Alberta's government will spend C$206 million ($200.7 million) to fund five oil sands-related pilot projects aimed at increasing bitumen recoveries and reducing fresh water usage for in-situ facilities, the province's Department of Energy ...
The Canadian and Alberta governments have opened a new database on the air, water, land and biodiversity impact of oil sands development that could lead to tougher limits on the industry, federal Environment Minister Peter Kent said Monday. ...
Aquatech has won the contract to design and supply a produced water evaporator system for Pengrowth Lindbergh Energy Corp’s SAGD facility in the Cold Lake region of Alberta, Canada. Designed using Aquatech’s patented High ...
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April 3, 2013 - Construction industry stakeholders from across Canada have formed a new national organization to help “keep a steady flow of highly skilled workers available to the growing industry”: BuildForce Canada. ...
UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced that its UOP C3 Oleflex process technology has been selected by Williams to produce propylene, a valuable petrochemical used in plastics production. The selection is the sixth win for ...
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The Weir Group PLC (“Weir”) has extended its leading presence and capabilities in global mining and oil sands markets with the acquisition of a leading Canadian based manufacturer of wear resistant linings. In addition, ...
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February 19, 2013 - Genalta Power Inc. will build a 4MW power generating facility for Shell Canada that will use the gas associated with Shell’s Peace River bitumen cold production. Shell is constructing a pipeline to transport the ...
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Canadian oil sands startup Athabasca Oil Corp said Monday it would start an environmental impact study as part of plans to expand its Hangingstone oil sands facility in northern Alberta to 82,000 b/d. "We currently hold regulatory ...
Shell said Thursday it remains on track to grow its oil and gas production by over 20% in the next five to six years, despite weak North American fuel prices continuing to dent the performance of its key upstream growth centre. ...
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Environmental reviews of TransCanada's controversial Keystone XL pipeline have so far ignored the pollution potential of petroleum coke, a byproduct of the diluted bitumen that would get carried by the system, a group opposed to fossil ...
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BP on Wednesday raised its estimate of global energy demand in 2030 and predicted that shale natural gas, tight oil and biofuels will play an increasingly important role in meeting the world's energy needs. World energy demand will ...
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Hitachi Consulting, a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd and a leading provider of IT consulting and management consulting solutions and services, has acquired Celerant Consulting, a worldwide leader in business operations consulting. Among ...
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Nebraska's Department of Environmental Quality could issue as early as next week its final evaluation on the Keystone XL project to the state's governor, a DEQ spokesman said Thursday. "Right now it's looking like early January, but I ...
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Government auctions of oil and natural gas exploration rights in Western Canada have fallen to some of their lowest levels in the last 15 years and hopes of a recovery in 2013 hinge on operators making a breakthrough in new liquids-rich ...
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In a first-ever meeting, peak oil proponents met with the US Energy Information Administration earlier this month to urge the nation's top statistical agency to temper its rosy outlook on future US energy production. Representatives ...
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