Canadian crude oil production up; imports down, Statistics Canada says

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 →

How Air Standards for Power Generation Could be an Omen for the Oil Sands

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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By Brian Bietz

Strict new green standards for power stations are on the horizon More →

Nigeria’s Petroleum-based Nation-building

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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By Paul Michael Wihbey

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 →

The Wild World of Gas Hydrates – A Different Unconventional Gas Play

January 30, 2008 Category: Environment, Gas Tags: climate change, GasAndes, hydrates, hydrocarbon, permafrost
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By Graham Chandler

Unlike the 1950s conspiracy theory about water that could run your car forever, this source – gas hydrates – is for real More →

Seven Deadly Sins of the New Alberta Disadvantage

October 01, 2007 Category: Gas, Policy Tags: Economics, hydrocarbon, oil & gas, petroleum, Royalty Review
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By Sebastian Gault

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 →