August 07 Archive
Alberta Oilsands Inc. Announces Second Quarter Results Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada Highlights of the three month period ended June 30, 2007 for AOS were: Oil Sands Operations: - The Company added 100% working interests in a total of 47 ...
THINK I'LL GO OUT TO ALBERTA. VUE Weekly - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada - Opposition to the Alberta oil sands got a boost this August when international environmental advocacy organization Greenpeace opened the doors of its ...
Syncrude ordered to clean up act after complaints over odour Globe and Mail - Canada - CALGARY -- Another oil sands stink is brewing near Fort McMurray, as Alberta's environmental regulator yesterday ordered Syncrude Canada Ltd. to reduce its ...
Alberta Oilsands sales sink in second quarter to $487K from $1.6M ... Oilweek Magazine - Edmonton,Canada - CALGARY (CP) _ Newly named Alberta Oilsands Inc. (TSXV:AOS) fell to a loss in the second quarter as it continues to change its focus to producing bitumen in ...
RAMTelecom Substantially Increases Market Share In Alberta Oil Sands Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada - RAMTelecom's fixed and mobile satellite-based communication services and value-add solutions are designed for medium and large enterprises in oil and gas, ...
Alberta upstart pitches nuclear power Globe and Mail - Canada - Several oil sands companies - the likeliest customers - said they are not working with Energy Alberta, including EnCana Corp., Total SA and Husky Energy ...
Northern Lights Partnership acquires interest in Aerodrome joint ... Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada NLP plans to use the facility to transport employees and contractors to its oil sands project site during construction and operation. ...
Alta. nuclear plant's main customer a mystery CTV.ca - Canada The Peace River oilsands deposit is much smaller than the main Athabasca deposit to the east that includes the oilsands city of Fort McMurray. ...
Alberta nuclear reactor isn't done deal Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada Alberta today consumes about 9000 megawatts and expectations are that growth, especially from within the surging oilsands sector, should drive demand to ...
No security and no prosperity Regina Leader-Post - Regina,Saskatchewan,Canada - At issue are the Canadian tar sands, with the desire of the US to lay priority claim to the expanding supply of tar sands oil production. ...
Excelsior Reports Results for Second Quarter 2007 and Provides an ... Market Wire (press release) - USA - The Company is continuing to focus efforts in oil sands exploration and appraisal in the Hangingstone ("Hangingstone" or "Hangingstone Asset"), ...
Oil industry profits to plummet in 2007 Machinery and Equipment Magazine - Toronto,Ontario,Canada - A slight rebound in conventional oil production this year and strong gains in non-conventional activity, such as oil sands mining, will increase total crude ...
Energy and the Alberta Economy: Past and Future Impacts and ... Nickle's Energy Group - Calgary,Canada - These suggest more or less constant revenues over the forecast period as rising oil sands production is offset by falling natural gas production. ...
Marathon considering $1 billion plan to upgrade Detroit refinery Resource Investor - Herndon,VA,USA - On July 31, Marathon agreed to buy Canada's Western Oil Sands Inc. [TSX:WTO] for $5.46 billion to gain access to what may be the largest crude deposits ...
Energy, Oil and Gas Nigerian Tribune - Ibadan,Nigeria - Unconventional sources, such as heavy crude oil, tar sands, and oil shale are not counted as part of oil reserves until oil companies can book them as ...
Marathon plans to expand Detroit refinery Detroit Free Press - United States - The proposed project would also allow for the refinery to process heavy crude oil that comes from Canada's tar sands, primarily in northern Alberta. ...
Oil-Addicted US Finds New Dealer in Canadian Tar Sands YubaNet - Nevada City,CA,USA - Canadian tar sands deposits hold an estimated 1.7 trillion barrels of crude oil, second in the world only to Saudi Arabia, but the devastating environmental ...
The new dirty energy Boston Globe - United States - By far the most developed of these are the oil sands of Canada. A thick slurry of sand, water, and a hydrocarbon tar called bitumen, oil sands -- also ...
Processing outside of Alberta Edmonton Sun - Alberta, Canada - By JEREMY LOOME, Legislature Bureau It'sa political potato as hot as the tar sands but Alberta may benefit more in the long run from companies shipping oil ...
Quebec community erects fences before PM's trilateral summit CBC British Columbia - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada - ... say and ignores the will of the majority on issues such as climate change, the Iraq war and the use of energy resources such as Alberta's tar sands. ...
Local environmentalist joins Tar Sands 1200-km cycling trip The Daily News - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada - Now Aftab Erfan will have a chance to find out first-hand about the Athabasca Tar Sands. "I don't feel like I'm getting the truth about what is going on out ...
US Department of Energy Report Lists Imperial Petroleum Recovery ... Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA - The Continuing Evolution of America's Oil Shale and Tar Sands Industries," Imperial Petroleum Recovery Corporation is profiled for its innovative technology ...
