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Hemisphere Energy Provides Operational and Production Updates
TSX-V: HME VANCOUVER, Aug. 8, 2017 /CNW/ - Hemisphere Energy Corporation (TSX-V: HME) ("Hemisphere" or the "Company") is pleased to provide an update on its operations and current production. Over the past number of months, Hemisphere has continued to focus on enhancing its waterflood projects in Atlee Buffalo while optimizing all of its producing wells in southern Alberta. A pipeline was recently constructed at the Atlee Buffalo F pool to better distribute produced water to all of the [Read more]
Oilsands pilot project closed due to 2016 wildfire won’t be restarted: Japex
CALGARY - Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. has decided against restarting an oilsands pilot project that was shut last year during the wildfires near Fort McMurray, Alta. Also known as Japex, the company says it has decided to abandon the development due to low oil prices and the technical risks of reactivating the wells. The pilot project had been in operation through a subsidiary called Japan Canada Oil Sands Ltd. since 1999 and produced a cumulative total of 35 million barrels [Read more]
Point Loma Resources Announces the Acquisition of Wells in its Core Paddle River Ostracod Oil Pool
CALGARY, AB--(Marketwired - August 08, 2017) - Point Loma Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: PLX) (the "Corporation" or "Point Loma") is pleased to announce the strategic acquisition of two wells and accompanying petroleum and natural gas rights in its core Paddle River Ostracod A pool. Highlights Point Loma (80 percent working interest) and Salt Bush Energy Ltd. ("Salt Bush", 20 percent working interest) have acquired two wellbores and associated rights in the Paddle River Ostracod A pool; [Read more]
Canada groups continue legal challenge against permit for Petronas’ scrapped LNG project
Canadian environmental and aboriginal groups said they will push ahead with a lawsuit seeking to scrap an environmental permit granted to Malaysia's Petronas for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in British Columbia, despite the oil and gas firm's announcement last month that it was scrapping the project. A representative for the groups filing suit against the Canadian government told Reuters they wanted the permit granted by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency overturned [Read more]
Japex starts bitumen output from Canada oil sands expansion project
Japan Petroleum Exploration (Japex) said it started bitumen production from the Hangingstone oil sands expansion project in Alberta, Canada, last Thursday. The project's output stood at around 1,000 barrels per day (bpd) and is expected to reach full output of 20,000 bpd in the second half of 2018, Japex Managing Executive Officer Michiro Yamashita told reporters while releasing first-quarter results on Tuesday. The company said in November that it was aiming for a start-up in mid-2017. [Read more]
CNOOC Limited Announces Hangingstone Project Commences Production
HONG KONG, Aug. 8, 2017 /CNW/ -- CNOOC Limited (the "Company", SEHK: 00883, NYSE: CEO, TSX: CNU) announced today the Hangingstone project in Canada has already commenced production. The Hangingstone project, located in Alberta, Canada, consists of steam-generating equipment, well pad facilities, 32 well pairs, water treatment and bitumen flowlines. The project is expected to reach its peak production rate of approximately 20,000 barrels of bitumen per day in 2018. NEXEN Energy ULC, a [Read more]
Keystone XL pipeline fate in balance as Nebraska opens hearings
Nebraska regulators will hear final arguments for and against TransCanada Corp's proposed Keystone XL pipeline this week before deciding whether to approve its route later this year, the last big hurdle for the long-delayed project after President Donald Trump gave it federal approval. The proposed 1,179-mile (1,897-km) pipeline linking Canada's Alberta oil sands to U.S. refineries has been a lightning rod of controversy for nearly a decade, pitting environmentalists worried about [Read more]
Canada Action founder Cody Battershill debates protestor on radio
Before we can successfully cool down the contentious oil and gas debate and foster a more balanced energy conversation in Canada, from time to time we’re going to have to stand up to misinformation and fear-mongering. So when Rob Breakenridge recently invited me and Wilderness Committee oil and gas campaigner Peter McCartney onto Rob’s popular AM770 radio program to discuss Canada’s energy future, I was happy to accept. I’m providing you with a link so that you can listen to the 18-minute [Read more]
Canceled LNG project casts shadow over Canada’s biggest shale play
Petronas' decision to cancel its Pacific NorthWest LNG project is a blow to the growth outlook for Canada's largest shale play, eliminating a potentially huge source of future gas demand. Gas from the Montney shale play in western Canada would have supplied the C$36 billion ($28.7 billion) project in northern British Columbia. The project, majority-owned by Malaysia's Petronas , would then have shipped 12 megatonnes per year of liquefied natural gas to Asia. Instead, [Read more]