Alberta

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June 04, 2020
Canadian banks’ exposure to oil and gas loans has surged to a record as energy firms tapped credit lines to combat plunging oil prices.
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May 29, 2020
Our look ahead the coming week, including how drillers' ability to react to an increase in oil and gas demand could be impacted by technical and manpower limitations, and what key OPEC players have in store for the first week of June.
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May 20, 2020
Canadian and Alaskan crude that normally travels to the U.S. West Coast is finding a market in China, where demand is almost back to pre-pandemic levels.
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May 07, 2020
Enbridge Inc., North America’s largest pipeline operator, is cutting jobs, lowering executive pay and deferring some capital spending as measures to fight the Covid-19 virus reduce oil flows on its system and slow down construction.
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May 05, 2020
Canadian heavy crude surged to its strongest price versus futures since at least 2008 as producers curtailed output and Enbridge Inc. agreed to open part of its pipeline system for storage.
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April 29, 2020
While global oil prices remain near multi-decade lows, the heads of two major Canadian crude producers see reasons for hope that the market will rebound in the months ahead.
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April 17, 2020
Canada’s plan to spend $1.2 billion to help clean up the country’s derelict oil wells comes with strings attached: tougher environmental rules for the energy-rich province of Alberta.
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April 16, 2020
ConocoPhillips is voluntarily curtailing 225,000 gross boepd, and reducing cash usage by more than $5 billion in 2020.
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April 09, 2020
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said the idea of the U.S. and Canada placing tariffs on OPEC crude imports is gaining traction as a way to protect North American energy producers from the market’s collapse.
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April 06, 2020
Kurt and Cameron discuss the expanding OPEC+ negotiations, Canada's emerging role in production cuts, and the API's support (or lack thereof) for the broader oil industry.
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April 03, 2020
Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage will participate in an OPEC+ call next week aimed at resolving the global oil price war and will “keep an open mind” on how the province can participate in a solution, Premier Jason Kenney said Friday.
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March 15, 2020
Canadian oil and gas companies are cutting C$2.4 billion to C$3.5 billion ($1.7 billion-$2.5 billion) from their budgets for this year as low prices make most production unprofitable.
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March 06, 2020
Hopes that Canada could turn into a gas export powerhouse seem to be waning fast.
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February 25, 2020
The cancellation of Teck Resources' Frontier project in northern Alberta - which envisaged producing more crude than OPEC member Gabon - epitomizes the struggles of an industry that has already seen most foreign investors flee...
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February 13, 2020
Canadian oil shipments are getting snarled once again as protesters block train lines in the latest setback to the nation’s rail-dependent crude industry that was struck by a blazing derailment just last week.
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February 05, 2020
The coronavirus is hampering the Canadian oil industry’s efforts to build relations with crude buyers in Asia.
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January 29, 2020
Canadian crude rebounded from a one-year low after inventories fell and Alberta’s premier pledged to defend prices.
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January 29, 2020
Now based in Denver, Ovintiv Inc. will update investors Wednesday on its progress for the shale oil assets in Oklahoma it amassed after the $5.5 billion acquisition of Newfield Exploration Co. in 2018.
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January 16, 2020
Temperatures of -30 degrees Celsius (-22 Fahrenheit) and lower have descended on Alberta and Saskatchewan -- cold enough to render the region’s viscous oil rock solid.
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January 14, 2020
Gardner Denver Petroleum & Industrial Pumps has entered into a six-month field trial of its new Thunder 5000 HP Quintuplex pump, at STEP Energy Services in Alberta, Canada.
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January 14, 2020
Canadian natural gas is trading at the highest price relative to U.S. benchmarks in about 10 months after producers cut back on drilling and a rule change on a key Alberta pipeline system last year helped better manage flows of the fuel.
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