 Macleans.ca | Diamonds aren't forever: Oppehneimers leave De Beers Macleans.ca New diamond suppliers, from Australia and Canada, are selling to new buyers across the global middle class. The Central Selling Organization, the co-operative that once bound the industry together, has long since fractured. And in Canada, BHP Billiton, ... |
 Globe and Mail | China Fuels Its Global Energy Supply Wall Street Journal After tiptoeing into North America in recent years, Chinese companies have ratcheted up their energy deal-making as unconventional extraction methods—from oil sands to shale gas—have transformed the continent's energy market. The Globe and Mail Shell sells 20 per cent interest in BC shale lands to PetroChina PetroChina boosts LNG export plans |
 FuelFix | New oil shale plan limits Western research land Daily Herald The George W. Bush administration had made almost 2 million acres available for potential oil shale development and 431000 acres for tar sands development, but federal officials took a new look after conservation groups filed a lawsuit in 2009 alleging ... BLM Reduces Piceance Acreage Available for Oil Shale, Tar Sands |
 Telegraph.co.uk | Royal Dutch Shell Sets Out New Growth Agenda MarketWatch (press release) In heavy oil world-wide, we are planning for $2 billion of 2012 spending, covering EOR, mining and upgrading activities. In Canada, Shell is investing in a series of debottlenecking projects in oil sands mining, which will add ~50000 b/d by 2020. Royal Dutch Shell Is Still A Buy |
PetroChina Buys Stake in Shell Canada Shale Asset Wall Street Journal In January, PetroChina paid 680 million Canadian dollars, or $666 million, to buy the 40% it didn't already own of the MacKay River oil-sands project in northern Alberta. The latest acquisition comes days ahead of a visit to China by Prime Minister ... |
PetroChina buys 20% of BC Shell gas play CBC.ca PetroChina Co. has agreed to buy a 20 per cent stake in Shell Oil's Groundbirch shale gas project in northeastern BC "PetroChina and Shell have signed binding agreements for PetroChina to acquire a 20 per cent interest in certain of Shell's ... |
Royal Dutch Shell's CEO Discusses Q4 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript Seeking Alpha We started up three really substantial projects last year, and you know them, (Italian), Qatar, GTL and oil sands. We went ahead with bio-fuels in Brazil. And we took FID on the floating LNG in Australia. This is all part of our large sequence of ... |
 National Post | Harper's oil pitch to China faces big hurdles National Post China imports no oil from Canada at present, and the infrastructure is not in place in Canada to get the crude from the massive tar sands of Alberta to the Pacific coast, forcing a long-term view of a partnership. “China as an energy market directly ... |
PetroChina buys Canada shale stake from Shell Reuters Africa The transaction, the latest in a string of investments by Chinese oil companies in North American shale gas and oil sands, had been approved by both the Chinese and Canadian authorities, Mao said. According to Shell's website, the Groundbirch project, ... |
Iraq's Oil Law May Be Pushed Till End of 2012, Ghadhban Says Bloomberg The Arab nation is the third-largest oil producer in OPEC, pumping 2.75 million barrels a day in January, according to data compiled by Bloomberg News. Exxon, with Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA), operates the West Qurna Phase 1 field in southern Iraq. |
PetroChina buys stake in shale gas project from Shell Reuters UK The transaction, the latest in a series of investments by Chinese oil companies in North American shale gas and oil sands reserves, had been approved by both the Chinese and Canadian authorities, Mao Zefeng told Reuters. The deal to buy into Shell's ... |
The Obama administration rejected a bid to expand the controversial Keystone oil sands pipeline Wednesday, saying the deadline imposed by congress did not leave sufficient time to conduct the necessary review. Read more
Costs and labour, hit by rising inflation, eat into projects’ profits Read more
The Obama administration rejected a bid to expand the controversial Keystone oil sands pipeline Wednesday, saying the deadline imposed by Congress did not leave sufficient time to conduct the necessary review. Read more
FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- The Canadian minister of infrastructure and oil sands said the government formed an advisory committee to assess the future transportation needs of oil sands. Read more
Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s biggest oil company, reported a drop in profit on lower gas prices and production disruptions. Read more
Costs and labour, hit by rising inflation, eat into projects’ profits Read more
FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- The Canadian minister of infrastructure and oil sands said the government formed an advisory committee to assess the future transportation needs of oil sands. Read more
PetroChina Co. (PTR) has signed binding agreements to buy a stake in a Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) shale gas asset in Canada, marking the latest move by Chinese state-owned companies to expand their Canadian footprint and increase their ability to tap unconventional fossil fuels. Read more
The federal government's new plan for oil shale development on public lands would keep activity off thousands of acres of environmentally sensitive areas, with new leases initially being issued strictly for research on how to commercially produce oil from oil shale in Utah, Wyoming and Colorado. Read more
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The Obama administration is expected to announce its opposition to the controversial Keystone oil sands pipeline project as early as Wednesday, according to a Democratic source briefed on the matter. Read more
