Canada

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October 01, 2015
A longtime Canadian advocate for the Keystone XL pipeline is blaming his former boss, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, for dropping the ball on the project and handing U.S. President Barack Obama a blank check to reject it.
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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 28, 2015
BG Group has acquired three non-operated positions offshore Newfoundland from Repsol.
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September 28, 2015
DOF Subsea, a subsidiary of DOF, has been awarded several major contracts with a total value in excess $350 million (NOK 3 billion), including options, securing both short term and long term utilization of assets and personnel.
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September 22, 2015
ConocoPhillips, the third-largest North American oil and gas producer, is nearing a deal to sell several Western Canadian assets to various buyers including Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., people with knowledge of the matter said.
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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 15, 2015
Seadrill Limited has notified Hyundai Heavy Industries that it has exercised its right to cancel the contract for the construction of the West Mira, a sixth generation ultra-deepwater harsh environment semisubmersible drilling unit.
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September 09, 2015
Husky Energy has started production from a second oil well at the South White Rose extension drill center offshore Newfoundland and Labrador.
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September 08, 2015
Millennium Stimulation Services is introducing a patented process of using Energized Natural Gas (ENG) as a fluid solution for hydraulic fracturing.
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September 07, 2015
The last place oil producers want to be when prices plummet to profit-demolishing lows is midstream on a billion-dollar project in one of the costliest parts of the planet to extract crude.
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September 04, 2015
Starting in earnest after Labor Day, oil and natural gas companies will begin the twice-yearly pilgrimage to their banks to discuss funding.
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September 02, 2015
Aggreko, the leading global provider of modular, mobile power and related solutions has entered into an agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets associated with, and used in connection with, the equipment rental business of ICS Group, Inc.
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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 30, 2015
The Alberta Energy Regulator has ordered the immediate suspension of 15 pipeline licenses issued to Nexen, the Canadian unit of China’s Cnooc Ltd., after finding “noncompliant activities” at the company’s Long Lake oil-sands operations.
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August 19, 2015
Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation and INPEX Corporation have started a joint study on technology relating to shale gas development in the Horn River, Liard and Cordova areas in the province of British Columbia, Canada, with INPEX Gas British Columbia and Nexen Energy ULC.
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August 18, 2015
Crescent Point Energy’s acquisition of Coral Hill Energy closed Friday.
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August 18, 2015
Dividend cuts among Canadian energy producers are poised to accelerate as cost reductions fail to boost shrinking cash flow.
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August 18, 2015
Pieridae Energy (Canada) Ltd. has been issued long-term licenses by the National Energy Board of Canada to import natural gas from the U.S. and to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Canada.
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