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Insights and Commentary from Dentons dentons.com Insights and Commentary from Dentons On March 31, 2013, three pre-eminent law firms—Salans, Fraser Milner Casgrain, and SNR Denton—combined to form Dentons, a Top 10 global law firm with more than 2,500 lawyers and professionals worldwide. This document was authored by representatives of one of the founding firms prior to our combination launch, and it continues to be oered to provide our clientsG withro thewing information with they need to do business in an increasingly complex, interconnected and competitive marketplace. The role of government has never been more critical Oh Canada! Significant Developments in Canadian Energy Oil Sands News JUNE 2012 A commercial development application has Oil Sands News been filed by BlackPearl Resources with the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board East Coast News (“ERCB”) for a $2.8 billion steam assisted gravity West Coast News drainage (“SAGD”) project in northwest Lac La Biche County. The 80,000 bpd project is expected Canadian Arctic News to have up to 69 well pads over its lifespan, and Alternative Energy News will be constructed in three phases between 2013 and 2021. An independent reserves evaluation of On the Horizon the project has assigned a total proved plus Abbreviations probable reserves figure of 182 mmbbl to the first phase of the project, slated to begin Contact Us construction at the end of 2013, with a further best‐estimate contingent resource figure of 476 mmbbl to the remainder of the project. Alberta Oilsands announced an assignment of 119 mmbbls of best estimate bitumen contingent resources for its Grand Rapids property near Fort McMurray. The assignment, in addition to its previous total company best estimate of 373 © 2012 Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP mmbbl, represents an increase in total company B.C. Montney, Horn River and Cordova basins and best estimate contingent resources of 32%, elsewhere in the Western Canadian Sedimentary totalling 492 mmbbl of bitumen. Alberta Oilsands Basin to a delivery point at the LNG Canada is formulating a continued exploration program liquefied natural gas export facility near Kitimat, for the Grand Rapids property, with 20 core holes B.C. The Coastal GasLink project will also provide expected to be drilled during the 2012‐13 winter options for shippers to access gas supplies drilling season. through an interconnection with the Transcanada Nova Gas Transmission System and liquid Nova In a $20 million transaction expected to close Inventory Transfer trading hub. A contractual in the third quarter of 2012, AltaGas has agreed extension of the Nova System to Vanderhoof, to acquire a 50% interest in Quatro Resources’ B.C., which will utilize capacity on the Coastal midstream assets, including its 87% interest in GasLink pipeline, has also been proposed and the 75 mmcfpd Gilby gas plant. AltaGas intends would allow the Nova System to offer delivery to build a 70 km pipeline to connect the Gilby service to interconnecting natural gas pipelines facility and its 30 mmcfpd Sylvan Lake to its deep‐ serving the West Coast. cut, turbo expander facility at the Joffre ethane extraction plant. The additional volumes earmarked for the pipeline and Joffre facility are Canadian Arctic News supported by a long term fee‐for‐service contract Apache stunned natural gas investors with a and are expected to utilize all of the Joffre natural gas discovery just south of the Yukon and facility's excess capacity. The pipeline is expected Northwest Territories in northern British to cost $100 million and is scheduled to be Columbia. The discovery is estimated to be 22 completed by the end of 2013. mmcfpd from one well in a shale formation. Apache may have made one of the world’s largest shale‐gas discoveries. Apache drilled three East Coast News wells into its leased acreage in the Liard Basin, Statoil has discovered a resource volume of which is a sub basis of the Mackenzie basin. The approximately 100‐200 million bbls of Liard basin covers 1.25 million hectares; Apache, recoverable oil equivalents in the Flemish basin, the largest player in the remote northern region, offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. The has drilling rights to 180,000 hectares, a little discovery occurred at the Mizzen exploration over 15%, about 430,000 acres. The wells have well, which is operated by Statoil and owned already been connected to pipelines in the region jointly with partner Husky Energy. With a view to and the gas is sold. The wells tapped into a become a prominent producer offshore massive shale‐gas reservoir so large it could Newfoundland, Statoil aims to drill two new potentially supply U.S. demand for almost two wildcat wells in the area between 2012 and 2013, years. and potentially drill additional wells in 2014. Alternative Energy