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Showing posts with label oil exploration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oil exploration. Show all posts
20 July 2011

Making the Most of Our Energy Resources, Part II – Oil and Gas in the Future

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Without new oil and gas discoveries, the Newfoundland and Labrador petroleum industry will dry up within a couple of decades.  There hasn’t ...
15 March 2011

No more give-aways indeed: Big Oil’s L’il Buddy considering cash breaks for major oil companies

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According to the cover story in the latest issue of Natural Resources magazine, the provincial government and representatives of the major ...
08 March 2011

Drilling in Gulf is dangerous and unmanageable

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Marilyn Clark, a Magdalen Islander studying at Memorial University, argues that oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is unman...
07 March 2011

White Rose field may get GBS

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According to the Telegram, the White Rose partners are looking at using a concrete gravity base structure or GBS. The concrete well-head ...
30 July 2010

Game on! Feds and Quebec start talks on Gulf Accord

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The Government of Quebec and the federal government started talks recently aimed at achieving an agreement on revenue sharing for any oil an...
24 July 2010

DFO doesn’t do research: the video proof

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Here is proof from CTV that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans does not do fisheries research . It is not like this story doesn’t have...
21 July 2010

Scientists find new sea creatures near deep water oil exploration sites

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Scientists from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, three Canadian universities and the Spanish Institute of Oceanography have discovere...
19 June 2010

Gulf #oilspill economic impact not what it seems

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Crude is currently trading eight percent below where it was the day the BP rig in the Gulf of Mexico blew up. CBC quotes a TD economist a...
19 March 2010

Old Harry: Gulf prospect bigger than Hibernia

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Old Harry is an oil and natural gas deposit in the Gulf of St. Lawrence that could be twice the size of Hibernia. As it is the current estim...
09 August 2009

Fallow field?

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nottawa raises an interesting point about NALCO’s bailout of the Parson’s Pond oil licenses. -srbp-
07 August 2009

NALCO buys pot from Leprechaun, has one year to find black gold

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The provincial government’s energy corporation will spend at least $20 million over the next year to drill exploration wells on three licens...
18 June 2009

Lack of royalty regime hampers further oil development

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Not surprisingly, some people attending the NOIA conference in St. John’s are wondering what is next on the horizon. As CBC reports , ther...
11 January 2009

Old Harry: Jurisdiction dispute holding up oil exploration

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According to Deer Lake Oil and Gas , a small oil company headed by former Peckford and Moores era advisor Cabot Martin, exploration of promi...
09 February 2008

Conoco hints all not well in local oil patch

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ConocoPhillips is working to counteract the impression left in a National Post story Friday that it was unhappy with the provincial governm...
20 August 2007

Exxon signs rig for Indonesian drill program

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ExxonMobil has signed a deal with Seadrill to use its West Aquarius ultra-deep water semisubmersible rig for exploration offshore Indonesia...
22 April 2007

NS improves offshore competitiveness

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The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board has introduced a new exploration license at a lower cost but with a shorter term.