101 Top Oil and Gas Startups and Companies in Alberta

October 19, 2021

This article showcases our top picks for the best Alberta based Oil and Gas companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Oil and Gas industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

Top Alberta Oil and Gas Startups

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Enbridge

Enbridge

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Enbridge is a energy distribution company that provides distribution, gathering, processing and storage of natural gas.

Validere

Validere

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Validere builds software and hardware solutions that improve visibility and trust in oil testing.

Validere

Crux OCM

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Crux OCM utilizes AI and real-time optimization to enable autonomous operation of major oil and gas assets.

Validere

Crescent Point Energy

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Crescent Point Energy is an independent exploration and production company that produces oil and gas.

Validere

Pembina

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Pembina Pipeline is a reliable energy transportation and service provider.

Validere

AltaGas Ltd

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AltaGas’ vision is to be a leading North American energy infrastructure company.

Validere

Seven Generations Energy

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Seven Generations Energy develops oil and gas resources in Canada and the United States.

Validere

Birchcliff Energy

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Birchcliff Energy Ltd. is a Calgary, Alberta based intermediate oil and gas company.

Validere

SECURE Energy Services

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SECURE provides safe, innovative, efficient and environmentally responsible fluids and solids solutions to the oil and gas industry.

Validere

INGU

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INGU offers an operating system for pipeline integrity and performance.

Validere

Keyera

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Keyera is one of the largest midstream operators in Canada.

Validere

Cold Bore Technology

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Cold Bore develops technology for fracking companies that provides transformative insight into both surface and downhole operations.

Validere

Vesta Energy

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Vesta Energy is a privately owned oil and gas company focused on the development of commercial shale oil properties.

Validere

Gran Tierra Energy

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Gran Tierra Energy is a company focused on oil and gas exploration and production in Colombia and Ecuador.

Validere

Osperity Informatics

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Osprey Informatics provides a computer vision platform that transforms images and video into actionable enterprise intelligence.

Validere

Proton Technologies

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Proton Technologies produces hydrogen with zero emissions and keep the carbon in the ground.

Validere

Enerplus

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North American Energy Producer

Validere

Tourmaline

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Tourmaline operates as an intermediate crude oil and natural gas exploration and production.

Validere

Aimsio

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Aimsio improves managerial, operational, and financial processes by strengthening communications between the office and the job site.

Validere

Black Swan Energy

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Black Swan Energy is an oil and gas exploration and production company operating in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.

Validere

Tidewater Midstream and Infrastructure

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Tidewater Midstream and Infrastructure is dedicated to the purchase,sale, and transportation of natural gas liquids.

Validere

Steel Reef Infrastructure

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Steel Reef is a privately held mid-stream company targeting strategic small and mid-sized infrastructure projects.

Validere

Spartan Energy Corp.

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Spartan Energy Corp. is an oil and gas company.

Validere

Parex Resources

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Parex Resources Inc. is an oil and gas exploration and production company.

Validere

Velvet Energy

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Velvet Energy is an energy exploration company that explores for, develops, acquires, and produces crude oil and natural gas in Canada.

Validere

Source Energy Services

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Source Energy Services is an integrated supplier and distributor of high quality proppants in Western Canada and the United States

Validere

Beyond Energy Services And Technology

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Beyond Energy Services & Technology is a provider of managed pressure drilling and drilling fluids services.

Validere

Hifi Engineering

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Hifi Engineering develops robust, high fidelity monitoring systems for the purpose of licensing to oil and gas service companies.

Validere

Black Diamond Group

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Black Diamond has built a solid track record by providing innovative solutions using modular buildings, support equipment and surface.

Validere

FREDsense

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FREDsense is changing the way we think about water monitoring – bringing it out of the lab and into the hands of those who need it.

Validere

McCoy Global

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McCoy Global provides innovative products and services to the global energy industry.

Validere

Trinidad Drilling

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Trinidad Drilling is focused on providing modern, reliable, expertly designed drilling rigs, operated by well-trained personnel.

Validere

Saguaro Resources

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Saguaro Resources focuses on the exploration, acquisition, and development of tight oil and liquid rich gas fairways.

