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Shell fits final module on Alberta oil sands’ first carbon capture project

September 9, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

Shell Canada has fitted the final module at the first carbon capture and storage project in Alberta’s oil sands, putting start-up on track for 2015. The Quest CCS project, now 70 percent complete, is being built with funding from the Alberta and Canadian federal government to help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from the oil sands. […]

Filed Under: Alberta, Environment, Innovation, News Tagged With: Alberta, Alberta's oil sands, bitumen, Canadian, carbon capture and storage, Chevron Corp, Edmonton, Federal Government, Lorraine Mitchelmore, Marathon Petroleum, Quest CCS project, Shell Canada, Shell's Athabasca oil sands project, Shell's Scotford upgrader

Comment: We need to refine our oil sands ambition

August 29, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

In June, a ship carrying about 600,000 barrels of crude from Alberta’s oil sands arrived in Bilbao, Spain, by way of Houston, Tex. The circuitous journey by rail and tanker to Spanish oil giant Repsol’s Bilbao refinery made economic sense, given the price discount on Canadian crude. Despite European hostility toward “dirty” oil from Canada, […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: Alberta, Alberta's oil sands, Big Oil multinationals, bitumen, Canada, Canadian crude, refining, Spain, upgrading, Western Canadian Select oil

First Nations companies competitive in battle for oil sands jobs

July 21, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

When it comes to landing contracts in Alberta’s oil sands, First Nations groups are no longer the beneficiaries of easy deals. Chief financial officer of Fort McKay Group of Companies, Marguerite MacDonald says, “Four years ago, we didn’t have to bid on a lot of the work that we now bid for. It is no […]

Filed Under: Alberta, Canada, News Tagged With: Alberta, Alberta's oil sands, crude oil, First Nations, Fort McKay Group of Companies, Marguerite MacDonald, Mary Peg Campbell, oil, oil companies, oil industry, oil sands, pipeline, Suncor Energy

Comment: Oil sands too valuable a resource to ignore

July 3, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

There is a lot of environmental hand-wringing going on these days. In Washington, President Barack Obama is playing political brinkmanship with Canada over the approval to the Keystone XL pipeline project. In British Columbia, there is mounting opposition to the Northern Gateway project. In Kitchener, concerns over the endangered Jefferson salamander have delayed the much-needed […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: Alberta's oil sands, Canada, environmental, Keystone XL, Northern gateway, oil, pipeline, President Barack Obama, Washington

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