Oilfield contractors are a national economic force

November 01, 2010 Category: Departments Tags: Gas, oil, petroleum, PSAC, service and supply
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Petroleum service and supply firms contributed $65 billion to national GDP in 2006 More →

The value of petroleum and natural gas leases per hectare continues to fluctuate

June 04, 2009 Category: Charts Tags: Alberta, natural gas, oil leases, petroleum
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Pipeline companies consider toll hikes for oil and gas producers in light of deepening economic crisis

June 04, 2009 Category: Editor's Blog Tags: CAPP, Gas, NEB, petroleum, TransCanada
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By Gordon Jaremko

Capital for new development has dried up, and cost increases for getting established production to markets could be in store 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 →

Heavy Oil Recovery and the Strategic Decisions That Need to be Made

January 30, 2008 Category: Technology Tags: Alberta Research Council, CHOPS, heavy oil, petroleum, recovery plan, reservoir, toe-to-heel air injection
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By Kambiz Safinya

The question is not how much heavy oil is in the ground, but how much of it can be recovered. For Canada’s heavy oil operators – those who could make Canada the world’s fifth-largest producer by 2015 – the answer depends on the efficiency of their recovery plans 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 →

Analysing Canada’s Energy Superpower Status

April 01, 2007 Category: Gas Tags: energy superpower, oil & gas, petroleum
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By Sebastian Gault

The phrase "energy superepower" is still bandied about and images of a Great Canadian petro-state swaggering on the world stage might not only unsettle our trading partners but also undermine our credibility abroad as a carefully managed resource state More →

Business is Business: China’s petroleum companies come of age

July 01, 2006 Category: International Tags: China, CNOOC, Economics, national oil, oil & gas, petroleum, WTO membership
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By Sebastian Gault

With crude oil imports increasing at an astonishing 13 per cent annually from 1994 to 2005, China has surpassed Japan to become the world’s number two oil consumer after the United States More →