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10.05.2013 India Says Canada Investment Rules May Cut LNG Spending

Changes to Canada’s rules governing investment by foreign state-owned enterprises may discourage Indian oil companies from participating in projects to ship natural gas from the North American country, India’s top diplomat in Ottawa said, Bloomberg reports.

07.05.2013 Canadian Minister Takes Fight for Oil Sands Crude to Europe

A European Union plan to label crude from the Alberta oil sands as dirty is unfair and could damage Canada's bid to find new export markets, the Canadian resources minister said at the start of a mission to lobby against the idea, Reuters reports.

02.05.2013 Canadian Oil Sands Profit Falls on Lower Syncrude Production

Canadian Oil Sands Ltd. (COS), the Calgary-based company that gets all of its production from Syncrude Canada Ltd., said first-quarter profit fell 44 percent on lower output, Bloomberg reports.

29.04.2013 Exxon Mobil Begins Production at Kearl Oil Sands

Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), the world’s largest company by market value, began production at its Kearl oil sands project in Alberta, which is projected to produce 4.6 billion barrels of recoverable oil in the next 40 years, Bloomberg reports.

18.04.2013 Canada: Chinese Energy Investment Welcome

The Canadian government said it is open to more investment from Chinese energy companies, UPI reports.

16.04.2013 Foreign Interest Grows in Canadian Shale

UPI reports that as much as 250 million cubic feet of natural gas per day is expected to come from Western Canadian assets, British and Qatari energy companies said.

12.04.2013 Canada Natural Gas Industry Reports on Natural Gas Production

The Canadian Natural Gas Initiative (CNGI) today released its Report of the Dialogues on Canada’s Natural Gas Industry, the result of an outreach program that took senior industry representatives to eight cities across Canada for discussions with stakeholders about natur

10.04.2013 Japan Investing in Canadian Natural Gas

UPI reports that Canada may be a natural gas market ripe for courtship from a Japanese economy hungry for more energy supplies, a Japanese energy executive said.

08.04.2013 Canada Pushes for Energy Trade with Asia

UPI reports that Canada will send a trade mission to China and Japan next week to promote the North American country as an energy superpower, a government official announced.

05.04.2013 Increased Production and Reduced Emissions from Statoil's Canadian Oil Sands

In 2012 Statoil increased oil sands production by more than 60% and reduced CO2 intensity by almost 24%. These results are published in the Statoil 2012 Oil Sands Report April 4.