CALGARY — Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., has decided against restarting an oilsands pilot project that was shut last year during the wildfires near Fort McMurray, Alta. Also known as Japex, the comp ...

After years of heated political battles over the oilsands, a question looms — are passions cooling for a more peaceful future? In the last decade, the oilsands have landed in the crosshairs of environ ...

With their overwhelming economic impact and massive environmental footprint, the oilsands have loomed large for Alberta governments charged with their stewardship. Premier Rachel Notley sat down with ...

When a Japanese oil company came to Alberta in 1978 as the first overseas player in the oilsands, the industry was still cutting its teeth. Global oil prices hovered around US$15 a barrel, Canada prod ...

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Dan Wicklum, one of the oilsands’ most influential scientists, believes Alberta’s oilsands sector will decades from now look back on the construction of a facility this year in southeast Calgary to co ...

The town of Hinton is planning to pull a different kind of energy from the abandoned oil and gas wells that ring its outskirts. The town is teaming up with academic researchers and the private sector ...

There’s a lot of enthusiasm for oil prices these days, and why not? West Texas intermediate crude (WTI) has soared by more than 20 per cent since mid-June, and it seems to have settled in at the US$50 ...

A wave of next-generation upstarts is hitting America’s oil patch, offering high-tech solutions aimed at an industry in flux following the worst crude-market crash in a generation. At a time when the ...

A natural gas hydrate test project in the South China Sea has been successfully completed, which is a first for the country, China’s ministry of land and resources said on July 29. During the 60-day t ...