Canada

Houston-based ConocoPhillips has said it hopes fellow US major ExxonMobil will join it and partner British major BP in their Alaskan natural gas pipeline project, Denali. The Denali... 2008-08-12

The Canadian province of British Columbia has sold CAD610mn (US$609mn) worth of oil and gas rights in its July lease sale, beating records for all previous months and bringing year-to-date... 2008-07-18

TransCanada and ConocoPhillips plan to extend the Keystone crude pipeline system from Canada to the US Gulf Coast, adding 500,000 barrels per day (b/d) of capacity on the route... 2008-07-17

Anglo-Dutch major Royal Dutch Shell has launched an agreed bid for Canadian independent tight gas producer Duvernay Oil for CAD5.9bn (US$5.87bn), as it seeks to enhance its gas... 2008-07-15

Indian oil companies may invest up to US$2.5bn to secure stakes in Canada's tar sands projects, according to India's oil secretary M. S. Srinivasan, speaking at the 19th World Petroleum... 2008-07-04

US independent Occidental Petroleum announced on June 9 2008 that it has agreed to pay CAD500mn to acquire a 15% stake in the Total-operated Joslyn oil sands project in Alberta... 2008-06-24

A study by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) has concluded that oil production from Canada will grow at a more tempered rate than initially projected.