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Beach Drilling
The lean but long world of Grand Rapids SAGD
Oilsands Review: May 15, 2013
A growing number of producers in Alberta’s oilsands regions are taking midnight strolls along the beach. In fact, they are falling in love with the long, continuous shoreface of the Grand Rapids formation, a thin but predictable bitumen play that, with some small adjustments to drilling and completions, has emerged as an important new target for steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD).
Basin fractured - unlocking tight oil and gas
Operators custom design horizontal drilling and fracking programs for individual plays
Oil and Gas Inquirer: May 1, 2013
Consider the range of technical factors that today’s drilling and completions managers must weigh in to their decisions and the old days really do look simpler. Until just the last few years, the key determinants of reservoir productivity were almost always porosity and permeability. But with the advent of multi-frac horizontals in the last decade, this is no longer the case.
Less bubble, more squeak
Twin resource bubbles must dissipate before western Canada’s resource voice can be heard and east-west tensions eased
Oilweek: April 1, 2013
Since the 1870 incorporation of Rupert’s Land and the North-Western Territory into the Dominion, Canada’s population west of Ontario has had a long history of grievances with centralized decision-making from the East. The political alienation of the West revolved largely around issues pertaining to ownership and control of natural resources. It has gone through many cycles and transformations over the years, peaking in dramatic intensity during the National Energy Program of the early 80s.
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Daily Oil Bulletin: May 24, 2013
Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC, operated by Kinder Morgan Canada, has submitted a project description to the National Energy Board outlining the preliminary details of the proposed expansion of the Trans
Daily Oil Bulletin: May 24, 2013
Petrobank Energy and Resources Ltd.'s chief executive says the company is continuing to try to work out the kinks at its Kerrobert THAI project as it travels the slow road to commerciality.
New Technology: May 1, 2013
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May 20, 1960
Start of in Arctic Island program for the exploration of petroleum and natural gas got off the ground in Calgary late Tuesday afternoon, May…
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