Canada’s chief fossil fuel producer province has moved closer to fulfilling ambitions of winning a role in the forecast North American petrochemical renaissance, thanks to an Oklahoma specialty firm in gas processing and transportation.
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Alberta Oilsands Trying Substitutes For Natural Gas in Producing Heavy Oil
Poor prices are breathing life into plans to slow down the growth rate of natural gas use by northern Alberta thermal oilsands plants, the biggest Canadian industrial fuel consumer and source of carbon emissions.
Oilsands Efficiency Gains Hard Fought as Gas Consumption Remains High
Natural gas consumption for thermal oilsands extraction — Canada’s biggest, fastest-growing industrial fuel burner — stubbornly resists efficiency efforts and could increase faster than bitumen output, according to a new industry review.
Oilsands Efficiency Gains Hard Fought as NatGas Consumption Remains High
Natural gas consumption for thermal oilsands extraction — Canada's biggest, fastest-growing industrial fuel burner — stubbornly resists efficiency efforts and could increase faster than bitumen output, according to a new industry review.
Alberta Oilsands NatGas Demand to Drive NGTL Expansion
Traffic on TransCanada Corp.’s western pipeline grid, Nova Gas Transmission Ltd. (NGTL), will increase by 42% over the next 10 years as thermal oilsands production grows and spreads across northern Alberta, the system’s planners said.
Alberta Feels Biggest Oil Price Pain in Bitumen Royalties
Alberta Premier Jim Prentice is highlighting a government reason for persistent growth of oilsands plants and their natural gas use as he canvasses his electorate for politically acceptable revenue alternatives to royalties on production of provincially owned energy resources.
Canada Oilsands Production Continues Growth, Strong NatGas Use
Canadian natural gas producers are going to keep their biggest industrial customer as thermal oilsands plants weather the fourth global oil price storm since commercial production of the northern Alberta resource began 47 years ago.
NGLs on the Move in Western Canada
While natural gas prices and production languish in Western Canada, demand for liquid byproducts has made drilling and building extraction plant and pipeline capacity into a growth specialty.
Keystone XL Skirmishing Continues in Texas
A county court judge in Nacogdoches, TX, on Thursday dissolved a landowner’s temporary restraining order (TRO) against TransCanada Corp. that attempted to stop construction of the southern portion of the Keystone XL Pipeline from Canada.
Murphy Oil to Keep ‘Very’ Focused on Eagle Ford
Murphy Oil Corp.’s plans to spin off its downstream operations will allow it to focus more time and money on exploration and production (E&P) opportunities, including a big leasehold in the Eagle Ford Shale, executives said Tuesday.