Titanium Corporation Inc. announces retirement of chairman CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse) - Canada - Mr. Elliott has been instrumental in conceiving the strategy to recover titanium and zircon from Canada's vast oil sands resource, marshalling resources and ...
Oil discovered in SA ABC Online - Australia - That is on the far western edge of the oil-rich Otway Basin, where a layer of oil-bearing sands had previously been dismissed as being too expensive to be ...
Slow Flow Oilweek Magazine - Edmonton,Canada - Dusseault writes: "North of this line, exclusive of the surface mining area in the Athabasca Deposit, the EUB classifies all deposits as oil sands, ... See all stories on this topic
As Big Oil pumps out profit, Alberta's take is shrinking Is it ... Globe and Mail - Canada - The oil sands, in fact, pay more corporate income taxes to Ottawa than Edmonton. In sleepy sessions from Grande Prairie to Medicine Hat, the unprecedented ...
Canadian Oil Sands Trust: Potential Distribution Double Seeking Alpha - New York,NY,USA - potential of 20% to estimated net present value [NPV] of $39 a share revised up from $35 on May 29, when we raised long-term oil price to $66 a barrel from ...
Step carefully, Mr. Prentice: A powder keg awaits Globe and Mail - Canada - When Peter Lougheed, a former premier, predicts Ottawa and Alberta are headed toward a constitutional crack-up over oil sands development, he's not joking, ...
Sk Oil Sands Attracts Big Spenders 980 CJME News Talk Radio - Regina,Sasketchewan,Canada - For the first time ever, the province held a public offering of oil sands rights as part of its August sale of petroleum and and gas rights. ...
Concessions bring hope of averting Alberta strike Globe and Mail - Canada - ... as the industry tries to avert a looming strike that could hurt and possibly cripple the province's booming economy, particularly the oil sands. ...
Blaming labor for peak oil problems Salon - USA - In July, five trade unions authorized a strike mandate, setting the stage for a showdown in which oil sands workers demand a larger piece of oil sands ...
Spinning toward the tar sands Nanaimo News Bulletin - BC, Canada - Along the way, the group will make a documentary by talking to citizens, politicians, and stakeholders in the oil sands project. ...
Canada needs carbon tax Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada - ... gas emissions arising from the oil and gas sector (eg, mandate that nuclear power rather than natural gas be used in the processing of oil sands for new ...
Gulfport Energy Reports Record Second Quarter 2007 Results CNNMoney.com - USA - Gulfport owns a 25% interest in Grizzly Oil Sands ULC, which recently increased total leasehold acreage in Canada to approximately 451000 gross acres. ...
Clash over environment, oil industry coming: Lougheed National Post - Canada - On the other side is the province of Alberta, which has constitutional power over its non-renewable resources, including the oil sands in Fort McMurray, ...
Western Oil Sands Provides Update on WesternZagros Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada - In addition to the consideration paid by Marathon for the Athabasca oil sands assets, for every share of Western held, a shareholder will receive one common ...
HEATHER MALLICK CBC News - Canada - Lately, Americans have been complaining that oil extracted from the Alberta tar sands is far too expensive. They blame the high wages of Canadian workers ...
The Oil and Gas Industry Making Bigger Strides in Saskatchewan Saskatoonhomepage.ca - Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,Canada - They've changed the rules for awarding crown petroleum and natural gas rights in the oil sands and this week, for the first time ever under the new regime, ...
National unity endangered WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA - It also throws into jeopardy the production output of the Alberta oil sands, which are rapidly becoming America's leading and hitherto most dependable ...
Sonic and Shell Canada sign agreement Canada Digital - UK - Successful collaboration holds the promise of improving the economics of oil sands processing. The global oil sands industry represents an increasingly ...
No Injuries in Core Blowout of Tri-Valley Pleasant Valley Well CNNMoney.com - USA - To provide physical data to enable optimal design of re-exploitation of the Upper Vaca Tar Sands formation in the Oxnard Oilfield, Tri-Valley planned to ...
Greenpeace guns for the tar sands Daily Commercial News - Toronto,Ontario,Canada - Greenpeace is setting up shop in Edmonton and it has set its sights on shutting down Alberta's tar sands. "The tar sands are one of the most environmentally ...
Ignoring lessons of the Depression will affect everyone Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada - This in turn affects the price of oil, the Canadian oil patch and, in particular, the massive (and very price-sensitive) Alberta tar sands project. ...
Tri-Valley Says No Injuries In Core Blowout Of Pleasant Valley ... RTT News - Williamsville,NY,USA - The company said it is assessing whether to continue coring in the Upper Vaca Tar Sands or begin a conventional drilling operation. ...
Colby Cosh: NEP 2.0? Don't bet on it National Post - Canada - Meanwhile, a tax attack on the tar sands, even if it passed constitutional muster in the courts, would need to be supported by clear evidence of substantial ...
Change nothing new for Turcotte National Post - Canada - ... in mid-1999, when oil prices were weak and the Athabasca oilsands deposits unknown, launched Western Oil Sands Inc. Two weeks ago, the company, ...
