Not so long ago, in situ oilsands production was little more than a dream in the eye of Alberta’s petroleum producers. Years of government and industry-funded research cracked that nut with the development of steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) that has created a multibillion-dollar industry paying dividends to both producers and governments for two decades.
April 1, 2020, 6 AM MDT
Oklahoma’s Anadarko Basin has been a challenging play, one that has sent some small explorers into bankruptcy and caused investment to flee. But by applying its extensive knowledge and experience to the basin’s Stack and Scoop fields, Ovintiv Inc. says it has now unlocked the acreage it acquired in the $5.5 billion acquisition of Newfield Exploration Co. in 2018.
January 30, 2020, 11:27 AM MST
When Extinction Rebellion protesters descended on streets and bridges outside the London offices of Volans Ventures consulting agency, the company’s co-founder and executive chairman, John Elkington, chose not to rage about the disruption and economic cost of the protests.
January 6, 2020, 8:47 AM MST
When two modest investment funds from the U.K. and the Netherlands took their climate change concerns to one of the world’s biggest oil companies last year, it would have been easy to view it as a David and Goliath mismatch — with the supermajor unlikely to take marching orders that would impact its worldwide operations from players with a tiny fraction of its shares.
December 23, 2019, 6 AM MST
With federal methane emissions reductions rules set to come into effect in January, oil and gas producing provinces seeking to apply their own equivalence regulations to supersede the federal ones have run out of time to avoid at least initial implementation of the federal rules.
December 16, 2019, 12 AM MST
Alberta's energy regulator is encouraging companies to innovate to further reduce the cost of emissions compliance.
December 16, 2019, 5:43 AM MST
By leveraging its abundant renewable energy resources and incentivizing production of the world’s lowest greenhouse gas-emitting liquefied natural gas (LNG), Canada can develop its LNG industry while meeting its climate goals, concludes a report examining the unique “green” advantages the country possesses.
November 27, 2019, 6 AM MST
By leveraging its abundant renewable energy resources and incentivizing production of the world’s lowest greenhouse gas-emitting liquefied natural gas (LNG), Canada can develop its LNG industry while meeting its climate goals, concludes a report examining the unique “green” advantages the country possesses.
November 26, 2019, 6 AM MST
By leveraging its abundant renewable energy resources and incentivizing production of the world’s lowest greenhouse gas-emitting liquefied natural gas (LNG), Canada can develop its LNG industry while meeting its climate goals, concludes a report examining the unique “green” advantages the country possesses.
November 25, 2019, 6:51 AM MST
By leveraging its abundant renewable energy resources and incentivizing production of the world’s lowest greenhouse gas-emitting liquefied natural gas (LNG), Canada can develop its LNG industry while meeting its climate goals, concludes a report examining the unique “green” advantages the country possesses.
November 22, 2019, 6 AM MST
By leveraging its abundant renewable energy resources and incentivizing production of the world’s lowest greenhouse gas-emitting liquefied natural gas (LNG), Canada can develop its LNG industry while meeting its climate goals, concludes a report examining the unique “green” advantages the country possesses.
November 21, 2019, 11:22 AM MST
Digital and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions mitigation technologies could be key to solving the challenge of reducing operational costs and implementing more efficient processes to improve overall company performance and safety given the current state of the market, according to Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada (PTAC).
October 28, 2019, 11 AM MDT
There has been a resurgence in interest in hydrogen as the clean fuel of the future, driven by rapidly falling costs of renewable energy and technology advances that are forecast to make “green” hydrogen production cost competitive with natural gas derived hydrogen in a decade.
October 10, 2019, 11:16 AM MDT
Anyone doubting the auto industry’s transition to electric vehicles (EVs) might want to digest the impact of the world’s biggest auto conglomerate doubling down on electrification of its entire fleet.
October 8, 2019, 12 AM MDT
The push to cut greenhouse gas emissions may be receiving a shot in the arm recently with growing student protests, Green New Deal awareness and promotion in the U.S., and United Nations sponsored scientific reports and high level meetings, such as those taking place in New York this week, seeking to address climate change.
September 25, 2019, 8:37 AM MDT
Alberta has every right to be proud of the innovation and entrepreneurial prowess that has created, in many ways, a world-leading oil and gas sector. But that success doesn’t give it the right to disregard environmental limits and carry on business as usual in an increasingly climate conscious world, says the founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
September 25, 2019, 7:19 AM MDT
Long-term energy industry growth lies in electricity supply and distribution as changing technology and climate concerns drive strategy to electrify everything, an energy analyst told a Calgary conference last week.
September 24, 2019, 12 AM MDT
A cryptocurrency mining company is offering long-suffering natural gas producers a potentially lucrative alternative to perennially low commodity prices — by setting up their own natural gas-fuelled Bitcoin mining operations.
July 22, 2019, 6:07 AM MDT
Having scrapped the carbon tax, the Alberta government is moving ahead to make changes to the large emitter regulations that will ease the burden for the oil and gas industry when it comes into force Jan. 1.
July 18, 2019, 11:11 AM MDT
Alberta may have the talent, high-level expertise and the data to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning (AIML) for the oilpatch, but the industry remains short on the leadership, commitment to invest and worker engagement across the enterprise to fully benefit from the digital transition, speakers to an Oil Sands Innovation Summit panel said recently.
July 2, 2019, 8 AM MDT
The oil and gas industry is an unrecognized leader in cleantech investment and on its way to producing some of the cleanest natural gas in the world, speakers to an innovation panel at the Global Petroleum Show said Wednesday.
June 13, 2019, 11:41 AM MDT
IHS Markit is forecasting 40 per cent production growth in light oil production in the next three to five years that will come not from the usual suspects — like the Montney, Duvernay and Spirit River — but from surprisingly profitable plays flying under the radar.
June 5, 2019, 6 AM MDT
Technological innovation and a national energy strategy could catalyze change for the oil and gas industry struggling to emerge from the deepest downturn in a generation, according to PwC Canada's 2019 Energy Visions report.
May 27, 2019, 12 AM MDT
After taking a back seat to the sensation of the shale gas and tight oil revolution, geopolitics appears ready to rise again as a major threat multiplier for the oil industry in an age of heightened nationalism, hyper partisanship, a breakdown in international norms and institutions, and a growing climate divide.
May 27, 2019, 12 AM MDT
Despite holding all the most important ingredients for a bourgeoning shale gas and tight oil sector — including the resources, the technology and the talent — Canada is missing the bus on the unconventional revolution sweeping across the U.S., a PwC Canada forum heard Wednesday.
May 23, 2019, 2:20 PM MDT