Edmonton Journal by Dan Healing (Calgary Herald).  The oil and gas industry moved to shut down vulnerable facilities throughout southern Alberta as a deluge of water from the Bow and Elbow rivers cut off their downtown Calgary head office towers Friday.  Thousands of workers were told to stay home overnight Thursday on the advice of civic officials and in reaction to power and potential natural gas supply cutoffs.  "The directive to our folks out in the field is shut in anything you think is in danger," said Rob Evans, spokesman [...]

 Energy Daily.  Russian oil giant Rosneft and Chinese state firm CNPC signed Friday a $270 billion deal to supply China with oil over 25 years as Russian President Vladimir Putin pushes to diversify the country's energy customer base away from Europe.

CBC News.  The Conference Board of Canada says uncertainty over new pipeline projects poses a threat to Canadian companies that provide services to oil and gas producers. The Ottawa-based think-tank predicts the sector's real economic output this year will drop slightly by $60 million, or half a per cent, to $11.55 billion.  It says some of that is due to a lingering weakness in natural gas prices and a levelling off in conventional oil drilling.  The board says the "bigger threat" is the lack of pipeline capacity, as environmental opposition [...]

Yesterday, we noted three important conferences for Alaskans and Canadians; here's a FOURTH!  You'll experience a day long LNG conference in Anchorage, on July 10, 2013 at the Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center.  The program will explore a range of hot topics including LNG exports, State of Alaska initiatives to promote oil and gas development, and unconventional plays. This program will be relevant to senior executives, in-house counsel, infrastructure developers, and buyers and sellers of Alaska oil and gas.  (More here....)