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JANUARY 27, 2011

Statoil Canada has produced first oil from its SAGD (steam-assisted gravity drainage) Leismer Demonstration Project (LDP) in the Canadian oil sands after initiating steam injection in September 2010, one month ahead of schedule.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

SOLVE adds a solvent to the steam in SAGD (basic operation depicted above) to reduce energy input and water consumption. The production well extracts the bitumen to surface heavy oil production facilities. SAGD is the predominant in-situ recovery method currently used in Canada’s oil sands. Source: StatoilHydro.

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JANUARY 11, 2013

and owned by Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P.: BP Canada Energy Trading Company; Canadian Natural Resources; Canadian Oil Sands Limited; Cenovus Energy Inc.; Devon Canada Corporation; Husky Energy Marketing Inc.; Imperial Oil Limited; Nexen Marketing Inc.; Suncor Energy Marketing Inc.;

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JULY 7, 2010

a Total subsidiary, has signed an agreement with UTS Energy Corporation (UTS) to acquire UTS Corporation with its main asset, a 20% interest in the Fort Hills oil sands mining project in Alberta, Canada. The Fort Hills project is operated by Canada’s Suncor Energy Inc. With Suncor Energy Inc.,

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AUGUST 1, 2012

The Fort Hills Energy Limited Partnership has selected TransCanada Corporation to design, build, own and operate the proposed Northern Courier Pipeline project. Northern Courier Pipeline is fully subscribed under long-term contract to service the Fort Hills Mine, which is jointly owned by Suncor Energy Inc, Total E&P Canada Ltd.

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DECEMBER 11, 2010

Canada-based MEG Energy’s board of directors has approved 2011 capital investment of approximately $900 million and the final cost estimate for the 35,000 barrels per day Phase 2B oil sands expansion at the Christina Lake in-situ project. Non-energy operating costs are budgeted to average $9.00 future growth.

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DECEMBER 19, 2010

Suncor is targeting 1 million barrels per day output in 2020, with its growth in the oil sands underpinned by its alliance with Total. Canada-based Suncor Energy Inc., Approximately 80% of that production will be from the oil sands. Teck Resources Ltd. Click to enlarge. interest in Fort Hills.

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MAY 14, 2010

Penn West Energy Trust has entered into an agreement with a wholly-owned subsidiary of the China Investment Corporation (CIC) to form a joint venture that will develop Penn West’s bitumen assets located in the Peace River area of northern Alberta. CIC has also agreed to purchase trust units of Penn West on a private placement basis.

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AUGUST 29, 2011

Newalta Corporation has signed a contract with Syncrude Canada Ltd. The contract is over a three-year period at Syncrude’s oil sands mine operations near Fort McMurray, Alberta. to process mature fine tailings (MFT) for a demonstration project. Schemes may have many MFT ponds.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

Shell submitted the application on behalf of the Athabasca Oil Sands Project, a joint venture among Shell Canada Energy (60%) Chevron Canada Limited (20%) and Marathon Oil Canada Corporation (20%). The Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) is the primary regulatory agency for the project.

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AUGUST 21, 2009

The US State Department has issued a Presidential Permit to Enbridge Energy, Limited Partnership to enable construction of the Alberta Clipper pipeline for the transport of crude oil from the Canadian oil sands to US refineries. The Alberta Clipper pipeline (red). Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). The RFA “They Said What?”

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DECEMBER 24, 2011

Canada-based Osum Oil Sands Corp. billion barrels (net) of Best Estimate Contingent Resources through both acquisitions and additional geological and reservoir work in 2011. billion barrels (net), ranking it third in the area next to Husky Energy and Shell Canada.

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APRIL 2, 2009

has sold a 10% interest in the Northern Lights Partnership (NLP) to SinoCanada Petroleum Corporation (SinoCanada), a subsidiary of China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec). In May 2005, SinoCanada acquired a 40% interest in NLP from Synenco Energy Inc. UTS is a 20% partner in the Fort Hills oil sands project.

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MAY 29, 2018

The 1,150-km (714-mile) Trans Mountain pipeline system (TMPL) is the only pipeline system in North America that transports both crude oil from the oil sands and refined products to the west coast. The Government of Canada will purchase Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline system and the expansion project (TMEP) for C$4.5

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JANUARY 7, 2015

Chevron Corporation announced a significant oil discovery at the Anchor prospect in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico. Anchor co-owners are Cobalt International Energy, Inc. (20%), 20%), Samson Offshore Anchor, LLC (12.5%); and Venari Resources LLC (12.5%). Anchor co-owners are Cobalt International Energy, Inc. (20%),

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MARCH 20, 2013

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation announced that its Shenandoah-2 well in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico encountered more than 1,000 net feet of oil pay in multiple high-quality Lower Tertiary-aged reservoirs. Other co-owners in Shenandoah are ConocoPhillips with a 30% working interest,;Cobalt International Energy L.P.

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MARCH 24, 2009

Canadian energy companies Suncor Energy Inc. Upon completion of the transaction, the combined entity will operate corporately and trade under the Suncor name, while maintaining the brand presence of Petro-Canada in refined products. Current crude oil and natural gas production of approximately 680,000 boe per day (boe/d).

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APRIL 18, 2012

USGS is the only provider of publicly available estimates of undiscovered technically recoverable oil and gas resources of the world. These new estimates are for conventional oil and gas resources only. These estimates include resources beneath both onshore and offshore areas.

