On the heels of Friday’s report by No Drilling Lethbridge about the size of Goldenkey Oil’s mineral leases, Lethbridge NDP spokeswoman Shannon Phillips wonders what MLA Greg Weadick knew about it.
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Tag Archives: wells
Lethbridge fights proposed well project in city limits
A provincial government review of the policies surrounding urban energy development remains ongoing, even as furious Lethbridge residents sign “No Drilling” petitions and their city council takes a unanimous stand against a proposed well project.
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ARE THE WORLDS LARGEST OIL POOLS ABOUT TO BE UNLOCKED?
With so much excitement over U.S. shale plays lately, it’s hard to justify why investors should be looking anywhere else in the oil and gas space.
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The US Fracking Boom Is Changing Geopolitics And Rearranging Global Alliances
The US will soon overtake Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest producer of crude oil, liberating its foreign policy from dependancy on a handful of oil-rich Arab allies
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Well re-abandonment work continuing at two Calmar sites
Two oil and gas companies were looking to complete the latest stages of their work to repair and re-abandon old oil wells in the Town of Calmar this week.
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Drilling forecast revised upward
The Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors (CAODC) has nudged upward its estimate of the number of wells that will be drilled this year.
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No objection offered to wells near city
The municipal planning commission will offer no objection to a pair oil wells to be drilled just outside city boundaries.
Calgary-based Conserve Oil and Gas No. II Corp. will horizontally drill the two sour oil wells and connect to existing pipelines.
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Bernum drilling application denied
The Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) has denied applications by Bernum Petroleum Ltd. to drill two horizontal oil wells and construct a multiwell battery approximately 4.7 kilometres east of Cochrane, it was announced Apr. 4
The ERCB said it denied the battery application on the basis that it would be economic to conserve gas and therefore flaring would not be allowed as per ERCB regulations. The well applications were denied for this location as it could not accommodate the company’s future development plans. The Board found that alternative locations exist in this area that could be developed in accordance with regulations and accommodate the applied-for and future wells.
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St. Albert residents sitting on abandoned oil and gas wells
Several St. Albert residents whose properties are on or near and abandoned oil and gas wells have been contacted by Imperial Oil about tests to be done on their land.
The oil company and Coun. Cam MacKay say the tests are strictly precautionary and that homeowners have no reason to fear for their health or property values.
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More well re-abandonment work coming to Calmar
Calmar residents are again going to be playing host to a lengthy well re-abandonment operation this winter and spring.
Starting this week oil company Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) began preliminary work to cap an abandoned, leaking well in Calmar’s Zolners Park.
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