As the oil and gas industry struggles to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and those of its suppliers, Microsoft Corp. offers a glimpse of the progress companies in the tech sector are making on climate.
May 5, 2022, 8:10 AM MDT
Validere has completed its acquisition of Clairifi Inc.
May 5, 2022, 8:18 AM MDT
Swirltex Inc. has been awarded a project to supply its proprietary Buoyancy Enhanced Membrane Filtration technology for produced water treatment with ARC Resources Ltd.
April 6, 2022, 10:07 AM MDT
Canada’s largest oilsands producers may be on side with the federal government’s 2050 net-zero greenhouse gas emissions target, but member companies of the Oil Sands Pathways to Net Zero initiative say the starting point of 2025 is too soon to start bending the emissions curve.
November 24, 2021, 1:40 PM MST
As major players within the energy sector have claimed to start the official shift towards green and responsible energy production, many debates have begun surrounding clean-up, reliable extraction, sustainability and ESG (environmental, social, governance) strategies. Significantly, the discussion continues on the cost efficiency of environmental project management during each phase and the tools required to preserve nature and perform reclamation/remediation procedures.
October 20, 2021, 7:58 AM MDT
Trican Well Service Ltd. anticipates 11 Tier-2 diesel-powered fracturing pumps, refurbished with Tier-4 dual-fuel engines (and equipped with automated idle reduction technology), will be available for operations in the fourth quarter.
October 20, 2021, 11 AM MDT
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) remained an important topic for multiple oilfield services companies in their recent Q1 2021 results and conference calls.
May 31, 2021, 12 AM MDT
May 19, 2021, 7:50 AM MDT
Trican Well Service Ltd. introduced during Q1 2021 the first fracturing pumper in Canada with a CAT Tier-4 dynamic gas blending (DBG) engine, which displaces up to 85 per cent of diesel used in a conventional pumper with clean-burning natural gas, which reduces carbon dioxide and particulate matter emissions.
May 17, 2021, 6:26 AM MDT
May 17, 2021, 8:55 AM MDT
Climate policy action abroad could reduce global demand for fossil fuels and, by extension, prices. And because all of these drivers are fully outside of Canada’s control, Canada’s oil and gas sector could face significant challenges independent of any domestic choices, according to a recent report.
May 5, 2021, 6 AM MDT
Imperial Oil Limited president and CEO Brad Corson says he supports an economy-wide carbon tax, and the fact that the company has long operated in jurisdictions with carbon pricing positions it well to respond to the increased environmental, social and governance (ESG)-focus of investors and governments.
May 3, 2021, 12 AM MDT
Attendees at a recent virtual workshop focused on how the resource sector can collaborate to meet current and future generations’ expectations for environmental sustainability identified numerous opportunities and technologies that can help meet the ESG challenge while improving corporate performance.
April 29, 2021, 7:58 AM MDT
Despite having been founded just a little over a decade ago, Tourmaline Oil Corp. has become Canada’s largest natural gas producer, while growing from a few million dollars in annual revenue to $2.17 billion. And the fast-growing company has also taken a lead in developing technologies that will dramatically reduce its environmental footprint.
April 26, 2021, 6:53 AM MDT
Certarus Ltd. and Caterpillar Inc. have entered a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore opportunities to leverage each parties' strengths to bring lower carbon energy solutions to their combined customer base.
April 26, 2021, 1:26 PM MDT
Calgary-based Carbon Upcycling Technologies, which has pioneered technologies aimed at reducing the carbon footprint of industrial processes such as concrete production, is now branching out to become a kind of nascent Amazon online marketplace for the sale of consumer product such as crayons, soap and wristwatches that contain sequestered CO2.
April 23, 2021, 4:35 AM MDT
The Quest carbon capture and storage project built near Edmonton, with almost $900 million in government subsidies, permanently sequesters just over a million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually.
April 23, 2021, 10:53 AM MDT
Methane leak detection is a key issue for the oil and gas sector as it tries to reduce emissions, and mounting high-tech equipment on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is one way proponents see as providing faster and more accurate leak detection than has been available previously.
April 22, 2021, 12 AM MDT
The federal government’s budget tabled on Monday afternoon proposes to introduce an investment tax credit for capital invested in carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) projects with the goal of reducing emissions by at least 15 megatonnes of CO2 annually.
April 19, 2021, 3:10 PM MDT
XPRIZE announced that CarbonCure Technologies and CarbonBuilt have won the $20 million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE, a prize that set out to convert CO2 emissions into valuable products.
April 19, 2021, 6 AM MDT
As commercial SAGD production enters its 20th year of production in northern Alberta, solvents are emerging as the next commercial advance to tackle the sector’s high emissions intensity bitumen production while cutting costs.
April 15, 2021, 12 AM MDT
Suncor Energy Inc. is well on its way to fully automating its 150-vehicle heavy hauler fleet in what will be the biggest investment in the autonomous trucks the world, while advancing its end pit lake mine tailings containment solution, said Jon Mitchell, vice-president, sustainability.
April 15, 2021, 12 AM MDT
The federal government announced a $500,000 investment in the development of Hydrostor Inc.’s Advanced Compressed Air Energy Storage (A-CAES) technology, a scalable and emissions-free long duration energy storage solution.
April 15, 2021, 8:17 AM MDT
The Canadian Gas Association (CGA) has appointed John Adams as the president and chief executive officer of its recently launched NGIF Capital Corporation, and managing partner of the new investment fund, NGIF Cleantech Ventures.
April 13, 2021, 9:08 AM MDT
Calgary-based Nauticol Energy Ltd. is targeting a 2025 start-up date for its US$3 billion net-zero blue methanol project just south of Grande Prairie to meet a growing global demand in energy applications, says its chief executive.
April 12, 2021, 6 AM MDT
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