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| 2025 |
Orphan wells in Alberta, Canada
Forecast of $1.1 billion in clean-up costs for orphan wells.
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| 2024 | Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology was ranked 80th among engineering colleges by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). |
| 2023 |
Orphan wells in Alberta, Canada
Wells and pumpjacks dot the landscape across rural Alberta, with approximately one well for every parcel of land.
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| 2023 |
Orphan wells in Alberta, Canada
RMA reported that the oil and gas industry owed $268 million in unpaid property taxes to towns and villages across Alberta.
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| 2023 | OnePetro users viewed 4.9 million items, highlighting the platform's significant usage and importance in the petroleum engineering documentation landscape. |
| March 23 2023 |
Orphan wells in Alberta, Canada
Alberta auditor general Doug Wylie published a critical report on the United Conservative Party's neglect of orphan wells and oil patch liabilities in the province, highlighting ongoing issues with inactive wells and lack of remediation timelines.
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| March 23 2023 |
Selected timeline related to orphan wells in Alberta
Alberta's auditor general, Doug Wylie, published a critical report on the United Conservative Party's handling of orphan wells, noting that the number of inactive wells has increased every year since 2000, except when the federal government provided funding.
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| February 9 2023 |
Orphan wells in Alberta, Canada
Bennett's group was invited to a meeting with Alberta Energy Minister Peter Guthrie about the Premier's Liability Management Incentive Program.
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| February 1 2023 |
Selected timeline related to orphan wells in Alberta
The OWA Orphan Inventory listed 3,114 orphan sites designated by AER requiring decommissioning.
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| 2022 |
Orphan wells in Alberta, Canada
The Large Facility Liability Management Program (LFP) began its first project, nearly completing the decommissioning of the Mazeppa Gas Plant pumping station facilities located south of Calgary.
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| 2022 | Ranked 259th in the Fortune 500 companies list, highlighting the company's significant corporate standing. |
| March 2022 |
Orphan wells in Alberta, Canada
Energy industry experienced the largest 23-month increase in energy prices since 1973, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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| March 4 2022 |
Selected timeline related to orphan wells in Alberta
The price of Western Canadian Select (WCS) crude oil soared to over $100 US per barrel.
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| February 22 2022 |
Orphan wells in Alberta, Canada
Premier Smith introduced a controversial $100 million Royalty Credit System as part of the Liability Management Incentive Program (LMIP), proposing royalty credits for companies cleaning up long-inactive well sites.
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| January 2022 |
Orphan wells in Alberta, Canada
Parliamentary Budget Office report highlighted the need for funding from industry, provinces, and federal government to clean up orphan well sites.
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| January 2022 |
Selected timeline related to orphan wells in Alberta
The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) estimated it would cost $361 million to clean traditional orphan wells nationally, excluding oil sands operations.
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| 2021 |
Orphan wells in Alberta, Canada
The annual Orphan Fund Levy was set at $65 million.
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| 2021 |
Orphan wells in Alberta, Canada
AER called for an unusual public hearing on Shell's application to transfer hundreds of oil well licenses to Pieridae, a junior player with questionable financial capacity.
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| 2021 |
Orphan wells in Alberta, Canada
The OWA spent $161.5 million in the fiscal year on decommissioning wells, pipelines, and facilities, with 42% going towards well decommissioning.
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| 2021 |
Orphan wells in Alberta, Canada
Dale Nally, Associate Minister of Natural Gas, proposed helping the oil and gas industry to address unpaid municipal taxes.
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| 2021 |
Orphan wells in Alberta, Canada
Alberta's Office of the Auditor General (OAG) submitted a report examining provincial government's environmental liabilities and the roles of the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) and Environment and Parks.
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| 2021 |
Orphan wells in Alberta, Canada
Alberta Liabilities Disclosure Project report estimated 300,000 unreclaimed wells with a cleanup cost between $40 to $70 billion.
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| 2021 |
Selected timeline related to orphan wells in Alberta
A total of 475,000 oil wells in Canada were identified as needing eventual cleanup and reclamation.
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| 2021 |
Selected timeline related to orphan wells in Alberta
The OWA spent $161.5 million in the fiscal year 2021/2022 on decommissioning wells, pipelines, and facilities, with 42% going towards well decommissioning.
