NOVA Chemicals says that an investigation is underway into a fatality Wednesday at the construction site of its PE1 expansion project near Joffre.
April 28, 2016, 8:08 AM MDT
April 25, 2016, 10:33 AM MDT
Two critics of the energy reform process unfolding in Mexico say an explosion on Wednesday at a petrochemical plant in the state of Veracruz might be a sign of lax regulations affecting the petroleum sector in the country.
April 22, 2016, 9:24 AM MDT
April 21, 2016, 10:41 AM MDT
Pembina Pipeline Corporation is undertaking a feasibility study with the Petrochemical Industries Company K.S.C., (PICP) a subsidiary of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, for the evaluation of a world-scale combined propane dehydrogenation (PDH) and polypropylene (PP) upgrading facility in Alberta.
April 11, 2016, 8:34 AM MDT
Alberta’s petrochemical sector could see an increase in investment by Chinese companies with the recent signing of a new memorandum of understanding (MOU), says the chair of Alberta’s Industrial Heartland Association (AIHA).
April 8, 2016, 9:08 AM MDT
Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Williams has started up its second offgas liquids extraction plant in the Athabasca oilsands to extract natural gas liquids and olefins for its petrochemical business while reducing oilsands greenhouse gas emissions.
March 23, 2016, 12:01 PM MDT
Edmonton — Discussions of the importance of diversifying Alberta’s economy have grown increasingly urgent in the past year as the government struggles with dwindling oil and gas revenues.
March 17, 2016, 10:35 AM MDT
Leading industry, employer and labour association leaders have joined forces to create a new organization: the Resource Diversification Council (RDC) of Alberta.
March 16, 2016, 11:59 AM MDT
In the royalty framework report, the review panel recommended a number of opportunities for Alberta to promote diversification and create jobs and “we are taking action,” Alberta Energy Minister Margaret McCuaig-Boyd said in a keynote speech to the Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI) oil and gas symposium in Calgary.
March 16, 2016, 6 AM MDT
Given the prolonged downturn and continuing challenges the sector is facing, the Alberta government will “work closely with the province’s energy industry to ride out this storm and look for opportunities within it,” lieutenant governor Lois Mitchell pledged during the provincial government’s speech from the throne on Tuesday.
March 9, 2016, 8:24 AM MST
The Alberta economy currently may be in a “crappy situation” due to extended low oil prices, but the economic development and trade minister is counting on a tenacious and innovative private sector to find ways of diversifying the economy and expanding on a strong energy industry to ensure future prosperity — with support from the province.
February 26, 2016, 6 AM MST
February 2, 2016, 6 AM MST
The new Petrochemicals Diversification Program is part of the Alberta government’s “continued action on the economy,” the province announced this morning.
February 1, 2016, 11:45 AM MST
Edmonton — The conditions in Alberta’s capital region are right for a major petrochemical push, according to several speakers at an Alberta’s Industrial Heartland Association (AIHA) stakeholder event held last week in Edmonton.
January 26, 2016, 6:23 AM MST
December 11, 2015, 9:50 AM MST
“Underinvestment” by Mexico’s former monopoly integrated energy company has left large gaps in the country’s petrochemical sector, which could lead to billions of dollars in new investment in domestic plants to produce ethylene, propylene, benzene and other base chemicals, as well as fertilizer plants, says an expert on the global petrochemical industry.
December 2, 2015, 8:17 AM MST
Service companies are now faced with not only less work and customers asking them to reduce their prices, but the challenge of retaining the skilled labour they have paid premiums to hire and keep, a recent conference heard.
March 5, 2015, 8:54 AM MST
October 24, 2014, 12:04 PM MDT
October 14, 2014, 10:58 AM MDT
NOVA Chemicals Corporation says that the first barrels of ethane supplied from natural gas associated with oil production from Bakken shale are being used at its Joffre complex in Alberta.
June 13, 2014, 9 AM MDT
May 28, 2014, 8:40 AM MDT
Privately-held Mistral Energy has received exports of purity ethane in an inaugural shipment along its Vantage pipeline from the Williston Basin in North Dakota to connect with the Alberta Ethane Gathering System (AEGS) near Empress, says the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
May 6, 2014, 11:44 AM MDT
May 2, 2014, 10:04 AM MDT
(Reuters) -- Europe's petrochemical industry will face a competitive assault as U.S. rivals emerge with cheap feedstock from the shale gas boom. It can look to the refining industry now for a taste of what is to come.
December 5, 2013, 12 PM MST
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