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Suncor’s McClelland Lake project opportunity for AER to rehab image as ‘Alberta Energy Facilitator’

July 30, 2023 Markham Hislop

Time for careful evaluation of impact on McClelland Lake’s two fens and their 60 kilometres of sensitive peat-producing wetlands? Critics call it the “Alberta Energy Facilitator.” A spat emerging over Suncor’s proposed McClelland Lake oil [Read more]

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Industry, CleanBC fund Port Moody hydrogen pilot project

July 5, 2022 Energi Staff

In Port Moody, British Columbia, three partner companies along with CleanBC Industry Fund are working on a pilot project that will produce clean-burning hydrogen from natural gas. FortisBC, Suncor Energy and Hazer Group will use [Read more]

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Petro-Canada’s coast-to-coast network of EV fast chargers complete

December 19, 2019 Energi Staff

Petro-Canada celebrated the completion of its coast-to-coast network of EV fast chargers on Tuesday when the company officially opened an electric vehicle charging station near Victoria, B.C. Known as the “Electric Highway”, the network is [Read more]

Markham on Energy

Will Kenney’s comments to the Globe and Mail spook international investors demanding carbon risk strategies?

May 26, 2019 Markham Hislop

A Friday tweet from energy reporter Shawn McCarthy pulled back the curtain a bit on Premier Jason Kenney’s off-the-record view of climate change: “investor concerns about climate risk are ‘flavour of the month’…” [Read more]

Canada

Petro-Can building network of EV fast chargers along Trans-Canada highway

February 13, 2019 Energi Staff

Petro-Canada announced on Wednesday that in the coming year, it will be the first company to offer an EV fast charger network from Nova Scotia to British Columbia.  Petro-Canada photo. 50 EV fast charger  network [Read more]

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Alberta

Suncor CEO Steve Williams announces retirement

November 15, 2018 Energi Staff

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]

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Canada

Equinor wins three new licences offshore Newfoundland

November 8, 2018 Energi Staff

Equinor and its partners, Husky and Suncor, were the successful bidders for new exploration parcels in the prolific Jeanne d’Arc basin, offshore Newfoundland.  Company photo by Oyvind Hagen. Equinor has been active in Canada since [Read more]

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Alberta

Suncor’s Fort Hills oil sands project begins operations

September 12, 2018 Energi Staff

On Monday, Suncor officials joined by Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and Energy Minister Margaret McCuiag-Boyd, opened its Fort Hills oil sand project.  Government of Alberta photo. Fort Hills could generate $8 billion in royalties for [Read more]

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News

Global Petroleum Show: Calgary welcomes global energy leaders

June 12, 2018 Energi Staff

Jaden Holle; Leonard Bastien, Elder, Blackfoot confederacy; Minister of Economic Development and Trade Deron Bilous; Jessica Wilson; Lindsay Lockwood welcome participants to the Global Petroleum Show.  Government of Alberta photo. New investment, partnership opportunities as [Read more]

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Financial

Major milestone: Suncor’s Fort Hills bitumen has same carbon-intensity as average US crude oil

June 12, 2018 Energi Staff

With production from Fort Hills, Hebron ramping up earlier than expected, Suncor well-positioned for strong production remainder of 2018 Suncor says that with the completion of major planned turnaround activities and strong production from growth [Read more]

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Financial

Suncor changes Syncrude turnaround timing due to pipeline capacity constraint

March 15, 2018 Markham Hislop

Suncor expects total upstream production for first quarter to be 685,000 boe/d Suncor Energy says the Syncrude maintenance turnaround originally scheduled to begin in April will be moved up by approximately one month due to [Read more]

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News

Suncor random drug testing injunction upheld by Alberta Court of Appeal

March 2, 2018 Markham Hislop

The injuction will be upheld until a new arbitration board hears the grievance The Alberta Court of Appeal has upheld an injunction on random drug testing of Suncor employees in the Regional Municipality of Wood [Read more]

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Financial

Suncor applies for new 160,000 b/d oil sands project, buys 5% more of Syncrude

February 27, 2018 Markham Hislop

New Suncor oil sands project will have production of 160,000 barrels per day Suncor announced it has closed the transaction to purchase a five per cent interest in Syncrude from Mocal Energy for $925 million [Read more]

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News

Suncor Energy implements first fleet of autonomous haul trucks in oil sands

January 31, 2018 Markham Hislop

Suncor is implementing the use of autonomous haulage systems (AHS) at company-operated mines, starting with the North Steepbank mine. Over the next six years, the company expects to deploy more than 150 autonomous haul trucks [Read more]

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Politics

Environmentalists call for action on Alberta oil sands tailings ponds

January 17, 2018 Energi Staff

Photo above shows reclaimed oil sands tailings pond.  Syncrude Canada photo. Oil sands tailings ponds hold over 340 billion gallons of waste Environmentalists are concerned a recent ruling by the Alberta Energy Regulator green-lighting the [Read more]

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Financial

Suncor Energy continues record production to close out 2017

January 17, 2018 Markham Hislop

Suncor resolved a long standing dispute and gained additional working interest in an oilsands project from Total Suncor provided a business update for fourth quarter of 2017, highlighting upstream production of 736,000 barrels of boe/d, [Read more]

In the Spotlight

Alberta needs a Plan B

by Markham Hislop in Markham on Energy

Oil finally has a competitor (electricity) Alberta already has a Plan A. It’s called the Emissions Reduction and Energy Development Plan. To understand how risky it is, you need to understand OPEC’s “Oil and Gas [Read more]

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