CALGARY, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - WestJet (TSX:WJA) today announced the appointment of Ron Brenneman to its Board of Directors. Ron Brenneman is a Director of The Bank of Nova Scotia and BCE Inc.

Highlights - $5.3 billion capital program planned

By CHARMAINE NORONHA TORONTO - Canada's third largest oil and gas company, Petro-Canada, signed a $7 billion deal Monday with Libya's state-run National Oil Corp. to invest in exploration in the North African nation.

Following a series of successful discussions, Petro-Canada and OAO "Gazprom" (Gazprom) today announced that the two companies have signed an agreement to proceed with preliminary engineering design in their plans to build a Baltic liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant near St. Petersburg, Russia.

CALGARY, July 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Petro-Canada announced today second quarter earnings from operations adjusted for unusual items of $525 million ($2.02/share), up 8% from $485 million ($1.82/share) in the same quarter of 2004.