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Shell joins MGM in NWT shale oil play Calgary junior’s stock rises after farming out to major

Jun 29th, 2012
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By Dan Healing, Calgary Herald June 28, 2012

CALGARY — Shares in Calgary junior MGM Energy Corp. leaped by as much as 45 per cent on Thursday morning after it announced it had signed Shell Canada to help explore an oil play in the Northwest Territories.

The company’s stock rose seven cents to 22.5 cents in early trading in Toronto but closed the day at 20 cents, up 29 per cent from Wednesday’s close.

In a news release, MGM said the Canadian division of Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to fund the drilling and completion of up to two wells in the Central Mackenzie Valley Canol shale oil play to earn a 75 per cent interest in its exploration licence, 466B. read more

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Shell Canada files paperwork for $1.35B carbon capture project

Aug 3rd, 2011
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Regulatory application a first for Alberta

By Dina O’Meara, Calgary Herald August 2, 2011

Shell Canada took its first regulatory step toward commercializing it carbon capture and storage project Quest, which will strip carbon dioxide from its Scotford oilsands upgrader near Edmonton. Photograph by: Ted Jacob, Calgary Herald

CALGARY — Alberta could see its first commercial carbon capture and storage project as soon as 2015 if Shell Canada’s application for its Quest project is approved by provincial regulators — and the energy giant’s board.

Shell filed an application Tuesday on its $1.35-billion Quest joint venture with Chevron Canada and Marathon Oil Sands. read more

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Shell Canada confirms LNG partners

Jul 1st, 2011
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An artist’s drawing of the Royal Dutch Shell’s future Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas project in Australia, the world’s first floating LNG facility, is an idea Shell Canada is considering with its partners China National Petroleum Co., Korea Gas Corp. and Mitsubishi Corp. Photograph by: Courtesy, Royal Dutch Shell

Early days for project with Asian firms, spokesman says.

By Rebecca Penty, Calgary Herald June 30, 2011

CALGARY — Shell Canada has partnered with China National Petroleum Co., Korea Gas Corp. and Mitsubishi Corp. to look at building a liquefied natural gas export facility in British Columbia. read more

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Alberta guide claims Shell project threatens grizzly bear den on his land

May 18th, 2011
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Mike Judd, an outfitter in Beaver Mines, near Waterton Lakes National Park, is fighting the approval of a Shell Canada sour gas project. Judd, who guides hunt and dogsled tours, says there’s a den of grizzlies on his land that will be killed if the project goes ahead.

Photograph by: Dean Bicknell, Calgary Herald

A dogsledding tour guide is challenging a Shell Canada sour gas project near his Eastern Slopes home, arguing Alberta’s energy regulator failed to properly take into account the province’s dwindling number of grizzly bears before approving the project. read more

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BPZ, Shell unit end talks

Jan 9th, 2009
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BPZ Resources Inc. and a unit of Royal Dutch Shell PLC agreed to end talks aimed at jointly exploring for oil and gas in Peru after oil prices slumped.

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Global energy investment hit by financial crisis

Dec 27th, 2008
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The growing financial crisis and plunging energy prices have forced companies to scale back spending and delay projects, with expensive ventures in the oilsands hardest hit.

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SIR HENRI DETERDING: An Oil Napoleon

Feb 7th, 1939
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THE CALGARY DAILY HERALD: 7 February 1939 Page 4

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FEW careers in modern times have been more strange and eventual that that of Sir Henri Deterding.

An inveterate enemy of Soviet rule in Russia because of confiscation of the rich Caucasus oil fields, he later swung over to the support of the Hitler movement in Germany and helped to finance it.

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