Alaska well-placed in global survey 12/23/2007
As reported in last week's issue of Petroleum News, Alaska trails Wyoming and Colorado among U.S. states, but edges out all Canadian provinces except Saskatchewan in a study of investment "friendlines...

Alberta getting nudged off center-stage as tax hikes prompt big EandP companies to shift capital spending to United States 12/23/2007
The verdicts are rolling in for Alberta's proposed new royalty regime as the leading EandP companies take the wrapping off their 2008 capital budgets. But, in the process, those companies are reinforcin...

LNG a continental wild card 11/25/2007
North America could benefit from tapping into global resource; greater LNG volumes could displace higher-cost conventional, unconventional, frontier supplies
Liquefied natural gas could play a key role in ensuring supply-and-demand balance and steady prices in North American markets over at least the next seven years, offsetting declines in Canadian export...

NWT regime set to lock horns 10/28/2007
New premier promises tougher stance to give territory greater control over resource development, taxes; likes 'no-prisoners' style
The Northwest Territories has installed a new government that is ready to tackle a set of old issues, led by a perennial effort to wrest control of its natural resources from the Canadian government....

Prentice clearing regulatory jungle 10/28/2007
Canada industry minister says will establish Major Projects Office, unravel regulatory tangle that has impeded resource projects
Canada Industry Minister Jim Prentice says he will deliver where others have failed and unravel the regulatory tangle that has choked off major resource and mining projects. He said the federal govern...