The accelerator is intended to be an open-access, industry-led site where companies can test drilling technologies at deep depths, high temperatures and varying rock types.

Danielle Smith said the Alberta government is looking for ways to encourage pipeline companies to boost capacity and increase Alberta's oil and gas export volumes to the U.S.

The proposed cap-and-trade system is being met with anger from Alberta politicians and skepticism from industry stakeholders, who warn such a measure will harm the energy sector.

It's been another dry year in Alberta, but some Brazeau County residents argue the evaporation of a beloved creek is the work of oil and gas industry greed — not Mother Nature.

Pembina said the deal strengthens existing partnerships with Veren, which has 20 years of drilling inventory and assets in the Montney and Duvernay oil-and-gas-producing regions.

Suncor Energy Inc. says it is leasing oil tanker ships to carry crude from the recently completed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion to Pacific markets.

The six-member committee includes a UCP MLA, a retired oilsands executive, an engineer, a former PC MLA, a former regulator and the former chief of the Fort McKay First Nation.

Prices for Canadian heavy oil increased, and the WCS-WTI differential narrowed, in April in anticipation of the start-up of the pipeline expansion.

Cenovus Energy executives warn it could be well into next year before oil companies resolve their ongoing dispute with Trans Mountain over rising pipeline shipping fees.

A group of oil shippers is seeking a detailed breakdown of the construction costs for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, which has ballooned four times its original estimate.