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| 2021 | Warned countries against divesting in fossil fuels, arguing that it would cause inflation and unrest amid growing pressure for greener energy solutions. |
| 2021 | A new four-year B.Tech programme in Mathematics & Computing was initiated at the institute, aimed at developing skills in mathematics and computer science. |
| October 2021 |
Selected timeline related to orphan wells in Alberta
The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER)/OWA had a security deposit of $237 million, with a reported gap of $178 from the total cleanup cost of $415 million.
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| October 2021 |
Saad bin Khalid Al Jabri
Al Jabri appeared on 60 Minutes and claimed Mohammed bin Salman wants him dead, pleading for the US government to help free his detained children.
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| July 6 2021 |
Sturgeon Refinery
Premier Jason Kenney announced that the Alberta provincial government acquired a 50% equity stake in the North West Redwater Partnership (NWRP), taking ownership of half of the $10-billion Sturgeon Refinery project.
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| January 2021 |
Saad bin Khalid Al Jabri
Omar and Sarah were convicted of money laundering and attempting to flee the Kingdom, with Omar sentenced to nine years and Sarah to six years and six months.
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| 2020 |
Orphan wells in Alberta, Canada
Canada and the United States became the first countries to begin monitoring methane leakage from abandoned wells.
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| 2020 |
Orphan wells in Alberta, Canada
Alberta established the Alberta Site Rehabilitation Program (ASRP), offering grants up to $30,000. The province also loaned the OWA $100 million to assess and decommission 800-1,000 orphan wells, with the goal of creating 500 direct and indirect jobs.
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| 2020 |
Selected timeline related to orphan wells in Alberta
The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) reported 10,000 orphaned and abandoned wells in Alberta, with about 7,400 wells not yet designated as orphan but without a solvent owner.
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| 2020 |
Selected timeline related to orphan wells in Alberta
The federal government provided a $1.2 billion grant through the COVID-19 Economic Response Plan, with the province funding the Alberta Site Rehabilitation Program (ASRP) with $1 million in provincial loans.
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| 2020 | Ranked first on Forbes Middle East's list of top 100 CEOs in the region. |
| 2020 | Oversaw Aramco's acquisition of Saudi petrochemicals giant SABIC. |
| 2020 |
Injection well
The Supreme Court of the United States rules in County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund that injection wells may be the 'functional equivalent of a direct discharge' under the Clean Water Act, instructing the EPA to establish new regulations for permitting.
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| 2020 | The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the median pay for petroleum engineers was US$137,330. |
| 2020 | RGIPT began offering B.Tech Courses in Computer Science Engineering and Electronics Engineering. |
| August 2020 |
Saad bin Khalid Al Jabri
A lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that Mohammad bin Salman attempted to send Tiger Squad to assassinate Al Jabri in Canada.
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| July 2020 | Received the ICIS Kavaler Award, recognizing outstanding achievement in petrochemicals. |
| July 7 2020 |
Saad bin Khalid Al Jabri
US Senators Patrick Leahy, Tim Kaine, Chris Van Hollen, and Marco Rubio wrote to President Donald Trump urging him to press for the release of Al Jabri's children.
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| June 2020 |
Sturgeon Refinery
Under Premier Jason Kenney, the United Conservative Party government began additional debt principal repayments of about $21 million per month for the Sturgeon Refinery project.
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| June 2 2020 |
Sturgeon Refinery
The Alberta Carbon Trunk Line System (ACTL) comes online, a $1.2 billion carbon capture pipeline that is part of the Sturgeon Refinery system and considered Alberta's largest carbon capture and storage system.
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| May 2020 |
Saad bin Khalid Al Jabri
Al Jabri's brother, Abdulrahman, was detained by Saudi authorities.
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| May 2020 |
Sturgeon Refinery
Ian McGregor, founder and CEO of North West Refining, announced the Sturgeon Refinery was fully operational and had reached commercial operations after a fifteen-year development.
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| May 1 2020 |
Selected timeline related to orphan wells in Alberta
The Orphan Well Association (OWA) inventory listed 2,963 orphan wells for abandonment, 297 orphan facilities for decommissioning, 3,781 orphan pipeline segments for abandonment, 3,116 orphan sites for reclamation, and 939 orphan reclaimed sites.
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| April 2020 |
Orphan wells in Alberta, Canada
As part of the COVID-19 Economic Response Plan, the federal government announced $1.72 billion in financial aid, with up to $1.2 billion available to Alberta and $200 million in loans to the Orphan Wells Association.
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| March 16 2020 |
Saad bin Khalid Al Jabri
Two of Al Jabri's children, Sarah and Omar, were detained by Saudi security officers and barred from leaving the Kingdom.
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