Unconventional Resources News

Connacher delays oil sands expansion, names CEO

Feb 22, 2012 Connacher Oil & Gas Ltd., Calgary, which last month disclosed a strategic review following key management changes, has delayed the planned expansion of its Alberta oil sands production project ...

Forest pursues Wolfcamp shale, Wolfbone plays

Feb 17, 2012 Forest Oil Corp. said it has amassed a combined 114,500 net acres in the West Texas Wolfbone and Wolfcamp shale plays that it said provides a “concentrated geographic footprint in the Delaware and ...

CNRL applies for Kirby oil sands expansion

Feb 17, 2012

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. has filed regulatory applications for expansion of its Kirby in situ oil sands project in the southern Athabasca region of Alberta.

Talisman to deem Colombia's Akacias commercial

Feb 16, 2012 Talisman Energy Inc., Calgary, said the 2010 Akacias-1 discovery on the Ecopetrol-operated CPO-9 heavy oil block in Colombia’s Llanos basin has produced more than 325,000 bbl of oil equivalent on l...

Panelists see informed regs as key to unconventional production

Feb 14, 2012 Development of the necessary data to reach informed regulatory decisions is the next critical unconventional production issue to be addressed, panelists said in a Feb. 14 forum co-sponsored by Gene...

Zodiac praises Kreyenhagen formation characteristics

Feb 13, 2012

Zodiac Exploration Inc., Calgary, has completed a 10-stage stimulation in the Upper Kreyenhagen formation in its 1-10 horizontal well in Kings County, Calif., followed by a flowback period.

Lea County, NM, gets horizontal Brushy Canyon oil find

Feb 10, 2012

Red Mountain Resources Inc., Dallas, said it initiated oil production from the Delaware Brushy Canyon reservoir at its Madera 24-2H horizontal well in Lea County, NM.

Athabasca presses Montney, Nordegg light oil work

Feb 7, 2012

Athabasca Oil Sands Corp., Calgary, reported completion of Montney and Nordegg multistage fractured horizontal wells at Kaybob in the Deep Basin of Alberta.

Canada, Alberta commit to 'improve' environmental monitoring of oil sands

Feb 6, 2012 The governments of Canada and Alberta, stung by the recent US decision to postpone development of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline project, have agreed to step up their monitoring of the environm...

PetroChina to buy 20% of Shell's Canadian shale gas assets

Feb 6, 2012

PetroChina, a unit of China National Petroleum Corp., has signed a binding agreement to purchase a 20% stake in Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s Groundbirch assets in northeastern British Columbia.

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