The Alberta government is looking at a plan to purchase rail cars to help clear the oil sands backlog which has significantly driven down the cost of Alberta crude. Western Producer photo by Robin Booker. [Read more]
Husky White Rose field production was shut down one week ago due to an oil release. The company says the leak came from a subsea flowline connection in the field. Husky photo. Husky White Rose [Read more]
About 4.5 billion people around the world still lack access to safely managed sanitation and 80 per cent of the world’s wastewater is released untreated. Collection and treatment of wastewater accounts for 4 per cent [Read more]
A report by the IEA shows how deploying all cost-effective energy efficiency measures would allow the global economy to double by 2040 with only a marginal increase in energy demand. CNET photo by Martin LaMonica. Energy efficiency [Read more]
The future of highly automated cars and connected vehicles is decidedly uncertain; questions remain around technologies, regulations, and public acceptance. Adoption of automated cars could make cities more sustainable, inclusive, prosperous, and resilient By George [Read more]
From cooking to storing to freezing, the Energy Information Administration breaks down energy use in the kitchen as US Thanksgiving nears. TheTomKatStudio.com photo. US Thanksgiving preparations underway By Maggie Woodward, Bill McNary This article was published by [Read more]
This year, retail gasoline prices have increased steadily from January through May, before steadying between $2.85 per gallon and $2.90 per gallon for June through October. Getty Images photo. Recently, gasoline prices have fallen due [Read more]
Next spring, the government of BC says it will introduce legislation to phase in targets for the sale of zero emissions vehicles. The province hopes that by 2040, all vehicle sales will be ZEVs. Province [Read more]
The crude oil market sell-off has shaved more than a fifth off the global Brent crude benchmark and slashed the price of U.S. crude by 25 per cent since early October. Anadarko photo. Crude oil [Read more]
The turkey recipes analyzed utilize a variety of cooking apparatuses and fuels, so the methodology of calculating the total energy use and carbon emissions will vary. KRCR News photo. Carbon emissions footprint for a traditionally roasted [Read more]
Rising diesel and jet fuel prices, at least relative to crude and gasoline, are forcing oil market adjustments that should lessen the chance of a severe shortage at the end of next year. Total photo. [Read more]
Notley plan to grow domestic market for Alberta oil/gas a great strategy that needs Ottawa’s support Update: Alberta government announced late Tuesday that it will double support for petrochemical upgrading, with total investment now set at [Read more]
Oil prices were up slightly on Friday in volatile trading. Prices were underpinned by expectations that at a meeting next month in Vienna, OPEC will agree to cut output in 2019. ConocoPhillips photo. Oil prices [Read more]
Rising productivity in the Wolfcamp, like in other plays in the Permian Basin, has been driven mostly by drilling longer horizontal laterals and optimizing completions. Wolfcamp play the deepest and thickest stacked shale formations in [Read more]
To avoid an oil supply shock in the coming years, the International Energy Agency says in its World Energy Outlook 2018 that there is a need to develop new upstream oil investments. Getty Images photo. [Read more]
Global oil markets are increasingly over-supplied with light distillates, such as gasoline, while there are not enough middle distillates, such as diesel, which has opened a big price differential between the two fuels. McEvoy Oil [Read more]
Oil prices rose on Thursday after US EIA data showed falling US fuel inventories and despite investor concerns about a potential oversupplied market in 2019. Repsol photo. Oil prices pared on EIA data showing 10.3 [Read more]
Steve Williams is retiring from oil sands giant Suncor. He will officially retire at the company’s annual general meeting next May. Mark Little has been chosen to lead the Calgary-based company. Getty Images/Bloomberg photo by [Read more]
A low starting inventory level and below-average net injections of natural gas into storage contributed to working US natural gas stocks ending the refill season at this relatively low level. Getty Images photo. US natural [Read more]
According to data from the United States Energy Information Administration, natural gas and oil production is rising even though there are fewer wells in operation. Anadarko photo. With fewer wells, US oil production grew from [Read more]
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