Western Canada Pipeline Construction Summary
Pipeline Construction Western Canada last 7 days (report date March 26, 2022). We are tracking 33 Canadian Oil & Gas Operators who had 30 pipeline permits approved for for a total of 103KM of oil & gas pipeline projects.
- Pipeline construction permits by top operators & permit count – Canadian Natural Resources Limited (11), Ish Energy Ltd (4), ATCO GAS AND PIPELINES LTD. (3), Baytex Energy Corp. (2)
- Pipeline construction permit count by province – Alberta Pipeline Permits (40), Sask Pipeline Permits (18), BC Pipeline Permits (0)
- Pipeline construction permits by area & project distance – Mankota (15.6KM), Hoadley (1.48KM), Valhalla Centre (9KM)
- Facility Permits with Compressors – total of 4 Operators and 4 permits.
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Pipeline permits include gathering or transport pipelines of a liquid, gas or oil through a system of pipes. In addition to these main types of pipelines, there are also four other sub-categories of pipelines: Gathering Lines, Feeder Lines, Transmission Pipelines and Distribution Pipelines. The permits represent all types of pipelines. This section shows pipeline permits that have a new construction component. (Pipeline Construction Western Canada March 26, 2022 report date )
Petroleum pipelines transport oil, oil products and natural gas. In addition to these two main types of pipelines, there are also four other sub-categories of pipelines: Gathering Lines, Feeder Lines, Transmission Pipelines and Distribution Pipelines. The permits represent all types of pipelines.
Pipeline Permits Approved Last Week
Pipeline Project Details
CANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES LIMITED Permit#28,835 total 9KM Pipeline to pipeline
Canadian Natural Resources has exploited Canada’s resources to become one of the country’s largest natural gas producers. The company has large oil holdings (light, medium, and heavy crude assets) in British Columbia and Alberta, as well as in Saskatchewan. It also has holdings in the North Sea and offshore West Africa. In addition, the company has major interests in oil sands production in Canada. In 2010 Canadian Natural Resources reported proved reserves of 3.8 billion barrels of oil, bitumen, and natural gas liquids, (including 1.9 billion barrels of synthetic crude oil), and 4.3 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas, and produced an average of 632,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.
Montney Formation is a major shale gas and tight oil resource. … This estimate makes it one of the largest known gas resources in the world and equivalent to 145 years of Canada’s 2012 consumption. Gas is produced from the Montney Formation in both British Columbia and Alberta.
Valhalla, located 40 kilometers north of Grande Prairie in NW Alberta Valhalla areas show significant unconventional horizontal hydrocarbon production potential, with significant liquids production (40-50O API oil and condensate)
IPC CANADA LTD. Permit #53,672 – 4.54KM Satellite to satellite
IPC’s oil and gas assets are located in Alberta and Saskatchewan. The Suffield area oil and gas assets and the recently acquired Ferguson oil asset are high quality conventional assets located in southern Alberta. The Onion Lake, Mooney and Blackrod assets are heavy crude oil assets with conventional and steam assisted development methods in northern Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Acquired by IPC early in 2018, the Suffield area assets are conventional oil and natural gas assets held over a large, contiguous land position of 800,000 net acres of shallow natural gas rights and 100,000 net acres of oil rights. Production and reserves from the assets come from conventional shallow oil and gas wells. These stable, low-decline producing fields have low production costs and significant future development potential from a combination of low risk development drilling, well stimulation and enhanced oil recovery opportunities.
Oil is produced from the Suffield area assets using both enhanced (EOR) and conventional recovery methods via water drive with pumped multi-lateral horizontal wells. The production is collected in a network of pipelines and transported to a central processing facility. In 2018, IPC recommenced conventional oil well drilling at Suffield, successfully bringing the N2N pool EOR facility and alkaline surfactant polymer (ASP) injection programme online in 2019.
Sweet natural gas production in the Suffield area is via shallow wells producing from multiple formations. The wells produce into a network of natural gas pipelines with a number of compressor stations. In 2018, IPC commenced a multi-year gas optimisation programme with a ramp up in well swabbing activity and an extensive well recompletion programme targeting underdeveloped production zones.
