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101 Most Innovative Calgary Based Energy Companies & Startups

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This article showcases our top picks for the best Calgary based Energy companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Energy 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 Calgary Energy 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

Eavor

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Eavor is a technology based energy company that provides a clean, carbon-neutral, scalable, baseload power solution.

Validere

Crescent Point Energy

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

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Pembina

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Pembina Pipeline is a reliable energy transportation and service provider.

Validere

Seven Generations Energy

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

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AltaGas Ltd

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

Validere

Envio Systems

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Envio Systems develops cloud-based building technologies for existing commercial buildings.

Validere

BluEarth Renewables

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BluEarth’s ongoing growth and investment in renewable energy projects

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

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

Eguana

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Eguana develops, manufactures, and sells advanced power inverters and energy storeage systems.

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

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

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

Keyera

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Keyera is one of the largest midstream operators in Canada.

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

Tamarack Valley Energy

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Tamarack Valley Energy is a company dedicated to mining oil and gas resources in Canada.

Validere

Spartan Energy Corp.

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Spartan Energy Corp. is an oil and gas company.

Validere

Summit Nanotech

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Summit Nanotech is a B2B company that specializes in nanotechnology to upscale and manufacture modular commercial systems.

Validere

Pieridae Energy Canada

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Pieridae Energy is Canada’s only publicly traded Canadian corporation based in Calgary.

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

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

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

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

STEP Energy Services

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Calgary oilfield service company.

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

Carbon Upcycling

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Carbon Upcycling uses the pollution of today to build the materials of tomorrow.

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

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

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

Intelligent Wellhead Systems

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

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

Saguaro Resources

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

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

Gear Energy

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

Validere

Hammerhead Resources

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Hammerhead Resources is a growth-oriented private company with its corporate headquarters in Calgary, Alberta.

Validere

Osum

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Unlocking Canada’s unrealized bitumen resource potential

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

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

Leucrotta Exploration

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

Validere

Arolytics

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Arolytics is a software company that specializes in emissions management and regulatory compliance for the energy sector.

Validere

Enbridge Energy Partners L.P.

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Enbridge Energy Partners is a enery company that transport, generate and distribute energy.

Validere

Ikkuma Resources Corp

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

Validere

PetroShale

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PetroShale is an oil company.

Validere

SeeO2 Energy

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SeeO2 Energy is a converting carbon dioxide into marketable and clean value-added fuels and chemicals using reversible fuel technology.

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

North American Helium

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

Validere

Livestock Water Recycling

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Livestock Water Recycling is an environmental company focused on livestock manure management.

Validere

CSV Midstream Solutions

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Development of natural gas and liquids infrastructure

Validere

Kanata Energy Group

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

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

Veresen

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Veresen owns and operates energy infrastructure.

Validere

Centaurus Energy

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

Validere

Kineticor

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A Calgary, Alberta, Canada-based energy services company,

Validere

Cnergreen

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

Validere

EnerSoft

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EnerSoft is a software company specializes in Oil and Gas software.

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

Maple Leaf Green World

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Maple Leaf Green World is an agricultural company offering organic hemp products.

Validere

Zargon Oil & Gas

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

Validere

Razor Energy

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Razor is a pivotal leading-edge enterprise

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

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

Critical Control

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

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

Innova Hydrogen

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Innova Hydrogen is a renewable energy company that develops innovative and proprietary hydrogen-producing technology for the energy sector.

Validere

Cequence Energy

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

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

Rock Energy

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Rock Energy provides low cost of production and on growing through the drill bit.

Validere

Suncor Energy

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

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

Canbriam Energy

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

Validere

Western Energy Services

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

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MyHEAT

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MyHEAT helps visualize home heat loss for improved comfort, savings, and energy efficiency.

Validere

Canamax Energy LTD

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Canamax Energy Ltd is engaged in the acquisition of microcaps, and the exploitation of assets, in the oil and gas sector.

Validere

Sawback Technologies

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We collect, visualize and analyze near-surface data to identify underground utilities, fluid leaks, soil layers, and infrastructure health.

Validere

Karve Energy Inc.

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Karve Energy is a private oil exploration and production company, strategically focused on light oil production from the Viking play.

Validere

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Sponsor Energy is an energy broker that sells electricity and natural gas to socially conscious consumers across North America.

Validere

Core Linepipe

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

Validere

Laricina Energy

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Since its founding in late 2005, privately-held Laricina has advanced two grassroots oil sands exploration plays through the technical

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

Borealis GeoPower

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Borealis GeoPower Inc. provides project consulting services for the development of high temperature geothermal energy projects in Canada.

Validere

Pursuit Technologies

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

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

Arsenal Energy

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Arsenal Energy Inc (AEI) is an Oil and Energy 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

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.

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.

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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

TransAlta

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TransAlta Corporation engages in the production and sale of electric energy.

Validere

PilotsFriend West

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PilotsFriend West is a clean organic and healthy energy tonic making company.

Validere

Inter Pipeline

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Inter Pipeline is an energy infrastructure business that engages in the transportation, processing, and storage of energy products.

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Clean Resource Innovation Network (CRIN)

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CRIN is a network of stakeholders in the oil and gas industry that are focused on commercializing clean technology for the sector.

Written by Mark Smith

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