Financial Post reported that a line of yellow buoys marking the boundaries of a scallop farm outside Prince Rupert, British Columbia presents the biggest challenge Enbridge Inc may face in its bid to connect Canada’s oil sands to ...
Tags: Enbridge Pipeline, oil sands, coal, oil
New research released Monday indicates that listed mining and resources companies across the world are keen to comply with the UN’s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which were officially adopted one year ago, but must ...
Tags: Coal, Copper, Diamond, Gold, Iron Ore, Nickel, Oil Sands, Potash, Rare Earth
The Canadian government followed through on last month's budget promise to streamline environmental reviews of resource projects with a plan for "responsible resource development." Announced Tuesday by Natural Resources Minister Joe ...
Tags: Canada, Coal, Copper, Diamond, Gold, Iron Ore, Nickel, Oil Sands, Oilsands
Imagine for a moment that you have a credit card with a limit of a few trillion dollars but with one caveat: you need to use those funds exclusively to provide for your family. It sounds easy, until you realize your “family” is ...
Tags: China, Canada, Metallurgy, Mineral Energy
Most Chinese takeovers in the resource sector do not pose a threat to national security, says the author of a new report on Chinese investment in Canada. Theodore Moran, a professor of international business at Georgetown University, says ...
Tags: resource sector, investment, Direct Investment, mining, oilsands
Petrochemical producers are expected to increase investments in Alberta in the coming few years, with the prospects of additional feedstock becoming available and current market conditions favoring NGL and ethane extraction costs, a key ...
Tags: petrochemical, petrochemical spending, NGL, ethane
The Alberta government is aiming to attract major investment in its natural gas sector in 2013, as part of the Canadian province's strategy to develop a balanced and diversified energy portfolio, a provincial government official said ...
Tags: natgas investments, gas sector, gas, gas prices
The power, refining and oil and gas industries will combine to purchase pumps, valves, instrumentation, filters, clarifiers, separators scrubbers, dust collectors and other air and liquid treatment equipment totaling $61 billion in 2013. ...
Tags: power, refining, oil, gas industries, filters, clarifiers
With approval from the Canadian government granted on Friday, China National Offshore Oil Corp. has crossed the biggest hurdle to its $15.1 billion takeover bid for Nexen and the deal should close by the end of the year, analysts said in ...
Tags: Cnooc Nexen, LNG export facility, Oil
CANADA approved China's biggest ever foreign takeover, the USD 15.1 billion bid by CNOOC Ltd for energy company Nexen Inc, after the Chinese giant agreed to various conditions, but drew a line in the sand against future purchases by state ...
Tags: foreign investment framework, employment, capital investments
Gulf News reported that Alberta, Canada's oil producing heartland and Quebec's separatist government will study the benefits of shipping the western province's crude to refineries in Quebec, a shift that could help cut the industry's ...
Tags: oil producing, Eastern Canadian refineries, energy industry
Williams Energy will apply in early 2013 to Alberta's Energy Resources Conservation Board to build a natural gas liquids and olefins processing facilities in the province, even as it aims to add a new petrochemical value chain, the ...
The first barrel of ethane from the Bakken field will go to Nova Chemicals' Joffre, Alberta facility to be value added and converted into polyethylene next year, which explains why CEO Randy Woelfel described himself at an industry event in ...
Tags: Shale gas, Petchems, petrochemicals
Syncrude Canada Ltd has selected KBR to undertake module fabrication and field construction for its Fluid Fine Tailings – Centrifuging Full Scale Plant (FFT-CFSP) in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Syncrude, which operates a surface ...
Sales of Caterpillar Inc.'s (CAT) construction and mining equipment slowed throughout the world, rising 6% in the three months to the end of September. It was the 28th-straight three-month period of retail-sales expansion for the world's ...
Tags: Market View, Mineral Machinery