BOE Report Staff

Wondering how your engineering firm stacks up against the rest? For most private entities, this kind of information isn’t always easy to find. BDO Canada LLP would like to invite you to a FREE 30-minute webinar to provide insight into Alberta’s engineering industry and how benchmarking can help identify potential risks and opportunities. This webinar will discuss: Key metrics for the industry Recent trends in the market Benchmarking Insights Date: Tuesday, April 11th Time: [Read more]

Captain Hung Nguyen, Former U.S. Coast Guard Captain and Co-chair, Deepwater Horizon Joint Investigation Team to Keynote at the Operational Excellence in Energy, Chemicals & Resources Summit taking place this June 5-7 in Calgary.  In 2010, just seven days after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, U.S. Coast Guard Captain Hung Nguyen was designated as the co-chair for the US Department of Homeland Security and Interior joint investigation into the incident that killed 11 workers and resulted [Read more]

Here is the upcoming list of courses for members of CAPL. For more information, click on a course link below or visit landman.ca Date Course Category Status Mar 02 2017 LLR/LMR: Changing the Numbers Regulations open Mar 07 2017 Constructive Conflict Management (PSL®) Negotiations and Business Skills open Mar 15 2017 Conventional Agreements: Junior Level Agreements and Contractual Issues open Mar 16 2017 Fiduciary Duties (afternoon) Negotiations and [Read more]

CALGARY, Alberta, CANADA – April 3, 2017 – Sproule, a leading geoscience and engineering advisory firm in the oil and gas sector is pleased to announce the acquisition of Niven Fischer. Niven Fischer is a Calgary-based oil & gas consulting firm, providing technical, advisory and administrative support to the oil & gas industry since 1998.  They offer a turnkey oil and gas management team that employs best practices in a cost-effective manner to efficiently manage client’s oil and gas [Read more]

Western Canada’s fleet of drilling rigs are slowing down on account of seasonality in the drilling business with only 155 actively drilling according to data collected by Baker Hughes for the week of March 31. Drilling activity is starting to slow down, but still very active in comparison to last year’s count (only 110 active rigs). Will will see a continued drop in activity due to the upcoming spring breakup. Rigs activity will stay low likely until June, when activity will start to pick [Read more]

It should come as no surprise that Calgary’s downtown office market is closely correlated to conditions in the energy sector. Approximately 75% of downtown office tenants operate in the energy sector and the most of the remaining 25% are there to support it. Since Q4 2014, the downtown office vacancy rate has risen from 8.5% to 25% now totaling 10.6 million square feet of vacant space with nearly 40% of that being sublease space. Just how did we get here? Since 2014, approximately 5.5 million [Read more]

Complimentary seminar presented by: Alexander Marino JD, LLM (US TAX) On July 1, 2014, the US’s Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) went into effect, and as a result, it will become increasingly difficult to renounce your US citizenship for the “right reasons” and avoid any negative consequences. All evidence suggests that now may be the time to consider renouncing, however, the process can be complex and daunting. It is essential to ensure that you renounce properly. If not done [Read more]