The glass ceiling may still be in place in Canada's oil and gas industry. Women, however, do not see the ceiling as a barrier, but as a challenge. Illustrated below is a comprehensive survey of 500 women in the oil and gas industry.

Bonavista combines what was best about income trusts with what is best about corporations to create a dividend-paying powerhouse

Keep it low-key. Don’t stand out in the crowd too much. And because success is a team effort at Bonavista Energy Corporation, bring in your president and chief operating officer to focus the discussion on the company and its people—these are just some of the things Keith MacPhail, Bonavista’s chairman and chief executive officer, seems to have considered before sitting down to discuss his company’s selection as Oilweek’s 2011 Producer of the Year.

Oilweek's 2011 Supplier of the Year is front and centre in the oil and gas industry's efforts to reduce its environmental footprint

This past year hasn’t been kind to the Canadian service and supply sector, as falling oil prices, stagnant gas prices, weak demand and the global financial mess have conspired to cause grief for virtually all sectors of the Canadian economy, service and supply included.

In another initiative to increase demand and reap the rewards of low natural gas prices, operators are turning to gas to power their drilling activities

Natural gas prices remain below C$4 per thousand cubic feet. Crude oil is hanging in around the US$80 pera barrel mark. And diesel fuel remains around US$4 pera gallon. Natural gas demand remains weak in North America as the United States struggles to avoid a double-dip recession, suggesting that gas prices will stay right where they are for at least the next few years. And most of us fully expect crude oil to climb off the price mat sooner rather than later—after all, plus-$100-plus oil is only a hurricane or a Middle East uprising away.

As the Yukon’s mining business stands on the threshold of another boom, moves are underway to develop the territory’s natural gas potential

In the vast, under populated Yukon Territories, a 125-year-old mining industry that traces its origins back to the fabled Klondike gold rush is stirring again, driven by record gold prices and other high metals prices.