Alberta
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January 13, 2017
MEG Energy Corp. is boosting production at its Christina Lake project in Alberta and tapped debt and equity markets for financing, further signs of a rebound in Canada’s oil patch as crude prices stabilize.
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November 10, 2015
Suncor Energy has successfully closed the previously announced purchase of an additional 10% working interest in the Fort Hills oil sands project from Total E&P Canada Ltd.
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November 09, 2015
Shell has officially launched the Quest carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Alberta, Canada, and the start of commercial operations there.
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November 06, 2015
Suncor Energy Inc. is stepping up its hostile C$4.3 billion ($3.3 billion) bid for Canadian Oil Sands Ltd. by asking Alberta regulators to strike down the target’s new shareholder rights plan aimed at preventing its takeover.
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October 28, 2015
Royal Dutch Shell Plc made its second major strategic change in as many months, saying it will take a $2 billion charge as it shelves an oil-sands project in Alberta after walking away from an Arctic drilling program.
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October 16, 2015
Rifle Shot Oil has completed the acquisition of assets in the Redwater area of Alberta.
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September 30, 2015
TransCanada Corp. said it wants to end its fight with Nebraska land owners over the legality of its Keystone XL pipeline path through the state, opting instead to seek approval from the state’s Public Service Commission as its opponents wanted all along.
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September 21, 2015
Total has signed an agreement to sell a 10% interest in the Fort Hills oil sands mining project to the operating partner Suncor Energy.
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September 15, 2015
Penn West Petroleum has entered into a definitive agreement for the sale of its properties in the Greater Mitsue area of Central Alberta for a cash consideration of C$192.5 million.
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September 01, 2015
ConocoPhillips has delivered first oil at its Surmont 2 in-situ oil sands facility in Canada, the company said Tuesday.
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September 01, 2015
Cenovus Energy has closed its purchase of Canexus Corporation's North American Terminal Operations (NATO), a crude-by-rail trans-loading facility in central Alberta.
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August 31, 2015
The Alberta royalty review panel should propose new rules by the end of this year to help restore investor confidence, and should consider how to make the province more attractive and competitive for the oil and natural gas investment that generates jobs and government revenues, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers said Monday.
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August 17, 2015
Alberta’s energy regulator restricted applications by oil and natural gas operators to withdraw water from the Athabasca River amid dry conditions in the province.
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July 31, 2015
TransCanada Corp. is slowing work on two pipelines in Alberta because of reduced demand tied to lower crude prices and setbacks to its major oil export projects.
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July 30, 2015
Black Stallion Oil & Gas, Inc. confirms that it will start to execute a detailed exploration program on the 12,233-acre Woodrow Prospect in Teton county, northwest Montana, within the Alberta Basin Bakken fairway.
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July 28, 2015
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to get oil-sands pipeline projects off the ground, and Alberta’s worst spill since 1980 will probably make it tougher.
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July 23, 2015
CB&I has been awarded a contract for approximately $60 million by a major energy company to provide maintenance services for three separate oil sands facilities in Alberta, Canada.
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July 16, 2015
Nexen Energy ULC is responding to an incident at its Long Lake oil sands facility south of Fort McMurray, Alberta, the company announced Thursday.
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July 09, 2015
Despite lower oil prices and other challenges, growth in Canadian oil sands will continue and remain one of the top sources of global supply growth in coming years, according to a new report by IHS.
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July 08, 2015
Suncor Energy has reached an agreement with TransAlta Corporation to exchange Suncor's Kent Breeze and its share of the Wintering Hills wind power facilities for TransAlta's Poplar Creek cogeneration facilities. The Poplar Creek facilities provide steam and power for Suncor's oil sands base site in Fort McMurray Alberta.
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June 29, 2015
Canada’s oil sands producers are prepared to take a greater leadership role on climate action as part of the growing global intention to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) said.
