Weyburn OTS Open Bonspiel Feb 3-4
WEYBURN – The Weyburn OTS Open Bonspiel is taking place Feb. 3-4. The 24-team event is full as of Jan. 27, but organizer Rob Somerville said that it’s still possible to be put on a waiting list in case someone drops out. “We have a couple of different things this...
US sweetens pot to study siting for spent nuke fuel storage
The U.S. government has long struggled to find a permanent solution for storing or disposing of spent nuclear fuel from commercial nuclear power plants, and opposition to such a site is flaring up again as New Mexico lawmakers debate banning a facility without state consent.
Imperial Oil gives OK to $720M renewable diesel project near Edmonton
Imperial Oil Ltd. is going ahead with a $720-million project to build a renewable diesel facility at its Strathcona refinery near Edmonton.
The project, first announced in August 2021, is expected to produce 20,000 barrels per day of renewable diesel once it is complete.
That will make it the largest facility of its kind in Canada, upon its expected completion in 2025, and one of the largest renewable diesel complexes in North America.
The feds are looking for research projects on CCUS, and the PTRC has a lot they can offer
Federal Minister of Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson announced on Jan. 25 an intake for “expressions of interest for carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) research, development and demonstration (RD&D) projects and related science activities focused on carbon storage and transportation”
The Regina-based Petroleum Technology Research Centre (PTRC) has been heavily involved with such research for over 20 years. This includes the original research done on the Weyburn and Midale carbon dioxide-enhanced oil recovery projects that is now concluded, and ongoing work at the Aquistore project, part of SaskPower’s Boundary Dam Unit 3 Integrated Carbon Capture and Storage Project.
Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson announces intake for CCUS projects
On Wednesday, Jan. 25, Minister of Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson made a significant announcement on the carbon capture, utilization and storage front, calling for expressions of interest for research, development and demonstration projects.
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Oilsands execs say they can’t invest in decarbonization any faster, despite profits
Oilsands executives insist they are all in on cutting emissions and will make big investments in green technology, but they maintain there isn’t a place to invest that money yet.
Many companies are coming off a year of windfall profits not because they pumped out more product, but because the war in Ukraine and global supply chain crunches pushed world oil prices way up.
Carbon capture, utilization and storage summit added to Williston Basin Petroleum Conference
REGINA – This spring’s Williston Basin Petroleum Conference has a new addition, with the Saskatchewan CCUS Summit. It comes at a time when interest is gathering steam.
CCUS stands for carbon capture, utilization and storage, and after literal decades of being implemented in Saskatchewan via the Weyburn and Midale Units, as well as Aquistore, the rest of the world is waking up to its promise.
Saskatchewan Research Council: How SRC is using metal smelting for rare earths
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 significant. Pipeline Online has invited the SRC to submit an occasional column, and this is their first piece, focusing on a key emerging market for Saskatchewan, rare earth elements.
ROK Resources closes southeast Saskatchewan deal, provides guidance for first half
On Jan. 24, ROK Resources of Regina announced that they had closed on land swap deal that had been announced on Dec. 19, 2022.
That announcement on Dec. 19 indicated that they were doing both an acquisition and a disposition with another company. In what is largely a land swap, they were acquiring 1,400 boepd production (69 per cent liquids) in southeast Saskatchewan, but selling 475 boepd (100 per cent liquids) of mostly non-operated properties in southwest Saskatchewan to the same company they were buying land from in the southeast. ROK was paying $26.5 million to the other party as part of the deal.
Saturn Oil & Gas acquires Ridgeback Resources in a deal that will be rockin’ in the Bakken
CALGARY – Saturn Oil & Gas Ltd. is continuing an exponential growth pattern through acquisitions.
At the close of the markets on Friday, Jan. 20, Saturn announced it was acquiring Ridgeback Resources Inc., one of the largest players in the Saskatchewan Bakken and Mississippian plays, which also has significant operations in three areas of Alberta. The deal is for $525 million.
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Royal Helium begins 2023 exploration programs with high resolution aeromagnetic survey in SW Saskatchewan
Royal Helium Ltd. announced on Jan. 23 it has initiated its 2023 exploration program in southwest Saskatchewan by flying approximately 5,960 line-kilometers of proprietary High Resolution Aeromagnetic (HRAM) data over its Cadillac and Swift Current helium properties in southwestern Saskatchewan.
Federal cabinet set for three-day retreat in Hamilton ahead of Parliament’s return
By Mia Rabson in Ottawa The ongoing affordability crunch and the threat of a looming recession will be front and centre as the federal Liberal cabinet holds a post-holiday cabinet retreat this week. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his ministers will spend the next...
