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Alberta forest fires force shut-in at two CNRL operations

June 3, 2019 Energi Staff

Massive Alberta forest fires have forced Canadian Natural Resources Limited to evacuate staff and shut in production at the company’s Pelican Lake and Woodenhouse operations. The company says it has completed a safe and temporary [Read more]

joslyn oil sands
Canada

CNRL buys 100% of Total’s stake in Joslyn oil sands project

August 31, 2018 Energi Staff

Canadian Natural Resources Limited, or CNRL, announced on Friday that it will purchase the Joslyn oil sands project for a total price of $225 million.   Joslyn oil sands project owned by Total SA, partners Canadian [Read more]

oil sands
Markham on Energy

‘Revolutionary’ new oil sands mining process eliminates tailings ponds, lowers emissions by 40%, cuts costs

July 30, 2018 Markham Hislop

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]

athabasca oil sands
Alberta

Athabasca Oil Sands project reaches 1B barrel production milestone

July 19, 2018 Energi Staff

Canadian Natural Resources Limited, or CNRL, announced on Thursday that its Athabasca Oil Sands project has hit a production milestone of 1 billion barrels.  Shell photo. Athabasca Oil Sands project owned by CNRL, Chevron, Shell [Read more]

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Markham on Energy

Are Alberta oil sands’ costs lower than American shale basins? You’ll be surprised

August 9, 2017 Markham Hislop

Alberta oil sands costs are $30-40/b, compared to $50 break even for most US shale producers The prevailing wisdom in Alberta is that Western Canada is one of the highest cost oil and gas basins [Read more]

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Markham on Energy

You’ll be SHOCKED (not really) by the real reason ConocoPhillips “fled” Alberta

April 14, 2017 JZadmin

Conoco’s sale of oil sands, natural gas assets to Cenovus motivated by business concerns, not policy A few weeks ago I wrote a column about how the purchase of $32 billion in oil sands assets [Read more]

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Markham on Energy

‘Fleeing oil sands capital’ story driven by Alberta politics, media – not reality

March 30, 2017 JZadmin

Buying oil sands assets for $32 billion total makes CNRL, Cenovus world class energy companies Cenovus buys ConocoPhillips oil sands assets for $17.7 billion Wednesday. Last week CNRL buys Shell and Marathon assets for $14.4 [Read more]

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The Canadian energy conversation is stuck in the wrong century

by Markham Hislop in Markham on Energy

Find Energi Media journalism in video, audio, and essays YouTube Channel: Video energy news Substack Essays: Thoughtful Energy Journalism Energi Talks Audio Podcast Real story of this energy crisis is not supply disruption, but demand [Read more]

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