as tsx mgx industry conventional oil & natural gas headquarters calgary alberta canada key people henry w. sykes ceo parent paramount resources website www.mgmenergy.com mgm energy corp. is a canadian petroleum company that was spun off from paramount resources in 2007 . the company is involved in the acquisition and development of petroleum in canada s northwest territories . the ceo is henry sykes . 1 in october 2013 sykes complained that the requirement to conduct environmental assessments was impeding canadian companies compared with their us competitors when his firm was seeking permission to engage in hydraulic fracking in the environmentally sensitive canol shale play region even though the first fracking well were drilled without any environmental assessment at all . references edit jeffrey jones 2013 10 06 . nwt s shale hopes dimmed by slow approvals explorer says . globe and mail . archived from the original on 2014 03 12 . retrieved 2014 08 18 . mgm energy corp. chief executive officer henry sykes said regulatory hurdles are the main reason he believes that production growth in the northwest territories canol shale play in the central mackenzie valley will not mirror the industry s success in the prolific bakken oil fields of north dakota . external links edit web site this article about a natural gas or petroleum related company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this article about a canadian corporation or company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mgm energy & oldid 739336474 categories oil companies of canadacompanies based in calgarypetroleum company stubscanadian company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 september 2016 at 03 16 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view