Canadian Natural Resources Limited is evaluating seven potential locations for smaller SAGD projects, mostly in Alberta, company executives said.
June 16, 2016, 11:54 AM MDT
Edmonton — A bitumen upgrading pilot project near Fort Saskatchewan has found a potentially lucrative business model lurking at the bottom of a bbl of heavy oil.
June 16, 2016, 10:27 AM MDT
June 16, 2016, 9:39 AM MDT
Acceleware Ltd. announced plans to test and commercialize its patent-pending RF XL heating technology that has the potential to save billions of dollars in oilsands production costs while significantly reducing GHG emissions and water use.
June 14, 2016, 11:27 AM MDT
A thermal oil pilot aimed at replacing steam with radio frequency heating and solvent is expected to resume downhole work before the end of this year.
June 10, 2016, 8:45 AM MDT
Canada’s oil and gas sector can learn something from Tesla as it seeks to define its role in the age of energy transformation, a forum on low-carbon innovation heard this week.
June 9, 2016, 6 AM MDT
Alberta’s oilsands industry needs to collaborate with others to develop better technology to adapt to light tight oil competition from the United States and the 100-megatonne-per-year limit on oilsands carbon dioxide emissions in Alberta, says an industry leader.
June 8, 2016, 12:04 PM MDT
The future of refracturing is annular fracturing, which has evolved in the past couple of years.
June 8, 2016, 10:24 AM MDT
It could soon become much faster for oil and gas companies and technology providers to commercialize new technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). That’s the goal of the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC), which is developing a new test facility that it says would enable piloting and validation within a period of weeks.
June 8, 2016, 7:19 AM MDT
Years of monopolistic control from state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos has left Mexico in dire need of new discoveries, infrastructure and technology, opening the door to Canadian E&P, midstream and service companies to grab billions of dollars in business opportunities.
June 7, 2016, 10:48 AM MDT
EV and Epidote have teamed up to provide a powerful visualization of well integrity problems using a single viewing platform.
June 3, 2016, 9:23 AM MDT
Packers Plus Energy Services Inc. recently installed and stimulated an open hole completion system in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq.
June 1, 2016, 10:48 AM MDT
Weatherford International plc announced today that its drilling services facility in Nisku, Alta., received API Specification Q2 certification.
May 31, 2016, 11:40 AM MDT
Packers Plus Energy Services Inc. completed a “multi-cluster” stimulation in a cemented system, which simulated plug-and-perf operations in the Meramec formation within the STACK play of Oklahoma.
May 25, 2016, 8:12 AM MDT
Nine Energy Service, Inc. successfully completed 124 perforated stages in an 18,544-foot lateral (27,034 feet TMD) in Guernsey County, Ohio for Eclipse Resources, an independent E&P company in the Appalachian Basin.
May 19, 2016, 9:34 AM MDT
NXT Energy Solutions Inc. announced that Bev Stewart has joined the company as vice-president, finance and chief financial officer.
May 19, 2016, 9:38 AM MDT
Packers Plus Energy Services Inc. announced the opening of its Global Technology and Training Center in Louisville, Colorado.
May 17, 2016, 8:42 AM MDT
Bayshore Petroleum Corp. announced on Dec. 9, 2015, that it had entered into an arms-length binding letter of intent (BLOI) to merge with E-T Energy Ltd., a private Alberta corporation with oilsands leases in the Poplar Creek area of Alberta.
May 17, 2016, 6 AM MDT
Despite a challenging economic climate for the Canadian oil and gas industry, PTAC set a new record for the number of projects launched in 2015 aiming to reduce both costs and the environmental footprint of the industry.
May 6, 2016, 11:14 AM MDT
NCS Multistage, an independent company focused on technology for use in multistage completions, announced that four patents have recently been issued by authorities in the U.S., Canada, and Ukraine covering proprietary design features utilized in the company's downhole completion tools and proprietary methods, which are used to safely and efficiently perform multistage completions in oil and gas wells.
May 4, 2016, 8:24 AM MDT
Bill 11 proposes to merge four existing Alberta Innovates corporations into one, the Alberta government announced Monday.
May 3, 2016, 8:42 AM MDT
What’s the best way to preheat a shallow SAGD reservoir where you can’t inject high-pressure steam? Cenovus Energy Inc. faced this question at its Grand Rapids reservoir in the Pelican Lake area of northern Alberta.
May 2, 2016, 6 AM MDT
With pundits predicting a future of low oil prices and carbon constraints, there’s been lots of talk lately about the need to drive down oilsands costs and carbon emissions.
April 29, 2016, 7:48 AM MDT
Energy Navigator announces the release today of Val Nav 6.6.2, which will allow Alberta stakeholders to preview the potential impacts of the Modernized Royalty Framework (MRF).
April 29, 2016, 8:43 AM MDT
Entero Corporation announced today it plans to release MOSAIC v2016 on April 28 to provide customers the ability to fully evaluate the changes presented in Alberta’s Modernized Royalty Framework (MRF).
April 26, 2016, 11:31 AM MDT
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