Canada

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October 01, 2019
The decommissioning project comprises seven offshore gas platforms located approximately 135 nautical miles east of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on the edge of the Scotian Shelf.
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September 25, 2019
A Canadian federal court on Tuesday blocked an Alberta law that would have allowed the oil-producing province to cut or reduce fossil fuel shipments to its neighbor amid a dispute over the planned expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline.
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September 17, 2019
WAXTREAT SubZero is a winterized PPD with customization capabilities, enhancing performance, while mitigating paraffin build-up, in crude oil pipeline systems, at the same time reducing OPEX requirements associated with pipeline cleaning.
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September 17, 2019
Nearly all of the kingdom’s oil shipments to Canada travel to New Brunswick, home to a single refinery, Irving Oil Ltd.’s Saint John plant, which can process about 299,000 bpd. The refinery relied on Saudi crude for more than 40% of its supplies in July, Statistics Canada data show.
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September 17, 2019
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, whose province produces more oil than most OPEC nations, has a message for environmentalists, investors and anyone else who will listen: The world needs more Canadian crude, and standing in the way is foolish.
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September 16, 2019
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says it’s likely his government will allow oil producers to exceed their provincially imposed output caps if they can ship those extra barrels by rail.
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September 05, 2019
In line with its continued investments in high-end imaging technology, supercomputing capacity and digitalization, CGG will employ its FWI and least-squares migration algorithms over the entire survey area of more than 10,000 km².
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August 29, 2019
Enbridge’s proposed shift to long-term crude shipping contracts on its Mainline pipeline network is drawing the ire of a growing number of producers, and now Canada’s energy regulator is getting involved, which could delay the process.
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August 26, 2019
Husky Energy has commenced production at its Dee Valley thermal project in Saskatchewan, the second of six 10,000 bpd thermal bitumen projects to be brought onstream from 2018 to 2022.
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August 22, 2019
Capital keeps marching out of Canada’s oil industry, with Kinder Morgan’s sale of its remaining holdings in the country on Wednesday adding to more than $30 billion of foreign-company divestitures in the past three years.
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August 21, 2019
Pembina Pipeline Corp. increased its bet on the future of Canada’s turbulent oil-sands industry, agreeing to buy Kinder Morgan Inc.’s Canadian unit and the U.S. portion of a key pipeline for about C$4.35 billion ($3.3 billion).
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August 20, 2019
Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing’s oil sands investment is hurting -- and some analysts are calling on him to stop the bleeding.
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August 19, 2019
“The nature and frequency of these incidents in our offshore area are obviously concerning,” said Scott Tessier, CEO of the Canada - Newfoundland & Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board.
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August 19, 2019
Husky Energy announced it will resume production from the remaining two drill centers shut in following a November 2018 oil spill offshore Newfoundland and Labrador.
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August 16, 2019
The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board issued approval to Hibernia Management and Development Company Ltd. to resume production operations at the Hibernia platform.
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August 15, 2019
The days when energy stocks and the price of oil moved in lockstep are now few and far between. Oil may go up but stocks still fall, and in Canada it’s the worst divergence on record.
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August 08, 2019
Alberta’s oil production curbs finally appear to be draining inventories, at least for now.
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August 02, 2019
A corporate tax rate cut in the oil-rich province of Alberta, boosted Exxon’s second-quarter profit by almost $500 million, according to a statement Friday. Chevron noted a $180 million non-cash tax benefit from the measure in its report.
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August 02, 2019
U.S. refiners want more Canadian oil, and pipeline companies are finding ways to get it to them.
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July 29, 2019
Alberta has relaxed the production limits it imposed on oil producers as it exports more barrels via rail and pipeline.
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July 22, 2019
Halliburton Co. is shifting strategy in its largest region to deal with subdued customer spending by shelving unused frac gear and cutting jobs in North America.
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