DIVERGENT Energy Services Corp. has continued to implement a number of design improvements to its Linear Electromagnetic Submersible Pump.
September 26, 2016, 8:17 AM MDT
Blackbird Energy Inc. has received final approval from the TSX Venture Exchange for its proposed acquisition of an indirect 10 per cent minority interest in Stage Completions Inc. for a cash purchase price of $3 million pursuant to the terms of a subscription agreement entered into between Blackbird and SC Holding Corporation, the majority shareholder of Stage.
September 22, 2016, 7:36 AM MDT
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said Monday she believes that her message about Alberta’s approach to energy and the environment at Climate Week in New York was “fairly well received.”
September 20, 2016, 7:33 AM MDT
Two years into the oil price collapse, and closer to a decade into the natural gas slide, few prognosticators are forecasting a return to the lofty price highs of the mid 2000s for either commodity anytime soon. In the absence of higher prices, oil and gas companies have little choice but to lower costs to remain profitable. And one increasingly recognized ways to do that is to adopt digital oilfield technologies.
September 20, 2016, 8:56 AM MDT
Suncor Energy Inc. will continue to test the Nsolv Corporation technology, which uses a solvent in place of steam in current in-situ bitumen extraction techniques.
September 19, 2016, 6 AM MDT
The current downturn in oil prices has underscored the need to improve oilsands technologies. Various efforts are underway, but haven’t always made major headlines. This week the Daily Oil Bulletin looks at some unreported or under-reported efforts and discussions aimed at improving oilsands and heavy oil economics through technological improvement.
September 16, 2016, 6 AM MDT
Bitumen could one day be transformed into lighter oil within the reservoirs of Alberta’s SAGD projects at lower costs, and with half of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of a diluted or synthetic bbl of oil.
September 16, 2016, 7:41 AM MDT
The current downturn in oil prices has underscored the need to improve oilsands technologies. Various efforts are underway, but haven’t always made major headlines. This week the Daily Oil Bulletin looks at some unreported or under-reported efforts and discussions aimed at improving oilsands and heavy oil economics through technological improvement.
September 15, 2016, 6 AM MDT
Intelliwave Technologies Inc. announced a global framework agreement with Royal Dutch Shell plc.
September 15, 2016, 9:31 AM MDT
The current downturn in oil prices has underscored the need to improve oilsands technologies. Various efforts are underway, but haven’t always made major headlines. This week the Daily Oil Bulletin looks at some unreported or under-reported efforts and discussions aimed at improving oilsands and heavy oil economics through technological improvement.
September 14, 2016, 6 AM MDT
The current downturn in oil prices has underscored the need to improve oilsands technologies. Various efforts are underway, but haven’t always made major headlines. This week the Daily Oil Bulletin looks at some unreported or under-reported efforts and discussions aimed at improving oilsands and heavy oil economics through technological improvement.
September 13, 2016, 6 AM MDT
When GE launched an open innovation challenge to create a new mounting bracket for aircraft engines using additive manufacturing (3D printing) with a goal of a 30 per cent weight reduction, it could hardly have guessed where the winning solution would come from.
September 13, 2016, 6 AM MDT
The current downturn in oil prices has underscored the need to improve oilsands technologies. Various efforts are underway, but haven’t always made major headlines. This week the Daily Oil Bulletin looks at some unreported or under-reported efforts and discussions aimed at improving oilsands and heavy oil economics through technological improvement.
September 12, 2016, 7:28 AM MDT
Canada has not only an opportunity to sell more fossil fuels to India by responsibly moving more natural resources to tidewater “with environmental stewardship squarely in view,” according to Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr — the subcontinent is also interested in Canadian technologies to extract fossil fuels with reduced carbon footprints.
September 9, 2016, 10 AM MDT
Industry should consider the possibility of flow-to-surface events as part of the risks and costs of extracting bitumen via steam-assisted methods, says the co-author of a newly-released research study that looked at lake samples from the Cold Lake oilsands region.
September 7, 2016, 6 AM MDT
The University of Calgary will use this week’s federal grant — the largest it has ever received for energy research — to greatly reduce the environmental footprint of unconventional fossil fuel extraction.
September 7, 2016, 9:49 AM MDT
A one-time federal grant is helping the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) and its industry partners develop new nanotechnology that could strengthen critical pipelines, reduce the risk of oil and gas spills, and save industry billions of dollars.
September 7, 2016, 9:55 AM MDT
PHX Energy Services Corp.’s electronic drilling recorder (EDR) division, Stream Services, has commercially released its new DataStream EDR product line.
September 7, 2016, 6 AM MDT
An operator in Argentina's Loma La Lata field has successfully employed Packers Plus Energy Services Inc’s proprietary StackFRAC HD open hole multi-stage ball-drop system, says the service provider.
August 31, 2016, 9:58 AM MDT
AMSEnergy Corp. and Heat Matrix Group BV are the initial-stage winners of the Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) and Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre challenge, aimed at reducing greenhouse gases (GHGs) and increasing energy efficiency by identifying cleantech solutions for capturing heat lost during oilsands production.
August 23, 2016, 9:24 AM MDT
Packers Plus Energy Services Inc. recently worked with operator Dubai Petroleum Establishment to install and successfully stimulate an offshore carbonate reservoir using an open hole multi-stage ball-drop system.
August 23, 2016, 10:17 AM MDT
August 22, 2016, 10:03 AM MDT
Hunting’s Titan Division’s select fire perforating system recently set a new Canadian e-coil perforating record with a 52- CFA gun string deployed by Titanium Tubing Technology Ltd. for Teine Energy Ltd. in Kindersley, Sask.
August 19, 2016, 11:05 AM MDT
GE announced that Federated Co-Operatives Limited's Co-op Refinery Complex in Regina is installing GE's advanced water recycling technology for a wastewater improvement project that will enable the refinery to clean 100 per cent of its wastewater on site.
August 18, 2016, 7:26 AM MDT
Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr announced that the federal government is seeking proposals for projects under the $25-million Clean Energy Innovation Program, which will bring clean energy technologies closer to commercialization.
August 18, 2016, 11:04 AM MDT
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