Alberta
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June 13, 2019
Speaking to the 51st annual Global Petroleum Show in Calgary on Tuesday, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney tried to paint a picture of a brighter future for a Canadian E&P industry weary after several years of depressed activity.
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June 10, 2019
Alberta may have finally found the right level for its oil curtailment program that has sent local oil prices on a roller coaster for the last few months.
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June 2019
Several months ahead of schedule, Shell Offshore Inc., a Royal Dutch Shell subsidiary—alongside partner CNOOC Petroleum Offshore SA, Inc., a subsidiary of CNOOC Limited—has begun producing at its Appomattox floating production system.
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June 03, 2019
Canadian heavy oil in Alberta surged the most since December after wildfires forced a second producer in the region to shut in some operations.
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April 30, 2019
Maintenance at oil-sands mines may achieve what Alberta’s mandatory production curtailments have so far failed to accomplish: drain Western Canada’s storage tanks.
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April 24, 2019
Shifting Alberta's shipments of crude-by-rail to private producers, is an option that Cenovus Energy Inc. CEO Alex Pourbaix said Alberta Premier-Elect Jason Kenney may be able to consider, instead of scrapping the plan altogether.
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April 17, 2019
Alberta has made a made a conservative move by electing Kenney premier after he vowed to fight harder for the Canadian province’s beleaguered energy industry.
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April 02, 2019
Local wildcatters that pump light crude far from the giant oil-sands mines of northern Alberta are getting a big price boost from the curtailments announced at the start of December, without the headaches.
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March 22, 2019
Trying to fix the crude market has been hard enough for OPEC. Alberta’s go at it is proving a bigger challenge than the oil-rich Canadian province anticipated.
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March 07, 2019
Drillers are moving ahead in a corner of Canada’s oil sands that saw a flurry of land grabs in recent years, unfazed by a glut of crude that depressed prices last year and the mandatory production cuts that followed.
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February 27, 2019
A relentless increase in production from Alberta’s oil sands and higher crude prices in the first half of the year are powering the province’s budget through a pipeline shortage that has weighed on economic growth.
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February 26, 2019
Alberta oil producers have found a way around production limits imposed on them by the provincial government: buy the right to pump barrels from other companies that don’t need them.
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February 19, 2019
Alberta is preparing a giant crude-by-rail operation to help its oil-sands producers cope with a pipeline crunch, and it expects a big profit from the venture.
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February 2019
A year ago, things appeared to be looking up for Canada’s oil patch, but that proved unfounded. In early 2019, more uncertainty and pessimism are in the air, and little on the horizon provides hope for improvement.
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February 2019
In an exclusive interview with World Oil Editor-in-Chief Kurt Abraham, ConocoPhillips Chief Technology Officer Greg Leveille discusses the technical issues facing global E&P, particularly as relates to the many U.S. unconventional plays
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February 11, 2019
Canada’s oil sector may soon get a more combative advocate in the Alberta premier’s office.
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February 06, 2019
Suncor Energy Inc. CEO Steve Williams said he expects Alberta’s mandated oil-production cuts to end earlier than planned after the program boosted heavy crude prices so much that it made purchases unprofitable for U.S. refiners.
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January 30, 2019
The sugar high from Alberta’s crude curtailment program may be wearing off.
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January 21, 2019
A month into Alberta’s mandatory oil curtailment and rationing on the country’s biggest heavy-crude export pipeline system has eased, but very little.
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January 20, 2019
Alberta’s crude curtailment plan has caused a dramatic rise in the price of heavy Canadian oil. But for shares of energy companies, it hasn’t been as much of a help.
