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Departments
9 VIP Forum
As the global petro-barrel gets
heavier, global hydrocarbon consultant
Kent Moors is urging Alberta to take
the lead in setting a benchmark heavy
oil price.
Bits & Trips
Petro-Canada strokes a double,
Talisman cures an Indonesian headache,
Triangle evaluates Nova Scotia’s shale
potential, and other interesting tidbits
from around the patch.
The Patch
A January call for a carbon tax
generates short-lived debate, and
TAQA builds its Canadian profile.
Rewind
A look back at what happened in
March of years gone by.
Atlantic Canada
After a few years of wrangling
with Big Oil for a better deal,
Newfoundland Premier Danny
Williams has joined the petro-set, and
hopes to reap even bigger rewards.
BY WES REID
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Wealth and Wisdom
Canoils reveals what’s really going
on in Canadian E&P, and efforts
are underway to enshrine Western
Canadian Select as the global
benchmark heavy crude.
Oil and Gas Quarterly
Recapping third-quarter
performance benchmarks.
CV
Career profiles in the
Canadian oil patch.
Human Resources
The Petroleum Human Resources
Council emerges from successful
Increasing the Talent pilot program.
Our Industry
The battle between environmentalists
and Alberta’s oilsands developers is
only going to get more intense.
B Y DAVID YAGER
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