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It shouldn’t surprise anyone who visits Fort Saskatchewan to see sheep roaming around the city’s downtown parks – the city’s mascot is a sheep named Auggie, after all.

Why have Albertans earned such a solid reputation in the global community when it comes to the oil and gas production?

The Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline, at a cost of 7.9 billion Canadian dollars, was the backup plan for the stalled Keystone XL pipeline, which was to be used to move oil from Alberta’s oil sands to tankers on Canada’s Pacific Coast. Recently, the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline received an environmental go ahead thanks to a Canadian review panel’s blessing. According to an article in the New York Times, the government decided that “Canada and Canadians would be better off with the Enbridge Northern Gateway project than without.”

If you build it, they will come?

Work camps with two-story gymnasiums, virtual golf courses, and movie theaters are the kind of amenities energy giants like Chevron are contemplating in hopes of attracting the skilled workforce they need to build liquefied natural gas (LNG) pipelines across Canada to Pacific Coast export terminals.

If you happen to be providing products or services to the oil and gas sector in Fort Saskatchewan, you know the importance of using the best accounting software.

The Alberta oil sands are not only doing important work with their in situ mining, open pit mining, and research into finding an alternative to natural gas, they also provide more oil to the United States than Saudi Arabia does – to the tune of 1.5 million barrels per day. By 2019, that number is expected to reach 3.3 million barrels per day.

Why will Alberta oil sands companies need more pipelines to transport diluted crude oil to North America?

Take a historic location where the Hudson Bay Company operated its trading post back in 1870 and you have Fort McMurray, which remains a focal point in the eyes of the world with its oil sands industry.