North American Energy Partners Announces Financial Results for the ... CNNMoney.com - USA - "We continue to experience increasing demand for our services in the Athabasca oil sands," said Ruston. "This strong demand from our oil sands' customers, ...
Alberta's oil royalties could drop: report Edmonton Sun - Alberta, Canada - ... take increases under a new royalty option for the oil sands proposed by the provincial government, says one of the world's top oil consultants. ...
Sonic, Shell Canada to jointly develop oil sand extraction technology Hemscott - London,UK - Sonic said the aim of this partnership, which builds on previous work the two have done together, is to make oil sand extraction more cost effective. ...
High-stakes battle looms over oil-sands pollution Globe and Mail - Canada - A major source of greenhouse gas and water pollution, the oil sands project is expected to double in size within the next few years. ...
Petrobank tries new twist at oil sands project Globe and Mail - Canada - Whitesands is an unimposing oil sands project southwest of Fort McMurray that's been in operation for about a year. Operations there are very different from ...
EUB grants conditional approval for oil sands upgrader project Ecolog.com (subscription) - Toronto,Ontario,Canada - The Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) has granted North West Upgrading approval to construct, operate and reclaim a 150000-barrel-per-day oil sands ...
NDP question Suncor executive's appointment CBC.ca - Alberta, Canada - Brian Mason says the appointment of Heather Kennedy to the position of assistant deputy minister for the Oil Sands Sustainable Development Secretariat is ...
When it seems too good to be true Macleans.ca - Canada - Because it is the first threat of job action in a generation, observers shrink from predicting what disruptions could take place in the oil sands, ...
Pipeline project proceeding as planned Portage Daily Register - Portage,WI,USA - Crews are laying two pipelines, the larger of which will carry crude oil from the Canada oil sands to refineries in the Chicago area ...
As Big Oil pumps out profit, Alberta's take is shrinking Is it ...
The Oil and Gas Industry Making Bigger Strides in Saskatchewan
National unity endangered
Sonic and Shell Canada sign agreement
Ignoring lessons of the Depression will affect everyone
Greenpeace guns for the tar sands
Petrobank tries new twist at oil sands project
NDP question Suncor executive's appointment
When it seems too good to be true
Pipeline project proceeding as planned
A snapshot of Canadian domestic and foreign policy and its ...
Draft air permit to get public comment soon
Tri-Valley Featured in Investor Magazine
Refinery's future is at stake
Some Canadians protest oil pipeline
Who'll benefit from the oil sands energy wars?
Petrobank Announces Second Quarter Results
Tiny Connacher bucks trend in oil sands
Total pulls out oil sands stops
Grizzly Oil Sands Announces Upcoming Events
Greenpeace guns for the tar sands
Petrobank tries new twist at oil sands project
NDP question Suncor executive's appointment
When it seems too good to be true
Pipeline project proceeding as planned
A snapshot of Canadian domestic and foreign policy and its ...
Draft air permit to get public comment soon
Tri-Valley Featured in Investor Magazine
Refinery's future is at stake
Some Canadians protest oil pipeline
Who'll benefit from the oil sands energy wars?
Petrobank Announces Second Quarter Results
Tiny Connacher bucks trend in oil sands
Total pulls out oil sands stops
Grizzly Oil Sands Announces Upcoming Events
Robbins & Myers Focuses On Customer, Bottom LineCNNMoney.com - USA
Enbridge to Present at the TD Newcrest Oil Sands Forum 2007
Expedition to raise awareness about threats to Athabasca River
Connacher Oil and Gas Limited to participate in Oil Sands Conference
Opti vows caution on Long Lake oil-sands Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Canada Stocks Gain on Alcan Takeover as Oil Shares, Suncor Rise
Sector Close Up - Energy Stocks - Oil Sands Stocks
Acquires 95% Interest In Additional Alberta Oil Sands Sections ...
CANADIAN MARKETS: Canadian Stocks Rise, Led By Western Oil Sands
Canadian Natural Resources Announces Second Quarter 2007 Update
UBS cuts Western Oil Sands target
Operations Update: Alberta Oilsands Inc. expands drilling program ...
UPDATE 2-Enbridge profit slips, but sees major growth ahead
Oil profits forecast to plummet
TFN NEWS BRIEFING: Oil and utilities highlights to 09:15 BST
BCSC taps Andean American with cease trade order [8/3/2007] Vancouver
Xstrata sells exploration portfolio to Pure Nickel
EMED looking at buying Rio Tinto [8/2/2007]
Communists turn up heat on Philippine mining industry [8/2/2007]
Canada lacks diamond-savvy investors [8/2/2007]
Brett hits long gold at Hammond Reef [8/2/2007]
Earnings: Agnico-Eagle, Amerigo, Kinross, Sherritt, Sinchao, Western Goldfields [8/2/2007]
New oilsands plans require deep pockets
OIL SANDS EXPANSION - Suncor going ahead with Voyageur South
Marathon bids $6.5B for Western Oil Sands
New Greenpeace office to fight oilsands