Despite the ongoing and continued evolution of the global energy mix, Pembina Pipeline Corporation’s top executive says the macro environment for natural gas, crude and liquids demand remains strong.

Trican Well Service Ltd. anticipates that LNG-related drilling will remain very active through 2024, with first cargoes of natural gas to leaving Canada’s West Coast in early 2025 – taking the industry to a new level of opportunity and transforming the company’s ability to plan.

A University of British Columbia project that has created two types carbon fibres derived from bitumen has received $2.6 million from Alberta Innovates and $1.4 million from Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA) for its final development stage — and is currently working toward commercialization of the technology.