Venture Publishing purchased Alberta Oil magazine from Skinnyfish Media. Over the past three months, we have been very busy integrating this newest property into our portfolio of business magazines, which includes our award-winning Alberta Venture and Unlimited. It has been an exciting and thought-provoking experience – and one heavy with responsibility. We have been cognizant that it would be difficult to identify a more vital sector of Alberta’s economy or one more closely scrutinized. Our challenge has been to clearly articulate how we would report on that sector and serve the needs of our readers. In your hands, you hold the result of decisions debated and made during Alberta’s hot summer months.

We chose the tagline The Business of Energy. That sums up the focus of this magazine. Editor Gordon Jaremko, who is widely recognized as one of the most experienced and knowledgeable energy journalists in Canada, will bring you, our readers, unique insight into the business imperatives of Canada’s energy sector – a community attracting international attention as “the quiet energy superpower.”

Quiet – because a temperate policy climate lets markets guide development, plays no favorites between home-grown and international investment and adapts to change in the natural, economic and political environment with evolutionary steps instead of revolutionary drama.

Superpower – because a vast resource endowment, often only in early development stages, has enabled this community to emerge as the world’s seventh-largest oil producer, second-biggest natural gas exporter and a rare source of energy supply growth on an international scale.

This distinctively Canadian combination of moderation and natural wealth is breeding companies by hundreds, jobs by tens of thousands, cash flows by billions of dollars, constant innovation and intriguing leaders.

In the pages of Alberta Oil, you will meet those individuals who are shaping the policy, the practices and the pursuits of Canada’s energy industry. Our commitment is to provide you with thoughtful and thought-provoking insight into the complex events, trends and developments that are unfolding as this industry moves into its expansive future.

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