Multilateral designs lift more energy with a smaller environmental footprint By Deborah Jaremko on November 18, 2025, 12:54 pm MST Multilateral well designs. Images courtesy Chinook Consulting Services A “weird and wonderful” drilling innovation in Alberta is helping producers tap more oil and gas at lower cost and with less environmental impact. With names like fishbone, fan, comb-over and stingray, “multilateral” wells turn a single wellbore from the surface into multiple [Read more]
How economic corridors could shape a stronger Canadian future
Q&A with Gary Mar, CEO of the Canada West Foundation By CEC Staff on November 10, 2025, 12:54 pm MST Ship containers are stacked at the Panama Canal Balboa port in Panama City, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025. The Panama Canals is one of the most significant trade infrastructure projects ever built. CP Images photo Building a stronger Canadian economy depends as much on how we move goods as on what we produce. Gary Mar, CEO of the Canada West Foundation, says economic corridors — [Read more]
Aspenleaf Energy brings new life to historic Alberta oil field while cleaning up the past
Alberta's number of inactive wells trending downward By Deborah Jaremko on November 6, 2025, 1:01 pm MST Aspenleaf Energy vice-president of wells Ron Weber at a clean-up site near Edmonton. Photo for the Canadian Energy Centre In Alberta’s oil patch, some companies are going beyond their obligations to clean up inactive wells. Aspenleaf Energy operates in the historic Leduc oil field, where drilling and production peaked in the 1950s. In the last seven years, the [Read more]
Canada’s heavy oil finds new fans as global demand rises
Analyst says WCS price boost reflects global shortage By Will Gibson on October 30, 2025, 12:31 pm MDT Worker at an oil sands SAGD well pad in northern Alberta. Photo courtesy Strathcona Resources Once priced at a steep discount to its lighter, sweeter counterparts, Canadian oil has earned growing admiration—and market share—among new customers in Asia.Canada’s oil exports are primarily “heavy” oil from the Alberta oil sands, compared to oil from more conventional “light” plays [Read more]
Nobel Prize nods to Alberta innovation in carbon capture
‘We are excited to bring this made-in-Canada innovation to the world’ By Grady Semmens on October 28, 2025, 1:38 pm MDT Dr. George Shimizu in his lab at the University of Calgary. His research group developed CALF-20, a compound recognized in connection with the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for advancing simpler, more efficient carbon capture. Photo courtesy of the University of Calgary. To the naked eye, it looks about as exciting as baking soda or table salt. But to the [Read more]
Busting five myths about the Alberta oil sands
The facts about one of Canada’s biggest industries By Deborah Jaremko on October 19, 2025, 8:36 pm MDT Construction of an oil sands SAGD production well pad in northern Alberta. Photo supplied to the Canadian Energy Centre Alberta’s oil sands sector is one of Canada’s most important industries — and also one of its most misunderstood. Here are five common myths, and the facts behind them. Myth: Oil sands emissions are unchecked Steam generators at a SAGD oil sands [Read more]
Enbridge CEO says ‘there’s a good reason’ for Alberta to champion new oil pipeline
B.C. tanker ban an example of federal rules that have to change By Deborah Jaremko on October 14, 2025, 7:50 pm MDT Enbridge CEO Greg Ebel. The company’s extensive pipeline network transports about 30 per cent of the oil produced in North America and nearly 20 per cent of the natural gas consumed in the United States. Photo courtesy Enbridge The CEO of North America’s largest pipeline operator says Alberta’s move to champion a new oil pipeline to B.C.’s north coast makes [Read more]
‘Visionary’ Yellowhead Pipeline poised to launch Alberta into the future
Heartland leaders welcome proposed new natural gas connector By Grady Semmens on October 6, 2025, 8:09 pm MDT Workers weld oil and gas pipeline construction in Alberta. Photo supplied to the Canadian Energy Centre As a lifelong farmer, entrepreneur and community leader, Alanna Hnatiw knows first-hand the crucial role energy plays in a strong and diverse economy. The mayor of Sturgeon County, a sprawling rural municipality northeast of Edmonton, Hnatiw has spent much of the last [Read more]
Halfway River First Nation makes history with Montney natural gas development deal
Tsaa Dunne Za Energy will expand one of ARC Resources’ most profitable assets By Will Gibson on September 29, 2025, 8:00 pm MDT In northeast B.C., about 75 kilometres from Fort St. John, Halfway River First Nation sits in the heart of the Montney, one of North America’s largest natural gas plays. Photo courtesy Halfway River First Nation Greg Kist has seen plenty of change during more than three decades working in the energy industry. But the former executive with Petronas and [Read more]
Explained: How Alberta is moving to speed up oil sands reclamation with mine water treatment
New standards to build on rules already in place for other mining sectors By Deborah Jaremko on September 17, 2025, 8:13 pm MDT Heavy haulers at an oil sands mining operation in northern Alberta. Photo courtesy Suncor Energy In what the former Chief of the Fort McKay First Nation calls “a critical step in the right direction,” the Alberta government is moving to accelerate reclamation of more than 1.3 trillion litres of water stored in oil sands tailings ponds. On Sept. 5, the [Read more]
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