OBSIDIAN ENERGY LTD. Permit #36,255 – 1.28KM Pipeline to pipeline
Obsidian Energy Ltd. (TSX: OBE) (NYSE: OBE) is an intermediate-sized oil and gas producer with a well-balanced portfolio of high-quality assets producing roughly 30,000 boe per day. These assets, and the organization we have crafted around them, provide the right platform to deliver bottom-line results, and an entrepreneurial spirit that will allow us to succeed in this evolving industry.
Cardium Play has been one of the largest oil fields in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin with production history of almost six decades. … The areas with highest liquid content are Lochend and East Pembina, the highest initial production is typically encountered in Lochend, Willesden Green and Ferrier areas.
“We are excited to continue further developing our assets in 2022, while generating free cash flow for debt repayment and other shareholder value initiatives,” said Stephen Loukas, Obsidian Energy’s Interim President and CEO. “For the first time since COVID-19 began, we expect to grow production from the prior year. Our Cardium assets, including our return to the Pembina area, continue to deliver excellent results and we’ve expanded our focus to apply our technical knowledge and proven execution ability to our Peace River Bluesky assets.
We currently have four drilling rigs active in our 2022 drilling program, which includes 19 wells (18.0 net) in our Willesden Green and Pembina assets and an additional ten wells (10.0 net) in our Peace River asset, including four appraisal wells into the Clearwater formation.
TOURMALINE OIL CORP. Permit #46,943 – 4.24KM Battery to pipeline
Tourmaline, through a series of strategic acquisitions, farm-ins and land acquisitions combined with its active capital exploration and development program, has assembled an extensive undeveloped land position with a large, multi-year drilling inventory and operating control of important natural gas processing and transportation infrastructure in two core long-term growth areas – the Alberta Deep Basin and the Greater Peace River High. Tourmaline is executing a large-scale, repeatable capital exploration and development program in these two core long-term growth areas.
Alberta Deep Basin
Tourmaline is the largest producer in the Alberta Deep Basin, which represents over 50% of the Company’s production and capital expenditures.
The Alberta Deep Basin is a multi-objective tight natural gas sand play area with up to 15 separate lower Cretaceous liquids-rich natural-gas-charged sand reservoirs. Tourmaline’s target exploration and production area is in that portion of the Alberta Deep Basin where the entire lower Cretaceous stratigraphic section is gas saturated with no mobile formation water. The primary vehicle for accessing the extensive reserves in these stacked sandstones is multi-stage fracture stimulation in both horizontal and vertical well-bores.
Tourmaline currently has ownership interests in thirteen natural gas plants in the Alberta Deep Basin, ten of which are 100% owned and operated by Tourmaline. In aggregate, Tourmaline has in excess of 1 Bcf/d of natural gas processing capability within this plant network. Tourmaline’s goal is to be one of the lowest-cost, most efficient operators in the Alberta Deep Basin, and the Company plans to optimize and systematically continue to further reduce costs of operating the Alberta Deep Basin assets.
Western Canada Oil & Gas Facility with Compressor Detail
Canadian Natural Resources Limited – Oil battery – multiwell – FERRIER
Crescent Point Energy Corp. 11-22-064-22W5 – Compressor station- MCKINLEY
Westbrick Energy Ltd. – 01-01-045-12W5 – Gas battery – multiwell – BRAZEAU RIVER
Tamarack Valley Energy Ltd. – 11-25-072-10W6 – Oil battery – multiwell – WEMBLEY
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The location of the pipeline permits are the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) located in Western Canada including southwestern Manitoba, southern Saskatchewan, Alberta, northeastern British Columbia.
Pipeline permits are related to petroleum pipelines transport oil, oil products and natural gas. In addition to these two main types of pipelines, there are also four other sub-categories of pipelines: Gathering Lines, Feeder Lines, Transmission Pipelines and Distribution Pipelines. The permits represent all types of pipelines.
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