Duane Bratt, Positive Energy faculty affiliate and a Mount Royal University political science professor.
April 1, 2021, 7:30 AM MDT
While the technology sector might be “getting a lot of media attention these days,” the likelihood of a mass exit for oil and gas workers into tech seems unlikely at this point, says Breanne O’Reilly, program manager, PetroLMI.
March 30, 2021, 7:13 AM MDT
Premier Jason Kenney gave participants of last week’s Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors (CAODC) annual general meeting and virtual town hall “a little heads up to stay tuned for what will be very good news in the upcoming federal budget” for Alberta’s energy sector in terms of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS).
March 29, 2021, 9:29 AM MDT
Since the federal carbon tax has been deemed constitutional by Canada’s highest court, the Alberta government is weighing its options in terms of minimizing the costs on Albertans and the economy, says Premier Jason Kenney.
March 26, 2021, 2:39 PM MDT
Climate overlays every aspect of President Joe Biden’s administration, suggest two Canadian diplomats to the U.S., whether that be in dealing with issues such as energy, infrastructure, transportation, health, among others.
March 26, 2021, 9:57 AM MDT
A national vision for carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS): That is the first recommendation of a newly-released study.
March 25, 2021, 12 AM MDT
Among the main issues facing the energy sector and environmental movement is “very polarized media,” says Aaron Foyer, executive director of ENERGYminute, with one side only discussing the benefits of oil and gas, and the other only discussing the benefits of renewables, leading to an overall ill-informed general public.
March 25, 2021, 3:33 PM MDT
Carbon offset credits can promote natural climate solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while also serving as an economic opportunity for Indigenous communities, says former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney.
March 19, 2021, 7:25 AM MDT
Improving environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance has become material to the strategic-direction for many companies, but imposing externally-developed ESG criteria on investment standards that involve Indigenous lands and waters undermines Indigenous rights, traditional knowledge and cultural heritage, says a recent report.
March 19, 2021, 10:56 AM MDT
Over the next two years, the federal government is providing $2.6 million in funding for the First Nations Major Projects Coalition (FNMPC), as well as $1 million in funding for the First Nations Climate Initiative (FNCI).
March 18, 2021, 2:46 PM MDT
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