China’s CNOOC to buy Nexen for $15.1-billion
Claudia Cattaneo, National Post, July 22 2012
CALGARY – Chinese oil company CNOOC Ltd. is confident its US$15.1-billion bid for Nexen Inc. provides a “net benefit” to Canada because the deal helps accelerate resource development and increases job creation, making it aligned with Canadian government goals, the company’s two top executives said Monday.
Pro: Energy policies that shun Canadian oil will push an American ally to China
Andrew P. Morriss, OregonLive.com, June 8, 2012
Are U.S. energy policies forcing Canada into a long-term trading relationship with China?
Con: Canada will trade with China, regardless of U.S. energy policies
John W. Maxwell, OregonLive.com, June 8 2012
Are U.S. energy policies forcing Canada into a long-term trading relationship with China?
Enbridge unveils expansion plans for Canada and U.S.
Reuters, Vancouver Sun, May 16, 2012
Enbridge Inc kicked off one of the most sweeping expansions in its history on Wednesday, a $3 billion series of projects across its pipeline system aimed at moving western Canadian crude to Eastern refineries and preventing bottlenecks in the U.S. Midwest.
Nice Oil Imports You've Got There. Shame If You Lost Them.
VACLAV SMIL, Foreign Policy, Feb 29, 2012
Why Americans need to be more grateful to Canada.
Why Americans should love Canadian oil
Stephen Kelly, Globe and Mail, Feb. 29, 2012
As Alberta’s Premier makes her rounds in the United States this week to sell the oil sands, she might want to capitalize on the current American preoccupation with gasoline prices, which have soared more than 20 per cent in parts of the country since mid-December.
Is Venezuela on the cusp of a post-Chavez oil boom?
Steve LeVine, Foreign Policy, February 22, 2012
If Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is forced to drop his bid for re-election for health reasons, will the primary repercussion for the West be the exit of a voluble thorn in the side? Perhaps, but it will also mean the prospect of yet more newly available oil reserves -- on top of the widely projected U.S. shale oil bonanza. The takeaway: If the shale oil projections are accurate, and Chavez leaves politics under whatever scenario, we have the prospect of a geopolitical shakeup analogous to what has accompanied the rise of shale gas.
A Chavez-less Venezuela should worry Alberta
Darren Campbell, Alberta Oil, Feb 24 2012
As Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver and Alberta Premier Alison Redford exhaled after the EU rejected – for now – its proposed fuel quality directive, I wonder if they have been paying attention to Venezuelan politics lately.
EU backs off oilsands tag
Claire Rosemberg, Agence France-Presse, Postmedia News, February 24, 2012
Move to label fuel higher polluter goes to committee next
A fierce argument over EU moves to label oil from Canada's massive oilsands reserves as highly polluting looked set to deepen when talks between experts from the 27-nation bloc ended in a stalemate Thursday.