Validere

MEG Energy

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MEG Energy is a Canadian oil sands company focused on sustainable in situ development and production in the southern Athabasca oil sands.

Validere

Leucrotta Exploration

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Leucrotta Exploration is an oil and natural gas exploration and development company.

Validere

Intelligent Wellhead Systems

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Intelligent Wellhead Systems provides proprietary and unique surface control systems for the oil and gas industry.

Validere

NuVista Energy

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NuVista is an oil and natural gas company engaged in the exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas reserves.

Validere

Gear Energy

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Gear Energy engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of petroleum and natural gas properties.

Validere

Peyto Exploration & Development

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Peyto Exploration & Development Corp is an explorer and producer of uncoventional natural gas in Alberta’s Deep Basin.

Validere

Raging River Exploration

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Raging River Exploration Inc. is a junior oil and gas producer currently focused in the Kindersley area of Saskatchewan.

Validere

Touchstone Exploration

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Touchstone Exploration is an upstream oil and gas company focused on exploration and development of its oil and gas properties.

Validere

Interface Fluidics

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Interface Fluidics is an international technology company offering innovative reservoir fluid analysis services.

Validere

Strad Energy Services

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Strad Energy Services is a provider of energy services and solutions.

Validere

Bellatrix Exploration

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Bellatrix Exploration is a producer focused on exploration and development of light oil and liquids-rich natural gas opportunities.

Validere

Acceleware

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Acceleware Ltd. is a Calgary-based software development company,

Validere

Blackbird Energy Inc

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Blackbird Energy is an emerging oil and gas exploration company focused on the liquids-rich Montney fairway.

Validere

Osum

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Unlocking Canada’s unrealized bitumen resource potential

Validere

Ceiba Energy Services

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Ceiba provides specialized services to the energy sector, specifically to companies involved in the exploration, extraction and production.

Validere

Hyduke Energy Services

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Hyduke Energy Services is a canadian based provider of quality solution

Validere

Razor Energy

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Razor is a pivotal leading-edge enterprise

Validere

Entrec

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ENTREC is a leading provider of heavy lift and heavy haul services with offerings encompassing crane services, heavy haul transportation,

Validere

Ikkuma Resources Corp

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Ikkuma Resources Corp is a diversified junior public oil and gas company.

Validere

EnviCore

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EnviCore is an R&D company that specializes in developing technologies that are essential for improving natural resource development.

Validere

PetroShale

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PetroShale is an oil company.

Validere

North American Helium

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North American Helium is a energy oil and gas company located in Calgary.

Validere

Kanata Energy Group

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Kanata Energy Group Ltd is an oil and gas energy management company located in Calgary.

Validere

Cnergreen

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Cnergreen is an enhanced oil recovery and CO2 storage efficiency via resilient nanoparticle-based foam technology.

Validere

Strategic Oil & Gas

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Strategic Oil & Gas is an emerging junior oil and gas company that explores and develops oil and gas properties.

Validere

Direct-C

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Direct-C has developed a proprietary, polymer nano-composite platform technology.

Validere

Centaurus Energy

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Centaurus Energy is a based, international upstream oil and gas company.

Validere

PineCliff Energy

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PineCliff Energy engages in acquisition of interests in petroleum and natural gas rights and the exploration, development and production.

Validere

Marsa Energy

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Marsa Energy engages in the exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas properties.

Validere

Chronos Resources

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Chronos Resources is a private oil and gas exploration company, focused on light oil and natural gas.

Validere

Long Run Exploration

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Long Run Exploration is a private Calgary-based intermediate oil and natural gas company focused on light oil development and exploration.

Validere

Inplay Oil

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InPlay Oil is a growth-oriented light oil development & production company focusing on large oil in place pools with long life reserves.

Validere

Greenfire Oil & Gas

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Greenfire Oil & Gas is an energy company that focuses on the development of in-situ steam-assisted gravity drainage developments.

Validere

Recover Energy Services

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Recover Energy Services is an eco-tech firm that offers cost-effective and eco-friendly disposal method for oil-based drill cuttings.

