About those multi-lateral wells … and the Alberta grid

Saturn Oil & Gas has joined the multi-lateral bandwagon, having drilled two open hole multi-lateral wells that the Government of Saskatchewan announced an incentive for yesterday (shared yesterday)

I’ve been saying for over a year the Government of Saskatchewan needs to do something to increase drilling numbers. I’m wondering if this is it?

Also: Alberta’s shaking up its electrical grid by 2027. And in a related story, new rules for power generators in Alberta

6 Replies to “About those multi-lateral wells … and the Alberta grid”

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Steakman says:

March 13, 2024 at 10:17 am

SD
And that has WHAT to do with the topic on hand..??
SF All.

Mike Law eh..?

Heres an idea, lets build a few more NAT GAs Power Plants…??
And maybe RESTART our Coal industry.???

Then let’s Remove every one of those Utterly USELESS, Bird killing, Landscape Destroying Wind Turbines.
Ship em to Guilbeault’s Home.

The grid parasites of wind and solar are lobbying for themselves to grow more while demanding that “others” pay for the costs of their inherent and guaranteed unreliability in Alberta where they are already too large for the existing grid. The difficulties in building transmission infrastructure dictate that new power plants should be built where coal fired plants were shut down or are planned for decommissioning. This means that they should either continue to run out the life of coal plants, rebuild coal plants, convert to Gas, or build nukes. Wind and solar proponents should have to tie into the grid, sell grid useable power (including their own backup or storage) all at their own cost and compete with thermal power producers.

Unreliable power needs backup. All power producers need to produce continuous power. Perhaps only pay for power on a bi monthly basis. In a two week span pay producers for the least amount of power they produce in that two week span. Solar and wind electrical producers would need to have some sort of back up. Any consumers who feel this is unfair to unreliable (some call this renewable) power can instal a smart meter that cuts off their power whenever unreliable power cuts out.