by Elizabeth Lappin, P.Geo
Elizabeth is the Geothermal Ambassador Coordinator at CanGEA, and the Founder of Castle Rock Consulting Ltd.
Alberta’s oil and gas wells produce thousands of barrels of water each day. This water is considered a waste by the oil patch, and operators pay to send it away by...
Energy market analytics company BENTEK Energy said that the Environmental Protection Agency's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule would likely benefit the natural gas industry at the expense of the coal industry.
The Duvernay code has been cracked, and Canadian analysts are racing to update their financial models. It’s one of the biggest plays in Canada, and in a very short time it has gone from a very expensive science experiment to a money making play.
Recent results from Chevron (CVX-NYSE) and...
Investors don’t need to hire Sherlock Holmes to help them see what it did to the balance sheet of Cenovus (CVE-NYSE/TSX) after spending $17.7 billion to buy most of Conoco-Phillips (COP-NYSE) Canadian assets this week.
It’s a whopper of a deal.
In total what is being acquired adds 298,000 BOE/day of...
Zeke Zeringue is a man with a plan. But the new CEO of Calgary based GasFrac (GFS-TSX) says shareholders need to understand it’s a long-term plan.
Zeringue took over as CEO of GasFrac in October 2011, 14 months after it went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
GasFrac is unique in...
Lithium is the hottest commodity in global energy, and there’s a race on to develop the next greenfield lithium mine (greenfield=from scratch).
Lithium X (LIX-TSXv; LIXXF-OTCBB)) took a big step to being The Next Big Lithium Producer with a deal last week to get a pilot plant operating at their Sal...
Do you know how most leaks are found on oil and gas pipelines?
They get a shrill complaint over the phone from one of the landowners where the pipeline crosses.
It’s true, says Dr. David Shaw, one of the authors of a draft “Leak Detection Study” prepared for the U.S. Department...
Last week we discussed why water is one of the industry’s biggest threats... AND one of investors’ biggest opportunities.
To illustrate the problem, consider that well over 90% of the U.S. onshore produced water generated by the oil and gas industry is disposed into an Underground Injection well (UIC)/salt water...
