Alberta
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April 28, 2025
Drillers in Canada’s Alberta energy region are shifting their focus to natural gas as the global trade war and OPEC+ output increase hammers crude prices. The number of licenses for new gas wells issued in Q1 rose 26%, according to Alberta Energy Regulator data.
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March 10, 2025
Whitecap Resources and Veren today announced a strategic combination to create a leading light oil and condensate producer with concentrated assets in the Alberta Montney and Duvernay. The all-share deal holds a value of approximately $15 billion CAD ($10.4 billion USD), and the combined company will be the largest Alberta Montney and Duvernay landholder.
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February 26, 2025
Vermilion Energy Inc. has closed its previously announced acquisition of Westbrick Energy Ltd. The acquisition adds stable annual production of 50,000 boed (75% gas, 25% liquids) and approximately 770,000 net acres in Alberta's Deep Basin.
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January 31, 2025
Ovintiv has closed its previously announced acquisition of certain Montney assets from Paramount Resources Ltd. The acquisition adds approximately 70 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day (MBOE/d) of production.
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December 26, 2024
Vermilion Energy Inc. has entered into an arrangement agreement to acquire Westbrick Energy Ltd., a privately held oil and gas company operating in the Deep Basin, for total consideration of $1.075 billion.
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November 27, 2024
(Bloomberg) – Alberta intends to invoke legislation allowing it to defy a federally proposed cap on emissions from the oil and gas industry in opposition to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The Canadian province holds the world’s third-largest crude reserves in its oil sands.
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November 28, 2024
Enverus Intelligence® Research (EIR), a subsidiary of Enverus, has released its annual Montney and Duvernay Play Fundamentals that examines recent drilling trends, well inventory counts and associated economics within both Canadian plays.
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November 06, 2024
CNOOC Limited announces that Long Lake Northwest Project in Canada has commenced production safely. The project is expected to achieve a peak production of approximately 8,200 bopd in 2025.
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October 24, 2024
(WO) — In partnership with a Calgary-based private operator, Epsilon will earn a 25% working interest in undeveloped lands, covering approx. 150,000 gross total acres in the Mannville and Upper Viking formations and targeting horizontal drilling of oil wells
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October 18, 2024
SLB has announced a definitive agreement to sell its interests in the Palliser Block located in Alberta, Canada. The block consists of oil and gas wells, surface facilities, a pipeline network and certain oil and gas development rights.
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July 24, 2024
Hot weather has contributed to a wildfire outbreak in Western Canada, with 170 burning in Alberta alone — 53 of them out of control. The equivalent of about 388,000 bpd of oil production and 13,400 bpd of natural gas are within 10 km (6.2 miles) of blazes that are at least 10 hectares (25 acres) in size, according to Alberta Wildfire geographic data and Alberta Energy Regulator June production data.
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July 18, 2024
About 500,000 bpd of marketable oil sands production could be within 10 km (6.2 miles) of an out-of-control blaze, Rystad Energy said in a report Thursday. That’s equal to roughly 10% of the total oil production in the province. As much as 1.2 MMbpd could be within 20 km.
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July 17, 2024
In the past 24 hours, 47 new fires emerged in the province, most of them south of the unofficial oil sands capital of Fort McMurray, said Kai Bowering, spokeswoman for Alberta Wildfire. The arid conditions are expected to persist for the next 24 hours, making it easier for the blazes to spread, she said.
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June 23, 2024
“The federal Liberal and NDP coalition has passed draconian legislation that will irreparably harm Canadian’s ability to hear the truth about the energy industry and Alberta’s successes in reducing global emissions," said Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, along with Canadian Minister of Energy and Minerals Brian Jean and Environment and Protected Areas Minister Rebecca Schulz.
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June 02, 2024
Surge has now identified the potential for up to 100 multi-lateral drilling locations at Hope Valley. Surge's technical interpretation of its recent 46 square kilometer 3-D seismic program has allowed the company to de-risk these future drilling locations in Hope Valley.
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May 12, 2024
Massive fires burned down swathes of Fort McMurray eight years ago, forcing thousands of residents to evacuate and temporarily shutting more than MMbpd of oil production.
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April 22, 2024
The fire is one of two out-of-control blazes in Alberta, home to the Canadian oil sands, the world’s third-largest crude oil reserves.
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February 29, 2024
Renewable developments won’t be allowed on the two highest-quality classes of agricultural land unless the developer can prove that crops and livestock can coexist with the projects, Alberta’s government said Wednesday.
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January 20, 2024
Chevron plans to shed all of its 70% stake in the Western Alberta oil and natural gas play, spokesman Braden Reddall said in an email.
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January 12, 2024
Total production jumped by 336,822 bpd to 4.16 MMbpd, the highest in data stretching back to 2010, according to the Alberta Energy Regulator’s website. Output over the first 11 months of the year averaged 3.79 MMbpd, versus 3.73 MMbpd for all of 2022, the data show.
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December 28, 2023
Crescent Point's production guidance has changed by 2,000 boed compared to its preliminary guidance, despite the recently announced non-core asset dispositions of approximately 5,000 boed.
