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Energy Resources Conservation Board puts new Air Monitoring Units on Alberta roads

December 01, 2009 Category: Environment, Technology Tags: , , , ,
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Two response vehicles deployed to find gas leaks More →

Alberta’s Geological Survey fosters natural resource knowledge

August 01, 2009 Category: Departments Tags: , , ,
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Alberta’s earth sciences brain trust keeps no secrets More →

Waste management in the petroleum industry is a daunting task regulated by the Energy Resources Conservation Board

May 14, 2009 Category: Environment Tags: , , , ,
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The sheer volumes of oilfield waste strain government data systems More →

Alberta’s Energy Resources Conservation Board talks tough

May 01, 2009 Category: Environment, Policy Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,
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Policing the petroleum industry ramps up as federal and provincial leaders in Canada talk about a clean energy platform More →

Peace in the Parkland

February 02, 2009 Category: People, Policy Tags: ,
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A fragile truce blooms as industry tempers generations of mistrust More →

Rough-and-Tumble Times

December 01, 2008 Category: Gas Tags: , , , , , , , ,
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An appeal court praises the ERCB for doing good work, but there is no end in sight to conflicts over hazardous drilling More →

The History of the Oil and Gas Company Town in Alberta

May 29, 2008 Category: People Tags: , , , , , , , ,
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Oil patch historian David Finch scrolls back in time to look at the curious history of these "model" towns 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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