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Leduc No. 1 was a major crude oil discovery made near Leduc, Alberta, Canada, on February 13, 1947. It provided the geological key to Alberta's most prolific conventional oil reserves and resulted in a boom in petroleum exploration and development across Western Canada. The discovery transformed the Alberta economy; oil and gas supplanted ...
After a turbulent couple decades, Husky reasserted itself as a major Canadian petroleum company in 2000 by purchasing Renaissance Energy Ltd. in a $ 3.02 billion deal. Husky Energy has proven petroleum reserves of 430,000,000 barrels (68,000,000 m 3) and 2 trillion cubic feet (5.7 × 10 10 m 3) of natural gas.
Oilfield service companies may produce, maintain, and repair equipment used in oil extraction and oil transportation. [1] In 2019, the global oilfield services market was US $ 267.8 billion. [ 2 ]
Public subsidies enabled the launch of the first "oil sands project to capture and bury carbon emissions" in 2015—Shell Canada Quest Energy project (SCQEP). Both SCQEP and Carbon Trunk Line's Enhance Energy received hundreds of millions in government financial support for Alberta's two largest carbon capture projects. [9] [10]
Secure Energy Services was founded in 2007 by Rene Amirault and several partners. [1] It held an IPO in April 2010, raising C$57.5 million. [2] At the time, it had nine facilities. In 2011, it acquired Marquis Alliance Energy Group for $131 million. [1] By 2014, Secure Energy had 24 facilities, and 13% of the Canadian environmental services ...
EnergySolutions. EnergySolutions (stylized as EnergySolutions), headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, is one of the largest processors of low level waste (LLW) in America, making it also one of the world's largest nuclear waste processors. It was formed in 2007 when Envirocare acquired three other nuclear waste disposal companies: Scientech D ...
Typically pricing of electricity from various energy sources may not include all external costs – that is, the costs indirectly borne by society as a whole as a consequence of using that energy source. [ 62 ] These may include enabling costs, environmental impacts, energy storage, recycling costs, or beyond-insurance accident effects.
The Kawerau Power Station is a 100-megawatt geothermal power plant located just outside the town of Kawerau in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand. The power station is situated within the Kawerau geothermal field, which is part of the Taupo Volcanic Zone. Completed in July 2008 by Mighty River Power at a cost of NZ$300 million, the plant's ...