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Alberta is filled with luminaries and forward thinkers, several of whom took the time to respond to Alberta Oil’s Share Your Vision survey. Here are select responses to survey questions provided by prominent figures in Alberta’s government, industry and research sectors. - Read More


Oil patch history is writ small for a retired roughneck

September 01, 2010 Category: People Tags: , , ,
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Models of oilfield hardware offer a close-up look at very big equipment More →

Energy sector construction work to ramp up in 2012

September 01, 2010 Category: People Tags: ,
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Shale gas and oil sands to drive jobs, predicts Flint Energy Services Ltd. boss More →

The Consumers’ Coalition of Alberta is in your corner

August 03, 2010 Category: People Tags: , , ,
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Jim Wachowich traffics in a constructive brand of industry criticism More →

Why shareholder activism is here to stay

August 03, 2010 Category: People Tags: ,
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Passive shareholders a rare breed, says the corporate finance director of the Alberta Securities Commission More →

Alberta’s Biodiversity Monitoring Institute maps industrial impacts

May 01, 2010 Category: People Tags: , , ,
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The University of Alberta group says 94 per cent of the province's ecosystems are intact More →

Carbon Management Canada looks to bridge scholarly gaps

May 01, 2010 Category: People Tags: , , ,
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A Canadian coalition of scholars and industrialists bands together to cut carbon emissions More →

Kitimat LNG Inc. beefs up export plans on the Pacific coast

April 07, 2010 Category: People Tags: , ,
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The $3 billion plan would be Canada's first liquefied natural gas export terminal More →

Petroleum History Society of Canada puts the 2008 economic crash in perspective

April 07, 2010 Category: People Tags: , ,
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As bad as it seemed, the latest recession was no dustbowl ballad More →

McMillan LLP partner pens new oil and gas law text

April 07, 2010 Category: People Tags: , , ,
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The Calgary lawyer finds common ground with wary landowners in a legal opus More →

Alberta energy sector benefits from oil sands ingenuity

February 05, 2010 Category: People Tags: , ,
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Athabasca Oil Sands Project, BP Canada Energy Co. top list of innovative firms More →

Chart of the Week

Alberta Oil Magazine chart of the week

Offshore drilling moves to the deep end

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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