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Home2018October

Month: October 2018

Goldboro LNG
Canada

Calgary-based Pieridae Energy gets go ahead for$10 billion Goldboro LNG facility from Nova Scotia regulator

October 31, 2018 Energi Staff

Calgary-based Pieridae Energy says it has been granted a permit by the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board to construct the Goldboro LNG facility.  Equinor photo. Pieridae now to make financing decision on Goldboro LNG [Read more]

Opinion

Top 5 reasons why carbon pollution pricing is good for Ontario

October 31, 2018 Energi Staff

Last week the Canadian government announced there will be a federal carbon pollution pricing system in place in Canada starting next year and will affect provinces that have not already set up their own carbon [Read more]

IMO rules
News

Shipping industry looks for price clarity ahead of IMO low-sulphur fuel rules, Alberta oil sands brace for another hit

October 31, 2018 Energi Staff

By 2020, new IMO fuel rules will require the shipping industry to use fuels with a much smaller sulphur content.  Shipping companies say that because a derivatives market for the new fuel has not been [Read more]

halloween candy
Opinion

Is Halloween candy a viable fossil fuel alternative?

October 31, 2018 Energi Staff

On average, the amount of Halloween candy that Canadians consume around this time of year, translates to about 57,000 gigajoules in energy terms.  This is enough energy to heat 570 homes in Canada for one [Read more]

US crude exports
USA

As US crude exports to Asia rise, race is on to build Gulf Coast terminals

October 31, 2018 Energi Staff

As US crude exports increase, the race is on to build Gulf Coast terminals, however, some analysts say if all the proposed projects are built, there may not be enough crude for them.  Port of [Read more]

canadian energy
Canada

Canadian energy mix gets greener while oil, gas production grows – NEB Energy Future 2018 report

October 31, 2018 Energi Staff

One of the highlights of the report is that in the coming decades, Canadian energy use and economic growth will continue to decouple.  Economic growth is forecast to increase relatively faster than energy use in [Read more]

trade war
News

US – China trade war impacts next-wave LNG race and Canadian project decisions

October 30, 2018 Energi Staff

The US trade war with China may mean LNG companies planning new facilities could face challenges in financing, contract pricing and pipeline access.  Total photo. China put a 10 per cent tariff on US LNG [Read more]

Rhine River
News

Some petroleum products shipments impacted by low Rhine River

October 30, 2018 Energi Staff

The Rhine River, which runs northwest from Switzerland through Germany, France, and the Netherlands into the North Sea, is a major petroleum product transportation corridor.  Getty Images photo. Higher prices for petroleum products imports due to [Read more]

oil prices
Opinion

Opinion: Oil prices fall as economic outlook deteriorates

October 30, 2018 Energi Staff

Lower oil prices would curb the projected expansion in output and stimulating faster growth in oil consumption.  Modestly lower oil prices would also provide some economic stimulus and form part of the natural cyclical progression, [Read more]

natural gas markets
Opinion

Winter is coming in natural gas markets

October 30, 2018 Energi Staff

In natural gas markets, the prospects of a natural gas glut, which was commonly heard within the energy industry not that long ago, has vanished following last winter’s tight market, and is being replaced by [Read more]

Markham on Energy

Social license works: a rebuttal of Jason Kenney

October 30, 2018 Markham Hislop

Angus Reid says Canadian support for Trans Mountain Expansion grew between Feb. and April 2018 as attacks from BC intensified Who in their right mind thinks David Suzuki or Greenpeace would ever be pro-pipeline? Jason [Read more]

fossil fuel subsidies
Opinion

Reforms to fossil fuel subsidies coming under threat: IEA

October 29, 2018 Energi Staff

Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies would facilitate the cost-effective deployment of the some of the Middle East’s huge renewables potential, whose development has been limited by the availability of subsidized oil and gas for power [Read more]

hedge funds
Opinion

Hedge funds cut bullish bets on oil to lowest for over a year

October 29, 2018 Energi Staff

Last week, hedge funds continued to liquidate former bullish positions in oil and, for the first time in more than a year, clear signs of fresh short-selling emerged.  Total photo. Rising supply, economic slowdown drive [Read more]

Halloween costumes
Opinion

Last-minute Halloween costumes for energy nerds

October 29, 2018 Energi Staff

With only two days left to figure out Halloween costumes, Matt Chester offers his ideas for energy enthusiasts struggling with what to wear on All Hallows’ Eve. Halloween costumes for those in the energy field [Read more]

CO2 emissions
USA

US power sector CO2 emissions down 28% since 2005 thanks to switch to natural gas from coal

October 29, 2018 Energi Staff

Increases in electricity generation from non-carbon power sources since 2005 also had an effect on CO2 emissions from power generation. State policies and federal tax incentives that encouraged adoption of renewables have driven this growth.  [Read more]

electric semi trucks
Innovation

Electric semi trucks expected to hit market by 2020 as big fleet operators begin testing new technology

October 29, 2018 Energi Staff

Elon Musk told investors in June that Tesla electric semis will be available by 2020, one year later than Musk had initially promised.  A number of other big rig makers have also announced they will [Read more]

husky energy
Financial

Husky Energy Q3 results top expectations

October 26, 2018 Energi Staff

Husky Energy says it will boost its downstream capacity, which will insulate the company from recent large heavy oil discounts, if it is able to complete its hostile takeover effort of MEG Energy Corp.  CP [Read more]

Markham on Energy

Jason Kenney energy speech mimics Donald Trump, vows to retaliate against enemies of Alberta oil and gas if he becomes premier

October 26, 2018 Markham Hislop

UCP leader Jason Kenney speaking to the Energy Relaunch conference. Photo: CBC “This is not energy policy, it is Donald Trump-style, grievance-fueled populism pandering to the frustrations and anger of an industry that thinks it [Read more]

TMX
Opinion

No Alberta/BC split before political rhetoric over TMX

October 26, 2018 Energi Staff

A survey of Alberta and BC residents taken near the time the conflict over the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (TMX) erupted suggests that the polarization of opinion between the two provinces over the past [Read more]

Canada

US Midwest top destination for Canadian crude oil exports, but US Gulf Coast on the rise

October 26, 2018 Energi Staff

According to the National Energy Board, Canadian crude exports have jumped nine fold over the past 32 years and recently, exports to the US Gulf Coast have increased.  Suncor photo.  Increasingly, Canadian crude exports going [Read more]

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