Gordon Jaremko worked as a reporter and editor for Canadian daily newspapers, wire services and monthly magazines for 38 years in Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa, primarily covering politics, economics and business with emphasis on the Alberta petroleum industry. He has contributed to four books and has become an independent contractor engaged on two history projects. He has been contributing to Intelligence Press since 1986.
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Canada Producers Tout Lower Emissions from Conventional Natural Gas, Liquids Production
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions shrank while Canadian natural gas and liquids byproduct output grew during the 2012-2021 period, according to government records compiled by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP). Annual GHG discharges from gas, condensate and lighter fluids production dropped by 22% to 50 million tons in 2021 from 64 million tons in…
September 6, 2023
Enbridge CEO Calls Dominion Natural Gas Utility Deal ‘Once in a Generation Opportunity’
Enbridge Inc. agreed late Tuesday to spend $9.4 billion to become the top North American natural gas utility operator in North America with the purchase of three Dominion Inc. systems, which, once completed, would deliver 9.3 Bcf/d to seven million U.S. and Canadian customers. The Dominion systems to be sold, East Ohio Gas Co., Public…
September 6, 2023
Drilling Efficiencies Drive Double-Digit Growth for BC Natural Gas Production, Says Regulator
Natural gas reserves and production grew in British Columbia last year as drilling improved in the northern Montney Shale, according to the BC Energy Regulator (BCER). Booked reserves gained 18% to 83.17 Tcf in 2022, even as the BC well count dropped by 20% to 374, from 467 in 2021. Production rose by 12% to…
August 31, 2023
AltaGas Muscles Up in Natural Gas-Rich Montney with Tidewater Midstream Tie-Up
AltaGas Ltd. agreed Thursday to buy some natural gas storage assets and midstream properties in Alberta’s Montney Shale from Tidewater Midstream and Infrastructure Ltd. in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $447 million. The package includes the northern Pipestone natural gas processing, storage and pipeline network, as well as the Dimsdale gas storage facility. “We are…
August 31, 2023
Canada Utility Aiming to Blend “Teal” Hydrogen into New Brunswick Natural Gas Network by 2025
A Canadian startup is targeting 2025 to begin a low-carbon hydrogen blending pilot with local natural gas utility Gas New Brunswick. Fredericton, New Brunswick-based Nu:ionic Technologies Inc. said it plans to deploy its proprietary teal hydrogen technology, which combines elements of the more widely known “blue” and “green” production methods. The teal method utilizes microwave…
August 31, 2023
Crescent Point Casting Off Bakken to Pursue Canada’s Natural Gas
Crescent Point Energy Corp. is dropping out of the Bakken Shale with a $500 million private sale, casting off its North Dakota assets to concentrate on unconventional natural gas in Western Canada. The Calgary-based independent said the transaction is with Kraken Resources, a portfolio company of private equity investor Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors. The package…
August 25, 2023
TC’s NGTL Natural Gas System Seeking to Rebrand, Attract Indigenous Investors
TC Energy Corp. has added its mammoth natural gas collection grid for Alberta and British Columbia (BC), Nova Gas Transmission Ltd. (NGTL), to a strategy that spreads ownership of its pipeline empire to other investors. Subsidiary TransCanada Pipelines Ltd. (TCPL), the parent of NGTL, disclosed the plan for the 66-year-old North American gas industry mainstay…
August 22, 2023
Canada’s Mackenzie Delta Eyed Once Again for Natural Gas, Oil Development
Native-owned Inuvialuit Regional Corporation (IRC) will have a role in project approvals under a new pact with Canadian officials – if natural gas and oil development, as well as pipeline proposals, return to the Mackenzie Delta and Beaufort Sea. The Western Arctic-Tariuq Offshore Accord was clinched between the IRC, the federal government, as well as…
August 17, 2023
CES Energy Cites ‘Supportive Outlook’ for North American Natural Gas, Oil Activity
Growing requirements for industrial chemistry to improve natural gas and oil pipeline flows and drilling results lifted second quarter results for CES Energy Solutions Corp., a barometer of activity in Canada and the United States. The Calgary-based company said “the recovery in global energy demand, combined with several years of lower investment in the upstream…
August 16, 2023
Value of U.S.-Canada Natural Gas Trade Jumps 76% in 2022
The dollar value of two-way oil and natural gas trade between Canada and the United States swelled last year to a record $190 billion, as global markets reacted to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to federal researchers. Inflation-adjusted records showed that last year’s energy trade overall between the United States and Canada topped the 2008…
August 16, 2023