The proposed 35,000-barrel-per-day Taiga oilsands project near Cold Lake took another step forward after Alberta regulators gave Osum Oil Sands Corp. the green light to conduct an environmental impact assessment. For full story, click here
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
McDermott International, Inc. declared that a subsidiary of The Babcock & Wilcox Company, has been awarded a contract to supply four modularized boilers for Phase 1 of the Kearl Oil Sands Project being developed by Imperial Oil in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, located 70 kilometers north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. For full story, click [...]
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
The Co-operative Group, a United Kingdom-based bank, has contributed C$100,000 to a legal fight by a small Alberta First Nations community against oil sands expansion in the province. For full story, click here
Continue reading "British Bank has entered Oil Sands Suit"
Saturday, July 11, 2009
The completion of a debt offering by a Calgary-based integrated oil company has kick-started construction on a stalled oilsands project south of Ft McMurray in northern Alberta. For full story, click here
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Companies linked to a Chinese energy giant declared that they don’t owe any wages to a man who was employed as a temporary foreign worker at an Alberta oilsands project. For full story, click here
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Baytex Energy Trust agreed to purchase heavy-oil assets in southwest Saskatchewan and natural-gas properties in west-central Alberta for C$93 million. For full story, click here
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Connacher Oil and Gas Limited declared that construction activities were restarted at its second 10,000 bbl/d steam assisted gravity drainage in the Great Divide region of northeastern Alberta. For full story, click here
Friday, July 3, 2009
Alberta’s oil sands producers and their U.S. refiners face sharply higher costs to slash greenhouse gas emissions under legislation approved by the U.S. House of Representatives and championed by U.S. President Barack Obama. For full story, click here
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach will declare natural gas drilling incentives Thursday as the industry struggles with depressed prices and increased shale gas development south of the border. For full story, click here
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach will declared natural gas drilling incentives Thursday as the industry struggles with depressed prices and raised shale gas development south of the border. For full story, click here
Continue reading "Alberta’s Premier Oil Sands have shown signs of relief"
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