ReutersInnovators toil to revive Canada oil sands as majors exitReutersCALGARY, Alberta/HOUSTON In the boreal forests and on the remote prairies of Alberta, a handful of firms are running pilot projects they hope will end a two-decade drought in innovation …

OregonLive.comRegulators delay oil-by-rail terminal expansion in ClatskanieOregonLive.comOil trains are unloaded at the Columbia Pacific Bio-Refinery in Port Westward, an industrial park near Clatskanie, Ore. It briefly accepted grain to be converted to et …

CBC.caOil firms projected to slash spending for third straight yearThe Globe and MailA key forecast on Tuesday said oil sands producers were expected to chop spending to $15-billion this year, down from an estimated $17-billion last year in what would be t …

WorkBoat (blog)Driftless oil tanker symbolizes OPEC's struggleWorkBoat (blog)(Bloomberg) — If a single ship can capture the current state of the global oil market, it's the supertanker Saiq, floating idly about 530 miles south of the Canary Islands …

CBC.caOil sands firms to cut spending for third straight yearThe Globe and MailCanada's oil sands industry will chop spending for a third consecutive year as weak prices and pipeline capacity shortages stoke uncertainty about future growth, a major ind …

Canadian oil sands down in corporate reservesThe Globe and MailThe report's examination of reserves – by which companies estimate how much economically producible oil they have – looked at BP PLC, CNOOC Ltd., ConocoPhillips Co., Devon Energy Corp., Exx …

Calgary HeraldCanadian oil prices soar as Syncrude upgrader work cuts productionCalgary HeraldProduction at ConocoPhillips's Surmont site has been affected because the unit mixes light oil produced at Syncrude with bitumen pulled from the oils sands to …

USA TODAYPhilanthropist, oil heir, banker David Rockefeller dies at 101USA TODAY542 CONNECTTWEET 1 LINKEDIN 9 COMMENTEMAILMORE. Bank executive, philanthropist and oil fortune heir David Rockefeller died Monday morning. He was 101. FacebookTwitterGoogle+Lin …

Plenty of Cash Lies Buried on Canada's Oil SandsWall Street Journal (subscription)Earlier this month, Marathon Oil agreed to spend more than $1 billion on acreage in the Permian Basin, the very hottest place on the planet to drill for oil. On the same …

The Globe and MailIf you have oil, pump it now because the glut isn't overThe Globe and MailThe crude oil price slump has been with us for the best part of two and a half years and, if you believe in charts and cycles, we should be seeing OPEC once aga …