Special reports

There is a technological shift in how oil and gas companies collect, track and store data as more shift towards reporting automation and digitization. Spira Data Corp.’s robust, configurable cloud-based ORPTM solution offers a paperless solution that enables collection of field data and transmitted effortlessly and seamlessly to the back office.

A review of all M&A deals impacting Canada’s upstream industry in October 2017.

The total global spend on upstream oil and gas M&A reached $41.7 billion in Q3 2017. Evaluate Energy’s latest report highlights all the major deals and transaction trends around the world.

As the Canadian market faces $50/bbl oil, stakeholders in the project delivery chain recognize that business models and processes need to change to be competitive, reduce costs and protect investments. Alberta’s industry can apply learnings from more mature markets to dramatically reduce inefficiencies.

With a better understanding of fracture stress, operators can promote shear fracture development without impinging on fracture development in successive stages. This white paper examines the rock stress after a stage has been stimulated and how that impacts fracture complexity, fracture surface area and reservoir drainage efficiency.

Most oilfield assets are equipped with supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) which requires producers to collect data often in an ad hoc way. New remote-sensing technologies are offering the opportunity to remotely monitor production assets while gathering valuable, real-time data.

The 2017 Service & Supply Outlook report will seek to understand the industry’s perceptions of the future, and explore how these have changed over the last year with respect to collaboration, succession transition, culture-shift, and technology disruptions

Low oil and gas prices continued beating down the revenues of Canadian oil and gas producers in 2016, with this year’s top 100 companies reporting a combined revenue decline of $6.4 billion, or 10 per cent, from 2015.

This summary report captures the essences of two-day summit held on May 2-3, 2017. The two-day summit provided a forum for policy discussion, cross-border trade information sessions and panels on export success in a complex global trading environment —all with the goal of helping businesses identify and implement cross-border trade opportunities.