Canada

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September 03, 2020
On September 3rd, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with VOCM Open Line host Paddy Daly who asked pointed questions about supporting the Newfoundland and Labrador offshore oil and gas industry. The responses of the prime minister did not provide any commitment or clarity, despite months of a crisis in the offshore, advocacy by the Newfoundland and Labrador Oil and Gas Industries Association (Noia), as well as information sharing by Noia, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, and other stakeholders.
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September 02, 2020
Heavy Canadian crude rose after a spill led to the shutdown of a pipeline that supplies diluent to two major oil-sands sites in Alberta.
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January 10, 2020
After big wins shorting U.S. shale, a hedge fund is turning its sights on the beaten-down Canadian oil sector.
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January 09, 2020
Cenovus Energy Inc. joined some of its oil-sands peers in setting a goal of reaching net-zero emissions from its operations, part of a push to improve the industry’s reputation and win over environmentally minded investors.
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January 08, 2020
Alberta’s government has loosened output limits imposed at the start of 2019 to counter a glut caused by a lack of pipeline capacity and too much oil production. Before the cuts, Western Canadian Select’s discount to WTI has grown as wide as $50 a barrel.
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December 19, 2019
Crude-by-rail capacity in Alberta is expected to grow by 100,000 bpd in December after the provincial government eased production limits for oil transported by train, the Energy Ministry said Wednesday.
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December 13, 2019
Canadian energy firms have quietly outperformed their U.S. counterparts this year and, even after the run, a chorus of positive outlooks on the sector to the north continues.
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December 12, 2019
The U.S. oil giant called time on its Kitimat LNG plant on Wednesday, saying it plans to sell its 50% stake and that the project “will not be funded by Chevron and may be of higher value to another company.”
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December 10, 2019
API joined more than 200 companies and associations covering a wide range of industries in the USMCA Coalition, which has been working to secure the agreement’s approval in Congress.
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December 03, 2019
Capital spending in Canada’s oil-sands reserves look set to continue to dwindle as pipeline bottlenecks persist and the Alberta government’s production limits remain in place.
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November 26, 2019
A week-long rail strike that halted shipments of oil and other goods across Canada, threatening to take a multibillion-dollar bite out of the economy, is over.
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November 22, 2019
Canada’s oil patch will start feeling the full force of Canadian National Railway Co.’s worker strike by as early as Sunday, with two crude-by-rail terminal operators unable to receive any more oil deliveries.
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November 20, 2019
The price of Canadian heavy crude weakened Tuesday as a worker strike at the nation’s largest railway curbed oil shipments, exacerbating a supply glut that’s crippled Canada’s oil industry.
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November 20, 2019
Encana’s announcement of the planned U.S. move last month ratcheted up the gloom enveloping the Canadian oil industry and heightened anxieties about losing major domestic companies.
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November 14, 2019
Shell’s future in the country is largely as a natural gas producer and exporter focused on the $30 billion LNG Canada project, though the company is also committed to its local chemicals and retail businesses, Shell Canada head Michael Crothers said in an interview.
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November 13, 2019
About $83 billion of outstanding debt issued by explorer and producer companies in the U.S. and Canada is yielding at least 10%, the typical threshold for distressed debt.
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November 13, 2019
Rockies LNG Partners, a group of Canadian natural gas drillers seeking new markets for their production, is considering building an export project on barges floating off the coast of British Columbia.
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November 12, 2019
Repsol SA is looking as far away as Western Canada for oil for its European refineries amid dwindling supplies from Mexico and Venezuela.
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November 08, 2019
Alberta loosened crude-oil production limits for the second time in two weeks, exempting new conventional wells from output caps in a bid to spur drilling and boost employment.
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November 07, 2019
The move to Denver was widely anticipated because Suttles, a Texan, relocated his residence there in March 2018, though the company also has a major office in Houston.
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October 31, 2019
Encana's move south is likely to intensify the gloom already hanging over the Canadian energy industry, which has suffered from a lack of pipeline space that has choked off prospects for growth, prompting foreign companies to ditch more than $30 billion of assets in the past three years.
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