Sentences with phrase «canadian oil operation»

Keith is one of the only financial reporters around who's actually visited Alberta's remote tar sands region to personally meet every major player in the booming Canadian oil operation.

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The Liberals are unlikely to make any final decision on drug testing until the Supreme Court of Canada rules on its legality in a case between Suncor and workers at its Alberta oil sands operation, said Troy Winters, senior health and safety officer with the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

Weir has a Canadian subsidiary, with the oil and gas division active in Alberta and Saskatchewan, and the minerals division supporting operations in Atlantic Canada.

Enter Ghosh's articulation of Husky's current post-recapitalization story and strategy, presented as focused on three growth pillars: its gas business in Southeast Asia, the jewel of which is the Liwan Gas Project in the South China Sea; a Western Canadian heavy - oil foundation, focused on the oilsands Sunrise Energy Projects; and White Rose offshore oil operations on the Atlantic coast.

When asked about Canadian oil sands production, Mulva said those operations would be part of the upstream company.

Two are: the SPDR Energy Select (XLE) for exposure to US oil majors, many with international operations; and the iShares TSX Energy (XEG) for exposure to Canadian oil producers.

A sale of Apache Canada would mark the Houston - based company's exit from the country, the latest international oil firm to sell Canadian operations in favor of concentrating on U.S. shale plays.

Statoil, Total, Shell and ConocoPhillips have all recently sold off oil sands stakes for a total of $ 27.3 billion in cash and shares, leaving most operations concentrated in the hands of a few large Canadian firms.

In 1987, he bought a controlling stake in Husky Energy, then a small Canadian oil and gas driller that had slashed operations when oil dropped below $ 10 a barrel.

Devon's Canadian operations are located in the Athabasca oil sands of northeast Alberta.

As the wildfires raged and winds blew unpredictably, oil producers in the area — including Suncor, Syncrude, Shell, Canadian Natural Resources and Husky — were forced to cease operations and evacuate employees.

Over the past few days, Feronia Inc., a Canadian - based company majority - owned by European and US development banks, has been pressuring local communities to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that would endorse the company's continued operation and expansion of oil palm plantations within their territories.

However, some oil and gas fields in the U.S., especially Oklahoma, use «very large amounts of water» in their operations, leading to much more wastewater disposal than in Canadian operations, said Gail M. Atkinson of Western University.

Originally a Canadian oil company called Hurricane Hydrocarbons, it was renamed PetroKazakhstan in 2003 because nearly all its operations were in that troubled Central Asian country.

The first item should be a ban on any imports of Canadian tar sand oil to the U.S., plus pressure on Canada to shut down those operations.

(Related: «The Canadian Oil Boom: Scraping Bottom» and Photos: Canadian Oil Sands) Because of the emissions and an array of other environmental concerns, including tailing ponds, water consumption, and risk of leaks, the operations have become a target of environmental activists.

Booming energy production from U.S. hydraulic fracturing operations has hurt Canadian oil and gas projects, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. has been unable to stop an underground oil blowout that has killed numerous animals and contaminated a lake, forest, and muskeg at its operations in Cold Lake, Alta.

And Canada's leaders» reliance on tar sands to drive the economy may be one of the biggest economic miscalculations of our time, as Canadian tar sands operations are being hammered by plummeting oil prices.