The USD$1.2 billion Topolobampo Pipeline can carry 670 million cubic feed of natural gas per day to markets in the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sinaloa. TransCanada photo. Topolobampo Pipeline will provide natural gas to [Read more]
Last week, with no new buying in WTI, the gentle downward pressure on prices and calendar spreads finally turned into a torrent just one day later. BP photo. Oil prices drop Monday by over 4 [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]
Natural gas-fired electricity is on the rise in many areas of the United States thanks to sustained low natural gas prices, increases in natural gas-fired capacity, and retirements of coal-fired generating capacity. Inigo Skies Photography photo [Read more]
Between 2010 and 2016, the capacity-weighted average cost of U.S. wind installations fell by one-third, from $2,361 per kilowatt (kW) to $1,587/kW, based on analysis in the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency [Read more]
The fund community is less bullish following the 75 per cent run-up in Brent prices over the last 12 months and the market’s failure to break through the previous highs set in May. Repsol photo. Brent [Read more]
Oil prices recouped some of their losses on Thursday, after a report by the International Energy Agency warned that crude capacity cushions could be “stretched to the limit”. Shell photo. Oil prices hammered on Wednesday [Read more]
The Kremlin took a swing at US President Donald Trump’s assertion that Germany was a “captive” of Russia because it relies on Russia for some of its natural gas needs. NBC News photo. US LNG [Read more]
Strong demand from China and rising US supplies of natural gas will transform global natgas markets in the coming five years, according to the International Energy Agency. A lack of new LNG projects after 2020 [Read more]
US crude exports to India hit record highs in June and are set to almost double last year’s total as the Asian country scrambles to replace oil supplies as Venezuela’s output continues to fall and [Read more]
In its Oil Market Report, the International Energy Agency reports that OPEC and non-OPEC participants in the cartel’s supply cut pact have increased their production, however, production shortfalls in some oil producing countries may stretch [Read more]
Alberta NDP government’s Minister of Energy Marg McCuaig-Boyd spoke to industry leaders and stakeholders at the annual Stampede Energy Open House at the McDougall Centre Wednesday. Alberta government photo. Alberta NDP government touts growing employment, [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]
In the West Texas plains, the booming frack sand business is surprising residents of the vast, windswept area. Within 12 months, 11 frack sand mines opened up and about another 10 are in a rush [Read more]
Oil prices tumbled on Wednesday after Libya announced it had reopened its four oil ports and trade tensions between the United States and China escalated. AFP/Getty Images file photo by Mahmud Turkia. Brent oil prices [Read more]
Permian pipeline construction is booming. Right now, oil companies are struggling to ship their crude from the shale-rich Permian Basin to the US Gulf Coast, but by 2019, three major pipelines that could double capacity [Read more]
The Trump administration has briefed journalists on background that it will review sanctions waiver applications on a case-by-case basis and work with countries that are reducing their oil imports from Iran. AP photo by Evan [Read more]
According to the United States Energy Information Administration, US natural gas output is expected to hit an all-time high of 81.34 billion cubic feet per day this year. Shell photo. US natural gas output, consumption [Read more]
Husky Energy Chief Executive Rob Peabody told the TD investor conference in Calgary that the oil company has enough pipeline capacity locked in to ship its oil until 2021. Husky photo. On the sidelines of [Read more]
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