Alberta

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November 25, 2018
Canadian Finance Minister Bill Morneau is signaling he won’t cough up money for new rail cars to ship Alberta oil, saying it would take months and wouldn’t solve the current price collapse.
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November 20, 2018
Alberta will pursue building new refineries as the oil-rich Canadian province looks to weather a crude price crunch, while a forced production cut also remains an option.
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October 09, 2018
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said the province may soon announce more plans to help the local energy industry reap more value from its resources amid a slump in Canadian crude prices.
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September 27, 2018
Cenovus Energy Inc. signed deals to transport about 100,000 bpd of heavy crude by rail to the U.S. Gulf Coast from Alberta as a pipeline bottleneck depresses Canadian oil prices.
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September 07, 2018
Canadian crude prices are plunging once again as repairs were completed on Alberta’s second-biggest oil sands upgrader and production surged from a new mine.
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August 31, 2018
Total, together with its partners, has agreed to sell the Joslyn oil sands project in Alberta, Canada, to Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) for an overall consideration of C$225 million.
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July 06, 2018
Petrolia Energy Corporation is pleased to announce that it has acquired a 25% working interest in the Luseland, Hearts Hill, and Cuthbert fields, located in Southwest Saskatchewan and Eastern Alberta, Canada.
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February 28, 2018
Canadian business investment is being weighed down for a fourth straight year by weakness in Alberta’s energy industry.
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February 15, 2018
Cenovus Energy Inc. CEO Alex Pourbaix said the oil-sands producer will consider selling more of its holdings in Alberta’s Deep basin -- but not exiting the play entirely -- to speed up efforts to repair its balance sheet.
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February 15, 2018
While TransCanada Corp. continues to weigh whether to build its long-delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline, the company announced another major expansion of its natural gas system in Alberta.
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February 09, 2018
Cenovus Energy Inc. is deeply saddened to report that there has been a fatality at the company’s Christina Lake oil sands site, which is located about 350 km northeast of Edmonton.
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February 02, 2018
Alberta is striking back at British Columbia after the neighboring Canadian province proposed restricting shipments of oil-sands crude in a bid to halt Kinder Morgan Inc.’s Trans Mountain project.
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January 30, 2018
Total announces that the Fort Hills oil sands project located in Alberta, Canada, 90 km north of Fort McMurray, has achieved first oil.
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May 18, 2017
The Alberta Securities Commission is reviewing an environmental group’s request to halt a $1.28 billion share sale that Kinder Morgan Inc. plans to help finance the expansion of its Trans Mountain pipeline.
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April 24, 2017
Return Energy Inc. has acquired, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Winslow Resources Inc., certain partner interests in its core area of Rycroft, north of Grande Prairie, Alberta, for cash consideration of $750,000 (subject to final adjustments).
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February 08, 2017
Global Tubing, LLC, the industry leader in coiled tubing products and services, announces the opening of a new service center in Grand Prairie, Alberta, Canada.
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January 13, 2017
MEG Energy Corp. is boosting production at its Christina Lake project in Alberta and tapped debt and equity markets for financing, further signs of a rebound in Canada’s oil patch as crude prices stabilize.
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