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If you want online information about Telamonn Energy Services Inc., you’re mostly out of luck. The company is so new the data available is sketchy. That’s too bad, because the company could be a groundbreaking model for Canadians wanting to export expertise to booming China.
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).
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.
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Imperial Oil Limited is converting its Dartmouth refinery into a terminal operation.
The Devonian Duvernay Formation has quickly become one of the hottest high-liquids-yield shale gas plays in North America. Despite the billions of dollars being spent to date on the Duvernay play,
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