Kitimat LNG takes big step forward

CFTKTV The majority of the natural gas supply will come from northeastern BC and be transported to Kitimat by pipeline. Wall says about 50 people are currently working on site preparation at Bish Cove, where the marine export terminal will be built. … Click for more

US mulls major levy on cargo coming from BC ports

Globe and Mail Canadian governments at all levels have invested $3.5-billion in modernizing the ports at Prince Rupert and Vancouver, and in related road, rail and border infrastructure. But although BC’s share of West-Coast container traffic bound for the US has … Click for more

Rio Tinto hiring hundreds of workers in Canada because of modernization projects

Winnipeg Free Press Positions are also being filled in Kitimat, BC, Labrador City, Edmonton, Vancouver, Regina and Thunder Bay, Ont. Rio Tinto Alcan is preparing for a global aluminum recovery by spending more than US$1 billion to continue developing two low-cost smelters … Click for more

Liquefied Natural Gas: Target Asia

BusinessWeek Wall, who runs the Canadian division of Apache, the largest US independent oil and gas company, is courting Asian natural gas importers such as Korea Gas, hoping they will buy a liquid form of the fuel from a $3.5 billion terminal planned for Kitimat, … Click for more

Shell says it’s looking at B.C. Coast for new LNG terminal

Shell says it’s looking at B.C. Coast for new LNG terminal Vancouver Sun In Canada, Shell Canada paid $5.9 billion in 2008 to buy Duverney Oil Co., a major player in BC’s Montney shale gas deposit near Dawson Creek. … Click for full story

Enbridge Pipeline News Update

The Enbridge Pipeline debate is still ranging on with a number of new developments and insights for Northern British Columbia. This $5.5 billion 1,172 km pipeline from Edmonton, Alberta to Kitimat, BC is slated to start in 2016. With the price of raw materials in the mining sector increasing and the price of oil at [...]

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Encana to buy BC LNG terminal stake

Daily Commercial News Natural gas company Encana Corp. has agreed to buy a big stake in a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal on the BC coast. Encana did not say how much it will pay for a 30 per cent interest in the Kitimat terminal, which would allow Canadian natural … Click for more

Another LNG export terminal for BC?

Alaska Dispatch According to Canada’s Globe and Mail, an energy consortium (BC LNG Export Co-operative LLC) has asked the National Energy Board for approval to build a second liquefied natural gas export facility at Kitimat, smaller than the one already set for the … Click for more

LNG nuclear alternative

Petroleum News Encana said British Columbia’s Montney and Horn River shale gas plays have capacity to grow to 7 bcf per day β€” almost half of Canada’s total current gas output β€” in the next seven to 10 years from the current 2.8 bcf per day. It said those volumes …` Click for more

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