Tag: Canada
Imperial building new oil sands research centre
Imperial Oil announced plans to build a new research facility in southeast Calgary. The new research centre will continue Imperial’s progress in developing next-generation resource recovery technologies for safely and efficiently developing oil sands resources.
Pembina expanding Vantage pipeline
Pembina Pipeline Corporation announced that it has entered into agreements to expand the Vantage pipeline system for an estimated capital cost of USD 85M.
The Vantage Expansion entails increasing Vantage's mainline capacity from 40,000 barrels per day (bpd) to approximately 68,000bpd through the addition of mainline pump stations and the construction of a new 80km, 8" gathering lateral.
Enbridge adds 17 new valves to pipeline
Enbridge Inc. has asked Canadian regulators for permission to start up a pipeline by late June 2015 that would ship crude oil from Western Canada to refineries in Eastern Canada, a move that had been delayed by concerns over pipeline safety measures.
TGS to take up seep studies in Canada, Barents Sea
TGS announced two multi-client geochemical seafloor sampling and seep studies offshore Canada and in the Barents Sea. Sampling locations for both programs were identified using recently acquired multi-client seismic data.
ABB wins HVDC upgrade order in Canada
ABB, the power and automation technology group, won a USD 35M order from Hydro-Québec to upgrade the 350MW Madawaska high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission link, that connects the grids of New Brunswick and Hydro Québec in southeast Canada.
Statoil, PTTEP split Canadian oil sands interests
Statoil and PTT Exploration and Production completed the agreement to divide their respective interests in the Kai Kos Dehseh (KKD) oil sands project in northeast Alberta, Canada, in May.Statoil now owns 100% and continues as operator of the Leismer and Corner development projects with PTTEP owning and operating 100% of the Thornbury, Hangingstone and South Leismer areas.
Voith wins contract for three hydropower generators
Voith has won a service contract to modernize three hydropower generators at the Kettle Generating Station in Manitoba, Canada. Voith is a mechanical engineering company specializing in the energy, oil & gas, paper, transportation & automotive, and raw materials industries.
Strata-X appoints new CFO and CS in Canada
Strata-X Energy announced the appointments of David L. Hettich as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the company and Shaun Maskerine as the company's Canadian Corporate Secretary (CS).
Canadian Oil Sands Project underway
Foster Wheeler Canada Ltd., along with joint venture partners, Three Streams Engineering Ltd. has been awarded the front-end engineering design (FEED) for the proposed Cenovus Energy Inc.
Large shale oil/gas resources in Alberta
Great oil and gas resources in the emerging shale prospects of the Canadian province of Alberta, have been identified in a new study that suggest that recent takeovers and land buys will yield substantial production gains for some of the largest oil companies in the world.