1st small modular nuclear reactor certified for use in US
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has certified the design for what will be the United States’ first small modular nuclear reactor.
The rule that certifies the design was published Thursday in the Federal Register. It means that companies seeking to build and operate a nuclear power plant can pick the design for a 50-megawatt, advanced light-water small modular nuclear reactor by Oregon-based NuScale Power and apply to the NRC for a license.
Irving Oil refinery to use renewable natural gas made from food waste under new deal
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Irving Oil says it has teamed up with a renewable energy producer to supply its Saint John, N.B., refinery with carbon-negative renewable natural gas.
The New Brunswick company says Anaergia Inc. will supply Irving with natural gas made using food waste and other organic matter instead of fossil fuels.
Jim Warren: An Unjust Transition
The cat really is out of bag now. The transition memo leaked last week shows the Trudeau government is prepared to wage war on GHG emissions and is ready to fight until every last good job in Western Canada is gone. It doesn’t matter much or how hard the CBC and Liberal spin doctors try to sugar coat it, federal officials finally got caught saying the quiet part out loud.
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For four days in a row, Saskatchewan gets next to no power from wind turbines. Two days saw negative power production
For the second day in a row, SaskPower saw negative power production from wind power generation. And for four days in a row, wind power was next to nothing.
The day Trudeau lectured Saskatchewan on its “cleaner energy projects,” wind power generation actually went negative
REGINA – On the day that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lectured the Government of Saskatchewan on its clean energy efforts, a total collapse of both wind and solar power generation in Saskatchewan was taking place. In In Saskatoon on Jan. 16, Trudeau made allusions...
Carbon capture and storage, on either coal or natural gas, are not enough, Moe says of federal electricity standards
Moe said, ““The first of them coming into place in 2030 that will say not only can you not burn coal to generate electricity in Saskatchewan or in Canada, but even coal that has carbon capture and storage on it will not meet the criteria that the federal government has.
“And so essentially coal, of all types, will be banned by 2030. Further (by) 2035, now with the Clean Electricity Standard, natural gas, whether it has CCS or not, will also be banned by the year 2035.
Quick Dick McDick: A Peoplekind Named Trudeau
Quick Dick McDick knocks it out of the park with this one – a balad to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. And by pure coincidence, Trudeau was in Saskatoon the morning this was released. Quick Dick touches on LNG, carbon tax, inflation, guns and elections. And peoplekind. As he should.
The Anecdote Podcast: Brian Zinchuk from Pipeline Online
In mid-December, Pipeline Online editor Brian Zinchuk was interviewed on The Anecdote Podcast, a podcast focused on Saskatchewan. Similarly, Pipeline Online is focused on energy in Saskatchewan.
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Brian Zinchuk: Just as the world cries out for Canadian LNG, “No business case” Trudeau has totally failed us
While the US has moved fast and hard to get LNG export facilities in place over the last decade, Canada has dragged its feet and stubbed its toe. We let protestors (Coastal GasLink), provincial governments (Quebec) and the federal government (Energie Saguenay) get in the way. Now, while the world is crying for LNG from Canada, we have nothing – NOTHING – to give them.
What else would you expect from a government who killed the Northern Gateway and Energy East pipelines? That scared off Teck from its $20 billion Frontier oil sands project? That hardly whimpered when Biden killed Keystone XL?
Germany opens its 2nd liquefied natural gas terminal
BERLIN (AP) — Germany on Saturday inaugurated its second liquefied natural gas terminal, part of a drive by Europe’s biggest economy to put reliance on Russian energy sources firmly behind it.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz took part in the ceremony in Lubmin on the Baltic Sea coast, which came less than a month after he inaugurated Germany’s first LNG terminal at Wilhelmshaven on the North Sea. Several more are expected to go online in the coming months, including another in Lubmin.
Ken From: Climate change – a “super wicked” problem
Scientists tell us that with each passing year impacts from climate change become more acute, so immediate action is required – but what action? The prevailing narrative over the last decade has been to electrify everything using renewable energy (wind and/or solar)...
David Yager: Confusing signals from Ottawa on oil and gas
It’s hard to understand how reducing Canadian output would move the needle on world supply or emissions Liberal climate policies and the future of Alberta’s oil and gas industry are again headline news thanks to recent remarks by Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson and...
Explosion in gas pipeline in Lithuania, no injuries reported
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — An explosion occurred Friday in a pipeline in central Lithuania carrying gas to the north of the country and neighboring Latvia but no injuries or significant supply disruptions were reported. Baltic media said the blast sent flames 50 meters (164 feet) into the sky and forced the protective evacuation of a nearby village.