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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 07, 2020
The cost to build Justin Trudeau’s governmental oil-pipeline project just got a few billion dollars more expensive.
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February 06, 2020
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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 30, 2020
Capital spending in the world’s third-largest crude reserves is projected to rise 8.4% to C$11.6 billion ($8.8 billion) this year, according to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, the industry’s main lobbying group.
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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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January 10, 2020
After big wins shorting U.S. shale, a hedge fund is turning its sights on the beaten-down Canadian oil sector.
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January 09, 2020
Cenovus Energy Inc. joined some of its oil-sands peers in setting a goal of reaching net-zero emissions from its operations, part of a push to improve the industry’s reputation and win over environmentally minded investors.
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January 08, 2020
Alberta’s government has loosened output limits imposed at the start of 2019 to counter a glut caused by a lack of pipeline capacity and too much oil production. Before the cuts, Western Canadian Select’s discount to WTI has grown as wide as $50 a barrel.
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December 19, 2019
Crude-by-rail capacity in Alberta is expected to grow by 100,000 bpd in December after the provincial government eased production limits for oil transported by train, the Energy Ministry said Wednesday.
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December 13, 2019
Canadian energy firms have quietly outperformed their U.S. counterparts this year and, even after the run, a chorus of positive outlooks on the sector to the north continues.
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December 12, 2019
The U.S. oil giant called time on its Kitimat LNG plant on Wednesday, saying it plans to sell its 50% stake and that the project “will not be funded by Chevron and may be of higher value to another company.”
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December 10, 2019
API joined more than 200 companies and associations covering a wide range of industries in the USMCA Coalition, which has been working to secure the agreement’s approval in Congress.
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December 03, 2019
Capital spending in Canada’s oil-sands reserves look set to continue to dwindle as pipeline bottlenecks persist and the Alberta government’s production limits remain in place.
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November 26, 2019
A week-long rail strike that halted shipments of oil and other goods across Canada, threatening to take a multibillion-dollar bite out of the economy, is over.
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November 22, 2019
Canada’s oil patch will start feeling the full force of Canadian National Railway Co.’s worker strike by as early as Sunday, with two crude-by-rail terminal operators unable to receive any more oil deliveries.
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