Oil Sands
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October 03, 2018
Canadian heavy crude’s discount to WTI futures increased to the widest in almost five years, raising the specter of local oil producers curtailing operations.
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September 11, 2018
A colossal Canadian oil-sands project may be showing the way forward for an industry many thought would never see new investments.
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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 26, 2018
Suncor Energy Inc. managed to largely allay investors’ concerns over the most recent production problem at its massive Syncrude facility by highlighting its increasing cash flow and returning more of those funds to shareholders.
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July 12, 2018
For any investor who was looking to gain from rising oil prices, there may not have been a better way to play the recent bull run than MEG Energy Corp.
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July 09, 2018
Canadian crude supplies may remain tight in the coming weeks as Suncor Energy Inc. works to bring its massive Syncrude oil-sands operation back online, a process that the company said won’t be completed until September.
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June 29, 2018
Canada’s oil industry just moved one step closer to getting some relief from its pipeline woes.
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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 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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January 15, 2018
Husky Energy Inc., the best oil-sands stock last year, may emerge as a top pick for investors who are looking to capitalize on surging crude prices and already have shares of the largest Canadian producers.
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May 17, 2017
Cenovus Energy Inc. has closed its previously announced purchase of assets in western Canada from ConocoPhillips after receiving all necessary regulatory approvals for the transaction.
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April 24, 2017
The $20 billion of oil-sands assets that Canadian producers bought from foreign companies in a recent spate of deals shows they’re doubling down on their operations and the region’s resources, Alberta Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd said.
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April 20, 2017
Now that multi-national energy producers have sold their stakes in Canada’s oil sands, local companies are hatching plans to make some real changes.
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April 06, 2017
An ongoing disruption at Canada’s second-biggest oil sands upgrader has sent prices soaring from Alberta to Louisiana.
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April 02, 2017
Four years ago, Canada’s government tried to keep state-owned companies out of Alberta’s oil sands. Now, they may be around for a while.
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March 31, 2017
Cenovus Energy Inc. plans to raise about C$1.8 billion ($1.35 billion) from property sales as it seeks to offset the cost of its C$17.7 billion purchase of ConocoPhillips’ Canadian oil assets, according to people familiar with the matter.
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March 09, 2017
Marathon Oil Corporation announced today that it has signed an agreement to sell its Canadian subsidiary, which includes the Company's 20% non-operated interest in the Athabasca Oil Sands Project (AOSP), to Shell and Canadian Natural Resources Limited for $2.5 billion in cash, excluding closing adjustments.
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March 09, 2017
Royal Dutch Shell Plc will sell almost all of its production assets in Canada’s oil sands in a $7.25-billion deal that cuts debt and reduces involvement in one of the most environmentally damaging forms of fossil-fuel extraction.
