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New Frontiers: In Canada, can the farmer and oilman be friends on the rail?
In this week’s Oilgram News column, New Frontiers, Ashok Dutta looks at the battle for space between growing production of oil from Alberta, and from a bountiful grains crop. ——————————– The statistics...
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The Oil Big Five: Finding a footing when the crude landscape is shifting
Now that the global crude oil markets are in the middle of a sort of upheaval, it seems increasingly harder to have clear thoughts or emotions about what the future holds. There are so many nuances to...
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Petrodollars: Chinese investors second-guess Canadian oil projects
The trans-Pacific partnership of China and Canada promises to diversify product access for one of the biggest oil consumers in the world, but it also comes with problems, as Ashok Dutta explains in...
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Canadian oil has its Jean-Paul Sartre moment: hell is a lack of investors
The Canadian oil patch is undergoing an existential moment as low oil prices have scared off investors and thrown the future of further oil sands projects into disarray. The whisper mill says that...
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North American oil production flush with increasing efficiencies: New Frontier
The US and Canada aren’t slowing oil production, as many predicted when it appeared oil prices were settling into a lower pattern for an extended time period. Efficiencies, which fostered the growth of...
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The Keystone XL saga: missed chances, shifting sands — Fuel for Thought
If Bill O’Reilly, author of such books as “Killing Lincoln” and “Killing Kennedy” were to turn his attention to pipelines, his next book might be entitled “Killing Keystone.” It would be a tale full of...
View ArticleIn Canada, a battle brews over pipelines, power lines: Fuel for Thought
With the current assumption that a crude export pipeline from Alberta to the US Gulf Coast is unlikely to ever be built, never has there been a better opportunity for Canada’s provinces to join hands...
View ArticleCanadian fire points to Alberta’s infrastructure weakness: Fuel for Thought
It’s been about three weeks since a wildfire broke out in the heart of Alberta’s oil sands production area in the Athabasca region in Fort McMurray, and it is still raging. Some 1,950 fire fighters,...
View ArticleFirst Nations flex muscles in US, Canada pipeline debate: Fuel for Thought
First Nations tribes in Canada and the US have started flexing their muscles, successfully delaying pipeline projects on both sides of the border. Indications are that this effort is becoming more...
View ArticleCanada’s liberal government does an about-face on oil pipelines: Fuel for...
Leave it to a liberal government backed by environmentalists to approve the first Canadian pipelines in several years, to help rejuvenate an oil industry thirsty to find more outlets for its crude oil....
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