Norway is seemingly a paradox: they want to be at the forefront of international efforts to address climate change, yet the country aims to cash in on oil and gas for years to come. Norway’s centre-left government has said its lucrative oil and gas sector will be...
Putin’s Russia may indeed be incompetent at managing a large modern military. But when it comes to evading international rules around things like laundering the proceeds of crime and large scale corruption, Russians are world leaders. That’s why news reports in...
It turns out Saskatchewan, and SaskPower, might be in a bit of a pickle when it comes to who will build our planned small modular reactors (SMRs). SNC-Lavalin, the company SaskPower over eight years later is still in litigation with regarding the Boundary Dam project,...
Back in 2008, when I was being recruited to become editor of Pipeline News, the Bakken oil play in southeast Saskatchewan was all the rage. That year, the largest Crown land sales in Saskatchewan history totalled over a billion dollars, and that doesn’t even count the...
Resource developers in Canada face unique geographical, jurisdictional, regulatory and political obstacles That Germany has given up on Canada to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) and instead signed a massive multi-year LNG purchase agreement with Qatar has left many...
Editor’s note: Often behind the scenes, the Saskatchewan Research Council has provided substantial fundamental research to support Saskatchewan business, including the energy industry. Their work in oil and gas, from pipeline labs to reservoir modelling, is...
