Methane emissions regulations will be coordinated with provinces like Alberta to avoid duplication, unnecessary cost The Canadian environment department has issued new regulations to curb methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40 to [Read more]
Economist Michal C. Moore says Canada must overcome huge internal challenges before competing against American LNG in China American President Donald Trump recently completed a charm tour of China that included the Chinese signing long-term liquified [Read more]
Part 1 of a fascinating interview with Dave Collyer, who has sobering advice for Alberta oil/gas industry “When it comes to carbon, the horse has bolted the barn.” That’s how Dave Collyer, former president of [Read more]
Juniors will be be larger, better capitalized, only working in very best production areas – Gary Leach, EPAC CEO Like everyone else in the global oil patch, Canadian oil and gas juniors have had a [Read more]
“After banks and investors are satisfied, they might have some revenue to start hiring people.” – Mark Salkeld, PSAC The past two years have been rough for Alberta, with oil prices in the tank and [Read more]
Is Vancouver moving too quickly on 100% renewable energy pledge? Vancouver adopted a Zero Emissions Building Plan last July to “to aggressively combat and reduce carbon pollution” in the city’s building stock. Christy Clark says that [Read more]
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]
Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) should get down in trenches with Big Green opponents This is a long read, but an important one because I’ve tried to explain why the Canadian oil and gas [Read more]
Primary energy regulation by states, industry already adopting cleaner, more efficient technologies While President Donald Trump continues to suck the oxygen from news cycles with controversy after scandal after midnight twitter war, the American oil [Read more]
$250 billion/year oil and gas contribution to GDP, immature clean energy tech were real obstacles to Obama energy activism With Barack Obama headed out of the White House in a few months, the punditocracy is [Read more]
Bernie Sanders, eco-activists would exert considerable influence in a Clinton Administration, Democratic Congress The American oil and gas industry supports Donald Trump in part because the Republican candidate promises to get the sector out from [Read more]
Cautious governments advancing climate mitigation energy policies, hectored by eco-activists to go quicker and by industry boosters to go slower Understanding modern energy politics is like trying to get a handle on Middle East politics – definitely [Read more]
Expect many more energy projects like Pacific NorthWest LNG in coming years as governments balance decarbonizing, economic development On Tuesday, the Canadian government approved Malaysian-owned Petronas’ $36 billion Pacific NorthWest LNG project, environmentalists pitched a fit, industry boosters [Read more]
The energy transition has begun. Resistance is futile. So is half-baked carping by climate journalists Last month, influential British journalist George Monbiot published a criticism of the media’s role in the global “climate crisis” that illustrates why [Read more]
Big Energy must stake its claim to manage the energy transition, not leave it to eco-activists I’ve taken plenty of heat lately from fossil fuels boosters who disagree the global economy has begun a 100-year [Read more]
Energy industry has to woo “soft political middle” so Trudeau Liberals have enough “legitimacy” to approve pipelines I got myself in hot water with a couple of columns lately. One argued that oil and gas [Read more]
Emotional connection is the new norm, energy industry’s old facts and science approach no longer connects with stakeholders If the Dilbert comic strip taught us anything, it’s that engineers are socially awkward and terrible communicators. Now [Read more]
Peak tight gas production in Barnett Shale is 5 Bcf/d, down to 4.5 Bcf under current conditions Global shale natural gas production will rise by 400 per cent over the next 25 years, but that’s [Read more]
Industry concerned federal regulations stifling natural gas production, manufacturing opportunities in Mancos Shale Now that natural gas reserve estimates for the Mancos Shale in the Piceance Basin of Colorado have been revised dramatically upwards to 66 trillion cubic [Read more]
Expect more moderation once Trump sews up the nomination and begins the general election campaign Donald Trump delivered the first energy policy speech since he began running for the Republican nomination. The biggest surprise is [Read more]
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