Canada

A panel discussion at Canada’s Safest Employers Awards centered on climate change as one of the top risk factors safety experts need to prepare for as they help guide their organizations into an uncertain future.

The guidance is intended to clarify for industry what is expected of projects going through federal regulatory assessment.

The paper presents successful field tests designed to decrease electrical-submersible-pump cooling rates by inducing controlled deadheads rather than shutting down the pumps.

Whitecap enters into the liquids-rich Duvernay play, including 74,000 acres with more than 250 identified drilling locations.

The UK supermajor is selling off its Sunrise oil sands stake for cash, interest in the undeveloped Bay du Nord complex off Newfoundland.

The decision comes after an environmental review showed that the floating production, storage, and offloading vessel-based development was unlikely to cause negative environmental effects.

Regulatory uncertainty continues to hamper Canadian provinces in competition for hydrocarbon investment.

The Oil Sands Pathways to Net Zero initiative is an alliance between Canada’s five largest oil sands producers. The group has announced additional details of its plan to achieve the goal of net zero greenhouse-gas emissions from oil sands operations.

Researchers say they found that the amount and proximity of natural gas wells to a home were linked to higher levels of certain chemical contaminants.

As Canada, Greenland, and even Norway shy away from developing their Arctic oil and gas resources, only Russia and the US remain in the game as Alaska seeks to renew interest in exploration and development of its North Slope.