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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.
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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Operators in Alberta conducting hydraulic fracturing will face increased regulatory oversight and monitoring under a new Energy Resources Conservation Board Directive 83 which comes into effect Aug.
Pacific NorthWest LNG Ltd. has awarded FEED contracts for its proposed LNG facility in British Columbia to three international engineering contractors -- Bechtel, KBR/JGC joint venture, and
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