Oil Industry Archives

Backwoods Energy helps Indigenous employees buy first home

February 11, 2020 AEN Staff

On Tuesday, Backwoods Energy Services announced it will work alongside the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation to provide financial support to its Indigenous employees looking to purchase their first home. According to the company, its [Read more]

Opinion: Saudi Arabia wants higher oil prices to kick crude addiction

May 3, 2018 AEN Staff

Saudi Arabia needs oil prices and revenues to go even higher in the coming years to pay for the kingdom’s transformation away from oil. Saudi Aramco photo. Oil prices have risen 175 per cent since [Read more]

New oilfield technology helps fuel West Texas oil patch boom

May 1, 2018 AEN Staff

The West Texas oil industry is booming thanks to new technology that has helped bring breakeven costs down to as little as $25/barrel. CNBC photo by Morgan Brennan. Unemployment rates sink as West Texas oil [Read more]

Part 1 – Can Canadian ‘green LNG’ save the planet?

December 27, 2019

Energi Media’s 15-part investigation will examine the arguments for and against Canadian “green LNG.” Can it really displace Asian coal plants? Of the three fossil fuels, only natural gas appears to have a long-term future. [Read more]

Debunked: Vivian Krause’s Tar Sands Campaign conspiracy narrative

May 14, 2019

Jason Kenney was all smiles, waving at the crowd and shaking hands through the passenger window of his trusty blue Dodge Ram pickup, as he rode triumphantly onto a Calgary stage on election night, April [Read more]

Alberta carbon tax deep dive: Not a job killer, competitive advantage for oil sands producers

November 14, 2018

No evidence to support claim that carbon tax is a “job killer” (Tombe), but there is a good argument that it’s an oil/gas “job saver” (Leach) Carbon tax (also called carbon pricing or carbon levy): [Read more]

Bill C69 deep dive: Flawed legislation but not quite a Liberal plot to sabatoge future Alberta pipelines

October 11, 2018

CEPA (Canadian Energy Pipelines Association) consistently emphasized that the NEB (National Energy Board) was the best placed regulator to oversee the full cycle of a pipeline from beginning to end…If the goal is to curtail [Read more]

A deep dive into CAPP’s climate policy study: too risky, out of sync with govts, not supported by the evidence

June 19, 2018

If adopted, CAPP’s climate policy recommendation would be a major departure from current approach, align Canada more closely with Trump “innovation, not regulation” strategy Canada’s normally cautious oil and gas producers are rolling the dice. [Read more]