Exports of liquefied natural gas from the LNG Canada plant were more than one million metric tons in April, Reuters reports, based on data from the monitoring firm LSEG data. All the LNG went to Asia, with about half going to South Korea. One cargo went to China when on April 24, the tanker Qingcheng […]
The final investment decision for the LNG Canada project is 18 to 24 months ahead, Andy Calitz, CEO LNG Canada said Wednesday. Calitz said that the project must go through a series of what are called “stage gates” before the respective corporate boards of the partners make that decision. Calitz said the project has already […]
The Wall Street Journal is quoting sources that Sinopec, China's largest petroleum refining company, "is in early talks with U.S.-based oil-and-gas producer Apache to buy a minority stake in a liquefied natural gas project on Canada's Pacific coast." And since Apache is a partner with Chevron in KM LNG, that means the project commonly known […]
The Edmonton Journal is quoting David Black as saying in Fate of proposed Kitimat refinery to be determined within 60 days: British Columbia newspaper magnate David Black says he’ll know in about 60 days whether his controversial idea for a new refinery on the West Coast will move forward or die a quiet death. In […]
Skeena Bulkley Valley MP and NDP House leader says the Harper government's approval of the takeover by CNOOC, the China National Offshore Oil Corporation of the Alberta-based energy company, Nexen Inc. makes “absolutely no sense.” Cullen also told northwest reporters in an end-of-year news conference that if the Conservatives continue their present policies, “Beijing will be […]
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Shell Canada and its Asian partners have chosen TransCanada Corporation to design, build, own and operate the proposed natural gas pipline to Kitimat, now called the Coastal GasLink project. The estimated $4-billion pipeline will transport natural gas from the Montney gas-producing region near Dawson Creek, in northeastern British Columbia to the proposed natural gas export […]
An anonymous group opposing the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline is calling for a demonstration at the site of an oil and gas export conference in Vancouver on May 30 and 31 and asking participants to wear the red square that has become symbolic of the Quebec student protests first against tuition fee hikes and later […]
Updated Enbridge late Wednesday, March 28, 2012, issued a statement saying that a story in the National Post/Financial Post that PetroChina could bid to build the Northern Gateway pipeline is "speculation." In PetroChina bids to help build $5.5-billion Northern Gateway pipeline columnist Claudia Cattaneo reported that: Chinese investment in Canada’s energy sector could move to […]
Reuters and Bloomberg both report from China that Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said in Guangzho that his government is "committed to ensuring" that the Northern Gateway project went ahead." Reuters Canada PM vows to ensure key oil pipeline is built. Bloomberg Harper Says Canada Committed to Selling More Oil to China The Toronto Star […]