British Columbia

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January 06, 2016
LNG Canada has announced that the BC Oil and Gas Commission (OGC) has issued an LNG Facility Permit for the project, one of the key permits required for the construction and operation of the proposed LNG Canada project.
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July 07, 2015
British Columbia is pledging to cap levies on Petroliam Nasional Bhd.’s gas export project as it expects to collect C$9 billion ($7.1 billion) from the venture by 2030.
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July 01, 2015
Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) has approved the application of Quicksilver Resources Canada Inc. for a 25-year natural gas export license with a maximum term quantity of 733 Bcm. The issuance of this license is subject to the approval of the Governor in Council.
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June 12, 2015
Pacific NorthWest LNG (PNW LNG) announced Thursday that the required technical and commercial components of the project have been satisfied.
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May 11, 2015
Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) has approved the application of WesPac Midstream - Vancouver LLC (WesPac) for a 25 year natural gas export license with a maximum term quantity of 116.44 Bcm. The issuance of this license is subject to the approval of the Governor in Council.
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May 01, 2015
The huge gas resource base in North America offers significant potential for LNG exports, but currently it is the U.S., not Canada, that is building an LNG export industry, according to Wood Mackenzie’s latest analysis.
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April 10, 2015
PERTH, Australia -- Woodside entered into a binding transaction with Apache Corp. in December to acquire Apache’s Australian Wheatstone LNG and Balnaves oil interests and Kitimat LNG project interests in Canada, for an aggregate purchase price of $2.75 billion and an expected closing adjustment of approximately $1.0 billion.
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March 17, 2015
MicroSeismic has been engaged by a major drilling operator in British Columbia to help strengthen its seismicity monitoring (SM) program.
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March 05, 2015
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced that it will not oppose Woodside’s proposed acquisition of Apache Corporation’s interests in the Wheatstone, Balnaves and Kitimat Projects.
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January 12, 2015
IRVING, Texas (Bloomberg) -- Undeterred by the collapse in crude prices, Exxon Mobil Corp. is pushing ahead with plans to spend as much as a C$25 billion ($21 billion) on a project to export LNG from Canada. The company, along with Canadian affiliate Imperial Oil Ltd., is seeking to build a facility on the Pacific Coast that would initially liquefy and export 15 million metric tons of LNG a year, according to an environmental review application submitted last week to the British Columbia provincial government.
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