Tag: Canada

Though Canada has made progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a new report conducted by the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRT) has concluded that the country will not achieve the federal government's reduction target of 17% below 2005 levels by the year 2020.    The report states, “Canada will not achieve its 2020 GHG emission reductions target unless significant new, additional measures are taken.

   Statoil has come to an agreement with Seadrill to use the West Aquarius deepwater drilling rig for their exploration activities offshore the province of Newfoundland in Canada in 2012-2013.

   According to a new report by business intelligence expert GlobalData, operators have been making significant investments in competing for valuable areas in Canada's Montney shale play.

      In order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from their oil sand bitumen upgrader, the Scotford Upgrader in Edmonton, Alberta, Shell Canada Limited is proposing the Shell Quest CCS Project, a fully integrated project involving the capture, transport, injection and storage of carbon dioxide.

    Vale Canada Ltd. granted a contract to Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.

    The province of Alberta and Canadian federal governments have unveiled the Joint Canada-Alberta Implementation Plan for Oil Sands Monitoring, a plan to increase water, air, land and biodiversity monitoring of the country’s oil sands regions.

Power and automation technology group, ABB has won a major order from Ontario,     Canada power transmission and distribution utility, Hydro One Networks Inc.

To better serve its Canadian customers, Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC has announced the formation of Westinghouse Electric Canada Inc. The headquarters will be based in Toronto, Ontario allowing the company to align itself with regulations and requirements to meet the growing business opportunities in the country.

In a filing with Canada’s National Energy Board, Suncor Energy Inc., Nexen Inc., Cenovus Energy Inc. and Total SA said that they plan to ship oil on Enbridge Inc.’s controversial Northern Gateway pipeline.

Chevron Canada and Repsol E&P Canada partnering with Statoil have successfully bid for exploration rights on two land parcels in the Flemish Pass Basin, offshore Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Statoil already has a presence in the area, at its Mizzen discovery in the Flemish Bass Basin east of the new parcels.