Oil and Gas News

• Create Strong Protection for Whistleblowers, Watchdog Tells Alberta

  Oil & Gas Reserves - 2 hours ago

  … environmental contamination from the nearby oil sands . After speaking up, a complaint ̷

• Enbridge plans massive $3-billion pipeline expansion in Canada and U.S.

  Oil & Gas Reserves - 2 hours ago

  … move crude from the Alberta oil sands and North Dakota’s Bakken ̷

• America’s future oil supply depends on technology at this Canadian oil sands site

  Calcutta News.Net - 4 hours ago

  follow up a series of stories I wrote about Williston, North Dakota by sending me to the Alberta oil sands, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. All I knew about the oil sands ...

• Redford fumbles the oil sands file

  Globe and Mail - 4 hours ago

  science of climate change. She was critical of the provincial tax on carbon emissions and unapologetic about an oil sands industry routinely condemned for its outsized contribution to global pollution. Her position stood in contrast to Alison Redfords. The Tory leader at least seemed to understand that...

• Imperial Provides Updates on Oil Sands Joint Venture and Business Prospects

  Individual.com - 5 hours ago

  Imperial Petroleum, Inc. provided the following update on its oil sands joint venture and business prospects: Under the terms of the previously announced joint venture for the Company's oil sands operations in Kentucky, Peak has begun funding the operating...

• URS Finalizes Acquisition of Flint Energy Services

  Individual.com - 5 hours ago

  of approximately 80 locations in North America that support many of the largest companies operating in the oil, oil sands and gas producing regions of Western Canada and in the Southwest, Appalachian and Rocky Mountain regions of the United States. Flint has become the new Oil & Gas division...

• Redford calls Mulcair 'divisive and ill-informed' May 16, 2012 10:04 PM ET Premier Alison Redford used Facebook and Twitter on Wednesday to call federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair 'divisive and ill-informed' for his rec

  CBC - 6 hours ago

  Wednesday to call federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair "divisive and ill-informed" for his recent comments about the Alberta oilsands. Mulcair said last week that the oilsands have created a high Canadian dollar, which in turn has hurt the country's manufacturing sector, largely based in central Canada. He...

• Redford calls Mulcair 'divisive and ill-informed'

  CBC - 7 hours ago

  Alberta premier posts Mulcair criticisms on Facebook and Twitter Mulcair said last week that the oilsands have created a high Canadian dollar, which in turn has hurt the country's manufacturing sector, largely based in central Canada. He went even further this week calling Redford, Saskatchewan...

• New Study Considers Water Consumption in Oil Sands

  Water Canada - 8 hours ago

  Can Alberta’s oil sands balance environmental tradeoffs and economic returns? According to a new study from Alberta Innovates – Energy and Environmental Solutions (AI-EES), there may be a way. In collaboration with the...

• Study examines thermal in-situ water conservation in Alberta oil sands

  WaterWorld - 9 hours ago

  and their potential for maximizing water recycling and minimizing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and waste generation in Alberta oil sands. The report, completed by Alberta Innovates - Energy and Environmental Solutions (AI-EES), in collaboration with the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB), Alberta...

• Oil Sands on the menu in SOS series

  Packet & Times - 9 hours ago

  Lakehead Orillia’s campus on University Avenue at 7 pm. The film, Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands will be featured. The film has been described as a visual tour de force taking viewers inside the David and Goliath struggle playing out from Canada’s oil sands...

• Thomas Mulcair disease: Canadas would-be PM slips on the oilsands

  Canadian Content - 9 hours ago

• Study adds to chorus calling Mulcair wrong on oil sands

  CJOK FM 93.3 - 10 hours ago

  Federal NDP leader Thomas Mulcair isn’t gaining many allies in his fight to paint the oil sands as the reason for job losses in manufacturing in Ontario and Quebec. The latest voice to tell Mulcair he’s wrong is the research director at the Institute for...

• Thomas Mulcair sticks by oil sands criticism despite conflicting evidence

  Oil & Gas Reserves - 10 hours ago

  … pay for their pollution, the cost of oil sands bitumen and other natural ̷

• Mulcair 'divisive, ill-informed' on oilsands: Redford

  Sun News - 10 hours ago

  Premier Alison Redford's got some juggling to do. Sun News

• This New Technology Will Make The Alberta Oil Sands A Household Name

  Yahoo! Xtra Business - 11 hours ago

  follow up a series of stories I wrote about Williston, North Dakota by sending me to the Alberta oil sands, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. All I knew about the oil sands was that they were one big beautiful mess that would either lift...

• Greens hail Statoil oil sands ‘victory’, accuse company of arrogance

  The Foreigner - 12 hours ago

  A pleased environmental front has been celebrating some progress in getting Statoil to pull out of its Canadian oil sands project following the company’s AGM in Stavanger, Tuesday. At the same time, Statoil’s board voted to pour billions of kroner into owners’ pockets. According to Greenpeace, this...

• Enbridge Energy Partners Announces Major Expansions of Its Lakehead System

  Individual.com - 12 hours ago

  related to crude oil, liquid petroleum, natural gas and NGLs, including the rate of development of the Alberta Oil Sands; (2) Enbridge Partners' ability to successfully complete and finance expansion projects; (3) the effects of competition, in particular, by other pipeline systems; (4) shut-downs or...

• Euro Pacific Global Investment Conference Brings Leading International Transportation, Energy and Mining Companies to NYC

  Individual.com - 12 hours ago

  largest energy company, Deutsche Post (DPW), Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), Aurizon Mines* (AZK), Harry Winston Diamond (HWD), Canadian Oil Sands (COS), and A.P. Moller Maersk - Damco [MAERSKB] --the world's largest container shipping company. Presentations will last 30 minutes, after which the executives...
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  EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Here's The Hot New Way They're Extracting Oil From Canada's Massive Oil Sands

  Business Insider - 13 hours ago

• URS wins contract for Canadian oil sands project

  CBS News - 14 hours ago

  said Wednesday that it has been awarded a contract worth up to $130 million for work on an oil sands project in Alberta, Canada.The San Francisco engineering and construction company said that its oil and gas division will be responsible for construction of above-ground and underground pipelines, access...
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  America's Future Oil Supply Depends On Revolutionary Technology At This Canadian Oil Sands Site

  Business Insider - 14 hours ago

• VIDEO B-ROLL AVAILABLE MAY 17, 2012 VIA CNW - Alberta business delegation touring Quebec and talking trade and investment

  Rock Hill Herald - 14 hours ago

  Alberta and Quebec to talk about how the two communities can better work together. On May 16th, Canadian Oil Sands CEO and Syncrude Chairman Marcel Coutu gave a keynote address hosted by the Montreal Board of Trade that capped off a half-day of meetings focused on bringing the business...

• Alberta Innovates- Energy and Environment Solutions releases Thermal In-Situ Water Conservation Study

  Individual.com - 16 hours ago

  and their potential for maximizing water recycling and minimizing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and waste generation in Alberta oil sands. A summary report of the study, conducted by Jacobs Consultancy, was publicly released on May 16, 2012 and provides insight for sustainable oil sands development...