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BP’s Predictions for Energy Production in the Future

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So I suspect I should apologize. Here I am talking about the future projections for energy production that have been made by companies such as ExxonMobil and Shell, as though they were still the key and only players in the world. Yet, in reality, Saudi Aramco (12.5 mbdoe); Gazprom (9.7 mbdoe) and National Iranian Oil (6.4 mbdoe); appear in the list before ExxonMobil arrives (at 5.3 mbdoe), and then there is PetroChina (at 4.4 mbdoe) before BP arrives (at 4.1 mbdoe) and it is only then that we find Shell, which lies 7th at 3.9 mbdoe.

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Future looks bright for the Heartland

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The future of the Industrial Heartland appears to be a bright one, as more than $20 billion in potential projects are expected to move forward in the next five years.

That’s according to Neil Shelly, the executive director of Alberta’s Industrial Heartland Association, who addressed attendees at a recent Sherwood Park and District Chamber of Commerce luncheon.

Shelly spoke to the growing investment in natural gas, an industry that the Conference Board of Canada (CBC) expects will surpass oilsands investment in the next 25 years.

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Rollin Stanley: Focused on good growth

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Rollin Stanley has been in Calgary for just half a year, but he’s already formed a specific opinion about his new home.

“It’s very Midwest,” he says. “It reminds me of my time in St. Louis where you just loved living there because the lifestyle is different, very relaxed; it’s energizing. It has a lot of options of which I’m not taking full advantage of because I just work too much. But it’s an incredibly friendly place and very easy to adjust to.”

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Five Unlikely Energy Surprises for 2013

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Many people trot out their predictions for the coming year right about now. I’m generally allergic to predictions and think rather in terms of probabilities. Naturally, the world we live in is far too complicated to yield anything approaching certainty concerning such matters as the future price and supply of energy, future economic conditions, and future political developments. In the end, the future is simply unknowable. So, I’ve tried to think of some developments which conventional wisdom has judged rather unlikely and which would therefore significantly alter our lives and perceptions should they occur–precisely because we are not prepared for them.

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Growth plan to be undertaken

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Strathcona County council approved a recommendation at its Tuesday, Oct. 23 meeting to conduct a strategy and set a timeline for future urban growth into the Bremner urban reserve area, located northeast of Sherwood Park.

The growth management strategy for the Bremner urban reserve area, a future 200,000 population development, will provide an analysis of growth options that include a sustainable diversity of land use, potential population capture, servicing requirements, sequencing of growth locations, and future cost implications for Strathcona County that minimizes the impact on existing developed areas and taxpayers.

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