With jobless rates climbing and many industries suffering, economists have predicted that the oil and gas industry in Canada, namely the Oil Sands will lead the growth over the next year. Oil Sands currently makes billions of Dollars and has created more than tens of thousands of Oil Sands jobs. Despite the controversy over the pipeline [...]
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A recent discovery of gas just off the coast North West of Greenland by a British Exploration Company, Cairn Energy, could mean a huge boost in the economy for Greenland. Largely uninhabited due to the harsh terrain and climate, Greenland is home to about 56 thousand people, and is financially dependent on Denmark. Oil and [...]
With the Shell Oil Company coming very close to drilling oil off the Outer Continental Shelf, Alaska is claiming a portion of the offshore oil drilling tax revenues which usually goes directly to the Federal Government. According to Senator Mark Begich, “We pushed very hard on this, we argued our point. We explained the impacts [...]
ClearFuels Technology based in Hawaii has received the first $7.7 million of its $22.6 million that the DOE (Department of Energy) to build a biomass gasifier at the Rentech Energy Technology Centre, which is expected to create many new gas industry jobs. This agreement to go ahead with the first stage reflects the company’s approval [...]
Recently, Tharwa, the oil and gas company have discovered oil in Egypt in the Eastern Desert in the West Esh El Mallah area. Currently the production level is expected to be 1300 barrels a day. This comes as oil prices rise worldwide, and with the recession starting to subside. The oil discovery poses many new [...]
Oxane, a company that produces proppants for oil and gas companies is opening a new manufacturing plant in Van Buren which could mean more than 300 oil and gas service jobs in the area. The company’s decision to open a new plant is due to the fact that they have developed a new proppant in [...]
Canada based Husky Energy, the 3rd largest oil company in the country, is planning to expand its portfolios by placing more than 26 percent into two projects, namely the natural gas finds off the coast of China and the massive Oil Sands project. These two projects have been the focus of their attention for the [...]
The sixteenth African Oil Week held in Cape Town saw delegates from various independent oil producers positive about the future of the oil industry in Africa. It was emphasized that African was at the forefront of the oil industry with many unexplored potential oil sites. There are currently 550 oil firms operating in Africa, and [...]
Over the past few years, North Dakota has been the United State’s biggest supplier of oil thanks to a huge discovery in the area from Montana, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. This area has provided tons of oil jobs so far in the Bakken Formation, and with the new oil pipeline that has just been approved by [...]
With the eruptions from the Redoubt Volcano subsiding, the Cook Inlet’s oil production is set to restart in the coming week. Oil Company, Chevron is hoping that the Trading Bay and Granite Point oil fields will be opened and they are already restarting the on shore oil loading terminal. This oil facility was producing about [...]
