+ Anthony Petrello to CEO @ Nabors Industries Ltd.

+ Bob McLeod to Premier @ Government of Northwest Territories

+ Bob Motz to Pres. & CEO @ Aeroquest International Limited

+ Brian Gilvary to CFO @ BP Plc

+ Chris Saunders to Sr. VP Calgary @ Cushman & Wakefield

+ Diane Wilson to Exec. VP Regulatory @ ATCO Utilities

+ John Hendrix to GM Alaska Operations @ Apache Corp.

+ Marc Beisheim to CFO @ Aeroquest International Limited

+ Tracey Wallace to to VP Talent Management @ ATCO Group

+ Troy McLeod to Gen. Mgr. @ Calgary Parking Authority

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+ Edmonton Oilers/Katz Group $450 million arena project approved by City Council; $100 million shortfall gap to be bridged . . . hands out for Provincial Government help

+ Royal Alberta Museum project put on hold by Government of Alberta; dispute over Federal Government contribution . . . stay tuned

+ Tsuu T’Ina ring-road project getting mixed reviews again; new Transportation Minister Ray Danyluk says it’s a priority, while Chief Sanford Big Plume say ‘no hurry’

+ Peace Bridge project moving along, slowly; cost overruns pushing price to $ 24.5 million

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things. – John Updike

I never learned anything from a match that I won. – Bobby Jones

+ AltaGas agreed to buy Pacific Northern Gas Ltd. for $230 million

+ current energy prices -  live link to Bloomberg.com commodities data , prices edged lower on a stronger U.S. dollar

+ Grande Cache Coal Corp. agreed to a $1 billion takeover bid, Japanese and Chinese companies JV

+ MF Global, first American casualty of the European debt crisis, filed for bankruptcy – hundreds of millions missing

+ stock markets down on Europe debt worries

+ TMX Group Inc. and Maple Group consortium reached agreement for Maple to takeover TMX

+ Arsenal Energy Inc. agreed to acquire $40.25 million in Alberta oil producing assets

+ BG Group entered into $8billion deal to export LNG from the United States

+ Equal Energy Ltd. agreed to sell non-core western Canadian assets for $49.35 million

+ H & R REIT closed its acquisition of Two Gotham Center in New York; $415.5 million

+ Hess Corp. to invest $2.3 billion to develop Tubular Bellls deepwater GOM field

+ Keystone XL pipeline continues to be at centre of U.S. energy security debate

+ Kinder Morgan Canada planning expansion of pipelines to west coast to carry oil-sands crude

+ OPEC output fell in October

+ Pembina Pipeline Corp. announced plans to build a $200 million natural gas extraction plan project for west-central Alberta -

+ Progress Energy Inc. announced 2012 CapEx plans for $465 million in North Montney and Deep Basin

+ TransAlta Corp. opened a U.S. headquarters in Olympia, Wash.

+ Celtic Exploration Ltd. closed $22,500,000 over-allotment of common share issue

+ Major Drilling Group closed $10,531,500 new equity financing

+ Nordic Oil and Gas Ltd. is on the market to raise $2,250,000 in new flow-through equity

I’ll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun our of Halloween.  – unknown

“I am” is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that “I do” is the longest sentence? – George Carlin

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