A heavy-oil industry that can compete with conventional extraction — that’s the goal of a new industrial research chair established in partnership between industry and one of the world’s most respected heavy-oil scientists.
May 15, 2017, 8:21 AM MDT
The linear pump installed on March 24, 2017 continues to operate consistently with production rates and operating parameters having little variance from day to day, said DIVERGENT Energy Services Corp.
May 15, 2017, 10:43 AM MDT
Trinidad Drilling Ltd. is developing what it calls the ‘intelligent rig information system’ (IRIS) — a system that will connect the in-house control system to the electronic daily recorder and downhole tools.
May 11, 2017, 8:32 AM MDT
Alberta Innovates has teamed up with Natural Resources (NRCan) and industry partners to take three clean oil and gas technologies to commercial demonstration.
May 11, 2017, 10:48 AM MDT
Oilsands producers could learn much from revolutionary innovators like Tesla’s Elon Musk as well as from challenges overcome in other oil and gas basins to bring about substantial cost reductions and win over customers, according to industry observers.
May 3, 2017, 6 AM MDT
Industry leaders were celebrated in Calgary Tuesday, as executives from the Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada (PTAC) delivered awards to individuals and companies that stood out from their peers in Western Canada’s oil industry.
May 3, 2017, 11:31 AM MDT
On March 24, 2017, Shell Canada and NCS Multistage completed 366 stages across four wells in the Duvernay formation.
May 3, 2017, 6 AM MDT
FluidOil has entered into a cooperation agreement with The Steam Oil Production Company to explore the potential of integrating FluidOil’s Viscositor Heavy-to-Light (VHTL) oil upgrading technology into an offshore steam flooding project.
May 3, 2017, 6 AM MDT
Encana Corporation reported net earnings of $431 million in the first quarter compared to a net loss of $379 million in the first quarter of 2016.
May 2, 2017, 8:20 AM MDT
Fractal Systems, Inc. announced that Dave McDougall has joined the company as vice-president of engineering.
May 2, 2017, 7:24 AM MDT
Alberta’s oilsands sector is at the cusp of a technological renaissance that could transform the industry similar to how innovations produced the shale revolution in the United States, a top CEO believes.
April 28, 2017, 6 AM MDT
BP plc today announced a “major breakthrough” in seismic imaging that has identified more than 200 million bblsof additional resources at BP’s Atlantis field in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.
April 27, 2017, 9:33 AM MDT
DIVERGENT Energy Services Corp. said that the linear electromagnetic submersible pump installed on March 24, 2017 has been running continuously since start up and has achieved the major milestone of one month of run time.
April 27, 2017, 7:43 AM MDT
Ingenuity Lab, whose team specializes in nanotechnology, has created a unique product to suck oil out of water, and the group has been awarded $1.7 million from Natural Resources Canada to boost the project.
April 26, 2017, 10:42 AM MDT
An organization created to get past the polarization of the energy debate and find creative solutions is advancing a number of concepts built upon Alberta’s strength—and the main source of the debate—the oil and gas sector.
April 24, 2017, 8:49 AM MDT
Packers Plus Energy Services Inc. installed a StackFRAC Titanium XV system in a challenging high pressure/high temperature (HPHT) well in a Jurassic reservoir in the Middle East.
April 24, 2017, 3:45 AM MDT
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April 21, 2017, 6 AM MDT
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April 20, 2017, 6 AM MDT
April 20, 2017, 9:33 AM MDT
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April 19, 2017, 6 AM MDT
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April 18, 2017, 6 AM MDT
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) is exploring the idea of putting together a proposal for a joint industry-government consortium to do a large-scale commercial rollout of solvent-based bitumen extraction.
April 17, 2017, 8:11 AM MDT
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April 17, 2017, 7:05 AM MDT
DIVERGENT Energy Services Corp.’slinear electromagnetic submersible pump installed into a client oil well in southeast Saskatchewan on March 24, 2017 has been pumping continuously since the start of the test.
April 12, 2017, 9:18 AM MDT
Packers Plus Energy Services Inc. recently completed 16 extended reach lateral wells with 16 lower stages in each well for an operator in Alberta's Deep Basin Montney formation.
April 11, 2017, 7:33 AM MDT
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