Saskatchewan

Alberta, Canada’s chief natural gas producing province, has set out to break into international markets for a form of helium, which fetches prices up to 100 times higher.

Canada’s chief fossil fuel-producing province on Wednesday set a target of next Thursday (May 30) for scrapping its carbon tax at age 29 months.

Alliance Pipeline will shut down its system from 8 a.m. CST next Wednesday (Oct. 12) until 8 a.m. CST Oct. 19, cutting an estimated 1.9 Bcf/d of gas, to facilitate pipe removal and tie-ins of new pipe at a crossing of a major highway project near Regina, Saskatchewan.

About 2.9 Tcf of natural gas and 1.4 billion bbl of oil will eventually be produced from Canada’s share of the Bakken Shale formation, according to Saskatchewan and Canadian government earth scientists.

About 2.9 Tcf of natural gas and 1.4 billion bbl of oil will eventually be produced from Canada’s share of the Bakken Shale formation, according to Saskatchewan and Canadian government earth scientists.

Canadian shale oil hunters are embarking on the pursuit of rich deposits believed to have migrated north from the United States and become trapped by dense rock beneath the plains of Saskatchewan eons before the border existed.

A SaskEnergy subsidiary and Calgary-based Mistral Midstream Inc. have formed a joint venture (JV) to build a facility in southeast Saskatchewan to extract ethane and other hydrocarbons from natural gas from the Bakken formation being transported on the SaskEnergy system.

Lightstream Resources Ltd. is expanding its well optimization budget in its Bakken Shale business unit by $25 million and is deferring some drilling activity in its Cardium Formation business unit, the Calgary-based company said.

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.