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Alberta may be best known for oil and natural gas, but another underground resource is beginning to attract serious attention. Lithium. Unlike many lithium projects around the world, Alberta does not necessarily need a large open pit mine to produce it. Some of the province’s lithium is dissolved in deep underground…

Alberta is beginning to develop an industry that looks very different from conventional oil and gas, but much of the work needed to build it will feel familiar to people who have spent their careers around energy projects. Large data centres are moving from proposals into actual construction. The biggest example…

A major natural gas infrastructure announcement on August 27 is another sign that Western Canada’s gas industry is preparing for a future with more LNG exports and potentially much stronger demand. Enbridge has reached an agreement with investment firms KKR and Apollo that will help fund approximately $2.7 billion of expansion…

Most Alberta oil and gas news focuses on what is being built. New wells get attention. New pipelines get attention. Oil sands expansions and natural gas plants generate headlines because they represent growth. But one of the more important developments for Alberta’s oilfield service industry right now is happening at the…

One of the most useful ways to understand Alberta’s oil and gas industry right now is to ignore the biggest political announcements for a moment and look at what companies are actually doing in the field. In northwestern Alberta, that picture is becoming interesting. Recent company updates show drilling continuing around…

Alberta’s natural gas industry is producing at impressive levels, but one of the most important energy stories this summer is not how much gas is coming out of the ground. It is what that gas is worth once it reaches the Alberta market. Recent second quarter results from several Western Canadian…

Alberta’s oil sands are producing at extremely strong levels, but a recent development highlights an important difference between high production and new construction. Some major future oil sands expansion projects are not moving ahead yet. Canadian Natural Resources said this month that its medium and longer term oil sands growth projects…

Keystone XL is suddenly part of the Alberta energy conversation again. United States President Donald Trump has recently raised the possibility of reviving the long cancelled pipeline as trade tensions between Canada and the United States intensify. For Alberta, the attention is understandable. Keystone XL was designed to move Alberta crude…

Alberta’s oil and gas industry is busy, but the activity is not spread evenly across the province. Some regions are attracting new drilling because producers are targeting natural gas and condensate. Others are seeing heavy oil development. Established oil sands areas continue to generate enormous production while companies focus increasingly on…

For many Alberta farmers and rural property owners, oil and gas development begins with a phone call. A company may want to drill a well, build an access road, install a pipeline or construct a facility on private land. The proposal can sound straightforward. The company needs a relatively small portion…

Anyone looking at oil and gas jobs in Alberta will eventually encounter two terms that sound very similar: drilling rig and service rig. They are not the same thing. Both types of rigs work on oil and natural gas wells, and some of the job titles overlap. However, they generally arrive…

When people hear the word pipeline in Alberta, they often think about enormous projects carrying crude oil across provincial or international borders. Those pipelines are important, but they represent only one part of Alberta’s pipeline system. Across the province, a much larger network of smaller pipelines connects oil wells, natural gas…

When people think about Alberta oil production, the oil sands around Fort McMurray usually receive most of the attention. But another important oil story has been developing farther south and west. The Clearwater Formation has emerged as a major source of heavy oil production in Alberta, particularly through the use of…

Alberta is known around the world for oil and natural gas, but the industry is not evenly distributed across the province. Different parts of Alberta produce very different types of hydrocarbons. Northern Alberta is dominated by the oil sands. Northwestern Alberta has become increasingly important for natural gas and condensate. Central…

Coiled tubing is a specialized but increasingly important part of Alberta’s oil and gas service industry. The technology allows a continuous length of steel tubing to be deployed into an oil or natural gas well without assembling conventional jointed pipe one section at a time. Coiled tubing can be used for…

If you are looking for work in Alberta’s oil and gas industry, where you search can be almost as important as the job you search for. Alberta’s energy industry is spread across a huge geographic area. Calgary may be the corporate centre of the industry, but many drilling, production, maintenance and…

For people searching for oil and gas jobs in Alberta, one phrase appears constantly in job postings: camp provided. Camp work is particularly common around Fort McMurray and at remote industrial sites where commuting from a nearby community is impractical. For someone living in Calgary, Edmonton or elsewhere in Canada, these…

Across Alberta, thousands of oil and natural gas wells have reached the point where producing them is no longer practical. For landowners and people living in energy producing communities, this raises an important question. What actually happens when an oil or gas well stops producing? The answer is more complicated than…

A significant natural gas infrastructure expansion is moving forward west of Grande Prairie as AltaGas increases the capacity of its Dimsdale natural gas storage facility. The project is particularly relevant to Alberta because it sits close to one of the most important natural gas producing regions in the province. AltaGas has…

Calgary based Cenovus Energy has increased its 2026 production outlook after reporting record production from key Alberta oil sands operations and its strongest quarterly financial results in company history. The results provide another example of a major trend developing across Alberta’s oil industry. Large producers are finding ways to increase output…