Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Mexico’s state-owned oil and gas company, is moving rapidly into a digital world, as it faces growing competition, as a result of the end of its monopoly, as well as the need to adjust to the advent of electric vehicles (EVs).
February 28, 2018, 9:58 AM MST
Partially upgrading bitumen to a medium or heavy crude could “dramatically increase” the number of refineries that could take Alberta crude, says a report released on Monday.
February 27, 2018, 3:19 AM MST
The Alberta government “has definitely listened to the concerns from industry on how to develop the right framework for encouraging value-add, particularly partial upgrading,” says an official with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP).
February 27, 2018, 3:52 AM MST
The Alberta government should transform its Invest Alberta agency into a “world-class organization that has the capacity to secure multibillion-dollar projects when competing with the best investment agencies in the world,” says a report by the province’s Energy Diversification Advisory Committee (EDAC).
February 27, 2018, 4 AM MST
Questor Technology Inc. plans to spend $10 million in 2018 which will be used primarily to expand its U.S. operations.
February 27, 2018, 6:58 AM MST
There are some five million sensors collecting data on industrial equipment across Canada, with exponential growth in numbers expected as the Industrial Internet of Things takes hold.
February 26, 2018, 6 AM MST
February 23, 2018, 10:14 AM MST
Intelligent Wellhead Systems is receiving $1.1 million towards a clean technology innovation that will enhance environmental and safety measures in oil and gas recovery.
February 22, 2018, 10:44 AM MST
GuildOne Inc. has marked what it believes is a world first in the execution of a royalty smart contract using the company’s new Royalty Ledger blockchain application.
February 20, 2018, 6 AM MST
The increase of automation on the drilling rig does not replace the need for highly-skilled, competent rig operators, says Kevin Neveu. In fact, it increases the skill sets required to be an effective driller.
February 16, 2018, 3:11 AM MST
Ensign Energy Services Inc. says that on Jan. 9, 2018, it successfully drilled Canada's longest land-based well, to-date, with a measured depth of 7,770 metres.
February 16, 2018, 10:18 AM MST
The purpose of Birchcliff Energy Ltd.’s science and technology multi-well pad program is to collect high quality and high value data from the vertical well and the straddling horizontal wells, which can be used to enhance its technical capabilities and understanding with respect to the drilling, completion and production from a multi-layer resource play.
February 15, 2018, 6:41 AM MST
In September 1948, a Union Oil Company employee named Harold Ritchey applied for a patent for his method of using microwaves to heat an oil reservoir to enhance production. Eight years later he got the patent.
February 7, 2018, 6 AM MST
As Canada, and many other countries in often inhospitable northerly climates, move to grow wind power generation on an industrial scale, a new problem has emerged: wintertime icing of windmill blades is sapping a considerable level of output—while causing a safety hazard.
February 7, 2018, 8:44 AM MST
Calling all energy entrepreneurs.
February 7, 2018, 8 AM MST
National Oilwell Varco, Inc. (NOV) announces the successful completion of four Bulldog annular frac system installations in Western Canada.
February 7, 2018, 8:33 AM MST
When Seven Generations Energy Ltd. performed analytics on some of its security data a few years ago, a disturbing pattern emerged.
February 6, 2018, 8:35 AM MST
Fractal Systems Inc. has successfully completed the large-scale demonstration of its Enhanced JetShear technology with a major oilsands producer proving its ability to dramatically lower the viscosity of bitumen, improve netbacks, increase bitumen volumes shipped in existing pipelines and improve overall greenhouse gas performance.
February 6, 2018, 9:16 AM MST
February 6, 2018, 9:56 AM MST
Converting semisolid bitumen to refinery-ready light crude has always been called “upgrading,” but the co-inventor of a different approach says traditional upgrading should be called “downgrading.”
February 5, 2018, 6 AM MST
Fort McMurray area upgraders that convert semisolid bitumen into refinery-ready crude oil produce large volumes of petroleum coke — also called petcoke — a waste product that can’t be converted to transportation fuel.
February 5, 2018, 6 AM MST
While the oilsands industry has moved away from building elaborate upgraders that produce light crude oil but duplicate many of the functions of refineries, several producers are evaluating “partial” upgrading processes.
February 5, 2018, 6 AM MST
Over $100,000 in cash and in-kind prizes.
February 1, 2018, 9:40 AM MST
February 1, 2018, 4:58 AM MST
The University of Calgary has launched its Centre for Smart Emissions Sensing Technologies (SENST).
February 1, 2018, 8:43 AM MST
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