Canada

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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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July 09, 2018
Activity in a remote Canadian town is raising optimism that Shell is ready to start work on its $30-billion LNG terminal that could increase energy exports to Asia.
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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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July 04, 2018
Canadian oil prices are poised to continue their slow, steady march upward next year as shipping bottlenecks ease and U.S. refiners look north to fill the gap created by decreasing output from Venezuela, according to Deloitte.
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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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June 21, 2018
The Newfoundland and Labrador Oil & Gas Industries Association (Noia) 34th annual oil & gas conference was held this week at the St. John’s Convention Centre. Themed Redefining Oil: The Time is Now, the conference heard from a variety of speakers with the themes of regulatory clarity and investment support.
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June 20, 2018
TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL may be one pipeline too many for Canada, at least for now.
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June 14, 2018
Vermilion Energy Inc. CEO Anthony Marino said the concerns about the Canadian oil industry’s competitiveness helped his company secure a better price in its purchase of Spartan Energy Corp. this year.
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June 13, 2018
During the opening day, Tuesday, of this year’s Global Petroleum Show in Calgary, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) released its 2018 Crude Oil Forecast, Markets and Transportation report.
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June 13, 2018
Corridor Resources Inc. has announced that it has completed its integrated geotechnical analysis of the Old Harry prospect comprised of data from a controlled source electromagnetic survey (CSEM) and reprocessed two dimensional (2D) seismic. Old Harry is a large (43,000-acre), undrilled structure with four-way closure located in approximately 470 m of water in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, straddling the border of Newfoundland and Quebec.
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June 12, 2018
The Global Petroleum Show opened with an improved lineup of features that include a business and technical conference, and a new GPS Awards Gala. GPS organizers are hoping for/expecting attendance of 50,000 for the three days ending on June 14.
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March 07, 2018
Rail companies will start shipping more western Canadian crude by mid-year, helping clear a glut that’s devastated prices, Cenovus Energy Inc. CEO Alex Pourbaix said in an interview.
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March 07, 2018
The Oilfield Technology Group (OTG) of Hexion Inc. today announced the completion of its resin-coated proppant manufacturing plant expansion in Canada.
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March 05, 2018
Oil production growth from the United States, Brazil, Canada and Norway can keep the world well supplied, more than meeting global oil demand growth through 2020, but more investment will be needed to boost output after that, according to the International Energy Agency's latest annual report on oil markets.
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March 05, 2018
The threat of American tariffs on Canadian steel sent shivers through the northern nation’s oil industry, sparking fears of higher costs for everything from pipelines to drilling equipment.
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March 01, 2018
Foreign direct investment into Canada plunged last year to the lowest since 2010, hampered by an exodus of capital from the nation’s oil sector and worries about the fate of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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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 21, 2018
Canada’s energy companies can’t get any love, even from many Canadians.
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February 20, 2018
Trinidad Drilling Ltd., which provides contract drilling services in North America and the Middle East, is considering selling itself as years of slumping drilling activity in Canada weighs on revenue.
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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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