BOE Report Staff

Join Petroleum Engineer and Market Analyst Liam O’Brien, Sproule, for a complementary webinar featuring Gerry Goobie, Principal, GTI and David Tulk, Principal GTI. Our experts will provide an in-depth discussion on how knowing what to do with your NGLs can really drive your bottom-line results—even when the answers are not intuitively obvious. Click here to register [Read more]

On the eve of the Alberta provincial election, a huge march took place downtown Calgary. Organized by energy industry advocate group Canada Action, the demonstration paints a picture of discontent felt among Albertans. The Senate hearings for Bill C-69 were in Calgary on Tuesday. Canada Action led the rally which they say "will hurt Canadian families that make their living in our natural resource sector." The bill has received opposition from industry, first nations, provincial leaders, [Read more]

Western Canada’s fleet of drilling rigs decreased by 2 rigs to a total of 66 according to data collected by Baker Hughes for the week of April 12th. From last Friday, Alberta rig counts went from 52 to 48. Saskatchewan's rig count remained at 1 Oil drilling went from 22 to 18; natural gas rigs went from 46 to 48. View a full breakdown of western Canada’s rig activity. [Read more]

BOE report contributor and author Terry Etam will be joining us for lunch on Monday April 29 to discuss his book, of The End of Fossil Fuel Insanity: Clearing the Air Before Cleaning the Air. Terry is a veteran oil and gas consultant whose pithy prose and no-nonsense takes on today’s energy issues have won him numerous fans inside and outside of the industry. His goal is to kick start new energy dialogues in a constructive manner as the world faces, and begins to understand, the real challenges [Read more]

The idea of implementing a new software can be daunting. So daunting, in fact, that companies tend to postpone it so long that it never ends up happening. But here’s a question: What’s worse...having to implement a new process, or having a process that’s obsolete and inefficient? Obsolete processes such as using paper or spreadsheets to capture data in the field could potentially be holding your company back. But if that’s not enough to convince you to ditch the paper and make the leap to a [Read more]

Western Canada’s fleet of drilling rigs decreased by 20 rigs to a total of 68 according to data collected by Baker Hughes for the week of April 5th. From last Friday, Alberta rig counts went from 68 to 52. Saskatchewan's rig count from 2 to 1 Oil drilling went from 35 to 22; natural gas rigs went from 53 to 46. View a full breakdown of western Canada’s rig activity. [Read more]

Cenozon is leading the industry in asset integrity management software for oil and gas producers in Canada, striving to enhance industry performance by making work easier, faster, and less costly with PRIM: Cenozon’s pipeline integrity risk management software. Following an April 2018 roundtable with industry professionals, Cenozon discovered a reoccurring problem that has become a source of pain for operators - which is how ILI reports are processed. Data inconsistency across multiple ILI [Read more]

Amherst Energy Inc. (Amherst) is a private Calgary based oil and gas exploration company. Amherst today reported that it has drilled and completed the Amherst HZ Morgan 13-8-52-3W4 horizontal heavy oil well, Amherst 100 % WI. The well was placed on production March 22, 2019 and based on field reports the well is currently producing 100 barrels of oil per day. Amherst is planning to drill a follow up well in the third quarter of 2019 and can drill up to an additional eleven offset wells, on [Read more]