NuVista Energy Ltd. has shut down a pipeline after it leaked an estimated 500 cubic metres of produced saltwater in northwest Alberta.
September 13, 2019, 8:27 AM MDT
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Suncor Energy Inc. is going ahead with a major capital project at its oilsands Base Plant that is expected to increase profits while reducing environmental impacts.
September 9, 2019, 8:04 PM MDT
Produced water poses a growing risk for production growth in the Permian Basin that it does not to the same degree in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, at least according to Wood Mackenzie Ltd. analysts.
September 6, 2019, 12 AM MDT
Water management is the “next big challenge” for oil and gas producers, and a need for tailored solutions is driving innovation across the energy sector, says Questor Technology Inc.’s top executive.
September 5, 2019, 12 AM MDT
Pipelines are the future of water management in Canada’s upstream oil and gas sector, say companies providing these services, as the volumes required in contemporary operations simply makes trucking impractical.
September 4, 2019, 12 AM MDT
For NuVista Energy Ltd., water management was always important. However, says top brass, when the Montney producer’s Wapiti-area operations first kicked off, the company did not necessarily want to invest $20-$30 million into its own water infrastructure before crews drilled enough wells to prove up the play. Solution: Oilfield services.
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Bonterra Energy Corp. has recovered the bulk of the oil released after a pipeline was severed after flooding caused a creek bank to collapse southwest of Drayton Valley on Aug. 15.
August 22, 2019, 10:52 AM MDT
The Alberta government has announced plans for a “common sense made-in-Alberta” approach to protecting the province’s woodland caribou populations, says Alberta Environment and Parks Minister Jason Nixon.
August 19, 2019, 7:57 AM MDT
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A cleaner version of a valve used to control oil flow rate, pressure and temperature at oil and gas sites may soon be hitting the Canadian market.
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Oil and gas companies in the province kept up water recycling efforts across industry sectors in 2018 in order to reduce their need for freshwater, says a newly-released Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) report.
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The federal government is seeking public input until Aug. 30, 2019 on a draft strategic assessment of climate change.
August 13, 2019, 12 AM MDT
Yangarra Resources Ltd. says it expects to drill five to six wells and complete four to five wells during the third quarter of 2019.
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Teck Resources Limited’s proposed Frontier oilsands mine and processing plant north of Fort McMurray is in the public interest due to its economic benefits despite the fact it likely will result in significant adverse environmental effects, a Joint Review Panel has found.
July 26, 2019, 6:53 AM MDT
Teck Resources Limited is planning to reclaim the Frontier oilsands project footprint to equivalent land capability and relies on reclamation as the key mitigation measure for various environmental effects, said the Joint Review Panel report on the project released on Thursday.
July 26, 2019, 7:06 AM MDT