ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The agency that regulates offshore safety in Newfoundland and Labrador says all offshore oil rigs in the province's waters have been temporarily shut down. The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board says in a statement on its website that operations will not resume until the board determines it's safe to do so. The suspension comes two days after an estimated 250 cubic metres of oil leaked into the sea southeast of St. John's. Husky [Read more]
Enbridge says it’s increasing gas flows in repaired B.C. pipeline
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - Enbridge Inc. says it has increased the flow of natural gas through a pipeline that ruptured near Prince George, B.C., more than a month ago. The company says it will increase pressure on a 91-centimetre pipeline to 85 per cent of its normal operating pressure, following an amendment order from the National Energy Board. That's up from 80 per cent of normal operating pressure at the time of the Oct. 9 explosion. The NEB had ordered Calgary-based [Read more]
Bad weather hampers oil spill containment off the coast of Newfoundland
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Nasty November weather is preventing spill responders from containing an estimated 250 cubic metres of oil that leaked into the sea off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador on Friday, officials said Saturday. Husky Energy said the spill happened after the production, storage and offloading vessel SeaRose FPSO "experienced a loss of pressure" in an oil flowline to the South White Rose Drill Centre, about 350 kilometres southeast of St. John's, N.L. An aerial [Read more]
‘Paying the price:’ U.S. fishermen file seventh climate lawsuit naming Encana
A major Calgary-based energy company is facing its seventh lawsuit in U.S. courts over climate change. The Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations — the largest commercial fishermen's group on the West Coast — has included Encana in a lawsuit attempting to link greenhouse gas emissions from 30 energy companies to damage in the crab fishery. "The world's oceans are changing and commercial fishermen and -women, their businesses, their communities and their families are [Read more]
Alberta energy firms split on call for government imposed production cuts
CALGARY - Oilsands and refining giants Suncor Energy Inc. and Husky Energy Inc. are rejecting a call by rival Cenovus Energy Inc. for government-imposed production cuts to reduce an oversupply of oil in Alberta linked to steep price discounts. Suncor spokeswoman Sneh Seetal says the company has no exposure to the "differential" between Western Canadian Select bitumen-blend crude and New York-traded West Texas Intermediate and therefore shouldn't have to reduce its production. She says the [Read more]
Protesters wanting more for killer whales confront Environment Minister in B.C.
VICTORIA - Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna was confronted with the passions many people in British Columbia have for the plight of the West Coast's endangered killer whales while she cycled on a Victoria-area bike path Wednesday. The minister said she was cycling to a news conference along Victoria's Galloping Goose Trail when she met a group of protesters calling on the government to do more to save the southern resident killer whales. "Everyone knows the numbers [Read more]
Suncor CEO Steve Williams to retire in May; Mark Little named as his replacement
CALGARY - Suncor Energy Inc. says Steve Williams will retire as chief executive after the company's annual meeting next May. Williams, 62, joined Suncor in 2002 and took the helm of Canada's largest energy producer by market capitalization from longtime CEO Rick George when he retired in 2012. Williams has been one of the more outspoken CEOs in the oilpatch, insisting recently the company will approve no new major expansion projects until Canada's export pipeline access problem [Read more]
Natural Resources minister says new pipelines the answer to oil price problems
CALGARY - Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi says he shares Albertan's "frustration" at billions of dollars being lost to the Canadian economy due to oil price discounts linked to export pipeline capacity constraints. But he says Ottawa is focused on finding long-term solutions by getting approval for new export pipelines such as the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project it bought in August and by pursuing Bill C-69 to reform the National Energy Board. Following a speech at an [Read more]
Delays at Sturgeon Refinery add to Alberta heavy oil price discount woes
CALGARY - A new refinery touted as part of the solution to Alberta's oversupply of heavy oil likely won't begin processing oilsands bitumen until year-end, several months later than expected. That means 80,000 barrels per day of diluted bitumen that would have been delivered to the $9.7-billion Sturgeon Refinery near Edmonton is instead joining the queue to be placed on overcrowded pipelines leaving the province. Multiple equipment failures have prevented the expected mid-2018 startup of [Read more]
BP deep water well off Nova Scotia lacks commercial quantities of oil:partner
HALIFAX - A third well exploration effort off Nova Scotia has failed to find commercially viable levels of oil in the deep waters of the Scotian Shelf. Hess Corp., the drilling partners on the BP-operated Scotian Basin Exploration Drilling Project, issued a news release Tuesday saying it will write off its share of the well cost, and BP will abandon the Aspy well. It is BP's only well currently being drilled in the deep waters of the Scotian Shelf, an area about 330 kilometres [Read more]
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