West Coast News Samsung, headquartered in South Korea, is Transcanada Corporation has been selected to expanding its unprecedented private‐sector design, build, own and operate an estimated $4 investment into Ontario’s renewable energy billion pipeline by Shell Canada and its partners industry through its recent partnership with Six Korea Gas Corporation, Mitsubishi Corporation, Nations, a First Nations community in Ontario to and PetroChina Company Limited. The proposed build the Grand Renewable Energy Park (“GREP”) Coastal GasLink project will be 700 kilometers of near Lake Erie. The GREP, with the assistance of large diameter pipe with an initial capacity of 1.7 developer Pattern Energy, one of Canada’s bcfpd, and will transport natural gas from the fmc‐law.com MONTRÉAL OTTAWA TORONTO EDMONTON CALGARY VANCOUVER leading wind and transmission companies, and Wind and is composed of six turbines. The Project Kepco, a Korean manufacturer of power supplies, is expected to generate enough energy to power is expected to consist of a 150 MW wind project 4,600 homes and will be located on 137 hectares and a 100MW solar project. of land near Canso and Hazel Hill. Mustus Energy, a clean‐energy company that uses residual wood from forest industry facilities On the Horizon in a clean combustion process, has announced that Shell, a major energy company which An ERCB report expected output from Alberta’s markets and trades natural gas and power, would oil sands to more than double from current purchase all power and environmental attributes production levels of 1.7 mmbbl per day in 2011, produced by its first biomass facility. The facility growing to 3.7 mmbbl per day by 2021. The ERCB will be built in La Crete, Alberta. The power figures represent a 19% increase over projections purchase agreement commits that Mustus recently released by the Canadian Association of Energy will sell all of its power, offsets, and other Petroleum Producers, which predicted oil sands environmental attributes for a 10 year period to production of approximately 3.1 mmbbl by 2020. Shell. The biomass facility will begin construction The ERCB also announced that conventional oil this spring, and will be in operations by mid 2014. production in Alberta rose in 2011 by 7% from The facility is estimated to provide baseload the previous year to 490,000 bpd, due to better electrical power to the Alberta grid, providing prices and the advent of horizontal wells and energy for over 30,000 homes. The by‐product multi‐stage hydraulic fracturing, and production from the facility will be used as a soil is expected to continue to rise to 560,000 bpd by enhancement for agriculture. 2014. Turbine maker Vestas Wind, a leading wind energy company with headquarters in Denmark, Abbreviations has signed a co‐operation agreement with In this newsletter, all dollar amounts are methanol production giant and Canada‐based Canadian dollars unless otherwise stated. We company Methanex. Under the agreement, the have also used the following abbreviations: bpd ‐ companies will cooperate to establish a baseline barrels per day; boepd ‐ barrels of oil equivalent for the development of future wind projects per day; mmcfpd ‐ million cubic feet per day; around Methanex’s global production facilities, bcfpd ‐ billion cubic feet per day; tcf ‐ trillion to support and to advise Methanex in the cubic feet; bbl ‐ barrel; mbbl ‐ thousand barrels; development of new wind projects. Methanex mmbbl ‐ million barrels; bbbl ‐ billion barrels; boe has a production facility located in Medicine Hat, ‐ barrels of oil equivalent; MW ‐ megawatts; kV ‐ which was restarted in 2011 and produces kilovolt; km ‐ kilometer; KW ‐ kilowatts; KWh ‐ 470,000 tonnes of methanol per year. As kilowatt hours; cmpd ‐ cubic meters per day; GJ ‐ producing methanol is an energy intensive gigajoule. process, Methanex looks forward to wind projects which will decrease the company’s dependence on natural gas supplies in regions where supply is scarce. Nova Scotia Power, a provider of the majority of the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in the Province of Nova Scotia, is pairing with the District of Guysborough to submit a bid to the province for a proposed 13.8 megawatt wind farm. The project is called Sable fmc‐law.com MONTRÉAL OTTAWA TORONTO EDMONTON CALGARY VANCOUVER KEY CONTACTS CALGARY Doug Black Q.C. doug.black@fmc‐law.com Anne Calverley Q.C. anne.calverley@fmc‐law.com Douglas Crowther douglas.crowther@fmc‐law.com Bill Gilliland bill.gilliland@fmc‐law.com Alex MacWilliam alex.macwilliam@fmc‐law.com EDMONTON Rich Miller rich.miller@fmc‐law.com MONTRÉAL Claude Morency claude.morency@fmc‐law.com OTTAWA Cyrus Reporter cyrus.reporter@fmc‐law.com VANCOUVER Ron Stuber ron.stuber@fmc‐law.com TORONTO Helen T. Newland helen.newland@fmc‐law.com fmc‐law.com MONTRÉAL OTTAWA TORONTO EDMONTON CALGARY VANCOUVER .
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