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JANUARY 15, 2011

The Board of Directors of Marathon Oil Corporation has approved moving forward with plans to spin off Marathon’s downstream business, creating two independent energy companies. Marathon Oil Corporation (MRO) will be a global upstream company based in Houston, Texas.

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MARCH 31, 2010

Air Products will supply hydrogen by pipeline to Shell Canada Energy; Sherritt International Corporation; and Williams Energy (Canada) Inc. Sherritt International Corporation is a diversified natural resource company. Williams Energy (Canada), Inc. Williams Energy (Canada), Inc. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Chevron Corporation announced a new oil discovery at the Moccasin prospect in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico. 1 encountered more than 380 feet of net pay in the Lower Tertiary Wilcox Sands. The well results are still being evaluated, and additional work will be needed to determine the extent of the resource.

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AUGUST 24, 2011

To be sited at Jie Yang City, Guangdong Province, the Nanhai refinery will be operational in early 2015, with a capacity to process 400,000 barrels of heavy and extra heavy crude oil per day (400 kbd) from the Orinoco Oil Belt. Oil and Gas Journal (OGJ) pegged Venezuela’s 2011 reserves at 211 billion barrels, up from 99.4

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JUNE 20, 2012

However, the US military can play an important role in promoting stability in major oil producing regions and by helping protect the flow of energy through major transit corridors and on the high seas, the reports suggest. Earlier post.). Alternative liquid fuels do not offer DoD a way to appreciably reduce fuel costs.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The study, a unique partnership between the Environmental Defense Fund, participating companies, an independent Scientific Advisory Panel and the study team: Is based on measurements made directly at 190 production sites throughout the United States, with access provided by nine participating energy companies.

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JANUARY 20, 2015

IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) and its subsidiary Axens have formed a strategic alliance to develop and to commercialize a new technology for the low cost production of bio-based benzene, toluene and paraxylene using Anellotech’s process of Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis (CFP) of non-food biomass. Anellotech Inc., Earlier post.).

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MAY 3, 2009

has secured an exploration agreement for lands in Wyoming and rights to a separate oil shale resource opportunity in Colorado. Collectively, the agreements will allow the company to test and develop the company’s in situ superheated air gasification process to recover hydrocarbons from oil shale, oil sands and heavy oil.

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MARCH 2, 2012

Twelve of Canada’s oil sands producers have formed a new alliance, Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA), focused on accelerating the pace of improving environmental performance in Canada’s oil sands through collaborative action and innovation. This would improve plant reliability.

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MARCH 17, 2009

Water consumption or withdrawals per unit of energy produced, by energy type, in the United States. With increasing frequency ,” write the Pacific Institute researchers, “ we value energy production over water production. ”. by Jack Rosebro. Source: DHI Group. Click to enlarge. Climate change.

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AUGUST 29, 2012

The report provides nine different Tailings Technology Deployment (TDD) Roadmaps to accelerate the implementation of oil sands tailings solutions in Alberta. After oil sands ore is excavated from the ground (surface mining operations, not in situ production), warm water is added to wash the bitumen off the. sand and clay.

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OCTOBER 27, 2011

Cenovus Energy Inc., a Canadian integrated oil company, reported an increase in third quarter crude oil production year-on-year of about 4% due to oil sands production that was 14% higher compared with the same period a year earlier. Conventional oil production slightly declined due to a combination of factors.

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OCTOBER 17, 2011

KMI) and El Paso Corporation on Sunday announced a definitive agreement whereby KMI will acquire all of the outstanding shares of EP in a transaction that will create the largest midstream and the fourth-largest energy company in North America with an enterprise value of approximately $94 billion and 80,000 miles of pipelines.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

times more energy positive compared to conventional gasoline, according to an evaluation by Dr. Michael Wang at Argonne National Laboratory. gallons of water are required to produce one gallon of gasoline from Saudi Arabian Conventional Oil. Earlier post.). “We We will have the lowest production cost of ethanol in the industry.

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MARCH 14, 2011

HEI is a nonprofit corporation chartered in 1980 as an independent research organization to provide high-quality, impartial, and relevant science on the health effects of air pollution. There is increased development and use of a number of fuels from unconventional sources such as tar sands, oil shale, and coal.

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When it takes up to four million pounds of sand to frack a single well, it’s no wonder that demand is outpacing supply and frack sand producers are becoming the biggest behind-the-scenes beneficiaries of the American oil and gas boom. Pioneer Natural Resources Inc.

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DECEMBER 11, 2011

Exxon Mobil Corporation’s new The Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040 , released last week, projects that global energy demand in 2040 will be about 30% higher than it was in 2010 as population grows to 9 billion and global GDP doubles. Light duty vehicle fleet by type and average fuel efficiency. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

Noble Energy, Inc. Noble’s discovered resources in the Eastern Mediterranean now totals nearly 40 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. The well encountered high-quality reservoir sands, with per well productivity anticipated to be approximately 250 million cubic feet of natural gas per day. with 20 percent. with 20 percent.

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JANUARY 19, 2012

TransCanada Corporation, saying it was “ disappointed ” by the decision on Wednesday to deny the Presidential Permit for Keystone XL ( " src=" ">, also said it remains fully committed to the construction of the pipeline. Canada and the United States enjoy the single most important energy relationship in the world.

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