Validere

Yangarra Resources

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Yangarra Resources is a junior oil and gas company engaged in the exploration, development, and production of natural gas and oil.

Validere

Critical Control

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Critical Control provides data management and measurement solutions for the oil & gas industry.

Validere

Zargon Oil & Gas

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Zargon is a Calgary based Western Canadian oil and gas producer.

Validere

Westbrick

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Westbrick is a private oil and gas company with current operations in the greater Pembina area of Alberta.

Validere

Cequence Energy

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Cequence Energy engages in the acquisition, exploration, development and production of petroleum and natural gas reserves.

Validere

Canbriam Energy

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Canbriam Energy Inc. is a private intermediate exploration and production company.

Validere

Fractal Systems

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Fractal Systems is a technology company focused on the development and advancement of proprietary partial upgrading technology solutions.

Validere

Specialized Desanders

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Specialized Desanders provides high pressure sand recovery services.

Validere

Western Energy Services

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Western Energy Services Corp. is an oilfield service company which provides contract drilling services in Canada.

Validere

Kelt Exploration

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Kelt Exploration Ltd is an Oil & Gas company focusing on exploration, development & production of crude oil & natural gas resources.

Validere

Suncor Energy

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Suncor Energy is an integrated energy company specializes in production of synthetic crude from oil sands.

Validere

Kaliber Chemicals

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Kaliber Chemicals is a distributor of chemicals serving the petroleum, industrial, commercial, institutional, and agriculture sectors.

Validere

Core Linepipe

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Core Linepipe is a oil and gas energy company located in Calgary.

Validere

caltex resources

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caltex resources

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Spur Petroleum

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Spur Resources has oil and gas assets in Alberta and Saskatchewan and is well-regarded for its operating efficiencies

Validere

Pursuit Technologies

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Pursuit Technologies develops diagnostic smart tools for production optimization of the oil & gas industry.

Validere

Traverse Energy

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Traverse Energy Ltd. is a publicly traded company engaged in the exploration, development and production of petroleum and natural gas in

Validere

Wise Intervention Services

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Wise Intervention Services is an oilfield services provider for oil and gas companies in North America.

Validere

GrowMax Resources

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GrowMax Resources Corp is a focused on exploration and development of phosphate and potassium-rich brine resources.

Validere

Arsenal Energy

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Arsenal Energy Inc (AEI) is an Oil and Energy company.

Validere

Exchanger Industries

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Exchanger Industries is a designer and manufacturer of world wide custom heat transfer equipment for the global oil & natural gas sectors.

Validere

TC Energy

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TC Energy delivers the energy millions of people rely on every day to power their lives and fuel industry, stable network of natural gas.

Validere

Imola Oil And Gas

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Imola Oil And Gas is a privately held, oil and gas production company.

Validere

Calscan Solutions

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Calscan Solutions is an instrumentation and control company.

Validere

Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada

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Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada is a oil and gas energy company located in Calgary.

Validere

Wentworth Resources

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Wentworth Resources is an East African upstream and midstream oil and gas company.

Validere

Bri-Chem Corp

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A leading North American wholesale distributor of oil and gas drilling fluids, steel pipe and piping products.

Validere

Absolute Combustion International

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Absolute Combustion International is an energy company that provides cleaner, greener sustainable combustion burner products & solutions.

Validere

Imperial Oil

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Imperial Oil finds oil and gas, sells petroleum products, and invests in research.

Validere

Cenovus Energy

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Cenovus Energy is a Canada-based oil company that provides oil sands projects which use specialized methods to drill and pump oil.

Validere

Peloton Computer Enterprises

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Peloton Computer Enterprises is a Canadian provider of well data software solutions to the oil and gas industry.

Validere

nFluids Inc.

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NFluids manufactures high performing nanoparticles to solve a variety of problems in oil and gas and other industries.

Validere

Surge Energy

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An oil focused E&P company that has a high quality crude oil reserve, production and cash flow base.

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Petro-Canada

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Petro-Canada is a fuel delivery company that sells petroleum and other needs for on-site delivery.

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