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Green Oil author Satya Das charts course for clean energy future

December 01, 2009 Category: Environment, Policy Tags: , , ,
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Book combines climate change politics with Alberta economics, the royalty debate and an awful lot of report summaries More →

How Oil Traders Gave Albertan Consumers and the Financial Community a Wild Ride

September 16, 2008 Category: Finance Tags: , , , ,
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Canadian industry realities taught investors a hard lesson since the big bull market in commodities in general, and energy in particular, took off five years ago. More →

Is Brazil a better match for US oil demand than Alberta?

September 15, 2008 Category: International Tags: , , , , , , , ,
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Brazil steps forward to share the spotlight as a naturally well-endowed candidate to take care of U.S. energy appetites More →

The Numbers Behind the Montney Tight Gas Play

May 29, 2008 Category: Finance, Gas Tags: , , ,
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Drilling activity shifts westward More →

Changing Alberta’s Economic DNA

May 29, 2008 Category: Finance Tags: ,
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ATB senior economist Todd Hirsch muses about the future need for a structural transformation of the province’s energy-based economy More →

Comparing Performance Between Gas Producers

May 29, 2008 Category: Gas Tags: , , ,
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Who’s King of the Castle? More →

Fallout from the royalty review’s “unintended consequences”

January 30, 2008 Category: Finance, Policy Tags: , , , ,
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The real "Alberta Advantage" was natural gas and now its slipping away More →

Investment Opportunities in the Crude Cocktail Value Chain

January 30, 2008 Category: Finance Tags: , , , , , ,
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Most investors are aware of the characteristics of the heavy, tar-like bitumen produced in the oilsands, yet not as well understood is the variety of end products being marketed by oilsands developers More →

Investigating the Decoupling Theory

January 30, 2008 Category: Finance Tags: , , ,
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When America sneezes, Canada catches a cold. Not only have we all heard this cliché, most of us believe it. Or do we? Todd Hirsch, senior economist at ATB Financial, takes a critical look at a popular theory, and suggests the times have changed More →

Seven Deadly Sins of the New Alberta Disadvantage

October 01, 2007 Category: Gas, Policy Tags: , , , ,
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Aside from inspiring an entire cottage industry of overnight experts, one side effect of this fall’s Alberta royalty review was the practice of faultfinding – particularly of the oil & gas industry. But in accepting the overall message of the review panel that industry has been blatantly robbing past, present and future Albertans of their fair share of the economic rent from hydrocarbon production, the government may have done more than sow the seeds of its own corpulent destruction. It just might take the rest of us with it 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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