... Abstract The purpose of this paper was to provide a methodology for, and preliminary economic examination of, alternative development options for western Canadian natural gas. Four development options were addressed: pipeline exports to the United States domestic pipeline expansion...

... Abstract The formation of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and the threat of significant price increases caused producing countries including Canada to critically examine their remaining oil and gas reserves. The resultant explosion of activity in 1973–74 found oil...

... a short-fall in supplying Canada, but the combination of the two areas will result in a large hydrocarbon surplus for export to the U.S.A. where there will be a critical deficiency situation. Excessive Federal regulations introduced to suppress high rate production simply to preserve the assets for some...

... to over one million barrels a day by 1975, export demand will outstrip domestic demand to reach a level of about 1.3 million barrels a day. Consequently, crudeproduction in Canada will rise by over fifty per cent in the next five years. Explicit in the forecast will be the free access of Canadian crude...