Strange brew: improving drilling mud with biomass

June 01, 2011 Category: Technology Tags: Alberta Innovates, ArboraNano, drillbits, drilling fluids, drilling mud, oil wells, PSAC
2 Comments →

The $300 million business of mud looks to alternatives More →

Full tilt: service firms adjust to a horizontal surge

April 01, 2011 Category: Services Tags: fraccing, Horizontal drilling, Horn River, PSAC, tight oil, Trican Well Service Ltd.
No Comments →

Rig counts alone are no longer an adequate marker of field activity More →

Thinking big in the petroleum services sector

March 01, 2011 Category: People Tags: exports, Mark Salkeld, oil & gas, PSAC
No Comments →

By Jeff Lewis

Building an international profile for Canada's service sector More →

Saskatchewan leads drilling activity in Western Canada

March 01, 2011 Category: Departments Tags: drilling, Mark Salkeld, National Energy Board, oil & gas, PSAC, shale gas, Technology
No Comments →

The Bakken boom fuels an 11 per cent jump in forecast wells More →

New drilling targets prompt an oilfield revival

December 01, 2010 Category: Departments Tags: CAODC, fraccing, Horizontal drilling, multi-stage fraccing, oilfield, PSAC
No Comments →

Horizontal wells account for 40 per cent of fieldwork from nine per cent in 2006 More →

Oilfield contractors are a national economic force

November 01, 2010 Category: Departments Tags: Gas, oil, petroleum, PSAC, service and supply
No Comments →

Petroleum service and supply firms contributed $65 billion to national GDP in 2006 More →

Your Industry Guidebook

April 01, 2006 Category: Services Tags: CAGC, CAODC, CAPP, CEPA, CGA, CSUG, Enform, EUB, Petroleum Human Resources Council of Canada, PSAC, PTAC, SEPAC
No Comments →

In Alberta Oil’s guide to industry associations, we profile a dozen of these organizations, and outline their specific mandates and services to the oil and gas industry. Mark this page and use it as a reference More →