Pipeline shortages, unprofitable, high breakevens for many shale producers, trouble accessing capital, high debt levels – does this sound like a model Canada should encourage? The Alberta oil and gas industry’s United States fetish is [Read more]
Chrystia Freeland, foreign affairs minister Saudi Arabia exports 100,000 b/d of crude oil to Eastern Canada. Total imports by Eastern refiners are 315,000 b/d Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has the perfect response to Saudi Arabia’s [Read more]
Ottawa tinkers with carbon tax regulation to better protect 4 Canadian sectors from foreign competitors not subject to carbon pricing…nothing to see here, folks Critics of carbon pricing have got themselves into a bit of [Read more]
Technology tranforming oilfield: fracking, horizontal drilling, multiple wells from single pad on production side, digital tech on business side Texas oil production is booming like never before, especially in the prolific Permian Basin, but just like [Read more]
Current extraction process at CNRL Horizon oil sands mine. Photo: CNRL CNRL plans to share IPEP technology with other oil sands miners through COSIA Alberta is a hotbed of oil and gas innovation, a story [Read more]
Controversial MLA Derek Fildebrandt, leader of Freedom Conservative Party Fildebrandt accuses NDP of siding with big oil sands companies and UCP of abandoning conservative ideals over govt ownership of Kinder Morgan pipelines Alberta has a [Read more]
Carbon pricing will give oil sands producers competitive advantage in new markets, funds diversification into petrochemicals, basis of “carbon for pipelines” deal with Trudeau Yet another poll shows that Canadians hate carbon pricing – cap-and-trade, [Read more]
Source: Wood Mackenzie Peak oil demand isn’t controversial anymore, just one of the planning variables oil companies are plugging into their models “A lot of our [oil company] clients are paying very close attention to [Read more]
Finance Minister Bill Morneau, left, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau In today’s Energy Bits, analyst Eoin Coyne suggests Shell Canada’s sale of almost all its Alberta oil sands assets was motivated by internal corporate issues [Read more]
Demand for crude oil will peak by 2036. How will a govt led by Jason Kenney prepare Alberta energy to compete in a rapidly changing market? “Make no mistake – I will go to the [Read more]
Amarjeet Sohi, new federal natural resources minister from Edmonton Zoe Caron formerly worked under Gerry Butts in WWF Canada, is prominent environmentalist Canada has a new minister responsible for energy infrastructure – read, pipelines – [Read more]
Only Trudeau government can fix pipeline problem, so industry and Alberta need to pressure Prime Minister for solution With 10 months to go until the Alberta election, energy issues are being hotly debated, none more [Read more]
Prof. Victor Flatt. Federal climate policy under Trump is a confusing jumble of legislation and litigation, Texas has none and never will, while California is plunging ahead aggressively Under Barack Obama, the United States was [Read more]
UCP leader Jason Kenney, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley Evidence demonstrates conclusively that technology is driving radical changes to global energy system The May, 2019 Alberta election is coming. Energy promises to be front and centre [Read more]
Was Prentice preparing to introduce a province-wide carbon tax in Alberta if re-elected in 2015? Stephen Harper says “the media” is trying to bring down Jason Kenney. The UCP leader himself says elite commentators – [Read more]
India’s Jamnagar refinery, one of the world’s largest Trump’s America becoming increasingly protectionist, Asian markets growing, will Canada continue to dither on opening new markets? Alberta may have trouble getting heavy crude oil to market, [Read more]
Tzeporah Berman, with microphone. 4 years ago, oil sands CEOs and ENGOs agreed on Alberta climate policy. Today, that consensus is badly tattered Eco-activist Tzeporah Berman is a lightning rod for controversy. She certainly annoyed [Read more]
Policies advanced by the oil sands CEOs included province-wide carbon tax, oil sands emissions cap, re-invest carbon levy revenue into innovation Thanks to his admissions during an interview with journalist Sandy Garossino, we now know [Read more]
Tzeporah Berman and Jason Kenney 5 CEOs of Alberta’s biggest oil sands producers initiated talks with 5 ENGOs in 2015, informal group morphed into OSAG in mid-2016 Shannon Phillips says Jason Kenney erred when he [Read more]
Capital costs alone appear to make new Alberta refineries uneconomic, which is why oil sands producers prefer buying US refineries and renovating A new study from the School of Public Policy says the soon to be [Read more]
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