Canada

Chinese state run oil companies are likely to be in the running as Cenovus seeks a partner for its Telephone Lake development. The potential farm-out would be the latest in a series... 2011-10-28

A combination of a surfeit of natural gas in the US market, large shale and tight gas reserves in north-east British Columbia (BC) and soaring gas import demand in Asia has opened the... 2011-10-21

Canada's National Energy Board (NEB) announced on October 13 2011 that it had issued a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export licence to the consortium behind the proposed Kitimat LNG facility,... 2011-10-18

The Sinopec-Daylight Energy deal is the latest in a series of acquisitions by Chinese state-run oil companies seeking to gain control of upstream assets. The deal indicates that, despite... 2011-10-10

With the State Department reportedly set to give TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline the environmental green light, the long-delayed and controversial project looks nearly certain to... 2011-08-26

High oil prices should support Japex's Hangingstone oil sands expansion project, providing a major boost to the company's overall oil production figure in 2014.

Although the move marks a fundamental shift in focus for a company that billed itself as a pure play on the North American gas market, we believe that foreign expansion is a good plan... 2011-07-22

State-run China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNC) has swept up Canadian oil sands developer Opti Canada, announcing on July 20 2011 that it would acquire the company for US$2.1bn.

The outlook for the proposed Mackenzie gas pipeline project in Canada has worsened with the news that one of the four project stakeholders,

Troubled Canadian oil sands company Opti Canada has filed for bankruptcy protection from its creditors after failing to make a scheduled interest payment on some US$1.75bn of debt.... 2011-07-14