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Oil sands ambition shows staying power By early 2009, setbacks dealt out to Alberta’s oil sands looked crushing. Project delays became routine. Monthly average oil prices fell 70 per cent from $140 a barrel in July 2008 to $42.45 in December. Construction cost forecasts stayed stubbornly high after doubling or even tripling in the bygone oil sands rush. |
December 01, 2009
Category: Departments, Finance, People
Tags: bitumen, ERCB, export pipelines, oil price, U.S. Dollar
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A striking correlation between the greenback and oil – and a record of dramatic change – emerged from a review of three decades of relationships More →
October 01, 2009
Category: Finance
Tags: bitumen, Kearl Oilsands Project, Mobil Oil Canada, oil sands
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Oil sands megamine projects are keeping in step with construction costs and energy price outlooks More →
October 01, 2009
Category: Finance
Tags: capital market
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Return to the flush times of freely-flowing cash that characterized the financial world in the earlier part of the decade unlikely More →
October 01, 2009
Category: Finance
Tags: Bank of Canada
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The firm says National Energy Board regulation has become a barrier to efficient and effective determination of fair returns following the credit crunch More →
August 01, 2009
Category: Departments, Finance
Tags: financial wreckage, Transactions
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Alberta’s money czar braces for a long financial storm More →
August 01, 2009
Category: Departments, Finance
Tags: contractors, market forces, Services
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The worst victims of the current economic slump stop short of trying to turn back the clock More →
June 01, 2009
Category: Finance
Tags: Observer
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In a deal with Precision Drilling that some business rivals and free enterprise purists derided as unfair help, Alberta Investment Management Corp. made its fifth foray into the oil and gas industry as custodian of the provincial government’s petroleum-based wealth More →
April 01, 2009
Category: Finance
Tags: oil sands, oilsands, outlook
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By early 2009, setbacks dealt out to Alberta’s oil sands looked crushing. Project delays became routine More →
April 01, 2009
Category: Finance
Tags: boom, Saskatchewan
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The prairie resource boom has long legs More →
December 02, 2008
Category: Finance, Policy
Tags: Aboriginal Pipeline Group, APG, Canada-Newfoundland Offshore Petroleum Board, Chevron, Danny Williams, ExxonMobil, Hebron, Hibernia, Newfoundland, offshore oil, Petro-Canada, risk
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Is ambition trumping risk as Newfoundland buys into an unguaranteed offshore oil discovery? More →
Drilling activity on the rebound in Western Canada
Shell flips switch on oil sands cleanup plant
Seeking a third term as mayor in the oil sands capital
Alta. government seeks input on land-use plan
Shell reveals its own tailings management plan
Competition heats up for Peace River Coal
Penn West teams up with Mitsubishi
Alternatives
U.S. set to approve world’s largest solar plant
U.S. solar-thermal plant gets nod in Cali
Australia’s vast geography a ‘blessing and a curse’
In Ontario, measuring noise from turbines
Natural Gas
Rush for shale gas ups environmental ante: Rubin
U.S. EPA sets sights on hydraulic fracturing
Coal’s fall from grace a boon for natural gas
International
12 dead in China pipeline blast: reports
More Saudi oil goes to China than U.S.
The proportion of deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico first began to outpace drilling at shallower depths in the early 1980s, figures from the U.S. Department of the Interior Minerals Management Service show. The gap grew steadily until the late-1990s, when production from deepwater plays rose dramatically. The sudden increase in deepwater activity lends credence to the argument that oil is increasingly harder and more expensive to access.
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