The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) has taken on additional regulatory functions, including responsibility for the Public Lands Act and Part 8 of the Mines and Minerals Act for all oil, natural gas, oil sands and coal development in the province, and has launched an online private surface agreements registry and expanded public notice of applications, the agency said Monday.
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North America Best Place to Invest, Say Energy Industry Execs
Texas ranks No. 1 globally as the best jurisdiction for oil and natural gas investment, followed by Qatar and Alberta, according to the Fraser Institute’s annual Global Petroleum Survey.
TransCanada Moves Quickly to Grab Montney Shale Pipeline Action
TransCanada Corp. is acting swiftly to grab the pipeline action in the next western drilling hot spot, the 130,000-square-kilometer (52,000-square-mile) Montney shale formation in northern British Columbia and Alberta.
Canadian LNG Backers Argue Against Restricting Exports
As volume targets grow, liquefied natural gas (LNG) developers are urging Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) to resist trying to reserve stockpiles for Canadians by shooting down export projects.
U.S. West Coast LNG Seen Leading Canadian Terminal Projects
The first Canadian liquefied natural gas (LNG) could have to settle for boarding tankers at a new port on the northern Pacific Coast of the United States, a champion of British Columbia projects conceded Wednesday.
TransCanada Tastes First Revenue from Toll Revisions
TransCanada Corp. raised C$296 million in the first use of new freedom to charge as much as the market for transportation services will bear at the eastern end of its natural gas Mainline from Alberta to Ontario, Quebec and connections to the eastern United States.
TransCanada Extends Nova Pipeline Settlement Through 2014
After nine months of negotiations with shippers, Calgary-based TransCanada Corp. on Monday announced an agreement to maintain the services and finances status quo on its Nova natural gas pipeline grid in Alberta and British Columbia (BC).
Pembina Expanding Midstream Complex in West Central Alberta
Calgary midstreamer Pembina Pipeline Corp. is launching plans to build and operate another shallow cut natural gas plant and associated pipeline infrastructure near its Cutbank Complex in west central Alberta.
Baker Sees ’13 U.S. Rig Count Down 8%, Well Count Off 4%
Baker Hughes Inc. is optimistic about North America for the second half of 2013, but sector leader Schlumberger Ltd. still expects an oversupplied pressure pumping market.
Frack Sand Facility Readied in Northwestern Alberta
A state-of-the-art terminal in northwestern Alberta to provide sand for unconventional drilling operations is set to open this November, Edmonton-based Di-Corp said Wednesday.