Oil Sands News in Canada
| 2/22/2017 - ConocoPhillips has revised down over a billion barrels of oil sands reserves because of low global crude prices, a company filing showed on Tuesday, the latest sign that some of Canada's vast hydrocar... |
| 1/31/2017 - Statoil and Athabasca Oil Corporation have completed their previously announced transaction, whereby Statoil has sold its entire oil sands operations in the Canadian province of Alberta to Athabasca. ... |
| 10/18/2016 - Fluor Corporation (FLR) announced that all 358 modules have been fabricated and shipped to the site for its portion of the Fort Hills Energy L.P. oil sands mining project in the Athabasca region of Al... |
| 9/15/2016 - In its first year operating, the Quest carbon capture and storage (CCS) project has captured and safely stored one million tonnes of CO2 ahead of schedule. Quest is the first CCS project applied to oi... |
| 5/29/2016 - Suncor has begun the safe and staged restart of its operations in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (RMWB) with initial production from its Firebag in situ facility early last week. ... |
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5/17/2016 - Around 12,000 people have been urged to leave Canada's oil sands camps near the fire-hit town of Fort McMurray as a resurgent wildfire heads towards them. 8,000 people were given precautionary evacuat... |
| 9/1/2015 - Total announces the start-up of production from the Surmont 2 oil sands project, located 63 kilometers southeast of Fort McMurray in the Athabasca region of Alberta, Canada. ... |
| 5/25/2015 - Cenovus Energy Inc. has safely evacuated all staff from its Foster Creek oil sands and Athabasca natural gas operations and shut down production as a precaution due to a forest fire on the Cold Lake ... |
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5/11/2015 - Exxon Mobil Corporation announced that bitumen production began on schedule at the $2 billion Cold Lake Nabiye project expansion in northeastern Alberta, Canada. ... |
| 4/23/2015 - The report presents environmental, health and safety performance at the Leismer Demonstration Project. The CO2 intensity was reduced by around 4% in 2014, compared to 2013. The average daily oil sands... |
| 3/27/2015 - ConocoPhillips is looking to sell about 20 percent of its production in Western Canada, outside the oil sands, as tumbling oil prices have made operations in the country less profitable. ... |
| 3/11/2015 - Husky Energy has started oil production at the Sunrise Energy Project in northern Alberta. "Sunrise is the latest in a series of resilient, low sustaining capital projects to come online from our dive... |
| 2/23/2015 - Royal Dutch Shell Plc is shelving plans to build a new oil sands mine in northern Alberta, the largest such project to be deferred as producers struggle with low energy prices. ... |
| 1/28/2015 - Inter Pipeline Ltd. has completed construction activity on two major expansion projects on its Cold Lake and Polaris pipeline systems. These projects will provide transportation service to the Foster ... |
| 1/27/2015 - MCW Energy Group Limited involved in the development and implementation of oil sands extraction technologies, through MCW Oil Sands Recovery, LLC, ("MCW Oil Sands") today announced further details of ... |
| 1/23/2015 - WorleyParsonsCord has been selected to provide fabrication, modularization and construction services in an agreement with a major exploration and production company in Canada to construct a significan... |
| 12/12/2014 - BP confirmed that operations have started at the Sunrise Phase 1 in-situ oil sands project in Alberta, Canada, with the start of steam generation. Husky Energy is the operator of Sunrise, a 50/50 join... |
| 11/20/2014 - TransCanada Corp's plans for a C$12 billion ($10.6 billion) pipeline to ship Alberta oil to Canada's East Coast face new obstacles with the province of Quebec imposing conditions before allowing the p... |
| 11/14/2014 - Cenovus Energy Inc. has received approval from the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) and the province of Alberta for its 100%-owned Telephone Lake thermal oil sands project. The proposed project is loca... |
| 10/23/2014 - Canada's No. 3 integrated oil and gas producer Husky Energy Inc raised cost estimates on its new Sunrise oil sands project by nearly 19 percent to C$3.2 billion as it reported third quarter earnings. ... |
