Project News

A Calgary company has outlined further details on its plans for a $4.5 billion coal-to-liquids (CTL) project which will include carbon dioxide capture for enhanced oil recovery.

Sunshine Oilsands Ltd. has quietly amassed, since inception in February 2007, $100 million and 677,000 acres of land in the Athabasca oilsands region for four steam-assisted gravity drainage projects.

Privately-held Athabasca Oil Sands Corp. (AOSC) has submitted a regulatory application for its first pilot SAGD (steam assisted gravity drainage) pilot project at Dover in the Athabasca oilsands with a pilot for Thickwood to be filed later this year.

Despite the actions of industry and government to alleviate the shortage of labour in Alberta's heavy industrial construction industry there will be an even tighter labour market in the next five to 10 years, delegates to this week's oilsands forum heard.

Alberta Oilsands Inc. has announced plans to raise $15 million and two pilot projects aimed at building SAGD bitumen recovery projects.

Oilsands Quest Inc. has started engineering work on Saskatchewan's first oilsands project and released its independent resource estimates for its Axe Lake and its Raven Ridge bitumen finds.

Talk of rig construction and development of new technologies added an optimistic note to last week's service sector conference in Calgary.

Inter Pipeline Fund says it continues to make significant advancements on the $1.8 billion capacity expansion project currently in progress on the Corridor pipeline system in Alberta.

CH2M HILL says that it has signed two separate contracts with Fort Hills Energy L.P. (FHELP) in a joint venture with Lockerbie & Hole Construction Management Inc. to provide engineering, procurement and construction services for the infrastructure utilities work for the Fort Hills oilsands project.

Excelsior Energy Limited is now moving towards the first phase of a steam-assisted gravity drainage oilsands project at Hangingstone after results exceeded expectations from its first delineation drilling program there and at Surmont.

Alberta Oilsands Inc. says it has identified two possible bitumen production projects based on its winter drilling program at Clearwater, Alberta. Preliminary data points to two possible 10,000 bbl a day projects in the area.

Southern Pacific Resource Corp. reports that several key positions have been finalized to initiate the planning and preparation of its first oilsands project.

A decades long dream for Alaskans of a natural gas pipeline from the North Slope is one step closer today with Thursday's announcement by Alaska Governor Sarah Palin that her administration is recommending TransCanada Corporation subsidiaries be granted a licence to build it.

Industry Minister Jim Prentice still takes an optimistic outlook on the Mackenzie Gas Project, despite its delays, cost pressures and the risk of growing imports of liquefied natural gas on North American shores.

Japan Canada Oil Sands Limited (JACOS) announced Thursday a proposed expansion plans for its Hangingstone oilsands operation in northeast Alberta.

Enbridge Inc. is reconsidering its plans for a proposed 400,000 bbl per day pipeline from Patoka, Illinois to the United States Gulf Coast following an open season that failed to attract sufficient shipper interest.

Syncrude Canada Ltd. is considering expanding to up to 700,000 bbls per day beyond 2016, the oilsands mine's largest shareholder announced yesterday.

AltaGas Income Trust plans to spend about $55 million this year on projects to increase natural gas volumes from its recently acquired Harmattan complex northwest of Calgary and to increase its efficiency, unitholders heard Thursday.

Pan Orient Energy Corp. says its 55%-owned subsidiary, Andora Energy Corporation, has filed an application with the Energy Resources Conservation Board to build and operate a 2,000 bbl per day steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) demonstration plant at Sawn Lake, Alberta.

Pengrowth Corporation, administrator of Pengrowth Energy Trust, has filed an application with the Energy Resources Conservation Board and Alberta Environment for a pilot scale Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) project at the company's Lindbergh property.