British Columbia

Natural gas producers have been ordered to review drilling plans for a liquids-rich corner of the Montney shale formation in northeastern British Columbia (BC) after an investigation blamed a Nov. 29 earthquake on hydraulic fracturing (fracking).

The British Columbia’s (BC) left-leaning, avowedly green government Tuesday unveiled its weapon — more official study — for blocking an expansion of Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd.’s (KML) Pacific coast export pipeline expansion for the Alberta oilsands.

The crowded liquefied natural gas (LNG) market on Thursday took its second Canadian casualty this summer, when an Asian partnership scrapped a jumbo terminal project on the Pacific coast of British Columbia (BC).

By the British Columbia Oil and Gas Commission’s count, only 1.4% of an astronomical 3,337 Tcf of gas in five BC geological structures have made the jump from estimated resources to tapped reserves so far, even though provincial production doubled to about 5 Bcf/d since 2000.

Commercial support may emerge for a plan to revive a mining ghost town in northern British Columbia (BC) as another entry in the lineup of projects for exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Canada’s Pacific coast, says the idea’s sponsor.