Last month, I talked about world energy supply and demand over the next few decades, and pointed out that all credible energy forecasts show humanity using more and more energy every year — and that fossil fuels will continue to dominate energy supply at least into the 2040’s (click here to review that article).
October 15, 2018, 6 AM MDT
Hallelujah! British Columbia finally caught itself an LNG export project. The first in a new global wave, and a nice big one at that.
October 10, 2018, 6 AM MDT
There has recently been an increase in the number of large corporate transactions (valued at greater than $5.0 million) in the Canadian oil and natural gas industry.
September 26, 2018, 7:53 AM MDT
The Trudeau government’s Bill C-69, currently undergoing second reading by the Senate, is one bad piece of regulatory legislation.
September 24, 2018, 7:23 AM MDT
The 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) sits on a razor’s edge — at least as we’ve known it as a trilateral trade agreement.
September 7, 2018, 8:34 AM MDT
Last week’s Federal Court of Appeal decision struck another blow to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. The court quashed Ottawa’s approval, finding that the government had not adequately consulted with Indigenous communities and had not sufficiently considered the marine impacts of increased tanker traffic.
September 6, 2018, 12 AM MDT
The Daily Oil Bulletin today has added to its columnist roster.
September 6, 2018, 6:59 AM MDT
How will society actually meet its energy needs in the coming decades?
September 4, 2018, 7:23 AM MDT
Blame me, kinda.
August 31, 2018, 6:01 AM MDT
The prominent Calgary-based energy analyst Peter Tertzakian was correct to raise Canadian oil security as a serious issue and recommend construction of a west-east pipeline to alleviate this threat in recent interviews.
August 27, 2018, 7:51 AM MDT
Kudos to the Trudeau government for standing up to Saudi Arabian blackmail. Thousands upon thousands of Canadians paid the ultimate price during the two world wars to protect democracy and human rights, and the least our generation can do is suffer minor economic inconvenience to stand up to the repressive Saudi regime.
August 9, 2018, 7:44 AM MDT
Unconventional hydrocarbon development — extracting oil and gas from low-permeability reservoirs — generally requires horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.
August 7, 2018, 6:28 AM MDT
“Natural gas is a bridge to a lower carbon future; demand will grow for decades to come” asserted the debater. Her opponent snapped back “natural gas is a bridge to nowhere. Low cost wind and solar power backed-up with batteries will replace natural gas sooner than anyone expects.”
August 1, 2018, 3:33 AM MDT
The rhetoric has been flying this week between U.S. President Donald Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Trump as much as threatened nuclear annihilation on the Islamic Republic in a caps filled Tweet in response to Rouhani telling a gathering of diplomats in Tehran that war with Iran would be “the mother of all wars.” The U.S. president chose to ignore the second part of the Iranian president’s sentence in which he added “… and peace with Iran is the mother of all peace.”
July 26, 2018, 7:44 AM MDT
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) released the 2018 edition of its Crude Oil Forecast, Markets and Transportation report last month. It is a very useful report in some ways, but unfortunately the crude forecasts in these reports have long suffered from myopia.
July 16, 2018, 7:58 AM MDT
Ten plus years ago, we heard about the “Shale Revolution” — the realization that horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing were changing the face of the oil industry, unleashing huge new supplies of gas and oil from low-permeability (shale and tight) reservoirs.
July 9, 2018, 6 AM MDT
There is a damned good reason international benchmark crude prices have been rocketing higher since so-called OPEC+ — the 14 OPEC members and 10 non-OPEC countries restricting crude production since the beginning of 2017 — agreed to raise output on June 22: a potential supply crunch late this year or early next year due to yet another misguided policy by U.S. President Donald Trump.
July 3, 2018, 9:04 AM MDT
There may be more prominent targets in U.S. President Donald Trump’s multi-front trade war, such as China and the European Union, but Canada and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have recently been the primary recipients of Trump administration vitriol.
June 25, 2018, 7 AM MDT
Analysis by CanOils sheds interesting new light on the overall appetite for capital investment among Canadian producers — in the era before and after the oil price downturn — with a subset of major oilsands operators continuing to restrain investment into major new projects due to weaker Canadian oil prices caused by a lack of market access.
June 15, 2018, 7:01 AM MDT
Whether it is limited pipeline infrastructure, price volatility or regulatory pressures, Canadian oil and gas companies continue to face a number of challenges that make it more difficult to operate in today’s environment.
June 1, 2018, 8:25 AM MDT
It was an interesting weekend.
April 24, 2018, 7:59 AM MDT
The CEO of Kinder Morgan Steve Kean said investment in the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion project (TMX) “may be untenable for a private party to undertake” during his company’s first quarter earnings call on April 18.
April 20, 2018, 10:18 AM MDT
After several months of consternation, Canadian light-heavy crude oil price spreads look like they have begun to more convincingly contract.
April 18, 2018, 6 AM MDT
It is a new narrative. Electrons generated from wind and solar are the cheapest available. Renewable energy is undergoing a remarkable fall in costs that will displace all other systems, including natural gas. The latter claim is too early to call.
April 18, 2018, 6:29 AM MDT
International benchmark crude prices played out basically as expected by Geopolitics Central (GPC) in the first quarter of the year, with a few interesting twists on the market fundamentals front and growing signs of ongoing Russia-OPEC co-operation encouraging us to maintain our current short-term outlook.
April 9, 2018, 6 AM MDT