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September 01, 2009
Category: Charts
Tags: hydrocarbon, imports, natural gas
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Numbers culled between June 2008 and June 2009 reveal interesting changes on Canadian energy scene More →
September 16, 2008
Category: Alternative Energy
Tags: Alberta Environment, BATEA, Bow City Power Project, CASA, Clean Air Strategic Alliance, coal, electricity, emissions, Epcor, hydrocarbon, oil sands, oilsands, SAGD, sulfur dioxide
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Strict new green standards for power stations are on the horizon More →
January 30, 2008
Category: Gas, International
Tags: bitumen, crude oil, Dr. Emmanuel Egbogak, heavy oil, hydrocarbon, liquefied natural gas, LNG, NAPCOM, Niger Delta, Nigeria, oil sands, oilsands, petroleum, West Africa
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Paul Michael Wihbey, President of Washington-based energy consulting firm GWEST, draws on his in-depth working knowledge of West Africa to report on Nigeria’s energy-driven upswing as well as its heavy oil industry’s promising Alberta connection More →
January 30, 2008
Category: Environment, Gas
Tags: climate change, GasAndes, hydrates, hydrocarbon, permafrost
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Unlike the 1950s conspiracy theory about water that could run your car forever, this source – gas hydrates – is for real More →
October 01, 2007
Category: Gas, Policy
Tags: Economics, hydrocarbon, oil & gas, petroleum, Royalty Review
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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 →
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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