Packers Plus Energy Services Inc. announced the successful completions of multiple wells in North Dakota's Bakken formation using advanced high frac intensity systems, specifically designed for extended reach wells.
April 22, 2016, 8:55 AM MDT
Offshore Canada, Schlumberger completed a total of 500 days and 10,000 cumulative operational hours on a multi-year integrated services contract for Statoil in deep water in the Flemish Pass, with no HSE incidents, the company noted in its Q1 report.
April 22, 2016, 8:54 AM MDT
IBM announced that Halliburton has adopted IBM Cloud to run its sophisticated reservoir simulation software to help it better understand how complex oil and gas fields might behave under different development scenarios.
April 21, 2016, 10:17 AM MDT
Growth in Canada’s clean technology industry has stalled and requires greater support from all government levels and the private sector in order to stimulate and help finance deployment of successful, commercialized clean-tech innovation, says an Analytica Advisors’ report released this morning.
April 19, 2016, 11:52 AM MDT
Alison Thompson didn’t take to geothermal resources promotion from an environmentalist perspective.
April 13, 2016, 9:44 AM MDT
April 13, 2016, 10:19 AM MDT
Oil and gas industry methane emissions from sources such as associated gas and gas wells, pneumatic devices and leaks, which together add up to a potent contributor to climate change, have come under the spotlight as nations ramp up efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
April 11, 2016, 7:33 AM MDT
FluidOil Limited, a provider of oil upgrading technology solutions, has completed the acquisition of the intellectual property of Vancouver-based Ivanhoe Energy Inc. as well as the acquisition of its Texas-based subsidiary Ivanhoe Energy Holdings Inc.
April 4, 2016, 6 AM MDT
Rework is a massive problem in Alberta. A staggering 10 to 40 per cent of capital project costs result from mismatches between engineering, fabrication and construction. There is an acute need to cut cost.
April 1, 2016, 8:57 AM MDT
In good times and bad, bringing innovation to the oilpatch can be a challenge.
March 31, 2016, 11:07 AM MDT
LNG exports off the West Coast could not only provide a market for Canadian natural gas, which is losing out to the Marcellus shale play in the United States, but it could open up additional opportunities for propane exports and new value-added petrochemical developments in Western Canada, an oil and gas symposium heard Tuesday.
March 16, 2016, 6 AM MDT
Year-old technology Calgary start-up Spectralog and five other seed-stage companies shared almost $150,000 in cash and cash-equivalent prizes at the 2016 Energy New Venture Competition hosted by the Haskayne School of Business, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
March 16, 2016, 10 AM MDT
As SAGD bitumen producing projects start reaching what was expected to be the end of their productive life, they have taken an unexpected turn — as one industry expert put it, they are refusing to die.
March 14, 2016, 6 AM MDT
The carbon XPRIZE that Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) launched late last year is attracting record levels of interest from around the world, says retired Suncor Inc. executive Gord Lambert.
March 10, 2016, 10:33 AM MST
Crescent Point Energy Corp. says its commitment to technological advancement in its completion process is paying dividends as it continues to see strong results from implementation of its cemented liner completions with closeable sliding sleeve technology.
March 10, 2016, 6 AM MST
Nsolv announces it has been awarded $13 million in grant funding to commercialize its waterless, clean energy technology for heavy oil extraction.
March 9, 2016, 8:18 AM MST
Innovation involves a lot more than new technology, said speakers at an IBM digital oilfield event on Tuesday.
March 2, 2016, 11:21 AM MST
Many have emphasized the need to find less energy intensive oilsands extraction technologies to make the industry more cost competitive and carbon competitive. But how long would it take to commercialize new technologies?
March 1, 2016, 6 AM MST
Jim Carr, Canada's minister of natural resources, and Zhigang Wang, vice-minister of the ministry of science and technology of China, met in Ottawa yesterday to discuss collaboration in clean technology during a meeting of the Canada-China Joint Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation Co-operation.
February 26, 2016, 10:43 AM MST
Canada has made strides in implementing several key International Energy Agency (IEA) policy recommendations from the body’s last major review in 2009, but an updated report released this morning suggests that with an ever-changing landscape and new-era realities, there is much work to be done.
February 25, 2016, 9:03 AM MST
Nine Energy Service, Inc. says it successfully completed its first 50-stage Divert-A-Frac open hole system for a large, global independent operator in the Williston Basin.
February 24, 2016, 6 AM MST
Evok Innovations announced five finalists who will present their technologies to a panel of experts onstage during the Cleantech Pitch Session at the upcoming GLOBE 2016 Conference & Innovation Expo in Vancouver, with a winner receiving a one-on-one meeting with a leading Canadian energy company technology development expert.
February 19, 2016, 8:26 AM MST
The Artificial Lift Optimization Congress North America 2016, is coming to Houston on March 22-23, 2016. In the lead up to the congress, we interviewed Peter Oyewole, Senior Engineering Advisor at BOPCO, for an exclusive podcast where he gave insight into the importance of artificial lift optimization, and how it has developed over his substantial career in the industry.
February 19, 2016, 7:51 AM MST
Using fuel cells for power generation and CO2 capture would increase the capital cost of a SAGD central processing facility by 50 per cent or $450 million, a study estimated.
February 18, 2016, 9:23 AM MST
Three oilsands producers are exploring whether fuel cells could simultaneously separate carbon dioxide from a flue gas stream and generate electricity.
February 17, 2016, 11:52 AM MST
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