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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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TransCanada Corporation says it is encouraged by the level of bid submissions in the open season for its proposed Energy East project, which closed Monday, and continues to feel positive about the
Peyto Exploration & Development Corp. has nearly tripled its size in three years -- based on first-quarter 2013 production of 55,372 boe per day versus first-quarter 2010 output of 20,652 boe -- at a
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