Enbridge Inc said it restarted its Line 5 oil pipeline across the Straits of Mackinac in North America's Great Lakes on Tuesday after it was shut due to bad weather. The company temporarily shut down the line due to high winds and nine-foot-high (3-meter-high) high waves, according to the Michigan Agency for Energy. The 540,000 barrel per day pipeline from Wisconsin to Ontario carries Canadian light crude and refined products and is a key link in Enbridge's network, which transports the [Read more]
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Canadian Discovery Ltd. Celebrates Its New Location with a Technical Studies Sale
CALGARY, AB, CANADA – November 30, 2017 – Canadian Discovery Ltd. moved its corporate office to 500, 622 – 5 Avenue SW, Calgary AB, Canada on November 20, 2017. The new office is just two blocks north and east of its previous location. To celebrate the new location, Canadian Discovery is having a Moving Sale on select Technical Studies throughout December. See the list of Technical Studies that are on sale now! Contact us for more information 500, 622 – 5 Avenue SW Calgary, AB, [Read more]
TransAlta and Tidewater Midstream announce today a Letter of Intent to construct a Natural Gas Pipeline to TransAlta’s Facilities
CALGARY, Dec. 6, 2017 /CNW/ - TransAlta Corporation ("TransAlta" or the "Company") (TSX: TA; NYSE: TAC) and Tidewater Midstream and Infrastructure Ltd. ("Tidewater") (TSX: TWM) announced today that the two companies have entered into a Letter of Intent ("LOI") for Tidewater to construct a 120 Kilometre natural gas pipeline from its Brazeau River Complex to TransAlta's generating units at Sundance and Keephills. The Tidewater Pipeline will facilitate TransAlta's strategy to convert its coal [Read more]
Gibson Energy Announces 2018 Capital Budget
All financial figures are in Canadian dollars CALGARY, Alberta, Dec. 05, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gibson Energy Inc. (“Gibson” or the “Company”), (TSX:GEI), announced today that its Board of Directors has approved a 2018 growth capital expenditure budget in the range of $120 million to $150 million, with in excess of 90% of investment directed towards sanctioned growth projects. Additionally, the Board of Directors has approved the allocation of approximately $30 million in upgrade and [Read more]
New Oil and Gas Jobs From BOE Report Jobs
Here are the latest oil and gas job postings courtesy BOE Report Jobs. To search and filter all the latest jobs, visit the BOE Report job board. All job listings are free to post for companies. Sign up to create an account to post jobs; it’s simple and easy to use. Dec. 5 Customer Solutions Engineer Zedi Inc Greeley Dec. 5 Accommodation Assistant Trican Well Service Ltd. Calgary Dec. 5 Supply Chain Analyst Trican Well Service Ltd. Calgary Dec. 4 Short-term Board [Read more]
Alberta sets aside $1.4 billion for industry to reduce carbon emissions
CALGARY - Alberta is setting aside close to $1.4 billion from climate levies to help industry reduce carbon emissions. The government said the funding, spread over seven years, will make it easier for industries to invest in new technologies, stay competitive and create jobs. "The business case for action on climate change has never been more clear, more urgent or provided so many opportunities," said Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips at a Calgary press conference [Read more]
Kinder Morgan Canada drops 4.3 percent after more potential delay
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd shares fell as much as 4.7 percent on Tuesday after the company said there could be more delays in the expansion of its C$7.4 billion (US$5.8 billion) Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, raising concerns about cost blowout. Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain expansion to Canada’s west coast has already been delayed by nine months. The company said late on Monday that the lack of clarity around municipal permit processes and related judicial [Read more]
With low commodity prices and billions worth of outstanding environmental obligations, Alberta is between a soft rock and a hard wellsite
Between July 2014 and January 2015, the price of West Texas Intermediate, North American’s crude oil benchmark, declined from roughly $105 to $46. At the time, of course everyone in the energy industry recognized the fallout as simply bad news. Seemingly overnight, entire business plans for the global upstream oil and gas sector and the service industry supporting it turned upside down. And while the immediate effects of such a drastic fall in the price of oil were easy to see coming: layoffs, [Read more]
Noralta Technologies acquires Wellsite Automation and Control
Noralta Technologies (Calgary), announced today that it has acquired all of the assets and monitored accounts of Wellsite Automation and Control (WAC), based in Edmonton, Alberta. Noralta will move quickly to integrate WAC’s clients onto its nTerface host platform. “We see this as real positive addition to the Noralta family. WAC’s customers will be seamlessly added to our platform and immediately enjoy an increased service offering” said Cam Zarowny, President and Founder of Noralta. [Read more]
Column: Rachel Notley has no business trying to alienate the Donald
Its hardly a newsflash that Premier Rachel Notley does not think highly of President Donald Trump. Trump is a wealthy, bombastic capitalist who represents everything that the soft-socialist New Democratic Party of Alberta opposes. It would be shocking to hear that Notley admired Trump in any way as a matter of fact. All that said, it was outright reckless for Premier Notley to use President Trump negatively as a prop in order to attack Jason Kenney in a CTV interview with Evan Solomon last [Read more]